Ari Bach's Blog, page 35
January 6, 2021
kvothbloodless:LOOKING FOR PLAYER Shadowrun 4e Valhalla C...
LOOKING FOR PLAYER Shadowrun 4e Valhalla CampaignSo, I’m looking for a 4th player to fill in a vacant spot in a homebrew 4e shadowrun campaign, along with @kvothe-kingkiller & @twostepsfromtemerant (I’m GM). The setting is heavily based on @the-walrus-squad ‘s Valhalla series, and is effectively an epic level shadowrun campaign. We play Monday evenings cst/est. If you’re interested, send me a DM. Keep reading below the cut if you’re not familiar with the setting, or if you want more specific info about the campaign.
Love to see this! Hope it grows popular :)
kvothbloodless:LOOKING FOR PLAYER Shadowrun 4e Valhalla Campaign
So, I’m looking for a 4th player to...
LOOKING FOR PLAYER Shadowrun 4e Valhalla CampaignSo, I’m looking for a 4th player to fill in a vacant spot in a homebrew 4e shadowrun campaign, along with @kvothe-kingkiller & @twostepsfromtemerant (I’m GM). The setting is heavily based on @the-walrus-squad ‘s Valhalla series, and is effectively an epic level shadowrun campaign. We play Monday evenings cst/est. If you’re interested, send me a DM. Keep reading below the cut if you’re not familiar with the setting, or if you want more specific info about the campaign.
Love to see this! Hope it grows popular :)
December 29, 2020
kindaoffkilter:
bygodstillam:
goosegoblin:
assassinatio...
well fellas i just found out about the term ‘thermian argument’ and holy shit is this gonna make it easier for me to shut down certain talking points
unsurprisingly there are a LOT of fandombrained people very VERY upset by this term lmfao
The thermian argument is a logical fallacy that occurs when a question or criticism concerning the political statements that can be gleaned from a game or other work of art are countered instead with an in-universe explanation for why the thing being criticized is actually valid.
i cant read can someone explain this in a different way so it makes sense (if u don’t mind)
@fandomfishbish it’s like when female superheroes are drawn with almost zero clothing or armor, especially compared to male superheroes with the same powers, and people try to defend it by insisting that the in-universe explanation (like, that she’s solar powered, so she needs sunlight on her skin to use her powers) makes it okay, even though it was a real human man who decided to draw her that way.
Someone does something gross, and people use the story to defend the gross person’s real world actions and decisions.
Like, if I were to write a story about werewolves that says that any woman who gets bitten by a werewolf dies screaming in horrible agony, because women are weak and fragile and only men are Tough Enough™ to be werewolves, someone using the thermian argument would say that it’s not misogynistic of me to write that, because “women are too weak to survive being bitten! That’s just the way it is! It can’t be helped!”
As though the story controls me, and not the other way around, as though I, a real life person, hadn’t made the conscious decision to brutally murder all the women who get bitten by a werewolf.
Hope that helps!
I just want to expand that it’s not just that some man decided to draw the superhero lady with her tits and entire ass out, he also set up the universe so that she needs sunlight on her skin for her powers. She could get her power from anything, the sun’s gravity, a radioactive whatever, maybe still sunlight but she can absorb it through her hair, or her costume is made of UV permeable fabric. The Thermian argument ignores that the writer set up not only the sexist/racist/offensive thing, but also the in-universe reason that said thing had to happen. The fact that there’s an in-universe explanation doesn’t help because they also made the rules of the universe
I believe Dan Olson- who is on Youtube as ‘Folding Ideas’- came up with this! It’s a wonderful argument and he’s a really cool guy who deserves more love.
Go watch Dan’s videos, whether he did this or not, he’s a very smart funny guy with some really good thoughts.
I was reading the first post and was queuing up his video as I worked my way down! He’s amazing.
kindaoffkilter:bygodstillam:goosegoblin:assassinationtipsforladies:rjalker:fandomfishbish:shadowpuppy...
well fellas i just found out about the term ‘thermian argument’ and holy shit is this gonna make it easier for me to shut down certain talking points
unsurprisingly there are a LOT of fandombrained people very VERY upset by this term lmfao
The thermian argument is a logical fallacy that occurs when a question or criticism concerning the political statements that can be gleaned from a game or other work of art are countered instead with an in-universe explanation for why the thing being criticized is actually valid.
i cant read can someone explain this in a different way so it makes sense (if u don’t mind)
@fandomfishbish it’s like when female superheroes are drawn with almost zero clothing or armor, especially compared to male superheroes with the same powers, and people try to defend it by insisting that the in-universe explanation (like, that she’s solar powered, so she needs sunlight on her skin to use her powers) makes it okay, even though it was a real human man who decided to draw her that way.
Someone does something gross, and people use the story to defend the gross person’s real world actions and decisions.
Like, if I were to write a story about werewolves that says that any woman who gets bitten by a werewolf dies screaming in horrible agony, because women are weak and fragile and only men are Tough Enough™ to be werewolves, someone using the thermian argument would say that it’s not misogynistic of me to write that, because “women are too weak to survive being bitten! That’s just the way it is! It can’t be helped!”
As though the story controls me, and not the other way around, as though I, a real life person, hadn’t made the conscious decision to brutally murder all the women who get bitten by a werewolf.
Hope that helps!
I just want to expand that it’s not just that some man decided to draw the superhero lady with her tits and entire ass out, he also set up the universe so that she needs sunlight on her skin for her powers. She could get her power from anything, the sun’s gravity, a radioactive whatever, maybe still sunlight but she can absorb it through her hair, or her costume is made of UV permeable fabric. The Thermian argument ignores that the writer set up not only the sexist/racist/offensive thing, but also the in-universe reason that said thing had to happen. The fact that there’s an in-universe explanation doesn’t help because they also made the rules of the universe
I believe Dan Olson- who is on Youtube as ‘Folding Ideas’- came up with this! It’s a wonderful argument and he’s a really cool guy who deserves more love.
Go watch Dan’s videos, whether he did this or not, he’s a very smart funny guy with some really good thoughts.
I was reading the first post and was queuing up his video as I worked my way down! He’s amazing.
December 19, 2020
sharkchunks:You know what we need more of? Scorpions. I’m glad...
You know what we need more of? Scorpions. I’m glad someone has invented the artificial scorpion.
December 10, 2020
November 21, 2020
Vibeke: [looking a photo of Nelson with a turtle] Is that your dad?
Violet: Oh, that's him and Violet.
Vibeke: He named the turtle after you?
Violet: He named me after the turtle.
September 22, 2020
Heather: Therion, what’s your platform?
Therion: My platform is one tall enough to push MacRae off to her death.
September 2, 2020
inebubble:
reading Valhalla by Ari Bach:
reading Ragnarok by Ari Bach:
starting Gudsriki by Ari...
reading Valhalla by Ari Bach:
reading Ragnarok by Ari Bach:
starting Gudsriki by Ari Bach:
conclusion: @the-walrus-squad is a genius and you should probably read their trilogy but uhhhhhhhh maybe check the content warnings first\
Thank you!!! Well gif’d!
August 7, 2020
Alf: 9 to 6 you could come to me with ideas.
Balder: 9 to 6? You're not even up until 11 o'clock.
Alf: Perfect. 11 to 5. Your window just got smaller. How do you like that?
