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professor babygirl

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25 - she/her - When teeth meet collarbone - I get to be the navel of the world - As all of me - I share with the beast
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revisited this amv i started 4ever ago n finished it up at the beginning of last month !! cub has such a special place in my heart, wish i had time 2 animate all their songs </3

(ps the quality here is intentional, but theres a high res version + lotsa process stuff on my patreon if that interests any1)

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Let’s see what the old Steam recommendation queue thinks it’s going to sell me today.

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Insightful as always.

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Lily is Girls with the Ability

They Fight Again

This is a game about girls with the ability. You will take on the role of a girl with the ability, and explore the fundamental tension of being a girl with the ability.

Character Creation

You are a girl with the ability.

Choose a Number. Your Number must be in the range from 2 to 5, inclusive.

A low Number means that you’re better at solving problems with girl. A high Number means that you’re better at solving problems with the ability.

Decide what kind of girl you are, and give her a name.

After all players have created their girls, collectively decide on the nature of the ability.

Playing the Game

When you encounter adversity, decide which of the following approaches you intend to use to overcome it:

  • girl
  • the ability

Pick up one six-sided die (d6), plus an extra die for each of the following conditions:

  • You’re prepared
  • You’re an expert
  • You have help (see below)

Roll your dice, and compare them to your Number:

  • If you’re relying on girl as your approach, dice that roll over your Number are successes
  • If you’re relying on the ability, dice that roll under your Number are successes

0 successes: It all goes wrong somehow, and things get worse. 1 success: You get what you want, at a cost. 2 successes: You pull it off without a hitch. 3+ successes: You do it and get an extra benefit!

If any of your dice roll your Number exactly, you momentarily achieve a perfect synthesis of girl and the ability. Describe one thing that changes about the current situation as a result of your new insight; whatever you describe is true, regardless of whether your roll succeeded or failed. Afterwards, you may adjust your Number by one point in either direction, if you wish; the same minimum and maximum values that applied during character creation apply here.

Helping

If you want to help someone, describe how you’re helping and roll for it. If the person you’re helping is a player character, and you scored at least one success, they count has having help on their next roll.

License

Lily is Girls with the Ability is based on Lasers & Feelings by John Harper, and is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

The rules never described when they fight again

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Why You Fight Again

Roll 1d6 on each of the following tables in order to determine why you fight again:

A(n)…

  1. Institution that morally opposes the use of the ability
  2. Conspiracy dedicated to suppressing knowledge of the ability
  3. Powerful individual obsessed with understanding the ability
  4. Monster which can only be opposed by means of the ability
  5. Cosmic force whose nature is antithetical to the ability
  6. Coalition of rival girls with the ability

… seeks to…

  1. Destroy / Corrupt
  2. Seize / Imprison
  3. Conquer / Enslave
  4. Misuse / Subvert
  5. Weaponise / Recruit
  6. Exploit / Deceive

  1. The girls’ loved ones.
  2. A vital source or enabler of the ability.
  3. A community dependent upon the ability.
  4. Unwitting or unrealised wielders of the ability.
  5. The world-shaping potential of the ability.
  6. The girls themselves!

what was the original game of that description because i think the original creators would enjoy you doing this to their grammatical malformation

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oh this is a real game huh

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I don’t know why so many people are surprised by this. Like, did y'all think I invented a fake badly translated JRPG purely for the purpose of writing a janky Lasers & Feelings hack based on its made-up tagline?

… Yes.

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Everyone who was even slightly surprised that prokpetz found something like this on Steam, I need you to do something for us.

I need you to go to your Steam Discovery Queue, and go through it.

If you’ve never done this before, it’s going to be chock full of the usual expected mainstream fare–your Assassin’s Creeds, your Calls of Duty, maybe a Guilty Gear or the like. Kind of a boring experience, truth be told. This is just the surface cruft that you need to burn off. Keep going through queues, disregarding stuff like that. Keep queueing. Keep digging.

Eventually. EVENTUALLY. Eventually, Steam is going to run out of games that people have heard of, games for normal people. And it’s going to look around shiftily as if making sure you’re not a cop, lower its voice, and be like “oh, you’re here for the weird stuff, huh?” It’s going to open a secret hatch like a speakeasy and take you to the back room, to a place that we in our friend group have taken to calling Deep Steam.

You will know you’re in Deep Steam when instead of FIFA or whatever, you see the thumbnail for the next game in your queue and all the sudden it’s something like

Deep Steam is a dark chest of wonders. Seeing Deep Steam changes you, like seeing behind the veil in a Lovecraft story. We saw that post and were like “yeah, that sounds like your average Deep Steam offering.” Everyone who was reacting like “wtf? That’s a real game??” is just, like… you’ve never seen Deep Steam before, is all.

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Unfortunately— and literally no one is talking about this— if you buy many many little treats for yourself, cumulatively, this can add up to a larger amount of money, if you add the numbers together. I’m not sure if there’s anything to be done about this but thought I would bring it to the attention of my beloved and far-reaching audience

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take this down

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You’re right. Marx wants me to buy kpop photocards. I bet his bias would be Hyunjin too

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every girl should be given a 6tb hard drive for free so she can store her little collection of illegally obtained 4k ultra hd movies

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ten years of fighting and when shit hits the fan tumblr instantly has reddit's back. the greatest enemies to lovers story ever told.

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you understand

Oops, my hand slipped–

humanizations of websites have returned. nature is healing, capitalism is the virus

Remembering the time my old nb roommate who went to an LGBT law conference and was heaping the absolute biggest bitchfit texting me cause “some cis guy” was talking about trans people and trans men in particular and my roommate refused to listen to what this guy said cause “why should I listen to him” and I said “are you sure he’s cis?” And then towards the end of the presentation he said something that indicated to the crowd he was a trans man and then suddenly my roommate started to consider what had been shared.

Absolute loser behavior, but not completely unique. We’ve all gotta stop saying only x people can talk about x issues for us to listen. Too many people in the in group will have dogshit takes no one wants to challenge because “well, they are x identity.” Likewise, plenty of people on the out group actually know what they’re talking about and have something to contribute to the conversation.

Especially when it comes to sexuality and gender, you relying on someone outing themselves or you clocking them to decide whether their words have merit is shitty, because you won’t always know if they ARE the group “allowed” to talk about it. And even beyond that, I knew a fuckload about transness before I realized I was trans, it helped me REALIZE I was trans. “Listen to x voices” got sooooo warped in the discourse.