The Leewit @ghost_bird@witches.town

Reading a bunch of "Old School Revival" adventures from the last Bundle of Holding and my first thought is that there are a _lot_ of monstrous and/or mutilated women.

I'd just decided my weekly Traveller game was a slog and I should probably wind it up, but I decided to follow up on a player's questions about the setting and now I seem to have a complete campaign outline. 😕

Since property is initiation of force, it follows that a society of owners is simply the war of all against all, pursued by other means.

Property is initiation of force, pass it on.

Saw this on the way to work this morning and I, well, I...
[NSFW image]
https://witches.town/media/-0lgpVOVu68iLhwRF4g

Looking at the supplements, I think I can see what Lamentations of the Flame Princess is trying to do... but for me it reeks of testosterone and sniggering. And there are an awful lot of mutilated women in the artwork.

So it looks like Lamentations of the Flame Princess is just original D&D recreated from memory, plus some illustrations that would have been considered edgy in the 1990s? Not so much "old-school revival" as plagiarism.

*starts building huge illuminated sign that reads FACE RECOGNITION IS A GIMMICK FOR PEOPLE WHO FIND PASSWORDS BOTHERSOME. YOUR MOVIE PLOT FANTASIES ARE IRRELEVANT*

It's for convenience, not enhanced security, and all the clever ways to circumvent it you're thinking of? Never going to be useful for casual thieves, who are your main actual risk.

Oh, gods, now Apple have announced face recognition we're going to have to have another outbreak of hot takes on why it's not proper security, aren't we? Like we did with fingerprints.

Now our senior manager seems to be trying to crowdsource an IT strategy...?

We have personality tests administered by a company called "AGAR: culture matters". Which would make us... ?

(Not, of course, that the new CIO is coming anywhere near the away day.)

Another work away day, because we're apparently touching base while onboarding the new CIO.

Watching the Resident Evil movie and thinking how much better it would have been with no exposition. No need for sense or reasons; just a collage of tropes.