Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

#IntelCrawl location mechanics brainstorm.
• stake
• search
• ransack
• enter (as in b&e / sneak through back door)
• bug (plant a gadget or a mole)
• subdue (use combat or suggestion to coerce someone)

Extracted from locations are:
• surface Intel (it's a laundry machine shop based in a space, rented from XYZ Corp by John Smith)
• deep intel (it's a drop-site for some people)
• critical intel (you extract a drop containing a map of the suburban area with some locations marked)

My #TTRPG design motto: be rules light, but be precise enough to pivot into a board game at any point.

QT: https://raggedfeathers.com/@signalstation/109587093239267329

I've got this adventure and it rocks!
I was a bit befuddled by the fact that it assumes a system I didn't know, but turns out it's also a really cool system.

Here is the review with some actual play: https://whodaresrolls.com/rpgs/trophy-gold/

I researched this system and its predecessor #TrophyBlack and I'm very glad that the adventure targets the newer one. The black version is too storygamey.

#TrophyGoldRPG
#TrophyGold

@thegrugq have you seen the soviet #WW2-era opsec? Literal second-hand embarassment.

What @DarthPutinKGB says about Patriot anti-air systems is the same thing mr. hoering was saying about Spitfire planes. You know how it worked out for him.

While we're at it, let's remember #Polish air force that was fighting airbone nazis under #RAF.

If you feel compassionate towards #russians in #russia, watch the newest video on #gestapo.

https://piped.video/watch?v=oEs3hMp60JM

Excusing their support of war *or* inaction by living in a "police state" is absolutely unacceptable.

I'm really glad when people go from crypto back to the science.

I've seen a hundred too many cases of people going the other way.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=-13xVHUAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=-13xVHUAAAAJ:_axFR9aDTf0C

https://piped.video/watch?v=0bJeXX_2o0w&t=557

Sounds familiar? Except #russians have access to the Internet, so there is no excuse for them.

> Ruth Maier, an Austrian Jew who has escaped nazis to Norway, but who will die in fas chambers in Aushwitz some two years from now, writes in her diary of some german soldiers telling locals that the poles had killed sixty thousand german civilians in Poland before germany invaded Poland to protect the rest of them. The Norwegian local asked the soldiers if they really believe that they're in Norway to "protect" the Norwegians as they now say in the newspapers. The soldiers said that they indeed are in Norway from the British. And this they do believe. We've talked both in this series and in the #WarAgainstHumanity about the impact of propaganda. While to the rest of the world the invasion of Poland was a dasterdly act of unwarranted aggression, but to an average german citizen it was justified, or even necessary because the Poles were killing all the ethnic germans in Poland and planned to invade Germany. I mean, that's what the radio and newspaper was telling them about every day for the whole last Summer. I mean, they wouldn't lie about it, right? Why would anyone lie about it.

On the first image is the logo and the bio of the #russian #mastodon bot. It's made and ran by liberals who call Ukrainians "ukropy" (a slur).

On the second image is how I personally read this, as a Latvian, who has suffered from both actions of the soviet union, the symbol of which is featured on the user pic of the bot, and the rotten and deadly influence of the putin's russia, the flag of which is the background on the bot's userpic.

When you see reasonably-sounding russians who are registered on mastodon.ml, please be very-very careful. Majority of them are as "anti-war" as german protestants and catolics were during #WorldWar2. Their MO is "I dislike putin, but I'm a patriot of russia", "both sides are wrong", "we should've negotiated better and subdue Ukraine via non-military action".

In case you think that "liberal" channels like #Redakciya (#Редакция) are somehow different from overtly imperialist #TVRain or covertly imperialist #Meduza.

The label says "Baltic question". Nazi culture somehow got deeply internalised by #russians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_question

#NeverForget

#Mastodon app comparison spreadsheet, which misses #pleorma (which, to my knowledge, implements the protocol faithfully and thus is as much of a mastodon app as the mastodon reference UI):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1De5KRwqMIdwEryfoeBLARgxF7QgKkeOQBCilKuIdAXE/htmlview?pru=AAABhXQ1n8w*JnMqvjnA-KryhQ__D5eatQ#gid=0

via @garry