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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I actually made this work in a recent cheesy short campaign. My character was an intelligent monkey, although he was still an animal and couldn’t speak. After meeting the party, he decided to go do his own thing, which just so happened to be the same thing as the rest of the party.

    It worked out really well. The rest of the party could navigate social challenges without having to explain the monkey, I could sneak around and grab MacGuffins without having to accommodate huge humans who were terrible at climbing.

    I doubt it works well for longer or more serious games, but it matched the hectic nature of the campaign and led to some hilarious moments.






  • It moved us right slower than if Republicans had been in charge the whole time. Americans don’t have the class consciousness to spontaneously vote left. Leftist third parties hold very few offices at all, and zero major ones.

    Without a shift in cultural hegemony, and a flood of leftists in local offices to make good candidates for higher office, third party votes are a waste. They’re not electorally successful, they’re not even good marketing.

    Voting blue slows the rightward slide. It can’t save us, it’s not supposed to save us. It’s supposed to give us enough time to save ourselves, to do the ground work to shift the culture to embrace the left when a party is ready. The culture has not shifted, the party is not ready. The least we can do is strategically keep out the politicians who most fervently legislate against worker rights.