I think I made you a mod there a while ago, it says you should be now

they have pretty frequent sales which set stuff at about 40%+ off, I waited for one of those to grab a copy of a book I couldn’t find on the 'bay

They have good selections but they do have a blindspot when it comes to any existing socialist state reading (as mentioned in this thread). Good suite of stuff on policing, abolition, race, etc. Not a large enough blindspot to write them off, I’d say if there’s something published by them that piques your interest, its probably a fair shot. Usually if its super anti-communist you’ll know before you buy, and if its only vaguely anti-communist you can read with a critical lens.

i really liked this, it was short/sweet but well put. looking forward to what that article series has to offer

me furiously trying to click the ‘show less’ button on this screenshot

takes i expect from people who use the three arrows

“HEY.” music stops “There’s politics outside the US you know…”

I think its much less dependent on the game than the people you play with (though the game can certainly be a factor if it’s intimidatingly complex). That being said, more simple/streamlined games can be easier to sell to friends who don’t normally play tabletop games. Comrades is one such example, but there’s a pretty large subset of tabletop games that exist to fill that niche (see Dungeon World as a D&D alternative).

Tabletop games are interesting because they’ve seen a large renaissance in part due to very acting/performance heavy livestream or podcasted productions (things like Critical Role, for example) and so our instinct is that they should center acting/performance. The reality is, that kind of thing appeals to some people and not others. Most of the games I play involve very little roleplay, and are more about collective storytelling/gameplay/rolling dice.

tl;dr, people bring what they want to tabletop games, and while some are conducive to more/less roleplay, the important thing is to find people who want the same thing out of the game as you do.

wait, they weren’t already?

king shit

my friend sent me this and said something horrifying which was “what if you and I end up raising kids who rebel by becoming neo-liberals?”

“it’s been shown” and no other context/argument is a classic

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im participating in this, and so is my lab!

disappointing to see from Killer Mike, I really look up to his artistry :/

donated! hopefully more folks from our community will too

do you have a grasp about the size of CPUSA vs PSL? I am curious whether one or the other is a larger organization or if it varies city by city. thanks for presenting this info though, I know a lot of people I follow online tend to dismiss the CPUSA because of supposed fed infiltration

good vid, thanks for sharing :)

it’s not exactly a massive scope war game, but i highly recommend Into The Breach, it’s a very polished strategy game

I fear giving up more than dying or defeat or imprisonment.