Do you feel that the PCs actually pretty smart, but the DM is still making jokes like they aren't? Or is it some of the PCs are using "oh I'm dumb" as an excuse to derail gameplay and ruin ingame plans?
I think people have lots of definitions for what constitutes railroading. I personally don't think anything in the meme constitutes going off the rails.
In my view, if you build or plan the next session based on where you think they're gonna go next and what they seem like they want to do as players, and then someone goes "Well can I actually just make a 90-degree turn off the road to the city that we're talked about going to last week into these random woods instead of engaging with the hours of content you made for us," you aren't railroading them for going "sure, but I'll have to pause the session here so I can put the time and prep into this that you deserve as players, or we play Dnd today."
Matt Colville has a great vid on this, but I can't remember its title. I think he's done a few videos that talked about railroading.
The GM has the power to present a heist, but unless the GM is really railroady, the players have the power to make it a ransom, a demolition job or just ignore everything and join the circus.
This doesn't sound contradictory to "planning a heist". I guess I just took it to mean that the setup was a heist and that the punchline was that they had little control over the tone during actual play. I feel like ransoms, a demolition job, or joining in the circus fall within the "heist" aesthetic and narrative.
I really hate how interwiki navigation sucks on Fandom. Like, they've done all this branding and centralizing of the Fandom platform, yet I'm pretty sure they only fairly recently started logging you in on all wikis whenever you signed in on one.
Its all just to try and be some hip pop culture thing for use to "consoom" without any effort to actually take advantage of being a central platform for the repository of lore from across culture.
Okay and? Like, you've listed the problem, which I think was already known to anyone passionate enough to care about PeerTube and to want it to grow, do you have any ideas or solutions or are you only here to demoralize and discourage?
Did you like tell them? Have you been reporting it?
This is so important to know, because it matters if this is from willful negligence or simply because no one has brought it up and the instance admin(s) think it's smooth sailing.
There is absolutely a segment of Mastodon users who behave like they do, and tbh I think there should always be small instances, but i also think this will be a great improvement.
You seem pretty optimistic about this, but I don’t think the demands will be met until the studios exhaust every trick in their playbook and are forced to negotiate.
Well, yeah. If I wasn't optimistic I wouldn't be able to be involved in political discourse. On a long enough scale, the masses win. It's literally a war of attrition, and if you start it from a position of despair or pessimism you're setting yourself up for failure. I'm not a WGA or SAG member, but I am I fan, and it's really heartening to think about how for instance, the YouTube Channel Star Wars Explained has been putting a disclaimer on all their Ahsoka content that it was produced during the strike, which means that many people are having their lives impacted by a strike action for the first time.
Keep supporting the strike though.
Exactly! My hope is that by sharing my viewpoint about what it could mean for us as fans and consumers, I prevent people from losing faith or support in the strike, because I am well aware of how the AMPTP literally had one of its reps' say they were waiting for the strikers to start losing their homes before they went back to negotiate.
The fact that strikes are even happening at all is heartening. The US labor movement was subservient to electoral interests, hesitant to engage in more confrontational actions for too long and it drained union membership and crippled wages.
What I thought was that Mobile had it's own built-in adblocking. I specifically remember being able to add the extension in a way I wasn't able to a few months ago recently.
I hope it's the 2nd of many more. I believe that this, along with the striking demands of writers and actors being met, would fundamentally shift and alter the economics of production again and lead to better quality shows and movies.
Was wondering why I couldn't reply to a comment from earlier today when I was sure I hadn't broken any rule to get banned. Hope it's back soon, but more importantly that you can stop all the damn CP.
Sometimes things open in-app and use Google to load the page, so even if I select "open in firefox" after, there's still an ad. Plus ads in apps in general.
Do you feel that the PCs actually pretty smart, but the DM is still making jokes like they aren't? Or is it some of the PCs are using "oh I'm dumb" as an excuse to derail gameplay and ruin ingame plans?