management trying to hire and retain employees

Color theory is a real sumbitch

the new rhythm heaven game looks great

Y'all missed a big era if you don't follow me elsewhere.

Went through a horrendous breakup a year back and completely crashed out for a full year over it—made a bunch of comics about the grieving n healing process along the way, and self-published it as a comic.

And I went back to making daily comics mostly exclusively for Patreon a month ago. Haven't done that for 6 years or so now, since my second book My Life In Transition. It's been really great! Excited to be back at it.

Here's a few

I've ranted in the tags of this post before but I just want to show off the most radicalizing display of how evil golf courses are I've ever seen!! This is in Tucson, Arizona. One of the biggest public parks in town, which contains baseball fields and a rose garden and a public pool and the ENTIRE zoo is HALF THE SIZE OF THE GOLF COURSE NEXT DOOR. Ignoring the fact that we live in a Fucking Desert and are constantly being reminded by the government to conserve water while this fucking MONSTROCITY is allowed to exist, I just cannot get over how goddamn evil it is that the people in this city are given one half the space the golf course is.

And the park is crowded, btw!! There are ALWAYS hundreds of people there having birthday parties and taking quinceañera and prom photos, the zoo is really popular, Tucson Pride usually sets up at the park, and there's an outdoor amphitheater and a baseball field and a huge dog park and several playgrounds and two beautiful ponds, but nah rather than prioritize all that a golf course that probably sees a fraction of the traffic is allowed to take up SO MUCH SPACE. And actually, recently the Tucson Zoo wanted to expand--which is understandable, it's a VERY small zoo--but rather than try to target the golf course the city almost decided to give like a fourth of THE PARK to them because we should just fuck over the thousands of people who use this beloved public space daily rather than for a single second consider that the golf course is a fucking unethical waste of space and water that should not be allowed to exist.

Golf is a fucking plague and I would do anything to see this space converted into anything else. It's so big you could expand the park, the zoo, AND probably build a bunch of affordable housing no problem. But no, sorry the rich fucks in this town have to waste loads of water keeping a bunch of GRASS alive in the SONORAN DESERT so they can fuck around all day while the rest of us have to be happy with what space we're allowed all the while living in fear that the city will just decide to give a bunch of it away.

Fuck golf.

the fad of putting these little blurbs in TTRPGs was probably the most embarrassing bit of useless wanking the little industry scene has ever done, besides the time Warmahordes put a "this aint your daddys tabletop game!" in their rulebook.

does this serve any purpose other than to make the publisher feel like they're Doing Something, and to help consumers feel like their purchases are meaningful political engagement?

At the absolute minimum you could make a game which actually is a meaningful cultural expression of your ideals, or which is politically anti fascist in any way.

So this is actually I can reassure you, the exact opposite of self indulgent wanking with no impact. It’s aggressively impactful in a very specific way—by making the nazis in the room very loud about the fact that they’re nazis.

I’m going to tell you about how a discord banner that was put up for pride month in the Lancer ttrpg official discord was so successful at getting bigots to out themselves, that it’s been the permanent official discord banner for 4 years now.

This is the updated version. It’s animated now.

But pride month 4 or 5 years ago, somebody made the server banner a Goblin mech dabbing in front of a trans flag.

And for your average person who joined the server, they just kinda went, lol cool.

For the trans people who joined the server, it made them feel extra safe.

And for the bigots who joined the server? They’d fucking bitch about it IMMEDIATELY. And promptly get banned.

And that month saw so many bannings of dipshits that they decided to keep that banner, because every single time a bigot joins the server, there is a high chance that they will out themselves IMMEDIATELY and be promptly banned.

While including text like this in a book is different than a community space, the reality is, fascists do not like being embarrassed or confronted about their beliefs; they have fragile egos.

So imagine you are going through the book with a group of friends, and you get to this block about “fascism bad,” and somebody is like, “I don’t know how I feel about this. It seems a bit stupid,” it immediately gets to raise a red flag for everybody that maybe this person isn’t, as cool to have at the table as they thought.

Similarly, you know how many bigots went and burned their beers/hats/shoes because some corporation supported trans people/gay people/Collin Kapernick?

This is performative, yes. But it’s not performative to puff up themselves as heroes. It’s performative, aimed right at the fragile skinned assholes who will boycott Oreos and Budweiser for “supporting the gays.”

It’s one of the FASTEST ways to reduce the number of virulent bigots in a community for ZERO COST.

Like, maybe the experience of the lancer discord is atypical, and fascists are learning to have thicker skins and lie about their beliefs better.

It’s still PROFOUNDLY CHEAP AND EASY to include this blurb.

So, it’s free, zero effort nazi repellent.

Frankly with that in mind, I’d regard anybody who ISNT doing this, as maybe a tiny bit cowardly.

It doesn’t fix the world— anyone who thinks the table top scene will magically save the day is a fool—but it does increase the odds that the hobby will be a safer place for more reasonable people, and not become a bastion of fascism like the wh40k fandom has.

Like, maybe the experience of the lancer discord is atypical, and fascists are learning to have thicker skins and lie about their beliefs better.

It may be atypical but it's certainly not unique. Another example is the Heraldry discord I'm on, with an icon that is animated to switch its original colours and two other versions, displaying gay pride and transgender pride colours.

Bigots join, bigots mouth off, bigots get banned.

Sometimes we get a different flavour of bigot, ones who tolerate us queers but are racist as hell. They tend to out themselves, too, because it's a heraldry server. That fact alone makes them assume that we're all "European culture is best" and other racist bullshit. They get banned.

See also the Godot discord, with an icon that scrolls through pride colours in a beautiful way.