Charlie Hebdo shooting, horrors of war
At the Newseum, and I just saw Tignous' name on the wall of journalists killed in action. His real name was Bernard Verlhac, and he was killed in the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
He was a parody artist who contributed to many charitable causes, including Clowns Without Borders and Cartoonists for Peace.
I only know all this because he featured in a life-changing peace of art for me - a tabletop experience known as The Grizzled. It allowed players to step into the shoes of soldiers in World War I, but contained no combat mechanics, and no fighting - there was nothing you could do to "contribute to the war". It was simply about staying alive until the end of the war and helping your friends from giving into despair. Players acquired traumas that could make them an actual danger to the rest of the group, but you cannot and would not leave them behind. The only way to win was to save everyone, and get home. Not in one piece - even victory was tragic - but home nonetheless. Fuck the war, just get them home.
I just hope for more people to remember him, and I recommend trying The Grizzled. It's something special.
its a cool game
RT @pcgamer@twitter.com
Top-down stealth game Shadow Tactics is free on Epic today https://buff.ly/2tVlMgY
birdsite link, video of a bus sliding sideways very slowly down a street.
https://twitter.com/WCCO/status/1210975493387935744
...I'm... I'm not the only one who wants to see this video but set to REALLY, REALLY SLOWED DOWN music from Initial D right????
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I'm pretty sure Piers was like "y'ever just meet someone and like, instantly dislike them but you can't put your finger on exactly why, then they do something shitty and you're like I FUCKIN KNEW IT"
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Rose pretty much comes across as the "wow why don't poor people jsut stop being poor it's so easy!" kinda guy. "Well Meaning" but so bafflingly incompetent at realising his priveledge and status is insulating him from reality that he genuinely thinks he's helpful and people are just "Not Getting It(tm)".
So yeah... I bet it was super fucking vindicating for Piers when Rose [s]gathered the power gems to unleash the Destructor, Golden Silver[/s]freed Eternatus.
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and like, it was already basically thrown by the wayside by the fact there's no powerspot there because i guess nobody wants to see championship pokemon battles unless there's a kaiju fight or some shit. so if the gym wasn't even anywhere near Spikemuth, NOBODY would ever go there, no business, no income, no revenue, no economy, pretty soon it would be a ghosttown. And Piers is having none of that. Rose of course doesn't get it because he's Peak Techbro.
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.