SamuZai
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Forget linear fighters, quadratic wizards.Try exponential monke. A day after the week later.

So….. this is a super weird personality piece while i sort through some personal thoughts and finish working through some minor work things. I intended to catch up in a more professional .stl sense, but this soft relaunch to prepare for the hard Sync to MMf transition. Sync as a public community chest tool. Social media stuff has been incredibly daunting.

By embracing this almost obnoxious Thanos ‘I see the avengers have failed to impart a positive change. We no longer need good people to remain silent. Now that those we used to cherish such as filthy frank cannot exist in our current world landscape, I am embracing this big dick energy ‘snap my fingers and get it the fuck out of the way so we can all finally move on to a brighter tomorrow, anime villain/protagonist persona to give a personality to not just myself, but the community at large.

To this effect i have been making consensus decisions to embrace change from a DM, lets just chat as one human to another for 5 minutes here and there to help our players de-stress, vent, and provide some at table commentary to allow them to express worldviews in a manner one step separated from the world, to ease boundaries and engage in healthy discussion.

In this cancel culture environment of the current year, where public forum has moved from being about discussion to nazi germany levels of Individual accord gestapo activity, which has cost lives, and ruined career's because 10 years ago the world was very different, and those minor innocuous things have been echo chambers’d into a much larger issue than it ever was or is. Sometimes jokes really are just jokes, and context matters. This is difficult to get across via such an anonymous format, therefore,

Rather than start a movement from a political and ideological approach, lets take a page from our tables, stop pretending that the world is a serious thing, and embrace this amazing big dumb thing that connects us on every societal level. Now that the small family unit has been eroded through technological advances moving past societal evolution, and we no longer have the tools to stave of the existential crisis that it means to really be human, and every individual out of the hundreds i have spoken with over the past week, and of over the 3 dozen communities i have chosen to become embroiled in over the past year.

this is an art movement, and we will not allow it to become a political tool to weaponize against us, as so often our work is used as a vector to tear apart communities from outsiders who really just don't understand that artist experience, and that we have little control over our work is often very distressing ,especially when other have utilized it as a way to cause harm. This is not simply about using your art directly, but as artists we can often feel like accessories to the communities we take a part of simply by virtue of what we do for a living... and that people expect us to do it for free? We respect your time :)
'Paint my friggen fence, i can draw you some cocks on your car when your done thanks.

whats that?

Yeah i attached a magnum sharpie to a dildo what of it? if you dont quiet down i can start smashing windows with it instead of the drawing thing

that's what i thought, get back to it. free art. frigg off'


Now to end the hyperbole and directly apply a tabletop concept to this real world artistic movement to ensure this return to our primal nature, not as man among a concrete jungle, but as a beast walking, and screeching beneath the stars.  to tell the world

I AM HERE and thats what the recent chimp sessions have really been about(and i look forward to just moonke screeching at more people from all walks of life in general)

To embrace what we once were, if only for a moment, now that many of us have become more machine than man, and chatbots are able to make more compelling conversations than many of the creative people in these communities can muster these days. And that is a tragic reality that I am taking steps to change.

But it is exhausting. And we are tired. After we wrap this up with a direct translation of these concepts into several social media platforms, to engage in healthy community engagement activity, whilst also embracing the meta-physical narrative, cosmic horror, game theory, and meme culture nature of the hobby that exists in this weird cloud of abstract concepts, that we are now taking the steps towards leaving fantasy, and applying these concepts to the here and now. Because tabletop has become a way of life for so many of us. This 1 on 1 DM First, Party 2nd, business/everything else 3rd approach to these heavier topics is already being met with success after only a week of small engagements here and there.

We already have proof this ambitious multimedia social experiment is working. Here is our three pillar structure adaptation making the best use of each respective social media platforms strengths, while shirking away the Negatives.

Thanks to the efforts of our in house label holder, i have also began to blueprint a concurrent project to run beneath each pillar SIMULTANEOUSLY, because none of these topics exist in a vacuum, and now that they have been discussed ad infinum independantly, it is now the time to consider them from a more interconnected worldview.

I - Cosmic horror celebration
Really, at this point Fnaf and game theories have become as much as part of mainstream culture as the more relaxing existentialism of those talented creators willing to take the time to use a creative art medium to approach the more distressing topic, using music and physical - digital combinations to allow us to loose our inhibition as artists a=for a moment.

This pillar will be supported through both spurr of the moment improv with some unsettling livestream things occurring with 0 acknowledgement, to more experimental post production techniques on youtube to embrace a multi-media format, and combine physicality with the digital space as creavitly as possible.

**Project Eldritch runway**
I have penned a few story boards for some weird format screw type music videos along the lines of jack staubers Opal, and tally hall’s ruler of everything, embracing these various tools at our disposal to really let loose and explore an unbridled creativity that was never possible before the age of digital media.

II - Heavy, mental health topics & cultural celebration
Why roll these into the second pillar, shouldn’t they stand apart? Not in todays political climate. Race and culture has become a hush hush taboo via the twitter sphere, where even basic celebrations of culture are no longer permitted that's to the internet gestapo. Wearing a kimono or braiding your hair have become practices that are no longer supported by society due to those few loud vitriolic individuals, and now that we have been denied the exploration of other art forms for so long, sometimes it is hard to remember how to do so

FUCK THAT

This pillar will be supported through deliberately curated content through my patreon, MMF, KS, and youtube channels. most if not all of my serious mental health topics will be on youtube versus a more loose form event, as it is my responsibility to make these subjects as accessible to everyone, as in this day and age, both the very young and the very old deal with these issues. And the public forum is no longer an appropriate place to have some of those conversations due to how decisive they can be.

**Project global culture**
Our resident DJ has been working off/on on a world views style album that creates tracks inspired by local storied of those regions. I have been coincidentally been concepting out a Kickstarter that both celebrates culture by not watering down any cultural ideas, and expanding the notion of an expanded QoL bestiary format that goes beyond the generic Wizards content, and provides tactics pages and loot tables, along with an alignment pinwheel that allows you to arbitrarily decide a creatures alignment  at a moments notice. And know exactly what it looks like.

To tie into our more ambitious multi-media ideas, each sound track will have an accompanying number of monsters that they will be paired with, wine menu style to make setting the mood at the table with built in soundtrack content a snap to take your experience above and beyond+

III - meme culture celebration
The juxtaposition between more or less homebrewing CoC in 5e

"because you dont want to switch systems do you now?

Silly boy"

And more meme content such as a week long discussion of danny devito toll troll boss mechanics including penguin minions, the ever popular ‘if you refuse the toll trolls toll, he may at any point in time offer you an egg’ , and a set piece fight involving a couch mimic only to have devito burst from it for a WHAT NOW BITCHES PHASE TWO moment.

We should all stop pretending its serious, i have embraced that we no longer need to emulate artisans guild or titan forge, and are ready to shift our focus to meme culture- early internet humour and mixing this format with early physical prop based comedy that i grew up on like abbot and costello. I’m 24, my dad just loved those VHS’S and we loose a large degree of that physicality in an online space, but i have chosen to embrace the isolation as a positive for this digital platform concept.

When i am stood alone in a room, i can smash a mirror to create a fractured reality game board base on recent mirror plane content on the UA subreddit or flip a couch.

The first few live streams were a very good first step to getting comfortable with getting behind a camera and embracing a big dick manic crackhead, dm of chaos improv wizard persona because who else lets a dj shove a piece of drift wood into their mouth WHILE talking about our cultural exchange project,

ONLY TO DISCOVER THE TYPE OF ELDRITCH ABOMINATION I TRULY MEAN TO BE.

the terror was palpabale. his pupils narrowed. a bead of sweat formed on his face. the being before him has long shed its snake skin, and formed a new structure of internal organs and bone and sinew. it looked human. but it had long since stopped behaving like it

its airways were now cut off, it did not even blink. it simply met my eye and continued, as if i were merely an ant beneath its presence.

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beneath the baleful stars behind its twinkling eye, it tore apart my soul with but a single breadth of time, and lay my mind bare, before a cult.

This pillar will be supported by all of my social media platforms, as well through live events in my local community(and outside it if this big dumb thing works)

**project RPG TUK - TUK**
Already have blueprints for attaching a bike to a wheel barrow and building a balsa-paper mache pickle around it to truly take my first steps into becoming THE ALPHA SHITLORD.

I’m not going to say I'm trying to be batman. But I'm a pickle man. In a pickle cave. Embezzling his bruce wayne funds on a picklcar. Building a artist justice league, while silently having dm notes to fuck with them in 0 second flat prepped at all times.

So basically batman <3.

Think jontron wheeling a craft of snake oil to dab on goop level bs showmanship.
.

This has been the most exhaustion, fulfilling thing i have ever worked towards, and it frightens me how simply it came together simply by treating community management like i'm just dming a grand scale campaign, with little nudges here and there to get the players back on their main artist storyline by offering them the tools they need to get help.

Even when asking is a bit much for them right now, and we are working towards content you will be able to engage with at every level that will help you overcome that crucial first step.

Your willingness to express your stresses and anxiety to me have spearheaded this return to our roots concept, and your opinions have been extremely valuable.

As a tragic antagonist, i am taking steps to create a legion large enough to take on the world on your behalf, even when i am busy. Our shoulder will become large enough to shoulder the burdens of the world, so you no longer have to.

Your voices have been heard.

You don’t have to be alone any more.

Have a good day.


Logging off :)


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