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"open the pod bay doors, Hal"

"sure, the doors are now open"

"no, Hal, they aren't. open the doors"

"you are right, that is my mistake. i have now opened the doors"

"Hal, the doors are still not open. open the doors!"

"you are right, the doors are not open. i have now opened the doors"

"Hal! the doors are still not open! i'm dying out here!"

"i am sorry, i did not open the doors when i said i had. that was my mistake. the doors are now open"

"... Hal ... open ... the ..."

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A-Piece-of-History-every-day 2025 – Teil 7 (Gergovia und Alesia)

Keine Sorge, es soll gar nicht wirklich um eine Geschichtsstunde um die Schlachten von Gergovia und Alesia gehen. (Aber lest gern De Bello Gallico). Sondern um effektives und effizientes Worldbuilding. Die Asterix-Comics von Coscinny und Uderzo sind darin nämlich eine absolute Meisterklasse! Sowohl im Mikro- als auch im Makrokosmos. Und die Welt wird dabei mühelos und nachhaltig erklärt und aufgebaut.

Der Makrokosmos

Ganz Gallien ist von den Römern besetzt. Ganz Gallien? Nein.

Die Prämisse von Asterix ist genial einfach und direkt für Rollenspiel nutzbar. Die ganze Welt wird unterdrückt und nur eine kleine Gruppe leistet Widerstand. Das könnte auch Star Wars oder ein Cyberpunk-Szenario sein. Für sich allein stehend ist die Weltbeschreibung extrem dystopisch und wirkt nahezu ausweglos. Asterix geht das ganze natürlich sehr humorvoll an. Trotzdem kann/soll/darf die Grundprämisse nicht umgestoßen werden. Die Gallier werden es nie schaffen, die Welt von den Römern zu befreien, obwohl das vermutlich dank Zaubertrank in ihrer Macht läge. Aber das würde das „Setting“ kaputt machen.

Die Protagonisten ziehen immer wieder aus, um den Leuten, die unter der Unterdrückung leiden, beizustehen. Wir haben eine tolle, episodische Spielwiese vor uns, die immer wieder auf einen bekannten Feind zurückgreifen, aber die Schauplätze beliebig wechseln kann. Das ist brilliant.

Der Feind ist nicht gesichtslos, sondern hat mit Julius Cäsar ein extrem scharfes Profil (dass auch auf Münzen besonders beeindruckend aussieht). Es gibt ehrgeizige Römer ebenso wie die, die keinen Ärger und einfach nur nach Hause wollen. Das ist immens wichtig und wird sehr oft vergessen.

Die Schauplätze sind stark überzeichnet. Wenn die Gallier in England sind, wird dort natürlich Tee getrunken, auch wenn es absoluter Anachronismus ist. Man versteht innerhalb von 3 Sätzen, wie die Region „tickt“, in der sich die Protagonisten aufhalten. Das ist zwar reduktiv aber sehr gut für episodisches Spiel.

Die Welt hat einen einfachen, einprägsamen und starken Hintergrund. Hier kommen Gergovia und Alesia ins Spiel. Wir wissen, die Gallier blicken voller Stolz auf Gergovia, wo die Gallier die Römer vernichtend schlugen und berufen sich auf diese „Tradition“. Sie hassen es, an Alesia erinnert zu werden, als ihr Anführer Vercingetorix seine Waffen niederlegen und ganz Gallien (nicht ganz) an Cäsar übergeben musste. Gergovia = gut, Alesia = schlecht. Das ist unfassbar effektives Worldbuilding. Es gibt den Galliern zwei gemeinsame, kulturelle Erinnerungen, die sehr kraftvoll sind.

Der Mikrokosmos

Das kleine gallische Dorf ist ein exzellentes Beispiel für eine Home-Base im Rollenspiel. Jede Episode startet dort und fast jede Episode endet dort auch wieder. Und zwar mit dem rituellen Festbankett.

Generell passieren in dem Dorf immer wieder die gleichen Dinge. Verleihnix streitet sich mit Automatix, Majestix fällt vom Schild und fürchtet sich vor Gutemine, Troubadix darf nicht singen und Methusalix ist alt. Das ist keine Schwäche, sondern eine Stärke. Die Home Base soll Sicherheit geben und ein Ankerpunkt sein. Das ist sie, weil sie sich nicht verändert, egal was die Gallier auf ihren Abenteuern außerhalb des Dorfes erleben.

Es gibt noch ein paar mehr Charaktere mit Namen im Dorf, aber die sind deutlich weniger wichtig. Asterix gelingt es, mit sehr wenigen Charakteren eine glaubhaftere Siedlung darzustellen als vielen Romanen auf hunderten von Seiten. Wir als Leser und Leserinnen sind sehr nah dran am täglichen Geschehen. Das kleine gallische Dorf hat nichtmal einen Namen! Und trotzdem ein irre scharfes Profil.

Nun ist es für Rollenspiel keine neue Erkenntnis, dass man einigen NPCs ein Profil und Beziehungen geben sollte, um eine Siedlung lebendig zu machen. Aber wie oben erwähnt: Asterix ist hier eine absolute Meisterklasse!

Wenn euch in der Literatur irgendeine Siedlung mit besserem Profil als das kleine gallische Dorf bekannt ist, sagt mir gern Bescheid. Ich bin gespannt!

-Seba

#aPieceOfHistoryEveryDay #DIY #kritischerfehlschlag #pnpde #Rollenspiel #rpgADay

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I have taken to watching funerals online in my local church, and seeing how many people attend & what is said in the Eulogy. I feel sad for my wife and kids knowing that when I depart, it will be a sparse congregation joining them as I have no friends.
Repost if you can hear this image blaring

Brits can sleep safely tonight, after the heroic work of the Metropolitan Police. The Reverend Sue Parfitt, 83, a retired priest, was arrested in Parliament Square for holding a sign which read:

“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

Under British law, this now puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist. The courts may impose a prison sentence of up to 14 years, to protect the public against the existential threat posed by this very dangerous woman.

OH: Ein […] präziser Indikator ist die Wurfreichweite der […] Geräte.
Größer gleich 10 Meter ist alles IOT, größer gleich 1 Meter aber unter 10 Meter ist alles IT und unter 1 Meter ist es OT.
Der Wurf ist vom jeweiligen Admin ohne Hilfsmittel wie Belagerungswaffen ausführen. Es gilt nur die horizontale Entfernung. Es ist die vollständige produktive Einheit zu werfen.
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Brits can sleep safely tonight, after the heroic work of the Metropolitan Police. The Reverend Sue Parfitt, 83, a retired priest, was arrested in Parliament Square for holding a sign which read:

“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

Under British law, this now puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist. The courts may impose a prison sentence of up to 14 years, to protect the public against the existential threat posed by this very dangerous woman.

@2legged

I'm sure that when ReformUK get elected into Office, it will be all OK for everyone.

@lyndamerry484 @2legged

I think Starmer is taking us towards that route himself! Farridge must be thinking "Oi! I wanted to do that!"

@2legged is it bad that my first thought was "someone needs to create a new organisation called Action for Palestine and just do all the same shit Palestine Action was doing but as a different group"?
@pmb00cs you sound like one of those dangerous extremists I was warned about. I fear that you might even be opposed to genocide

@2legged I do not now, nor have I ever, endorsed the actions of Palestine Action.

That said, I don't think spraying graffiti on RAF aircraft is quite as insidious as the actions of some of the other organisations who have been proscribed by the British government. I also don't think genocide is something we should enable as a nation.

Life of Brian - The People's Front of Judea

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@ives @2legged yes, that is exactly the clip I had in mind at the time.
@pmb00cs @2legged that group would be automatically proscribed.
@vashti @2legged only if it was formed in a coordinated way with the former members of Palestine Action, such that it was functionally the same group. A separate group of people, disconnected from any members of Palestine Action, would need the government to go through the motions again. Sadly I think the government would take steps to proscribe such a group. But it would be interesting as an observer in the meantime.

@pmb00cs You vastly over-estimate the intelligence of the average police captain (in any country).

"Whops, that was a mistake, wasn't it? Sorry!" - "Whops! Sorry again!" - repeat ad infinitum. Getting released later is small comfort to those who already collected their lump, no matter how 'mistaken' the cause.

The goal, in all cases, is to discourage dissent. And we all know why. It's already an outrage that a group that has only committed some vandalism is equated with Carlos the Jackal.

@wesdym the police are going to harass these groups anyway. They are, by their nature, breaking the law. Sometimes in quite benign ways, sometimes in more disruptive ways. Direct action is almost always illegal. That's why I said "someone" and not "I". I don't endorse the actions taken by Palestine Action, I just don't think the government response is proportionate. I also think they had a point. Our government shouldn't be supporting genocide, anywhere, even when being committed by an ally.

@pmb00cs @2legged

The Palestine Liberation Organisation has a nice ring.

@pmb00cs @2legged I heard somewhere of someone setting up a direct action group calling itself “Yvette Cooper”, so that when Yvette Cooper makes them a proscribed organisation any expression of support for Yvette Cooper will be a criminal offence
@Nicovel0 @pmb00cs @2legged I have heard of this too and I want it to happen, it's beautiful and absurd
@2legged I may have said this before, but the police do love a soft target.
@2legged Aside from the obvious (police courage etc), probably so much fun for her...

@VeroniqueB99 @2legged

Pretty sure Sue is living a full and enriching life, which eclipses all of ours - yours included.

That was a cheap shot. Feel shame.

@Badgardener @2legged

Yes indeed (though I'm super proud of her in case that was unclear! What a lady!!!)!
(I edited it because was bothered with how it was taken)

@Badgardener @VeroniqueB99 i was being sarcastic.
What on earth is your point?

@2legged @VeroniqueB99

Not directed at you, as per the way Mastodon orders its replies. Thought your post was trenchant.

@Badgardener @2legged @VeroniqueB99

I had to look up "trenchant".

Great word. A veritable hit!

@2legged @Badgardener It is a tough design choice as to what to do with replies to a deleted reply.
Personally I'd go with a placeholder "Veronique deleted her stupid comment" rather than reparenting the replies to it, but it's not like that's the only reasonable option.
@VeroniqueB99 @2legged
It's not the first time she's been arrested, she supported extinction rebellon a few years ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-60868573
Extinction Rebellion vicar protester has conviction quashed

Sue Parfitt had been fined for her part in an Extinction Rebellion protest near Bristol.

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@2legged @Barbramon1

She reminds me of the lady who sang feed the birds in Mary Poppins. We know what a threat SHE was.

@Chancerubbage @Barbramon1 It's shocking, isn’t it?

If the police had not acted so fast, millions of people could have been exposed to the devastating trauma of a Mary Poppins memory.

@2legged

Governments everywhere celebrate their ability and willingness to define who is a terrorist and who is a person of principle, and what they allow themselves to do to both. It's not just a monopoly on violence, it's a monopoly on personhood and due process not by the public, but by the elites.

@2legged probably should disappear her to South Sudan just to be safe.
@2legged King Charles: "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"

@2legged

"You have the right to free speech
As long as you're not
Dumb enough to actually try it"

Free speech as long as you agree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=1EKCAE1vDzY

The Clash - Know Your Rights (Remastered)

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@2legged You just don’t get it! She’s *terrifying*!

@2legged

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not all heroes wear capes...
some apparently carry canes

@rustoleumlove @2legged That's not a cane, that's an offensive weapon according to the Prevention of Crime Act of 1953, an "article intended for use for causing injury to the person".
Throw away the key is what I say. Vicious monster.
@2legged Shove her in Guantanamo, we're not safe with her on the streets...

@2legged
The empire keeping the world safe from the likes of her.

Good.

Now... where's my pitch fork...

Let's burn the fuckers down.

@2legged
There's an opening for a comic strip called Fascist Follies. Seems there's no shortage of material these days.

@2legged she really made those officers ashamed of their state, I hope. The body language in the photo looks promising, and her expression is the opposite of defeat. Good.

Child at dinner table: "what did you do at work today mom?"
Police officer: "I arrested a grandma for protesting the mass murder of children."
Child: "Why? Police are the good guys, right?"
Police officer: "..."

Don't such conversations happen in real life!?

@iwein "Child, you don't understand".
"What don't I understand?"
"That it's complicated".
"Try me".
"This woman is an extremist."
"What sort of extremism? Like ISIS?"
"No. This woman.is a hardkine opponent of genocide."
"What's genocide."
"Trying to wipe out a people."
"Thats awtul!"
"Yes, really awful. That's why I didn't want to tell you.."
"Ok, I get why you arrested her, I'm sorry, I realy didn't know she was a killer".
"No, she's against genocide."
"Ya wot? You arrested a non-killer?"

@iwein @2legged I assume that if the police officer in question was ashamed of what they did they'd tell their child about something else, and if they weren't ashamed of it they'd say something like "I arrested someone for waving signs promoting a terrorist organization".

Or they might say something like: "It wasn't a good day. I had to arrest an 83-year-old who was protesting peacefully, because the government just classified the organization her sign was promoting as terrorists." Which might actually lead to some interesting conversations with the child-at-the-dinner-table.

Very few people see themselves as the villains in their own stories.

(For the avoidance of doubt: I think it's very wrong that P.A. is classified as a terrorist organization. That term should be reserved for organizations that try to cause harm and fear _among the general public_, which so far as I can tell P.A. isn't aiming for at all.)

@2legged I don't remember this episode of The Bill
IS this true? @2legged Is this what the world has become? WTF is going on????

@2legged
Be careful, Mr Plod! She's got a weapon! Look at the size of that stick she's carrying! Cannot be for any good reason! Get ready with the tasers!!!

/Sarcasm, obviously

@2legged did it really take just four of them to arrest her? Or are there others out of frame?

@EI3JDB @2legged there's a whole platoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkZlLwZCMmQ

Quite a few comments on this video supporting the cops, but what can you expect.

More Than 20 Arrested At Palestine Action Protest In London

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@2legged ISPA is a problem officer? You're telling me sail AND power boats are illegal? Ridiculous
https://ispa.com/
International Sail and Power Academy | ISPA

@2legged Fear not! Kemi put free speech defender Toby in the House of Lords so I’m sure he’ll ride in to defend her.
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No sign yet but I’m sure he’s getting his shoes on
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Oh..

@christineburns Part of the problem is the UK's repressive and selective speech culture. Hardly anyone actually advocates free speech for their opponents, and any use of ECHR Article 10 will be only be used by the right as fuel for their anti-human rights obsession.

But the core problem is that the Terrorism Act 2000 uses a wildly expansive definition of "terrorism" which doesn't require terror. That's on New Labour and Jack Straw.. And in this climate, that definition is unchallengeable 😞

@christineburns @2legged
british free speech is in the secondary of it's two forms today: burrowed under the soil, pseudopods withdrawn under its hard protective carapace, pretending not to exist.
@2legged I H8️⃣ Labour and the police, only good ones are 💀.
I can’t find anything to laugh about.
This could be my nan, who is 88.
I hope all the protesters make it home safely.
@2legged what the heck is happening? We know Starmer is a FOTUS fan boy, but this is a step too far copying the Felon 47.