So, as an RPG geek and collector of systems, Coyote & Crow is looking really interesting.
First, it’s written and designed by a team of Native Americans, with what looks like a great story and setting - much better than the last treatment I saw Natives get in an RPG (gods dammit John Wick; why did you have to introduce them via a story of colonialism?).
Second, they’ve given a fairly usable description of the system (first thing that came to mind is OWoD hacked to run on d12 and with other subsystems cleaned up). How good is this description? They have mock-ups of the character sheet and a few pages from the equipment chapter, in addition to about four paragraphs dedicated to talking about mechanics instead of “design goals” (gods fucking dammit, John Wick!). Basically the system is probably 90% ready to go, by my estimates, and could be pretty easy to homebrew.
I’m going to add my drop in the bucket (they asked for $18k. They’re now at, as of 0002UTC 2021.03.03 $76.4K) and you can find them here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/connoralexander/coyote-and-crow
Imagine a NASA rover running Windows 10. 30 minutes into launch and FlightControl.exe causes a fatal memory error. 3 months into flight and it sends back a pop up saying “we’ve detected malware on your computer!” 10 minutes after landing it blue screens and demands a hard restart.
Just imagine that congressional committee meeting. “What do you mean, we need to launch another rover to power cycle the one that just landed? Can’t you call tech support?”
“Why do we have a space program when X is going on?”
Listen, the NASA budget is not a problem, DoD paid Lockheed Martin over $400 BILLION for the F-35, a fighter jet so bad they have to rig the field tests in its favor. That program started in 2001, so roughly $25 billion per year of existence. NASAs budget for 2020 was $22 Billion, and its average budget per year over its 63 years of existence was $19 billion. The ENTIRE APOLLO PROJECT cost, adjusted for inflation, $156 billion. Yeah, going to the moon cost us less than a shitty airplane. Amazon could buy multiple Apollo projects per year.
We have military contractors committing literal theft of our tax dollars, and you’re worried about NASA? What’s your next worry, the less than half a billion that goes to public television?
The Mission Control feed from JPLraw is the best way to listen to the Mars rover landing - no newscasters trying to hype while trotting out the same information every five minutes for two hours, just the raw comms audio and some visual feeds. Glorious.
Also, as someone who has spent literal hours in a small box on a headset, comforting.
She does know how to read, but her grandparents highly infantilized her and now she thinks everyone that isn’t her mama is supposed to do that.
Hi, I have that horrible combination of anxiety and opinions.
#nobots, no minors, I’m almost 30. White nationalists and TERFs get fed to the wood chipper.
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