Aki's Perspectives

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(they/them) makes: ttrpgs, essays, analysis and other angles. the profile picture is of my grandma’s tom yum soup singaporean born, japan based blog: akisperspectives.wordpress.com itch: https://akis-perspectives.itch.io/

screenshot of a word processing application (obsidian) with the text: "fictional to the nth degree. when someone has a problem the write. they create someone who will take some of their problem and do something with it. then that fictional someone will have a problem of their own. they will write about it. and thus a fictional fictional character will emerge. where does it end? what is the final form of the fictional chain of fictional creation?"
a pouch in the shape of a row of mahjong tiles. a hand of tiles showing something probably worth a lot but i’m not sure
cover of the scenario book 「番犬」, depicts a large white would that has chains binding its snout
metallic case labeled “retake company” in orange paper with a description of the fictional company. the case is in a packaging that’s like this silver wrap
convention booth with a board titling it GRAND MAZON AZB and three people dressed as kitchen staff. the table of the booth is laid out as a fine dining table and there’s also the game on it
golden box for a deck of tarot cards “yuri tarot” it has a cute cartoon person peeking over the title
it’s a board game with green and purple dice and they’re arranged on three transparent grid boards that are placed in a tower of sorts so there are there layers of these grids that the dice are on
on a table with orange tablecloth over it: a board saying さいころつかみどり and a transparent big box filled with dice, mostly d6s but some of different sizes at the top. the box has a cover that has a small circular hole for someone to put their hand in and take a fist of dice out
“social media sites are built for consumption, not creation”
2 tables with 5 books of different sizes in the centre of them, dice and character sheets as well
a low table with a lot of index cards in different states of being folded or not folded with character details written on them. there’s also an ipad with the pdf of the game displayed, lots of drinks
a low table with sheets for dragon reactor strewn across it. dice and pens and a notebook stacked on top of a tablet’s screen
Walton's theory understands pictures as props in visual games of make-believe, where making believe is in turn understood as an activity of guided imagining. Confronted with a picture, we are prompted to imagine that we are seeing such and such an object by the configuration of marks that constitutes the picture, and we imagine precisely of our seeing those marks that it is a seeing of the object the picture depicts. Pictures generate fictional worlds (work-worlds'), whose content is given by what it is correct to imagine seeing in them, itself determined by implicit rules and conventions of the game in question. In addition, in imagining the content of pictures in virtue of visually interacting with them, fictional worlds specific to the viewer ('game-worlds') are also generated, albeit passingly.
Adding loops to the mission simultaneously elucidates how to portray the lives of relevant people, prompts you to include things you might ve forgotten ("Where's the bathroom? Where do they eat?"), and gives FIST a lot to chew on. Instead of going from point A to B to C, players in a looped-up mission area can easily double back, find shortcuts, and disrupt the usual social structure of the location to achieve their goals.
“Edit: I'm always blown away by how little agreement there is on any subject”
screenshot of chuubo’s pdf ‘Put as a simpler but far less intuitive rule: If your action made you miserable, it doesn't give you Isolation.’
table with character sheets and assorted papers strewn across it. also dice and pens and a tablet with the pdf of Deep Cuts on it