356: Dragons On Usenet

[Lemon]

[Shell Game]

Seeing this pop up made my day and it's still morning.

oh! here's this also https://web.archive.org/web/20070808222339/http://www.dragoncode.org/ you may have to fiddle with dates if you click the links inside, but this is a place to find dragon code info

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18y7vU_gFOmFnPk27VD-sLe0s-1tWORNyZLfzGQNnnLs/edit?usp=sharing

here's a doc i made awhile ago for an old recording that's MOST of the info on the website

[Ambious]

HTTP was a mistake

[Captain Fargle]

If I remember correctly that Dragon Code stuff came up in an Extra Credit episode and at least part of it is about having shorthand code for letting people know if your dragon fursona is bigger than the Sun or not.

[jim and the mammograms]

scathing podcast reviews on the dragon code site

[Shell Game]

If I remember correctly that Dragon Code stuff came up in an Extra Credit episode and at least part of it is about having shorthand code for letting people know if your dragon fursona is bigger than the Sun or not.

That was the white elephant doc exchange we did a couple holiday seasons ago.

[Tipsy Almond]

If I remember correctly that Dragon Code stuff came up in an Extra Credit episode and at least part of it is about having shorthand code for letting people know if your dragon fursona is bigger than the Sun or not.

For a moment, I thought you were talking about the YouTube channel Extra Credits and I was both not surprised and exceedingly concerned.

[Wolley74]

So for some reason Spotify is playing the Dr feeder episode instead of the new one no clue why but might wanna check it out

[Lemon]

So for some reason Spotify is playing the Dr feeder episode instead of the new one no clue why but might wanna check it out

yeah, so I typed something when I originally posted Doctor Feeder. If you delete the file and start over you should be all good.

[Wolley74]

yeah, so I typed something when I originally posted Doctor Feeder. If you delete the file and start over you should be all good.

Tried rebooting app / clearing cache still happening. It's playing thru Google podcasts and plex but not Spotify yet

[adrenochrome dome]

Podcast Addict has the correct episode, but with the Dr. Feeder chapters (after re-downloading).

[hardrocococafe]

I don’t know if this is specialized millennial knowledge, but Weezie from Dragon Tales is one head on a two-headed dragon and the other head on the two-headed dragon is her brother. Hope this helps

[KingKalamari]

Man, there's something almost nostalgic about the particular breed of otherkin featured in this episode.

I think it's something that I didn't really grasp at the time, but revisiting this stuff 15-20 years removed from when it was happening, it's interesting to see just how much of a direct outgrowth of the tabletop rpg community oldschool otherkin invariably were. The actual mechanics and portrayals of dragons in the episode were pretty much ripped directly from the 2nd Edition Monstrous Compendiums and the vague babblings of new age pseudo-spirituality are pretty much identical to the sort of stuff you'd see in White Wolf splat books when Phil "Satyros" Brucato* was in the writer's chair.

The 90s were a hell of a weird time for RPGs.

_{* - To those not in the know, Phil Brucato was a game developer who legally changed his name to "Satyros" because he's exactly the person you picture when someone says the phrase "neo-pagan weirdo". He still tends to go by Phil Brucato for professional work but always includes the Satyros in some capacity.}

[Penultimatum]

Man, there's something almost nostalgic about the particular breed of otherkin featured in this episode.

I think it's something that I didn't really grasp at the time, but revisiting this stuff 15-20 years removed from when it was happening, it's interesting to see just how much of a direct outgrowth of the tabletop rpg community oldschool otherkin invariably were. The actual mechanics and portrayals of dragons in the episode were pretty much ripped directly from the 2nd Edition Monstrous Compendiums and the vague babblings of new age pseudo-spirituality are pretty much identical to the sort of stuff you'd see in White Wolf splat books when Phil "Satyros" Brucato* was in the writer's chair.

The 90s were a hell of a weird time for RPGs.

_{* - To those not in the know, Phil Brucato was a game developer who legally changed his name to "Satyros" because he's exactly the person you picture when someone says the phrase "neo-pagan weirdo". He still tends to go by Phil Brucato for professional work but always includes the Satyros in some capacity.}

Wait, so you’re saying all the moral panic weirdos who thought tabletop RPGs made you lose touch with reality were right?

[Antivehicular]

Man, there's something almost nostalgic about the particular breed of otherkin featured in this episode.

I think it's something that I didn't really grasp at the time, but revisiting this stuff 15-20 years removed from when it was happening, it's interesting to see just how much of a direct outgrowth of the tabletop rpg community oldschool otherkin invariably were. The actual mechanics and portrayals of dragons in the episode were pretty much ripped directly from the 2nd Edition Monstrous Compendiums and the vague babblings of new age pseudo-spirituality are pretty much identical to the sort of stuff you'd see in White Wolf splat books when Phil "Satyros" Brucato* was in the writer's chair.

The 90s were a hell of a weird time for RPGs.

_{* - To those not in the know, Phil Brucato was a game developer who legally changed his name to "Satyros" because he's exactly the person you picture when someone says the phrase "neo-pagan weirdo". He still tends to go by Phil Brucato for professional work but always includes the Satyros in some capacity.}

Additionally, Bard Bloom from this doc (and yes, this is his real name, as far as I can tell?) is definitely a TTRPG guy. He and his wife co-wrote a game called World Tree which is about 70% a really interesting, complex original fantasy world and about 30% "oh christ, it's '90's old-school furries," and it definitely has some Dragon Content. (The dragons are very small, but they're definitely immortal jerkass wizards, and there's a whole paragraph about how ~sensual~ they are and it's weird as shit. You can play one if you want!!)