In a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG), a group of people take a trip into an imaginary world, guided by an MC or ‘dungeon master’. Not limited to the Tolkien-esque themes of the famous Dungeons &amp; Dragons, TTRPGs range from gritty sci-fi scenarios to steampunk heist fantasies, and from everyday life to magic, monsters and vampires.

In this Microdose, Nadia, Keir and Jeremy gather round the table to talk about how role-playing games have evolved over half a century and what different game-playing styles might say about other societal battles – from feminism and reactionary masculinism to the revenge of the nerds.

Discussing games like Call of the Cthulu and Vampire of the Masquerade, as well as TV shows like Game of Thrones and The Expanse, the gang look at the huge cultural impact of TTRPGs. How has the rise of Silicon Valley changed the reception of geek culture? How might a players' politics turn up in their gameplay? How have women navigated these subcultural spaces so long dominated by men? Shake those polyhedral dice and find out.

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ACFM Microdose: Tabletop Role-Playing Games

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Bolivia’s leftist President Luis Arce used his platform at the United Nations General Assembly to propose a revolutionary 14-point program to transform the world.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kqzrvo_vC68

Translation and more info here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/27/luis-arce-un-bolivia-14-point-program

Our report ‘War on drugs has failed’: At UN, Colombia condemns ‘addiction to money and oil’: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/24/war-drugs-un-colombia-gustavo-petro

At UN, Bolivia presents revolutionary 14-point socialist program to transform world

In 1999, an anonymous Italian collective published a spy novel called Q. Imagined by its left-wing authors as an "operation manual for cultural disruption," the book has had a bizarre political afterlife, with its story arc and themes of Satanic ritual and paedophilia seemingly providing the basis for alt-right conspiracy theory QAnon. Did a '90s literary prank foment an American insurrection?

In a Microdose to accompany an ACFM Trip episode about magic, Keir Milburn speaks to Wu Ming 1, one of Q's co-authors and a founding member of the Wu Ming collective, about the universal appeal of conspiracies. 

Books: Q – Luther Blissett / La Q di Qomplotto – Wu Ming 1 / The Tyranny of Algorithms – Miguel Benasayag / The Critique of Judgement – Immanuel Kant

The stage magician mentioned by Wu Ming 1 is Mariano Tomatis and the walking tour of Leeds mentioned by Keir is a NovaraFM podcast called Riots and the Red Flag.

ACFM Microdose: Fantasy and Conspiracy with Wu Ming 1

Are families, like prisons, obsolete? Even if we might baulk at the comparison, the question can be illuminating.

To choose one’s own family was long the dream of radicals. What if, instead of those we happen to be biologically related to, we could surround ourselves with care, freely chosen and freely given? After a thirty-year pause, the confinements of the pandemic have kicked off another round of questioning. Do we really want our most fundamental relationships to be those handed to us at birth?

Sophie Lewis is the author of Abolish the Family and one of the most daring and fluid writers on sexual politics today. On NovaraFM with Rivkah Brown, Lewis pinpoints the root of our erotophobia, explores the secret surrogacies that make up the family, and tells us how we are already living the zoophilic Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife.

Novara FM: Choose Your Own Family Adventure w/ Sophie Lewis

For the 30th year in a row, almost every country on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to oppose the illegal six-decade US blockade of Cuba. 185 nations voted against just two: the United States and Israel.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpiF6JYepfI 

SOURCES here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/03/un-vote-blockade-cuba-us-israel

Entire world votes 185 to 2 against blockade of Cuba - US and Israel are rogue states at UN

EU leaders are furious that the US is making lots of money from the proxy war in Ukraine by selling weapons and exporting expensive natural gas. Meanwhile European industries are being destroyed as high energy prices and US subsidies push its companies to go overseas.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=N3wWaoOtVZI

Sources in our article here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/11/28/europe-us-profits-ukraine-war-economy

Europe angry that US profits from Ukraine proxy war while destroying EU economy

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The Communist Manifesto was a short but world-changing text that, despite being written in 1848, is a vital read for anyone who wants a better and more equal society. Brian Becker discusses the importance of the book, the historical context, and what it brought to the world.

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Why You Should Read the Communist Manifesto, #2 Most Popular Book of All Time

Mexico’s President AMLO sent Joe Biden a letter condemning US “interventionism”, such as USAID funding of right-wing opposition groups that are trying to destabilize his elected government.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iFxiuqE_wy8

Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/04/mexico-amlo-biden-letter-us-intervention

‘Mexico is not a US colony!’: AMLO condemns invasion threats, celebrates nationalization of oil, lithium: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/21/mexico-us-colony-amlo-invasion-nationalization-oil-lithium

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