What the fuck are you on about, the “bot” is just a feed of RPG blogs that gets posted here on a wide range of rpgs and topics.

Gamify this stuff. Instead of a single silent alarm causing the players to get ambushed, have a threat level that you’re tracking that requires multiple triggers to end up in the worst case scenario. Give players in-game feedback that this is happening (they notice there’s a higher frequency of patrols, overhear guards getting new orders, etc). Give players mechanisms to reduce the threat level (waiting until things cool down, hacking security systems, stealth takedown of guards, etc).

As much as it is tempting to do pure simulation in a realistic way, it doesn’t always make for a fun game. Fun almost always comes from interesting and meaningful decisions for the players. Having invisible triggers going off behind the scenes that the players will never know about is only interesting for the GM.

This is such a weird take. The setting is dystopian, it’s a staple of the genre. The setting doesn’t celebrate the oppression, as this article seems to be suggesting.

Effectively firing half the employees seems like a strong sign that the new owners are going to ruin what made Bandcamp good.

I’m so fucking tired, you guys.

Digital data does not last anywhere near as long as physical artifacts like paper. Most of the data on a hard drive will be irretrievable after a hundred years.