millenials, of whom had always the worst humour iwth the insufferable excess of the vine era, has now pivoted to "oh no im old and dont know slang" as their joke of choice and its so fucking tired. let alone like 80% of the "gen z slang" they talk of is only ever an ironic joke no one actually uses

Le Guin is touted as ahead of her time but jeez a popular 1974 novel having the straight man protag have explicitly mentioned gay sex with his friend is awesome. Most Contemporary sff today can't even oust itself from heterosexual assumptions like this, even which is advertised as gay.

this is the future of ttrpgs

Holy cow we are at 50% already!! So grateful for this wonderful community and we are STOKED to make this creepy game a reality!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wei...

BAFTAS were pre-recorded. Despite that, BBC chose to: - Leave in the N-word shouted while Black men were on stage - Cut out homophobic slurs shouted by the same person - Cut out "Free Palestine" declared by a Black man on stage This is what white supremacy & genocide approval looks like. Reject it.

thinking about a faggot game; Duet game (although i feel thats cowardly :c) where one pl creates a monster the other a human whose gonna be fucked by that monster. Monster parts are customisable assets and skills that provide moves in fiction, the entire game being about the tension of fear and lust

Ingrid, my fucking GIRL! Working toward a comic about her currently… 😎😎😎

i don't think dandadan should work aswell as it does - oh you know that annoying trend of anime slapstick ruining tension? yeh what if that was the whole anime, yet somehow it slaps. The sound, the animation, the pacing, even the humour, all works And it allows scenes to breathe amongst its action.

every day as a trans person doing creative work is forcing yourself to not focus on the nightmares and hunker down and keep doing as good a job as you can in the hope that for a brief window you can fulfill your drive and get your art into the world before the hammer falls on you too

being trans online is like [posts a silly joke] [sees news abt government trying to exterminate us] [like funny post by trans friend] [more news about gov wanting us dead] [repost funny joke] [trans friend shares horrible news about insurance issues/sexual violence/abusive family] [sees funny post]

Liberals have decided that trans people are the blood sacrifice necessary to ensure a bountiful harvest. Some of them are probably just bigots who agree with the nazis, but others have simply decided that SOMEONE needs to be sacrificed and it isn't gonna be them, and this is mature adult politics

I've been thinking about this all day. It's not the first time! I've always intensely loved the dream-like, myth-heavy world of old fantasy. King Arthur; fairy tales of all sorts; witches and hauntings; knights and damsels. I have the King of Elfland's Daughter right next to me at this moment--

Okay for some reason i had conflated rule 0 and session 0 and assumed rule 0 was "stay safe and be kind" - turns it its really not that. I dont care for what it is however. I will continue to think the way ive thought.

This is why I am, and encourage other designers, to be as authoritative as possible. Every single word you wrote that gets read, every rule followed, was done with active intention by the reader. They do not need your permission to not read.

It seems bizzare to me unbeatable isnt on switch, it looks like the perfect handheld game to the degree that while im excited for the game i really dont wanna buy it on ps5

With TTRPGS you can make either a game with a core loop that is a complete experince unto itself (often generative) or you make a game that is strongest when played with premade adventures/modules.

What is a word that encompasses Marine, Police, Bodyguard, Security?

It's interesting how for many players the idea of having to deal with an existing threat in ttrpgs is baffling. "The snake is going to lunge at you, what do you do?" "I want to grab the gun from the rack" "okay, but you will still get bit" "Oh. What?"

my girlfriend is treating marvel rivals like an mmorpg

Hold your breath. Don't you dare... make... a... sound. "Perfect Organism: The Assembly Cut", the expanded analysis of Alien: Isolation, is now available for you to pre-order. lostincult.co.uk/perfectorgan...

The coen brothers could make a great lolita movie. they would be the best at matching the tone! the story starts of as some americana twisted loner bullshit akin to no country only to descend into fargo levels of absurd action.

its so easy to start writing. Anyone can do it! upon a word doc and put down words. Dont do it though. Just fucking dont. Dont even start. Run.

oh god oh god they are turning *evangelion* a thoughful philosphical show into waifu-bait franchise slop. Oh my god theyre gonna start making tacky merch too now! how did this happen??

Moore is spec fiction royalty, but she isn't read to the same level as her male contemporaries. The omission of Moore (and many other women) from discussions on the weird leads to a false idea that women were not writing the weird (or spec in general) until very recently.

get weirder 🫵

Ive always considered dropouts "leftism" as the new school version of collegehumor skits having tits in their thumbnails but not in the video.

Aha i see you have designed a game in a way that i process as unfun. This clearly means there is something ontologically wrong with you and that your intellect is both limited and immature. Any credit you do have as a designer is clearly crafted from clout chasing. You are now my designated enemy.

A dream book for me is an anthology of different designers discussing why they designed their ttrpgs the way they did, each written in their distinct voices. (Some may explain minute mechanical decissions, others may discuss factors around the production itself, or one may talk about the emotional)

One of the best advice to crafting dungeons I have ever heard (well okay after Landmark - Secret - Hidden OFC) and i can't remember where this is from, is to make sure to have someone to talk to. Its simple but so so key to a good dungeon. Just a bit of some social shit in there.

I don't like the lack of resources - at least any I can find - on asistance when it comes to making mothership 3rd party stuff. Templates, fonts, design information ect. Some games do it much better, first party or third party.

I read a review of mothership 1e that seems to attempt to criticise the game from the fact that "nothing in the game matters and therefore the player doesnt care about playing" - this is an obvious dislike of horror gaming from the writer trying to attempt to "Logicalise" it with game design speak

Since everyone is (sigh) debating if writers benefit from reading books, I dissected a passage shared as “evidence” that non-readers can write great prose: countercraft.substack.com/p/what-not-r...

Its been 9 years and i still say "Tsuchinoko real" only today i discovered my GF had never heard of Tsuchinoko which is crazy cus cryptids are her thing

"markiplier complains about poppy playtime chapter 5" Sorry the guy might be braindead if he thought mascot horror slop complete with nfts was gonna improve by the fifth "chapter"

so much of the discourse about depictions of trans women could be sidestepped if u ppl just considered us fucking women lol

farcry primal my beloved

there is the meme of "chainsaw man fans will try to convince you its peak" which i dont get get because 1. Isnt that a deafult part of being a "fan" of something?? 2. it really is fucking peak

Im still so fucking upset i lost my "Xenobiologist" patch that came with the in other waters: tidebreak kickstarter :C

An interesting Issue regarding my solo mothership rules is the fact that I could make abandoned frieghter crawl generation rules for the player so it's a complete package HOWEVER there are so many different modules out there doing this already so why should I bother doing pointless work?

Sci-fi setting: "this alien race are all men" Me: "then why bother gendering them at all? Why enforce a human concept of sex on what's meant to be a totally alien species that evolved totally independently of us?" Sci-fi setting: "this alien race are all women" Me: "hell yeah dude"

i love getting up at 5am to get paid £13 an hour to cook breakfasts for dock workers and holiday goers

finding out americans chill their beer is very upsetting

London is interesting because it's attempting to be both L.A and New York at the same time.

I hate those accounts on here that post screenshots of "funny" posts from other sites in massive contextless threads

I met someone with a questing beast tattoo and now all i can think about is a questing beast tattoo

Avenger's end game. Movie was...fine. But seeing a very close friend tear up when captain america got thors hammer made me rethink my entire life. Then doubly again when she tried to brand the nonsense and contradictory timetravel in it as somehow unsung genius.

Interesting news, @manticgames.bsky.social have just announced they’re releasing a The Ghost in the Shell: Tabletop Roleplaying Game this year They’re more known for their wargames and alongside Zak Barouh (Animon) the game is being designed by Alessio Calvatore (Warhammer, Mordheim etc) but…

I hate how everything requires using a phone app or getting a text message to log onto a website; If i had access to my phone i would just use the fucking app. I swear a lot of forced usage of AI we see was first practiced with the smartphone.

heres this question i keep mulling over: Does a game need to explain it principles? (ie. Is it okay for games to presume familiarity with the system) You see this most with OSR games (Mork Borg for an example) but i would include CBR+ PNK to this too (a game i love).