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2026
One of the big reasons superhero OCs often feel inauthentic when the artist tries to draw them comic…original ↗
25 Sept 2026
I love it when a microfiction author or short-form webcomic artist is like “oh, these are just…original ↗
25 Sept 2026
Back when cable TV was still the Big Thing, advertising companies would file lawsuits against…original ↗
25 Sept 2026
In my experience, a surprising number of players seem to think the solution to their hobby’s chronic…original ↗
25 Sept 2026
Every day I’m confronted with the reality that a non-trivial percentage of this hobby’s participants…original ↗
25 Sept 2026
Eventually we’re going to have to acknowledge the fact that we’re not going to be able to…original ↗
25 Sept 2026
(The weird part is that this isn’t even the only instance of “they teleported our commanding officer…original ↗
25 Sept 2026
Conducting diplomatic negotiations entirely via the medium of out-of-context rage comic panels not…original ↗
25 Sept 2026
The best thing about “Darmok” is that the aliens are actually 100% capable of speaking in plain…original ↗
25 Sept 2026
“games like classic Traveller, in which it’s actually possible to die during character creation!” tell me moreoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
“games like classic Traveller, in which it’s actually possible to die during character creation!” tell me moreoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
I enjoy how in many depictions of the Incredible Hulk, he needs to make several (relatively) short…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Character whose backstory is like a Shakespearean tragedy, which is to say they were perfectly free…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Very disappointed to learn that my character successfully committing tax fraud has no real benefits…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
I enjoy how in many depictions of the Incredible Hulk, he needs to make several (relatively) short…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
24 Sept 2026
Do you have recommendations for someone who’s interested in “character creation as standalone minigame”?original ↗
24 Sept 2026
why did cishets make so many mecha games that are crunchy piles when the genre is centered around personal discovery and transcendent connection? we mean other than the obvious reasonsoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
Not more queer or less queer, but a secret third thing (provoking pettifogging semantic arguments…original ↗
24 Sept 2026
You need to understand that you are trying to tell members of the “but first I’d like to give a few…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Like, this isn’t an unwillingness to develop media literacy; it’s what media literacy looks like…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
I feel like folks expressing bafflement at younger readers approaching prose fiction by skipping…original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Another common thread in the playtest feedback for Eat God draft 0.7 is difficulty coming up with…original ↗
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As a child my highest aspiration in life was to have a job that involves throwing switches on some…original ↗
22 Sept 2026
Some kids wanted to be doctors or artists. I wanted to be the guy who stares at a steadily rising…original ↗
22 Sept 2026
As a child my highest aspiration in life was to have a job that involves throwing switches on some…original ↗
22 Sept 2026
Tagging my porn both “#small penis” and “#large penis” because the character in question is a…original ↗
22 Sept 2026
Urban fantasy setting with the standard “some number of Great Houses each with their own hereditary…original ↗
22 Sept 2026
It actually kind of pisses me off that in spite of all the pataphysical nonsense that SCP wiki…original ↗
21 Sept 2026
If you’ve given the game a spin yourself and have any particular Forms you’d like to see addressed…original ↗
21 Sept 2026
Another common thread in the playtest feedback for Eat God draft 0.7 is difficulty coming up with…original ↗
21 Sept 2026
Writing a slice of life sci-fi serial set in a Star Trek type utopian space future, except I still…original ↗
21 Sept 2026
for hero with slippery fingers, enlightenment reports “slippery fingers” or “slippery gloves” but…original ↗
21 Sept 2026
This one’s only funny on a technical level, but apparently there was a bug where if you’re…original ↗
21 Sept 2026
(I’m only about 900 lines deep in a 3200-line list, but my favourite so far is a fix for a bug where…original ↗
21 Sept 2026
Like, what do you mean you just now got around to fixing something that’s been on the “known issues”…original ↗
21 Sept 2026
Finally going over the patch notes for Nethack 5.0 and being starkly reminded that, as hilarious as…original ↗
21 Sept 2026
(In fairness, of all the chemicals that are customarily used to deep-clean a kitchen, 99% pure…original ↗
20 Sept 2026
20 Sept 2026
Imagine that Gotham City existed in the milieu of The Rescuers and The Great Mouse Detective, like…original ↗
20 Sept 2026
It’s actually pretty presumptuous to look at a drawing of a fictional character impaled on a spike…original ↗
20 Sept 2026
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Very funny from an anthropological perspective that the creature most often kept as a lap-pet is…original ↗
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You have to tag personal anecdotes #unreality because otherwise the person reading the post might…original ↗
19 Sept 2026
Playing stupid games may guarantee that you’ll win stupid prizes, but the thing about playing stupid…original ↗
18 Sept 2026
Yeah, no, I wasn’t including the spinoffs in that assessment. Cubit Foxtar’s Punishment Form is…original ↗
18 Sept 2026
(I haven’t yet been lectured about media literacy on Bluesky, so I can’t speak to that one, but I’m…original ↗
18 Sept 2026
This is, of course, in contrast with Tumblr, which is a great place to get lectured about the…original ↗
18 Sept 2026
18 Sept 2026
Reddit is a great place to get lectured about literary tropes by a dude who thinks he’s cultured…original ↗
18 Sept 2026
Honestly, the most likely outcome of the AI bubble popping isn’t “LLMs stop existing”, but the same…original ↗
17 Sept 2026
It’s a tough thing to rank because I honestly wouldn’t put any of the official Mega Man X games…original ↗
17 Sept 2026
It’s time for everybody’s favourite game: I prepared this meal from scratch using raw ingredients…original ↗
17 Sept 2026
How do you feel about Brennan’s VtM campaign? I’m personally glad he’s using anything besides D&Doriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
The way people try to “This is Just…” your posts about media here feels especially square-peg-round-jole considering the average Tumblr user is seemingly only aware of the existence of two media properties at any given timeoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
I get that American popular culture still hasn’t recovered from the post-9/11 wave of police…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
The way people try to “This is Just…” your posts about media here feels especially square-peg-round-jole considering the average Tumblr user is seemingly only aware of the existence of two media properties at any given timeoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
Sorry if I have asked this already, and have forgotten.
one of my players wanted to go “defensive dermis, (bouncy)” as their form. Giving protection primarilly from blunt force and falling and the such.
I am allowing it at our table, however, this makes me ask, for things such as defensive dermis, wicked weapon, primordial power, dizzying display, and vile venom(if i remembered all of them), would there be any guidelines you would recommend for making custom subforms of the variable forms.original ↗
12 Sept 2026
The way people try to “This is Just…” your posts about media here feels especially square-peg-round-jole considering the average Tumblr user is seemingly only aware of the existence of two media properties at any given timeoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
The way people try to “This is Just…” your posts about media here feels especially square-peg-round-jole considering the average Tumblr user is seemingly only aware of the existence of two media properties at any given timeoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
It looks like if I’m very disciplined I may be able to limit Eat God’s essential glossary to a mere…original ↗
12 Sept 2026
Tall, willowy elf clad in raiment of silver and starlight using a mithral-chased dragon-horn pipe to…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
11 Sept 2026
Detective sim VN where you play as an evil sex torture demon from Hell, except it’s your first day…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
11 Sept 2026
Tall, willowy elf clad in raiment of silver and starlight using a mithral-chased dragon-horn pipe to…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
It’s shameful what radio-friendly song lengths have done to the concept of a solo. You’re gonna call…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Messing with adventurers by establishing a legally enforced colour coding of treasure chests by…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Messing with adventurers by establishing a legally enforced colour coding of treasure chests by…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
So apparently the teasers have revealed that those space ninjas are part of a weird cult that wants…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
10 Sept 2026
Something we’ve gotta bear in mind as open source advocates is that for several decades, large…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
10 Sept 2026
Eat God pointedly does not subscribe to the philosophy that you shouldn’t think about the numbers on…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Well, that’s the million-dollar question, isn’t it? Spending two years publicly stalking random…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
The really funny part about the whole Matt Mullenweg situation is that Automattic is not publicly…original ↗
10 Sept 2026
“Trailer analysed!” videos are all vacuous bullshit, with the singular exception of fighting games….original ↗
10 Sept 2026
The really funny part about the whole Matt Mullenweg situation is that Automattic is not publicly…original ↗
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9 Sept 2026
(Of course, this knowledge does not necessarily fix them; a lot of dudes who do figure this out…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
Not saying it’s a Grand Unified Answer To Everything, but there it’s definitely the case that a…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
The multi-tier cat tree is perhaps the greatest diplomatic innovation ever conceived for households…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
The thing about “baking is a science” versus “baking is just following instructions” is that much of…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
Jokes about the new open world Kirby having a Great Plateau analogue aside, it occurs to me that the…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
Giving your viewpoint character an eccentric kink is especially fun in a long-form work with a…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
(“Assuming that mechanising the fire can only mean using it as a direct, 1:1 substitute for the…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
The problem with proposing the use of fire in tabletop RPG mechanics is that you’ll be beset by…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
“Guy who’s above average at a very specific type of analytic intelligence and concludes on this…original ↗
9 Sept 2026
9 Sept 2026
In the past you’ve talked about how sometimes players really benefit from stepping-stone games on the way to more complex ones (in my case, you recommended Sufficiently Advanced as a precursor to Mindjammer). Do you feel that players approaching Eat God would benefit from having played any specific other games beforehand?original ↗
9 Sept 2026
It’s fun to watch how the use of the term “meta” has slowly expanded in fandom circles to encompass…original ↗
9 Sept 2026