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medieval peasants actually had access to far more Doritos than we do nowadays

it is truly the ppl who fight tooth and nail that the thing they love isnt for children that actually seem to operate with the belief that fiction made for kids is bad and worthless art that u r stupid for liking. that is not the case and once u finally stop being insecure about it and confront that u dont have to ignore or deny the reality of what the thing u like is is when u will stop saying stupid shit that annoys and embarrasses everybody

Look, when you see someone talking about a particular bit of tabletop RPG rules tech and your first reaction is "well, that just doesn't sound practical", your first question should be whether you've actually identified a problem, or whether you've merely assumed without justification that every part of the game in question other than the bit you just read about is identical to Dungeons & Dragons.

You need to understand that I get "but that doesn't make sense because how would it interact with levelling up" in my notifications like three times a week.

Although to be entirely fair: these mini supplements have been written in a way where I get the feeling that any truly engaged fan of any of the movies or pieces of media being emulated here would probably be able to point out a million different ways in which these mini supplements are extremely shallow and cursory treatments of the genre or media they're supposedly emulating, even accounting for how condensed they have to be. Plus they swing wildly between "these two pieces of media kind of share some surface level elements so we're going to treat them as foundational works in this obviously recognized subgenre" (Star Raiders lumps in Firefly, Star Trek, and Guardians of the Galaxy) and "okay so this is clearly a mini supplement for emulating one specific piece of media" (Quack Tales and Ghost Hunters).

Like, not to be too mean but the people who made this game also recently had a Backerkit campaign for their JRPG inspired TTRPG, Twilight Sword, which is now out, and initially I thought I might want to back it because it seemed to hit all my favorite notes. What if there was a game that was so Dragon Quest and Legend of Zelda and also Vivi from FF9 is there? But honestly in retrospect I'm kinda glad I didn't back it. Not out of a sense of "their game design is probably bad," because I don't think there is anything objectionable about the design of Outgunned at least on a surface level look; but because Twilight Sword seems to be doing a very similar "hey remember all this stuff you like" type of approach to the media it is drawing from.

if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down

whenever the conversation about difficulty and accessibility in games come up i want to slam my head into a wall because noone thats speaking has anything more than a surface level understanding of what "difficulty" even is

your game should have accessibility options, but if your only accessibility options are "turn off central game mechanics" then you have made shit accessibility options.

bonus points: if you put a game speed slider in your game you can also allow Absolute Fucking Freaks to turn it higher than 100%

Moose at the next table: No they don't. I've been waiting here for an hour.

Feel old yet? 9/11 happened 1,115 years ago

and 8 and a half months