Impossible Possible Worlds

I get a tarot reading but every card is the shiny foil charizard

is that good

Idk

Doing a booster pack opening video but every card I pull is the tower

is that good

Y'all remember that time Adam and Jamie Mythbusters built a real-life beyblade and entered it into a battle robot tournament and they got disqualified because it killed the other robots too good and sprayed shrapnel into the audience

Before there was Mythbusters, before there was Beyblade, there was a robit made from a wok, a lawnmower engine, and scrap metal that was the reason multiple rules got added to Battlebots.

The image of Jamie Hyneman pull-starting his wok-based murder robot with a pneumatic drill and then desperately jumping away from his own son's immediate violence is forever seared into my brain. May Blendo live forever in robot Valhalla.

There's no better compliment in a robot figuring tournament than to be told "listen we'll give you a trophy but it turns out you've exceeded what we thought were pretty generous safety margins so you can't actually fight"

“i haven’t seen any of the show except for compilations on youtube and you should take me seriously for some reason”

I've seen several indie projects take aim at producing a tabletop RPG which adapts or is in some sense inspired by Minecraft, all of which have eventually either stalled out or concluded that the task is impossible, and I think the basic problem is that the greater part of the indie RPG developer community seems to take it as an article of faith that heavy, complex inventory and resource management mechanics in tabletop RPGs are a bad design pattern that nobody enjoys engaging with – some people have been fooled into thinking they do, but it's only their lack of exposure to alternatives that prevents them from realising they're not really having fun – and that's an attitude that's fundamentally at odds with recognising why people Minecraft.

I mean, sure, obviously a Minecraft-inspired tabletop RPG shouldn't be complex in exactly the same way that Minecraft is complex, both because a. you're working in a different medium, and different mediums have different requirements; and because b. if people wanted a 1:1 re-creation of the experience of playing Minecraft, they'd just play Minecraft. However, if you're taking heavy crunch off the table before you even begin, you are overlooking something essential about what it is that you are trying to accomplish.

I think this general attitude has sunk a lot of ttrpgs in general.

Any axiomatisation of "crunchy resource management in tabletop games is always bad" must at some point grapple with the fact that we live in a world where people willingly play Settlers of Catan.

ur telling me a masc king taped this?

i think its really funny how in TNG they tried to make picard a paragon of masculinity but they did so by like, the ideals of masculinity from like the 1400s. he is celibate, he is an intellectual who loves to read, rides horses and is bald. he’s like the perfect virtuous man from medieval times but instead hes driving a spaceship in a world where everyone is horny and wants to fuck 24/7 

picard fucks like a machine what are you talking about

picard went to the sex planet for sex and was propositioned several times by beautiful women and only deigned to let his french penis out of his starfleet standard issue chastity belt when he was in an archeological dig (the only thing that excites him physically) 

I wish someone would put my post under the water, maybe I want to be lost at sea forever

I said damn these manatees looking kinda thick