Patently Absurd RPG Ideas

1) Set off your smoke alarm or play the sound on your phone (if your home has no smoke alarms, pease get some!)

2) stand BY THE FRONT DOOR to hand out treats

Do this a couple times and then keep it up NO EXCEPTIONS. Accidentally set the alarm off cooking? Treats by the door. Smoke alarm sound on TV? Treats by the door. Changing your smoke alarm batteries twice a year like you’re supposed to? Give them a test run and your pets get treats by the door.

Most dogs and cats will clue in VERY quickly that hearing that specific sound means go to the front door and wait for treats.

If there’s an emergency and even if you leave by another way, you will still know the most likely place your pet(s) is and can direct first responders to help.

Hinko Smrekar (1883-1942) Delirium, inspired by the work of the same name by Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) (1913) Source

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When I was a young larvae, I had a LOT of fun playing the game Dungeon Keeper on friends' computers, being an evil disembodied overlord taking care of a sprawling dungeon populated by monsters and horrors of all kinds... many of which couldn't stand each other, so you had to build different rooms for most of them.

I wasn't able to play it in my own house for a few reasons, so eventually when that friend moved away, I lost access to it. Fast forward to the years where I have my own computer and money, I dig around to find Dungeon Keeper again... and find out that modern computers are too good to play it outside of a compatibility mode, something I wasn't savvy enough back then to tinker around with. So, bereft of one of the games that helped shape me into the creature I am today, I made do with games like Overlord and Stubbs the Zombie to live out the fantasy of commanding an evil horde

Fast forward even further, and eventually I find a game called War for the Overworld, which was beat for beat just Dungeon Keeper Except Bigger, with the serial numbers filed off, down to having the exact same voice actor reprising his role as your evil advisor and guide. I play it on and off every so often, and last year I got inspired to start writing the Underlord's homebrew, but much like my mood with the game itself, it became something I tinkered with on and off over the next year

The Underlord is more or less fully lifted from WftO. "Underlord" is a creature that serves as a dungeon's core, like if a lich could fuse itself with a structure instead of a single reliquary. Mendechaus is the name of the game's snarky advisor who's constantly in your ear, translated into Pathfinder as a distant and successful Infernal Duke. The Underlings are a translation of the basic Worker units who handle all the micromanaging of the dungeon's ecosystem autonomously, while the Underhand is a translation of the game's cursor, aka the Hand of Evil, with which you/the Underlord directly interacts with the dungeon.

In the sunfish’s defense!!!!!

And it's that thing where you mentally place yourself as the second, auxiliary party to someone else that you consider to be "In Charge" of whatever space or occupation or responsibility you are assigned to

And when you are IN that mindset, it *feels* like you're being responsible. It *feels* like you're being respectful, and helpful, and contributing to the load.

But what you don't SEE- because it *feels* like deference- is that the other person who you're seeing as The Authority you report to- by being assigned that role, has also been assigned the invisible load of BEING YOUR MANAGER.

This is by FAR most commonly seen in husband-and-wife relationships, where the man says, "just tell me what I can do to HELP- you don't have to do it all by yourself, but it's like you won't even tell me when you NEED help. You just do everything and then get mad at me for not doing it first. I can help clean. I can help with the kids. I can help"

But I also see it- and am guilty myself of doing it- at work, at school, in public- that mental, "this is THEIR space, and i will be respectful and helpful to THEM"- without realizing that subservience in this manner isn't actually a good thing. That it actually shifts the burden of responsibility to the other person. That aspect was totally invisible to me.

I didn't understand that when I was told, "if you see something that needs to be done, just DO it", or, "take the initiative", what they ACTUALLY meant was, "I am not above you", or "you have equal say in what kind of environment you want to live or work in", or "I do not want full control over what happens here, I do not want to order you around, I do not want to be in charge, what I WANT is to co-command WITH you"

Being in The Assigned Authority position NOW, that is all so much clearer.

I am the senior member of my team at work, and now, every time I train a newbie, every time I finish catching them up to speed and giving them a list of everything that needs to be done, my next big hurdle seems to always be, "now take pride in the space when I'm not around". "Now don't assume I'll tell you when something is due or what orders to plan things in".

Now, having been on both sides of the struggle, I can appreciate the sticking points here

TO THE PERSON "IN CHARGE": The person deferring to you doesn't understand the invisible labor you're doing. They genuinely believe you know more, you WANT more, you see things they don't, and that they are being respectful and good by staying out of your way and waiting on your orders. THAT is the bit that's not clicking.

TO THE PERSON "WANTING TO HELP": "Help" implies that you are providing assistance to a problem that belongs to somebody else. Stop thinking like that. Understand that the problem belongs to BOTH of you equally, and consider what kind of shared space you BOTH want. What is your SHARED GOAL? Not THEIR goal, but a goal that belongs to you too. Own your space.

This is not a Commander-Lieutenant problem. This is a Partnership problem.

A painting of a nightmare I had recently.

Monstrous Dog

Concept art for Elden Ring

an airplane stuck on a toyota minivan

this miata built by rocket scientists

the mr2 boat

the nyan cat bmw that i think actually played the song at all times

the homer simpson car built by uranium workers

this limo whose brakes caught on fire

the dumbest corolla and supra wearing funny hats

A diagram comparing a human hand to the equivalent limb in other mammals from Henry Fairfield Osborn's The age of mammals in Europe, Asia and North America (1910).