legend tells of a mysterious being called “nuance” that allows multiple things to be true at the same time. some say you can still hear its voice whispering in the trees

as a human my ideal way to die would be something quick and painless in a national park at a very old age. as a bug my ideal way to die would be being accidentally crushed by a little girl playing outside and cried over and buried with a leaf headstone

living with unmedicated ADHD is basically like if Zeno's paradox were real

A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan “love all animals and protect the environment” mindset is the fact that things need to die in real-life ecology all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings and carp culls aren’t cottagecore

part of being an adult is figuring out what eveyone else's definition of "going crazy" is. to you it is not sleeping for 60 hours, writing 80k words in one sitting and expiriencing enough anxiety to kill a horse. to beth from accounting its buying a ticket to Columbus, Ohio. and to your friend its consuming so much ketamine you lose all of your posessions and wake up with five broken bones in a ditch somewhere and then proceeding to do it again the next day. to your other friend its writing a letter to their favourite actress about how much they appreciate her work. to your neighbour its laughing loudly in a grocery store whilst in pajamas. maya from uni hears the voice of her dead father making jokes with no punchlines and she considers that to be quite normal - to her going crazy would be hearing her husband instead. your downstairs neighbour will take night walks naked sometimes and claim there is nothing weird about him. there are literally no rules to life and all meaning is in the eye of the beholder.

I don’t think people truly understand the scope of the damage Sony is about to do to physical media. They literally invented the compact disc. They are the reason why Blu-ray as a format won the HD wars over HD-DVD. They have gargantuan influence over manufacturing disc-based media. If Sony as a company stops making physical media for their next gen gaming consoles, this is going to affect movies and music as well. If you buy CDs, DVDs, or Blu-rays, those are next on the chopping block.

I do appreciate the mild bait and switch that Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy has going on whereby the front half of the book repeatedly insists that this is a game about playing as ordinary people in extraordinary situations, periodically alluding to the existence of rules for playing as supernatural beings but emphasising that these are strictly optional and should usually be limited to no more than one supernatural player character per group – then you actually get to that part, and not only are the aforementioned strictly optional rules for supernatural player characters like two hundred pages long, fully a third of the playable supernatural archetypes have an explicitly vore-based resource loop (and to be clear, I mean the "there are mechanics for concealing the fact that you have a whole-ass adult human in your stomach" kind of vore), and a further third offer vore as an option.

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If you think hearing it described is a swerve, imagine reading it!

....are the rules good? Like i'm not personally interested in Ereka because, I'd rather play monster of the week or CoC but, this has peaked my interest.

It has some really interesting ideas, a few of which I'm probably going to lift for some of my own proects. Desperately in need of at least one more comprehensive editing pass, of course, but given that it's a game in active development this is not surprising.

Editor for the project here, really appreciate the feedback! Yeah the document absolutely needs as much editing attention as we can afford to give it, which we are all keenly aware of. Another couple hundred hours of tune-ups ought to do it lol.

Also worth noting that aforementioned 200+ pages of monster rules have the least editing attention put on them thus far, so that section should get trimmed down significantly if all goes well.

#the messy logistics of the daily life of a people eating monster makes for a very compelling metaphor about life as a disabled person with#difficult to accomodate needs#it's not eureka's fault that the messy logistics of the life of people eating monsters also gives some people boners

Legit one of the best games and nicest devs I've ever interacted with in the TTRPG space. Indie or not. Please pick it up if you can, it's truly amazing.