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Every time someone tells me they hate Shakespeare (which is frequently, bc people who hate Shakespeare r usually very proud of it and they need to tell me immediately when they learn that I'm a Shakespeare actor) I enact a sort of self contained stoic ritual where I remind myself that I do not need to be defending the most read and lauded and hegemonic English writer of all time even though I KNOW that they've only half-read Romeo and Juliet when they were 14 in a lame English class and formed a grudge and never changed their opinion. I have that knowledge and I allow it to wash over me and leave me undisturbed
We have enough knights bitch where are all the combat archer fetishists
My disciples are lowkey starting to annoy me
rb to take prev to the aquarium
Finding that friend you can go "our sickos should fuck or kill each other" with in a ttrpg is more important then any government official
If I were just one degree bolder as a designer and the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy rulebook wasn’t already too big I would implement a rule where your investigator has to go to the bathroom once per 10 or 20 Ticks or else lose Composure or something.
What this would add to the game is something that occasionally separates one investigator at a time from the others thus making them vulnerable, and a plausibly-deniable-through-mechanics excuse for one investigator to separate from the others on purpose in case there’s some secret they have to keep, and it would start to be noticeably weird that certain investigators (like vampires) never use the bathroom; what it would also add to the game is pissing and shitting mechanics.
Sol Badguy but I like this gif a lot, this is me
as a heavy gunner i share many similarities with a god:
occupy a shrine (artillery battery)
given offerings (rations and ammunition)
prayed to (recieving orders via phone)
smites enemies (self-explanatory)
so i think i deserve a miko and increased alcohol rations
I’m making this a separate post because the original is funniest without context, but for real you have no idea how stressful this is. The reason why relates to this post
As independent artists making a living from our art, it isn’t enough to just make good art, especially when that art is a TTRPG. TTRPGs are not a respected artform, not even by the primary consumerbase. It’s so dire that it takes us making a lot of long posts just to convince people that TTRPG game design is real at all, that a TTRPG’s rules can be written a certain way on purpose to have intended results.
Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy has good game mechanics, on purpose, but having good game mechanics is only actually a selling point to a shockingly small percentage of people who play TTRPGs, so those good game mechanics won’t sell the game, at least not as much as we need to continue operations.
But no matter how good your art is or how respected your artistic medium is, just making good art is not enough to make a living. Because the truth is, art doesn’t make money at all, social media does. The best, most overtly good art in the world only makes as much money as the number of paying customers that you can reach. All the money we make through Eureka is because I’m out here on tumblr busting my ass to get these notes, followers, etc.
Money is tight, we need to finish Eureka, and we need a new release like Silk & Dagger and Death Bed to get multiple major revenue streams and diversify our market reach in order to make more money and, like, pay my bills, but I can’t work on either of those right now, because I have to spend at least one work day a week entirely focused on social media or else no amount of progress on our real projects means anything, because otherwise they won’t sell.
It’s a little bit like being disabled - or rather kind of an extension of being disabled, since if I was more able-bodied I could work a “real” job that has a steady paycheck - my actual survival depends on other people liking me more than anything else, it’s a popularity contest, and not only I’m particularly strong in, as an uncharismatic, abrasive aspie with strong opinions about the very medium art that I work in, in an environment where openly disliking an element of the art that someone else engages with is considered not just a personal, but moral attack.
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WE'RE LANCERING AGAIN
LAST TIME ON unnamed lancer campaign
GOD DAMN
also keo played the "LOCK ON" sound from the kamen rider gaim sengoku driver for each of the enemies he locked on to it was fucking awesome
One must never underestimate an opponent who does not fear death. An enemy who values your death more than their own life is unpredictable - you cannot assume that there is anything they wouldn't dare to do. Risk a blow to distract you, run right into your sword in order to get their own into you, tackle you off a cliff to throw you both into your deaths. An enemy that does not seek to survive is ruthless, they will think in ways so alien to you, that you cannot anticipate what they might do. The best defense you can have is to never make enemies like this.
The same fear and respect should also apply to clowns. They do not fear shame or mockery, they have no honour to lose by becoming laughingstock. A clown will not hesitate to look ridiculous, if tackling you makes you both look stupid. A clown does not fear losing their dignity for as long as they can take yours down with them.
Do not make enemies with clowns.
hey i know this guy
Another Lancer RPG commission for the Hardvac Blues supplement, the RKF Dionaea. A variant frame of the IPS-N Zheng, designed for gladiator combat in the Baronies.
ooc devpost update hell
the Europa ice war is a fun spontaneous creative writing project, my problem is im an astronomy nerd and am pissed how people seem to think "in the ice tunnels" and "on the surface" are equally plausible places to be strategically and practically. even if you have sci-fi space shields, you do NOT wanna be on a spacewalk in a combat zone. and being on the surface of Europa is 100% a spacewalk.
Twitter has been posting exclusively from the trenches of Europa today
twitter is being overrun by ice war posting. Best this sites been in ages
The sommelier from John Wick 2, drunk af: we're having a clearance sale.
Find these in @anim-ttrpgs 's rulebook for Eureka :3
I’ve been in mechposting for a few weeks due to what I’m pretty sure is now my most popular post. And it’s just solidified my opinion that if I’m piloting a mech I’d want it to be a mobile suit setup. Get that neural link away from me, get a “handler” out of my comms with that basically sexual harassment. Just give me a decently comfy chair and fully analogue controls and i will THRIVE
You're in my world now and buddy....the world is my ball pit
having long distance friends is so fucked. do you wanna come over to my house and play (it will cost us 1 william dollars)
you were not of sound mind when you typed this
i love you oldish vocaloid songs. i love you more than um. uh. was gonna say rwby but probably not. i love you vocaloid from specifically at least ten years ago. and also after. okay so ive come to the conclusion i may or may not just like vocaloid as a whole.
sigh they got another one...
ooc meme time, enjoy the one vex-meme I actually put effort into
transcript below readmore
—READMORE BYPASSED—
What does it mean to be a [TECHNOPHILE] pilot?
To look into the darkness between the stars-
to find a thread-
to call out to the horror and invite it in
Did you find it? Did it find you?
Is there a difference? Does it matter?
It will rewrite reality for you because you gave it reality
There is a bond here-
in every form-
in every degree of benevolence.
The acceptance of something so alien to you that it stretches every HUMAN definition of life.
and despite the void between your hearts,
there is LOVE.
lending you my energy for a spirit bomb rq
so you mean to tell me (griseogray) that they’re (theater directors) trying to use ai generated ‘art’ (bad) (shit) (just god awful) as the backdrop for our THEATER (arts program) production (creative work) (has several members willing to put in free labor to make this show look good) (free by the way. we’ve volunteered to pay for supplies and all). see i think youre crazy.
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I know most people don't care about anything unless it has to do with the U.S. but can we please start talking about the Canadian election.
Please don't vote for Poilievre. He's basically the Canadian Trump and plans to put in place laws that harm trans youth, and lots of other shit.
Please vote istg this is the only way anything will get better. Poilievre has been kissing millionaires and billionaires asses. He'll make life even harder, and he loves Trump.
Reblogs are appreciated, especially if you aren't Canadian.
Fuck zodiac signs, which of The Five Voices are you in your friend group?