Just got a lot of new followers who haven’t interacted with that many of my posts, and also a lot of notes on an old-ass post where I offered to DM people, so: friendly reminder that I currently tend not to use Tumblr in real time and check DMs once every couple weeks-ish, so don’t hold your breath if you expect anything from me
your boyfriend? oh, he’s not on the hold shelf? oh no. you see, he got reshelved. you already checked the shelf that corresponds to his call number? he wasn’t there? oh. he could be anywhere, sorry. he might be in transit. yeah maybe he’ll show up when we do inventory next spring. i’m sorry. do you want to put a new one on hold from another branch location? maybe access him as an ebook? sorry
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You got my boyfriend open on a platform??
Wolf 359 is like. This is Hera. She's an AI and she's a person. She feels and she fears and she yearns and she dreams. She lives at the behest of a company that can, does, and will break, paralyze, and sabotage her as they see fit, and personhood won't save her. This is Eiffel. He's a human and he's a person. He wants and he regrets and he needs and he loves. He lives at the behest of a company that can, does, and will poison, drug, and leave him for dead to sate their curiosity, and personhood won't save him. Do you get it. Do you get it yet.
The next revision of the playtest draft for Eat God is now up. This version includes all of the missing rules from the previous version – advancement, Progress and Calamity Clocks, etc. – as well as numerous expansions and clarifications; the game is now considered feature-complete, though it still needs worked examples, pre-made scenarios, and a whole pile of Big Stupid Tables™.
The most noteworthy addition to this draft, however, is (mostly) complete character creation rules. All but one of the remaining blanks have been filled in, and many Traits have been revised to make them more flexible and add a few interesting new rules toys. You can more easily stat up horrible little gargoyles, there's a little something for the hypno kink crowd, and also you can be a (very small) werewolf now.
(The one remaining blank alluded to above with that "mostly" is the 36th Trait, which I'm leaving off for now because I can't decide exactly what to slot in there and I don't want to spin my wheels on that any longer; for now it just reads "reroll".)
Last but not least, Eat God now has a cover illustration, thanks to the very talented @magpiemalarkey. We decided to be forthright about the game's inspirations; for legal reasons, the depicted characters are not Muppets. (To be clear, only the illustration is their work; the text design for the game's title is a placeholder I threw together myself using a commercial font, so don't blame them for that part.)
As always, questions, criticisms, and bizarre rants are welcome – and if you'd like to give it a spin but don't have a group, character creation is its own little self-contained minigame, and all you need is six-sided dice to give it a try; feel free to post your creations in the notes!
You can find the latest revision at the links above, or below:
Ok, I decided to give the character creation a whirl. For the sake of testing out the random tables, I rolled randomly for just about everything, as frequently as I could. The result is... interesting. (And by that I mean, what the fuck is this character?)
Also, I think I did catch a typo: on page 9, there’s a sentence that begins, “After all, your own kind areself-created -- ...” I assume that it should be “are self” and not “areself”. This was in the PDF; I didn’t check the other versions.
Ok, character time.
Traits: Hundred-Handed; Langorous Lure; Curative Corpus.
Appearance: Feelers or Tentacles; Feathers or Leaves; Many or Compound Eyes.
Facets: Ethos 7; Pathos 4; Logos 4.
Rebellious Art: Iteration, the ability to refute the law of linear time.
I really love the “refute the laws of reality” flavor text for the Rebellious Arts. It’s awesome.
This was a bunch of weird prompts, and so I decided to make a super weird character out of it. Ultimately, I think I landed on a Lovecraftian fungal monster that would be right at home in a dungeon in the early days of D&D.
For appearance, I came up with: “A slithering, fungal entity, composed of a round body studded with dozens of blinking purple eyes and carried along by an appendage similar to a snail’s foot. From this body extend a multitude of tentacles, most of which end in leaves which bear a striking resemblance to lettuce, albeit of an unusual shade of purple. The rhythmic blinking of the eyes combined with the rustling of the colorful leaves can easily prove hypnotic, attracting herbivorous and omnivorous animals -- including humans -- like pollinators to a flower. The leaves are not poisonous and are actually quite filling, but they can have psychedelic effects if consumed in large quantities.”
I rolled Creed 4: you consider consuming divine flesh to be a form of worship. This seemed to go well with the Curative Corpus ability, so I decided that this character would be a living saint (according to the God-Eaters back at home, anyway) who sought to join the pantheon of gods by eating one of them, as it allows itself to be eaten by its companions.
I didn’t feel like making a joke name, so I named it the Saint of Sustenance.
In conclusion, it’s a Lovecraftian lettuce plant (fungus?) that can slither around and has delusions of divinity, and it can make you get high by eating it. Also, it might be Catholic. And this was an attempt at making a serious character.
This game is awesome.
really funny that every website is in an arms race to make itself as bad as possible and immediately someone makes a firefox extension to fix it
avg day on late Web 2.0
i need a golem but i havent finalized my conversion yet so im amused at the idea that i create a golem and it goes “well, off to go protect some real jews” and then just walks out my front door. not the worst outcome i guess. truly an allegory for childbirth.
From: Adam Conover ("Adam Ruins Everything")
"Instead of negotiating with us, Netflix decided to open an overpriced restaurant. Here's what we did in front of it. Starring the incomparable Adam Lustick, with concept and props by WGA writer Shawn Wines."
hey the op of that crab day post is a transphobe and pro life and shit so on top of it already being a stupid idea its By A Bigot so i am praying people stop reblogging or reposting it
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Hi op! I have wanted to add that there is a SECOND crab day post going around that is ALSO by a transphobic conservative Christian!
The completely successful normalisation of left handedness in my native culture with zero negative consequences is inspiring to me. It is a deepseated neurological feature! Which correlates with lots of important facts about a person! And was the focus of a long history of violent brain-damaging child abuse! And now is so completely unremarkable as to hardly even be interesting
Today’s youth (at least here) don’t remember it but the times when left-handed people were forced to use his right hand are not that far. My grandpa is forcibly-taught right-hander (as we call them here) and he’s 84. My dad who’s 52 would be forced right-hander if he was like 5 years older.
Like, it’s not sone überdistant future. Dexterity is doom. Sinister people gained freedom mere 50 years ago. And I’m pretty sure there are places where they’re still oppressed and forced right.
This isn’t a joke. This is 100% the truth. My grandma was beaten by teachers as a child for being lefty. She rebelled and is still a lefty today as point of pride.
my gran was left handed and got so abused for it that she still hates writing at the age of 78. She still writes with her right hand too, and complains that she could never learn to draw. Cruelty inflicted in the past is still hurting in the present.
