paradoxlands:

jadedresearcher:

I’m still doing that whole self care thing because wow 2020 sure was a thing?

As such I’m not on main and not doing any sort of big VC kinda event.  

*despite* self care being a priority I actually got more done this year than I thought, and there’s plenty going on outside my sphere, too.

Farragnarok remains our overarching priority, as a sort of context to make experimental games and sims in.  

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Sorry for the extended radio silence, but it sure has been A Year™, and besides a load of things happening and not happening, I’ve mostly been busy making a game. It’s playable today, though pretty ugly and limited. See the LOSAC section of our yearly review for info on that.

Man it sure has been a while since I drew anything huh?

Made some stuff

prokopetz:

If I had comic book style shapeshifting – i.e., the kind that operates without respect for gross anatomy or conservation of mass – I would totally shrink myself down to just a head and set myself in incongruous places in order to mess with people.

There’s no deeper message here; I’m just saying this is a thing I would do.

So what you’re saying is that you’d use this power to become the eccentric demilich you were always meant to be?

prokopetz:

It probably says something about nerd culture that such a visible portion of the wizard spell list in most fantasy tabletop RPGs is devoted to spells that make them supernaturally effective at housekeeping.

Seems reasonable to me, if I was designing spells I’d be strongly inclined to develop efficient housekeeping so I could spend more time doing magic and less washing dishes. Quality of life and all that…

prokopetz:

churlingtonbeesecoatfactory:

prokopetz:

While it’s absolutely true that older fans are often real dicks about the importance of Having Been There™, there are certain specific fandom experiences that really can only authentically be experience if you’ve been around the block a time or two. Like following the progress of a really cool-looking indie game for several years, only for the developers to abruptly drop off the face of the planet just as it seemed like they were gearing up to announce a release date, and even though the dev blog – which is inexplicably still online – hasn’t been updated in over a decade, some tiny stupid part of you still insists upon checking for news every few months.

see also: upd8 culture

Not really, no. Homestuck’s longest hiatus was only eleven months in duration – that’s nowhere near the point where holding out hope for further updates becomes fundamentally unreasonable. (Heck, it’s not even a particularly long hiatus as popular webcomics go!)

Beaver and Steve is still the first page that opens from my comics bookmark folder, and it went onto indefinite hiatus eleven years ago… eleven months is nothing

geostatonary:

The…. Knife?

An artifact

The… Knife? is a starmetal/moonsilver hybrid artifact, rumored forged in the First Age by a Sidereal master of such repute their name has been lost to us. Nobody is quite sure what the… Knife? is, but everyone agrees that it’s quite sharp and that it’s mostly limited to melee range. In addition to the normal bonuses, attuning to the… Knife? allows you to pick it up correctly. What this conceptually means is a point of contention in many circles, but almost everyone agrees that it involves your fingers staying attached to your hands.

For those foolish enough to unlock the… Knife’s? Evocations, they find their relationships with space ambiguous and form tenuous, for better and for worse.

Odd Howard: Pact of the Blade

(via prokopetz)

prokopetz:

To be fair, sci fi stories about evil robot uprisings aren’t always about demonising oppressed labourers. Sometimes they’re about the older generation’s fear of being rendered culturally obsolete by their own children instead.

Where does Terminator fall in all this? Given Skynet woke up and started killing everyone pretty much immediately, I’m not sure it’s either, though I guess it’s closer to the second?

Another one is VIKI from the 2004 I, Robot film, where at first look you might expect oppressed workers but it’s one intelligence deciding it knows what’s best, so is that the second too?

Perhaps both fall into a category of “maybe think a bit more before handing control to the robots, ok?”