T w e n t y S i d e d
Ha! Nothing like players who can’t wait to take whatever involuntary world-building you’ve given them and turn it into an entirely new problem for both of you. You try to throw someone a treat or pull some flavor text out of your ass and suddenly you have someone trying to negotiate sticking a couch in their bag. Which, if I’m honest, I don’t mind too much. It’s fun to see what they’ll latch onto and what will fly over their heads to bite them in the ass later. One of the many joys of tabletop gaming.
Was it a Hack?
A big chunk of the internet went down in October of 2016. What happened? Was it a hack?
Object-Disoriented Programming
C++ is a wonderful language for making horrible code.
The Plot-Driven Door
You know how videogames sometimes do that thing where it's preposterously hard to go through a simple door? This one is really bad.
Deus Ex and The Treachery of Labels
Deus Ex Mankind Divided was a clumsy, tone-deaf allegory that thought it was clever, and it managed to annoy people of all political stripes.
Spoiler Warning
A video Let's Play series I collaborated on from 2009 to 2017.
Ah, courtesy, generosity, and noblesse oblige.
The best roleplayers are the ones who can avoid treating these as foreign concepts to be exploited.
Has Aragorn been reading Elrond’s copy of Who’s Who? How does he know there is a princess?
They’ve got long hair; they’re all princesses.
Sounds like a sitcom pitch to me!
It’s a fantasy kingdom run by horse riders.
There’s either a princess and a problem, or there’s a lack of princess and that’s the problem.
It’s a crowded field, but I think the exchange between the DM and Legolas in this may be my favourite joke in the entire comic. 15 years after I first discovered it, “Oh man, sucks to be you” “Oh come on, you aren’t even trying. I know you can do better than that” still gets a laugh, and “Hark, they fate sucketh?” “That is… much worse” is burned into the core of my psyche, and I wish I could find more everyday uses for them.
Thanks so much for this whole project, it’s a worthy tribute to a very, very funny man.