David J Prokopetz
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Reading your gritty dystopian cyberpunk RPG and realising that with a very particular selection of moves and traits I can use your Sexy Angsty Combat Doll playbook without modification to produce a character with the exact personality and skill set of Inspector Gadget.
January 25, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Reading your gritty dystopian cyberpunk RPG and realising that with a very particular selection of moves and traits I can use your Sexy Angsty Combat Doll playbook without modification to produce a character with the exact personality and skill set of Inspector Gadget.
Reposted by David J Prokopetz
Kamen Rider franchise:
So it turns out that fated rivals ARE a thing, but due to a bureaucratic error it was never specified that nemesis pairs have to be the same species; consequently, for most living humans, their fated rival is some kind of bug.
January 24, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Kamen Rider franchise:
So it turns out that fated rivals ARE a thing, but due to a bureaucratic error it was never specified that nemesis pairs have to be the same species; consequently, for most living humans, their fated rival is some kind of bug.
January 24, 2026 at 10:59 PM
So it turns out that fated rivals ARE a thing, but due to a bureaucratic error it was never specified that nemesis pairs have to be the same species; consequently, for most living humans, their fated rival is some kind of bug.
"X-Files" style paranormal investigative procedural which preserves high stakes over the length of its run by keeping the same supporting cast from episode to episode, but the sexy lead duo can die at any time. Many pairs last only a single episode, especially the gratuitous celebrity guest stars.
January 24, 2026 at 10:13 PM
"X-Files" style paranormal investigative procedural which preserves high stakes over the length of its run by keeping the same supporting cast from episode to episode, but the sexy lead duo can die at any time. Many pairs last only a single episode, especially the gratuitous celebrity guest stars.
You think you've got it rough? I once checked the AO3 profile of an unfinished fic I'd been recced, and discovered the author'd abandoned it to write a long-form Harry Potter fic, abandoned that for ANOTHER long-form HP fic, then abandoned the second HP fic to write about Sasuke fucking Spider-Man.
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
You think you've got it rough? I once checked the AO3 profile of an unfinished fic I'd been recced, and discovered the author'd abandoned it to write a long-form Harry Potter fic, abandoned that for ANOTHER long-form HP fic, then abandoned the second HP fic to write about Sasuke fucking Spider-Man.
I'm wearing what was advertised as a "highly breathable" dress shirt today, which texture-wise is basically a button-down made of parachute fabric, and apparently I failed to reckon with how this would interact with my cat's habit of hurling herself bodily at my lap to flop against my tummy.
January 23, 2026 at 8:57 PM
I'm wearing what was advertised as a "highly breathable" dress shirt today, which texture-wise is basically a button-down made of parachute fabric, and apparently I failed to reckon with how this would interact with my cat's habit of hurling herself bodily at my lap to flop against my tummy.
One of my favourite species of generative AI fuckups is when someone claims that an image is their own original work, but there's a sign or a poster or a whiteboard or what-have-you in the background and you can literally see the prompt they used written on it.
January 23, 2026 at 7:16 PM
One of my favourite species of generative AI fuckups is when someone claims that an image is their own original work, but there's a sign or a poster or a whiteboard or what-have-you in the background and you can literally see the prompt they used written on it.
Carefully explaining to my elite catgirl infantry for the fifteenth time that polearm unit tactics only work if everyone in the unit is wielding the SAME polearm. One of them showed up with a Bohemian ear-spoon. Where did she even get that.
January 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Carefully explaining to my elite catgirl infantry for the fifteenth time that polearm unit tactics only work if everyone in the unit is wielding the SAME polearm. One of them showed up with a Bohemian ear-spoon. Where did she even get that.
Spends several years queerbaiting my TV show's audience, strongly hints that Everything Will Be Resolved in the series finale, then does a five-years-later epilogue in the last five minutes revealing that two characters who have literally never interacted got together off screen.
January 23, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Spends several years queerbaiting my TV show's audience, strongly hints that Everything Will Be Resolved in the series finale, then does a five-years-later epilogue in the last five minutes revealing that two characters who have literally never interacted got together off screen.
Killing my chief minion each time they fail me because I'm evil, reviving them afterward because qualified help is hard to find, and completely failing to realise the only reason they haven't betrayed me over being treated in this way is because they're kind of into it because I'm dumb as hell.
January 23, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Killing my chief minion each time they fail me because I'm evil, reviving them afterward because qualified help is hard to find, and completely failing to realise the only reason they haven't betrayed me over being treated in this way is because they're kind of into it because I'm dumb as hell.
You'd think I'd have advice for the current North American cold snap, living where I do, but in practice I know fuck-all about best practices because this happens every year here and all the houses are built to handle it. It's going down to -42C this weekend and my only plan is "don't go outside".
January 22, 2026 at 8:41 PM
You'd think I'd have advice for the current North American cold snap, living where I do, but in practice I know fuck-all about best practices because this happens every year here and all the houses are built to handle it. It's going down to -42C this weekend and my only plan is "don't go outside".
Group of characters where each claims to be the last survivor of the same extinct extraterrestrial civilisation, insisting the others technically don't count; one's a robot created by the culture in question, one was raised in the culture but isn't the same species, one's a straight up ghost, etc.
January 22, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Group of characters where each claims to be the last survivor of the same extinct extraterrestrial civilisation, insisting the others technically don't count; one's a robot created by the culture in question, one was raised in the culture but isn't the same species, one's a straight up ghost, etc.
I think English orthography would be categorically improved by the adoption of extended whitespace. Right now we're stuck with ellipses to serve that function if we're doing things "properly", and "hell... yes" simply does not communicate the same thing as "hell yes".
January 22, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I think English orthography would be categorically improved by the adoption of extended whitespace. Right now we're stuck with ellipses to serve that function if we're doing things "properly", and "hell... yes" simply does not communicate the same thing as "hell yes".
"Ending explained" video for "Moby-Dick" that initially appears to be addressing the luciferan symbolism surrounding Ahab, but by the two-thirds mark it's clear it's circling in on an argument that Ishmael's improbable survival of the penultimate chapter proves he was secretly working for the whale.
January 22, 2026 at 5:48 AM
"Ending explained" video for "Moby-Dick" that initially appears to be addressing the luciferan symbolism surrounding Ahab, but by the two-thirds mark it's clear it's circling in on an argument that Ishmael's improbable survival of the penultimate chapter proves he was secretly working for the whale.
"MIO: Memories in Orbit" dropped the same fucking day I finally got around to 100% clearing "Ender Magnolia". It's like the universe is conspiring to kill me exclusively through the medium of elegiac post-apoc metroidvanias about short girls making friends with robots.
January 22, 2026 at 5:29 AM
"MIO: Memories in Orbit" dropped the same fucking day I finally got around to 100% clearing "Ender Magnolia". It's like the universe is conspiring to kill me exclusively through the medium of elegiac post-apoc metroidvanias about short girls making friends with robots.
I'm incapable of reliably committing the names of the Great Lakes to memory because my brain absolutely rejects the fact that there's a Lake Superior but no corresponding Lake Inferior.
January 22, 2026 at 2:43 AM
I'm incapable of reliably committing the names of the Great Lakes to memory because my brain absolutely rejects the fact that there's a Lake Superior but no corresponding Lake Inferior.
Masocore shooter that syncs via Bluetooth with one of those biorhythm monitoring apps and measures the player's autonomic responses to various audiovisual cues in order to increase its difficulty by dynamically adjusting its presentation to target whatever the player finds most distractingly horny.
January 21, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Masocore shooter that syncs via Bluetooth with one of those biorhythm monitoring apps and measures the player's autonomic responses to various audiovisual cues in order to increase its difficulty by dynamically adjusting its presentation to target whatever the player finds most distractingly horny.
Reposted by David J Prokopetz
We can’t simply rely on naturally occurring davids bowie, conditions have to be just right for that to occur.
January 21, 2026 at 3:13 PM
We can’t simply rely on naturally occurring davids bowie, conditions have to be just right for that to occur.
Ultimately we've got to reckon with the fact that much of the OSR movement is merely reacting to indie TTRPGs' tendency to lose sight of why many folks take up the hobby: for a safe and budget-friendly way to satisfy the natural human impulse to put one's friends in some kind of fucked up labyrinth.
January 21, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Ultimately we've got to reckon with the fact that much of the OSR movement is merely reacting to indie TTRPGs' tendency to lose sight of why many folks take up the hobby: for a safe and budget-friendly way to satisfy the natural human impulse to put one's friends in some kind of fucked up labyrinth.
Taking a principled stand against past participles.
January 20, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Taking a principled stand against past participles.
It's fun when androids with penises are described as "fully functional" because there are so many unexamined assumptions in play. Some day I'm going to write a story where a bepenised android is described as "fully functional", then 20 chapters later disaster is averted by the fact that it can piss.
January 20, 2026 at 9:04 PM
It's fun when androids with penises are described as "fully functional" because there are so many unexamined assumptions in play. Some day I'm going to write a story where a bepenised android is described as "fully functional", then 20 chapters later disaster is averted by the fact that it can piss.
I keep records and backups pretty rigorously, which is why whenever I'm doing an archive crawl and hit a conspicuous lacuna of several days in the last week of January 2006 I immediately know that was the time I tried to modify my primary hard drive's master file table by hand.
January 20, 2026 at 8:07 PM
I keep records and backups pretty rigorously, which is why whenever I'm doing an archive crawl and hit a conspicuous lacuna of several days in the last week of January 2006 I immediately know that was the time I tried to modify my primary hard drive's master file table by hand.
I think the dumbest way I ever saw someone get caught using undisclosed generative AI was a guy who posted censored art with uncensored versions on their Patreon, but the latter had subtly different composition, and it turned out they weren't generating the images, then censoring the dicks – [...]
January 20, 2026 at 5:56 PM
I think the dumbest way I ever saw someone get caught using undisclosed generative AI was a guy who posted censored art with uncensored versions on their Patreon, but the latter had subtly different composition, and it turned out they weren't generating the images, then censoring the dicks – [...]
The problem with being a fan of classic literature is that you end up knowing so many fantastic words that basically never come up in everyday conversation. Do you have any idea how rare it is to get the chance to drop an "illimitable"?
January 20, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The problem with being a fan of classic literature is that you end up knowing so many fantastic words that basically never come up in everyday conversation. Do you have any idea how rare it is to get the chance to drop an "illimitable"?
The fun thing about rice is that saying anything at all about how to cook rice will 100% reliably prompt someone to a. accuse you of being American and b. confidently assert that only Americans do something which is in fact widespread. I once had someone tell me only Americans cook rice with butter.
January 20, 2026 at 3:45 AM
The fun thing about rice is that saying anything at all about how to cook rice will 100% reliably prompt someone to a. accuse you of being American and b. confidently assert that only Americans do something which is in fact widespread. I once had someone tell me only Americans cook rice with butter.