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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 9h

(Heck, sometimes you weren't even five. For years I thought the taciturn kidnapper in Fargo (1996) was played by Bruce Willis. When I picture it I STILL see Bruce Willis. In the film that actually exists, it's of course Peter Stormare; to this day I have no idea what I was getting it confused with!)

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 11h

"People only joke about JRPGs where you kill God at the end because the only JRPGs they've ever played are Final Fantasy games" joke's on you, buddy – I was actually memeing on Baroque (1998).

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 12h

I spent like 15 minutes trying to figure out why my bathroom fan seemed to run more roughly whenever I stood in certain parts the room before realising the rattling wasn't coming from the fan; my cat was tucked away out of sight, and would start purring loudly whenever I walked past her hiding spot.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 12h

"Goncharov" is a fun meme, but I don't understand talking about it like it's conceptually unprecedented when a solid 50% of us have a piece of wholly invented media in our heads that we genuinely remember seeing because we've unwittingly conflated a bunch of unrelated shit we saw when we were five.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 13h

"But Silksong's combat is so much easier than Hollow Knight's" well, yeah, dude – that's what happens when your combat set-pieces actually draw on the same skills and reward the same strategies as your platforming, rather than effectively being two games in a trenchcoat. You get better faster.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 18h

Copyright doctrinaire who doesn't understand how IP works losing their shit over stuff that doesn't actually infringe upon anything versus copyright abolitionist who also doesn't understand how IP works insisting they're sticking it to the Man by doing the thing the first guy is freaking out about.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 20h

$1816 CAD / $5000 CAD as of noon today. I can't be the only one who's excited to see a bunch of muppets pull a Groundhog Day in not-quite-19th-Century-Venice, right?

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 21h

Shout out to the Mountain Goats for reminding us that an awkward pause CAN be a metrical foot if you believe.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 22h

Waking up in the morning to discover like 80% of my Steam library has an update pending and being like "okay, what did the Unity guys fuck up this time?"

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is a good sign.

A super zoomed in screenshot of the Kickstater project backer counter, reading "666 backers".

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 1d

Like, don't take this is an "all mutual aid posts are scams" thing, because I'm sure MOST such requests are 100% legit, but I've received like four different donation request DMs in the last week from people claiming their kids are "dying of autism", and I'm reasonably sure that's not how it works.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 2d

All questions of pacing aside, you've got to admit that making a bench the reward for the boss with the longest and most hazardous runback in the game is pretty funny.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 2d

We've just passed stretch goal #2 and we're rounding the corner to stretch goal #3: "The Eternal Exhibition" by @austinramsaygames.bsky.social, a scenario in which a grand festival celebrating the latest innovations in art, science, magic, and food has been cursed to repeat the same day, forever.

David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 7d

"Eat God" is live on Kickstarter:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...

Be a blue-furred social justice advocate with detachable limbs, a many-eyed horror with strong opinions about metaphysics, or a jet-powered telepathic crab and stick it to the Man though the power of gratuitous cartoon violence.

Eat God

a tabletop roleplaying game about causing problems on purpose

www.kickstarter.com

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 2d

[2/2] COROLLARY: You don't actually need to write a whole-ass graphic novel to achieve that narrative context. You do need to know what the story *is*, but once you do, you can literally just draw contextless snapshots that raise more questions than they answer and people will fill in the blanks.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 2d

FACT: Apart from pure recognition factor, one of the major reasons your fanart gets more eyes on it than our OCs is because people are perverts for narrative context, and your OCs don't have any. [1/2]

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 2d

Somebody on itch just added "Eat God" to a public collection which otherwise appears to consist exclusively of sexually explicit trans lesbian VNs, so I guess we're reaching our target audience after all.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 3d

Heterodox Roman Catholic theologian arguing that you can't go to Hell for objectively funny sins.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 3d

(If you're on the fence about the digital tier because the core rules are under an open license and you don't care about print on demand or fancy PDFs, remember: the stretch playsets are not part of the open-licensed rules, so the more goals we hit, the more value the digital bundle has for you!)

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 3d

Currently sitting at $3849 CAD out of $5000 CAD for this one – we could totally hit that today, with a small push.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 4d

Most macro/micro stuff is actually the exact opposite of this. You specifically need the size discrepancy to be non-anomalous and culturally normalised in such a way that the discrepacy itself isn't necessarily part of the kink to approximate this scenario, and most macro doesn't pass that bar.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 4d

Most human/fairy hornyposting focuses on the perspective of the human doing stuff to the fairy, but I can't help but consider the perspective of a fairy with very specific kinks. Imagine being an eight-inch-tall fairy with a regular-size human partner and a foot fetish.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 4d

We're currently on the stretch goal by @curatrix-ribston.bsky.social for a playset where everybody gets vored by a mountain-size sock puppet and has to play politics with its inexplicably Catholic internal fauna, and if that's not your bag I just don't know what to tell you.

David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 7d

"Eat God" is live on Kickstarter:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...

Be a blue-furred social justice advocate with detachable limbs, a many-eyed horror with strong opinions about metaphysics, or a jet-powered telepathic crab and stick it to the Man though the power of gratuitous cartoon violence.

Eat God

a tabletop roleplaying game about causing problems on purpose

www.kickstarter.com

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 4d

I was picturing one of those original flavour PvP-oriented Apocalypse Engine setups – I haven't really thought about how it would work in a more conventional PCs-only-engage-mechanically-with-NPCs setup.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 4d

Inadvisable tabletop RPG conceit #137: Apocalypse Engine variant where all the move triggers that dink with the game's basic dice-rolling procedures are target-facing rather than actor-facing. /When you punch me in my smug face/, roll +WEIRD rather than +HARD because I'm fucking whimsical.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 5d

Do you realise how valuable a reliable repeat customer whose order you cannot possibly fuck up is in that line of work?

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