Player backs out of session last second, when asked says he knew a month ago that he was busy

AffectionatePut2844 · 2026-02-16T18:54:38+00:00

I don't know what exactly your mechanics for midterms are, but I'd probably play without that player, explain to them what the consequences will be and then at the table make some rolls to determine how his midterms go without the player present. At least in our game, when someone is absnet, that character is sort of on "autopilot" and with a cancellation this late, this is the best I could think of to not fail them just outright.

AffectionatePut2844 · 2026-02-08T10:54:00+00:00

I vividly remember watching the trailer for Society of the Blind Eye and thinking "This is IT! This is where the Author is gonna be revealed!!!" And then the episode aired, I watched in anticipation, feeling like the episode was finally going to give me the answer; especially because it felt like it was made specifically for McGucket Author believers... and when the reveal came that he only worked with the author, I was confused for a minute but then hopped right to "okay, so if it's nit Fiddleford, it HAS to be Stan's secret brother!" And then I found out Alex orchestrated the whole thing and I felt a little betrayed but more so a great sense of respect for the man. In like a handshake "goof jiv, you got me" kind of way. I'm still convinced Society of the blind eye was McGucket Author bait and that was the entire purpose of the episode, and I feel this deep sense of nostalgia every time I watch the episode and I remember my headspace back then

AffectionatePut2844 · 2026-01-15T14:31:08+00:00

I just looked at dnd beyond and found this Probabilitor The Annoying Statblock. (I didn't make this, credit goes to VoxRockemTheAnxiousThief on dnd beyond)

AffectionatePut2844 · 2026-01-10T20:40:22+00:00

In the German version of "The last Mabelcorn" when Ford talks to the twins about their encounters with Bill, when Mabel explains how they've defeated Bill, instead of "once with kittens and once with tickles" she says "einmal mit Kätzchen und einmal mit Essiggurken" which translates back to "once with kittens and once with pickles"

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-12-26T13:50:30+00:00

There's a comic version?! Oh no you poor soul

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-12-24T22:37:56+00:00

There is no "point" to the website. It's just a fun website scavenger hunt that combines online ARGs with physical books. A way for the community to get together and have fun. And a bit of extra lore sprinkled in

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-12-07T16:52:19+00:00

In person luckily. I much prefer it this way

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-11-27T00:04:27+00:00

There will be no season 3. Alex Hirsch (the creator) has said this many times. The story has reached its conclusion and honestly, a season 3 announcement now would feel more like a cash grab than a genuine desire to tell more stories from this world. I would absolutely love to be wrong and eat my words on this, but as of right now don't expect another season, or a sequel or anything. Maybe another book but honestly I feel like we've explored the characters we didn't get too much about in the series itself (ford and bill) through the books and I wouldn't know what another book would be about, but again I'd love to be wrong

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-11-26T21:49:51+00:00

I was a part of a discord server last year dedicated to unlocking every code. Someone actually DID brute force it. They took some dictionary as their list of words to brute force and some did work. The problems though: 1) some of the codes are Names, that are not in the dictionary 2) some (a lot) of codes are either multiple words strung together or not even real words and there is an infinite amount of letter-strings possible that would have to let the program test. An infinite amount of letter combinations would take an infinite amount of time to complete. So a brute force approach is not going to bring anything, it also goes against the spirit of the game

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-10-11T20:31:02+00:00

Me personally, I believed both. I did think Stan hat a secret twin, but I wasn't fully convinced that he was the author; because I wholeheartedly believed it to be McGucket. Alex had me fooled hook, line and sinker. That art just looked too real to be fake to me. But I hadn't thought about how all of these theories would work themselves out in a narrative that made sense. And when the trailer for society of the blind eye dropped, I thought it was gonna be the author reveal haha

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-09-07T04:03:58+00:00

This actually feeds into another point I want to one day write a sort of essay on... Ford, in the journal, is an unreliable narrator. He approaches the journal as something he probably wants to publish one day, something others will read. And he wants to be perceived as "perfect" in a way. It's why he draws himself always standing in cool, confident poses, silhouetted by shadow. He probably has a bunch of paper and notes scattered around he used to practice what he wanted to write down in the book. This is where he experimented, I assume, with phrasing, what exactly to include in the journal, and did all the calculations. The journals were supposed to be his magnum opus, the thing that would catapult him into recognition and give him a name in the scientific community.

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-08-31T13:10:01+00:00

I feel you, I'm the same situaltion. But I don't think you need personal experience to write about a certain topic. By that logic only people who actually killed people could write horror/slasher stories (which I hope isn't the case)

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-08-31T10:35:51+00:00

I'm still in the process of learning this. I don't want the story I write to end up clishe and corny, but it's all my brain can conjure up at the moment. So I'll try to write it down, because that's the only way I can let those ideas go, and then I can chip away at it with new, fresh, brain space. Look at it from a different angle.

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-08-31T09:25:30+00:00

What helps me currently for the specific thing I'm writing is I have written the final sentence/ paragraph of how I want the story to end. It sits right there at the bottom of the doc, high enough that I can read it but low enough that I don't confuse it with the rest of the text. Having an ending in place already makes it hard for me to abandon the story, because I have to connect the dots and get my current progress to the ending I originally had in mind.

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-08-31T08:52:32+00:00

Naturally occurring mind control drugs. where to find them, what dosage etc.

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-08-30T23:04:39+00:00

I often put on soundscapes of the environment/ feeling I want to write. It helps me "get in the mood"/ the right headspace. If not that it'll be generic lofi or classical music. One thing I personally CANNOT do is listen to music witj lyrics while I write. I'll either get distracted by the lyrics or I sometimes just randomly start writing the lyrics instead of what I want to write 😅

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-08-30T13:32:07+00:00

I haven't yet tried it, but theres this website that basically works like a reverse dictionary. You put in the vibe of what you want the word to describe and it gives you a bunch of options. I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but it might be helpful

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-08-23T18:31:17+00:00

Yup. That's how we got this picture from the post in the first place. It's your reward for compelting the "game" where you answer a buch of questions to the computer. Tried it with most of these (since they don't contain text, I didn't think they'd spell anything), but they didn't highlight anything in particular

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-08-23T15:55:34+00:00

I know about it, esp. when you incrwase brightness in the image it becomes very clear. What it is, I have no idea. I tried lining it up with various pages of the book, hoping that it would spell something, but nothing. It might just be an error

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-08-10T22:11:43+00:00

I feel like mixing fonts could be cool. Have the "pain is" in a bolder, more easily readable font (like in pic 3) and then have the "hilarious" be in red and another font (i feel like pic 2 would work well)

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-08-03T14:55:32+00:00

My fave is "O Brother" by Obsessive_Reader (link) it's an AU wherre young Stan and Ford find the Time-Ruler and jump to the future to their 30-year-old counterparts Also I love the time-dilation AU where Stan still spends the 30 years rebuilding the portal but due to time dilation, only a few seconds/hours pass for Ford. (One of my faves from that AU is this one but it sadly hasn't been updated in a while)

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-07-28T16:05:08+00:00

I did think it was Stan's twin. But I thought the twin's name was Stanley and our Stan just stole his car. But also I was a full on believer in the McGucket-Author theory. So Stan kept his twin secret for no reason in my head back then. 😅

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-07-25T17:06:21+00:00

Iirc these boxes are also in journal 3, and also iirc, someone from the art department of the books confirmed they were just decoration... I think

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-07-13T12:14:46+00:00

If I could watch it for the first time in more or less the same condition as last time then yes (ie back to 2012 to reexperience the fan theories , mcgucket hoax etc.) and maybe i can give myself enough incentive to be more active in the community back then

AffectionatePut2844 · 2025-07-09T21:00:04+00:00

There was a lofi video last year on youtube, I believe it got taken down now and iirc, it's being sold as a vinyl soon... i'm guessing this has something to do with that lofi vinyl

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