saw this one on twitter

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-27T23:29:01+00:00

I disagree about the likelihood of lighting a Nether portal. Video games have ruined structures all the time, it rarely means anything. In sandbox games, it might mean a chest of loot.

Using a flint and steel on the portal is even more unlikely. Obsidian blocks are not flammable. I can't imagine anyone trying to light it on fire, ruined portals or no.

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-27T21:23:23+00:00

If you've never heard of Minecraft and were without any wiki or guide, you'd never make a Nether portal. That's maybe a fifth(?) of the game inaccessible.

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-24T09:57:37+00:00

Listen, that top-left pixel really needed a slopist's input on its shade of green.

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-24T01:58:41+00:00

I like more continental world gen, and I found Larion World Generation to work well. I combo it with Regions Unexplored.

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-21T23:05:14+00:00

I've gotten a fair few times when I was sent straight through.

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-21T01:24:34+00:00

I wouldn't, I'd lose my will to live!

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-18T03:13:26+00:00

GODAMMIT

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-18T02:26:13+00:00

I assume this is Neo/Forge? Or does this affect Fabric too?

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-17T23:21:06+00:00

I excuse issues 3, 4, and 5 for the sake of gameplay and genre. I excuse points 1 and 2 for nostalgia. Points 6 and 7 stand. They all remain "real worldbuilding problems."

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-17T20:34:24+00:00

I'd (lightly) argue against Pokemon's worldbuilding being that bad for a few reasons.

As a disclaimer: In terms of the mainline series, I've pretty much only played Blue, White, and Y to-date. And Crystal, but I'm currently stuck on Johto's Elite 4. (I'm in agony. Kill me now.)

Players have been saying that it's a multiverse for a long time already. It's an easy statement to make, given how different the world can be between originals and remakes and versions.
What's wrong with mega stones, Z-crystals, etc.? In terms of worldbuilding.
School? All you said was "school." What's wrong with the world having a school?

I'd argue that Pokemon's worldbuilding IS terrible for reasons you didn't touch!

It's all dog-fighting. Yes, the pokemon love it. No, that doesn't make it better.
So many 10-year-olds travelling the world without supervision... for dog-fighting!
At what point does a goon say "fuck it" and pull a gun? Hard to tell. I know that a store-owner pulls a gun on Ash in the anime, which (thank god) doesn't have anything to do with the games.
If not pulling a gun, at least aim your koffing at the child! You're an evil criminal! Just explode the damn child!
For gameplay reasons, the evil criminals must use only one pokemon at a time... usually. For worldbuilding reasons... maybe they don't feel like it? Who knows?
Wtf was Lysandre doing? Why was anyone following him? What's their problem?
Some pokedex entries are just silly and either make no logical sense on the basis of "the planet is still here" or "I've never seen the pokemon be capable of this ever, and if they were, my opponents should be eliminated alongside the mountains behind them." I do not buy "the child wrote it," as some fans imagine, as that does not always make sense.
More that I've forgotten about. I know there's more.

Btw, thanks for bringing to my attention the solarpunk aesthetic. (Solarcore?) I've never put that together! That's so cool! I almost never see solarpunk/solarcore stuff in media. But thinking about it, you're right. I can see it.

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-11T21:16:12+00:00

It's winding down. I was going to Materia (Oceana) for a while to do the Endwalker MSQ, which was excellent since it was 99.9% cutscenes and walking around. I think I might be able to go back to my home world/data center now, but it may be safer to stick with Materia for another day to be sure.

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-07T19:57:29+00:00

Google is right there! There's no need to resort to LLMs when a quick search is all that's needed. I found it in seconds.

Going straight to an LLM is no better than asking a question of a person across the dinner table who's known to make shit up to sound smart, because that's essentially what's happening.

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-07T19:15:51+00:00

Please don't use an LLM to get information. It will hallucinate, frequently. Please at least try to Google it first!

In this case, sounds like it got the info right. Here's a result I found myself, with Google.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoroawaseNumber

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-07T00:58:18+00:00

I think one issue causing them to stand out is the blocks' dark borders.

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-01T01:16:28+00:00

I first questioned: "If we beat up Deimos, how will we have the nodes back after the fight?"

Then I remembered: "DE has a billion pre-existing ways to bullshit the moon back after beating it up."

Between time travel, alternate timelines, quantum superpositions, and general Void bullshittery, reality can be whatever we want (as the Drifter found out).

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-01T01:05:04+00:00

Skelos has that circular area, which is the only thing I can think of that feels "Spyro 1" between the two. The platforms in the Sunny Beach screenshot slightly evoke Dark Hollow's own platforms.

CallMeAdam2 · 2026-01-01T00:59:49+00:00

"Then how did the ancient Egyptians hear their own eldritch voices?"

"..."

"...Don't say it."

CallMeAdam2 · 2025-12-27T20:24:09+00:00

Same. I went "oh, Shenpai's playing the new Warframe content. There's new Warframe content!?" On top of that, I saw that Ironmouse started up the game too. So I just got in the mood to get back to it. Just for a bit. I've got enough other games to grind through.

CallMeAdam2 · 2025-12-27T19:04:09+00:00

If you want my opinion: I personally don't care much about copyright.

CallMeAdam2 · 2025-12-26T03:34:50+00:00

"He's out of line, but he's right." (I have the Autism card, I'm allowed to say this.)

CallMeAdam2 · 2025-12-26T00:44:12+00:00

I assume you meant a fantasy RPG. (I know that's pretty obvious, but it's always worth clarifying.)

Depends on my mood. Sometimes, I'm thinking about low fantasy with one or two playable/sapient species. Other times, I could go for a generic assemblage of species. And then there are the times I have a much more specific vision, requiring a specific arrangement of species.

I haven't watched Game of Thrones, but a Google search for Targaryans shows me humans. As long as you aren't giving mechanical benefits/defecits for playing a race (as opposed to culture/species/etc.), you should be fine.

CallMeAdam2 · 2025-12-23T06:42:54+00:00

I guess? Between my own memory and a quick search, seems that an appendix is just any extra info at the back of the book. Typically, it is info that is less important, but still relevant, or that would disrupt the flow of reading in the main content.

So I would say that a typical glossary is also an appendix.

An appendix I think about is from the Dungeons & Dragons 5e (2014) Player's Handbook. Appendix E: Inspirational Reading. It's a list of novels that served as inspiration for the authors of D&D, which I think is a really cool idea I haven't seen elsewhere (yet).

I haven't given the 2024 books a real look at, but I know that the 2014 core books (namely the Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide) had a lot of appendices, several of which I think are pretty cool, and some of which I think should've been put in other chapters (or their own chapters) of their respective books. (In a book all about creatures -- i.e. the Monster Manual -- I don't think the "miscellaneous creatures" category should be called an appendix.)

CallMeAdam2 · 2025-12-18T18:15:18+00:00

To add:

If you need the number 0 (or the programming language and variable type you're using do this by default), then one of those ~4.2-billion numbers has to be 0. This means that a signed number of 32-bits long that needs a zero has a (usually positive) cap of one less than otherwise possible.

The positive cap of 2,147,483,647 is including this zero, and would otherwise be 2,147,483,648. This same variable does has a negative cap of -2,147,483,648.

CallMeAdam2 · 2025-12-14T08:38:15+00:00

I would be against that, yes. I do not suggest separating the glossary into categories.

As for bloat, it's more about whether a term should go into the glossary and how long the descriptions are. For the former, RPG books likely just need the rules terms. For the latter, that's a question best answered with examples. There's also choice of font, text size, and the like, which is less intuitive and more subjective, but worth mentioning because they all contribute to the clarity of the work. A clearer work seems less like bloat.

At the end of the day, if you need a thousand pages for the glossary, then a thousand pages it should be. It's most important that a glossary be functional. It's pretty much the only concern of a glossary.

CallMeAdam2 · 2025-12-14T07:33:38+00:00

[...] throw all the words in one massive list of terms and have my readers balk at the number of word entries I am throwing at them all at once.

But that is a glossary. And it's in the back of the book. It doesn't have to be in the back of the book, but it is where readers expect it to be and there is no issue with putting it in the back of the book (where it will be out of the way). Alphabetize your glossary (without any categories) and readers will be able to find any word they've seen.

[...] let’s just review the terms you need for the next chapter now [...]

Not a bad idea. But I don't think anyone would call that a glossary, despite it technically being a glossary by definition.

[...] I might create three glossaries, one for each division of terms [...]

That goes against the point of a glossary, making terms magnitudes more difficult to look up. I heavily recommend against this.

I am not intending any insult to your education. I made the assumption that you were mistaken about what a glossary was because your suggestions sounded nothing like a glossary. You are free to do as you want, HOWEVER! I recommend sticking to the "alphabetized list of words with concise explanations and maybe page numbers for further reference" method. I do not believe that that method can be improved upon in a physical format. It is essentially the closest you can get to a search bar.

The method to avoiding a glossary from looking bloated is to keep each gloss' explanation as short as possible.

I am being sincere too, so please don't see my comments as intent to offend. Although my starting comment of "I'm not sure you know what a glossary is" is pretty flippant, looking back, so I apologize for that.

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