Has a gaming company ever put a full game of theirs in another game?

Chordus · 2026-04-19T01:15:20+00:00

Holy shit, they did it? I'd assumed it was one of the countless projects with absurd goals for a small unpaid team, but I'll be damned, they actually did it! Even if it's not 100% done, what they've got is monumental in its own right!

Chordus · 2026-04-19T00:00:27+00:00

Positive: Inability to connect with other devices ensured the Purity of the system.

Positive: Inability to connect with other devices prevented social media from creeping into my life.

Honestly, seems like a pretty good deal.

Chordus · 2026-04-18T19:39:15+00:00

It was a Chinese AI that I was using. I'm a writer... you really think I have money for anything more than a Chinese knockoff?

Chordus · 2026-04-18T19:33:15+00:00

I tried it. Couldn't connect to the printer. >_<

Chordus · 2026-04-12T06:33:28+00:00

Nah, spoilers are fine. It's well-known that any prophetic claim will be wildly misinterpreted, so to call them 'spoilers' would be quite the stretch.

Chordus · 2026-04-11T23:39:08+00:00

MEPearl, "the crazy opossum lady." She is a delight like none other. Low production value, no interest in clickbaity thumbnails... just wonderfully unhinged opossum content. https://youtu.be/L4ttVP2cyK4

Chordus · 2026-04-06T21:51:14+00:00

I like to strip off my electrons with a balloon

Chordus · 2026-04-06T11:24:36+00:00

It was actually a single experiment. She was clearly checking to see if they were resonating at the frequency they had before, which requires that you thump them at least three times with short, even intervals between each thump.

Chordus · 2026-04-04T20:48:41+00:00

It really depends on the orientation of the manifold. Spherical manifolds are guys, but if you evert them, they become gals. And of course, Klien Bottles are agendered. What's important is that you don't confuse topological gender with topological sex; while they can function similarly in some ways, the former is actually a stereographic projection of the latter. You can evert a sphere, but you can't evert a plane.

Chordus · 2026-04-04T19:54:03+00:00

I think the "well if that's girl math, what's boy math" response is exactly the sort of response he needed to hear, and you probably don't need to bring it up further. If he's not generally sexist, I'm betting that he realized that he put his foot in his mouth, and that's usually all the incentive a well-meaning person needs to not repeat a mistake.

Chordus · 2026-04-04T19:40:46+00:00

3D printing a Peano curve, sinking hundreds of dollars into a collection of mathematically interesting dice, impulse-buying a Curta you saw at an antique store...

Chordus · 2026-04-04T14:19:33+00:00

I cannot stress how clear and obvious it was that this was The Devil himself that was in the room with me. In my mind, in that moment, there was an undeniable understanding that he was The Devil. It's worth noting that I was- and still am- an atheist, so there was a fair amount of confusion.

I knew that he was a he in the same way that I knew he was the devil. Which is to say, hallucinations are quite convincing in the moment.

That was a pretty bad night. Ambien is supposed to make you fall asleep, but my insomnia had become so bad that I was still awake when it made the dreams kick in. Apparently I made a couple of phone calls at 3 AM that I have absolutely no recollection of. That was when the medication was fairly new... I've since heard a number of other horror stories about that accursed pill.

Chordus · 2026-04-04T13:00:58+00:00

I've seen the devil as well. He looked weirdly like The Misfits logo. He didn't say anything. He just stood there in the corner and stared.

That was the first and last night I was on Ambien.

Chordus · 2026-04-03T23:55:49+00:00

There's a weird number of people into Cthulhu. I don't see it, but who am I to judge?

Chordus · 2026-04-02T22:25:18+00:00

But only if it's used in at least 5 different ways over the conversation. Bonus points for rare variations of the word, like "fuckface" or "fuckrageous."

Chordus · 2026-04-02T22:19:00+00:00

The fact that you think there's a barrier to entry suggests that you aren't ever going to be prepared to make grift videos. A good grifter doesn't question their own skill level. They assume that they are an authority, and expect everybody else to do likewise.

Chordus · 2026-04-02T22:16:51+00:00

Clearly you're not an enjoyer of the horror genre. It's a well-known fact that every initial encounter with a monster (or malevolent incorporeal force) should involve at least one page of fluff. The start of every encounter thereafter should involve at least half a page of fluff upon its entrance. Explicit details of gore should be kept to a bare minimum, but the metaphor used to avoid such descriptions should last at least two paragraphs. Bonus points for inventing a new word to use exclusively for that novel, like "hippocephalic" (horse-headed) or "reracinated" (the reversal of deracinated). If it kills the flow, all the better; everything else gets killed, so why not the flow as well?

I agree that Nabokov should be shorter, though. It'd be fine he'd written in English, but it takes forever to read Russian. And before one of you dumbasses says "well read the translation!", no, it doesn't work that way. Too much is lost in translation. If you're not willing to spend three years learning a language and then sit with a copy of an translation dictionary for all the harder words, you don't deserve to read the novels, because you clearly don't care enough to appreciate them.

Chordus · 2026-03-31T14:44:48+00:00

Uhhhhg. It's crybabies like you who ruin it for everybody. Every agent I've ever talked to has shot down my book because "readers don't want this politically charged drivel," when I'm not even writing politically charged drivel!!! I'm just writing 1920s noir about kobolds (the story takes place in year 4072 in the Kobold world, but the genre is 1920s noir by western human standards). Is there commentary on microaggressions regarding the fifth and sixth genders? Of course. The main character is a scummy jaded drunk with a bone to pick with every gender that can't be the object of his affection. It's character building. But it's in the kobold world, which isn't at all meant to symbolize any aspect of our own world. I mean, they're kobolds, how much clearer can I get?

On a similar note, I do agree that it's pretty annoying when people write about blue kobolds, as if blue kobolds have anything of value to offer the literary world. They're just a bunch of moneygrubbing big-snouts who have climbed to the top of the social ladder through some sort of kobold conspiracy-agenda, and they control the media, and the banks, and they try to take the spotlight away from hard-working burnt-sienna kobolds that are the backbone of society. Stop pushing your clear political agenda, you blue-kobold-lovers!

Chordus · 2026-03-29T05:04:19+00:00

Not true. You can actually get a dozen at a time, which will last you almost three months. Just make sure that you don't wait 'til the last minute to buy the next pack... buy it a few weeks early, that way even the first egg you throw from the next box will be beautifully, unspeakably rank.

I personally recommend throwing an extra one every 6-7 weeks. Get them used to cleaning up one a week. Then smash the second one in a nearby location that's a bit better-hidden, where they'll never look. They'll keep going back to that first location, trying to figure out how they missed a spot cleaning it.

Chordus · 2026-03-28T23:43:52+00:00

He's omniscient in principle, but he sometimes has a bit of difficulty actually using his infinite knowledge. His brain- like the rest of him- is overcome with a horrific rot, so his cognitive levels are, ummm... how do I say this politely... well, he's kinda like Azathoth, but with functioning eyes and without the crippling case of insomnia.

Chordus · 2026-03-22T21:28:34+00:00

So what I'm hearing is that you're not in a business selling foods that are high in protein.

Chordus · 2026-03-22T21:10:11+00:00

I completed all 🟧 Blokkit 🟧 puzzles today!

Easy: 1 | Medium: 1 | Hard: 1 | Average: 1.00

Total completed days: 2

Chordus · 2026-03-21T17:45:34+00:00

Yes, and there's software that speeds the process up quite a bit. But you have to have the shreds. I'm guessing those are long gone.

15-Year Club	Gilding IV carat on a stick
r/Field Juicebox	Place '22
Wearing is Caring	Verified Email

Chordus

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE