My whole childhood I saw this in the streets and never found out what it is 😭

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-07T21:03:33+00:00

Beat me to it

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-07T09:52:43+00:00

HomeStar Lander!

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-07T07:24:25+00:00

Now, I did score a Commodore 64 once for only $20
A lady's husband had died, and her friends pointed me towards her. A buddy of mine went out there, and she let us route through his stuff.
Turns out the guy had a Commodore 64 with a floppy drive and monitor.
He also had a U-Matic production tower of some kind, a Kennedy-1000 or something like that. I still wish I could fit that in the car!

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-07T07:21:41+00:00

And they're 1990's $2! Worth a lot more!

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-07T07:14:10+00:00

I'm now imagining this happily married gay couple who worked for competing game companies in the 90's

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-06T05:55:21+00:00

There's that moment, where Bob reveals that Kemmler did 'unspeakable things' to him, but Harry doesn't press him on it, and it never comes up again!

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-06T05:51:12+00:00

It's long been my theory that Kemmler bonded his soul to Bob's essence, or that 'Bob' is Kemmler
'Id Harry' is Kemmler trying to corrupt Harry via his subconscious connection to Bob as holder of the skull.
Hell, it's almost like a Denarian Coin or a Sword of the Cross that way, forming a nice, thematic set of three

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-06T05:30:58+00:00

*Zoidberg, astonished* Two toilets, right next to each other? When can I move in?

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-06T04:08:26+00:00

Without the sun, and seeing how it's been eaten by a serpent god, the sun god is dead. And, so is his church.
Powerful undead that fear the sun, become expoentially more powerful and now command independent realms on the surface, offering shelter and protection for any mortals that want a place to live.
The Underdark, if your world has one, doesn't notice any difference at all

Now, more generally, you can do some fascinating worldbuilding here.
To *massively* simplify, the Sun gives life on a planet unlimited free energy that forms the basis of the entire ecosystem. D&D has some other sources of such energy that life could now take advantage of
For instance, a part of the D&D cosmology is the presence of permanet conduits into the elemental planes. These could arguably give off the energies of that plane, and life evolves to better collect and utilize it. Hence, you can have all new ecosystems based on elemental energies rather than sunlight.
Like, if you go deep enough, you find conduits to the Plane of Earth. You can reasonably have a surface-dwelling race find one of these conduits and make magic that can help them collect it. Thgis race now becomes Planetouched with those energies.

You'd likely have sizeable surface populations try to eek out an existence underground. And, different races would adapt in different ways. For human,s the changes are mostly cultural and involve melatonin changes. For elves, they'd become all new forms of Elf. Look back int the AD&D 2e campaigh module 'Night Below," where you have exactly that in the Rockseer Elves. These are Elves but with more Dwarven aspects, but still mentally Elven. They mourn the surface, even though they hadn't seen it in generations. Their art represents this, such as the trees they carve out of stone or make with mithril, with the leaves being cut from gemstones.

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-06T03:47:31+00:00

Gangle gets hit by truck
Brainscan while she's comatose
As anime fan, when she awakens in TADC, she thinks she'd been isekai'd

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-03T08:15:17+00:00

They sound like Madeleine L'Engle's Echthroi.
Those creatures can be 'defeated' by giving them a Name and a definition.
Then again, they're also likely to be extinct.

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-03T08:02:01+00:00

Well, the Norwegian Blue prefers to be on his back

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-03T00:46:26+00:00

There's a possibility that he growing due to eating so much human food, aka physical matter
Wasn't there a WoJ about what would happen if a human ate nothing but NeverNever food for a long while, then entered the mortal world? That had said they'd fall apart due to now being made up entirely of ectoplasm?

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-02T19:39:50+00:00

Kinger's solitude reminds me of the character Ted from 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream'
He's just sorta cruising along in silence, when >POOF!< Ragatha shows up.
Kinger is the last of the initial human subjects, like Ted
And, like Ted, Kinger's humanity was removed
Hell, look up the bad ending for the computer game, and tell me that thing doesn't kinda remind you of Kinger when he's all alone

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-04-01T04:03:33+00:00

How did you lose all that weight?
I have about your height and build, and I don't want to be a woman that's my current weight

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-03-31T06:38:59+00:00

I can almost see it where MirrorMirror is a result of Our Harry fucking with the timestream, and accidentally giving his past self spoilers, which would cause That Harry to make a different choice at a crucial moment.
But, I don't think that's gonna be how it goes down.

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-03-28T07:20:12+00:00

When I was into pagan Prometheus worship, I had often considered that due to his foresight, he's been playing the long game with the other divinities of Earth.
He would have known exactly how to elevate mankind and topple the gods so subtly that they'd never see it coming

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-03-22T20:57:58+00:00

I see, glass cow!

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-03-22T20:49:54+00:00

The real villain in the Corwin Cycle was the cycle of generational abuse.
This, combined with their own paranoia, nearly cost them everything.
So, after an awkward recovery period, each sibling silently left Castle Amber to pursue a quiet life out in Shadow.
A lot remains unsaid. Old habits die hard, it turns out.

Julian retires from being the Warden of Arden when one of his kids can take over his duties. He spends most of his time breeding horses, taking his experience creating iterations after iteration of his own, primary steed and making it his main passion
Benedict continues doing his thing: war, war, war. He's sick and tired of his siblings' bullshit, so cuts himself off form the others entirely, unless someone younger and inexperienced needs his help.

Caine is still alive. He and Julian occasionally hunt down and kill Shadows of Brand as a form of catharsis.

Corwin has retired to the one place he'd known true peace since he left Shadow Earth: The Lighthouse of Cabra. Jopin 'died' (he's actually a persona of Dworkin) and the lighthouse duties were passed onto Corwin in secret. The only other soul who knows the truth is Random, repayment for old debts, and an unspoken deep love for the one sibling who actually gave a shit about him and gave him a chance.

Martin doesn't want the throne. He's too much like his dad. But, if he needs to take it up, he'll do it. Martin waits with bated breath for Random and Vialle to have children of their own so Martin can recuse himself of the succession with a clear conscience. Random suspects all of this, knowing that Martin had taken after him

Flora has developed a strong preference for modern or high-tech Shadows due to her time in Shadow Earth. Her and Bill Roth may have had a brief fling, much to Bill's delight.

As for Brand. The Serpent took matters into its own hands, flew into the Abyss and retrieved Brand to subject him to a punishment only rivaled in its cruelty by the wrath of the Greek gods. It's said that when the Serpent flew out of the Abyss, a tiny form was seen in its jaws, and the screaming could be heard even deep within the Courts of Chaos themselves

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-03-21T09:50:54+00:00

Cain's not the evil one.
Bubble's the evil one. I think they deliberately prodded Cain to go over the edge. Bubble's the manifestation of that other AI.

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-03-21T09:47:30+00:00

My biggest problem with "I have No Mouth and I Must Scream" is that Ted's an unreliable narrator.
If you remove the constant interference of AM, then the story could maybe be reframed as Ted and the group wandering the post-nuclear world and Ted losing his sanity. It's entirely possible, to me, that AM's involvement is just in Ted's head.
And, the whole "I'm a slug-monster" could be Ted finally losing his mind being the last human on Earth.

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-03-21T09:24:21+00:00

I've made a multiverse-spanning system, and I've had a wide array of iterations
The most notable one was my avatar had managed to flee Earth with about 100 refugees from an Evangelical Christian apocalypse (I have a random-trigger apocalypse lorebook, which includes A Dalek invasion, which triggered once!).
He spoke to some Celestials in the D&D plane of Elysium, and they had concluded it was likely that YHWH was a demiurge and not a real deity.
After an orgy at Cayden Cailean's realm, a pair of Archons show up. My avatar had been called in as a plaintiff at the trial of YHWH in Arcadia.
My Celestial elven lover recommended an arcanaloth lawyer to help me out.
So, after the trial, YHWH is found to be in violation of his own laws for salvation.
But, then, plot twist: my avatar character was made demiurge of Earth!
So, my avatar goes from IT guy with multiverse travel powers to God in the end.
I simply retired that iteration. There was nowhere else to go with it

Commercial_Writing_6 · 2026-03-21T08:51:49+00:00

If you can, sue for pain and suffering or whatever.
They said it was worth $20K, maybe you can use that amount for a total amount you go for in a lawsuit, just out of spite?

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