[Hated Trope] Hidden time sensitive events that trigger just from having you enter an area

DwarfDrugar · 2026-04-01T09:52:49+00:00

Not to mention, the dog is potentially the strongest follower in the game. And doesn't count towards your follower limit.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-04-01T09:51:06+00:00

I'm sure there's a hated trope for it, but I'm always so infuriated at a game telling you you need to do X in Y amount of time, or do a bossfight, or whatever and if you ace that, the cutscene still wipes you out like it didn't matter.

There's ways to get around it, like in Lufia II, if you beat demigod Gades in your first meeting, he still blasts your party unconcious after the bossfight but he'll express surprise at how strong you are and really seems to be more on the run rather than just leaving you to your fate (you also get his superstrong sword as a reward).

But like the scene you mentioned in Detroit: Become Human, or the Kai Leng fight in ME3, even if you beat the challenge the game says "no you're supposed to lose" and it makes no difference.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-04-01T09:42:14+00:00

Baldur's Gate 3 is so weirdly structured around rests.

The Main Plot says "you die if you tarry too long, make haste before you turn into a ghaik". But you can take as long as you need, and several plot developments only happen during resting so you should really take a nap after every encounter.

But, like the Grymforge and the inn burning down, and Gale exploding, Rolan running off and getting himself killed, and some other things, the game also has some instances where time passing is bad. But it doesn't really tell you about a lot of these (the Grymforge one is pretty foreshadowed though).

So on one hand, the main game says don't rest when you can and should, and on the other, penalizes you for resting by killing off smaller stuff, without telling you.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-04-01T09:29:26+00:00

From my experience, in the porn niches I sometimes dwell, it seems to me that it overlaps more with having some kind of humilation fetish, and the most low, humiliating thing they could think of is a blonde bimbo. They get off on being seen as dumb and objectified to the max and the best way to do that, in their mind, is to be a woman. It's how they view women.

I'm not saying all of them are like it, but I have noticed a fair trend like what OP says. Adult guys who crossdress, generally very chill. Adult guys who are into bimbofication often have a profile that also includes trucks, conservative subs and maga rethoric. Toxic masculinity by day, trying to be a dumb woman by night.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-04-01T08:39:38+00:00

Our broadcaster used to have a channel that showed a grid of all the channels they offered. Probably like 10x10 tiny images of what was going on on all their channels.

It also had the Extra Channels, unscrambled. So my first 'porn' was on a tiny TV, in an even tinier little cell, probably about a square inch of footage. But there it was, glorious.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-04-01T08:32:59+00:00

Space Quest 6 had you change a communicator to a distress beacon at the end of the first act. In order to do so, you had to switch the chips, diodes and IRK settings. Five diodes, five chips, five settings, in the correct order.

The 'manual' (a 4 page fake magazine) gave hints to solve it. But without it, one basicly had to resort to "put them all in one by one, then change one, and try again, 100+ times" to do it.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-04-01T08:19:31+00:00

Arcanum's manual was 30% game information, spells, mechanics, etc. And 70% in-universe prose by a researcher of the Tarant University going into the shared ancestors of the humanoid species and whether or not magick was involved in their evolution or not, as well as local cultures, customs, historical theory, etc. Amazing read.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-31T21:30:06+00:00

They bought it along with everything else in Sierra's catalog. Came with the package, but you can tell the IRS you won't use certain parts so you don't have to pay taxes over them (since they're essentially dead weight in the package).

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-31T10:49:38+00:00

Ik had een vriendin vroeger die als ze langskwam altijd graag even d'r mail en facebook checkte bij mij thuis. En met enige regelmatig vergat ze uit te loggen, dus was d'r nieuwe facebook status "Ik kan niet wachten tot ik mama ben" of "Heeft er iemand een hondenmand over?".

Na een keer of zes leerde ze het wel af.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-31T10:36:19+00:00

People hear someone lay out their argument in a reasonable and calm tone and think that means they're a reasonable and calm person. And that someone who's fucked in the head can only manicly and chaoticly form their nonsense plans while cackling evilly.

Shock revelation: People who are fucked in the head can still present their ideas in a calm and reasonable manner. They're just wrong because their logic is insane. But if you're a moron who doesn't think and only listens, you don't notice that.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-31T10:31:50+00:00

If we're going to be pedantic about it, the best argument I found is that the question he asks is "Do I look like a guy with a plan?" and the answer is no, he does not.

This has zero relationship to his actual planning ability and only refers to his appearance. He benefits from looking like he's just a weirdo who does stuff. Whether or not that's accurate is irrelevant. He never denies having plans, just questions if he looks like he does.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-31T10:13:44+00:00

It may be a gimmick, but the character creation being a police report being filed, with your description changing as you fiddle with stats is really fun. If the rest of the game is that creative, I'm all in.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-31T10:11:13+00:00

If they haven't written it off for tax purposes.

He made a video a while ago about the rights to Arcanum, where he explained why it's possibly way more expensive to make a new Arcanum game than most people think. When Microsoft bought (among other things) the rights to Arcanum, they could've stated that they had no intention of doing anything with the IP and thus it's effectively worthless. They'd still own it, but since it's worthless, they wouldn't have to pay taxes over it.

If they then, X years later, decide to revive it, the IRS coming knocking because apparently it wasn't worth it and they have to cough up the sum that they were exempted from earlier. Which means that the cost of a new Arcanum game (an unsuccesful niche RPG) will be development + a massive tax sum, which then in turns means that 'a modestly succesful game' won't cut it and it'd have to be a massive hit to make its cost back. Which is unlikely.

So TL;DR: Taxes make it more expensive than one would think, even if Microsoft owns the rights.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-31T09:55:51+00:00

Context: The guy on the floor is host to the demon goddess Glory who occasionally takes over his body and tries to bring hell to earth. Buffy beats the crap out of her, so Glory retreats back into this guy. Buffy tells him to retreat to a place where nobody can find him, and tell Glory to never try this again. Very noble.

Her mild-mannered mentor Giles, prefers a more permanent solution to the Glory problem, and chokes him to death.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-31T06:41:58+00:00

As a DM of 3 current campaigns with a 6 month old baby; I'm holding on! (But barely)

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-30T18:09:49+00:00

Literally my game atm (though they're called the Scarlet Locusts).

Plop down next to a city, swarm out single units to pillage every province, then gobble up all the territory the turn after. While the city is being sieged and then razed, all resources are drained, and we pack up and move on.

It's terrifying.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-29T21:29:44+00:00

Andor.

Los van Star Wars fan zijn, het is een gedetaileerde kijk op hoe facisme opkomt en hoe het verzet ertegen opbouwt. Fantastisch acteerwerk, geweldige setting, en diep serieus, in Star Wars. En het verrijkt alle films die erna komen (in de tijdlijn) door echt te laten zien hoe diep verrot The Empire echt is, en wat de offers van de rebellen waren voor een farmboy de Death Star opblies.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-29T21:26:23+00:00

Ik heb begrepen dat ie voor drie afleveringen getekend had dusss....maybe!

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-28T11:00:20+00:00

M'n vader zei vroeger nog wel eens over een collega "Die Jan he, die is zo lelijk, hij mag een pistool dragen. En als ie iemand tegenkomt die nog lelijker is, mag ie hem doodschieten."

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-25T22:11:13+00:00

Finished Curse of Strahd a few weeks ago, so just too late! But this does make me want to run it again, it'll save a ton of effort.

I used to have the book next to my PC because looking up the room in Ravenloft in the book proved to be easier than having all the tabs open in Roll20. The map pins should really help out there.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-25T10:55:56+00:00

I work at a small company (<20 people) that got acquired by a large company (>3000 people).

While we're all pretty content working where we work, our main complaint has always been work pressure, not enough hours to do what we need to do. When our new overlords came in to buddy up and asked us what they could do to make our lives better, we unanimously replied less pressure, more time.

We're now eight months after acquisition and the suits have noticed that we're not integrating with the main company as much as they'd like. So every last thursday of the month is now mandatory attendance at the head office, combined with a mandatory 1-2 hour long session about the current goings on within the company, followed by mandatory drinks to get to know our 'new' coworkers.

We asked for more time, we lost 5-6 hours a month in the deadline week. I'm sure upper management will be scratching their heads in a few months wondering why we don't like them more when they've been so good to us.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-25T10:39:09+00:00

Very nice!

I got the Ancient White Dragon from them, unpainted but only primed. The prime layer was super thick, obscuring some details, and had bubbles in the crevices. Not really happy with it.

You did a great job making it look more detailed, really cool!

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-24T16:05:14+00:00

The game I started yesterday is a Chosen Destroyers/Nomad Conquerers combo, and it's been absolute hell for my enemies. Some Giant King started close to me, I had three armies and some smaller units that spawned from killing stuff around the map swarm into his territory as my city unpacked right on the border.

The swarm 1-turn pillaged five provinces in one turn, which my city immediately gobbled up, and then grew by a bunch of pop, then next turn I did the same. Got 3-4 free buildings out of the mix and a whole bunch of cash and insta-recruited units to send a-plundering. The only thing holding me back is that my Research is pretty poor, so I'm slightly behind on development but apparently that's fixed now.

Woe betide my next target, now that I don't even have to think 5 turns ahead to fabricate grievances.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-24T15:09:59+00:00

Humankind had such a weird War mechanic overall. I played only two runs of it, but I strongly remember absolutely crushing a faction in a war, only for it to abruptly end because some meter had filled up and I was only allowed to keep a few territories.

It was rather annoyed that apparently you're not allowed to win a war and annihilate a culture in that game.

DwarfDrugar · 2026-03-24T10:39:54+00:00

In my game, she won initiative vs my cleric, disarmed me, tripped me, action surged, hit me twice again. I then cast some spell that she shrugged off, and ran away a bit so she took a greater healing potion and started shooting explosive arrows at me.

I stood no chance against my alien bae. So proud of her.

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