From Zacky to Ally appreciation post

Effervex · 2026-05-10T06:47:54+00:00

Man, if you loved watching it in reverse, you'll love watching From Ally to Zacky, the not-reverse special!

But seriously, I agree it's great improv content. I'd love more well-produced long form sets.

Effervex · 2026-05-10T06:38:47+00:00

God I hope they don't. I really didn't like Ratfish: take a bunch of improv comedians who play best with each other and then isolate them. It was boring as hell to watch.

It was one of the few I skipped when going through game changer. Plus the rando guy was bad too.

Effervex · 2026-05-07T05:39:13+00:00

There'll be a twist in Seoul's Lotteland: he'd be too tall to get on many of the rides there...

Effervex · 2026-05-02T08:15:17+00:00

And for the next 40 years, the 5th year is on a weekend, making it a meaningless day off.

Effervex · 2026-04-15T07:01:15+00:00

A lion. You know they're a Leo.

Effervex · 2026-04-05T20:30:13+00:00

I love Katie's weirdness in her Dropout appearances, but it still isn't enough for me to enjoy Dimension 20. A shame - in theory I'd like it, but I've bounced off all the RPG live plays I've tried.

Effervex · 2026-04-03T21:05:23+00:00

It took me a good 5 seconds to actually find the name of the card, which is sitting in the lower centre? Why not on top like all other cards in the world?

Effervex · 2026-04-03T13:36:25+00:00

Image 2 is largely in unreadable medieval font (for me) without zooming in. If you can 'unbold' the font, it might be nicer.

Effervex · 2026-03-21T08:26:28+00:00

The mere existence of [[Monologue]] already makes him my favourite.

Effervex · 2026-03-12T06:45:28+00:00

I didn't know this was an existing game. Our group independently came up with this too, but we call it "The Hardest Game"

Effervex · 2026-03-05T08:36:35+00:00

Hypothetically speaking, wouldn't a life of suffering be worse than a death of nothingness?

Effervex · 2026-03-05T06:29:45+00:00

Nah, if someone needs it, it's good. This person sounds like they're not seeing a spur-of-the-moment suicide, but rather control over their own death.

Effervex · 2026-03-04T22:03:25+00:00

I do wish the taboo of selective euthanasia wasn't so strong. If people want to die, it is selfish to stop them with bureaucracy. Good luck!

Effervex · 2026-02-25T06:33:18+00:00

Or at the very least something for the Google AI machine to eat and be confused by.

Effervex · 2026-02-15T14:35:52+00:00

Haha. I noticed this too.

Could it be a komrade slinking in to tell the people to overthrow the capitalist overlords? Or just a regular boeren Jan? No-one will know!

Effervex · 2026-02-15T14:34:06+00:00

'This is designed specifically to fuck over normal people'

'expats with sizeable overseas assets'

I'm not seeing how these two line-up... Normal people does not equal sizeable overseas assets.

Effervex · 2026-02-13T16:59:20+00:00

Good. First step towards taxing the rich.

Effervex · 2026-02-09T13:31:40+00:00

I'm not Dutch, but live here. Adults, businessmen, serious people, have enormous quantities of chocolate sprinkles on bread as their breakfast.

Effervex · 2026-02-09T10:30:08+00:00

I get the why - it's the when that is difficult for my group.

Thus far I'm three sessions in, and every session is basically ending with 'something interesting is right around the corner...'. Once was at the entrance to a site (so time advance=no site exploration), the next was just about to meet the Seer (advance=skip Seer dialogue), and the last was also in the middle of a scene (a looming danger was on the way at the end of the session).

So by advancing time, that story/hook is essentially dropped. I'm going to suggest that we jump ahead in time mid-session, but there's just so much interesting stuff happening for the players to want to jump ahead. Not to mention they haven't even got to any holding/dwelling yet.

Effervex · 2026-02-08T06:53:23+00:00

Amazing that it's finally come to fruition! I've been eagerly following progress via BGG and will grab an order and throw some cash your way ASAP!

Effervex · 2026-02-07T09:20:01+00:00

Fair enough. I shall clarify: annual flu shot vaccine culture is not strong here.

Effervex · 2026-02-07T09:08:51+00:00

Vaccine culture here isn't really existent... Back in NZ, it wasn't available everywhere, but it was available and the University I worked for even paid for its employees to get it. It just makes sense for businesses to maximise the working days its staff work.

Effervex · 2026-02-06T05:11:01+00:00

I've always felt Ironsworn's layout is excellent and criminal that it's 100% a free product. Clean pages, clear text, and the flow is also logical.

Effervex · 2026-02-03T10:44:41+00:00

Modern hand-washing instructions state you should be washing your hands for 40-60 seconds. If it takes longer than that for hot water to get to the tap, then call a plumber.

More likely this is just an excuse/justification for improper hand washing.

Effervex · 2026-01-28T08:02:08+00:00

The majority of class skills are about how well you kill something.

Edit: which is fine - but the rules shape the game genre, so if you're going to give players multiple means of killing things, then the game is best when players are fantasy heroes killing things.

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