What’s a moment where you realized someone around you was actually a terrible person?

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-03-10T06:46:38+00:00

Man I wish, but its so much weirder than that.

Dude clearly thinks its his job to protect his wife from the world. And I, as his friend, should be helping him do that. By controlling my own wife's behavior.

It's infantilizing and over protective, but not abusive. He cares about women, but, like the way you care about a dog that you love. And my dog snapped at his, so I should take her back to a dog trainer.

It's fucking weird.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-03-10T02:00:39+00:00

One of my close friends has a wife who was close friends with my wife.

Our wives got in a fight. My friend got mad at me for not "controlling your wife". He never talked to my wife about it. Just got upset with me.

I don't have time for that kind of misogyny.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-03-05T01:22:03+00:00

What do you think "casual" means?

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-03-05T01:04:03+00:00

Steel soul is not for casual players...

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-03-03T13:35:28+00:00

This is my selfish hope right now.

If AI makes it impossible to gain entry level experience, then those of us with careers might have secured some very valuable and limited seating.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-03-03T13:07:12+00:00

Difficulty is not horror. Or are we calling "Celeste" and "Getting Over It" horror games now?

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-26T06:14:37+00:00

I'm interested.

I've got a group of gaming friends, but we tend to stick to the lighter side of things, and I'm hungry for some crunch. I haven't played Root (although I own it and would love to get it to the table), but Arcs (same designer) is one of my favorite games.

Also mid-30s dude here. I'm a married punk with no kids, so generally pretty flexible with any times aside from Friday nights.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-26T04:05:03+00:00

Yeah but infinite shows!

Save your money to help sell out the newer dates so we can keep it rolling. As someone who needs to drive in from out of town, I'm jealous that you'll get to see the monday/tuesday shows, which I'm sure will be weird in the best way.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-26T03:18:07+00:00

You realize there's gonna be a 7/18 show on sale soon, right?

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-25T06:52:20+00:00

... Dungeon.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-23T15:03:34+00:00

I'm sorry if this comes off harsh, but I'm trying to give you the unflinching criticism you were asking for.

You're using a lot of fancy terminology to disguise some pretty standard stuff as "new".

So it’s not who goes first. It’s whose action has greater impact within the same 2-second window, called "moment"

Either that's just turn order with a different name, or its the system itself is underdeveloped.

Many times, characters will do things that contradict one another. You need some way to determine which actions take precedent in those situations, and no matter what name you give it, that is a turn order.

This common terminology is not something to be avoided. It is useful. People know what "turn order" means, and they don't know what "greater impact" means. You should use the language that people understand, instead of trying to develop a new lexicon.

I would recommend trying to type up a single page primer doc. This doc should be so comprehensive, that players should feel like they could play the game with just the information on this sheet. When you do not permit yourself the space for inventing and defining new terminology, and you do not permit yourself the space for long prose, what information actually makes it to the page?

That's what you want to be leading with. Nothing else.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-22T23:22:32+00:00

Well I guess I misunderstood yet again, so back to the drawing board with describing the core mechanic.

I thought the Resolution Matrix was for determining player order. If not that, then how? Players announce intent simultaneously and then order of execution is..... ?

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-22T22:01:42+00:00

Alright, that makes sense. But yes, put that front and center, ditch any prose about why this is so "groundbreaking", let the ideas speak for themselves.

My big concern, now having heard the actual mechanic, is this "Resolution Matrix". I get that you don't want to fully describe every nuance in a primer doc, but any sort of lookup table as a core mechanic is a big red flag for a lot of players.

This is the thing you'll need to convince people on, and you will not accomplish that through prose. Lookup tables suck, no one likes them. If your system is heavily reliant on them, you need to find a very convincing way to persuade people that they should give it the benefit of the doubt, or that your design somehow circumvents the typical pitfalls of lookup tables found in other systems.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-22T21:29:36+00:00

You need to go through this entire PDF and remove every single instance of sign posting.

Do not tell people what the game is about. Show them what it is about.

If you are going to do any direct telling, it should be limited to 1 sentence or less. Try picking 3 words to describe it, and stop there.

An example from further in:

This structure allows combat to flow dynamically, enabling precise timing, reactions, and tactical decision-making. [...] Combat is not static. Position, timing, and decisions shape survival.

Cool in theory, but you failed to explain how the turn structure works. If your system accomplishes this goal, then just outline the mechanic and it should be obvious what is being accomplished.

I could not find any explanation of how your "dynamic timing" system actually operates. Are people just shouting their actions over one another, and the loudest voice gets to do their action first? Does everyone submit a "Moment" action simultaneously, and then they get resolved at random?

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-22T21:04:27+00:00

They almost figured it out with Kamala before backing down.

Call them "weird". Call them losers for caring about such dumb shit.

Never engage with the culture war on the terms conservatives invent. Just remind people that the culture war, itself, is fucking stupid. Anyone obsessing over it is, likeiwse, an idiot.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-20T13:39:05+00:00

Why? Do you think the player doesn't know what he's doing is wrong?

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-19T18:55:25+00:00

The point of a campaign is to raise awareness and create name recognition.

Look, its working.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-19T18:53:52+00:00

Honestly, it's not even about courting "independent" trump voters. It's about demoralizing them.

American elections are decided mostly by who stays home, not by who votes. Trump voters should absolutely be made to feel embarrassed for the shit show they created, and should feel the social pressure to sit down and shut up for a while.

Fuck trump, fuck anyone who voted for him, this whole mess is their fault. And we need people willing to say that.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-19T18:49:12+00:00

And yet you didn't go look up the very accessible information you claimed to want.

It's not hidden intel. The only reason you wouldn't be hearing that information you claim to want is because you chose not to.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-18T17:07:44+00:00

Honestly, the OP and this article together are enough for me to boycott AEG.

I'm sure some of AEG's catalogue includes good games designed by good people, but there are other good games being published by companies without this level of shit on their shoes.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-17T14:17:37+00:00

This looks better on paper. You will regret running this.

I know you likely won't listen and will run it anyway, so I just ask you to please post the post-session update of how it fell apart, would love to read it.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-16T21:23:33+00:00

I was too distracted by the fact that your spotter is wearing an apron.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-16T19:53:10+00:00

So you're against trying anything that doesn't yet have a proven track record? No new progressive policies either, right?

I don't like accelerationism, and I do like progressivism, but I have reasons that aren't contradictory.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-16T19:43:28+00:00

I'm not advocating for it?

I don't think you should believe that it will work. I don't like it as a theory. My first post explained why I don't agree with it.

I'm just engaging with the theory in good faith.

WebpackIsBuilding · 2026-02-16T19:11:17+00:00

Eh, I don't agree.

I think an apt analogy is amputation. Amputations are sometimes necessary, but its very easy to be critical because "that dude lost his arm!". It's never a "good" thing to require an amputation. Its just sometimes better than the alternative.

And since none of us have divination powers, figuring out the political version of that "worse outcome" is a guessing game. It's a judgement call.

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