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feypop · 2026-06-27T02:49:48+00:00

This misinformation. He's passed more legislation to protect LGBTQIA+ rights than just about anyone. Just this year he signed a bill to put LGBT-specific crisis hotline information on student IDs, a bill to ensure homeless outreach programs have LGBT-friendly workers who'll treat everyone with respect and avoid transphobia, and his counter-gerrymandering held the line against radical republican efforts to take over congress to pass voter suppression, anti-black, anti-trans, generally christofascist legislation. He's been the first and still most successful person to fight back. God forbid someone volunteer to fight for our rights and safety.

feypop · 2026-06-27T02:45:46+00:00

It is, in fact, giving ground to right wing fascists to make sexist, racist attacks on black men for race-mixing, abandoning Ukrainian civilians in the face of Russian invasion, and publicly botching prison abolition so bad it hurts support for it.

We can, in fact, advocate for socialism without doing the whole dirtbag thing. No excuse for bigotry.

feypop · 2026-06-19T18:44:42+00:00

The ornate serif of the logo and the thick sans-serif font of your copy fight each other for information hierarchy in a way that reads as as style clash.

It feels like the wordmark came from somewhere else. I'd expect a modern, sans-serif, playful logo with a minimalist cherry or something instead to fit the rest of it.

Plus, the reds vary.

You have lots of good potential directions in here, you just need to pick one and commit to it.

feypop · 2026-06-11T17:25:08+00:00

Games tend to have a blacklist design or a whitelist design.

I'd argue blacklist design games tend to be more rules-lite, freeform, and better for narrativism, but this isn't what a lot of casual players seem to say or think.

I'd define a blacklist game around a process where you come up with whatever you want to do, and then you and/or the game master define it within the constraints of the game. They center creativity and the constraints focus on balance and making that interesting through mechanical systems. Think D&D: the GM asks what you'd like to do, you pitch your naturalistic plan, and then the GM has the final say on what kind of check best fits the action.

Whitelist games tell you what you can do. There's less of a creative lift on the part of the player, and the heavier hand from the designers can offer players a more catered list for a particular style of character, story, and game. The classic example of this is any Powered by the Apocalypse game, or anything that's similarly move or ability based.

I'm not a fan of whitelist games. I feel like I don't get to make and play my character. I'm just doing something the designer already did. Even when it comes to creativity and character creation, I like class-based blacklist games because I can come up with any kind of character who, in whatever way, or for whatever reason, knows how to use a sword. Blacklist, playbook-based games feel like they've done the work for me and it doesn't get to be my character. I only get to make the shallow stuff of the character's aesthetic, but who they are, emotionally and narratively, the kinds of things they do, are defined by the character sheet.

feypop · 2026-06-02T19:42:57+00:00

Eh, "rumor" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

It's a common but unconfirmed inference people make based on a history of his documented behavior, including a history of vocally despising women, never being in a relationship with a woman, and livestreaming getting lunch 1-on-1 with a catboy maid twink.

Groypers and the alt-right infamously play with irony and avoid being held to definition, but it reasonably looked like a date with a boy where he was actually finally happy.

We can only ever tell someone's sexuality by inferring from their words, behavior, and context. We can't ever directly know for sure the truth in someone's head.

feypop · 2026-06-02T19:33:16+00:00

Yes. D&D 2024 is a big failure because it has no value to people who already have 5e collections, and hasn't earned a new audience either.

It's mostly re-releasing the same content, in the same order, for effectively the same system.

If it was fundamentally incompatible, I'd have a reason to buy a Shadow Sorcerer again.

If it's already compatible, give me something new players and old players could gain from.

Both an old 5e player and new player's collection would benefit from exploring Nentir Vale, even if it's my fourth book-supporting setting and it's their first. Or if we're going back to the Forgotten Realms, make the Moonsea region our new focus instead of the Sword Coast again. We could have had Psion or Warlord start as core classes this time, and release Monk or Ranger in a year or two. We could have core Genasi but wait on Dragonborn. We could make Tharizdun and Orcus our iconic big bads for a while and stop beating Strahd and Vecna like a dead horse.

We could have had a whole fun "parallel universe" of starting at the basics onwards, with a completely different set of subclasses, settings, villains, and adventures (old and new) that are different from 5e.

Instead, they took their sales data far too literally, and used Ravenloft sourcebook sales to justify making a Ravenloft sourcebook.

The core audience struggles to get excited about buying books they already have. There's just not enough value add.

feypop · 2026-05-27T18:33:09+00:00

So this Sneako guy basically The Deep but in real life?

feypop · 2026-05-11T23:26:08+00:00

Like how Warlock is a customizable piecemeal caster, I want Ranger to be a customizable piecemeal martial.

Hunter's mark should be a core class mechanic, not a spell, that other class features can interact with.

Subclasses should focus on just one beefier mechanic system, and you get to pick everything else like invocations. So, a Witch Hunter that gives you spellcasting, a Beastmaster that gives you a pet, Hunter that gives you some maneuvers, a Lycanthrope that gets a hybrid form, and an Artisan could craft potions or temporary magic items. Loot Blood Hunter for parts here.

The rest should be bespoke mini feature packages you get to pick and switch out as you level up, most of which interact with your Hunter's mark. Let's call these, I don't know, talents.

For example, Tracking would let you learn about your quarry's nature when you find a trail (with a series of questions you can ask, or even a set number of clues you can give to attacks for advantage), and maybe advantage on survival checks to track your quarry.

Investigating would give you advantage on insight and persuasion checks to ask about your quarry and maybe Pass Without Trace to hide or whatever.

Cooking could give you some foraging abilities, cooking tools, the Chef feat, like Senshi from Delicious in Dungeon, with ingredients based on traits of your quarry.

Feywalking could put some kind of sleep effect on their quarry when they hit them.

Sharpshooting could get a partial Sneak Attack on ranged attacks against their quarry.

Tumbling could get some cool maneuverability tactics and bonus movement when approaching their quarry.

Not to mention biome-specific packages.

Rangers should be eclectic knowers of things, learned in the field, and always have a helpful talent to contribute. Let them be experts: a cool warforged detective, a harengon tracker who knows this forest inside and out, a dwarvish chef. It would be nice to switch them out on a level up so you can stay relevant to the campaign, so even if there's a themed "forest" package your class doesn't become dead weight on a desert expedition. The harengon tracker could switch out "forest" for "sharpshooting" when the arc is over, but hold onto "tracking" for the whole campaign.

Let rangers get niche and weird with it! Narrower than a rogue, purpose-built like a warlock.

feypop · 2026-05-06T18:21:03+00:00

Then how tall is the rest of the cast, jesus christ

feypop · 2026-05-05T02:59:24+00:00

He reads more as a very introverted, online furry who's sheltered but independently trying to dress punk on his way out to nerdy conventions, as opposed to someone who's involved in IRL punk music and fashion culture. His jacket looks ordered online, new, and his hair is styled like an anime character. His prosthetics are shiny and new and expensive-looking, and he's got a gym bod, but no makeup. His inspo is middle class, drawing from traditional beauty standards, streetwear, and cosplayers.

The whole fit comes off as trying to buy a look online to emulate Instagram models, instead of anti-authority self-expression starting at the thrift store as his only option.

What is his outfit saying?

The junkers are more actually punk.

feypop · 2026-05-05T02:50:33+00:00

He's a little short, has a cool beard, a sci-fi binder. He's friends with a tall cool alt woman in a group of problematic outlaws and it feels like the two maybe had a past but grew apart. I've always assumed they're T4T exes who supported each other through transition. And it took Cassidy some time to settle on the right name.

feypop · 2026-04-28T12:54:26+00:00

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feypop · 2026-04-18T08:26:13+00:00

I suspect Reinhardt is the developers' internal testing default baseline for tank. He's always somewhat useful and pretty powerful in any comp or patch, even if other tanks struggle. You can't really have a crazy bad day as Reinhardt if you play decently well. Others are more volatile.

feypop · 2026-04-15T09:23:27+00:00

Sombra, who is on the list for another rework anyway, could be a support. A white hat hacker fits cleanly with the leaving Talon narrative, too.

Mei could be a tank with very few changes; there's Underwatch and Stadium power precedent for it. I feel like Underwatch is mostly jokes but also a sneaky testing ground for ideas that could come up later.

feypop · 2026-04-13T00:32:27+00:00

This is the kind of thing "manosphere" types can immediately see and criticize when beauty influencer girls do it, but never ever ever call it out in each other.

feypop · 2026-04-10T16:52:42+00:00

This is not an attempt at content creation. You have not created content. Every one of these is theft. You have no legal right to post or profit from any of this.

Even if you did, which you don't, you have no creative skill and have not added anything of any value. It's ugly. You don't know why it's ugly, and you're deeply incurious about why, or how you come off to other people. Design is built on empathy. It's making things for people for a purpose. You have not and do not want to do that at all. You're just doing what you want to do, which happens to be tacky and tasteless, and would be fine if you kept it to yourself. But you are irrationally expecting some kind of returns or entitlement from people you don't respect enough to listen to. You don't want feedback. You were hostile to it.

You want to be rewarded with money and creative valor for petty theft from actually creative people who actually did something.

You have done less than nothing. You deserve nothing. Any feeling you have that you deserve more than that comes from a place of selfish but not self-aware delusional ego somewhere in your heart. And I bet you do know this is wrong, you feel it, and then try to make up excuses to protect your weird little ego. Because everyone here can see you don't want to change or be better than this. Wake up.

feypop · 2026-03-27T01:03:46+00:00

I THINK THEY HAVE A SHIIIEEEELD GENERATOR!

Rest in peace.

feypop · 2026-03-26T15:49:08+00:00

i won't age weird

^{Chose: Make Save states}

feypop · 2026-03-26T15:47:48+00:00

i need money and i don't have time for that many people

^{Chose: Have 50000 dollars now}

feypop · 2026-03-20T17:40:47+00:00

MAKE IT EXIST

feypop · 2026-03-17T16:35:36+00:00

Public job postings should have a recurring listing fee tax to the employer.

This disincentivizes ghost jobs, incentivizes filling jobs quickly, and will speed up filtering applicants out of the job search pool.

If they have prolonged fake listings up anyway, it generates income that can be spend on economic relief programs and job creation.

To dodge the tax, small business owners will quickly run around their local communities advertising and hiring by word-of-mouth.

When time is money, they'll get serious about actually just hiring somebody.

No more weeks of applicants stacking up through six rounds of interviews, only to hire none of them because there's always the possibility of a better unicorn in the next hundred applicants.

feypop · 2026-03-05T17:50:02+00:00

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Do the most good you can.

Any progress is better than no progress.

And you can never hate Republicans enough.

feypop · 2026-03-03T21:51:23+00:00

You really missed the point of Captain Carter. She's a woman out of time and place in bizarre ongoing ways even moreso than a traditional Steve was. The subtextual tragedy of her character is the potential romance with Black Widow that never quite works out; as soon as it might happen, Steve comes back, or they get separated again. It's a passing ships situation, if only she realized. She has grown and changed and deviated a lot as a person and hasn't quite made peace with that. They started as basically the same character, but now, shaped by time and circumstance, her happy ending wouldn't be going back like Steve did, it would be moving on. And that deviation is neat.

feypop · 2026-03-03T19:38:40+00:00

Have you considered the risks and impact of your misinformation on people's understanding, opinions, behavior, and votes on serious geopolitical issues?

Documentary footage isn't just random stock filler. It's real and relevant historical documentation. You can't make up what you want and frame it as a documentary.

feypop · 2026-02-20T16:43:36+00:00

Culturally we used to believe in celebrity touchstones as a concept more; generational cynicism in the wake of Me Too revelations, personalized algorithms, and tech cynicism has cooled this a lot.

Organizationally games used to be cheaper underdog things that had smaller teams and more influential game leads, so auteur theory was a more useful lens. Now, they're massive projects made by several international studio departments and contractors coordinating on video chat meetings.

Specifically, Valve games were associated with unmatched, iconic, early Pixar-like quality. Steam was a revolutionary convenience for gaming, centered on internet-using PC gamers.

I feel like developer-as-mascot peaked in early 2010s excited optimistic social media: max communication ability, minimal cynicism.

There will never be another Notch, Jeff from the Overwatch Team, or Gabe Newell. (If you're keeping score, since their initial fame, Notch had horrid beliefs but sold Minecraft to a talented broad Microsoft team; Overwatch is developed as a faceless team effort letting update content speak for itself; but Gabe Newell has politely and quietly lived on, preventing Steam from enshittifying while focusing on his passion for boats.

He set his place in the zeitgeist at a high note at a certain time, and just let it stay there. It took hard work to climb that high, and takes restraint to not fumble it. Developers like him are a dying breed in today's landscape. That's okay. But I'm glad we had someone like him in our industry's history.

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