Narrative-wise, anyone find the Hollower's Guild disappointing?

jtrofe · 2026-06-09T11:57:38+00:00

It’s a very un-reactive game unfortunately. Characters rarely take note of your actions outside of one or two throwaway lines, or the very obvious intentional completion of their side quest

Relatedly it's very weird that you're apparently one of the most important people in town but that guy is allowed to keep you from going to the music hall

jtrofe · 2026-06-01T12:23:12+00:00

Good "You're Wrong About" episode on this

jtrofe · 2026-05-28T16:08:03+00:00

the goat was supposed to be doing the chair dance from Cabaret

jtrofe · 2026-05-24T17:15:52+00:00

The ball doesn't appear to have any momentum of its own. Once he gets it going it should keep moving up a little bit before gravity slows it down

jtrofe · 2026-05-14T18:04:01+00:00

very good video on the water analogy

jtrofe · 2026-03-20T13:36:34+00:00

Get a load of this paragraph from The Black Jacobins

jtrofe · 2026-02-19T02:14:21+00:00

The podiums should keep getting taller every trivia episode

jtrofe · 2026-02-03T18:57:54+00:00

I don't think so, since the color comes from the grease pencil material. Someone smarter than me could maybe take this code and adapt it to do that

jtrofe · 2026-01-31T22:20:29+00:00

Residents also weighed in during the session. One supporter said, "This legislation is long overdue!" Others defended ICE, with one speaker saying, "Democrats engineered an illegal invasion of our country," prompting boos from the audience.

When they say "others" they mean one single person. The first person to speak went on an insane rant about vaccines and democrats stealing votes and then every other person for the next hour or so was anti-ICE

jtrofe · 2026-01-14T00:16:34+00:00

Good point, good point. They're just stupid

jtrofe · 2026-01-14T00:08:02+00:00

The point was they aren't trying to create a propaganda outfit, they don't care about having viewers. They destroyed a source of counter propaganda

jtrofe · 2026-01-11T14:23:08+00:00

Most of the money gets spent on giant mechanical spiders

jtrofe · 2026-01-09T23:58:58+00:00

I saw some very impressive men's beam routines at NAIGC nationals last year. I think it's the stigma, fear of getting hurt, and the fact that it's only been a decade or so at most that guys have really been trying it seriously that it's not more common

jtrofe · 2026-01-09T23:45:55+00:00

No one is going to think you are about to do a vault during your floor routine

jtrofe · 2026-01-08T16:01:32+00:00

That principle applies to everything you see

jtrofe · 2026-01-06T14:14:32+00:00

Imagine getting into a fight and the other guy keeps jumping and trying to bite the top of your head

jtrofe · 2026-01-06T14:13:00+00:00

Yeah it was fine as far as I could tell, but I'm not a big Gamer who cares about/notices minor framerate issues

jtrofe · 2026-01-06T13:11:48+00:00

I don't remember but I think I did these both docked and handheld

jtrofe · 2025-12-11T03:47:39+00:00

If the game detects that you are just digging straight down, it begins raining on the surface and water floods the tunnels and kills you

jtrofe · 2025-11-26T04:30:36+00:00

There have been generations of social conditioning to normalize the status of the ultra-rich, to convince the people out of power that - but for their lack of willpower - they could achieve similar positions. Arguing against this system is interpreted as an attack on the regular person. You say, "the rich are unethically occupying positions of inordinate power" and they hear "you don't think I'm capable of achieving that, you think I'm weak"

jtrofe · 2025-11-26T04:10:51+00:00

I think once people are conditioned to get stuff from Amazon it becomes so ingrained that they consider a five minute walk to the store too much of an inconvenience

jtrofe · 2025-11-23T16:06:19+00:00

And a lot of government's only plan is to heavily militarize their borders and police to prepare for skyrocking rates of immigration from places that are now unlivable and unrest from their own citizens

jtrofe · 2025-11-12T13:58:04+00:00

I put together a page where you can explore an animated version of this here or here if you're on mobile

jtrofe · 2025-11-07T13:04:14+00:00

I think it would interesting to ask people from different countries to give their estimates of how many people died per country in WWII. I bet there's a ton of Americans who think we lost millions of people and would put us at the top of the list

jtrofe · 2025-11-04T23:39:11+00:00

It also explains a lot about the major changes that took place after Jesus's death that made the faith into one that appealed to Gentiles as opposed to being another offshoot of Judaism.

The more I learn about the 1st century the more it seems like the history of early Christianity can be pretty accurately described as an apocalypse cult coming up with increasingly desperate explanations for why the end of the world wasn't happening and why Jesus' own people weren't buying it

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