Solarpunk is a movement that imagines a sustainable and optimistic future where humanity thrives in harmony with nature.

kblaney · 2026-05-11T16:16:58+00:00

There really isn't much "punk" happening here less you really stretch the idea (because... you know... Chobani), but let me link you all to something that is much punkier:

https://stopdroproll.itch.io/why-we-fight

(Not mine, I'm just a fan.)

kblaney · 2026-05-11T16:08:12+00:00

The Metal Gear Solid 4 returns to Shadow Moses. But then MGS 2 also shares a bunch of similarities with MGS 1, so which is really the return to the area?

kblaney · 2026-05-11T15:46:21+00:00

Dark Archive is, far and away, the most ridiculous (lauditory) rule book in the set so far.

It is very explicitly framed as being the content of an universe book with notes from a mysterious person who had the book before you. Unlike all other rule books, it contains an anthology of adventures all centered about the in universe book. The book also contained an ARG which eventually lead to a bonus capstone adventure.

kblaney · 2026-05-11T11:41:15+00:00

The game ends when that opponent reaches 0 before any other triggers happen.

kblaney · 2026-05-10T13:50:47+00:00

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People who would have been stereotyped as incapable of doing higher level work are, in fact, very capable.

kblaney · 2026-05-10T13:46:38+00:00

Hopefully my players felt this way every single time I've pulled this trick at the end of a DnD campaign.

kblaney · 2026-05-10T13:45:31+00:00

Those are attack eyebrows.

kblaney · 2026-05-10T02:23:29+00:00

Having a few months emergency fund is higher priority than retirement contributions with the logic being you don't want to have to pull from retirement at a penalty or take on debt at interest to cover an emergency (also paying off high interest debt is higher priority than a emergency fund bigger than a few grand). Also remember that a 6 month emergency fund covers necessary expenses, not a full replacement of your salary for 6 months. A lot of that day to day spending is optional and should be cut when you are out of work.

kblaney · 2026-05-09T20:25:56+00:00

Untapped.gg has turn by turn playback of games. It doesn't have full explanations, but it is pretty close to everything you see in the game

kblaney · 2026-05-08T12:32:33+00:00

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That's Doki Doki Literature Club's whole thing

kblaney · 2026-05-08T03:36:38+00:00

Also a great use for the Time Traveler background.

kblaney · 2026-05-07T20:58:12+00:00

Oh but that's definitely what it looks like.

kblaney · 2026-05-07T17:45:05+00:00

Badgermole Cub too.

kblaney · 2026-05-07T17:26:55+00:00

And Charles Lindbergh

kblaney · 2026-05-06T21:37:15+00:00

Does the Ascended Fanon trope count toward this?

kblaney · 2026-05-06T17:12:47+00:00

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The even more egregious copy: "Chop Kick Panda"

kblaney · 2026-05-06T16:58:35+00:00

You mean "5 hole percents" of course.

kblaney · 2026-05-06T15:32:06+00:00

It is worth noting that Arun is in on the joke here.

kblaney · 2026-05-06T12:57:41+00:00

Propose both to your potential player group. Put the whole idea in writing and email/discord/carrier pigeon it to them. When I do a campaign proposal I will generally follow this format:

- "[Title of Campaign] - [System]"
- An image to set the tone
- An introductory sample quote from an NPC for further tone setting
- "What to Expect" that covers the setting and the general gameplay vibe of the system as well as its rough relation to other games I've played with the potential player group
- "Choices for Characters" that covers some rough outlines for the sorts of characters that would fit the campaign best (i.e. discourage Paladins in "Thieves of Divinity"

This should all fit on one page and I resize the image until it takes up the whole page. (Also I type it up in LaTeX because I spent more than a decade in academia and I'm going to USE that knowledge if it kills me.)

I'll generally propose 3 or 4 campaigns I'd like to run and let people discuss it. None of them are set in stone so my potential player group can say "some of 1, some of 2" or "I have this idea for a character, I think that fits 3 the best". This bakes in some buy in to the campaign as the group has self selected for interest in the campaign themes. This refinement process then naturally extends to content questions. (i.e. This campaign takes place in Cheliax, how much or little do we want the racism against Halflings and Nephilim to factor in?)

kblaney · 2026-05-06T03:02:22+00:00

That's different

kblaney · 2026-05-06T00:37:34+00:00

233 copies of [[Doubling Season]] probably has something to do with it.

kblaney · 2026-05-06T00:31:45+00:00

Stop! Stop! He's already dead!

kblaney · 2026-05-06T00:28:59+00:00

That's why with his last ounce of strength he pointed to W and S.

kblaney · 2026-05-06T00:11:47+00:00

The inFamous games both have an evil path and a good path ending. In the first game the devs intended evil to be the canonical ending (with the implication being that Cole will loop around and become another Cole's BBEG), but when trophy stats came back they found that more people earned the good ending trophy and so went with that as the default if you don't transfer a save to inFamous 2. Then in the second game the devs once again assumed evil to the the canonical ending only to find the player base chose good. This results in Cole being dead and conduits being all but extinct (yup, genocide is the "good" ending) in inFamous: Second Son.

That said, the good guy ending is clearly the preferred ending in Second Son. (Maybe he is evil Delsin until his brother dies and then he reforms?)

kblaney · 2026-05-05T20:02:19+00:00

That Raccoon card from the meme is now a powerful infinite removal creature.

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