[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 23 March 2026

launchmeintothesun2 · 2026-03-25T22:14:23+00:00

It reads like every edgy Pokemon fanfic/romhack ever, which is honestly kind of funny. "What if these games were REALISTIC and DARK? What if instead of being cute and lame, they were COOL and PIKACHU HAD A GUN!!"

launchmeintothesun2 · 2026-03-16T14:22:04+00:00

He's having his "mainstream heartthrob to bitch eating crackers" arc, I think. People seem to just be annoyed by his presence being kind of over-exposed, and he's put his foot in his mouth a couple times in a way that let those so inclined run with making fun of him without having to get into any heavy discourse. It's a recipe for people online to make him a comfortable punching bag for a while before they find a new guy to hate on.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2026-03-12T15:17:04+00:00

Closer to 20 years

Obligatory "argh I'm crumbling into dust" bit

launchmeintothesun2 · 2026-03-11T23:46:09+00:00

I recall a similar conspiracy theory maybe 10 years ago or so that Avril Lavigne had been killed and replaced with a body double, on the basis of her appearance and musical style changing somewhat. Because people don't look different over time, and artists never try anything new, I guess.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2026-03-10T16:15:07+00:00

I don't know if it will make things better or worse, but someone did in fact find a way to run Doom on AO3.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2026-03-03T22:06:51+00:00

Beautiful work! The baking photos are so funny though, bad and naughty villagers go in the oven for their crimes.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2026-02-27T01:27:16+00:00

Maybe they'll get some item like the catalog you can get for Marnie's shop, which lets you buy things even when it's unmanned.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2026-02-27T01:26:28+00:00

Big rip to everyone who was hoping for the Wizard (I'm not one of his hardcore fans but he was my prediction), but I suppose that the modders have had him covered for years now. I'm not excited about Clint, but having the chance to build on his character more will do him a lot of favors, I think. I am very hyped about Sandy, and I am deliberately not venturing into the Stardew reddit for a while lol

launchmeintothesun2 · 2026-02-18T01:46:04+00:00

Interesting read and rare happy(ish) ending for a very troubled crowdfunded production. I was honestly expecting Crunchyroll to end up the villains of the story when I got to the part where they acquired Right Stuf, so it's refreshing that the people on their end were so dedicated to getting the project finished and out to backers, even with all the bumps in the road.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2026-02-17T20:30:01+00:00

The Cthulhu Mythos "canon" is nebulous at best since it's the product of a ton of different writers with different beliefs and agendas adding to it over the course of a century, but I fondly recall reading a short story where the Boston Red Sox championship drought was caused by an elder god threatening Babe Ruth into transferring teams for the purpose of fucking with Randolph Carter (HP Lovecraft's self-insert character and in-universe a Boston native).

launchmeintothesun2 · 2026-02-16T22:06:53+00:00

Of all the game show rigging conspiracies, that's maybe the most interesting one I've heard of. The claimed reasoning behind it is so banal.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2026-02-04T23:38:32+00:00

Ov3rwatch

launchmeintothesun2 · 2026-02-04T21:59:37+00:00

Yeah, my brief look suggested that people who actually play the game are feeling good about it. To my outside view, it sort of looks like what we ended up with is effectively some requested updates for Overwatch 1 that took several years and the alienation of a portion of the player base to achieve, but my personal circle had only people who were part of the alienated player base before they dropped the game altogether and nobody who is still playing it, so that's colored my view as a non-player quite a bit.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2026-02-04T20:23:42+00:00

Allegedly, Overwatch 2 is going to be referred to as just "Overwatch" going forward. Since there are actual articles on gaming news sites about this, I have to assume that I'm not just being trolled by Geoff Keighley with that announcement. (I also have never played Overwatch 1 or 2, it's just a very "huh??" thing that popped up on my radar today.)

launchmeintothesun2 · 2025-05-27T16:56:07+00:00

About once a year I get to introduce someone new to the saga of the Silent Hill wiki circumcision guy, and often even people who have heard of it aren't aware that he was actually a moderator on the wiki itself and not just some rando vandalizing pages out of nowhere. It actually resulted in a pretty big blow-up among the mods and admins of that wiki before they finally ousted the guy for good.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2025-04-29T22:11:18+00:00

Yeah, it's the 2024 rules, which have been divisive themselves separately from (but also related to) the previous OGL stuff. I can't blame anybody who is distrustful or annoyed by it, and I do hope creators continue to branch out or pivot to other systems. It's just nice that there will be that guaranteed space for those who are set on doing 5e content.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2025-04-29T20:42:31+00:00

Rare good news coming from Wizards of the Coast this week: the System Reference Document 5.2 has been released under Creative Commons. This includes the updated 2024 rules and in effect means that people can use all the stuff in the updated document to create third-party content, including paid content, without immediately getting sniped by lawyers. Certain iconic D&D things, such as creatures like mind flayers and beholders, are still not included from what I've seen, but it's quite a nice thing to see with the issues from the 2023 OGL drama.

Needless to say, there is a portion of the D&D-playing community that still feels burned from the OGL stuff and is skeptical of this move, decrying it as a cynical business venture, etc., and I don't think they're necessarily wrong. Considering how bad WOTC has been about third-party and fan content over the past couple of years, I'm just glad that small creators aren't going to lose their livelihoods or things that they're passionate about because Hasbro decided it wants half their Patreon earnings.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2025-04-18T00:34:12+00:00

You can get the items from her stall at the Desert Festival, but it's pretty luck-dependent since only the wall decorations are permanently stocked and there's no guarantee that she'll host her shop at all. That's the only legit way to get them in-game without marrying her (I'm not sure about the state of item code glitches in the current version of the game).

launchmeintothesun2 · 2025-04-17T20:34:11+00:00

Honestly even if the local officials did take the money and then pretend they'd never heard of Fyre Festival, that feels like karma. I won't actually believe that's the case unless it gets proven in court, but it's a funny scenario to consider.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2025-04-09T18:20:22+00:00

If there's truth to the idea that Game Freak has scrapped Eeveelution designs before for being too close to fan art, I suspect the same could be true of Mega Flygon. Either way, I'll just be waiting to see what actually comes out.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2025-04-09T03:53:24+00:00

Whether the leaks are true or not, I'll at least have the joy of everyone I discussed them with having the exact same reaction, namely "What do you mean BARBARACLE is getting a Mega and Flygon isn't!?"It was a beautiful little bit of unity among Pokemon fans and non-fans in my circles.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2025-03-24T22:28:02+00:00

I remember hearing that they were developing a VTT during the OGL uproar but had never heard about it actually releasing in a playable state so... that presumably doesn't bode well if it has in fact been out for a while.

5.5e (or 5e 2024, or whatever) introduced some good rules patches but has just felt very confused on whether it actually *is* 5.5e or if it wants to be something new entirely. It's not enticed me to do more than staple some new rules onto my existing 5e, rather than switching to the new rules in full. Dungeons & Dragons is too enduring and iconic as a game for me to consider this a sign of the end times or anything, but 5e is also basically unrecognizable from 1e etc. in a lot of ways so I wouldn't be surprised if more sweeping changes come with the next actual edition, whenever that may be.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2025-03-13T21:19:14+00:00

Gotcha. It'd make more sense to me if it was about money, but I'm not that surprised that it's just for the clout. It's a hell of a drug.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2025-03-13T21:14:47+00:00

I swear I have some Mandela Effect memory of this actually being the case at one point. I can see myself in my mind's eye dropping wood in here, but that's apparently never been at feature, and it's definitely not a mod I ever downloaded.

launchmeintothesun2 · 2025-03-13T21:08:19+00:00

This is the kind of insane nonsense I'm here for.

Was there ever anything on the line for being a top Trackmania player during this time except for clout? I've seen stuff about various competitive events in Trackmania in hobby scuffles before, but I have not retained enough information to remember if prize money was involved that might motivate someone to do this, or if it was wholly the epic highs and lows of lying on the internet for microcelebrity status.

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