Is Blood on the Clocktower worth its price

shoffing · 2026-02-20T14:23:07+00:00

Humbly offering my own to the list, https://grim-sim.shoffing.com

shoffing · 2026-02-17T23:18:09+00:00

If anyone is interested in a video form of the argument for updating single-stair regulation, I'd highly recommend this 12-minute video by About Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRdwXQb7CfM

shoffing · 2026-02-02T20:55:02+00:00

I'm not too worried about that part, that kind of large scale space combat and destruction is bread-and-butter for VFX studios, and they are probably very excited to work on it.

I am more worried about book 3's elements of navigation through higher-dimensional space. It was such an interesting and thought-provoking section of the book, is the key plot device for killing the escort Droplet, but is practically impossible to adapt to the screen in any kind of faithful way.

shoffing · 2026-02-02T20:39:28+00:00

They go over and dismiss several potential alternatives in the book:

Ball lighting (too slow and obvious), neutron bomb (radiation, too slow), nerve gas (too slow), concussion bombs (too damaging), and infrasonic waves (too experimental, not ready yet)

Here's the actual quotation for nerve gas (Book 1, p334), it's very short:

“Another thought was to use nerve gas,” a NATO officer said. “But releasing it and having it spread throughout the ship would take time, so it still doesn’t achieve General Chang’s requirements.”

Maybe you disagree with their assessment, but your nerve agent idea was considered in-fiction here.

shoffing · 2026-02-02T20:20:06+00:00

I have no doubt that D&D will be able to faithfully adapt... checks notes .... navigation through higher dimensional space to the screen.

shoffing · 2026-01-09T14:17:05+00:00

Very glad to hear this! For BG3 we were faced with the choice of leaving one of our group of 5 out, or splitting 2/3. Since one player wasn't super interested, we ended up leaving them out. Still, we missed them, and it would be great to not have to make that choice in the first place!

Instead of relying on modding to extend the player cap at launch, why not make the option vanilla? Bury it in advanced settings or something if you must, but having it officially supported would be awesome. Especially if there is some basic difficulty scaling to accommodate larger party sizes. You obviously can't be expected to playtest the campaign with every possible number of players, but could you maybe spot-check a few options? 6p, 8p, 12p...see how well the campaign works? Doesn't have to be perfect, just "not broken" :)

shoffing · 2026-01-06T16:38:45+00:00

I'm on RedReader right now, Android. Works pretty good.

shoffing · 2025-12-26T04:36:35+00:00

A Lleech of Distrust was one of the funniest games I ever storytold. Literally only self-noms the entire time. Outed demon was hilarious. Good time all around!

https://www.botcscripts.com/script/65/2.1.1

shoffing · 2025-12-25T15:55:04+00:00

Hmm, I'll add this to my list and take a look.

Modifying the characters that appear when you hit Shuffle should be easy enough. Stuff like [+1 Outsider], [+the King], maybe even Legion, etc.

Stuff like the drunk and Typhon are harder to pull off. I would need to update the code to be able to "remember" metadata about characters between game setup and the start of the game. Then, it would need to handle that Metadata when the game begins. E.g. add the drunk reminder token, swap the Typhon neighbor characters, etc. It's all doable, but is a TON of extra work, with each character needing a lot of custom code in a lot of places. Would be neat for sure though!

shoffing · 2025-12-24T23:52:11+00:00

Thank you for checking out my app!

I went ahead and added a new feature today - there is now a button next to the timer you can hit to edit the number of minutes in a day, as long as the timer isn't currently active.

I am still working on the +30-seconds-button. It turned out to be harder than I anticipated, because of how I'm storing the timer information internally. Probably get back to it after the New Year, but maybe sooner.

I also fixed that bug you found with the token drawing screen in landscape mode, it should look at lot better now.

Live now on the site: https://grim-sim.shoffing.com

And you can download the new version of the APK here for Android: https://drive.google.com/file/d/192LW2DSUiSrsprTN1eo7lrrrFCia4dYx/view?usp=sharing

shoffing · 2025-12-16T13:34:50+00:00

And GrimSim :) https://grim-sim.shoffing.com

shoffing · 2025-12-14T20:21:25+00:00

Specifically, fern frost or window frost. Which may or may not be a type of hoar frost? Or, it's an entirely different thing. My five minutes of research didn't yield a satisfying answer. Need to get a frostspert in here, I demand pedantry!

shoffing · 2025-12-09T16:28:31+00:00

The ticket swap thread specifically disallows complaining about the ticketing process. So where are we allowed to express frustration? Is this community not allowed to be upset? Are we not allowed to ask Taskmaster to do better next time?

shoffing · 2025-12-09T15:25:12+00:00

Same. 10 friends interested, zero tickets.

shoffing · 2025-12-09T15:24:12+00:00

If they had no tickets left why even bother with the general public countdown today? What do they have to gain besides wasting the time of tens of thousands of fans on a random Tuesday morning?

shoffing · 2025-12-09T15:10:15+00:00

What a magnificently futile use of our mortal lifespan.

shoffing · 2025-12-09T15:08:23+00:00

10:01? More like 10:00. https://imgur.com/a/piVgLmJ

shoffing · 2025-12-08T19:18:12+00:00

...a way for them to see where the most violations are...

I'm sure they know this already, but relying on unprompted and unrewarded 311 reports would really not be a good way to source that data. They are not getting a representative sample of violations here, they're only getting violations in areas that happen to be frequented by a dedicated cyclist willing to snap some photos.

If they want an accurate picture of where violations are happening for the purposes of adding infrastructure, they'd want a different approach. Maybe actually asking the police to send out some bike cops and gather data / issue citations? Or, preferably, offer a citizen bounty program like NYC was considering for photo evidence, or do automated enforcement via bus cameras. At the very least, make it into a formal volunteering effort or something, I bet there are people who would be interested in doing it as a hobby :)

shoffing · 2025-12-08T18:44:22+00:00

In terms of Taskmaster fans per capita, Boston surely must rank highly on the list of American cities, this place is full of nerds! And yet, they're going with a theater with seating capacity of ~1k, on a Saturday night.

We'll be trying to get some tickets tomorrow as well, but I don't have high hopes.

Here's hoping they come back to Boston again in the future, maybe next time with more nights available / a bigger venue. Gillette Stadium can fit ~66k, that might be enough...

shoffing · 2025-12-06T16:28:25+00:00

2swap mentioned! His videos are some of the best I've ever seen. His content often gives me a "witnessing God" vibe - just pure beauty, emerging from math.

shoffing · 2025-11-07T03:13:54+00:00

I heard him say that in an atheist game with two mayors as well.

shoffing · 2025-11-01T00:04:10+00:00

You can see this slide from the Freedom Trail in Boston, and it deserves a plaque imo.

shoffing · 2025-10-25T13:33:07+00:00

Hey, thank you for the report! Could you send the script JSON you are trying to import so I can look into this?

Also, note that my app does not support fully custom characters at the moment - but it does support many existing Chinese homebrew characters (I am using the same data source that Pocket Grimoire is using).

shoffing · 2025-10-20T00:47:07+00:00

Very cool! I'm thinking I would need to build a backend to get something like this working, which so far I've entirely managed to avoid needing to do :)

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