This is why you should play Shadowdark.
This is why you should play Shadowdark.


This is the most reddit post I’ve seen all week.


Yeah the bleakness of From’s settings is definitely an inherent part of their worldbuilding.


Elden Ring has the deepest, most complex worldbuilding of any game ever made, and it’s not even close. For anyone interested in worldbuilding I strongly urge you to watch some Elden Ring lore videos from The Tarnished Archaeologist to learn about the techniques that the Elden Ring devs use to put incredibly deep and subtle worldbuilding into their games. It’s changed the way I think about worldbuilding in any context.


As a young nerd obsessed with RPGs and William Gibson’s work I was outraged at the idea of putting fantasy into cyberpunk. But then I picked up a damaged copy of the Shadowrun rules from a bargain bin and was blown away by the worldbuilding, they really found a way to make it all fit thematically and logically and I ended up running the game for years.


The TEETH rpg and everything these guys do is brilliant.
I pretty regularly say or think “Have my years of wild hedonism finally caught up with me?”
We call the top roost of our cat castle The Angry Dome. She only gets up there when she is bonkers with the zoomies.
I regularly say “Hooray, I’m helping!” to my wife.


If 90% of the world’s food production was going towards making cake, would you be mad at the food industry and the people who only eat cake?


I think they’re just kind of a symbol for the shallowness of the movie industry, self indulgent pieces that are all budget and no art. I get it.


A lot of people really hate these movies.
Thanks for this thoughtful, nuanced contribution to the community.
Interesting that you liked Quicksilver, that’s usually the one that Stephenson fans find hard to read (I personally love it).
It comes from Vampire: TM, describing the kind of player that plays a Malkavian’s “insanity” as dumb shit like slapping people with a fish (a la Monty Python).
Microsoft are charging a yearly fee to continue getting security updates for Win10 after EOL.


Bloober Team is the studio that did the Silent Hill 2 remake.
It’s not a big deal but if you’re using my idea it would be nice to reply to my comment :]
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