It sure is, but the author had a very particular type of bigoted worldview combined with a very particular type of pseudo-academic obsession. Without that, it would be an utterly unremarkable cookie-cutter grimderp RPG from the 2000s. The exact, half-baked layout of the trainwreck presenting as high-speed rail is what makes FATAL into FATAL.

I have a morbid fascination with it, and one of the things that keeps dragging me back to it is the very weird ways in which it is, surprisingly, progressive. FATAL makes a distinction between sex and gender (though throws it away), and also recognises asexuality as valid (despite not understanding it).

I don’t remember if it’s been less than a week since I last played it, but I started Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE recently. Judging off the first case, it appears to be simultaneously the smartest and dumbest game ever produced.

i usually don’t like these comments on my posts but this is a valid crashout

oh so that’s what elves do in the other 4 hours of the long rest

See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves. His folk are known for hewers of wood and drawers of water but in truth his father has been a schoolmaster. He lies in drink, he quotes from poets whose names are now lost. The boy crouches by the fire and watches him.

• Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy.

consider: wall of force mimic

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force of habit?

idk that sounds kinda dangerous

you’re right, but consider: unless we’re going even farther down the subscription shithole, a sexbot would be a one time purchase.

to be fair at least with Hitachi i’m pretty sure they were invented as actual massagers for construction workers. and then humans did what humans do best

then it’s 4% each result. you don’t want to know what happens with the missing 20%.

i assume revenge for stepping on a d4 once?

that headline brilliantly conveys the absurdity of the situation

oh yeah, lime green is usually very tacky

i have an acquaintance that hates the number 3 so much that her writing project goes from chapter 2 to 4

yellowish brown

Neuromancer by William Gibson. Slowly realising how many cyberpunk books cribbed his homework.

That’s why you use ancestral curses.

I feel like at some point a nigh-eternal TTRPG campaign would Ship of Theseus itself into an entirely new medium.