The Gaming Den

Holy shit. I'd never heard of Anatheria, so I googled it to take a look, and I don't know if I just gained or lost 20 years off my life, but that is some spot fucking on late 90s early '00s furry artist style on that site. If you really want to relive the 90s virtual pet craze, there are some tamog...

If you want a shot in the arm of late 90s early 2000s aesthetic pet sites like subeta.net are still going strong after 13 years of operation. I list subeta and not neopets (which is also somehow still alive) because it has an older userbase and you can use swears. Anatheria is my favorite because th...

Echoing that it really does depend on the game, but also depends on the players. I think we've all encountered at least one joyless asshole in our lives who uses the threat of PvP to bludgeon other players who aren't playing the game "correctly." People like that sort of poison the well be...

Ok A New crazy racist, who actually types a little like a spam bot but is in fact a human.

It's funny how easily D&D panic can be recreated by switching some themes. Even inverted hollow earth not helps to get the point across to kind of sophisticated and knowledgeable audience. But I think it still was worth an effort to write it. Should go back to killing orcs. Alright I'm going to...

There is... honestly so much to unpack in that post that the racism is only a small part of it. I mean it's bad, but the little throwaway to poisonous vaccines or the weird lumping together of muslim practices with blood rituals...

I think reading this gave me cancer.

Entertaining sounds like you had fun? Did you feel sad after the one shot? Depressed? What do you expect to feel in an 'Horror' RPG? Maybe it's only my misconception what an Horror-RPG should be like? Horror games are fun in the same way horror movies are fun or scary stories are fun. Some people j...

Blades in the Dark and The Sprawl try to address the player/character intelligence split by having the ability to retroactively declare stuff by spending meta currency on it. This is in addition to an actual planning phase, so you have the things you made plans for, and then an out for players struc...

I think things like Bliss Stage or Monster Hearts or whatever other games out there highlight teenagers fucking are meant less as titillation and more as group therapy. A lot of teens get into messy emotionally fraught physical relationships, but because of the legality and ethics surrounding depict...

Lupin III Part V is a sumptuous show that manages to switch between gritty near-cyberpunk and lighthearted magical realism with incredible deftness. Also, everyone who wasted time in that DarliFra debate should watch Flip Flappers. I somehow swapped "Flip Flappers" and "Hand Shakers&...

Not to mention the terrible BDSM erotica she wrote before ELJames made writing terrible BDSM erotica cool.

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A very funny overview of the plot

I had to have all 4 wisdom teeth removed . . I had 2 surgeries for that. I ended up badly scratched and bruised, because the painkillers they gave me made my whole body kinda numbish . . that was the most pleasant dentistry experience i have ever had in my whole life . . All the others were horribl...

I feel like Gotham is kind of emblematic of trashy CW writing, it's like a microcosm of every poor story decision ever made in any of their programming. It started out as a kind of down to earth crime drama. But... Gotham isn't a CW show. It airs on a "major" network. That's why they are ...

Oh actually can we talk about gotham? Like all of it? I think the moment it "lost" me was the point where it apparently decided it needed all of batmans future rogues gallery to appear no matter how little sense it makes. The aging up of Ivy through magical mutant powers is especially egre...

I'd argue that book 1 of Twilight was when it went to the dumpster fire, but that might be the inner horror fan being really pissed off about their treatment of vampire's. I tried reading it, and around halfway through couldn't take any of the character's anymore. The movies are better because they...

Can I add 're-read' to this because the Eragon and Twilight books stole weeks of my life in high school that I'll probably never get back. They both did it in the same way too. Book one was solidly mediocre, but the kind of mediocre that makes you think "well maybe now that the author has a sol...

I think, and this is the charitable interpretation, that since banning procreative sex is a thing a lot of dystopias do without the gender-politics backdrop they are having trouble seeing why this is a gender-politics thing and not a Brave New World situation. That doesn't entirely explain how Mask ...

Whether you can enjoy Darling in the Franxx despite all the stupid depends so much on your own personal preferences and what specific kinds of bullshit you can tolerate. I continue watching new episodes as they air but I still couldn't tell you if I'm enjoying myself or if I feel obligated to finish...

That is not even close to what the Nines are espousing. Their position is that it is only okay to act and have sex the way Nines do it and any other way is not okay. They are not LGBT, they are conservatives. Right and the Nines official conservative viewpoint is that gender is stupid and procreati...

Call them anti-binary then but having your villains be the ones to espouse, metaphorically, that it's OK to be gay or trans or what have you, while the heroes go on about children and how cool it is when men and women get together, is at best unintentionally icky. Ikuno is our resident lesbian hero ...

I'm glad it wasn't just me who got "This feels like it's trying to say something but I have no goddamn idea what." I am also glad the creepy regressive bullshit was stopped by suddenly aliens before it could become explicit, though we still have four more episodes and a possible pregnancy ...

Darling in the Franxx has got so bad it actually feeling good. After 3 episodes of almost nothing but background exposition and philosophical questions like what price would human society be willing to pay for comfy immortal lifes and how idiotic can teenagers be, turns out there were aliens manipu...

Relatively fewer bonuses though, and mostly on the GM's side. It's a lot easier to go "ok you have advantage" if a player wants to do something unusual/take advantage of a terrain feature/distract the enemy with illusory hand puppets. As opposed to trying to figure out what penalty, if any...

Right right

I forgot about luke force choking, but then I guess that goes to show how long it's been since I watched the originals.

I'm.. not sure where I referenced the EU? Ignore me, missed Frank's post somehow My point is that mind tricks becoming more accessible is just part of a pattern in the series of escalation First Trilogy: Neither Luke or Obi-Wan force shoves anyone, they use light sabers and Obi-Wan mind tricks some...