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You're probably already familiar with the story, but it's simple enough if you're not. A cursed magical item that grants whatever wish you make with it, but never in the way you want, and always in a way you regret. The classic example is wishing for money, only to receive it as a settlement after the death of a loved one. If you had such an item, would you tempt fate? What wish would you make?
As far as posting games go, this one's pretty straightforward. Look at the wish made by the person above you, and decide the twisted, ironic way their wish is fulfilled. Then make a wish of your own, and see how the next person in the thread grants it. Two quick rules that will make things more entertaining:
- No lawyering. If you really wanted, your wish could be pages and pages long, trying to ensure that it's granted exactly how you want it. But that's no fun. Wish makers, try to keep your wish to a sentence, at most two.
- No giant meteors. So many wishes, from "I wish I was happy for the rest of my life" to "I wish to end child poverty" to "I wish I never had to see my ex again" can be granted with the same rote response: "a giant meteor hits the earth and kills everyone lol". This works but is a bit uninspired. Wish granters, try to come up with something more tailored to the wish, rather than a giant meteor (or something similar).
I'll start us off with something well intentioned but probably easy to twist. Have fun!
SpoilerI wish that humans were incapable of malice.
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Mmm, I could go for some cabbage right now...
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The first rule of Rhuidean Club is you do not talk about Rhuidean Club.
I remember beta-testing Laz's Dilecia, which originally had two back-to-back cutscenes of the same event, first with an unreliable narrator and second with the actual events. We decided that it worked better pacing-wise to separate the cutscenes. Are your flashbacks going to be spaced out as well? It might not be an issue for your scenario, since it sounds like there's going to be more interaction and gameplay in your flashbacks. Even if it's just a brief interlude to decompress and interact with companions. -
A while back I read Identity: the Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama (I was trying to read The End of History and the Last Man, but my library didn't have a copy). I went in expecting to not agree with Fukuyama, and that's pretty much what I got. More recently, I finished Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, which I also was not a big fan of.
On the fiction side of things, I picked up two more trades of Astro City, which continues to be Very Good. Only missing two trades from the Vertigo run now.
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2 hours ago, la justice en if subjectif said:
What exactly are the decisions and choices?
"How exactly do I take down this pylon?"
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Accessing the assets isn't that hard, even for AAA games. If you wanted to prevent that (or at least make it more difficult), you'd have to use DRM, which Jeff is against. The best way to deal with another company copying your digital assets is a lawyer.
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Oh, it pays fine, especially for temp work. It's a decent gig, not complaining.
And good luck with things over there. It's nutty all over these days.
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Alas, it isn't a holiday. And even if it was, I wouldn't have the day off -- I'm an election officer again.
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14 hours ago, On the Spires said:
On the plus side, if all goes well, no more big tests for him for at least a decade!
You'll also avoid doing tests for a decade by doing exceptionally poorly!
(But seriously, best of luck on whatever it is you need luck for!)
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Jiji (Kiki's cat)
Jiji (Nikki's cat)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%_rule_(Internet_culture)
It's not just a Spiderweb thing (and has its parallels in meatspace too), but communities need a critical mass in order to keep turning the 90% into the 9% and the 9% into the 1%, and once they drop below that critical mass, there's no incentive to become part of the 90%, let alone the 9% or 1%.
EDIT: Back when I was planning on releasing an actual BoA scenario, I was going to have a dialog box pop up at the end and ask players to just send me a quick e-mail saying they played it, just to get a sense of what BoA's 90% actually was (because it really felt like the only people who still played BoA scenarios were BoA scenario creators).
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Parliament has dissolved, writs have been drawn, and Canada is now gearing up for its 43rd general election.To celebrate this new election season, which I'm sure will be delightful and not acrimonious in the slightest, I've decided to revisit a time-honed Spiderweb tradition: taking the Political Compass test! If you've taken it before, see how much you've changed since 2015, or 2012, or 2011, or 2010, or 2007, or--- you get the picture. And once you've posted your results, discuss them! Discuss the test! Complain about the test! Complain about the placement of Canada's political parties! Complain about the vastly inferior and deeply flawed Vote Compass made by Vox Pop Labs! Complain about Canadian politics in general!
(on the off chance that you're not canadian and are, in fact, from some different country, i suppose you can talk and/or complain about politics there and maybe even link some country-specific tests that we can all take? that would be super cool of you)
Alternatively, you could take the 5 Dimensional Politial Compass that Slarty posted in 2017.
SpoilerEconomic Left/Right: -6.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51For the record:
2007: (2.00, 2.92)
2010: (0.62, -1.13)
2011: (-1.88, -2.56)
2012: (-0.50, -0.97)
2015: (-4.50, -5.03)
2019: (-6.00, -6.51)
QuoteAlso, how the hell have we managed to coexist so far, you fascist? 😛
- Arancaytar, 2007
As for the 5D test:
You are a: Communist Pro-Government Humanist Progressive
Collectivism score: 100%
Authoritarianism score: 33%
Internationalism score: 0%
Tribalism score: -67%
Liberalism score: 50%Which is quite a shift from my 2017 results, but I don't think that's due to any major changes on my part. Last time, I answered 'maybe' a lot more, whereas this time I only put down 'maybe' when I was truly torn.
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It's never too early to think about Christmas ideas for the niblings, so I've been skimming over a library copy of Ryan North's To Be or Not To Be. It's... pretty much what you'd expect a choose-your-own-adventure adaptation of Hamlet written by Ryan North to be? The style of humour would be great for my older niblings, but on the other hand, I've already seen a couple scenes where Hamlet and Ophelia TOTALLY MAKE OUT (and then MAYBE EVEN MORE THAN THAT), and also birds get referred to as "avian dinosaurs" on one page, so the parents would probably veto it. Ah well, this is why I start looking early.
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Newer forms of social media have their uses, but I feel like a lot of communities have a forum-shaped hole in them. I noticed a lot of communities had a fundamental shift when Discord came around and forums started to get depopulated. Discord's good for extemporaneous discussions, but bad for periodic, ongoing ones. And if you've created something you want to share with the community, you need a friendly mod to pin it for you, otherwise it gets lost immediately in the noise. On the other hand, if mods do this too often, Discord just becomes a worse forum.
(Twitch chat is this x100.)
It's hard to form a cohesive community over microblogging services like Twitter or Tumblr, though in their defense they were never designed for that sort of thing. In an odd sort of way, they remind me of the way the web was two decades ago, where if you didn't link share with the right people, or be part of the right webring, you languished in obscurity.
There's also my general sense of unease over communities moving from "let's create a website, host a message board, and congregate there" to "let's use this company's services to run our community", but that's just my FOSS paranoia talking.
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Ah, hmm. I was referencing the running joke where Kuzco meets all the Disney Princess requirements set in Ralph Breaks the Internet (better than Vanellope does, which is one of the reasons why she's off the list), but yeah, I can see how there's more than one way to take it. Consider him rescinded, and my apologies.
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If it's not enough, I can add Disney princes as well! No biggie!
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Disney princess round (including both non-princesses who are part of the official Princess Line as well as princesses who are not):
Snow White
Cinderella
Aurora
Eilonwy
Ariel
Belle
Jasmine
Pocahontas
Mulan
Kuzco
Kida
Tiana
Rapunzel
Merida
Anna
Elsa (she was a princess at the start of the movie I guess?)
Moana
Feel free to do the public domain versions (or any other versions) if you're adventurous.
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You know what we forgot to do last year? This thing! Take part in the Spiderweb tradition of being way too public about yourself! Of course, previous criticisms about this test still hold, but the benefit of repeating the same test year after year means you can see how you've changed over time. Well, at least I can. I should probably pretty up my gnuplot script at some point...
SpoilerI am morbidly curious about what my 2018 results would have looked like, but suffice it to say they would not be flattering. I'm doing much better now! 2019 has essentially been the year of me dealing with non-major but nonetheless cumulative heath issues one by one, most notably starting on a SSRI in March. And despite being on what my GP describes as "a baby dose", it's made a world of difference. It's not a panacea, but it's something.
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Wait, are you telling me that George Clinton isn't Bill Clinton's dad? Riiight, next you'll be telling me that Director Hoover and President Hoover weren't the same person.
Something I believed until embarrassingly late in life.
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For the crime of not ranking George Clinton, I'm not only adding Jeb Bush to the list, but also making you read a dribble I wrote for him:
SpoilerJeb Bush stands naked in his bathroom and despairs. The reason behind his failed foray in federal politics? It is clearly evident in the mirror before him. He has to face the ugly truth: he will never, ever be dummy thicc.
He implores his reflection one last time:
"Please clap."
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Well, now that we've started doing famous presidents, we can do famous presidents' fathers!
Joseph Kennedy Sr.
Prescott Bush
George Clinton
Fred Trump
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12 hours ago, Edgwyn said:
I would pick Yogi Bear over Pol Pot
I'm sure Slarty would have rated Pol Pot lower if he had a handlebar moustache.


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Granted, you are now a Hasbro employee creating uninspired novelty versions of The Game of Life.
I wish I could have a sandwich right now.