Elliot Wilson

I would like to file another complaint with Spotify's Discover Weekly feed. The Offspring's "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" is not, in fact, a hidden gem or deep cut.

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

If you really want something about the trilogy itself: TLJ was better than expected - even if it was first orphaned, and then later taken out back and shot

It gave people who are much better at telling stories an excuse to make much better shows

It's also unreasonable to expect an entire mod team to be on board for doing something similar. I'll need to do some careful recruiting to make sure the team is one that can thread this needle.

So, it's a lot of extra evenings spent on the couch getting into NPC headspace and then typing up an entire week's worth of interactions for them, while also leaving strategic space for customization to the PCs. It's not sustainable for a full game.

The part I'm not happy with is email pre-writing. Each NPC, on top of the normal dev for them, each got 4 emails. There will be some customization done to these pre-writes based on player interaction, but typically only 1 email would get this treatment, and everything else would be in situ.

I wrote 10 NPCs, which is on the high end for one moderator in these games. It was necessary to have a realistic test though, as there is a critical mass of NPCs needed. I think 5-8 is a good ballpark, especially after the insanity of Brookhaven, which averaged 12+ for each mod.

For the curious on what's going on behind the curtain:

I made 36 cards for this test. Dexterous allows for on the fly generation once the template is set, and uses Sheets, so that's no sweat on both speed and scale metrics.

The Quarter Mile play test starts this morning after breakfast, and I continue to feel good about it. I'm not super happy with the amount of pre-work that has gone in, but if it means the game itself is easily manageable, could be on to something here. Scalability would be the biggest question.

So first thing's first, you've got to divide monsters into "the physical act of sex would be inherently enjoyable for both of us," "I would enjoy myself with this monster," "if in a relationship with this monster, we'd find a way to be intimate," and "kinky."

These are non-overlapping categories.

Smithers lies to Monty Burns that his boos are people chanting “Boo-urns.”

“Uh, no, when you were on the roof they were shouting ‘Trump! Trump!”

I wonder if Vin Diesel would actually let be an officially licensed game…

This dumb idea that has been percolating since before Brookhaven may actually see the light of day!

One week until the Quarter Mile play test, and I’m feeling pretty good - testers are locked in, VTT for deck building is open, prewrite is underway

I clearly have cultivated the best feed possible, because while I did just finish my first ever play through of Disco Elysium a couple weeks ago, I remain unexposed to its discourse outside of a few excellent voices dunking on said discourse

"i'll wait until it's out of early access to play"

a fool's mistake.

it's so special to see this game develop over time; to see how Tony & Abby react to fan conversations & expectations

Scarlet Hollow never stops surprising you. it's a must play right NOW as dark, funny, & captivating as it is

When I ran Brookhaven, I made each player come up with and pilot an entire multigenerational family, shit was great, let us kill off characters as appropriate and needed for a gothic horror game

better image quality

Yeah, I always thought it was super looked down on to endorse an alternative candidate to whoever the party is backing

Legend of Zelda fan art. BOTW link and Zelda and dancing in front of a mirror whose reflection shows multiple iterations of other Zelda’s and links dancing together in the background.

A dance that never ends #loz

If you're concerned about the air quality in the Twin Cities this week, you may be interested in the difference we can make in air quality with this project.

Thunder's Edge Announcing a New Expansion for Twilight Imperium 4th Edition

A new Twilight Imperium expansion!!!

What the hell is happening with Minnesota politics this morning? I don’t think I can withstand the whiplash of Klobuchar voting against arms sales for Israel at the same time as Walz endorsing Frey

It’s brings me immense joy to watch our local city council candidate curmudgeons self-immolate like this

The Sears Tower looking insanely creepy during a blackout, including the impression of a scary face topped by a crown of spikes. It looks like a giant humanoid evil robot or a demonic Minecraft creature.

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!"

The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

I love Marlo’s stuff, got that dice one hanging in my game room

This is so spicy, I almost want to get back into Magic for it

Several people in suits reach towards a man with glasses sitting at a table, holding a microphone. The latter speaks into the microphone, while the former attempt to stop him.

Porn and art with sexual themes deserve to exist on their own merit, not because censoring them has knock-on effects for non-sexual content. Please stop expressing outrage by implying that censorship would be okay if it *just* affected sex workers and artists engaging with sexual themes.