David J Prokopetz
@prokopetz.bsky.social
Main site at https://prokopetz.net
One of those half-a-dozen-hot-girls-and-one-bland-dude RPG parties where they all take turns being the boy.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
One of those half-a-dozen-hot-girls-and-one-bland-dude RPG parties where they all take turns being the boy.
[1/3] This is something that can get lost in translation if you're accustomed to modern games where buildcraft is pushing points around to create tiny variations on the same core theme, but... okay. When I talk about old-school computer RPGs lying to you about what kinds of builds are supported?
November 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
[1/3] This is something that can get lost in translation if you're accustomed to modern games where buildcraft is pushing points around to create tiny variations on the same core theme, but... okay. When I talk about old-school computer RPGs lying to you about what kinds of builds are supported?
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tis i! working on this project has been an interesting change of pace, working much more with vector graphics than I usually do. It's been very refreshing and I'm excited to bring it to y'all soon!
A frequent comment in playtesting "Eat God" (www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...) is that character creation is a bit wall-of-texty. In draft 0.7, it's been given an editing pass for added breathing room. Also pictured: a preview of the new chapter layout, courtesy of @curatrix-ribston.bsky.social.
November 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
tis i! working on this project has been an interesting change of pace, working much more with vector graphics than I usually do. It's been very refreshing and I'm excited to bring it to y'all soon!
A frequent comment in playtesting "Eat God" (www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...) is that character creation is a bit wall-of-texty. In draft 0.7, it's been given an editing pass for added breathing room. Also pictured: a preview of the new chapter layout, courtesy of @curatrix-ribston.bsky.social.
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
A frequent comment in playtesting "Eat God" (www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...) is that character creation is a bit wall-of-texty. In draft 0.7, it's been given an editing pass for added breathing room. Also pictured: a preview of the new chapter layout, courtesy of @curatrix-ribston.bsky.social.
Revealing a deep-seated desire to fuck the abstract concept of the core gameplay loop of "Don't Rest Your Head" and immediately getting called out as a poser trying to frame his conventional attractions as a hear-me-out because come on man, that shit uses DICE.
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Revealing a deep-seated desire to fuck the abstract concept of the core gameplay loop of "Don't Rest Your Head" and immediately getting called out as a poser trying to frame his conventional attractions as a hear-me-out because come on man, that shit uses DICE.
Every time I go bisexual on main it becomes EXTREMELY clear that when some of y'all are picturing a slutty man you're just picturing, like, literally any man with his shirt off. Raise your standards. This is not a request.
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Every time I go bisexual on main it becomes EXTREMELY clear that when some of y'all are picturing a slutty man you're just picturing, like, literally any man with his shirt off. Raise your standards. This is not a request.
No, I 100% agree that computer RPGs these days have too much handholding. I, too, yearn for the days of being able to spend hours crafting my perfect build from hundreds of available options, only to discover that it mathematically cannot survive the mandatory rat fight portion of the first dungeon.
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
No, I 100% agree that computer RPGs these days have too much handholding. I, too, yearn for the days of being able to spend hours crafting my perfect build from hundreds of available options, only to discover that it mathematically cannot survive the mandatory rat fight portion of the first dungeon.
I believe most artists who advocate better rep for fat bodies in popular art are sincere, but it's still very funny when they get the advocacy and kinks wires crossed and end up going "this is what REAL bodies look like" followed by a drawing of Samus Aran with an ass twice as wide as her shoulders.
November 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I believe most artists who advocate better rep for fat bodies in popular art are sincere, but it's still very funny when they get the advocacy and kinks wires crossed and end up going "this is what REAL bodies look like" followed by a drawing of Samus Aran with an ass twice as wide as her shoulders.
I'm always thrown a bit when folks say that Defunctland's Disney videos are "mean", because for my money they're not mean enough by half. I feel like they often drift into uncritical genuflection upon Disney's legacy and end up skimming over stuff that REALLY warrants more attention than it's given.
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I'm always thrown a bit when folks say that Defunctland's Disney videos are "mean", because for my money they're not mean enough by half. I feel like they often drift into uncritical genuflection upon Disney's legacy and end up skimming over stuff that REALLY warrants more attention than it's given.
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video game harem but they’re all conspiring to forcefem the player
Any time I see a computer RPG where all the NPC party members are girls with extravagant outfits and big boobs, and then the actual player character is Generic Sword Guy, I'm like: come on, man. You're *out of theme*. Get with the program!
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
video game harem but they’re all conspiring to forcefem the player
Any time I see a computer RPG where all the NPC party members are girls with extravagant outfits and big boobs, and then the actual player character is Generic Sword Guy, I'm like: come on, man. You're *out of theme*. Get with the program!
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Any time I see a computer RPG where all the NPC party members are girls with extravagant outfits and big boobs, and then the actual player character is Generic Sword Guy, I'm like: come on, man. You're *out of theme*. Get with the program!
Metroidvania series where the protagonist manages to rid themselves of their terrible cursèd power at the end of each game, only to fall afoul of a new, unrelated terrible cursèd power at the start of each following game, thus explaining why they need to keep re-collecting all of their upgrades.
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Metroidvania series where the protagonist manages to rid themselves of their terrible cursèd power at the end of each game, only to fall afoul of a new, unrelated terrible cursèd power at the start of each following game, thus explaining why they need to keep re-collecting all of their upgrades.
The one thing that keeps smacking me in the face about AI-generated cute animal photos is how whatever model most of them are using tends to subtly anthropomorphise the faces. Like, do the people sharing this stuff honestly not notice that that dog has human eyes? That's not creepy to anybody else?
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The one thing that keeps smacking me in the face about AI-generated cute animal photos is how whatever model most of them are using tends to subtly anthropomorphise the faces. Like, do the people sharing this stuff honestly not notice that that dog has human eyes? That's not creepy to anybody else?
The downside to D&D4E being so hugely influential in the indie RPG sphere in spite of Hasbro's best efforts to kill is that we've now got a whole new species of fantasy heartbreaker where the problem isn't a failure of imagination, but the fact that the author can't do technical writing for shit.
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The downside to D&D4E being so hugely influential in the indie RPG sphere in spite of Hasbro's best efforts to kill is that we've now got a whole new species of fantasy heartbreaker where the problem isn't a failure of imagination, but the fact that the author can't do technical writing for shit.
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And that clam is really, really happy about it.
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
And that clam is really, really happy about it.
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brb, making this clam as a Nobilis character
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
brb, making this clam as a Nobilis character
Every time a pop science article is like "50 million year old [creature] still [doing thing that creature does]", I like to imagine it's talking about the same individual creature for that entire span. Like one specific clam with a VERY well established daily routine.
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Every time a pop science article is like "50 million year old [creature] still [doing thing that creature does]", I like to imagine it's talking about the same individual creature for that entire span. Like one specific clam with a VERY well established daily routine.
[1/2] That "BloodRayne" ALMOST officially shares a universe with "The Blair Witch Project" is way funnier than it has any right to be when you consider the actual logistics of that. Like, yeah, creepypasta monsters in an action platformer, whatever, but picture it from the opposite perspective.
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
[1/2] That "BloodRayne" ALMOST officially shares a universe with "The Blair Witch Project" is way funnier than it has any right to be when you consider the actual logistics of that. Like, yeah, creepypasta monsters in an action platformer, whatever, but picture it from the opposite perspective.
Sometimes it occurs to me that I'm writing a forty-page character creation chapter for a game whose actual mechanics of play fit on a postcard.
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Sometimes it occurs to me that I'm writing a forty-page character creation chapter for a game whose actual mechanics of play fit on a postcard.
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For similar reasons, I'm partial to "it's a metaphor for capitalism"
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
For similar reasons, I'm partial to "it's a metaphor for capitalism"
This is my favourite game. Every part of it sucks, but each part sucks in a way that GESTURES TOWARD something that would be awesome were it not undermined by every other part. It can't be improved because everything that's terrible about its load-bearing. Did I mention it's the best game ever made?
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This is my favourite game. Every part of it sucks, but each part sucks in a way that GESTURES TOWARD something that would be awesome were it not undermined by every other part. It can't be improved because everything that's terrible about its load-bearing. Did I mention it's the best game ever made?
I love "the human condition" as a response to "what is [insert media] about?" because it's such a nothing answer that it's technically true of literally EVERY piece of media, yet there are still some things where actually saying that has some very odd implications.
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I love "the human condition" as a response to "what is [insert media] about?" because it's such a nothing answer that it's technically true of literally EVERY piece of media, yet there are still some things where actually saying that has some very odd implications.
Sometimes when I talk about Stupid Dice Tricks in TTRPGs the replies make it EXTREMELY clear that a lot of folks reading those posts have never so much as glanced at anything other than D&D5E, and their idea of an unimaginably esoteric "dice trick" is, like, making skill checks with percentile dice.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Sometimes when I talk about Stupid Dice Tricks in TTRPGs the replies make it EXTREMELY clear that a lot of folks reading those posts have never so much as glanced at anything other than D&D5E, and their idea of an unimaginably esoteric "dice trick" is, like, making skill checks with percentile dice.
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"There's no secret passages."
"There's small secret passages."
"No. No passages."
"Halfing-size passages?"
"Repeat after me: The"
"The"
"Walls"
"Walls"
"Are solid"
"Are capable of hiding small humanoids walking single-file"
"There's small secret passages."
"No. No passages."
"Halfing-size passages?"
"Repeat after me: The"
"The"
"Walls"
"Walls"
"Are solid"
"Are capable of hiding small humanoids walking single-file"
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
"There's no secret passages."
"There's small secret passages."
"No. No passages."
"Halfing-size passages?"
"Repeat after me: The"
"The"
"Walls"
"Walls"
"Are solid"
"Are capable of hiding small humanoids walking single-file"
"There's small secret passages."
"No. No passages."
"Halfing-size passages?"
"Repeat after me: The"
"The"
"Walls"
"Walls"
"Are solid"
"Are capable of hiding small humanoids walking single-file"
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And now I will never be able to unsee it. Mr. Orc in the Kitchen with a Morning Star.
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
And now I will never be able to unsee it. Mr. Orc in the Kitchen with a Morning Star.