Month: January 2023

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sprintingowl:

This Discord Has Ghosts In It

It doesn’t get talked about enough, but This Discord Has Ghosts In It is a rad example of how you can adapt game design to your surroundings.

Basically, This Discord Has Ghosts In It is a digital larp. It’s Phasmophobia played by chat. Your group creates a discord server to function as a haunted house, then you all explore it, building new ‘rooms’ out of channels as you go.

Some players take the roles of ghosts, and are muted but can affect the environment in the haunted house.

Other players take the roles of explorers, and can talk, but the ghosts are all listening.

Discord wasn’t built to be gamified this way, but that doesn’t matter.

As long as you can guarantee consistent behavior from a thing, you can build mechanics off of it.

Anything in your environment can be turned into a game.

And in this particular case, it’s a really good one!

The mechanics lend themselves well to the kinds of pacing, limited communication, and untrustworthy setting that any good ghost story needs.

this discord has ghosts in it by will jobst, World Champ Game Co.

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#it’s neat that this exists #games #Discord #fun with loopholes #the more you know #ghosts

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incomingalbatross:

Characters being compared to dogs always use terriers or pitbulls or something for their metaphors. “They grab on and they don’t let go” “They keep worrying at it until it’s dead” etc.

Anyway, I want to see collies used as metaphors. Albert Payson Terhune style. “He was like an attack dog–making slash-and-run attacks, cutting them up worse every time, never staying in range long enough to get hurt but circling back over and over.”

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incomingalbatross:

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@animatedamerican yes EXCELLENT.

“He was like a bloodhound–not actually that violent at all, but his reputation did the work for him.”

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animatedamerican:

“He was like a corgi: by all signs unaware that a fight was even happening, just enthusiastic and delighted to be involved.”

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wolffyluna:

“He was like a labrador– so known for being friendly and having a soft mouth that everyone forgot that he was actually quite large and had teeth.”

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sew-birb:

“He was like a poodle – much smarter than you’d expect for someone with such flamboyant hair ”

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speakingofdoorknobs

“He was like an Irish Wolfhound – he could do more damage being friendly than most people could do in a blind rage.”

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tiwaztyrsfist:

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #dogs #language #overly literal interpretations

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grotesqueman:

grotesqueman:

it’s 11:59. Seconds before the clock strikes 12 and it’s officially my 18th birthday. “18 year olds and older, DNI” i post onto tumblr, swiping and killing half of my followers and mutuals. the clock hits 12. “Minors DNI” I post. going in for the second attack, swiping and killing the other half of my followers and mutuals.

the dust clears. the battlefield littered with bodies. only leaving the spare porn bot and sugar daddy. I’ll be celebrating my birthday alone this year.

what the fuck happens in deathnote

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(I do not in fact know what happens in Death Note) #(I assume this is funny in a different way if you do) #Death Note #death tw? #murder cw?

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etirabys:

Two nights in a row I ~invented and applied a new mental motion to deal with the kind of insomnia where you’re really sleepy, and the conditions are right, but you just can’t do the final step of falling asleep

Would describe motion as being horny about sleepiness sensations. Really leaning into the sensuality of the sheets, rubbing feet together, nestling into sheets. Leaning into the thought of “given that I am this sleepy, I’m in the ideal place”

When I hover at the border of sleep, I can feel my thoughts kind of blister and decohere in fun, dreamy ways. at this point of insomnia, I frequently draw back awake, stimulated by my anxiety that I would lose momentum

this time I focus totally on the sensuality of dreamthink

it might be healthy in the future to, whenever having this kind of sleepy insomnia, stop worrying completely about the cost to tomorrow’s functioning, and give myself over completely to the pleasurable condition of being So Cozy

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#never before have I encountered a post this perfectly suited for the tag: #people who can distinguish between their drive for sleep and drive for sex fascinate me