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  • Where’d you come up with this idea?

    Where’d you come up with this idea?

    The inspiration for The Also-Rans came from my experience playing classic SNES and Playstation 1 RPGs. Chrono Trigger is an amazing game, and should be on everybody’s “play before you die” list, but that isn’t the game that inspired me to create a story with the unlovable side characters, because there really aren’t any in…


  • The inspiration for The Also-Rans came from my experience playing classic SNES and Playstation 1 RPGs. Chrono Trigger is an amazing game, and should be on everybody’s “play before you die” list, but that isn’t the game that inspired me to create a story with the unlovable side characters, because there really aren’t any in…


  • This is my first entry for No Theme Thursday, which looks like a lot of fun and I wanted to play too! I like act villains in sagas. They’re not here for a long time, they’re just here for a bad time, and before they wear out their welcome, they’re defeated and the main characters…


  • My lovely Alastrina, well, the real life inspiration for her anyway, suggested something I had never thought of. Wives are pretty good that way, even if it is “did you think about how displeased I’ll be when I see that pile of dirty dishes in the sink from this morning, molding by this evening?” This…


  • So why do warriors in MMOs have taunts? I mean, I get the function; as this helpful Reddit post points out, it’s the “rogue did something stupid” button. I get why a tank would want an ability to pull hate off of their squishy buddies, but why taunt, specifically? Warriors are not exactly known for…


  • A crisis of faith

    “Faith. If it was easy to understand, then the faithful would all have attained enlightenment already. Since my Order is still here and, well, they tried to teach me their ways, I suppose that means nobody really understands what it means enough to be done trying to understand it.” (Alastrina is the main protagonist of…


  • Yesterday I posted some of Flonk‘s moveset where he screws with bosses, at the risk of pissing off said boss monster. I was playing with some AI art generally to work on the move cards, and then it struck me: “Why not have goblins playing pranks?” AI is apparently very good at goblins. I mean,…


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