Random Thoughts

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Young Folks is still grotesquely awful...and yet it endures. Fuck Peter and Bjorn with John.

Grocery store muzak system, gimme all the stomp clap hey you want, but not that.

[Ceir]

Sometimes I do it to myself.

> Be me. Nom on some hard candy.
> Have a coughing fit, bring up a splotch of bright red.
> Freeze in momentary panic before my eyes fall on the cherry Jolly Rancher wrapper from five minutes ago literally next to my other hand.

It's not even Monday, or Friday for that matter!

[Seanette]

Or like everyone who somehow decides 'Every Breath You Take' is romantic. Cripes, do you not actually pay attention to the words?

Or how "romantic" "I Will Always Love You" (which is a BREAKUP song) or "Saving All My Love For You" (a side piece is whining about how awful it is that "her" so-called "man" hasn't left his FAMILY for her yet) are.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Or like everyone who somehow decides 'Every Breath You Take' is romantic. Cripes, do you not actually pay attention to the words?

Oh my god, yes. So creepy.

Kind of like that American Idol winner, Clay Aiken's single "Invisible." "If I was invisible, Then I could just watch you in your room. If I was invisible, I'd make you mine tonight." HELLO!?

[Ceir]

Maura O'Connell introducing her rendition of Cheryl Wheeler's "Summerfly" at a concert:
"I love this song. It has such a happy bouncy melody and it's so, so sad!"

Or like everyone who somehow decides 'Every Breath You Take' is romantic. Cripes, do you not actually pay attention to the words?

[dalesys]

... Light, cheerful bluegrass music... ...Ah, tonal whiplash once you start paying attention to the lyrics.

Maura O'Connell introducing her rendition of Cheryl Wheeler's "Summerfly" at a concert:
"I love this song. It has such a happy bouncy melody and it's so, so sad!"

[Ironclad Alibi]

Bargain bin at the used bookstore yielded me a compilation CD of railroad-related songs, and it's kinda of funny - not in a ha ha way, mind. Light, cheerful bluegrass music...about hobos, wrecks, death, lost loves, and the price of progress. Ah, tonal whiplash once you start paying attention to the lyrics.

Lucky you. I would love to find a CD like that. I love those old railroad songs.

[Ceir]

Bargain bin at the used bookstore yielded me a compilation CD of railroad-related songs, and it's kinda of funny - not in a ha ha way, mind. Light, cheerful bluegrass music...about hobos, wrecks, death, lost loves, and the price of progress. Ah, tonal whiplash once you start paying attention to the lyrics.

[Kit-Ginevra]

Matt Lucas & Rick Astley - Thank You Baked Potato #FeedNHS <----With or without chili,it's thank you baked potato...

[csquared]

Chili Mac. Not bad, as long as it is not Cincinnati chili. Not sure that qualifies as chill.

Loaded baked potato topped with chili? Hell yeah!

Not sure I would put chili on toast. More like why would you? In a bread bowl, definitely.

[Seanette]

I'd think the spaghetti would be the least bad choice. Soggy toast does not appeal to me, and I don't see chili going well with potatoes.

[catcul]

Some lady said that the worst thing you could put chili on among toast, potatoes, and spaghetti, the worst one would be spaghetti.

What's wrong with chili on spaghetti?

[Ceir]

I hit these stretches where I just cannot find some Random Mundane Item at the store. This week, it's poster sticks. Not a frame, not the $20-a-set magnetic ones, not the jaw ones that clamp on and ruin the poster...just a basic set of "slide 'em on, occasionally readjust before it falls out". Not at Target, not at Walmurt, nothing. Go figure.

[Ironclad Alibi]

A couple more ideas:

- When a character dies they become a ghost that can't interact with anything.
- Random containers that are nested many layers deep.

[Ceir]

Purely as a thought exercise, I've been trying to come up with the most fair yet mean game possible, in terms of just totally stonewalling player expectations and being sarcastic about video game tropes - basically, the ultimate streamer troll. For what I'm envisioning, it would have to be some kind of generic third-person action RPG type thing.

In some ways it would be scrupulously fair:
- generous and robust checkpoints or quicksave/load system
- if there's an RNG chance of something, the calculations will be displayed and accurate (looking at you, XCom)
- if the PC dies, there will be a death screen explaining exactly what happened
- in general, information will not be hidden
- prompts and tutorials will be prominent, exact, and highly visible

And then the sarcasm and stonewalling kicks in:
- those prompts and tutorials that are prominent and highly visible do not go away until the player does the thing, you can't just ignore them
- dodge-rolling and bunny-hopping are absolutely options; constantly doing either is slower than base walking
- there is never anything behind waterfalls
- there is never anything inside Random Containers
- there will be a lot of breakables; there will be consequences for breaking them
- there will be a lot of NPCs; there will be consequences for harassing or hitting them
- attempts to shortcut, speedrun, or sequence-break will either lead to a 'back where you started' loop, or death

Hey, I never said it was a thought exercise in developing a fun game to play...