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What if there's a dark fountain under the lake, and Kris and Noelle 'drowning' in the chapter 5 Weird Route is actually taking them to chapter 7s fountain early? (The program attempts to load chapter 7, so either chapter 7 is in a dark fountain under the lake, or it's just straight up the afterlife and Kris and Noelle die some other way at the end of chapter 6. One of these conditions is being met too early)

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Just so I'm understanding, Flowery hits RK a dozen times, deals 0 damage because his stats are made up, and then dies after being hit once, and somehow RK is the one on fraud watch???

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Bad Game Idea

Escape the Iris

Survival Crafting Horror Game where you are banished to The Iris, a place populated by creatures with mechanics that force you to play the game a certain way in order to survive. Most are repelled by light, so they stay in caves during the day only coming out at night. Your torch light repels most of them, but some exist only to destroy those torches, so you have to keep replacing them to keep the others away. Others look like peaceful creatures specifically to trick you into letting them in. The further away from the center of the map you get, the more dangerous the world becomes. Eventually you reach what seems to be the edge of the game and the terrain becomes unnatural. Sudden peaks and valleys and tunnels throughout. You get an achievement "Enter the Iris" this whole time you've been 'inside' the iris, and now reaching the far end of this outer ring is your objective, and it's going to be much harder than everything you've done before. If at any point you die you respawn back at the center, forcing you to start the journey all over again. Building multiple shelters throughout the world is ideal, so if you die, your next attempt will be smoother. Reaching the edge of the world just has you falling into the void, the credits roll, and your save file gets deleted. No final boss. No 'good' ending. Just freedom from the cycle of dying and struggling.

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Person: rear-ends me while at I'm at a red light. Me: not even mad. Different person: rear-ends me while I'm at a red light. Me: not even mad. Other person: Shoots me in the knee with an industrial staple gun. Me: not even mad. Another person: says something slightly rude. Me: I hope you live a long and prosperous life, attaining all that you desire, so that you can slowly watch as everything you love and cherish crumbles to dust and blows away, only finally being allowed to expire after experiencing the peak of human misery. Or, stub your toe. Whatever comes first.

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Bad MMO Class System(?) Idea

Instead of choosing a class and getting a bunch of Level 1 abilities, you are given cards that represent different abilities, features, equipment, etc. and equip them into your character's 'deck'. At Level 1 you have a deck size of 6 cards. You're limited to 1 Weapon card, and 1 Armor card, the other 4 can be for your choice of skills, traits, and other bonuses. Leveling up doesn't increase your stats, but instead increases the number of cards you can put into your deck. You always have manual control over every aspect of your character, and can change them at any time. Changing from a Knight to a Wizard is simply a matter of swapping out your cards. Cards can be bought in themed packs so you always know what kinds of cards you'll be getting. A Wizard Card Pack will always contain cards that have to do with spellcasting. You can also get cards from basic enemies, but they're usually weaker versions of what you get from packs. The best will come from dungeon bosses and quests. Rarity also impacts the effectiveness of a card. So, a Common HP Increase card will give you 50 additional health, while the Rare version of the same card gives you 175. Having an entire armor set on one card does limit your ability to customize your appearance, especially if there is one definitively strongest set that all endgame players will be wearing, which is why you can put Armor cards into Sleeves that give it a different appearance. Turn an armor card you like into a sleeve, and put your new, superior armor card into it, and it will look like your old armor when equipped. Special sleeves can be used to change the color of your armor as well. Same logic applies for weapon cards.

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The Voices really be saying the darndest things, like, "waah, my shoulder hurts." Yeah. I know. Because it's MY shoulder!

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Love interacting with fandoms where you can ask a question and people will be like "um, this is incredibly common knowledge, how did you not know this?" then point to Jepo's post on Kipper from 6 years ago where she talks about something that doesn't actually show up in the show itself. Common Knowledge, people.

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Sometimes I still think about the Donut Mine Collapse of '98. 14 miners trapped inside and were eventually abandoned there after multiple failed rescue attempts. Most people go into detail about how rescuing them was too dangerous, and how they really didn't have a choice but to leave them trapped, but nobody ever talks about how long a human could survive on a diet of exclusively unripe donuts.

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Bad Superhero Franchise(?) Idea

The first movie starts like the first Avengers movie, with a villain showing up, and a government guy tracking down different heroes from different parts of the world to bring him down. You got your guy with super strength in an underground wrestling match, using just enough of his power to win without getting caught cheating. Genius inventor guy making something that works for just a few seconds before collapsing. One with celebrity status on a talk show going over footage of their latest act of heroism. A buncha guys from different backgrounds and personalities. You get a sense that these heroes have a reputation within that world, but haven't actually met each other yet. They come together and take down the villain as a team, with some in-fighting along the way.

After the first movie, we then get a bunch of prequal movies, showing the origin stories of these individual heroes, and how the government guy actually met each of them. With each film we get a better sense of how government guy has ulterior motives for bringing them all together in the first place, and his actions/words in the first movie take on a whole new meaning.

After all of the heroes' origins are told, we finally get a direct sequel where the government guy was actually the real villain the whole time, and he's the one the heroes gotta take down.

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Bad Magic System Idea

Magic golden trees that bloom different gemstones that each represent different types of magic, usually elements. Simply approach one and hold out your hand, it will bend down one of its branches, and drop a gemstone into your hand. That is now the source of your power, and can be put into a wand/staff/tome/ring/whatever to wield its power. You only get one, even if you go to a different tree, it knows not to give you another. Taking one by force will only cause it to shatter. Some gemstones are more rare than others. Rubies being your classic pyromancy gemstone are incredibly common. Tanzanite being gravity manipulation are a bit more rare. Rainbow Quartz granting the wielder Valkyrie Armor is one of a kind. When its wielder dies, the crystal will crumble to dust, and a new one will bloom on one of the golden trees to be given to someone else. These trees are also protected by the government, since only 4 remain in the world, the others having been destroyed by anti-magic fanatics. The process of actually getting to one to receive a gemstone is kinda like going through airport security at the DMV. It sucks. But, hey, magic. Totally worth it.

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One time I had a dream where I was totally lucid, walking through a mall that had loud 90s arcade carpeting and curved walls, and only sold merch from either Pokemon or Star vs The Forces of Evil (for some reason) I remember being super disappointed by the selection. A group of strangers walked by, and I felt super awkward about being perceived in such a space. Then it hit me that I was dreaming. Suddenly I was no longer lucid, and my dream-self started to move independently. He started screaming things like "I know this is a dream! You can wake up now!" audibly angry that he was in a dream, and that I was the one putting him through this. This happened years ago, and remains the most unnerving dream I've ever had.

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Bad TTRPG Idea

Altered-Egos

You play as a group of ordinary humans with human responsibilities, who discover a portal to an Altered world of make-believe, where they become make-believe versions of themselves, and now have to fight the forces of evil. The catch is that you still have to balance your human life with time spent in the Altered world as you go back and forth between them. Normal slice of life drama mixed with fantasy combat and adventure.

So, you're a normal group of high schoolers who have their sketchbooks confiscated, and in an attempt to get them back, find themselves in the Altered world, looking like the characters they were sketching.

Or a bunch of gamers who got early access to an MMO they've never heard of, and installing it pulls them into the game world.

Printed character sheets would be double-sided, so you physically flip it over whenever you switch between worlds.

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Hey, girl. Are you an angel? Because, so was Satan. Get behind me. Turns and walks away

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My mom asked me to cut an onion for her. I asked her how she wanted it. She jokingly said, "in the shape of a swan." I said, "k."

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I like my women the way I like my breakfast. Never in bed.

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Randomly remembered that time my mother got *super offended* by Roodaka's skulls on her chestplate, freaking out that something targeted towards kids would do something *so inappropriate* Meanwhile, she was totally fine with Ariel's physics-defying sea shells. Nothing wrong there. Or the Justice League Unlimited having Wonder Woman fighting crime in a one-piece swimsuit. Perfectly fine. Or the children's anatomy book she gave us that wasn't shy about showing anything/everything. We can leave the kids unsupervised with that. No big deal. But the robot. The robot is where she decided to draw the line. Got it.

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Bad RPG Idea

Everyone puts their "type" into a hat, and everyone draws one at random. They then each have to build a character using what they drew as their foundation, no matter what it is. The campaign can be whatever you want, but with the additional goal of guessing who's type you're playing as before the campaign ends.

A more tame version could just be that everyone puts a fictional character in the hat, and then the game becomes trying to guess who everyone is, and who put each character in the hat initially.