#morbidlyqueerious

[mmmmalo]

if we're talking about parents escaping children, the imps lock up Dad in the trick handcuffs, which he escapes before leaving the plot entirely and then being killed by Bec Noir (who also killed Jade, and come to think of it prompted PM's ascendance...)

We...weren’t talking about that? I don’t understand what kind of course you’re charting here

[monstersdownthepath]

I am in the middle of an overambitious project to convert the better portion of Cultist Sim to Pathfinder, including rules for dreaming into the Mansus, deity stats for each Hour, plus their own obedience feat and obedience PrC, and also an Initiate of St. Hydra prestige class that can rotate into the earlier boons of the different Hours but pick up different ones each day, AND rules for researching secret histories. Wish me luck and/or laugh at my hubris.

You are an unbelievably powerful being and I wish you both luck and the hope you don’t burn out as I do with my own projects.

Link me as they get done!! I’d love to see them!

[kaaramel]

welcome back to hell, we missed you

i feel very welcomed

[rabbiteclair]

Did you mean to give Sunshine Turing-complete magic, or did it just happen by accident?

Sunshine can generate an exact solution for formulations of the Traveling Salesman Problem where n < 40 in polynomial time by setting a bunch of dolls out in an approximation of the model and thinking about them really hard.

Less jokingly: I imagine it’s best to think of the other dolls as people. (Sunshine definitely does.) Like, yeah, if you had 200 friends, you could theoretically arrange them into a finite state machine by giving each friend a set of state transitions to perform depending on the input they receive. In practice, unless somebody is holding a gun to your head and demanding that you find an optimal solution for the Unbounded Knapsack Problem with regards to which of your belongings they should stuff into their pockets, you’re probably better off treating your friends as people first and computational nodes much, much later. Like, maybe ask them to dogpile the jerk who’s holding a gun to your head. Who even cares about computational complexity when you have two hundred friends with swords?

Even less joking, I can imagine her using dolls for procedural programming style “doll A will perform these calculations, and dolls B and C will perform further calculations on the results, then doll D will take the outputs of B and C and make a choice depending on their values” stuff eventually, but anything much more in-depth would be a bit too... Yudkowsky for my tastes.

[prokopetz]

Ludos

The term “ludology” may be interpreted either as “the study of games”, or as “the study of Ludo”. If both of these interpretations grab you, you may be interested in Heroine. One player takes on the role of the eponymous protagonist, and the others play her assorted troublemaking companions as they go on a journey to learn a very important lesson about something or other. Tonally it’s admittedly more McKean than Henson, but it can totally do Labyrinth with only minor adjustments.

[moonpaw]

why must you persist in screaming at your followers

makes me lol

[rlyehtaxidermist]

Am I losing my mind, or did Curiosities of Lotus Asia (or maybe some other book?) reveal that Ran has a leather fetish?

I’m drawing a blank on that. I can’t say I remember Ran appearing in CoLA in any significant capacity, so if such a thing were the case, it wouldn’t be there.

That strikes me as the sort of detail that I’d definitely remember if it were confirmed in any like, outright statement, because it strikes me as kind of bizarre for Touhou canon, and I can’t think of anything that’d come close to it.

Was it maybe something in one of the SCoOW anthology segments? They’re essentially doujin collections, rather than an official print work.

[partizanne]

i prolly wouldnt even fight id just straight up be sleeping . sleep fighting ,

when u first meet me im just a mild inconvience that slowly turns into a spicy inconvience and by spicy inconvience i mean a DEFINITE cosmic abomination