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It's important to note that Chekhov's Gun was not originally about foreshadowing, but a piece of advice to playwrights about how every element in a play should have narrative relevance. The corollary to Chekhov's Gun is that if a gun mounted on the wall in act 1 is never used at all in the entirety of the play, then it should be omitted from the play entirely.

im-mender

also very true

anarchautistic

Very funny example of writing advice that is very specific to its medium getting overapplied outside its scope. Can you imagine how awful set design would be if people tried to apply this to movies. 60 minute post credits scene in the Matrix where Neo has to fire every gun that appears in the "lots of guns" scene

parakeet

little known fact about me i was actually isekai'd into this world from the video game world. i used to be a peggle orb

somethinginthebasement

peggle 1 or peggle 2?

parakeet

peggle 1... peggle 2... who's to say... it was just 'life' back there... to me... to my fellow orbs.......

victusinveritas

naughtypiggy

Scientists have developed a breakthrough “superfood” for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in

TLDR- Modern agriculture pollen is low in nutrients, and there aren’t enough wildflowers. Science has to develop vitamins to supplement the diets of agricultural bees. So plant some wildflowers for the wild bees near you.

metanarrates

the response to "your demographic is full of people who are ugly and weird and undesirable" should not ever be "not true! some of us are in fact hot and normal and desireable." you should stand with weird ugly bitches bc otherwise you're just playing a losing game with bigots.

wiki-but-made-them-up

astercrash

purplepenguintime

Grace is on Erid, dying of malnutrition and every other disease. The Eridian scientists are fighting for their lives to try and keep Rocky’s beloved flesh blob from shrivelling up. They can’t synthesize the food he needs and it all seems hopeless. But then, in their finest hour, a beautiful dwarf descends from the thick ammonia atmosphere to provide Grace with his first proper meal in years.

It is, of course, Senshi of Izganda

scheidungsgrund

from twitter user deejaygeejaygee

galecstatic

it just gets better

and better

goingonanadventuremaybe

funnyfroge

depsidase

not to praise the chinese government, also china is NOT communist—they are a form of state-run capitalism, but people in “the west” are lied to by their corporate owned governments and corporate owned media about china. and about socialism and communism.

wizardshark

Listen I get it but you CANNOT use "sensory nightmare" as an excuse to avoid essential things. You HAVE to find a way to make it work, such as finding effective alternatives. But you can't just avoid it.

You need to eat some vegetables in your diet or you will become a lich.

You have to wear a life jacket or you will literally drown and die.

You need to be able to exist in public spaces with children.

You have to find a way.

wizardshark

good LORD the piss is flying all over the place in that comment section! If you're poor do NOT leave your house you're definitely gonna get caught in the crossfire.

removeoffthecraudestoppers

How dare you say poor people shouldn't exist in public

wizardshark

Sprints at you fast as fuck

cuppydogshane

My Name is 8 PM. and I am always arriving when you atrent Looking

the-disemvoweler

M Nm s 8 PM. nd m lws rrvng whn y trnt Lkng

consonant-remover

8.y

I o a a i's ooa eo

cuppydogshane

if you two had a baby it would be a regular sentence. or perhaps silence.

unyieldingsilence

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cuppydogshane

Right.

liebelesbe

Yeah man, this wizard sleepover is cozy. I just saw a guy gently clap his hands together and say "hot beverage conjuration" or something, and suddenly everyone was holding a perfect mug of their favorite warm drink in their hands. Nobody who was already sleeping even woke up, that's how cozy it is. I'm over here casting pillow and level 2 pyjamas. I think I just heard "power word: blanket fort" two groups over. I gotta get in there.

fagstaynight

heartwarming: transfem named mary sue and transmasc named gary stu have had a beautiful nonbinary baby named donut steel

rioblitzle

i go to the shop and I ask if they have any raspberries. they say no, they used to sell raspberries, but they haven't had any in stock in the last 15 years. I ask if there's somewhere else I can go to buy raspberries. They say no, with confidence and pride, they're the only shop around who has ever sold or will ever sell raspberries. Other shops might sell other fruit, sure, but they have a monopoly on all raspberries forever. I ask if they're possibly planning on them selling them again in future? they say they can't tell me that.

on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they're free for all the town to pick whenever they'd like.

someone comes up behind us. It's the shop manager, President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa. he hatefully throws a bob-omb that blows up and kills both of us instantly for stealing 200 trillion dollars worth of potential Raspberry Shop That Doesn't Do Raspberries Anymore profits that they weren't making and then he turns around to the camera with a big thumbs up and says don't do piracy or something ok please

depsidase

prokopetz

The prokopetz brain worm is reading a source book and thinking "this needs more huge lookup tables"

Most sourcebooks do need more big stupid tables.

(I'll freely grant that my preoccupation is partly an aesthetic thing, but it's not just that. One of my biggest pet peeves with indie tabletop RPGs is how many of them will put the player or GM in a position where they need to Make Something Up in order to render the thing functional, then not provide any worked examples of what that might look like. Like, who exactly is the game designer here, you or me? I strive to always provide at least a dozen worked examples – and more is better – in any situation where one of my games asks the player or GM to Make Something Up, and you know what's an engaging and high-utility way to concisely present a large number of worked examples? A big stupid table.)

innumerable-voices

There's also something to be said about the size of a table in relation to its expected frequency of use and how that affects the players perception of of how long a game is meant to last

A table with only six options that's supposed to be consulted once per session caps your games total play time at less than a dozen sessions before things start getting repetitive

prokopetz

Quite so. I've touched on this before, but random lookup tables that are far too small for their stated purpose are a frequent vice of indie RPGs. A table of Weird Shit that's ostensibly meant to be rolled on at least once per scene but only has a dozen total entries is just making the hypothetical GM do your work for you in a more roundabout way.

mxtix

a lookup table with only a dozen entries is appropriate only as an index of other bigger, stupider tables on which to roll

quasi-normalcy

In February, USA Rugby banned transgender women from competing with other women at all levels. Something interesting happened: Many teams re

Apparently American rugby teams just refused to segregate their trans athletes. I wonder what everyone else's excuse is.

quasi-normalcy

#literally what people should just be doing#the good law project offered to back up the WI when the TERFs sniffed in their direction#but the WI just folded#having spoken to WI members a lot of them are actually really angry#a lot have left and a lot of chapters have closed#a lot are staying and are doing advocacy around the good law project and trying to get this BS overturned

WI = Women's Institute, I assume