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@SandyofCthulhu Avatar @SandyofCthulhu Sandy Petersen 🪔

Sandy Petersen, a renowned game designer, recently expressed pride in having contributed to bringing H.P. Lovecraft's works out of near-obscurity and into fame, with many fans crediting his games, particularly Call of Cthulhu, for introducing them to Lovecraft's works. He also made light of his involvement in the gaming industry, joking about his role in creating content for Dungeons & Dragons and other games. Petersen's tweets showcase his interests in gaming, history, and pop culture.

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Once you start apologizing on behalf of fictional characters or races you've pulled the plug on your brain taking it off life support"
X Link 2025-12-03T21:59Z 54.9K followers, 22.9K engagements

"Despite what you see below the South Korean army would absolutely devastate North Korea's in a fight. They have better training better equipment actual air support better allies are in better physical condition and have way higher morale given that their families aren't literally starving back home. The average North Korean male stands about X inches shorter than the average South Korean male and we all know why"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:10Z 54.9K followers, 40.8K engagements

"So from the very start this video is wrong because have you been to east Washington state"
X Link 2025-12-03T13:32Z 54.9K followers, 5941 engagements

"I saw The Valley of Gwangi in a drive in theater when I was XX years old. It was clearly the greatest movie in the history of the planet. Stop motion dinosaurs AND cowboys Yes please. XX years later I see no reason to adjust my opinion"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:44Z 54.9K followers, 3482 engagements

"The Japanese constitution states that their Naval Self Defense Force cannot have aircraft carriers. They CAN have destroyers. Check out the Japanese Izumo class "destroyers". (I totally support Japan's Naval Self Defense Force on this btw.)"
X Link 2025-12-01T17:44Z 54.9K followers, 6044 engagements

"Donald Pleasance is one of my favorite actors. He flew XX bomber missions in WW2 got shot down and spent 1944-45 in a prison camp. One image is him with his daughter in a film. He's great in Halloween and he nearly killed James Bond. He was the U.S. President too"
X Link 2025-12-01T17:50Z 54.9K followers, 1965 engagements

"Why game sequels suddenly drop off in quality. The process: 1) Dev team makes a killer game. 2) Publisher wants more of the same. Dev team obliges for a sequel or two. 3) Publisher decided the devs are too expensive now that they have a hit game in their CV and farms the IP out to a worse team. 4) the worse team doesn't have their heart in the game because it's not theirs. You'll see this again and again"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:54Z 54.9K followers, 41.3K engagements

"When Hitler declared war on the USA in December 1941 he said that the Axis would destroy the "capitalist nations" and he accused Roosevelt of being one of the "ten thousand rich plutocrats" who ruled the world. A reminder that the Nazis were not capitalists. (image: a doomed and evil nation)"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:46Z 54.9K followers, 142.8K engagements

"My wife loves Portugal and lived there for XX months before our marriage but my only trip there the two things I remember was (A) the taxi driver ripped us off charging triple the correct amount (B) the hotel staff was rude and (C) the grilled octopus which I'd been looking forward to so much was kind of flabby. Not nearly as good as what I'd had in Spain. It was only a single night and I'm willing to be convinced that my experience was abnormal. Still not taking another taxi from the airport though"
X Link 2025-12-11T16:52Z 54.9K followers, 28.7K engagements

"Jesus was thoroughly documented and legal. He was born in the town his parents were literally told to go register for taxes"
X Link 2025-12-11T21:54Z 54.9K followers, 305.7K engagements

"One day I would like to see a logo redesign that made it look better instead of soulless and terrible. Can anyone give a counterexample"
X Link 2025-08-20T20:17Z 54.6K followers, 29.5M engagements

"When me and my tiny team were creating Age of Empires: The Conquerors one of the fixes we did was letting you stack up farms. Basically you'd pay your wood costs ahead of time and then as farms timed out the farmer could grab one from the stack and keep going. I have been told that in age of Empires Definitive Edition the farmers now can just grab wood from your supply instead of you needing to queue them up. We actually considered this while working on the Conquerors but we decided that having the farmers basically "steal" wood from your pile would sometimes result in some real frustration"
X Link 2025-10-17T16:19Z 54.8K followers, 29.2K engagements

"France is XX% smaller than Texas and has over twice the population. Yet Texass GDP is on track to exceed France by years end. Texas has 130000 km of road. France has 11000. Texas airports handle more traffic. The port of Houston BY ITSELF has XX% more traffic than all of Frances ports. Yes its possible to pick out statistics in which France is superior. I love France. But there is a bigger picture here and I feel France needs to step up its game"
X Link 2025-11-25T17:07Z 54.6K followers, 1.1M engagements

"Countries that dont like another country: China -America China - Japan China - India China -Vietnam China -Philippines China -South Korea China -China China -Ukraine China -Israel China -Czech Republic (its true) China -Australia"
X Link 2025-11-26T15:04Z 54.8K followers, 22.3K engagements

"Lets imagine what would have happened without Stalin. Either Russia would be ruled by some other communist wed still have a Czar or the Mensheviks would be in charge. In all three cases Russia is still able to fight. And in all three cases we wouldnt have had Stalins purge of Russian officers including the genius theoretician Tukhachevsky. So the Russian army would be stronger. Also there is at least a chance that one of the other leaders wouldnt have allied with Hitler for the first two years hugely helping him establish his grip. Id say Stalin made the war harder and gave Hitler a better"
X Link 2025-11-26T20:07Z 54.6K followers, 384.2K engagements

"Its terrific. The whole LSD trip lasts about XX minutes. Later on its used in a successful murder"
X Link 2025-11-29T15:50Z 54.6K followers, 1521 engagements

"Every nation under the wise and kindly Japanese rule suffered thousands of cruel deaths at the hands of their occupiers. Every Nation. Nations which had been enemies before (Philippines New Guinea) suffered even worse so I doubt San Francisco would have been that safe"
X Link 2025-11-29T18:46Z 54.6K followers, 108.3K engagements

"My awesome friend Ken Rolston helped craft the Elder Scrolls"
X Link 2025-11-29T19:29Z 54.6K followers, 1712 engagements

"I often see people talking about how Aztec obsidian blades won't penetrate steel Spanish breastplates. True. But European toledo steel ALSO won't penetrate a steel breastplate. To kill a guy wearing such armor you have to go for neck limbs or armpits. Which is of course what Europeans did. And Aztecs. The Spanish did record that Aztec slingstones penetrated chainmail better than iron-tipped crossbow bolts. I imagine atl-atl darts did too. Fun fact: the Spanish switched to cotton armor just like the locals. So much for steel armor superiority. The Spanish weren't dolts and saw the advantages"
X Link 2025-11-30T16:53Z 54.9K followers, 120.6K engagements

"The very best character introduction I can think of is Sonya in Mortal Kombat. She shows up in a crowded nightclub screaming "Where's the son of a bitch who killed my partner" and punching her way through thugs and partygoers in her way. The scene lasts maybe XX seconds and you learn the following: 1) she's a tough-as-nails cop 2) she's out for revenge You don't need to know anything else. You don't need the partner's touching death scene. You don't need her home life. You don't need her to be a reluctant hero. She doesn't even know she's a hero. She's just there to kick ass and take names."
X Link 2025-11-30T21:21Z 54.8K followers, 12.5K engagements

"In my upcoming boardgame I have this rule: "We know how keys work from video games. Any key opens any door. The key is destroyed when the door opens and that door can never be locked again." I have never had a player argue with this rule. It is such plain truth"
X Link 2025-12-01T17:23Z 54.8K followers, 3847 engagements

"There were animals in Eden. Adam namesd them all and no doubt was observant. This also explains how Guinea Pigs got misnamed so badly. Adam didnt know much geography. On the other hand its impressive he got Baltimore Oriole right"
X Link 2025-12-02T15:41Z 54.6K followers, 4198 engagements

"This is a recipe from the 1960s. The entire recipe contains a quarter-teaspoon of tabasco. Call the Fire Chief My dad to this day has almost this level of sensitivity. He has told me several times how the Mild Taco Bell sauce has "quite a kick""
X Link 2025-12-02T17:16Z 54.8K followers, 1885 engagements

"For the languages of the Conquerors (spoken by the units when you commanded them) we tried to get the actual speakers. Spanish and Korean were easy. I used Brigham Young University for obscure languages - they have a really big language department because of all the LDS missionaries who go to far-off lands and learn Bulgarian Quechua Laotian and so forth. I asked the university if they had a Mayan speaker and found there are like XX extant Mayan languages. So I picked a random one. Aztecs speak Nahuatl so I asked for a Nahuatl speaker but apparently we got diddled because I've since been told"
X Link 2025-12-02T17:54Z 54.9K followers, 53K engagements

"The password to the playtest room at Ensemble Studios was "gamera". Dave Lewis and I told the bosses it stood for "gamer A". But it didn't"
X Link 2025-12-02T17:57Z 54.9K followers, 5268 engagements

"Sauron and Diablo look a LOT different than in the movies and video games"
X Link 2025-12-02T20:51Z 54.8K followers, 1962 engagements

"why play Age of Empires See below"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:11Z 54.9K followers, 20.4K engagements

"The Germans get a lot of praise during WW2 for their army but their effectiveness changed as the war progressed. They were probably 10x as good as the Russians in 1941 but by 1944 they were only a little better. This was partly due to the German army deteriorating and partly due to increased Soviet skill. Americans went the same way. We were clearly inferior to the Germans in 1942 and 1943 but in 1945 a German general watching an American combined-arms assault said he'd never seen a better one even by his own troops in Russia 1941"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:14Z 54.6K followers, 264.6K engagements

"This is the true purpose of AI"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:39Z 54.7K followers, 3013 engagements

"Unlike some D&D campaigns Call of Cthulhu almost never starts with the team meeting up in a tavern. I would make an exception for this tavern however"
X Link 2025-12-03T15:49Z 54.9K followers, 3076 engagements

"This is my favorite review of Mortal Kombat Annihilation. "It was 1997 and your script was so bad even Christopher Lambert said no.""
X Link 2025-12-03T21:10Z 54.8K followers, 1568 engagements

"Three things I learned after XX years in the game industry. 1) if they say "we don't need a contract" you need a contract. 2) if they say "don't you trust us" don't trust them. 3) do NOT let a man in a suit see a game with unfinished art"
X Link 2025-12-03T21:53Z 54.9K followers, 28.1K engagements

"Tip which came form a dedicated sports fan and a friend. Dont watch the big teams. Watch the minor leagues. The tickets are way cheaper. Seats more accessible. And the games are actually more entertaining because the players make more mistakes. Scoring is higher. Everything you love about your game is there and the players arent colossal overpaid jerks"
X Link 2025-12-03T23:39Z 54.9K followers, 4482 engagements

"Recently I mentioned that Doom X was a "cash grab" and there is an attempt at a community note saying this was debunked. But it's not. Look here's the facts: 1) John Carmack & Michael Abrash & Dave Taylor were working on the Quake Engine. For the first few months of this there wasn't a lot for myself and American McGee (the level designers) to do. John Romero was mostly helping the level design at that point - not only creating his own awesome levels but creating powers and abilities for us to place into levels and keeping the database and all sorts of other things. Plus he was also involved"
X Link 2025-12-04T02:57Z 54.9K followers, 49.9K engagements

"Who wouldn't want $300000"
X Link 2025-12-04T16:51Z 54.9K followers, 24.2K engagements

"Some years ago I was attending my yearly convention in Germany (The Kraken Yay) and my German friend asked me to cook a meal for the attendees (there's less than XXX so it's possible). Something Very American. I pondered for a while. What would be American but that Europeans would not have encountered Perhaps that only rarely shows up in restaurants but every American has eaten. Then it hit me -- Sloppy Joes. We've all had sloppy joes and loved them. It's hard to find them in restaurants. And it's easy to make a gigantic batch of the meat then just spoon it onto buns so feeding XXX people is"
X Link 2025-12-04T20:48Z 54.6K followers, 16.1K engagements

"Welp I tried the Grok challenge which celebrity would I be And failed utterly. It said: Sandy Petersen you're not just dipping a tentacle into celebrity watersyou're already a full-blown legend in the gaming and horror realms. Youre the grizzled elder statesman of nerd culture. You've shaped entire genres: birthing Call of Cthulhu RPG monster-mashing Doom and empire-building Age of Empires. That's not "aspiring influencer" territory; that's "the guy who made us all afraid of our own shadows while handing us the shotgun. You're already a celebrity for anyone who's ever rolled a sanity"
X Link 2025-12-05T04:28Z 54.6K followers, 6524 engagements

"The depressing thing is she has a really interesting look and is a terrific singer & performer. But them shoving her into our faces as the new beauty is going to make folks unfairly hate her"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:02Z 54.8K followers, 7959 engagements

"Does Cthulhu have scales or armor plates"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:06Z 54.9K followers, 2137 engagements

"Public Service Announcement I made a bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich using garlic toast so you don't need to. While it was edible it was not as good as either a BLT or the garlic toast separately. Forewarned is Forearmed. The whole was less than the sum of the parts like a movie with a big ensemble cast"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:10Z 54.6K followers, 1249 engagements

"Grammar tip from Popeye the Sailor"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:15Z 54.7K followers, 1168 engagements

"I never thought of "redneck" as an insult just a descriptor. I'm sure there are rednecks who are meth-smoking violent a**holes. But most of the rednecks I've known I'm proud to be friends with. I was in Texas less than one week when a redneck saw I was cold on a hike and gave me the coat off his back. My car busted a tire on a road and it was a redneck that stopped and helped me fix it. Is "redneck" an insult"
X Link 2025-12-05T18:11Z 54.6K followers, 3053 engagements

"You hear soldiers say "tracers point both directions" but in WW2 German tracers wouldn't ignite for about XX meters which meant the enemy can't as easily use them to target the machine-gun nest. This seems like pretty easy technology to adapt. How do tracers work nowadays"
X Link 2025-12-05T18:12Z 54.7K followers, 22.2K engagements

"Here are statistics you NEED TO KNOW before you run your science fiction game. In Star Trek (TOS): XX redshirts were killed X gold were killed X science were killed In Star Trek the Next Generation: XX goldshirts were killed XX redshirts were killed X science were killed. However the meaning of red & gold shirts were switched between the seasons so the same guys (Operations/Security) were still dying just with a different shirt color. Also since the Next Generation was XXX episodes cf. TOS's XX episodes you were more than twice as likely to get killed under Captain Kirk as Captain Picard. I"
X Link 2025-12-05T19:22Z 54.6K followers, 50.5K engagements

"In case you're not aware Thailand has the best commercials in the world and it's not close"
X Link 2025-12-05T22:23Z 54.7K followers, 7134 engagements

"My grandkids elderly dog dies. He stayed in the yard & the laundry room with occasional excursions into the rest of the house. The kids said that the laundry room is now haunted so I need an adventure idea for The Haunted Laundry Room. Help"
X Link 2025-12-06T00:48Z 54.7K followers, 4001 engagements

"Me running a Call of Cthulhu game: Keeper: "You enter the hotel room. Looks like they left in a hurry." Players "We search the room." Keeper: you find a page torn from a calendar - Friday 13th is circled. Also there is a used bus ticket from Long Island. Players: we empty the trash cans. Keeper: there is nothing more to find here. Players: we toss the couch cushions. Keeper: There Is Nothing More To Find Here. Players: we sniff the fried chicken containers. Keeper THERE IS NOTHING MORE TO FIND HERE. Players: We peel off the wallpaper. Keeper: bangs head on table Players are the best"
X Link 2025-12-06T17:02Z 54.6K followers, 59.2K engagements

"Annie Oakley married at XX years old. She stayed happily married till she died X decades later. Her husband who was also a sharpshooter died a few days later. The media hated her and she won lawsuits against over XX newspapers. She was pretty cute"
X Link 2025-12-06T21:49Z 54.6K followers, 13.3K engagements

"Lovecraft makes it quite clear that cats are one of the cosmoss dark forces on a par with Cthulhu & the Crawling Chaos"
X Link 2025-12-06T23:55Z 54.7K followers, 3380 engagements

"Why Civil War Generals are the most interesting of any war to study. (Spoiler: it's because they have the widest range in quality from best to worst. WW1 generals all sucked. WW2 generals were mostly decent. But American Civil War were all over the place.)"
X Link 2025-12-07T17:31Z 54.8K followers, 79.9K engagements

"At MicroProse Software me and my buddy Lawrence Schick once realized it was Pearl Harbor day so we pondered how to celebrate it. We decided the best way would be to lock one of the producers - who was of full Japanese descent - in a closet for the day. But we chickened out"
X Link 2025-12-07T17:32Z 54.9K followers, 6291 engagements

"It's Pearl Harbor Day Imperial Japan inflicted monstrous evil upon everything it touched. One reason it could do so was because its men were so incredibly brave. Winston Churchill said it best "Every nation talks about fighting to the last man. Only the Japanese actually do it.""
X Link 2025-12-07T17:34Z 54.8K followers, 3562 engagements

"Worst Christmas song"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:00Z 54.7K followers, 5947 engagements

"I sometimes think my greatest contribution to gaming is the fact that people talk about making "sanity checks" who have never played Call of Cthulhu"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:01Z 54.7K followers, 3683 engagements

"Westerns and Superhero movies have both had deconstructions since almost the beginning. Destry Rides Again (1939) and The Big Country (1958) are both deconstructions. The original Spiderman comic was a deconstruction of superheroes. Unforgiven and Deadpool were more modern deconstructions. But these were clearly done in love for their genre and did not hurt it. To me The Boys Watchmen and V For Vendetta while also deconstructions don't feel like they were done in love. They feel like attacks tearing down the very concept. And they succeed. Compare Unbreakable to Watchmen. Unbreakable loves"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:14Z 54.7K followers, 23.2K engagements

"Circa 1994 I was on a panel with representatives from Steve Jackson Games and TSR. Both of them boasted that their company was releasing a deckbuilder like Magic the Gathering. I knew Richard Garfield and stared at them. Then I called them out. "Richard Garfield offered his game to BOTH of your companies and both of you turned it down as impractical. Now you're clinging to his coattails" They had the good grace to look abashed on behalf of their bosses. When WotC bought TSR I kind of thought "serves them right". This doesn't mean I'm on WotC's side"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:20Z 54.6K followers, 17.2K engagements

"Can confirm this for the four states in which I lived - Utah California Maryland and Texas. My son who lives in New Mexico also confirms it for his state"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:26Z 54.6K followers, 2174 engagements

"Video games have taught me that when I kill a bad guy he spits out a clip of ammo that exactly fits one of my guns"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:28Z 54.8K followers, 1598 engagements

"Who agrees with Sophia Narwitz I can see her point but feel that one answer is to introduce difficulty levels. Literally every digital game I made had difficulty levels. Are these obsolete or something"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:40Z 54.7K followers, 8935 engagements

"Cthulhu Wars has two random elements. The Elder Signs range from 1-3 points each and are drawn randomly. And the combat is dice-based. There's a faction of Eurogamers who hate randomness so I was immediately besieged with suggestions to "fix the game". Like making all Elder Signs worth X or replacing the dice with a fixed sequence of results. This was urged upon me as though of course I couldn't possibly object to this wonderous improvement. But the fact is I am excited by the random element. By not knowing exactly what's going to happen. I naturally think my way of playing is the best but if"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:43Z 54.6K followers, 2807 engagements

"My wife's most hated Hollywood thing is when a woman wakes up in the morning and has a faceful of makeup. I never noticed it before she pointed it out. Now I see it all the time because Hollywood thinks we're idiots"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:44Z 54.6K followers, 5410 engagements

"Here is my new suggestion for roleplaying games. When a player has a bad roll he can pay to adjust it. Who does he pay The DM directly. The DM is happy. The player gets his success. It's all voluntary. Now let the hate boil within you"
X Link 2025-12-08T00:01Z 54.7K followers, 1478 engagements

"I've heard enough about how Stalin "beat the nazis". Look if there had been a decent Russian leader he wouldn't have allied with Germany the first two years purged and crippled his military and left himself wide open"
X Link 2025-12-08T00:52Z 54.9K followers, 10.6K engagements

"In Roleplaying games if you don't have gold as XP then Gold becomes its own different reward with different purposes and uses"
X Link 2025-12-08T00:56Z 54.7K followers, 3524 engagements

"We were terrible at keeping secrets in the US military back during Operation Torch (the invasion of North Africa). Ice cream vendors met the troops when they stormed ashore during practice landings on the Carolina coast. Walt Disney sent a letter to the admiral in charge offering to design a logo for Torch. Somehow the Vichy French still didn't figure it out. Or more likely their command was so dysfunctional it didn't get passed down to the troops on the shore"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:43Z 54.6K followers, 3419 engagements

"See if you play Call of Cthulhu THIS is the caliber of magic items you'll be getting. Isn't that cooler than some dumb +4 sword of holding or the toe of Vecna"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:46Z 54.6K followers, 2081 engagements

"I too hate this truth"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:48Z 54.7K followers, 2276 engagements

"Fantasy gaming worlds. All fantasy worlds have some setting. In Call of Cthulhu it's Earth but with monsters. If you play D&D your game is possibly set in someone else's pre-built fantasy universe (Forgotten Realms Ravenloft etc.) A lot of gamers (including myself) create our own fantasy worlds to play in. There is no "right or wrong" here. If you make up your own world you might feel proud of yourself. The way I see it we only have so much time to spend away from jobs family and obligations. If we don't create our entire fantasy world then we can focus in on making adventures"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:53Z 54.6K followers, 4154 engagements

"Second in Call of Cthulhu I can threaten to destroy stuff. At the high end the whole world can be at stake but a scenario might be threatening a locale a town or a nation. Almost every Call of Cthulhu scenario is reactive - the players get hints about some dark secret and as they investigate they discover the awful truth and Must Stop It. In my little throwaway scenario "The Haunting" the threat is that the Thing in the house has been killing people for generations and will keep doing so. In "Edge of Darkness" a terrible being is about to manifest and if not stopped then far-reaching but"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:30Z 54.6K followers, 9671 engagements

"My final tool in getting my players to feel something is at stake is Sanity. This may seem petty after mentioning saving the world but madness is terrifying because you lose control of yourself. In Call of Cthulhu Sanity costs you your character which can be worse than death. There are degrees of it - you might just go into hysterics or need to be locked up until you "get better". But there is always that ultimate threat - Sanity drops to X and your beloved dilettante becomes a non-player-character under the control of the Keeper. Every keeper has stories about how they tormented the party"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:30Z 54.6K followers, 9403 engagements

"Fun fact: no violent crime existed anywhere in the world before American factories started to make guns"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:49Z 54.7K followers, 4953 engagements

"In the 1980s I encountered a roleplaying game. Sadly the name I do not recall now. But it had charts for you to roll up your hair style and facial hair style. I remember thinking "Surely this is something the player can decide for himself within reason.""
X Link 2025-12-08T20:31Z 54.8K followers, 5490 engagements

"I watched the movie War Pigs a few weeks ago and noticed that the German halftrack & Panzer III in the film looked like the real deal and also they were clearly not CGI. I've been slur is for a ww2 fan since I was XX so I was impressed. I then did a test comparing Grok and ChatGPT. I asked ChatGPT how War Pigs did the vehicles and it outright lied. It said the halftrack was a modified American M3 and the tank was a kitbash. Both are obviously false. The M3 is WAY bigger than a German Sd Kfz XXX and the one in the film had the weird sideways folding rear doors of the German vehicle. Also the"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:38Z 54.7K followers, 4604 engagements

"This was the first computer I ever worked on. We bought our Osborne IIs just a couple of weeks before Osborne went out of business. (I understand this was because the founder was out murdering people while wearing a goblin costume.) Many of my Chaosium works were created here. It had a XX meg hard drive"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:49Z 54.6K followers, 1770 engagements

"This is my pick for worst movie title ever. "KRAKATOA EAST OF JAVA""
X Link 2025-12-08T20:58Z 54.7K followers, 3003 engagements

"In 1988 I interviewed for a job at Coleco to work on Colecovision and Adam computer games. 1) I was left alone with a free-to-play arcade version of Dragon's Lair for X hours. So I finally beat it. 2) the entire design staff was fired X months later. One guy had just bought a house"
X Link 2025-12-08T21:01Z 54.7K followers, 10.2K engagements

"American English - "cookie" British English - "biscuit" Ever wonder why It's because the American word derives from the Dutch word "koekje" While the British like many British words is derived from Orkish: "bukh' cakh""
X Link 2025-12-08T21:07Z 54.9K followers, 12.9K engagements

"Found in Germany. 1) the chocolate imagery on the left isn't "chips". 2) there is patriotic American bunting on the sides of the package. 3) they are chocolate "chips" cookies because I guess for a German pedant there is more than one chip in a cookie. 4) they tasted okay. As you know store-bought chocolate chip cookies are always worse than fresh from the oven with the little pockets of chocolate molten"
X Link 2025-12-08T21:10Z 54.9K followers, 6231 engagements

"I love fried chicken"
X Link 2025-12-08T21:10Z 54.6K followers, 1879 engagements

"A friend of mine in 1980s California owned a Chevrolet Caprice. He said it was the greatest car ever. Other drivers always drove super careful and obeyed traffic laws around it. Everyone let him pass them. Drug dealers scattered when he pulled near. It was awesome. IYKYK"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:59Z 54.8K followers, 5271 engagements

"The fact that there is a non-zero chance for the Japanese carrier Kaga and the soon-to-come USN carrier Enterprise to sail into battle against a common enemy is really exciting to me"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:19Z 54.6K followers, 4803 engagements

"This is my favorite Cthulhu statuette"
X Link 2025-12-09T03:47Z 54.8K followers, 4908 engagements

"When I was in Madrid a couple of years ago I found this awesome "Ham Museum". I went inside hoping for memorabilia and maybe wax figures of Jessica Alba Nick Cage and the like but all it had was cured meat"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:11Z 54.9K followers, 1194 engagements

"I read a recent British murder mystery in which some thugs decided not to dump a corpse in the Thames because the government had been working so hard to clean the river"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:46Z 54.9K followers, 1663 engagements

"The entirety of Call of Cthulhu was written in a year while I attended school full-time. It was all done on a typewriter"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:47Z 54.9K followers, 1233 engagements

"What's the best cryptid for a roleplaying adventure"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:15Z 54.9K followers, 1117 engagements

"Just south of the starting shell of a house is my house. You have to walk around it to the south side to get in though unless you want to enter through the garage which I suppose is a thing. The interior pretty closely resembles my house. I have a big eyeball thing where my TV was. And if you've been to my house the small discrepancies tell you where the secrets are. For instance on the image below of my library there is a section jutting out of the corner that looks a little odd. It is. There's a secret you can activate to cause that to lower and reveal something. Ditto if you can't find my"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:25Z 54.9K followers, XXX engagements

"I also put my dad's house (somewhat enlarged) north of the starting area. It's the big oblong house with the concrete stairs at one end. This was my only way to portray his raised driveway since I can't actually have a diagonal slope in Doom. I actually am living in this house right now because my elderly parents (in their 90s) asked me to come to Utah and take care of them. So here I am. Also why my "real" house is on airBnB. Naturally I needed more. Three little enclosed houses wasn't enough for a Doom level so there are weird buildings and gazebo-like objects here and there scattered"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:25Z 54.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@amaoesquerda well it was Germany so pig it was. Also piglets have cracklings"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:40Z 54.9K followers, XX engagements

"Men with glasses are supremely manly. Especially if theyre also bald. We dont care what you think of them and were loaded with testosterone"
X Link 2025-11-21T18:03Z 54.9K followers, 4026 engagements

"One feature of Call of Cthulhu that emerged after publication is that it's perfect for one-shot adventures. I never even considered that advantage while creating it. Yes you can play campaigns too but if you're normally playing D&D and some key person is missing you can whip out Call of Cthulhu for a single night's run and it works fine. Making this even easier in Call of Cthulhu it's fast to create a character. Just roll stats and allocate skill points. Done. You don't have to worry about character class levels etc. And in a one-shot who cares if you survive The goal is to have fun. In fact"
X Link 2025-12-03T16:41Z 54.9K followers, 2570 engagements

"This is an elephant skull. It teaches us two things. 1) it's obvious where the cyclops legend came from. 2) we now know how big cyclopes were - their heads were the size of elephant heads which means that if they were proportional to humans they would stand about XX ft (9m) tall"
X Link 2025-12-05T16:48Z 54.9K followers, 109.4K engagements

"Great Moments in History: when Barbara Walters interviewed Miley Cyrus her crew overused the facilities and clogged every single one of Cyrus's toilets. So if someone tells you the media is full of sh*t there is actual proof for this"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:31Z 54.9K followers, 1433 engagements

"During the later years of my time at MicroProse (1988-1993) the company president was as insecure as an 8th grader. At one all-company meeting he poured a large 32-oz cup of Coke over the head of his newly-hired VP because he was jealous that the VP was already more popular than him. He tried to pass it off as a joke but we did not laugh. It also did not make him more popular. That's when I realized MicroProse as an independent company was doomed. Someone told me that we need "crazy devs" to make great games. While this may be true the president was not a developer in any sense of the word."
X Link 2025-12-09T18:42Z 54.9K followers, 9405 engagements

"My friends had an e-mail thread of "what if this author wrote that book". My son suggested The Hobbit by Dr. Seuss and I have to admit Gollum's riddling game by Seuss would have been fire. My other pal said "Cat in the Hat" by Lovecraft which would be another big win"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:55Z 54.9K followers, XXX engagements

"I love this entity unconditionally and everything about him and his movie"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:00Z 54.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Please don't have sex with monsters. Most of the Greek myths are devoted to explaining why this is a bad idea. Jail your bard if he tries it"
X Link 2025-11-07T20:17Z 54.9K followers, 81.7K engagements

"Eggs were $XXXX a dozen at Target today"
X Link 2025-11-30T05:22Z 54.9K followers, 12.7K engagements

"A friend of mine lived by a lake in the early 70s. The next house over was rented by Alice Cooper for the summer. It was like a half-mile away because it was a rural area. He was able to hear Alice Cooper's practice sessions echoing over the lake and loved it. So he got to hear the next album before it was released. Sweet. One day his not-rock-savvy folks made him go and ask Alice to turn down the volume since a visiting baby was having a nap. He dragged himself over terrified beyond belief and Alice Cooper himself answered the door. My friend explained and Alice was super nice about it. A"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:53Z 54.9K followers, 188.7K engagements

"This is a flashback to the time I got to run a Call of Cthulhu game in an actual former palace (in Spain). Everyone died but they stopped the evil cultist plot. Not gonna apologize for killing them because it was a convention game with pre-made characters. And everyone wants to boast that Sandy Petersen killed you in a game. No I do NOT always kill off all the characters in a convention game. I just don't pull any punches. Also I figure at a convention they don't want just another "let's explore the haunted house". They want gore and action and excitement and twists. So I give it to them. I"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:30Z 54.9K followers, 3528 engagements

"The reason I don't like the "gold = xp" thing is that in most fantasy myths & tales treasure acquisition is not the major goal of the heroes. Even when they do need some particular artifact they don't get it by killing random enemies along the way. yes I used gold for XP when I played D&D. Always rubbed me wrong though"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:46Z 54.9K followers, 9109 engagements

"I think Ive mentioned this before but in one campaign I was in the GM had a tribe of orcs who loved mithril blades because they always glowed. Always"
X Link 2025-11-26T20:09Z 54.9K followers, 6379 engagements

"In 1997 I got hired at Ensemble Studios. My first task was to create a magic-based RTS game to be a sister product to Age of Empires. Tim Deen was my lead programmer and Scott Winsett my lead artist. They were (and are) great devs. We had other artists and later on a few more programmers. I named it Sorceress based on the plot (which I won't go into here) and here is how it worked. You'd design your own sorcerer outside the game and put him into a stable of sorcerers. You'd then load up one of your sorcerers when you started a game. You got 4-6 points to customize him. A point might purchase"
X Link 2025-12-01T20:38Z 54.9K followers, 7135 engagements

"When Chaosiums game Magic World was translated into Norwegian it turned out that sorcerer was trollkarl and sorcery was trolldom and it gave me quite an insight into where Scandinavia thought magic came from"
X Link 2025-12-07T17:46Z 54.9K followers, 1734 engagements

"How to be a Yankee: a guide. If you're not an American then a Yankee is an American. If you're an American then a Yankee is a Northerner. If you're a Northerner then a Yankee is a New Englander. If you're from New England then a Yankee is from New Hampshire. If you're from New Hampshire then a Yankee is from Maine"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:16Z 54.9K followers, 142.5K engagements

"In Central America there is an Olmec site that has X tons of hammered iron implements and ornaments. Iron-working vanished later on. Iron doesn't preserve well in subtropical environments so we don't know how widespread it was at one time. But across the New World metal working seems to have been known once and then lost"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:24Z 54.9K followers, 28.5K engagements

"I am old enough to have seen Star Trek's initial run on TV. Amazing Science Fiction had an article about Star Trek which I liked so much I smuggled it into church with me and read it during the sermons (my church has multiple short sermons by different people). One of the remarks in the article was that the Enterprise was clearly not able to land on a planet surface and was one of the first ships to be portrayed that way visually. It also said that it was an interesting mental exercise to try to figure out why it was shaped that way which I agree. Even if the real reason was just "to look"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:36Z 54.9K followers, 5484 engagements

"@deadlolisociety I know right He's like another immortal Tom Cruise"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:29Z 54.9K followers, XX engagements

"For the record I have not put AI art into any of my products. Not promising this can never happen but it hasn't yet"
X Link 2025-11-18T17:55Z 54.9K followers, 1.2M engagements

"When I was in college I took a class and the teacher was anti-nuclear but he was also smart so he knew there was no threat of a meltdown and that waste was easy to store so he had to invent something else to be Bad About Nuclear Plants. What he came up with is that the wastewater from a nuclear plant (which has zero contaminants) was warm. So it would change the ecosystem of nearby rivers by making them a few degrees warmer for several hundred yards. That was the hill he preached upon"
X Link 2025-12-11T00:51Z 54.9K followers, 920.6K engagements

"@MuraScohones I see you're from Poland so you get a pass but the fact is I've been going to Waffle House for over XX years and have never seen a punch thrown. The number of fights at Waffle House is GREATLY exaggerated"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:09Z 54.9K followers, XX engagements

"Here is why it will not solve homelessness. In Dallas we had a place for every homeless. Either a family member registered that they had a room or the city provided an apartment. Many still wanted to be homeless despite a bedroom specifically allocated to them"
X Link 2025-12-12T01:39Z 54.9K followers, 5736 engagements

"Comic artists will never draw a cooler image than Watterson's T-Rex in an F-15 Strike Eagle"
X Link 2025-10-06T14:20Z 54.9K followers, 1.4M engagements

"So is driving this full circle a thing Totally would be in America"
X Link 2025-11-21T18:05Z 54.9K followers, 5M engagements

"When I was at MicroProse Sid Meier ran an after hours game that worked like this. We all stayed in our offices which had terrific intercoms. Sid & a pal were the referees. The rest of us were officers in either NATO or the Warsaw Pact in a division- level action in the Fulda Gap. Higher commanders had to use the com to tell their underlings what to do. The underlings actually did things and the refs gave them results or information. 1/"
X Link 2025-11-29T17:10Z 54.9K followers, 162K engagements

"I pumped gas for XX a gallon as my first job in high school. The high point was when Stephanie the cute tanned blonde whod just moved from California drove in for a fill. I was embarrassed that she would know I had such a menial job but instead she seemed way friendly - apparently impressed that I HAD a job instead of just living off my folks like most boys our age. That is the day I learned never to feel awkward about my job and never to feel superior about someone elses job. Anyone who works is deserving of respect. Except game journalists of course"
X Link 2025-11-30T14:52Z 54.9K followers, 2.5M engagements

"Why Lovecraft was brilliant: one of the reasons. When youre writing a fantastical story you are faced the readers suspension of disbelief. As soon as you bring in a ghost or a magic spell or interdimensional geometry the reader KNOWS its not true to life. One easy way out is to set your tale in the far future or a fantasy realm. No one cares that orc armies or sandworms don't really exist so long as you are consistent within your world's rules. But what if you're writing a horror story Set in the present day You can't just handwave away the readers natural instinct to disbelieve. 1/4"
X Link 2025-11-30T21:03Z 54.9K followers, 73.4K engagements

"What's the worst job in gaming It's "playtester". I know you're thinking that being a tester must be the dream job. Get paid to play games all day Woohoo It's not like that. Here are six reasons why not to be a tester. Reason One - you are the lowest tier. You're not part of any team but just an adjunct temporarily added to the team. You're not an artist a coder a designer or a producer. Everyone knows anyone could do your job so you're regarded as about on a par with a day laborer. 1/4"
X Link 2025-11-30T21:58Z 54.9K followers, 2.7M engagements

"In 1994 at the Game Developer Conference I was asked at a panel why Doom was all about targeting and shooting and asked why it couldn't be more restrained. Like why couldn't Doom have alternatives to shooting demons. So I asked him "Would you play Doom if it was toned down like that" He honestly said "Probably not. It's not my kind of game. I like things like Populous and King's Quest." I hear this a lot - someone doesn't like something I worked on and wants me to change it even though they themselves won't play it. I guess they can't stand the idea of someone enjoying something different"
X Link 2025-11-30T23:01Z 54.9K followers, 588.4K engagements

"My firm belief about orc women. Orc females are as flat-chested as chimp females and are the same size as the males. Orcs breed rapidly. A pig gives birth to a 2-3 lb piglet in about X months and I see no reason an orc can't do the same. Orcs are smaller than sows so they wouldn't have a litter probably just 1-2 kids at a time. The kids are weaned rapidly and kept in underground warrens with a few caretakers. The females externally look just like the males so humans elves and dwarfs can't tell the difference. You'd have to take off their pants to be sure but ugh. Orc babies grow rapidly fed"
X Link 2025-12-01T17:37Z 54.9K followers, 221.9K engagements

"As I've stated before orcs clearly drink coffee. They give the captured hobbits a "black bitter" brew which also gives unnatural energy. So that's obvious. Coffee. The question is then what does Lembas map to My wife says "dark chocolate" but I have doubts"
X Link 2025-12-02T17:15Z 54.9K followers, 28.2K engagements

"What's the perfect wish to get from the Genie from a magic lamp Without trying to fiddle with the genie trying to trick him into more wishes or whatever. Here's my choice "I want to know the exact location and defenses of every magic lamp in the world.""
X Link 2025-12-02T17:43Z 54.9K followers, 4941 engagements

"My wife lived in Chile from age X to XX. She was super-popular among the other kids because she was a tiny blue-eyed blonde girl. When she returned to the USA her main language was Chilean Spanish. She thought that a "burrito" was a little donkey and a "taco" was the heel of a boot. She still speaks Spanish pretty well but as she says she has the vocabulary of a XX year old"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:01Z 54.9K followers, 352.6K engagements

"One of the worst aspects of modern movies is everything has to be personal. So often the hero is reluctant to save the world because he promised his wife he wouldn't leave her alone again. Where's she going if the world is destroyed In Casablanca my favorite movie Bogart tells Ingrid Bergman that their romance doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world (of WW2). He is perfectly right. He gives up his great central love in order to fight the Axis. I wish I could imagine a modern movie with a hero who is willing to make that kind of sacrifice. Yes it's okay to have a hero who wants"
X Link 2025-12-03T16:16Z 54.9K followers, 137.3K engagements

"Spears are the best melee weapon ever and they weren't invented by Homo sapiens. We inherited them. With a spear a human can take on a lion or a cave bear with a pretty good chance of success. Remember the XXX dudes vs a gorilla challenge How many dudes would you need if they had spears Two Three One The Masai tribe at one time required every single youth to kill a lion with a spear to become a man. Lindybeige on YouTube has a longish video titled "Spears are better than swords (longer version)" in which he does the experience. He has a bunch of guys who have never used spears fight a group"
X Link 2025-12-03T16:22Z 54.9K followers, 116.1K engagements

"This is the greatest description ever from a bootleg video in China"
X Link 2025-12-03T16:46Z 54.9K followers, 83.7K engagements

"Recently I pointed out that McDonald's burgers suck big time. Worst value-for-money of any fast food. BUT I MUST SAY: I've been to McDonalds in Germany and in Spain and they were actually pretty good. Still pricy but everything in Europe is expensive. I assume it's because either gummint regulations force it or Germans/Spanish won't stand for eating garbage. In the USA McDonald's seems to rely on fame to sell its product and no longer cares that that product is objectively awful. This is why every other fast food joint is better - they have to be better than McDs to exist. And if you are"
X Link 2025-12-04T16:49Z 54.9K followers, 5402 engagements

"This is a vinegaroon. They live in the southwest United States. They look like they can tear you limb from limb but are pretty harmless. They can spray a XX% solution of acetic acid from their hind end. This is pretty terrifying if you're a bug because it blinds & irritates and softens your chitinous armor. But for humans it just makes us smell like vinegar hence their name. You can keep them as an interesting and weird pet if you don't mind your bedroom smelling like pickles all the time. Giant ones make GREAT monsters for roleplaying games. Huge claws acid spray and super-senses so it can't"
X Link 2025-12-04T21:29Z 54.9K followers, 30.9K engagements

"Been working hard on how to figure out a money system for my science fiction universe and I've finally hit upon it. The challenge is that the humans in my universe don't have a gigantic space empire that is under a single government. Instead every planet is virtually independent. Also there is no faster-than-light communication though there are FTL ships. So information between star systems is generally done via couriers. So the issue is how can I have a money system which will work across multiple systems And I've got it I think. First the value of a credit (the symbol is "") is defined as"
X Link 2025-12-04T22:07Z 54.9K followers, 18.1K engagements

"Most mammals have eyes in which the entire eye is dark because the iris reaches out to the lenses. Its even true for our closest relatives the apes. But humans have a highly visible eye white. Its generally agreed that the purpose of this is specifically so other humans can see where were looking. Its a social interaction feature. Its so important that dogs have begun to demonstrate it a bit. So the poster below yearns to be an asocial throwback to prehuman times"
X Link 2025-12-05T15:11Z 54.9K followers, 417.9K engagements

"Hollywood is economically and financially retarded. In the Netflix show "Mr. Robot" their awesome plan is to use their cyberhacking to save the world by "destroying all debt." They think it's obvious that this would be great. But of course this would destroy the world financially. No one would ever again loan money. There would be no car loans no mortgages no student loans. Yeah being in debt sucks but not being able AT ALL to get a car a mortgage or an education would suck worse. The poor wouldn't even own appliances. Only the rich could own anything. Post other examples of screenwriters Not"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:19Z 54.9K followers, 35K engagements

"Every person I know who is in a wheelchair would happily get out of it"
X Link 2025-12-05T22:00Z 54.9K followers, 30.3K engagements

"Some animals have more fluid genetics than others. For instance dogs wolves coyotes dingos and jackals can all crossbreed easily creating a wealth of hybrids. Humans are not like this. There is a persistent rumor that once a chimp-human hybrid was attempted but it's clear we can't breed with any other creature. We know that we cross-mated with Denisovans and Neanderthals but they were particularly closely related. In general humans must stick to humans. This is important because it means Game Freak's crazy fiction about people breeding with Pokemons is completely implausible"
X Link 2025-12-05T22:31Z 54.9K followers, 274.4K engagements

"I made a post about how humans cant breed with Pokmon and got several people defensive about it. So now I need a slur to call people who want to romance Pokemon. Suggestions welcomed"
X Link 2025-12-06T03:12Z 54.9K followers, 56.1K engagements

"In 2009 the car shop near my house posted a special deal on its marquis: Free Nobel prize with lube job. For those living abroad that might give you an idea of how most Americans felt about it. Note: Obama himself agreed When he was asked in an interview why he got the prize he answered Im not really sure"
X Link 2025-12-07T17:50Z 54.9K followers, 77.3K engagements

"At FenCon in Dallas they set up my Cthulhu Wars booth between the "Japanese Maid" and the Brony table. I thought it was pretty funny but the bronies glared at us for the entire convention. I even went over and gave the bronies our two untouched leftover doughnuts but they still snooted our little monster figures"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:36Z 54.9K followers, 29.2K engagements

"An old legend of my church is that Bigfoot is Cain the first murderer. Cursed to live on Earth till doomsday. We have anecdotes to back this up of a X foot tall hairy Cain wandering the world to do evil. This explains why Bigfoot is rare and tells us what happened to Cain. Plus it makes for a REALLY COOL Call of Cthulhu scenario with a surprise twist"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:49Z 54.9K followers, 940.3K engagements

"While I loved the movies I am not really a huge Lord of the Rings fan. Yeah Tolkien's fantasy world is solid but he also has a knack for making exciting things sound dull. He doesn't really understand romance and he pines for an England that never existed in which no one seems to need a job. You can berate me for not loving Tolkien enough but I did read the trilogy and liked it so be kind. I loved all the hobbits except Frodo whom I felt was snooty & self-centered. I'm not saying I "hated" Frodo but I liked Merry Pippin and Sam much more. I admit I liked the movie's Frodo more"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:58Z 54.9K followers, 87.1K engagements

"id Software sold the Wolfenstein engine for the Super-Nintendo to a small Christian company. They made a Noah's Ark game in which you had to shoot fruit and food at animals to "subdue" them while collecting animals for your ark. Just like it says in the Bible. I had to play every single level of their game for some reason. I guess id's owners wanted to make sure there wasn't something libelous in it and Lord knows THEY weren't going to play it"
X Link 2025-12-08T21:06Z 54.9K followers, 32.8K engagements

"Let's take a sample. Would YOU eat elephant Not raw like in the picture but actually cooked properly. Perhaps cooked like a steak or sauteed into a stew I certainly would"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:14Z 54.9K followers, 156.2K engagements

"This poster was also true in Henry VIIIs realm under the Nazis under Stalin and Pol Pot. EVERY regime no matter how evil allows speech it approves of. Heck it often compels it. Not saying there arent anti-X arguments Europeans can make (data harvesting or whatever) but the illegal speech is plainly dystopian"
X Link 2025-12-09T15:46Z 54.9K followers, 20.6K engagements

"When I was X it was 1863 the 100th anniversary of the Civil War. My dad who was a buff brought home a copy of the Avalon Hill game "Gettysburg". Almost instantly we lost the rules. So all I had was the game board and the oblong cardboard counters. I was fascinated. I'd push the counters around and try to figure out what the rules might be. I pondered the existence of the game's mysterious "0-8" counters named after the generals. When I turned XX my dad took me to a hobby store in a town XX miles away and lo and behold THERE WAS A COPY OF THE GAME I begged pled and promised anything for him to"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:22Z 54.9K followers, 14K engagements

"Public service announcement: "Cachalot" is a much better term than sperm whale and we should all switch back to it"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:45Z 54.9K followers, 4308 engagements

"My junior high teacher told me that when he was a G.I. in Italy in WW2 he was thirsty. His sergeant told him "don't fill your canteen from the stream" so he didn't. A couple hundred feet upriver he found a dead German rotting in the stream. This story kept me from drinking out of streams for decades"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:55Z 54.9K followers, 42.3K engagements

"We don't hate game journalists enough"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:55Z 54.9K followers, 41.7K engagements

"If you are concerned about pollution and the climate (and who isn't - even people who don't think climate change is happening don't want a polluted world) then please remember that the USA and Europe have both been reducing our carbon footprint steadily since 2001. So ire hatred and demonstrations should be aimed at the nations which have increased their footprint. Not the US and Europe who are literally doing what you asked"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:32Z 54.9K followers, 3638 engagements

"When I saw The Evil Dead for the first time (in 1981) it was in a low-end theater in a bad part of Oakland. We had to walk up a creaking stairway to the theater. It was filthy and stank of weed and booze. We could hear arcade games "pinging" and "wakka-wakka-ing" downstairs. It was the perfect venue"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:01Z 54.9K followers, 47.8K engagements

"Tattoos are forever. Someday shell be trying to explain to a grandkid why she has a tattoo as relevant as a I Like Ike tattoo is today"
X Link 2025-12-10T20:09Z 54.9K followers, 12.4K engagements

"Why follow me I spent the last XX years creating games. Ive done video games (Doom Age of Empires etc.) roleplaying games (Call of Cthulhu Ghostbusters etc.) and board games (Planet Apocalypse Cthulhu Wars etc.) and I talk about them"
X Link 2025-12-10T23:25Z 54.9K followers, 12.3K engagements

"Biologically it will work like this. I'm assuming that outsiders don't invade or are imported which I agree would be bad for Japanese culture. What is happening is that most Japanese aren't having kids (obviously). But it's not scattered randomly amongst all Japanese. There is almost certainly a smaller group of Japanese who are still having kids and they are driving a large part of the current birth rate. When the non-breeders die out the breeders will continue. Japan won't go extinct - it will just become the subculture of whoever is having kids"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:15Z 54.9K followers, 153K engagements

"@bubzthetroll and devastates the ecology right Right"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:23Z 54.9K followers, 91.2K engagements

"You really really liked floor tiles"
X Link 2025-12-11T03:04Z 54.9K followers, 2075 engagements

"In the olden days of D&D the encounter tables didn't list human encounters as "3rd level Assassin" or "4th level Fighter". It gave the level name so it would say "1-6 Swashbucklers". Then you had to cross-index the various charts till you figured out that a Swashbuckler was a 5th level fighter. Of course Swashbuckler was a common enough rank in a common enough class that we usually knew it pretty quick. But we weren't always hip to what the level names were for the less-common classes. A guy joined our group when his old DM graduated and moved away. They were in the dungeon and got attacked"
X Link 2025-12-11T16:33Z 54.9K followers, 29K engagements

"I have had hawaiian burgers several times. It never quite hits that peak of great burgerness for me. I'm not offended by it. Just in the end I'd rather have my grilled pineapple separate or perhaps on top of pork"
X Link 2025-12-11T17:01Z 54.9K followers, 1410 engagements

"In the 1990s the demographics of online gaming were that around XX% of gamers were age 18-25 and about XX% were 45+. Only about XX% gamed from the age of 26-44. MicroSoft's analysis was that when you're young you have free time to game. Then you graduate from college and you're getting married your career is starting up and you have zero time to game. So few can game 30-40 years of age. Then around 40-45 you're divorced or your kids are old enough you don't have to watch them 24/7; your career has tanked (or is stable) and now you have free time to game again. I don't know if these are still"
X Link 2025-12-11T17:17Z 54.9K followers, 16.3K engagements

"The biggest culture shock I had in Spain was the dinner time. My wife and I would be walking around feeling a little hungry at X pm say and walk up to a restaurant. "Oh no we're not open. Come back in XX minutes." This didn't happen in Madrid or Barcelona. I assume because they are used to tourists so open "early" for them. But Cordoba and Aviles were flabbergasted we'd eat so soon. Even 8:30 seemed kind of rushed to them and they preferred we'd come at 9-10pm then spend like X hours eating. I was always taught if I had a big meal just before bed time it would keep me awake. I guess it could"
X Link 2025-12-11T17:26Z 54.9K followers, 48.2K engagements

"Well an atomic weapon would work. A shoggoth has DNA (or at least RNA) which would be fried by intense gamma rays and the thermal effect would be enough to burn even a shoggoth. Note: it won't "get cancer" or "mutate" because it can discard or resorb aberrant body parts. But what do you nuke A shoggoth attack would probably take the form of a surprise surge out of the water and into a port city's streets and sewers. Pseudopods would reach from the manholes & grab people. It would erupt inside buildings from the drains. It could flow down entire streets rolling over cars and screaming people"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:13Z 54.9K followers, 2090 engagements

"Napoleon said: One Mameluke can easily defeat XX Frenchmen. XXX Mamelukes is an even match for XXX Frenchmen. And no amount of Mamelukes can defeat 5000 Frenchmen"
X Link 2025-12-11T20:46Z 54.9K followers, 209.8K engagements

"we love Dim Sum in my family. I'm sad it's rare in Utah. Anyway I may have failed as a dad in some ways but I raised kids who are not afraid to try new foods. We were all in the Dim Sum house and as the trays were coming by my son noticed one with chicken feet. He said "Hey dad can we get chicken feet" I (having eaten chicken feet once before) said "I don't think you'll like it." But he insisted and like a fool we got it. He ate one and then realized his mistake. I mean it's not like chicken feet taste "bad". There's just no "there" there. Anyone know if there's a way to make chicken feet be"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:53Z 54.9K followers, 1450 engagements

"The most interesting thing about this movie is the mummies eat flesh like zombies. Is it the worst mummy movie that I an aficionado of mummy movies have ever seen Well . maybe"
X Link 2025-12-11T23:42Z 54.9K followers, 1326 engagements

"Here are XX great ones: Sahara (1943) The African Queen The Longest Day Battleground The Enemy Below T-34 (Russian) Blood and Gold (German) The Bridge (German) Zeppelin Sands of Iwo Jima All good"
X Link 2025-12-12T03:32Z 54.9K followers, 3010 engagements

"For those doubting Thai commercials are the best in the world. Possibly the entire solar system"
X Link 2025-09-20T14:28Z 54.9K followers, 2M engagements

"A fun fact is that the worst writing "system" in the world is Japanese and it's not close. Even the Japanese know this. My best friend works as a translator from Japanese to English and tells me dire stories all the time. Below is an image from Spirited Away in which by removing the second syllable in her name "Chihiro" is somehow changed to "Sen". My friend told me of a civil court case in America in which the attorney asked him how to pronounce a certain name and he had to say "I don't know." The attorney started to mock his translation skills and my friend explained that for a lot of"
X Link 2025-11-05T16:14Z 54.9K followers, 1.4M engagements

"Once I had a really long lecture from a guy about Call of Cthulhu and then he told me he didnt read or watch horror. I think you need to love a genre in order to build a world in it. If you dont read heroic fantasy your D&D world will fall flat. If you dont read space opera your Traveller game wont work. You need to love what youre creating. If you are building a game setting or adventure in order to expose or fix that setting you will fail. And I think a lot of the risible stuff weve seen lately is from fixers and re-interpretations. Which is why no one likes them"
X Link 2025-11-24T20:39Z 54.9K followers, 143.9K engagements

"Its fun for game masters"
X Link 2025-11-29T19:23Z 54.9K followers, 1996 engagements

"Speaking as an actual pretty damn successful game dev this is horseshit. Its like saying you cant criticize the manufacturer when your cars brakes fail"
X Link 2025-12-01T01:59Z 54.9K followers, 287.4K engagements

"I think it's kind of depressing that the very top selling Real Time Strategy games of all time are still Age of Empires X (1999) and StarCraft (1998). Has there been no huge improvements in real time strategy in XX years"
X Link 2025-12-01T17:02Z 54.9K followers, 591.9K engagements

"I play Call of Cthulhu in the modern age not the 1920s. I've had people ask me how to make enemies scary nowadays. There is a sort of assumption that with cell phones the internet guns and airplanes the bad guys have no chance. But this looks at things backwards. The cultists have cell phones internet guns and airplanes too. Even more to the point modern technology is far more horrific and dehumanizing than anything from the 1920s. I'm sure the King in Yellow has a TikTok feed. Our easy communication is a means to doom humanity. In The Shadow From the Steeple Robert Bloch makes it clear that"
X Link 2025-12-01T19:28Z 54.9K followers, 62.1K engagements

"A couple years ago I went to the Texas State Fair and they had an exhibit of "Historic Texas Video Games". I'd actually worked on most of them. The armed guard did not believe me. shrug Also my daughter wore a t-shirt to high school that said "DOOM. My dad wrote it." and was harassed by non-believers"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:20Z 54.9K followers, 18K engagements

"Neither communism nor capitalism existed within the time period of any Age of Empires game. However a crude proto-capitalism was starting to appear during the Industrial Age of Age of Empires X. So keep your politics away from my real time strategy"
X Link 2025-12-03T15:48Z 54.9K followers, 19K engagements

"In an interview with Christopher Lee he said that after he was in Lord of the Rings the people doing the Harry Potter movies found an awesome role for him in it. But the British producer said "We can't have him play a wizard in Harry Potter. He's already been a wizard in Lord of the Rings." Christopher Lee said basically that's why the British movie industry can't have nice things. He added an American producer would have said "Oh yeah he's perfect He was in Lord of the Rings""
X Link 2025-12-03T22:40Z 54.9K followers, 718.8K engagements

"Anyone playing Age of Empires 3"
X Link 2025-12-05T22:07Z 54.9K followers, 5185 engagements

"The computer AI in Age of Empires II was in two parts. The more difficult part was how the units marched gathered resources assembled into formations and so forth. This was entirely done by the coders bless their hearts. But there was also a simpler scrip which determined which buildings units and upgrades an enemy chose. Mario Grimani created the scripting program and I wrote all the scripts. The scripts were ENTIRELY "If Then" statements. Like "If Food XXX Research Feudal Age" or "If Feudal Age Researched Build Barracks". Stuff like that. I originally only had 1000 If-Then statements"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:32Z 54.9K followers, 109.4K engagements

"Here is a Nazi poster for the Dutch made in 1944 attacking America because we're capitalist. Next time some idiot tells you the Nazis were capitalists think of this. There are plenty of other proofs. They hated capitalism"
X Link 2025-12-06T17:18Z 54.9K followers, 14.3K engagements

"Here is an important fact and yet another reason we need to get to Mars. Trebuchets have exactly the same range on Mars as on Earth (except for minor air friction) because the gravity that affects the shot also affects the counterweight. But catapults & ballistas have a much longer range on Mars because their mechanisms aren't based on gravity. Thus when we are sieging a medieval castle on Mars catapults and ballistas are correspondingly better vis-a-vis trebuchets. But obviously we need to investigate this in person"
X Link 2025-12-06T17:37Z 54.9K followers, 89K engagements

"So in my opinion this is the greatest Superhero movie ever made and it's not close. Before you make a counter argument please go watch this"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:46Z 54.9K followers, 1269 engagements

"I was really suspicious when I heard Peter Jackson was doing the Lord of the Rings. I loved Bad Taste & Dead Alive but they were not enough to convince me he could do Tolkien. When I heard the first movie was X hours long I lost hope. Super-long movies are almost always a sign of self-indulgence (Heaven's Gate Lone Ranger Pearl Harbor). Friends dragged me to the movie kicking & screaming and against my expectations it was amazing. The number one thing that won me over His orcs. I was worried about the orcs. I wanted orcs to match the books. I wanted orcs to be smaller than humans and really"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:52Z 54.9K followers, 76.2K engagements

"In 1940 the US Army standards for new conscripts were: at least X feet tall 105+ lbs 12+ teeth no flat feet or hernias. XX% of candidates failed this test. That's how harsh the Depression was"
X Link 2025-12-08T00:58Z 54.9K followers, 885.9K engagements

"My best friend from Germany is from Hesse so I look up slurs and accusations against the Hessians from the Revolutionary War when I visit to regale him with. He in turn tells me that random Hessians were just out plowing or whatever when a band of soldier would come by forcibly conscript him and ship him off to America. They were technically mercenaries because they were paid for but none of the soldiers got the money - all the cash went to the Landgraves pocket"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:33Z 54.9K followers, 191K engagements

"I would never defend any slavers - it's a monstrous evil that has plagued mankind for millennia and I long for the day when its last vestige is eradicated. But approximately XX% of the trans-Atlantic slaves made it to the New World alive and approximately XX% of the slaves taken to North Africa and Arabia died en route. Walking through the desert was hard and the Arab and Bedouin slavers killed those who couldn't keep up. Also a lot of the slaves taken to the Near East became eunuchs. This is why despite the vast amounts of slaves taken by Muslim slave traders there is almost no trace of"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:07Z 54.9K followers, 102.9K engagements

"When id did Wolfenstein for the Super Nintendo Nintendo required two changes. First the blood spatter had to be changed from red to white (which I thought looked really perverse - shoot a nazi & white goo shoots out. Ick). Second we couldn't have the police dogs so we replaced them with giant rats who barked and otherwise behaved just like the dogs. I had to modify every level of Wolfenstein to fit the super-Nintendo and I had to play every level multiple times looking for bugs. Yay me"
X Link 2025-12-08T21:05Z 54.9K followers, 25.3K engagements

"@taddyfife Elephants are not endangered"
X Link 2025-12-09T01:25Z 54.9K followers, 11.6K engagements

"Correct. Which is why he did something about it. Usually Santas only intervention is when I get coal & switches in my stocking but Rudolph got to lead the sleigh You Santa-deniers and -haters dont have a leg to stand on"
X Link 2025-12-09T15:30Z 54.9K followers, 4839 engagements

"I gave one of the players a sentient sword in 1975 and I had it be a complete jerk. It constantly nagged him about wanting a nicer jewel in its hilt a better-quality scabbard and so forth. It was also cowardly and panicked when they were about to fight a monster it thought was too tough for it. "No I don't want to lay around in a filthy giant's lair for the next century Run away" It was heaps of fun for me the DM and the players said they liked it too"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:08Z 54.9K followers, 47K engagements

"Tyrannosaurs are more than just a large carnivore. A lion's bite is 1000 newtons and a hippo's is 1800 newtons. The Giganotosaurus which is bigger than a tyrannosaur had a bite force of 6000 newtons. The Tyrannosaurus rex had a bite force of 35000 newtons which is astonishingly more than anything else and basically means it was superpowered"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:24Z 54.9K followers, 6803 engagements

"Okay ladies pick your dream man. We know he has to be bald swarthy and buff"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:19Z 54.9K followers, 1257 engagements