[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @SandyofCthulhu Sandy Petersen 🪔 Sandy Petersen 🪔 posts on X about all the, age of empires, if you, money the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXXX +94% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +150% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +7,748% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +17,675% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/posts_active)  - X Week XXX +12% - X Month XXX +49% - X Months XXXXX +288% - X Year XXXXX +1,031% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.60% - X Month XXXXXX +2.50% - X Months XXXXXX +204% - X Year XXXXXX +216% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) #4255 [gaming](/list/gaming) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) #952 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [all the](/topic/all-the) 2.84%, [age of empires](/topic/age-of-empires) #8, [if you](/topic/if-you) #2347, [money](/topic/money) #383, [women](/topic/women) 1.7%, [italy](/topic/italy) 1.14%, [murder](/topic/murder) 1.14%, [sandy](/topic/sandy) #7, [tokyo](/topic/tokyo) 1.14%, [iykyk](/topic/iykyk) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@keshonhend](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@__ravenous__](/creator/undefined) [@kraaivlissingen](/creator/undefined) [@felix1369343](/creator/undefined) [@tjphoenix3](/creator/undefined) [@ldslawyer2156](/creator/undefined) [@richmondie](/creator/undefined) [@d20collab](/creator/undefined) [@nickhasdoubts](/creator/undefined) [@cissiberian](/creator/undefined) [@withsobersenses](/creator/undefined) [@elgannoh](/creator/undefined) [@63axion12](/creator/undefined) [@theforkin](/creator/undefined) [@memedreamsauce1](/creator/undefined) [@dogfromhalflife](/creator/undefined) [@daveoreally](/creator/undefined) [@mobilitynerd](/creator/undefined) [@cinnamonrolf](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "This kind of counterpoint is vacuously stupid. Does the writer think Vikings didnt massacre people of different faiths Torture people Kill supposed witches Suppress peasant revolts It was the Dark Ages - EVERYONE was doing all the things youre clutching your pearls about. They had to. Let a peasant revolt succeed and your nation falls to ruin. Theyre objectively not good things. This doesnt make the nobility good of course but dont view an ancient revolt in the same lens as 1776 or whatever your leftist fantasy is. If those peasants get power theyll be murderous"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1946968235661754511) 2025-07-20 16:19:34 UTC 41.7K followers, 16.4K engagements "Aztecs: Ive seen people who dont really know their history say Aztec obsidian swords cant penetrate steel Spanish breastplates This is true. But European toledo blades and crossbow bolts ALSO cant penetrate steel breastplates. To kill a guy in a cuirass you have to go for the neck limbs or armpits. Another fact - the Spanish quickly switched to wearing cotton armor. Just like the Mayans & Aztecs. So much for their armors superiority"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948687387024130445) 2025-07-25 10:10:52 UTC 41.8K followers, 19.7K engagements "The only successful Communist state was San Marino from 1945-57 which had an elected communist government which somehow failed to murder anyone (unique among marxist states). San Marino is an itsy-bitsy nation surrounded by Italy. When the San Marino communists publicly APPROVED of the brutal suppression in Hungary 1956 they lost their majority. They pulled shenanigans to prevent a new election and an armed revolt started brewing. Then they saw reason and stepped down with no casualties. So they didnt kill anyone but liked it when other communists did so. They left office but tried"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947665745518977423) 2025-07-22 14:31:14 UTC 41.8K followers, 11.9K engagements "I saw a post which I sincerely hope is fake in which a professor at Warwick said we shouldn't read to our kids because that's unfair to kids who don't get that. The way to bring about equality should never ever be to drag down those in the front of the race but by boosting those in the rear. If "being read to" gives kids an advantage instead of stopping it go read to some kids. Foster a "read to kids" group at the local library or school. Agitate for a national "read to kids" program"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948853865790800094) 2025-07-25 21:12:24 UTC 41.8K followers, 11.9K engagements "My question is for those whove been to a university AND published something. Did you learn one single thing in academia that was of the slightest worth in your writing Because I did not. (Learned plenty in junior high & high school tho)"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947406447983173858) 2025-07-21 21:20:52 UTC 41.8K followers, 38.2K engagements "@LdsLawyer2156 wut. If you didn't belong to my religion I'd think you were on weed"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947798773545283592) 2025-07-22 23:19:50 UTC 41.8K followers, XX engagements "I assume because theres two full shots of Johnny Walker added to the beer & their taste buds are dulled"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1945952008420098053) 2025-07-17 21:01:27 UTC 41.7K followers, 3080 engagements "I once went to a restaurant with my granddaughter (among others) and had clams casino Rhode Island clam chowder raw cherrystone clams and littlestone clam linguini in white sauce. My granddaughter won't eat clams so all was well"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948049380852052014) 2025-07-23 15:55:40 UTC 41.8K followers, XXX engagements "Here's my dog watching the movie "Zoltan Hound of Dracula" AKA "Dracula's Dog". She REALLY liked it. She barked at Zoltan growled at the vampire puppies watched the complete thing. She didn't like Reggie Nalder either"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948406599074369657) 2025-07-24 15:35:07 UTC 41.8K followers, XXX engagements "This is the opposite of reality. During the USSR time the Baltic states had their money drained and transferred to less successful SSRs. They literally lost the most economically by being an SSR of all the sections"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948392838666010700) 2025-07-24 14:40:26 UTC 41.8K followers, 2021 engagements "Herere ten Tours Chalons Vienna 1683 Breitenfeld Bannockburn Castillon Leuctra Zama Salamis Lepanto"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948591017550381382) 2025-07-25 03:47:56 UTC 41.8K followers, 3299 engagements "Sometimes I'll post something about Aztecs and then I usually get one or two guys saying something about how Aztecs were kind of the bad guys. Well yeah. That's why I think they're super interesting. It's why I created Aztec civs twice in Age of Empires. Love those Aztecs in games - and games are where of course you get to BE a bad guy for fun. And of course let's not forget that the Aztec evil empire doesn't magically make the Spanish colonial empire "good". "behold . it is by the wicked that the wicked are punished""  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948812494577041582) 2025-07-25 18:28:00 UTC 41.8K followers, 4555 engagements "This is an F-86 Sabre jet. This was the single most important weapon that ensured that South Korea was not plunged into totalitarian desolation. It helped give us the South Korea we love. Edgar Schmued the designer ALSO designed the P-51 Mustang. A candidate for best plane designer ever"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947393974718673244) 2025-07-21 20:31:19 UTC 41.7K followers, 3730 engagements "I have eaten European brown bear in Finland. It was highly spiced and tasted a lot like pulled pork. Because of the sweet sauce & the fact that bear must be well-cooked (trichinosis) I am not sure I got the full bear experience"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1946915655132836225) 2025-07-20 12:50:38 UTC 41.7K followers, 2334 engagements "What is a Yankee A TED talk. If youre not American a Yankees any American. If youre from the South USA a Yankee is from the north. If youre from the north USA a Yankee is from New England. If youre from New England a Yankees from New Hampshire. If youre from New Hampshire a Yankees a player on a much-hated baseball team in New York"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1945896667384812004) 2025-07-17 17:21:33 UTC 41.7K followers, 19.7K engagements "My opinion: the only reason you're not admitting your favorite dinosaur is Tyrannosaurus rex is because that's EVERYONE's favorite and you just have to be different you prima donna"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1944077772567326943) 2025-07-12 16:53:54 UTC 41.7K followers, 26.5K engagements "Explain this: Electronic Arts has many in-house training sessions seminars and rules preaching the virtue of cooperation across projects. Everyone needs to consider the other projects needs. But Electronic Arts is legendary for the world-war scale conflicts vendettas and backstabbing between their producers fighting for their projects against all others. They have the biggest divergence between words and action of any company I know. Is it because the lets get along stuff is a trap designed to trick new producers into lowering their guard Or is it just that Satan runs the company"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947769142893023666) 2025-07-22 21:22:06 UTC 41.7K followers, 4724 engagements "I'm pretty sure the whole "not dating" thing is restricted to women in a few coastal cities - San Francisco New York maybe a couple others (Portland). As usual people in those towns assume that everyone else is Just Like Them. It's the same famous syndrome first registered in 1968 when a notorious journalist from Greenwich Village said "How could Nixon win I don't know ANYONE who voted for him." Ladies men are still going on dates. Just not in your neighborhoods"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947800406249377914) 2025-07-22 23:26:19 UTC 41.7K followers, 7700 engagements "Someone complained that you can't eat pizza and hold a controller at the same time so I explained you eat the pizza during the cinematics"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1949249511974654172) 2025-07-26 23:24:33 UTC 41.8K followers, XXX engagements "Planet Apocalypse Hyperspeed The Gods War and I actually contributed to Arkham Horror. But I admit I would probably take World in Flames to my desert island because Im an old-school grognard despite my career"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948220056309260518) 2025-07-24 03:13:52 UTC 41.8K followers, 1063 engagements "@DogFromHalfLife It is indeed true. More was done by Tim Deen than me but I was present balancing helping with the interface playtesting and so forth"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947733101423300923) 2025-07-22 18:58:53 UTC 41.7K followers, XXX engagements "Hey idiot - the USA has MORE kilometers of rail tracks than all Europe combined. And not just a little more - we are MORE THAN DOUBLE your rail network. So pack it in please"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1941944612370923619) 2025-07-06 19:37:29 UTC 41.8K followers, 3.1M engagements "Medieval chroniclers complaining that the vikings were getting all the babes because they smelled good and took baths"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1943819668269215943) 2025-07-11 23:48:17 UTC 41.8K followers, 21.2K engagements "I find it depressing that the most popular Real Time Strategy game (according to the ever-reliable Reddit) is still Age of Empires X which we released in 1999. There's been updates yeah. But NO huge improvements in RTS for XX years"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1933557673817223479) 2025-06-13 16:10:47 UTC 41.7K followers, 78.1K engagements "For a change of pace here's a joke from Communist Poland. Wlodek wants to deposit his money saved carefully in a mattress to the bank. He walks in. Wlodek: "I want to make sure my XX zlotys are safe. What happens if someone robs the bank" Banker: "No worries. The main branch in Warsaw will cover the loss." Wlodek: "But what if our whole bank branches & all goes bust I know this can happen." Banker: "No worries. The Polish Central Bank guarantees us." Wlodek: "But what if the Polish Central Bank also goes bust" Banker: "It's unlikely but in that case our treaty with the Soviet Union means THEY"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1949126995121775019) 2025-07-26 15:17:43 UTC 41.8K followers, 192.7K engagements "This is actually a really good response to my anti-Tom rant but I'm sticking to my guns. Tom stops the story cold he's a dumb deus-ex-machina and he gives Tolkien an unwelcome excuse to give an outing to his ugly duckling poetry that no one likes"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1949119899361841378) 2025-07-26 14:49:31 UTC 41.8K followers, 9838 engagements "If we didn't have a Department of Education this would be a terrific argument to install a Department of Education. However we have had a Department of Education for going on XX years and in EVERY ONE of Mr. Lautens' examples we now know worse/less than before. Therefore his argument CANNOT be "we're not well-educated". Instead he needs to show that retaining the DoE will lead to better education despite the past five decades. Alternatively that the DoE has somehow kept us from being even less well-read than we would have been otherwise"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947797780904480925) 2025-07-22 23:15:53 UTC 41.7K followers, 7453 engagements "Man I'm almost offended. People who disagree with my take on Tom Bombadil are not just saying I'm wrong (I've been wrong before and survived) but are literally saying I'm "the worst" (direct quote) and that this taints all my work for XX years. Holy cow. Internetz anger at heat"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1949182444793463194) 2025-07-26 18:58:03 UTC 41.8K followers, 15.5K engagements "The trouble with "you guys" is there's always a smart alec who points out that someone in the group isn't a "guy". When I moved to Texas I immediately adopted "Y'all" and have kept it ever since. Easy clear and gives English the unambiguous second-person plural it lost when we dropped "Thee". And it's flexible - it allows for "all y'all" when you are addressing multiple groups"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948870676351517021) 2025-07-25 22:19:12 UTC 41.8K followers, 20.2K engagements "The food menu at a Tokyo Cthulhu-oriented game convention. I got the Dark Young Curry. My translator got the Cthulhuburger. No one risked the Elder Thing boba"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948044573315661992) 2025-07-23 15:36:33 UTC 41.8K followers, 2287 engagements "Yes the golden snitch is a terrible idea for a game. But Rowling wasnt designing a game. She was designing an aspect of her world she could use to add drama & tension plus put Harry in a position of both power & danger. In that regard it works fine"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948392225039323301) 2025-07-24 14:38:00 UTC 41.8K followers, 17.9K engagements "This is my most despised trap for any RPG. The lava running across the hall is only 3-4 feet across - an easy jump for everyone except the hobbit. So a player jumps the gap hits the wall and falls into the lava. It also doesn't detect as magic because it's just a perfectly ordinary invisible wall plus lava"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948825517500866916) 2025-07-25 19:19:45 UTC 41.8K followers, 55.6K engagements "I am a full time game designer and I've had this job from 1981 to now. Until I founded my own company in 2013 EVERY SINGLE GAME except one (Lightspeed 1991) was assigned to me by a corporate suit. The Man if you will. I'm not complaining - the Man treated me well. I had a decent salary generally good benefits and a fun work environment (i.e. I wasn't with EA or Disney). But from Call of Cthulhu to Halo Wars Someone Else picked my topic. Was this bad Not necessarily. The Man is paying my way so ought to get a say in what I do. How did I deal with it Easy. I made every game my own. It's not"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948824887168303323) 2025-07-25 19:17:15 UTC 41.8K followers, 17K engagements "Wow. I am one of the people he refers to. I never saw a single episode of it"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947542355848077784) 2025-07-22 06:20:55 UTC 41.7K followers, 27.2K engagements "I'm sure there is a conservative somewhere angry about this but when I did an X search for "conservative South Park anger" literally all I could find were non-conservatives gloating over the MAGA rage that they were certain existed. Perhaps I needed other more-specific parameters for my search. But I have to say that having a group get lampooned and NOT getting butt-hurt about it is the way I wish all groups would react to comedy from now till Doomsday. When the musical "The Book of Mormon" made fun of my church that same church took out a full-page ad in the playbill telling people how to"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948494137054912697) 2025-07-24 21:22:58 UTC 41.8K followers, 12.3K engagements "What's the worst monster in any video game For my money it's bats. Bats are really annoying and hard to hit. They often give you some kind of obnoxious status ailment (disease anyone bleeding). And worst of all they never carry hardly any treasure. Plus they come in groups. Bats sucked when we first saw them in Zelda and they suck now. The bat's characteristics come from them being bats - flittery little guys without loot. But ecch"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1949119022639067340) 2025-07-26 14:46:02 UTC 41.8K followers, 4964 engagements "REJECT THE FOUR-ELEMENT THEORY. The true elements are Air Fire Metal Water Wood and Void. These are obviously far superior to the pathetic air/fire/earth/water. Use the six elements in your games"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947367969442439299) 2025-07-21 18:47:58 UTC 41.8K followers, 19.6K engagements "There are like 1000 old fables on "if you try to please everybody you please nobody". Companies seem unable to learn this. Particularly the heads of large game companies. source: personal experience"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948425944026239168) 2025-07-24 16:51:59 UTC 41.8K followers, 2227 engagements "In 1980 there were XX officially communist or marxist states. Today there are X. Four of the five have explicitly adopted capitalist objectives and elements such as foreign investment market reforms & private enterprise. In fact the main communist thing they kept is the one-party state. So communism went from XX nations to X (DPRK) and was voluntarily abandoned- not kicked out. But yeah keep telling me Im on the wrong side of history"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1946988821385826543) 2025-07-20 17:41:22 UTC 41.8K followers, 15.3K engagements "@DogFromHalfLife do you think a Halo Wars post would be interesting to subscribers I got lots of dirt on that project"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947733204485738551) 2025-07-22 18:59:17 UTC 41.7K followers, XXX engagements "Napoleon won XX% of his battles and forever changed both tactics & strategy. Alexander the Great never lost and was the standard by which all soldiers were judged. Vauban re-invented fortresses creating defensive systems still relevant. But my favorite commander was Maurice of Orange. He destroyed the mercenary culture of his day and helped re-found professional armies. Heres how: 1/"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1946207399280267576) 2025-07-18 13:56:17 UTC 41.8K followers, 185.4K engagements "Pro Tips after XX years in the game industry. 1) if they say "we don't need a contract" you need a contract. 2) if they ask "don't you trust us" don't trust them. 3) never EVER let a guy in a suit see a game with unfinished art. (There are probably a few rare exceptions to this but I never met one.)"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1949172526028071200) 2025-07-26 18:18:38 UTC 41.8K followers, 30.4K engagements "Dominos doesn't give you XXX% real Mozzarella. It gives you "cheese MADE WITH XXX% real Mozzarella." Note the slight difference"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948492084295442836) 2025-07-24 21:14:48 UTC 41.8K followers, 4087 engagements "I have always assumed that the Klingon chainmail "sash" is actually technology wired with dilithium or something. If I'm wrong I guess you can tell me so but I think it would be cooler if I'm right. What say you"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1949249254322790610) 2025-07-26 23:23:32 UTC 41.8K followers, 4602 engagements "I have ancestors on the Mayflower. My wife has ancestors who were driven from their homes with fire & sword because of their religion. This happened in America circa 1835-1845"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948869546863198232) 2025-07-25 22:14:42 UTC 41.8K followers, 3731 engagements "No it means I value my dog over the life of a person so morally corrupt that they would steal a dog. If I was told Shoot your dog or this random person. I would shoot my dog. If I was told Shoot your dog or this burglar. i would shoot the burglar. My dog is of less worth than most humans. But not all"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1945333835769766011) 2025-07-16 04:05:03 UTC 41.7K followers, 65.1K engagements "One of my wife's ancestors (from was named Dirk Dirks. If I named a game character that you'd mock me. So be aware that ANY name no matter how weird should be acceptable"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948405995912282436) 2025-07-24 15:32:43 UTC 41.8K followers, 2831 engagements "Cutest bloodthirsty vicious little predator"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948499896270467339) 2025-07-24 21:45:51 UTC 41.8K followers, 2058 engagements "Im holding out for James Buchanan. Man he sucked"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1946759432328622308) 2025-07-20 02:29:52 UTC 41.7K followers, 5837 engagements "I dont want to sound like a jerk but is this what Hollywood thinks is stunning There are at least XX women attending my church who are prettier than this"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947333337984430099) 2025-07-21 16:30:22 UTC 41.7K followers, 123.6K engagements "Ants are the "humans" of the insect world. Other insects swarm. Ants organize work together and have goals. Humans do the same on a larger scale. Compare to even smart mammals such as raccoons and you can see what's going on. This is why ants dominate the small world and we dominate the large one. Cooperation"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1944498029559677350) 2025-07-13 20:43:51 UTC 41.7K followers, 5228 engagements "Here is where some of Quake's monsters came from. The book the man (Adrian Carmack) the legend"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948040674391241096) 2025-07-23 15:21:04 UTC 41.7K followers, 2211 engagements "Why would you do a Blade movie and NOT want his leather ass killing vampires What is wrong in their head Hey I have an idea - lets do Romeo & Juliet but they wont be interested in each other. Lets redo Saving Private Ryan but cut all the battle scenes. Holy smokes"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947073092448096442) 2025-07-20 23:16:14 UTC 41.7K followers, 11.5K engagements "Ancient Greek plays were in fact hilarious"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1941519951883534829) 2025-07-05 15:30:02 UTC 41.8K followers, 3.1M engagements "Yeah I've driven this route. Incidentally the best-ever "hungry ghost" movie is the first segment of the Phobia X anthology flick from Thailand"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948040455876432373) 2025-07-23 15:20:12 UTC 41.7K followers, XXX engagements "Tom Bombadil stops the story cold. You go from an exciting trip cross-country heading through a creepy old forest to avoid the sinister Black Riders then a terrifying tree ensnares them. Poof comes Tom deus-ex-machina Bombadil to save the hobbits from a danger which Tolkien invented apparently to give Bombadil something to do. Then just as the story starts going again he shows up a SECOND time as a deux ex machina to rescue the hobbits from the barrow wight. Ugh. Once more stopping the story cold. Bombadil doesn't represent the Old Good Ways which the hobbits must save - he's not particularly"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948852442411794524) 2025-07-25 21:06:44 UTC 41.8K followers, 227.1K engagements "Gun control. Britain's low murder rate is often adduced as a reason for us to adopt their laws. Here's why this is a false comparison. The UK's murder rate was lower than the USA long before they banned guns. In 1920 the UK's rate was XXXX deaths per 100k. American gun deaths were XXX per 100k - exactly XX times more. Neither nation had any gun laws so presumably the American death rate was due to other factors. Over the next century the UK adopted ever-stricter laws. Today their murder rate is XXXX per 100k. We adopted gun laws in the 1930s and kept them up to the 1980s when right-to-carry"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948043478908461501) 2025-07-23 15:32:12 UTC 41.8K followers, 6026 engagements "As author of Call of Cthulhu I gotta stick up for the have fun point of view"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1946369489869717617) 2025-07-19 00:40:22 UTC 41.7K followers, 3716 engagements "Even if youre scientific the Uncanny Valley theory makes sense. A Thing that looks human but is slightly wrong Candidates: 1) other human species (Denisovans erectus Neanderthal) 2) a psychopath or insane human (behavior wrong) 3) a diseased human (rabid worn-down etc.) There is survival value in avoiding all of these. Hence the Uncanny Valley. Of course theres the true origin of the Uncanny Valley - avoiding skinwalkers & doppelgangers"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1946754197032173780) 2025-07-20 02:09:04 UTC 41.7K followers, 9619 engagements "I'm well-known as a game designer (Call of Cthulhu Doom Age of Empires series Cthulhu Wars). There are designers with equal or greater fame but I can't think of many with my breadth of expertise - across RPGs board games and digital. Anyway I am launching subscriptions. I'll be giving game design tips & ideas video game history anecdotes or custom adventure ideas. Join my creator subscriptions to get these Plus the sincere gratitude of a man seeking to ensure a safer old age for me and my wife. It's $X a month and I plan to provide an interesting subscriber post at least once a week. As an"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947730574036373789) 2025-07-22 18:48:50 UTC 41.8K followers, 11.6K engagements "Is any costume creepier than a medieval beekeeper It's more potent than the infamous plague doctor even"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948425654426558505) 2025-07-24 16:50:50 UTC 41.8K followers, 12.5K engagements "How to balance unbalanced factions in a game. I cut my teeth making Age of Empires' factions asymmetrical yet balanced. The most fun I ever had was developing Age of Empires III: The Warchiefs which were also the very most unbalanced factions we'd ever created. I carried this love for asymmetry on after Ensemble Studios went kaput. My game Cthulhu Wars is famously asymmetrical. (It's available on shop dot petersengames dot com Noble Knight and elsewhere.) The factions have different abilities spellbooks ways to win and even monsters. Cthulhu has shoggoths starspawn & deep ones. Black Goat has"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948866607629123709) 2025-07-25 22:03:02 UTC 41.8K followers, 35.6K engagements "Always and forever the first city on Mars should be Helium. IYKYK"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947029809080483994) 2025-07-20 20:24:15 UTC 41.7K followers, 19.5K engagements "What is the perfect food for a computer gamer"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1949120856380379440) 2025-07-26 14:53:19 UTC 41.8K followers, 4616 engagements "Speaking as an actual game dev I disagree with Mr. Dorias in the strongest possible terms"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948424024339661062) 2025-07-24 16:44:22 UTC 41.8K followers, 23.3K engagements "Remember the Pioneer plaques We sent nudes a mixtape and directions to our house. If I was an alien I'd keep my distance too"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948404199588544535) 2025-07-24 15:25:35 UTC 41.8K followers, 15K engagements "Here's a close-up of the Cthulhuburger at the Tokyo Game Market. I think the fish is some kind of sweet thing stuffed with red bean paste. The decorative wings are edible crackers"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948044894909743529) 2025-07-23 15:37:50 UTC 41.7K followers, 2016 engagements "Hipsters seem to have largely vanished from the world sadly replaced by less harmless trends. The most hipster guy I knew listened to folk music renditions of hip-hop songs"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947557066459021819) 2025-07-22 07:19:23 UTC 41.7K followers, 2156 engagements "@I_am_sarah_also Plenty of us elders saw sisters apartments because when sisters were moved OUT of an area and replaced by elders it was the same apartment"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948391420592898461) 2025-07-24 14:34:48 UTC 41.7K followers, XXX engagements "Red flags in women: Makes lists of what she won't accept in a guy"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948112910720643501) 2025-07-23 20:08:06 UTC 41.7K followers, 11.7K engagements "One party member each stands on the four cardinal points and a pedestal rises up in the middle. Then a person standing at the far north place can try to leap from where he stands over the north person onto the pedestal over the south person and into the magic portal that opens to the far south. He is then dropped straight into the XXX level of the Abyss which is full of blood diamonds. Grab as many as you can before the demons realize you're there. He is returned to our plane by one of the people on the four cardinal points jumping onto the pedestal which then instantly incinerates him. The"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948110415009063169) 2025-07-23 19:58:11 UTC 41.7K followers, 2714 engagements "I was DMing a few months ago and I described the barmaid as silver blond big soulful eyes long legs that wont quit. The player-characters were hitting on her. They never realized that I was literally describing Bugs Bunny in drag"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948508731853209755) 2025-07-24 22:20:57 UTC 41.8K followers, 10.6K engagements "Here are ten. Ain Jalut Poltava Manzikert Chancellorsville Cannae First Battle of Panipat Sekigahara Nagashima 1574 (vs. the ikko-ikki) Jinzhou Hastings"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948816657402789894) 2025-07-25 18:44:33 UTC 41.8K followers, 17.3K engagements "I'm particularly proud of this game because it's my only published game with an age rating of +81"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1949166258798379052) 2025-07-26 17:53:44 UTC 41.8K followers, 18.9K engagements "@14e_ther Here's why I'm opposed to the death penalty. 1) it's absolutely deserved in many cases. 2) I don't trust the government to administer it fairly"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948114186883698941) 2025-07-23 20:13:11 UTC 41.7K followers, 1534 engagements "In WW2 the Vichy regime handed over Jews to the Nazis. This surprised the Gestapo because they thought theyd have to work their way up to it. But nope the French collaborators jumped right on it"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948512888064540910) 2025-07-24 22:37:28 UTC 41.8K followers, 15.6K engagements "Go for it dude. Cleveland and Taft were terrific presidents. Size has nothing to do with talent or brains"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948050603470676178) 2025-07-23 16:00:31 UTC 41.7K followers, 4096 engagements "Added an interesting faux-dragon "patron" for Call of Cthulhu and D&D 5e. On my patreon"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1949162449045012942) 2025-07-26 17:38:36 UTC 41.8K followers, 1071 engagements "Doom 1993 Doom X 1994 Age of Empires 1997 Rise of Rome 1998 Age X 1999 Conquerors 2000 So get stuffedz"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1946757380609364064) 2025-07-20 02:21:43 UTC 41.7K followers, 13K engagements "A roleplaying game is not experimental theater. Your goals are different - you are creating a joint fantasy with your friends and the intent is for everyone to have fun. If you take actions which hurt the GMs campaign or which grievously interfere with other players attempts to have fun this doesnt get cancelled by the magical words Its what my character would do If your character is designed and played so that entertains you at the expense of the others fun your character is toxic and ought to be modified. This doesnt mean you cant be edgy dark or murderous. The other players might have a"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1949173145539432712) 2025-07-26 18:21:06 UTC 41.8K followers, 2624 engagements "1) first video game that actually scared me. 2) best magic system of any video game. Ever. 3) Dungeonmaster"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1946357045067735463) 2025-07-18 23:50:55 UTC 41.7K followers, 3832 engagements "I haven't been to every city in Europe but Aviles Spain has to be at least a candidate"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948427970814558243) 2025-07-24 17:00:02 UTC 41.8K followers, 2245 engagements "And for all my UK friends who are a bit put off that I listed Hastings you're lucky I didn't add Trafalgar to the list. Vive le empereur"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948827938365079915) 2025-07-25 19:29:22 UTC 41.8K followers, 2444 engagements "A few years ago my wife bought me this for my birthday. Now THAT'S a woman. IYKYK"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948047557739020736) 2025-07-23 15:48:25 UTC 41.7K followers, 4591 engagements "So Im running Call of Cthulhu. I needed the players to dislike the NPC Im introducing. Theyre in a bar. I had my NPC order a kale margarita. Problem solved"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948157790654210292) 2025-07-23 23:06:26 UTC 41.8K followers, 11.3K engagements "Also this is kind of a side take but the slaves werent undocumented. Every single one was carefully counted named and registered. It was still monstrous evil of course"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947769678606323776) 2025-07-22 21:24:13 UTC 41.7K followers, 6827 engagements "No. It violates the 6th. Noahide law which is incumbant on all men to obey. (Unlike the ten commandments which are only for those of the Abrahamic faiths.)"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947786686248911161) 2025-07-22 22:31:48 UTC 41.7K followers, 31K engagements ""Iron Man" is one of my very favorite rock songs ever. And I'm a Beatles guy so you can see how potent it was to bring ME onto it"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1947739390891200711) 2025-07-22 19:23:52 UTC 41.7K followers, 3985 engagements "Not enough people talk about the fact that Dallas-style breakfast tacos and Austin-style breakfast tacos ARE NOT THE SAME. I'm not saying one is "better". But they're different. And you'd be a happier person if you knew the difference"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948489288905117707) 2025-07-24 21:03:42 UTC 41.8K followers, 1197 engagements "I will be at ArneCon 2025 in October. I am running an original Call of Cthulhu adventure and on I think X panels. Come wave antennae"  [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) on [X](/post/tweet/1948139515878801707) 2025-07-23 21:53:49 UTC 41.7K followers, 1214 engagements
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"This kind of counterpoint is vacuously stupid. Does the writer think Vikings didnt massacre people of different faiths Torture people Kill supposed witches Suppress peasant revolts It was the Dark Ages - EVERYONE was doing all the things youre clutching your pearls about. They had to. Let a peasant revolt succeed and your nation falls to ruin. Theyre objectively not good things. This doesnt make the nobility good of course but dont view an ancient revolt in the same lens as 1776 or whatever your leftist fantasy is. If those peasants get power theyll be murderous"
@SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-20 16:19:34 UTC 41.7K followers, 16.4K engagements
"Aztecs: Ive seen people who dont really know their history say Aztec obsidian swords cant penetrate steel Spanish breastplates This is true. But European toledo blades and crossbow bolts ALSO cant penetrate steel breastplates. To kill a guy in a cuirass you have to go for the neck limbs or armpits. Another fact - the Spanish quickly switched to wearing cotton armor. Just like the Mayans & Aztecs. So much for their armors superiority" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-25 10:10:52 UTC 41.8K followers, 19.7K engagements
"The only successful Communist state was San Marino from 1945-57 which had an elected communist government which somehow failed to murder anyone (unique among marxist states). San Marino is an itsy-bitsy nation surrounded by Italy. When the San Marino communists publicly APPROVED of the brutal suppression in Hungary 1956 they lost their majority. They pulled shenanigans to prevent a new election and an armed revolt started brewing. Then they saw reason and stepped down with no casualties. So they didnt kill anyone but liked it when other communists did so. They left office but tried" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-22 14:31:14 UTC 41.8K followers, 11.9K engagements
"I saw a post which I sincerely hope is fake in which a professor at Warwick said we shouldn't read to our kids because that's unfair to kids who don't get that. The way to bring about equality should never ever be to drag down those in the front of the race but by boosting those in the rear. If "being read to" gives kids an advantage instead of stopping it go read to some kids. Foster a "read to kids" group at the local library or school. Agitate for a national "read to kids" program" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-25 21:12:24 UTC 41.8K followers, 11.9K engagements
"My question is for those whove been to a university AND published something. Did you learn one single thing in academia that was of the slightest worth in your writing Because I did not. (Learned plenty in junior high & high school tho)" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-21 21:20:52 UTC 41.8K followers, 38.2K engagements
"@LdsLawyer2156 wut. If you didn't belong to my religion I'd think you were on weed" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-22 23:19:50 UTC 41.8K followers, XX engagements
"I assume because theres two full shots of Johnny Walker added to the beer & their taste buds are dulled" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-17 21:01:27 UTC 41.7K followers, 3080 engagements
"I once went to a restaurant with my granddaughter (among others) and had clams casino Rhode Island clam chowder raw cherrystone clams and littlestone clam linguini in white sauce. My granddaughter won't eat clams so all was well" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-23 15:55:40 UTC 41.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Here's my dog watching the movie "Zoltan Hound of Dracula" AKA "Dracula's Dog". She REALLY liked it. She barked at Zoltan growled at the vampire puppies watched the complete thing. She didn't like Reggie Nalder either" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 15:35:07 UTC 41.8K followers, XXX engagements
"This is the opposite of reality. During the USSR time the Baltic states had their money drained and transferred to less successful SSRs. They literally lost the most economically by being an SSR of all the sections" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 14:40:26 UTC 41.8K followers, 2021 engagements
"Herere ten Tours Chalons Vienna 1683 Breitenfeld Bannockburn Castillon Leuctra Zama Salamis Lepanto" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-25 03:47:56 UTC 41.8K followers, 3299 engagements
"Sometimes I'll post something about Aztecs and then I usually get one or two guys saying something about how Aztecs were kind of the bad guys. Well yeah. That's why I think they're super interesting. It's why I created Aztec civs twice in Age of Empires. Love those Aztecs in games - and games are where of course you get to BE a bad guy for fun. And of course let's not forget that the Aztec evil empire doesn't magically make the Spanish colonial empire "good". "behold . it is by the wicked that the wicked are punished"" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-25 18:28:00 UTC 41.8K followers, 4555 engagements
"This is an F-86 Sabre jet. This was the single most important weapon that ensured that South Korea was not plunged into totalitarian desolation. It helped give us the South Korea we love. Edgar Schmued the designer ALSO designed the P-51 Mustang. A candidate for best plane designer ever" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-21 20:31:19 UTC 41.7K followers, 3730 engagements
"I have eaten European brown bear in Finland. It was highly spiced and tasted a lot like pulled pork. Because of the sweet sauce & the fact that bear must be well-cooked (trichinosis) I am not sure I got the full bear experience" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-20 12:50:38 UTC 41.7K followers, 2334 engagements
"What is a Yankee A TED talk. If youre not American a Yankees any American. If youre from the South USA a Yankee is from the north. If youre from the north USA a Yankee is from New England. If youre from New England a Yankees from New Hampshire. If youre from New Hampshire a Yankees a player on a much-hated baseball team in New York" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-17 17:21:33 UTC 41.7K followers, 19.7K engagements
"My opinion: the only reason you're not admitting your favorite dinosaur is Tyrannosaurus rex is because that's EVERYONE's favorite and you just have to be different you prima donna" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-12 16:53:54 UTC 41.7K followers, 26.5K engagements
"Explain this: Electronic Arts has many in-house training sessions seminars and rules preaching the virtue of cooperation across projects. Everyone needs to consider the other projects needs. But Electronic Arts is legendary for the world-war scale conflicts vendettas and backstabbing between their producers fighting for their projects against all others. They have the biggest divergence between words and action of any company I know. Is it because the lets get along stuff is a trap designed to trick new producers into lowering their guard Or is it just that Satan runs the company" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-22 21:22:06 UTC 41.7K followers, 4724 engagements
"I'm pretty sure the whole "not dating" thing is restricted to women in a few coastal cities - San Francisco New York maybe a couple others (Portland). As usual people in those towns assume that everyone else is Just Like Them. It's the same famous syndrome first registered in 1968 when a notorious journalist from Greenwich Village said "How could Nixon win I don't know ANYONE who voted for him." Ladies men are still going on dates. Just not in your neighborhoods" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-22 23:26:19 UTC 41.7K followers, 7700 engagements
"Someone complained that you can't eat pizza and hold a controller at the same time so I explained you eat the pizza during the cinematics" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-26 23:24:33 UTC 41.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Planet Apocalypse Hyperspeed The Gods War and I actually contributed to Arkham Horror. But I admit I would probably take World in Flames to my desert island because Im an old-school grognard despite my career" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 03:13:52 UTC 41.8K followers, 1063 engagements
"@DogFromHalfLife It is indeed true. More was done by Tim Deen than me but I was present balancing helping with the interface playtesting and so forth" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-22 18:58:53 UTC 41.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Hey idiot - the USA has MORE kilometers of rail tracks than all Europe combined. And not just a little more - we are MORE THAN DOUBLE your rail network. So pack it in please" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-06 19:37:29 UTC 41.8K followers, 3.1M engagements
"Medieval chroniclers complaining that the vikings were getting all the babes because they smelled good and took baths" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-11 23:48:17 UTC 41.8K followers, 21.2K engagements
"I find it depressing that the most popular Real Time Strategy game (according to the ever-reliable Reddit) is still Age of Empires X which we released in 1999. There's been updates yeah. But NO huge improvements in RTS for XX years" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-06-13 16:10:47 UTC 41.7K followers, 78.1K engagements
"For a change of pace here's a joke from Communist Poland. Wlodek wants to deposit his money saved carefully in a mattress to the bank. He walks in. Wlodek: "I want to make sure my XX zlotys are safe. What happens if someone robs the bank" Banker: "No worries. The main branch in Warsaw will cover the loss." Wlodek: "But what if our whole bank branches & all goes bust I know this can happen." Banker: "No worries. The Polish Central Bank guarantees us." Wlodek: "But what if the Polish Central Bank also goes bust" Banker: "It's unlikely but in that case our treaty with the Soviet Union means THEY" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-26 15:17:43 UTC 41.8K followers, 192.7K engagements
"This is actually a really good response to my anti-Tom rant but I'm sticking to my guns. Tom stops the story cold he's a dumb deus-ex-machina and he gives Tolkien an unwelcome excuse to give an outing to his ugly duckling poetry that no one likes" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-26 14:49:31 UTC 41.8K followers, 9838 engagements
"If we didn't have a Department of Education this would be a terrific argument to install a Department of Education. However we have had a Department of Education for going on XX years and in EVERY ONE of Mr. Lautens' examples we now know worse/less than before. Therefore his argument CANNOT be "we're not well-educated". Instead he needs to show that retaining the DoE will lead to better education despite the past five decades. Alternatively that the DoE has somehow kept us from being even less well-read than we would have been otherwise" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-22 23:15:53 UTC 41.7K followers, 7453 engagements
"Man I'm almost offended. People who disagree with my take on Tom Bombadil are not just saying I'm wrong (I've been wrong before and survived) but are literally saying I'm "the worst" (direct quote) and that this taints all my work for XX years. Holy cow. Internetz anger at heat" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-26 18:58:03 UTC 41.8K followers, 15.5K engagements
"The trouble with "you guys" is there's always a smart alec who points out that someone in the group isn't a "guy". When I moved to Texas I immediately adopted "Y'all" and have kept it ever since. Easy clear and gives English the unambiguous second-person plural it lost when we dropped "Thee". And it's flexible - it allows for "all y'all" when you are addressing multiple groups" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-25 22:19:12 UTC 41.8K followers, 20.2K engagements
"The food menu at a Tokyo Cthulhu-oriented game convention. I got the Dark Young Curry. My translator got the Cthulhuburger. No one risked the Elder Thing boba" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-23 15:36:33 UTC 41.8K followers, 2287 engagements
"Yes the golden snitch is a terrible idea for a game. But Rowling wasnt designing a game. She was designing an aspect of her world she could use to add drama & tension plus put Harry in a position of both power & danger. In that regard it works fine" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 14:38:00 UTC 41.8K followers, 17.9K engagements
"This is my most despised trap for any RPG. The lava running across the hall is only 3-4 feet across - an easy jump for everyone except the hobbit. So a player jumps the gap hits the wall and falls into the lava. It also doesn't detect as magic because it's just a perfectly ordinary invisible wall plus lava" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-25 19:19:45 UTC 41.8K followers, 55.6K engagements
"I am a full time game designer and I've had this job from 1981 to now. Until I founded my own company in 2013 EVERY SINGLE GAME except one (Lightspeed 1991) was assigned to me by a corporate suit. The Man if you will. I'm not complaining - the Man treated me well. I had a decent salary generally good benefits and a fun work environment (i.e. I wasn't with EA or Disney). But from Call of Cthulhu to Halo Wars Someone Else picked my topic. Was this bad Not necessarily. The Man is paying my way so ought to get a say in what I do. How did I deal with it Easy. I made every game my own. It's not" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-25 19:17:15 UTC 41.8K followers, 17K engagements
"Wow. I am one of the people he refers to. I never saw a single episode of it" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-22 06:20:55 UTC 41.7K followers, 27.2K engagements
"I'm sure there is a conservative somewhere angry about this but when I did an X search for "conservative South Park anger" literally all I could find were non-conservatives gloating over the MAGA rage that they were certain existed. Perhaps I needed other more-specific parameters for my search. But I have to say that having a group get lampooned and NOT getting butt-hurt about it is the way I wish all groups would react to comedy from now till Doomsday. When the musical "The Book of Mormon" made fun of my church that same church took out a full-page ad in the playbill telling people how to" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 21:22:58 UTC 41.8K followers, 12.3K engagements
"What's the worst monster in any video game For my money it's bats. Bats are really annoying and hard to hit. They often give you some kind of obnoxious status ailment (disease anyone bleeding). And worst of all they never carry hardly any treasure. Plus they come in groups. Bats sucked when we first saw them in Zelda and they suck now. The bat's characteristics come from them being bats - flittery little guys without loot. But ecch" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-26 14:46:02 UTC 41.8K followers, 4964 engagements
"REJECT THE FOUR-ELEMENT THEORY. The true elements are Air Fire Metal Water Wood and Void. These are obviously far superior to the pathetic air/fire/earth/water. Use the six elements in your games" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-21 18:47:58 UTC 41.8K followers, 19.6K engagements
"There are like 1000 old fables on "if you try to please everybody you please nobody". Companies seem unable to learn this. Particularly the heads of large game companies. source: personal experience" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 16:51:59 UTC 41.8K followers, 2227 engagements
"In 1980 there were XX officially communist or marxist states. Today there are X. Four of the five have explicitly adopted capitalist objectives and elements such as foreign investment market reforms & private enterprise. In fact the main communist thing they kept is the one-party state. So communism went from XX nations to X (DPRK) and was voluntarily abandoned- not kicked out. But yeah keep telling me Im on the wrong side of history" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-20 17:41:22 UTC 41.8K followers, 15.3K engagements
"@DogFromHalfLife do you think a Halo Wars post would be interesting to subscribers I got lots of dirt on that project" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-22 18:59:17 UTC 41.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Napoleon won XX% of his battles and forever changed both tactics & strategy. Alexander the Great never lost and was the standard by which all soldiers were judged. Vauban re-invented fortresses creating defensive systems still relevant. But my favorite commander was Maurice of Orange. He destroyed the mercenary culture of his day and helped re-found professional armies. Heres how: 1/" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-18 13:56:17 UTC 41.8K followers, 185.4K engagements
"Pro Tips after XX years in the game industry. 1) if they say "we don't need a contract" you need a contract. 2) if they ask "don't you trust us" don't trust them. 3) never EVER let a guy in a suit see a game with unfinished art. (There are probably a few rare exceptions to this but I never met one.)" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-26 18:18:38 UTC 41.8K followers, 30.4K engagements
"Dominos doesn't give you XXX% real Mozzarella. It gives you "cheese MADE WITH XXX% real Mozzarella." Note the slight difference" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 21:14:48 UTC 41.8K followers, 4087 engagements
"I have always assumed that the Klingon chainmail "sash" is actually technology wired with dilithium or something. If I'm wrong I guess you can tell me so but I think it would be cooler if I'm right. What say you" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-26 23:23:32 UTC 41.8K followers, 4602 engagements
"I have ancestors on the Mayflower. My wife has ancestors who were driven from their homes with fire & sword because of their religion. This happened in America circa 1835-1845" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-25 22:14:42 UTC 41.8K followers, 3731 engagements
"No it means I value my dog over the life of a person so morally corrupt that they would steal a dog. If I was told Shoot your dog or this random person. I would shoot my dog. If I was told Shoot your dog or this burglar. i would shoot the burglar. My dog is of less worth than most humans. But not all" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-16 04:05:03 UTC 41.7K followers, 65.1K engagements
"One of my wife's ancestors (from was named Dirk Dirks. If I named a game character that you'd mock me. So be aware that ANY name no matter how weird should be acceptable" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 15:32:43 UTC 41.8K followers, 2831 engagements
"Cutest bloodthirsty vicious little predator" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 21:45:51 UTC 41.8K followers, 2058 engagements
"Im holding out for James Buchanan. Man he sucked" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-20 02:29:52 UTC 41.7K followers, 5837 engagements
"I dont want to sound like a jerk but is this what Hollywood thinks is stunning There are at least XX women attending my church who are prettier than this" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-21 16:30:22 UTC 41.7K followers, 123.6K engagements
"Ants are the "humans" of the insect world. Other insects swarm. Ants organize work together and have goals. Humans do the same on a larger scale. Compare to even smart mammals such as raccoons and you can see what's going on. This is why ants dominate the small world and we dominate the large one. Cooperation" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-13 20:43:51 UTC 41.7K followers, 5228 engagements
"Here is where some of Quake's monsters came from. The book the man (Adrian Carmack) the legend" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-23 15:21:04 UTC 41.7K followers, 2211 engagements
"Why would you do a Blade movie and NOT want his leather ass killing vampires What is wrong in their head Hey I have an idea - lets do Romeo & Juliet but they wont be interested in each other. Lets redo Saving Private Ryan but cut all the battle scenes. Holy smokes" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-20 23:16:14 UTC 41.7K followers, 11.5K engagements
"Ancient Greek plays were in fact hilarious" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-05 15:30:02 UTC 41.8K followers, 3.1M engagements
"Yeah I've driven this route. Incidentally the best-ever "hungry ghost" movie is the first segment of the Phobia X anthology flick from Thailand" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-23 15:20:12 UTC 41.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Tom Bombadil stops the story cold. You go from an exciting trip cross-country heading through a creepy old forest to avoid the sinister Black Riders then a terrifying tree ensnares them. Poof comes Tom deus-ex-machina Bombadil to save the hobbits from a danger which Tolkien invented apparently to give Bombadil something to do. Then just as the story starts going again he shows up a SECOND time as a deux ex machina to rescue the hobbits from the barrow wight. Ugh. Once more stopping the story cold. Bombadil doesn't represent the Old Good Ways which the hobbits must save - he's not particularly" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-25 21:06:44 UTC 41.8K followers, 227.1K engagements
"Gun control. Britain's low murder rate is often adduced as a reason for us to adopt their laws. Here's why this is a false comparison. The UK's murder rate was lower than the USA long before they banned guns. In 1920 the UK's rate was XXXX deaths per 100k. American gun deaths were XXX per 100k - exactly XX times more. Neither nation had any gun laws so presumably the American death rate was due to other factors. Over the next century the UK adopted ever-stricter laws. Today their murder rate is XXXX per 100k. We adopted gun laws in the 1930s and kept them up to the 1980s when right-to-carry" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-23 15:32:12 UTC 41.8K followers, 6026 engagements
"As author of Call of Cthulhu I gotta stick up for the have fun point of view" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-19 00:40:22 UTC 41.7K followers, 3716 engagements
"Even if youre scientific the Uncanny Valley theory makes sense. A Thing that looks human but is slightly wrong Candidates: 1) other human species (Denisovans erectus Neanderthal) 2) a psychopath or insane human (behavior wrong) 3) a diseased human (rabid worn-down etc.) There is survival value in avoiding all of these. Hence the Uncanny Valley. Of course theres the true origin of the Uncanny Valley - avoiding skinwalkers & doppelgangers" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-20 02:09:04 UTC 41.7K followers, 9619 engagements
"I'm well-known as a game designer (Call of Cthulhu Doom Age of Empires series Cthulhu Wars). There are designers with equal or greater fame but I can't think of many with my breadth of expertise - across RPGs board games and digital. Anyway I am launching subscriptions. I'll be giving game design tips & ideas video game history anecdotes or custom adventure ideas. Join my creator subscriptions to get these Plus the sincere gratitude of a man seeking to ensure a safer old age for me and my wife. It's $X a month and I plan to provide an interesting subscriber post at least once a week. As an" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-22 18:48:50 UTC 41.8K followers, 11.6K engagements
"Is any costume creepier than a medieval beekeeper It's more potent than the infamous plague doctor even" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 16:50:50 UTC 41.8K followers, 12.5K engagements
"How to balance unbalanced factions in a game. I cut my teeth making Age of Empires' factions asymmetrical yet balanced. The most fun I ever had was developing Age of Empires III: The Warchiefs which were also the very most unbalanced factions we'd ever created. I carried this love for asymmetry on after Ensemble Studios went kaput. My game Cthulhu Wars is famously asymmetrical. (It's available on shop dot petersengames dot com Noble Knight and elsewhere.) The factions have different abilities spellbooks ways to win and even monsters. Cthulhu has shoggoths starspawn & deep ones. Black Goat has" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-25 22:03:02 UTC 41.8K followers, 35.6K engagements
"Always and forever the first city on Mars should be Helium. IYKYK" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-20 20:24:15 UTC 41.7K followers, 19.5K engagements
"What is the perfect food for a computer gamer" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-26 14:53:19 UTC 41.8K followers, 4616 engagements
"Speaking as an actual game dev I disagree with Mr. Dorias in the strongest possible terms" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 16:44:22 UTC 41.8K followers, 23.3K engagements
"Remember the Pioneer plaques We sent nudes a mixtape and directions to our house. If I was an alien I'd keep my distance too" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 15:25:35 UTC 41.8K followers, 15K engagements
"Here's a close-up of the Cthulhuburger at the Tokyo Game Market. I think the fish is some kind of sweet thing stuffed with red bean paste. The decorative wings are edible crackers" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-23 15:37:50 UTC 41.7K followers, 2016 engagements
"Hipsters seem to have largely vanished from the world sadly replaced by less harmless trends. The most hipster guy I knew listened to folk music renditions of hip-hop songs" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-22 07:19:23 UTC 41.7K followers, 2156 engagements
"@I_am_sarah_also Plenty of us elders saw sisters apartments because when sisters were moved OUT of an area and replaced by elders it was the same apartment" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 14:34:48 UTC 41.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Red flags in women: Makes lists of what she won't accept in a guy" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-23 20:08:06 UTC 41.7K followers, 11.7K engagements
"One party member each stands on the four cardinal points and a pedestal rises up in the middle. Then a person standing at the far north place can try to leap from where he stands over the north person onto the pedestal over the south person and into the magic portal that opens to the far south. He is then dropped straight into the XXX level of the Abyss which is full of blood diamonds. Grab as many as you can before the demons realize you're there. He is returned to our plane by one of the people on the four cardinal points jumping onto the pedestal which then instantly incinerates him. The" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-23 19:58:11 UTC 41.7K followers, 2714 engagements
"I was DMing a few months ago and I described the barmaid as silver blond big soulful eyes long legs that wont quit. The player-characters were hitting on her. They never realized that I was literally describing Bugs Bunny in drag" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 22:20:57 UTC 41.8K followers, 10.6K engagements
"Here are ten. Ain Jalut Poltava Manzikert Chancellorsville Cannae First Battle of Panipat Sekigahara Nagashima 1574 (vs. the ikko-ikki) Jinzhou Hastings" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-25 18:44:33 UTC 41.8K followers, 17.3K engagements
"I'm particularly proud of this game because it's my only published game with an age rating of +81" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-26 17:53:44 UTC 41.8K followers, 18.9K engagements
"@14e_ther Here's why I'm opposed to the death penalty. 1) it's absolutely deserved in many cases. 2) I don't trust the government to administer it fairly" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-23 20:13:11 UTC 41.7K followers, 1534 engagements
"In WW2 the Vichy regime handed over Jews to the Nazis. This surprised the Gestapo because they thought theyd have to work their way up to it. But nope the French collaborators jumped right on it" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 22:37:28 UTC 41.8K followers, 15.6K engagements
"Go for it dude. Cleveland and Taft were terrific presidents. Size has nothing to do with talent or brains" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-23 16:00:31 UTC 41.7K followers, 4096 engagements
"Added an interesting faux-dragon "patron" for Call of Cthulhu and D&D 5e. On my patreon" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-26 17:38:36 UTC 41.8K followers, 1071 engagements
"Doom 1993 Doom X 1994 Age of Empires 1997 Rise of Rome 1998 Age X 1999 Conquerors 2000 So get stuffedz" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-20 02:21:43 UTC 41.7K followers, 13K engagements
"A roleplaying game is not experimental theater. Your goals are different - you are creating a joint fantasy with your friends and the intent is for everyone to have fun. If you take actions which hurt the GMs campaign or which grievously interfere with other players attempts to have fun this doesnt get cancelled by the magical words Its what my character would do If your character is designed and played so that entertains you at the expense of the others fun your character is toxic and ought to be modified. This doesnt mean you cant be edgy dark or murderous. The other players might have a" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-26 18:21:06 UTC 41.8K followers, 2624 engagements
"1) first video game that actually scared me. 2) best magic system of any video game. Ever. 3) Dungeonmaster" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-18 23:50:55 UTC 41.7K followers, 3832 engagements
"I haven't been to every city in Europe but Aviles Spain has to be at least a candidate" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 17:00:02 UTC 41.8K followers, 2245 engagements
"And for all my UK friends who are a bit put off that I listed Hastings you're lucky I didn't add Trafalgar to the list. Vive le empereur" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-25 19:29:22 UTC 41.8K followers, 2444 engagements
"A few years ago my wife bought me this for my birthday. Now THAT'S a woman. IYKYK" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-23 15:48:25 UTC 41.7K followers, 4591 engagements
"So Im running Call of Cthulhu. I needed the players to dislike the NPC Im introducing. Theyre in a bar. I had my NPC order a kale margarita. Problem solved" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-23 23:06:26 UTC 41.8K followers, 11.3K engagements
"Also this is kind of a side take but the slaves werent undocumented. Every single one was carefully counted named and registered. It was still monstrous evil of course" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-22 21:24:13 UTC 41.7K followers, 6827 engagements
"No. It violates the 6th. Noahide law which is incumbant on all men to obey. (Unlike the ten commandments which are only for those of the Abrahamic faiths.)" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-22 22:31:48 UTC 41.7K followers, 31K engagements
""Iron Man" is one of my very favorite rock songs ever. And I'm a Beatles guy so you can see how potent it was to bring ME onto it" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-22 19:23:52 UTC 41.7K followers, 3985 engagements
"Not enough people talk about the fact that Dallas-style breakfast tacos and Austin-style breakfast tacos ARE NOT THE SAME. I'm not saying one is "better". But they're different. And you'd be a happier person if you knew the difference" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-24 21:03:42 UTC 41.8K followers, 1197 engagements
"I will be at ArneCon 2025 in October. I am running an original Call of Cthulhu adventure and on I think X panels. Come wave antennae" @SandyofCthulhu on X 2025-07-23 21:53:49 UTC 41.7K followers, 1214 engagements