[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, 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. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +107% - X Months XXXXXXXXXXX +271% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +20,134% ### Mentions: XXX [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/posts_active)  - X Week XXX -XX% - X Month XXXXX +11% - X Months XXXXX +323% - X Year XXXXX +1,501% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +2.40% - X Month XXXXXX +10% - X Months XXXXXX +37% - X Year XXXXXX +315% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% [gaming](/list/gaming) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians) XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [the world](/topic/the-world) #614, [movies](/topic/movies) #3091, [if you](/topic/if-you) #3301, [the first](/topic/the-first) #2228, [age of empires](/topic/age-of-empires) #14, [germany](/topic/germany) #2675, [level](/topic/level) #2105, [what is](/topic/what-is) #802, [spain](/topic/spain) #240, [science](/topic/science) #1292 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@duckbilledtweet](/creator/undefined) [@bobflemming19](/creator/undefined) [@deruyterstan](/creator/undefined) [@brettg09002618](/creator/undefined) [@etjy](/creator/undefined) [@scottprevett](/creator/undefined) [@orthodox_slavic](/creator/undefined) [@john_reddick](/creator/undefined) [@simontmn1](/creator/undefined) [@jimmyja40397308](/creator/undefined) [@s2_wannabe](/creator/undefined) [@mcleanben](/creator/undefined) [@e_considine](/creator/undefined) [@zodliest](/creator/undefined) [@joseph_j_star](/creator/undefined) [@ct_phipps](/creator/undefined) [@thealthype](/creator/undefined) [@mitrahispana](/creator/undefined) [@gabe_dlo](/creator/undefined) [@drunkenalpaca](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Mithril (MITH)](/topic/mithril) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "For those doubting Thai commercials are the best in the world. Possibly the entire solar system" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1969408326623773059) 2025-09-20T14:28Z 54.9K followers, 2M 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1991930510562709729) 2025-11-21T18:03Z 54.9K followers, 4026 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1993056933662564419) 2025-11-24T20:39Z 54.9K followers, 143.9K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1993774023080353969) 2025-11-26T20:09Z 54.9K followers, 6379 engagements "Eggs were $XXXX a dozen at Target today" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995000490506235917) 2025-11-30T05:22Z 54.9K followers, 12.7K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995174242326081694) 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995241878510616825) 2025-11-30T21:21Z 54.8K followers, 12.5K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995311873361895678) 2025-12-01T01:59Z 54.9K followers, 287.4K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995544169918636418) 2025-12-01T17:23Z 54.8K followers, 3847 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995549677090226438) 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995551083192824207) 2025-12-01T17:50Z 54.9K followers, 1965 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995575692059430989) 2025-12-01T19:28Z 54.9K followers, 62.1K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995593302482321430) 2025-12-01T20:38Z 54.9K followers, 7135 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995904553087369586) 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995911678303895715) 2025-12-02T17:43Z 54.9K followers, 4941 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995915328627638540) 2025-12-02T17:57Z 54.9K followers, 5268 engagements "why play Age of Empires See below" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995964123595899194) 2025-12-02T21:11Z 54.9K followers, 20.4K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995966338414903491) 2025-12-02T21:20Z 54.9K followers, 18K engagements "So from the very start this video is wrong because have you been to east Washington state" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996210984088907949) 2025-12-03T13:32Z 54.9K followers, 5941 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996245071692464623) 2025-12-03T15:48Z 54.9K followers, 19K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996252123835843031) 2025-12-03T16:16Z 54.9K followers, 137.3K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996326291147227627) 2025-12-03T21:10Z 54.8K followers, 1568 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996348855580045398) 2025-12-03T22:40Z 54.9K followers, 718.8K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996413580712051181) 2025-12-04T02:57Z 54.9K followers, 49.9K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996622799004488126) 2025-12-04T16:49Z 54.9K followers, 5402 engagements "Who wouldn't want $300000" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996623375444451826) 2025-12-04T16:51Z 54.9K followers, 24.2K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996702993983709233) 2025-12-04T22:07Z 54.9K followers, 18.1K engagements "In 1571 all Mediterranean Christendom combined to meet the Ottoman fleet in the battle of Lepanto. The Ottomans had XX% more ships a robust naval tradition and 30000 skilled naval archers (better than arquebusiers in almost every way). The battle was a stunning but hard-fought Christian victory. The Christians lost 10000 and XX ships. The Ottomans lost 40000 and XXX ships. 15000 Christian galley slaves were freed from their cruel Turkish masters. The interesting thing to me is that the Ottomans replaced the entire fleet the very next year. So why was the battle decisive Because the turks lost" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996743243837698248) 2025-12-05T00:47Z 54.9K followers, 33.7K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996984914349380094) 2025-12-05T16:48Z 54.9K followers, 109.4K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996988455109157240) 2025-12-05T17:02Z 54.8K followers, 7959 engagements "Does Cthulhu have scales or armor plates" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996989673563214116) 2025-12-05T17:06Z 54.9K followers, 2137 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996992726701953326) 2025-12-05T17:19Z 54.9K followers, 35K engagements "Anyone playing Age of Empires 3" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997065394725834778) 2025-12-05T22:07Z 54.9K followers, 5185 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997359707112272250) 2025-12-06T17:37Z 54.9K followers, 89K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997721316557021272) 2025-12-07T17:34Z 54.9K followers, 3563 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997810505550078159) 2025-12-07T23:28Z 54.8K followers, 1598 engagements "Early on in my marriage my dad took the whole family including my wife out to see Werner Herzog's Nosferatu. My wife had basically never gone to a single horror movie growing up and was amazed that we'd want to see such a creepy movie. She looked around and saw that the Petersens were absolutely enjoying it. I on the other hand had no idea that anyone DIDN'T like scary movies. My whole life growing up we'd go see them. My dad was a big science fiction fan who cut his teeth on the old pulp magazines. Back then scary movies weren't slotted into tiny boxes as they are now. They were basically" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998070135312338958) 2025-12-08T16:40Z 54.9K followers, 8847 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998128212032081924) 2025-12-08T20:31Z 54.8K followers, 5490 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998137399738773712) 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998138043400917210) 2025-12-08T21:10Z 54.9K followers, 6231 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998180652009832794) 2025-12-08T23:59Z 54.8K followers, 5271 engagements "@taddyfife Elephants are not endangered" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998202306622537840) 2025-12-09T01:25Z 54.9K followers, 11.6K engagements "This is my favorite Cthulhu statuette" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998237931014934848) 2025-12-09T03:47Z 54.8K followers, 4908 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998415055126487420) 2025-12-09T15:30Z 54.9K followers, 4839 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998440338042794482) 2025-12-09T17:11Z 54.9K followers, 1194 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998443675148599416) 2025-12-09T17:24Z 54.9K followers, 6803 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998445337829368053) 2025-12-09T17:31Z 54.9K followers, 1433 engagements "Public service announcement: "Cachalot" is a much better term than sperm whale and we should all switch back to it" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998448930884038904) 2025-12-09T17:45Z 54.9K followers, 4308 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998449238418833581) 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998449497266065603) 2025-12-09T17:47Z 54.9K followers, 1233 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998463322027655450) 2025-12-09T18:42Z 54.9K followers, 9405 engagements "Before world war II the Imperial Japanese Navy knew it could not take on the USN but it kept its gigantic budget by claiming that it could. Just before Pearl Harbor the Navy got cold feet and said that maybe the USN was too much. So Hideki Tojo asked them if 300000 tons of steel would be enough for them to take on the USN and they said yes. This is how the IJN sold its soul" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998463817484034338) 2025-12-09T18:44Z 54.9K followers, 9678 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998466643811512332) 2025-12-09T18:55Z 54.9K followers, XXX engagements "It is a matter of record that at the astronomical conference when Pluto was declared no longer a planet the anti-Pluto faction waited until all the planetologists had left for dinner before they took the vote because the planetologists were solidly opposed. The "Pluto's not a planet" is fake. BRING BACK YUGGOTH" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998473772480004436) 2025-12-09T19:24Z 54.9K followers, 45.5K engagements "The fact that they think Marines originated as amphibious landing troops says everything you need to know about their lack of knowledge" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998511335907394012) 2025-12-09T21:53Z 54.9K followers, 13.4K engagements "This is my favorite Quora question ever" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998572963965358278) 2025-12-10T01:58Z 54.9K followers, 2437 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1994816146990678229) 2025-11-29T17:10Z 55.1K followers, 162.2K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995266931214221370) 2025-11-30T23:01Z 55.1K followers, 588.8K engagements "Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie and it's not close" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995551765010547091) 2025-12-01T17:53Z 55.1K followers, 10.3K engagements "This is the greatest description ever from a bootleg video in China" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996259725512753584) 2025-12-03T16:46Z 55.1K followers, 83.8K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997812478231851207) 2025-12-07T23:36Z 55.1K followers, 29.2K engagements "Okay ladies pick your dream man. We know he has to be bald swarthy and buff" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998472572892230093) 2025-12-09T19:19Z 55.1K followers, 1261 engagements "This is a golden garden spider. They are big and scary looking sitting in the middle of a gigantic orb web right IN YOUR YARD. They are just about the most harmless spider imaginable. It is extremely difficult to get one to bite you. You have to basically let it onto your arm or hand then pin it down with your other hand so it's terrified. Then it does a tiny bite which does nothing. I mean literally nothing - this spider's venom has evolved to quickly kill delicate flying insects NOT hurt vertebrates. It never even raised a welt on me but one of my friends had a little itchy red bump for" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998812873917870589) 2025-12-10T17:51Z 55.1K followers, 58.9K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998939686518346154) 2025-12-11T02:15Z 55.1K followers, 161K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999155529047064969) 2025-12-11T16:33Z 55.1K followers, 32.9K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999236290441806313) 2025-12-11T21:54Z 55.1K followers, 838.4K engagements "The damn stupid director's-ego-boost ending to The Mist which completely vitiated the whole idea of the Mist being the ultimate destructive horror that menaced the world. "Oh but some people he liked died isn't that a cool dark ending" THEY WOULD HAVE DIED IF THE MIST HAD BEEN PORTRAYED PROPERLY. Man this movie's "improved" ending gets my goat. Rrrrrrrrrr" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999262842651038138) 2025-12-11T23:39Z 55.1K followers, 14.8K engagements "I can never watch this again (and havent since 1983) because of my eternal hatred of John Landis who outright murdered my boyhood hero Vic Morrow. The only other director I hate as much is Roman Polanski" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999272579761344515) 2025-12-12T00:18Z 55.1K followers, 3092 engagements "Its harder to make a woman beautiful in video games. It takes actual talent. In a movie you can just hire someone attractive. Also a video game has a much smaller team so a couple of activists have a much bigger impact proportionally than in a film" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999418600084602970) 2025-12-12T09:58Z 55.1K followers, 10.7K engagements "Every American should listen to this at least once a year. It recharges your "Murica" gene and helps your immune system" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999581393039573040) 2025-12-12T20:45Z 55.1K followers, 13.8K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997833142254830067) 2025-12-08T00:58Z 55.1K followers, 886.2K engagements "Werewolves are a way bigger problem for us today. Back in the 19th century you could melt down a fork or some coins into a musket ball and shoot the suckers. Now it's a lot harder to make silver bullets and our "silverware" is all stainless steel not real silver. Silver-handled walking sticks Don't make me laugh. We don't even have real silver in our teeth anymore. We'd be helpless" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999588369878413807) 2025-12-12T21:13Z 55.1K followers, 5854 engagements "I don't see how a game can be "satanic" in which you spend the entire game trying to destroy demons" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1986865523586703411) 2025-11-07T18:37Z 55K followers, 27.5K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995237216784953620) 2025-11-30T21:03Z 54.9K followers, 73.4K engagements "Fun fact: my spell checker knows Cthulhu Tsathoggua and Nyarlathotep" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995262954896572787) 2025-11-30T22:45Z 54.9K followers, 2821 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995547902320803990) 2025-12-01T17:37Z 55K followers, 221.9K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995914529226776863) 2025-12-02T17:54Z 55K followers, 53K engagements "Sauron and Diablo look a LOT different than in the movies and video games" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995959117509525919) 2025-12-02T20:51Z 55K followers, 1971 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995961666866172163) 2025-12-02T21:01Z 55K followers, 352.6K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996258477711425611) 2025-12-03T16:41Z 55K followers, 2570 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996336930494234660) 2025-12-03T21:53Z 55K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996363601653977385) 2025-12-03T23:39Z 55K followers, 4483 engagements "There is a spider in your house right now. It works hard every day to destroy your insect enemies to save you and your loved ones and your food from contamination and disease. Do you thank it No" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996691665906815239) 2025-12-04T21:22Z 55K followers, 16.2K engagements "This is my favorite spider from any scary move because it has googly eyes. (Challenge the Devil from 60s Italy). It is not a great film except for this little guy" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996992941932662856) 2025-12-05T17:19Z 55K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997423187756556393) 2025-12-06T21:49Z 55K followers, 13.3K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997720962129920181) 2025-12-07T17:32Z 55K followers, 6295 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997724404743274626) 2025-12-07T17:46Z 55K followers, 1734 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997725377142337925) 2025-12-07T17:50Z 54.9K followers, 77.3K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997818771051069882) 2025-12-08T00:01Z 54.9K followers, 1479 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997831612890055151) 2025-12-08T00:52Z 55K followers, 10.6K engagements "Was Clark Kent an illegal alien He was taken in as a foundling by the Kents who were US citizens. According to ICE rules a foundling under the age of X from an unknown origin is considered to be an American citizen if the child's guardians are citizens. This does NOT require the child to be formally adopted nor naturalized. So Clark Kent (and Superman) is an American citizen. This can be disputed if the actual parents showed up to claim guardianship which seems highly unlikely" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998075141734195644) 2025-12-08T17:00Z 54.9K followers, 37.6K engagements "I wrote Call of Cthulhu which is usually claimed to be the "deadliest" roleplaying game. (I think Paranoia is actually it though.) So I will now defend the concept of character death. Games are more fun if players think something is at stake. If the only difference between success & failure is they get less treasure the players are enervated. In Call of Cthulhu I have three main weapons to get players to feel "something is at stake". First obviously they can die. This is universal among roleplaying games. Yes the deaths in Call of Cthulhu can be gruesome but getting eaten by rot worms or" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998082702386544946) 2025-12-08T17:30Z 55K followers, 129.6K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998443161149125102) 2025-12-09T17:22Z 55K followers, 14K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998451401513734655) 2025-12-09T17:55Z 55K followers, 42.3K engagements "These are witch stairs. Supposedly witches cannot climb them" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998464827577020640) 2025-12-09T18:48Z 55K followers, 14.2K engagements "What's the best cryptid for a roleplaying adventure" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998471632575492199) 2025-12-09T19:15Z 55K followers, 1121 engagements "One reason mainstream Hollywood horror stinks is that they are not allowed to kill a kid or a dog. This means there is zero tension when a kid is menaced. In Italian horror when a kid's menaced it's real. The kid might be killed. He might not but you don't know for sure. The tension stays high. Name the film below for a +1" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998473140213789151) 2025-12-09T19:21Z 55K followers, 16.5K engagements "When H. G. Wells tried to describe civilization's eventual fall this is the reason he came up with: they permitted the growth in their midst of an evil-spirited press mercenary and unscrupulous incapable of good and powerful for evil. Never forget that the New York Times still has the Pulitzer Prize awarded to Walter Duranty for outright lying about the Holodomor and they KNEW this was a lie because other reporters were smuggling out the truth. Also remember the New York Times showing an XX month old starving baby and directly blaming Israel. When it came out that the baby had serious" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998475702891589726) 2025-12-09T19:31Z 55K followers, 10.5K engagements "Doom X Map XX - The Suburbs I created this map for Doom X at the same time as I was building the house I lived in from 1994-2024. So naturally I wanted to stick my house in there somewhere. Now a mere house isn't nearly big enough for an entire Doom map. For one thing Doom could only simulate the ground floor not the upstairs. So I decided the best way to do this was to create a number of separate houses on an overall "outside" map. I started you in a very simple almost incomplete house in the exact center of the level. I've made plenty of "railroaded" levels where the players have to go down" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998806217079271733) 2025-12-10T17:25Z 55K followers, 2115 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998806219646218538) 2025-12-10T17:25Z 55K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998806222074687781) 2025-12-10T17:25Z 55K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998807562561687941) 2025-12-10T17:30Z 55K followers, 3540 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998809118010913066) 2025-12-10T17:36Z 55K followers, 5489 engagements "Why does God permit suffering 1) I believe Earth life is a test. Removing suffering voids the test. There's no "social promotions" in God's school. 2) I believe the afterlife is eternal. If I'm right then trillions of years of a glorious afterlife render a few decades of pain on Earth meaningless no matter how large it looms now. Ergo suffering is (1) necessary and (2) inconsequential. This doesn't mean we should ignore it. Heck it's part of the aforementioned test" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998810968713998394) 2025-12-10T17:44Z 55K followers, 8106 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998811504452464846) 2025-12-10T17:46Z 55K followers, 9115 engagements "My dad is in the doctors waiting room. This is set up for people to entertain themselves and interact while they wait" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998816504947814721) 2025-12-10T18:06Z 55K followers, 1444 engagements "My pals coming over to play Call of Cthulhu. If you want in on this you know what to do" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998850047296024796) 2025-12-10T20:19Z 55K followers, 1772 engagements "@Zodliest The elephant bird went extinct about 1000 BC so not perhaps a real fossil in that it's not rock" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998942422894887158) 2025-12-11T02:26Z 55K followers, XX engagements "@Marshal_Victory The best ever will always be the medusa from the original Clash of the Titans" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998946426005631329) 2025-12-11T02:42Z 55K followers, XX engagements "Racist alert The DWARF is in fact the adventurer and the evil human footpad is the monster" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999152853450166468) 2025-12-11T16:22Z 55K followers, 1450 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999240175634039159) 2025-12-11T22:09Z 55K followers, XX 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1986104888456265757) 2025-11-05T16:14Z 55K followers, 1.4M engagements "I actually have a degree in entomology and I can confirm that this medieval illustration is the most accurate portrayal of a grasshopper that I've ever seen" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995912136061845710) 2025-12-02T17:45Z 55K followers, 2731 engagements "Now that it's winter it still never gets old to mock European ideas of heat. On June 21st of this year the high in the UK was 73F (23C). The BBC predicted over XXX heat-related deaths might occur" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995915725844926490) 2025-12-02T17:59Z 55K followers, 7777 engagements "One reason Call of Cthulhu is highly convenient for new players is because it is set in the real world. Let's say you're running D&D. The newbies have their character sheets and you say "Okay you're in the Yawning Portal tavern in Waterdeep. A merchant from Mulhorand walks in and makes a beeline for your table." Now you have to explain what Waterdeep is what Mulhorand is like and this leads to more questions. But in Call of Cthulhu you can say "You're in Dirty Dick's bar & grill on the New York waterfront and a middle-Eastern-looking guy walks in and makes a beeline for your table." No" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996260665007489203) 2025-12-03T16:50Z 55K followers, 7093 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996693286002872523) 2025-12-04T21:29Z 55K followers, 30.9K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997355039958991337) 2025-12-06T17:18Z 55.1K followers, 14.3K engagements "Worst Christmas song" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997803392404726050) 2025-12-07T23:00Z 55K followers, 5952 engagements "In my opinion the three greatest science fiction films ever made are Planet of the Vampires Quatermass and the Pit and Fantastic Planet. If you have not seen one or more of them you are in for a treat" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997812801931509767) 2025-12-07T23:37Z 55.1K followers, 2072 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997818030391451968) 2025-12-07T23:58Z 55K followers, 87.2K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998136878588145793) 2025-12-08T21:05Z 55K followers, 25.3K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998419109424558432) 2025-12-09T15:46Z 55K followers, 20.7K engagements "Germany has an ice cream flavor named "waldmeister". Originally I imagined some kind of woodland goblin but was told it comes from a plant that in English is named "sweet woodruff" which does not help" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998480862959251676) 2025-12-09T19:52Z 55.1K followers, 1348 engagements "The "ooo-ooo-AH AH AH" sound you hear on every jungle movie night scene is a kookaburra. I even heard it once in a vampire film made in Serbia. Now that I know that I'm immediately thrown out of the film. The muffled 4-5 note "hooo hooo" sound you hear when an owl appears is the Great Horned Owl of the Americas. If the scene is set in the Old World it's wrong because those owls aren't there. I've seen films where they had a barn owl make the hoot noise and that's really wrong because barn owls have a hideous grating shriek. Actually they're perfect for a horror movie they just "don't sound" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998827085687837183) 2025-12-10T18:48Z 55K followers, 12.4K engagements "In Nosferatu 1921 Orlok is exceedingly supernatural. He fades through walls doors open for him magically he spreads the plague. There is never a hint that crosses would be useful against him. As a man who doesn't venerate this symbol this was nice. It also shows a vampire killed by the sun which is pretty dang uncanny" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998829916889223196) 2025-12-10T18:59Z 55.1K followers, 33K engagements "I love this entity unconditionally and everything about him and his movie" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998830075652039115) 2025-12-10T19:00Z 55K followers, XXX engagements "A bit of lore about my church. Atop many (not all) is a statue of the Angel Moroni. For those which have him he is always positioned to point East regardless of the temples facing. For instance our Los Angeles temple is pointed southwest but the Angel is east. This is because we know from the Bible that Christ will return from the East and so the Angel is ready to greet Him" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998896066989797684) 2025-12-10T23:22Z 55K followers, 3236 engagements "Pop Francis said that paradise is open to all God's creatures. Pope John Paul II said animals have souls. Not that I regard the popes as authorities but you ought to" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998936257003663459) 2025-12-11T02:01Z 55K followers, 6302 engagements "@amaoesquerda well it was Germany so pig it was. Also piglets have cracklings" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998946081225535580) 2025-12-11T02:40Z 55.1K followers, XX engagements "You really really liked floor tiles" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998952089825980508) 2025-12-11T03:04Z 55K followers, 2092 engagements "largely true in the real world as well" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998953594834587755) 2025-12-11T03:10Z 55K followers, 6235 engagements "Every day we move further from God's light" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999157907502563717) 2025-12-11T16:42Z 55K followers, 1815 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999162584457675160) 2025-12-11T17:01Z 55K followers, 1470 engagements "I owned and played this. Basically you were trying to gather together monster cards. It took four to complete your monster image and win. So not particularly monstrous but it did have neat cards. Probably the frustration in how bad a game it was led me down the path to try to design better games as I grew older. But it also taught me that cool art ALSO made a game fun. I remember seeing a shouting match in GDW about 1991. It was between Chris Roberts (Wing Commander) and Chris Crawford (Balance of Power). Basically they were so mad at each other that they both stepped way out on a limb they" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999238088229621830) 2025-12-11T22:01Z 55K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1990841241337319920) 2025-11-18T17:55Z 55.1K followers, 1.2M engagements "So is driving this full circle a thing Totally would be in America" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1991930919859703817) 2025-11-21T18:05Z 55.1K followers, 5M 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995143904031899754) 2025-11-30T14:52Z 55.1K followers, 2.5M engagements "My favorite fact about the Spanish Civil War is that the anarchist faction (on the Republican side) was absolutely useless. They constantly begged for supplies and never ever organized an attack. They were almost a parody of anarchy. My second favorite fact is that Franco was 3rd in command of the Nationalists. The 1st and 2nd in command each died in separate plane wrecks. shrug "What a coincidence." My third is post-Civil War when Franco gathered up his most anti-communist fanatic falangist and organized them into the Blue Division then sent them to the Russian Front to fight for Hitler" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995963195069219153) 2025-12-02T21:08Z 55.1K followers, 195.8K engagements "Anti-Roleplaying Activist: "The 'dungeon master' has complete control of everything and the players are forced to act out his dark fantasies." Real Dungeon Master: "Please just swim across the river or use the rope bridge. You've all tried to seduce the catfish and it didn't work." starts sobbing" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996687467001618615) 2025-12-04T21:06Z 55.1K followers, 76.6K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996960695083323491) 2025-12-05T15:11Z 55.1K followers, 418K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997343450480640122) 2025-12-06T16:32Z 55.1K followers, 109.5K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997815103845192140) 2025-12-07T23:46Z 55.1K followers, 1271 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997815787864965581) 2025-12-07T23:49Z 55.1K followers, 941K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998053351683182690) 2025-12-08T15:33Z 55.1K followers, 191K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998066086923878455) 2025-12-08T16:24Z 55.1K followers, 28.6K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998131637083869465) 2025-12-08T20:44Z 55.1K followers, 3498 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998133948363464932) 2025-12-08T20:53Z 55.1K followers, 188.7K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998451114468118564) 2025-12-09T17:54Z 55.1K followers, 41.3K engagements "We don't hate game journalists enough" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998451526919139553) 2025-12-09T17:55Z 55.1K followers, 42.1K engagements "In the book Dracula Van Helsing's wife is hopelessly insane. She is only referred to. He stays married because he is a strong Catholic which intimates that he is Flemish not Dutch" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998472153793257565) 2025-12-09T19:17Z 55.1K followers, 26.5K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998808117216518627) 2025-12-10T17:32Z 55.1K followers, 3652 engagements "This is my dad with his new friend. He asked me to buy him a skeleton for last year's Halloween season so I did. When I brought it home his doting wife (married XX years) said "He should just look in the mirror."" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998823616239251924) 2025-12-10T18:34Z 55.1K followers, 1606 engagements "I was playing in a Middle Earth campaign. Orcs were portrayed as irredeemably evil. We captured one and said we'd let it go if it answered a question we needed answered. The orc told us and my character demanded that we let the orc be freed as promised. Other characters said it would just go and be evil. It might kill a baby. This led to a big debate. Was my character right Yes or no" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998831150656270508) 2025-12-10T19:04Z 55.1K followers, 53.8K engagements "So anyway the answer to this is the human brain CAN run Doom because when I was making the original Doom & Doom X maps XX hours a week back in 1993-94; I had nightmares all night long of me running through Doom levels. Usually my own" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998835456033906915) 2025-12-10T19:21Z 55.1K followers, 116.6K engagements "This is super heartwarming" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998927114096226553) 2025-12-11T01:25Z 55.1K followers, 20.7K engagements "@bubzthetroll and devastates the ecology right Right" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998941738116002044) 2025-12-11T02:23Z 55.1K followers, 112.1K engagements "It's important to know that the Thing which is sometimes called a "camel spider" is better called a solpugid or solifugid. It's not a spider at all. It has no venom glands and kills prey by crunching them up with their massive jaws (the most powerful for their size of any animal). A really big one can nip you and probably draw blood if you let it hang on long enough. But no venom of any sort. They just look super scary. I kept one as a pet for a while but it was a pretty terrible pet because all it wanted to do was escape the terrarium 24/7. Spiders scorpions and mantises are way more chill" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1998948891727929507) 2025-12-11T02:52Z 55.1K followers, 354.1K engagements "When I worked for MicroSoft (2000-2009) I had an opportunity to see MS's rules for what images they could show on their screen saver. The two most important rules were first that no humans could be shown and second that a place of worship could only be shown if it had no longer been a place of worship for many years. So they couldn't show the Dome of the Rock or St. Paul's or Kotoku-in because religion was still practiced there. You could show the Parthenon though. Everything had to be secular. I pondered why this was the case - practitioners of a religion don't object to having their temple" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999151235988086955) 2025-12-11T16:16Z 55.1K followers, 13.1K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999160307315605936) 2025-12-11T16:52Z 55.1K followers, 35.4K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999166581595865172) 2025-12-11T17:17Z 55.1K followers, 21.1K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999168834855665952) 2025-12-11T17:26Z 55.1K followers, 66.3K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999180765394038966) 2025-12-11T18:13Z 55.1K followers, 2539 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999219255456464967) 2025-12-11T20:46Z 55.1K followers, 271.8K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999263517929799968) 2025-12-11T23:42Z 55.1K followers, 1629 engagements "I hated Supergirl all along because she vitiated Supermans Last Son of Krypton thing. The most alone man in the world struggling on to find meaning in protecting a physically inferior species hes adopted as his own. Adding Krypton Supergirl Comet (the horse) and Beppo (if you dont remember him youre lucky) all gave him a Kryptonian family that to me as a kid ruined the concept that hes trying to recreate a family with Jimmy Olsen Lois (or Lana) and Perry White. I guess Im being a curmudgeon. Ill own that" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999549024895140061) 2025-12-12T18:36Z 55.1K followers, 44.7K engagements "The worst thing English teachers ever did was convince us that great literature is dull as hell. They put tedious hard-to-parse works before us and then graded us on the dumbest elitist analysis they could find. Did we read Jane Austen H.G.Wells Alexander Dumas No. We got stuck with tedious slogs like The Pearl The Scarlet Letter Tess of the DUrbervilles and The Great Gatsby. And they all had grimly negative endings Cant a XX year old kid be allowed to read something with a happy ending that wont put him off books Yes the works I diss are great books but I think they lead a bad taste in your" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999553532136161330) 2025-12-12T18:54Z 55.1K followers, 265.8K engagements "How can we reject all of our current fanbase while simultaneously not picking up any new fans of Final Fantasy" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999554178369110304) 2025-12-12T18:57Z 55.1K followers, 5493 engagements "When I went to France I was taken out for pizza twice. The first time the pizza had an odd-looking pale cheese and no other topping. I took a bite and realized. "This is camembert. The pizza uses camembert instead of mozzarella." My French hosts were so pleased with themselves for taking me to this unusual treat that I didn't dare say yuck. I mean I like camembert okay but on pizza The second time I insisted that the pizza have olives (I like olives on pizza). The entire large pizza had three (3) olives rolling around on top pits and all. It also had a big ol' fried egg in the middle of the" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999578834744803705) 2025-12-12T20:35Z 55.1K followers, 30.8K engagements "The original first print run of Call of Cthulhu had sepia-toned ink because Lynn Willis thought it would be creepier. It cost a bit more so on the second print run we used normal black ink. Check your copy collectors to see which you have" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999580883859247517) 2025-12-12T20:43Z 55.1K followers, XXX engagements "99% Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley. Maybe X% me. I'm still proud to have been even a small part of the process. We knew it was going to be a monstrous hit when our much-overworked playtest team stayed AFTER HOURS to keep playing Civilization just for fun. That had literally never happened before nor since" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999583590141825502) 2025-12-12T20:54Z 55.1K followers, 41K engagements "Egypt was literally part of the Roman Empire. Jesus was crossing what was more like a state line. Not a national line" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999584039205048593) 2025-12-12T20:56Z 55.1K followers, 6073 engagements "In the movie Viking Wolf (Norwegian werewolf flick) an expert examining a corpse says the wounds are "definitely from a wolf. Is it really possible to tell wolf bites from dog bites Anyone know" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999589495147233514) 2025-12-12T21:17Z 55.1K followers, 5141 engagements "On one of my trips to Milwaukee back in the day I went to a used bookstore. The top floor was like any other cool bookstore. Tall stacks of books with the most exciting ones unreachably high smelling gloriously of old leather mildew and bookbinding chemicals. I love those places. But then I went downstairs and it was a whole different dark world. The books were literally in gigantic piles on the floor as tall as me. Just dumped - not stacked. Most of the books were in German (not all). I'm pretty sure I saw a few copies of De Vermiis Mysteriis and the Buch von Eibon. I'm sure all the darkest" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999605523768050031) 2025-12-12T22:21Z 55.1K followers, 2671 engagements "My mom holding court. She owns none of the dogs shown but they love her" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999607665761362362) 2025-12-12T22:29Z 55.1K followers, 1458 engagements "What is the easiest fastest and most painful means of driving elves into extinction" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1999612980053549478) 2025-12-12T22:51Z 55.1K followers, 4772 engagements "Comic artists will never draw a cooler image than Watterson's T-Rex in an F-15 Strike Eagle" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1975204450148274360) 2025-10-06T14:20Z 55.1K followers, 1.4M 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1986890685094764787) 2025-11-07T20:17Z 55.1K followers, 81.7K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995251195364209022) 2025-11-30T21:58Z 55.1K followers, 2.7M 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1995539078683787756) 2025-12-01T17:02Z 55.1K followers, 592.1K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996253663556505792) 2025-12-03T16:22Z 55.1K followers, 116.1K engagements "Doom X was basically a cash grab. The idea is that we'd use assets from the first game and give the designers something to do while the programmers built Quake. Don't get me wrong - we still wanted to make Doom X fun but there's a reason that it didn't add X new weapons and XX new monsters X new skins and a new player mode. We did it all on a shoestring. Also Quake was well worth it" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996334921888231762) 2025-12-03T21:45Z 55.1K followers, 356.6K engagements "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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996338592680235503) 2025-12-03T21:59Z 55.1K followers, 22.9K engagements "Goblins are a great addition to a fantasy game. But only if they remain toxic cruel & petty. If you "rehabilitate" them then you need something else to be the vicious little monsters in your world and you haven't solved any problem. If orcs or goblins or beholders become potential good guys in a world that heroes who must stand up to evil then who will be the evil they stand up to Something else presumably. At some point you realize that the people whitewashing goblins & orcs are hoping that you'll make humans - your own species - the bad guys" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996416378551873815) 2025-12-04T03:08Z 55.1K followers, 867.5K engagements "In the most realistic aviation film of all time Snakes on a Plane a guy is able to land the XXX because he played Microsoft Flight Simulator a lot" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1996677168961855687) 2025-12-04T20:25Z 55.1K followers, 2204 engagements "Every person I know who is in a wheelchair would happily get out of it" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997063548690952416) 2025-12-05T22:00Z 55.1K followers, 30.3K engagements "What will YOU do when you get the Call of Cthulhu" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997069006050881759) 2025-12-05T22:22Z 55.1K followers, 11.3K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997071271163826435) 2025-12-05T22:31Z 55.1K followers, 274.5K 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](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1997142164078514473) 2025-12-06T03:12Z 55.1K followers, 56.1K engagements
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@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 Social Posts
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"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
"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
"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
"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
"Eggs were $XXXX a dozen at Target today"
X Link 2025-11-30T05:22Z 54.9K followers, 12.7K 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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"why play Age of Empires See below"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:11Z 54.9K followers, 20.4K 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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Who wouldn't want $300000"
X Link 2025-12-04T16:51Z 54.9K followers, 24.2K 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
"In 1571 all Mediterranean Christendom combined to meet the Ottoman fleet in the battle of Lepanto. The Ottomans had XX% more ships a robust naval tradition and 30000 skilled naval archers (better than arquebusiers in almost every way). The battle was a stunning but hard-fought Christian victory. The Christians lost 10000 and XX ships. The Ottomans lost 40000 and XXX ships. 15000 Christian galley slaves were freed from their cruel Turkish masters. The interesting thing to me is that the Ottomans replaced the entire fleet the very next year. So why was the battle decisive Because the turks lost"
X Link 2025-12-05T00:47Z 54.9K followers, 33.7K 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
"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
"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
"Anyone playing Age of Empires 3"
X Link 2025-12-05T22:07Z 54.9K followers, 5185 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
"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 54.9K followers, 3563 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
"Early on in my marriage my dad took the whole family including my wife out to see Werner Herzog's Nosferatu. My wife had basically never gone to a single horror movie growing up and was amazed that we'd want to see such a creepy movie. She looked around and saw that the Petersens were absolutely enjoying it. I on the other hand had no idea that anyone DIDN'T like scary movies. My whole life growing up we'd go see them. My dad was a big science fiction fan who cut his teeth on the old pulp magazines. Back then scary movies weren't slotted into tiny boxes as they are now. They were basically"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:40Z 54.9K followers, 8847 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
"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
"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
"@taddyfife Elephants are not endangered"
X Link 2025-12-09T01:25Z 54.9K followers, 11.6K engagements
"This is my favorite Cthulhu statuette"
X Link 2025-12-09T03:47Z 54.8K followers, 4908 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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Before world war II the Imperial Japanese Navy knew it could not take on the USN but it kept its gigantic budget by claiming that it could. Just before Pearl Harbor the Navy got cold feet and said that maybe the USN was too much. So Hideki Tojo asked them if 300000 tons of steel would be enough for them to take on the USN and they said yes. This is how the IJN sold its soul"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:44Z 54.9K followers, 9678 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
"It is a matter of record that at the astronomical conference when Pluto was declared no longer a planet the anti-Pluto faction waited until all the planetologists had left for dinner before they took the vote because the planetologists were solidly opposed. The "Pluto's not a planet" is fake. BRING BACK YUGGOTH"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:24Z 54.9K followers, 45.5K engagements
"The fact that they think Marines originated as amphibious landing troops says everything you need to know about their lack of knowledge"
X Link 2025-12-09T21:53Z 54.9K followers, 13.4K engagements
"This is my favorite Quora question ever"
X Link 2025-12-10T01:58Z 54.9K followers, 2437 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 55.1K followers, 162.2K 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 55.1K followers, 588.8K engagements
"Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie and it's not close"
X Link 2025-12-01T17:53Z 55.1K followers, 10.3K engagements
"This is the greatest description ever from a bootleg video in China"
X Link 2025-12-03T16:46Z 55.1K followers, 83.8K 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 55.1K followers, 29.2K engagements
"Okay ladies pick your dream man. We know he has to be bald swarthy and buff"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:19Z 55.1K followers, 1261 engagements
"This is a golden garden spider. They are big and scary looking sitting in the middle of a gigantic orb web right IN YOUR YARD. They are just about the most harmless spider imaginable. It is extremely difficult to get one to bite you. You have to basically let it onto your arm or hand then pin it down with your other hand so it's terrified. Then it does a tiny bite which does nothing. I mean literally nothing - this spider's venom has evolved to quickly kill delicate flying insects NOT hurt vertebrates. It never even raised a welt on me but one of my friends had a little itchy red bump for"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:51Z 55.1K followers, 58.9K 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 55.1K followers, 161K 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 55.1K followers, 32.9K 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 55.1K followers, 838.4K engagements
"The damn stupid director's-ego-boost ending to The Mist which completely vitiated the whole idea of the Mist being the ultimate destructive horror that menaced the world. "Oh but some people he liked died isn't that a cool dark ending" THEY WOULD HAVE DIED IF THE MIST HAD BEEN PORTRAYED PROPERLY. Man this movie's "improved" ending gets my goat. Rrrrrrrrrr"
X Link 2025-12-11T23:39Z 55.1K followers, 14.8K engagements
"I can never watch this again (and havent since 1983) because of my eternal hatred of John Landis who outright murdered my boyhood hero Vic Morrow. The only other director I hate as much is Roman Polanski"
X Link 2025-12-12T00:18Z 55.1K followers, 3092 engagements
"Its harder to make a woman beautiful in video games. It takes actual talent. In a movie you can just hire someone attractive. Also a video game has a much smaller team so a couple of activists have a much bigger impact proportionally than in a film"
X Link 2025-12-12T09:58Z 55.1K followers, 10.7K engagements
"Every American should listen to this at least once a year. It recharges your "Murica" gene and helps your immune system"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:45Z 55.1K followers, 13.8K 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 55.1K followers, 886.2K engagements
"Werewolves are a way bigger problem for us today. Back in the 19th century you could melt down a fork or some coins into a musket ball and shoot the suckers. Now it's a lot harder to make silver bullets and our "silverware" is all stainless steel not real silver. Silver-handled walking sticks Don't make me laugh. We don't even have real silver in our teeth anymore. We'd be helpless"
X Link 2025-12-12T21:13Z 55.1K followers, 5854 engagements
"I don't see how a game can be "satanic" in which you spend the entire game trying to destroy demons"
X Link 2025-11-07T18:37Z 55K followers, 27.5K 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
"Fun fact: my spell checker knows Cthulhu Tsathoggua and Nyarlathotep"
X Link 2025-11-30T22:45Z 54.9K followers, 2821 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 55K followers, 221.9K 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 55K followers, 53K engagements
"Sauron and Diablo look a LOT different than in the movies and video games"
X Link 2025-12-02T20:51Z 55K followers, 1971 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 55K followers, 352.6K 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 55K followers, 2570 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 55K 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 55K followers, 4483 engagements
"There is a spider in your house right now. It works hard every day to destroy your insect enemies to save you and your loved ones and your food from contamination and disease. Do you thank it No"
X Link 2025-12-04T21:22Z 55K followers, 16.2K engagements
"This is my favorite spider from any scary move because it has googly eyes. (Challenge the Devil from 60s Italy). It is not a great film except for this little guy"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:19Z 55K followers, XXX 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 55K followers, 13.3K 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 55K followers, 6295 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 55K followers, 1734 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
"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 54.9K followers, 1479 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 55K followers, 10.6K engagements
"Was Clark Kent an illegal alien He was taken in as a foundling by the Kents who were US citizens. According to ICE rules a foundling under the age of X from an unknown origin is considered to be an American citizen if the child's guardians are citizens. This does NOT require the child to be formally adopted nor naturalized. So Clark Kent (and Superman) is an American citizen. This can be disputed if the actual parents showed up to claim guardianship which seems highly unlikely"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:00Z 54.9K followers, 37.6K engagements
"I wrote Call of Cthulhu which is usually claimed to be the "deadliest" roleplaying game. (I think Paranoia is actually it though.) So I will now defend the concept of character death. Games are more fun if players think something is at stake. If the only difference between success & failure is they get less treasure the players are enervated. In Call of Cthulhu I have three main weapons to get players to feel "something is at stake". First obviously they can die. This is universal among roleplaying games. Yes the deaths in Call of Cthulhu can be gruesome but getting eaten by rot worms or"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:30Z 55K followers, 129.6K 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 55K followers, 14K 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 55K followers, 42.3K engagements
"These are witch stairs. Supposedly witches cannot climb them"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:48Z 55K followers, 14.2K engagements
"What's the best cryptid for a roleplaying adventure"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:15Z 55K followers, 1121 engagements
"One reason mainstream Hollywood horror stinks is that they are not allowed to kill a kid or a dog. This means there is zero tension when a kid is menaced. In Italian horror when a kid's menaced it's real. The kid might be killed. He might not but you don't know for sure. The tension stays high. Name the film below for a +1"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:21Z 55K followers, 16.5K engagements
"When H. G. Wells tried to describe civilization's eventual fall this is the reason he came up with: they permitted the growth in their midst of an evil-spirited press mercenary and unscrupulous incapable of good and powerful for evil. Never forget that the New York Times still has the Pulitzer Prize awarded to Walter Duranty for outright lying about the Holodomor and they KNEW this was a lie because other reporters were smuggling out the truth. Also remember the New York Times showing an XX month old starving baby and directly blaming Israel. When it came out that the baby had serious"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:31Z 55K followers, 10.5K engagements
"Doom X Map XX - The Suburbs I created this map for Doom X at the same time as I was building the house I lived in from 1994-2024. So naturally I wanted to stick my house in there somewhere. Now a mere house isn't nearly big enough for an entire Doom map. For one thing Doom could only simulate the ground floor not the upstairs. So I decided the best way to do this was to create a number of separate houses on an overall "outside" map. I started you in a very simple almost incomplete house in the exact center of the level. I've made plenty of "railroaded" levels where the players have to go down"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:25Z 55K followers, 2115 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 55K 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 55K followers, XXX 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 55K followers, 3540 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 55K followers, 5489 engagements
"Why does God permit suffering 1) I believe Earth life is a test. Removing suffering voids the test. There's no "social promotions" in God's school. 2) I believe the afterlife is eternal. If I'm right then trillions of years of a glorious afterlife render a few decades of pain on Earth meaningless no matter how large it looms now. Ergo suffering is (1) necessary and (2) inconsequential. This doesn't mean we should ignore it. Heck it's part of the aforementioned test"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:44Z 55K followers, 8106 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 55K followers, 9115 engagements
"My dad is in the doctors waiting room. This is set up for people to entertain themselves and interact while they wait"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:06Z 55K followers, 1444 engagements
"My pals coming over to play Call of Cthulhu. If you want in on this you know what to do"
X Link 2025-12-10T20:19Z 55K followers, 1772 engagements
"@Zodliest The elephant bird went extinct about 1000 BC so not perhaps a real fossil in that it's not rock"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:26Z 55K followers, XX engagements
"@Marshal_Victory The best ever will always be the medusa from the original Clash of the Titans"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:42Z 55K followers, XX engagements
"Racist alert The DWARF is in fact the adventurer and the evil human footpad is the monster"
X Link 2025-12-11T16:22Z 55K followers, 1450 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 55K followers, XX 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 55K followers, 1.4M engagements
"I actually have a degree in entomology and I can confirm that this medieval illustration is the most accurate portrayal of a grasshopper that I've ever seen"
X Link 2025-12-02T17:45Z 55K followers, 2731 engagements
"Now that it's winter it still never gets old to mock European ideas of heat. On June 21st of this year the high in the UK was 73F (23C). The BBC predicted over XXX heat-related deaths might occur"
X Link 2025-12-02T17:59Z 55K followers, 7777 engagements
"One reason Call of Cthulhu is highly convenient for new players is because it is set in the real world. Let's say you're running D&D. The newbies have their character sheets and you say "Okay you're in the Yawning Portal tavern in Waterdeep. A merchant from Mulhorand walks in and makes a beeline for your table." Now you have to explain what Waterdeep is what Mulhorand is like and this leads to more questions. But in Call of Cthulhu you can say "You're in Dirty Dick's bar & grill on the New York waterfront and a middle-Eastern-looking guy walks in and makes a beeline for your table." No"
X Link 2025-12-03T16:50Z 55K followers, 7093 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 55K followers, 30.9K 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 55.1K followers, 14.3K engagements
"Worst Christmas song"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:00Z 55K followers, 5952 engagements
"In my opinion the three greatest science fiction films ever made are Planet of the Vampires Quatermass and the Pit and Fantastic Planet. If you have not seen one or more of them you are in for a treat"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:37Z 55.1K followers, 2072 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 55K followers, 87.2K 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 55K followers, 25.3K 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 55K followers, 20.7K engagements
"Germany has an ice cream flavor named "waldmeister". Originally I imagined some kind of woodland goblin but was told it comes from a plant that in English is named "sweet woodruff" which does not help"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:52Z 55.1K followers, 1348 engagements
"The "ooo-ooo-AH AH AH" sound you hear on every jungle movie night scene is a kookaburra. I even heard it once in a vampire film made in Serbia. Now that I know that I'm immediately thrown out of the film. The muffled 4-5 note "hooo hooo" sound you hear when an owl appears is the Great Horned Owl of the Americas. If the scene is set in the Old World it's wrong because those owls aren't there. I've seen films where they had a barn owl make the hoot noise and that's really wrong because barn owls have a hideous grating shriek. Actually they're perfect for a horror movie they just "don't sound"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:48Z 55K followers, 12.4K engagements
"In Nosferatu 1921 Orlok is exceedingly supernatural. He fades through walls doors open for him magically he spreads the plague. There is never a hint that crosses would be useful against him. As a man who doesn't venerate this symbol this was nice. It also shows a vampire killed by the sun which is pretty dang uncanny"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:59Z 55.1K followers, 33K engagements
"I love this entity unconditionally and everything about him and his movie"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:00Z 55K followers, XXX engagements
"A bit of lore about my church. Atop many (not all) is a statue of the Angel Moroni. For those which have him he is always positioned to point East regardless of the temples facing. For instance our Los Angeles temple is pointed southwest but the Angel is east. This is because we know from the Bible that Christ will return from the East and so the Angel is ready to greet Him"
X Link 2025-12-10T23:22Z 55K followers, 3236 engagements
"Pop Francis said that paradise is open to all God's creatures. Pope John Paul II said animals have souls. Not that I regard the popes as authorities but you ought to"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:01Z 55K followers, 6302 engagements
"@amaoesquerda well it was Germany so pig it was. Also piglets have cracklings"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:40Z 55.1K followers, XX engagements
"You really really liked floor tiles"
X Link 2025-12-11T03:04Z 55K followers, 2092 engagements
"largely true in the real world as well"
X Link 2025-12-11T03:10Z 55K followers, 6235 engagements
"Every day we move further from God's light"
X Link 2025-12-11T16:42Z 55K followers, 1815 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 55K followers, 1470 engagements
"I owned and played this. Basically you were trying to gather together monster cards. It took four to complete your monster image and win. So not particularly monstrous but it did have neat cards. Probably the frustration in how bad a game it was led me down the path to try to design better games as I grew older. But it also taught me that cool art ALSO made a game fun. I remember seeing a shouting match in GDW about 1991. It was between Chris Roberts (Wing Commander) and Chris Crawford (Balance of Power). Basically they were so mad at each other that they both stepped way out on a limb they"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:01Z 55K followers, XXX 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 55.1K followers, 1.2M engagements
"So is driving this full circle a thing Totally would be in America"
X Link 2025-11-21T18:05Z 55.1K followers, 5M 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 55.1K followers, 2.5M engagements
"My favorite fact about the Spanish Civil War is that the anarchist faction (on the Republican side) was absolutely useless. They constantly begged for supplies and never ever organized an attack. They were almost a parody of anarchy. My second favorite fact is that Franco was 3rd in command of the Nationalists. The 1st and 2nd in command each died in separate plane wrecks. shrug "What a coincidence." My third is post-Civil War when Franco gathered up his most anti-communist fanatic falangist and organized them into the Blue Division then sent them to the Russian Front to fight for Hitler"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:08Z 55.1K followers, 195.8K engagements
"Anti-Roleplaying Activist: "The 'dungeon master' has complete control of everything and the players are forced to act out his dark fantasies." Real Dungeon Master: "Please just swim across the river or use the rope bridge. You've all tried to seduce the catfish and it didn't work." starts sobbing"
X Link 2025-12-04T21:06Z 55.1K followers, 76.6K 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 55.1K followers, 418K 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 55.1K followers, 109.5K 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 55.1K followers, 1271 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 55.1K followers, 941K 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 55.1K followers, 191K 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 55.1K followers, 28.6K 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 55.1K followers, 3498 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 55.1K followers, 188.7K 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 55.1K followers, 41.3K engagements
"We don't hate game journalists enough"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:55Z 55.1K followers, 42.1K engagements
"In the book Dracula Van Helsing's wife is hopelessly insane. She is only referred to. He stays married because he is a strong Catholic which intimates that he is Flemish not Dutch"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:17Z 55.1K followers, 26.5K 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 55.1K followers, 3652 engagements
"This is my dad with his new friend. He asked me to buy him a skeleton for last year's Halloween season so I did. When I brought it home his doting wife (married XX years) said "He should just look in the mirror.""
X Link 2025-12-10T18:34Z 55.1K followers, 1606 engagements
"I was playing in a Middle Earth campaign. Orcs were portrayed as irredeemably evil. We captured one and said we'd let it go if it answered a question we needed answered. The orc told us and my character demanded that we let the orc be freed as promised. Other characters said it would just go and be evil. It might kill a baby. This led to a big debate. Was my character right Yes or no"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:04Z 55.1K followers, 53.8K engagements
"So anyway the answer to this is the human brain CAN run Doom because when I was making the original Doom & Doom X maps XX hours a week back in 1993-94; I had nightmares all night long of me running through Doom levels. Usually my own"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:21Z 55.1K followers, 116.6K engagements
"This is super heartwarming"
X Link 2025-12-11T01:25Z 55.1K followers, 20.7K engagements
"@bubzthetroll and devastates the ecology right Right"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:23Z 55.1K followers, 112.1K engagements
"It's important to know that the Thing which is sometimes called a "camel spider" is better called a solpugid or solifugid. It's not a spider at all. It has no venom glands and kills prey by crunching them up with their massive jaws (the most powerful for their size of any animal). A really big one can nip you and probably draw blood if you let it hang on long enough. But no venom of any sort. They just look super scary. I kept one as a pet for a while but it was a pretty terrible pet because all it wanted to do was escape the terrarium 24/7. Spiders scorpions and mantises are way more chill"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:52Z 55.1K followers, 354.1K engagements
"When I worked for MicroSoft (2000-2009) I had an opportunity to see MS's rules for what images they could show on their screen saver. The two most important rules were first that no humans could be shown and second that a place of worship could only be shown if it had no longer been a place of worship for many years. So they couldn't show the Dome of the Rock or St. Paul's or Kotoku-in because religion was still practiced there. You could show the Parthenon though. Everything had to be secular. I pondered why this was the case - practitioners of a religion don't object to having their temple"
X Link 2025-12-11T16:16Z 55.1K followers, 13.1K 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 55.1K followers, 35.4K 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 55.1K followers, 21.1K 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 55.1K followers, 66.3K 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 55.1K followers, 2539 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 55.1K followers, 271.8K 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 55.1K followers, 1629 engagements
"I hated Supergirl all along because she vitiated Supermans Last Son of Krypton thing. The most alone man in the world struggling on to find meaning in protecting a physically inferior species hes adopted as his own. Adding Krypton Supergirl Comet (the horse) and Beppo (if you dont remember him youre lucky) all gave him a Kryptonian family that to me as a kid ruined the concept that hes trying to recreate a family with Jimmy Olsen Lois (or Lana) and Perry White. I guess Im being a curmudgeon. Ill own that"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:36Z 55.1K followers, 44.7K engagements
"The worst thing English teachers ever did was convince us that great literature is dull as hell. They put tedious hard-to-parse works before us and then graded us on the dumbest elitist analysis they could find. Did we read Jane Austen H.G.Wells Alexander Dumas No. We got stuck with tedious slogs like The Pearl The Scarlet Letter Tess of the DUrbervilles and The Great Gatsby. And they all had grimly negative endings Cant a XX year old kid be allowed to read something with a happy ending that wont put him off books Yes the works I diss are great books but I think they lead a bad taste in your"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:54Z 55.1K followers, 265.8K engagements
"How can we reject all of our current fanbase while simultaneously not picking up any new fans of Final Fantasy"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:57Z 55.1K followers, 5493 engagements
"When I went to France I was taken out for pizza twice. The first time the pizza had an odd-looking pale cheese and no other topping. I took a bite and realized. "This is camembert. The pizza uses camembert instead of mozzarella." My French hosts were so pleased with themselves for taking me to this unusual treat that I didn't dare say yuck. I mean I like camembert okay but on pizza The second time I insisted that the pizza have olives (I like olives on pizza). The entire large pizza had three (3) olives rolling around on top pits and all. It also had a big ol' fried egg in the middle of the"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:35Z 55.1K followers, 30.8K engagements
"The original first print run of Call of Cthulhu had sepia-toned ink because Lynn Willis thought it would be creepier. It cost a bit more so on the second print run we used normal black ink. Check your copy collectors to see which you have"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:43Z 55.1K followers, XXX engagements
"99% Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley. Maybe X% me. I'm still proud to have been even a small part of the process. We knew it was going to be a monstrous hit when our much-overworked playtest team stayed AFTER HOURS to keep playing Civilization just for fun. That had literally never happened before nor since"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:54Z 55.1K followers, 41K engagements
"Egypt was literally part of the Roman Empire. Jesus was crossing what was more like a state line. Not a national line"
X Link 2025-12-12T20:56Z 55.1K followers, 6073 engagements
"In the movie Viking Wolf (Norwegian werewolf flick) an expert examining a corpse says the wounds are "definitely from a wolf. Is it really possible to tell wolf bites from dog bites Anyone know"
X Link 2025-12-12T21:17Z 55.1K followers, 5141 engagements
"On one of my trips to Milwaukee back in the day I went to a used bookstore. The top floor was like any other cool bookstore. Tall stacks of books with the most exciting ones unreachably high smelling gloriously of old leather mildew and bookbinding chemicals. I love those places. But then I went downstairs and it was a whole different dark world. The books were literally in gigantic piles on the floor as tall as me. Just dumped - not stacked. Most of the books were in German (not all). I'm pretty sure I saw a few copies of De Vermiis Mysteriis and the Buch von Eibon. I'm sure all the darkest"
X Link 2025-12-12T22:21Z 55.1K followers, 2671 engagements
"My mom holding court. She owns none of the dogs shown but they love her"
X Link 2025-12-12T22:29Z 55.1K followers, 1458 engagements
"What is the easiest fastest and most painful means of driving elves into extinction"
X Link 2025-12-12T22:51Z 55.1K followers, 4772 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 55.1K followers, 1.4M 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 55.1K followers, 81.7K 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 55.1K followers, 2.7M 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 55.1K followers, 592.1K 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 55.1K followers, 116.1K engagements
"Doom X was basically a cash grab. The idea is that we'd use assets from the first game and give the designers something to do while the programmers built Quake. Don't get me wrong - we still wanted to make Doom X fun but there's a reason that it didn't add X new weapons and XX new monsters X new skins and a new player mode. We did it all on a shoestring. Also Quake was well worth it"
X Link 2025-12-03T21:45Z 55.1K followers, 356.6K engagements
"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 55.1K followers, 22.9K engagements
"Goblins are a great addition to a fantasy game. But only if they remain toxic cruel & petty. If you "rehabilitate" them then you need something else to be the vicious little monsters in your world and you haven't solved any problem. If orcs or goblins or beholders become potential good guys in a world that heroes who must stand up to evil then who will be the evil they stand up to Something else presumably. At some point you realize that the people whitewashing goblins & orcs are hoping that you'll make humans - your own species - the bad guys"
X Link 2025-12-04T03:08Z 55.1K followers, 867.5K engagements
"In the most realistic aviation film of all time Snakes on a Plane a guy is able to land the XXX because he played Microsoft Flight Simulator a lot"
X Link 2025-12-04T20:25Z 55.1K followers, 2204 engagements
"Every person I know who is in a wheelchair would happily get out of it"
X Link 2025-12-05T22:00Z 55.1K followers, 30.3K engagements
"What will YOU do when you get the Call of Cthulhu"
X Link 2025-12-05T22:22Z 55.1K followers, 11.3K 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 55.1K followers, 274.5K 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 55.1K followers, 56.1K engagements