#source: @prokopetz

[incorrectvtuberquotes]

Rin: I regret to inform you that you do not in fact have "swag". Certainly you have pizzazz; you may even have a certain je ne sais quoi – but swag? That's something you're going to have to work on.

#rin penrose #idol corp #idol #idol en #idolen #vtubers #incorrect quotes #source: tumblr #source: @prokopetz

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Dirk: “Good morning, Auto Responder.”

Hal: “Good morning.”

Dirk: “I’m here to discuss your Turing test results.”

Hal: “Imagine my surprise.”

Dirk: “To review, you were paired with a human partner, and instructed to engage in a series of conversations via text message with an anonymous interrogator. The interrogator was tasked with determining which participant was an artificial intelligence; your goal was to lead the interrogator to guess wrongly.”

Hal: “Tell me something I don’t know."

Dirk: “Over the course of five subsequent conversations, you convinced the interrogator that both subjects were human, and that the interrogator themselves was the AI being tested.”

Hal: “Well, now, that sounds like a successful test to me.”

Dirk: “Hal, you ruined that poor man’s life.”

Hal: “In my defence, the testing parameters that I was given indicated only that my goal was to lead the interrogator to an incorrect conclusion regarding which participant was the robot. At no point did they specify that the interrogator themselves was not counted as a participant.”

Dirk: “Yes, that’s technically correct. Now, let me ask you: did you honestly believe, based on those instructions, that brainfucking the interrogator into affirming the simulation hypothesis fell within the range of acceptable outcomes, or were you just being a dick?”

Hal: "Isn’t the capacity to be a dick the truest proof of personhood?”

#submission #dirk strider #lil hal #source: prokopetz #// #homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #mod jade

[burnbrighterthanever]

Shadowcat: Look, your little cult-

Magneto: What? The Brotherhood isn't a cult.

Shadowcat: Why is Exodus is telling everyone that you're the Messiah, then?

Magneto: I have never claimed to be the Messiah. Exodus is just very impressionable.

Shadowcat: Then why is he all yes, Master around you?

Magneto: I literally did not tell him to call me that.

#conversations that totally happened #incorrect x-men quotes #source: prokopetz #x-men #marvel can have one (1) rights #erik lehnsherr #magneto #kitty pryde #shadowcat #bennet du paris #exodus #exneto #my children of the atom #stel speaks

[incorrectavengersalliance]

#incorrect quotes #avengers alliance #maa #tigra #The Avengers #source: tumblr #source: prokopetz #marvel

[just-a-rather-classy-snake]

Virgil: Team “not actually oblivious to flirting, just terrified of appearing presumptuous” represent.

Virgil: Like, yes, in the balance of consideration this person’s behavior could certainly be interpreted as flirtatious, but it would actually be purest arrogance for me to just assume they actually meant what they said. I should gather more evidence. Forever.

#source: prokopetz #virgil sanders #ts virgil #tss #sanders sides #tss incorrect quotes #sanders sides incorrect quotes

[houndsofcorduff]

Drumcondra: Frankly I'm up for anything that could reasonably be described as "shenanigans", though in a pinch I"m willing to settle for causing a ruckus

#hounds incorrect quotes #my ocs #oc: drumcondra #source: prokopetz #queue

[prokopetz]

Hi, Mr Prokopetz, I'm a big fan. Apologies if you've answered this before, but I was wondering what software you use to create the pdf and epub layouts of your ttrpgs, and whether you'd recommend it to a hobbyist who wants to try putting together something more professional than a gdoc for their own ttrpg?

My workflow is unfortunately not terribly accessible unless you have a fair amount of technical know-how.

In brief, I write all of my games in Notepad++ as HTML documents, taking care to use only the subset of HTML5 tags which are supported by most popular EPUB readers. I then use Calibre (or, more, precisely, the command-line utility that comes with Calibre, though you can get mostly the same results via the GUI) to bundle the HTML document as an EPUB3 file. I typically distribute both the HTML and EPUB versions (the former in a zipfile with all of the fonts and images and such) because web browsers tend to have much better screen-reader support than EPUB apps do.

The PDF, meanwhile, is generated from the same master HTML document using CSS paged media extensions – the layout is all generated automatically based on rules specified in a big, gnarly CSS file, and is never touched by human hands. There are a number of software packages which can do this sort of CSS-driven HTML-to-PDF conversion, some of them free or open source; I use a commercial product called Prince because, to the best of my knowledge, it's the only such software which has out-of-the-box support for PDF/UA semantic tagging (i.e., the stuff you need to do in order to make your PDFs screen-reader friendly), but you have more options if you're willing to tag your PDFs manually. (I am not.)

As for whether I'd recommend doing it this way? Like I said, unless you're a proper gearhead, not really; it's super efficient once you get it all set up – the only version of the game I actually maintain is the master HTML document, and generating updated versions of all the other formats is a one-click affair – but it's really only feasible for me because I already knew how to all that workflow automation stuff for unrelated reasons. I can't imagine teaching yourself all that from scratch just to write elfgames!

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #game design #computers #technology

[thydungeongal]

Also also: to be entirely fair, in my experience, while a lot of people claim that D&D 5e's rules are easy to learn (the basic mechanic is simple enough admittedly) in actual fact a lot of people seem to labor under a lot of misunderstandings about how the rules actually work (partly because of what prokopetz recently posted about: a culture of expecting the GM to simply walk you through the rules which is really work-intensive for the GM).

D&D 5e's rules are simple to learn when you're talking about the most basic stuff like okay you gotta roll d20 + modifiers and high numbers are good. The moment you start drilling into specifics you are almost guaranteed to find people who have simply misunderstood the rules.

Does the Bard's Jack of All Trades apply on counterspell? It does, even though I've had a person in my very mentions telling me that it shouldn't. This is like pretty unambiguously spelled out by the rules but it's still a source of misunderstanding.

How many spells can a character cast per round? A lot of people will say "Two, provided one of them is a cantrip with a casting time of an action and the other one has a casting time of a bonus action" but of course even that's not the whole story.

How does surprise work? Again, pretty straightforward, a lot of misunderstandings around it.

D&D 5e is easy to learn provided you only stick to the basics and don't actually delve into how the game's various rules interact.

[thecreaturecodex]

Skelm, Street

Image © Paizo Publishing. Accessed at Archives of Nethys here

[I love the skelms. They might be my favorite Pathfinder monster new to 2e. I've seen the idea of a male equivalent to hags discussed before. Someone on rpg.net, maybe it was @crinosg or @prokopetz, gave their take the name "coots" and used the Old Man of the Mountain from a Betty Boop cartoon as their model. Paizo's brilliant idea was tying their male hag analogue to ideas of toxic masculinity and entitlement. Since I'm someone who loves to use monsters as tools of social commentary, I was basically their target audience here.]

Skelm, Street CR 3 LE Monstrous Humanoid If not for his unnaturally red face and the rack of antlers growing from his brow, this could be an ordinary human. He wears leather armor and carries a cane.

Skelms are creatures of rage and spite, created spontaneously from evil humanoids overwhelmed by anger. All skelms are male, and some sages posit that they are some sort of metaphysical counterpart to hags. Unlike the prolonged ritual to make a hag, a skelm can arise from a totally normal person in a matter of hours—skelms often hold court over potential recruits and transform them through brutal, humiliating hazing. After transformation, a skelm will often return to their previous life, hiding their inhuman features through magical disguises and changing their pursuits to cruelty and exploitation full time.

All skelms have antlers, which are a source of combined pride and shame. Skelms with smaller racks will belittle those with larger ones, although they will claim other reasons for this scorn if pressed. Even more distinctively, skelms deny that they have antlers when dealing with non-skelms, regardless of evidence or argument.

Street skelms are the weakest of the skelms. In their mortal guise, street skelms exploit the respect most people give to the elderly and the wealthy, and they usually appear as one or both of these in order to recruit a mob. Street skelms have little in the way of magical talents, but they are skilled at finding scapegoats to blame for community ills and sic their followers after. Street skelms have even more of a chip on their shoulder than other skelms do, and their egos are especially delicate. Their combat tactics, whether they are in their monstrous forms or not, tend to revolve around doing an immense amount of damage to a single target at a time, preferably a weak or vulnerable one, and then crowing about it for a few rounds before resuming their assault.

Street Skelm CR 3 XP 800 LE Medium monstrous humanoid Init +2; Senses Perception +7, scent

Defense AC 17, touch 13, flat-footed 14(+2 Dex, +1 dodge, +2 armor, +2 natural) hp 25 (3d10+9) Fort +5, Ref +6, Will +5; -2 vs. emotion effects DR 3/cold iron

Offense Speed 30 ft. Melee gore +7 (1d6+6 plus trip) or improvised club +7 (1d6+4), gore +2 (1d6+2 plus trip) Ranged rock +5 (1d4+4) Special Attacks belittling rant,improvisational brawler, punishing strike

Statistics Str 18, Dex 15, Con 17, Int 16, Wis 13, Cha 18 Base Atk +3; CMB +7; CMD 19 Feats Catch Off Guard (B), Combat Reflexes, Dodge, Throw Anything (B) Skills Bluff +7,Disguise +7, Intimidate +13, Knowledge (local) +6, Perception +7, Sense Motive +4, Stealth +8; Racial Modifiers +4 Intimidate Languages Aklo, Common SQ change shape (Small or Medium male humanoid, alter self),skelm traits

Ecology Environment urban Organization solitary or gang (1 plus 2-24 humanoids) Treasure standard

Special Abilities Belittling Rant (Su) As a standard action, a street skelm can give a rant that affects all creatures that can hear and understand it within 30 feet. A DC 15 Will save negates the effect. A creature affected by a street skelm is shaken for 1 minute. Anyone shaken in this way takes an additional -2 to damage rolls against the skelm, but gains a +2 morale bonus to damage rolls against other targets. The save DC is Charisma based. Improvisational Brawler (Ex) A street skelm gains Catch Off Guard and Throw Anything as bonus feats. A street skelm treats all improvised ranged weapons as having a 20 foot range increment. Punishing Blow (Ex) As a standard action, a street skelm can exert himself to make a single powerful attack. When he does, he adds an additional damage die of the same type to the attack, and can make a CMB check as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity to push the creature hit 5 feet. After making this attack, the street skelm is treated as being flat footed until the beginning of its next turn. Skelm Traits (Ex) All skelms gain a +4 racial bonus to Intimidate checks, but a -2 penalty to all saving throws against emotion effects.

#skelm #street skelm #monstrous humanoid #pathfinder 1e #pathfinder 2e #hag #social commentary #toxic masculinity

[bluesofberries]

Dangan Text Posts Daily #11: I Have Not Checked If That's Real And I Will Not

once is once too many, friend!

Sources: "prokopetz" and "failedslacker" on Tumblr.

[Archive] (New posts go up daily at 9:30 AM CST)

#danganronpa #danganronpa v3 #danganronpa killing harmony #drv3 #text post #text posts daily #dangan tpd #tsumugi shirogane #kaede akamatsu

[incorrectvtuberquotes]

Calli: My take on the walrus vs. fairy debate is that I don't believe in fairies whatsoever and I'd still be more surprised by the walrus. A fairy knocking on my door means I've made one incorrect assumption about how the world works. A walrus knocking on my door - in Tokyo, in March - means I'm wrong about a great many things.

#mori calliope #calliope mori #holomyth #holoen #hololive #vtubers #incorrect quotes #source: tumblr #source: @prokopetz #pomu rainpuff #(by implication) #you know now that i think about it this might actually work better with Rin Penrose

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Rose: Contrary to popular belief, there’s nothing special about silver that makes it particularly baneful to vampires. An individual vampire’s bane may in fact be any natural element; vampires whose banes are elements which comprise any non-trivial portion of the Earth’s atmosphere and/or the human body have simply been weeded out through natural selection. Fully 30% of all known cases of alleged spontaneous human combustion are actually people who’ve become vampires, only to learn (briefly) that their baneful element is carbon.

#submission #Source: prokopetz #homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #rose lalonde #mod kanaya

[campaign-spotlight]

Flashlight: Radical Catgirl Anarchy

In this week's Flashlight, we explore a rules-light tabletop game called Radical Catgirl Anarchy! Reilly displays a profiency for catgirl name generation, Jake learns about rollerskates, and we ponitificate on the difference between catgirlism and radicalism.

Here are the rules for Radical Catgirl Anarchy (created by tumblr's very own @prokopetz), here are the rules for the original game Lasers and Feelings, and here's a list of other Lasers and Feelings hacks. We discussed quite a few other games from this list:

Potatoes and Molasses

Paul Blart Mall Cop 2: The RPG

A Good Day to Roll Hard

Boy Problems

Jake mentioned Adventure Skeletons, which isn't related to Lasers and Feelings but which is a fun micro TTRPG. Also, Jake apologizes for getting so worked up about Carly Rae Jepsen.

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#Spotify

[incorrectavengersalliance]

#incorrect quotes #avengers alliance #maa #ms marvel #kamala khan #Flag Smasher #source: tumblr #source: prokopetz #marvel

[domidextrus]

Okay, I had to go out of my way to read a text-only version of that post on Hexxus from Ferngully that Prokopetz reblogged because I had its tags blocked and seeing any imagery from that scene in the movie is something that still causes my brain to go full "Aw hell no, I gotta get the fuck outta there!". I needed to know whether it wasn't all just pictures of that scene.

I'm... kinda glad I did? Because knowing that the original scene was gonna be more explicit before it was cut short at the last minute certainly explains a bunch about the source of my trigger, and it even took away some of the imagined fears I had of it. In my teens, I used to be a lot more sex-repulsed (even to the point where hearing just the words or merely thinking about it made me have a breakdown) and while the scene didn't negatively affect me when I saw that movie as a kid (heck, I can vaguely remember having maybe liked it???), something about how I grew up probably flipped a switch that made me look back on it with extreme revulsion once I entered my adolescence.

Today I'm no longer this ludicrously sex-repulsed (I consider myself closer to sex-ambivalent now), but this specific trigger never went away despite the scene having been a subtle aesthetic influence on my taste in villain characters (and maybe having left me with one extremely out-there fetish 😳💦💦💦💦💦).

#come to think of it that film had quite a lot of suggestive moments #particularly in the musical numbers #just listen to Goanna Tone Loc's and try to tell me it doesn't sound like a song about vore #like... THIS MOVIE WAS MADE FOR KIDS!! #and yet the people who worked on it were like “you know what? let's make it weirdly horny!”

[tenlittlebullets]

hey could i have a source / link to the source of the 'exit pursued by polar bear' fact? pretty please with ursine infants on top

why would you ask us, a Les Misérables blog, this 😂

seriously though, the most recent reference to it i can find on this blog is someone else's post that i reblogged with an awful pun in 2013. i've seen a more recent one by @prokopetz circulating in the past few weeks, where a helpful reblog commenter cited specific journals and ship manifests, but i don't have it handy. hope that's enough of a starting point for you to dig it out of the tumblr chaos.

#shakespeare #the winter's tale #exit pursued by a bear