I’ve had a similar “DM’s unexamined biases” experience with treating certain races as inherently deserving of slaughter. Like, my first campaign ever was run with a goblin sorcerer who I got really close with. “There’s a war where one side is all goblins” is not a clear cut plot hook to get us to join the opposition by itself.

Piling pebbles on my wife while she sleeps so she wakes up to a little pebble mountain

It’s the bullshit Death Note line about the random deaths lowering crime by 90% or whatever. Meanwhile, we know that the death penalty is not an effective deterrent to crime.

Oh for real? I haven’t taken anything yet so that’s good to know

Playing Disco Elysium. I decided to do a fascist playthrough and I’m bouncing back and forth between regretting it and finding it very funny

Your check’s in the mail 👍👍👍

If you put some medical jargon in there we’ll pay you a few cents apparently

If you’re into music and coding, strudel.cc is awesome. I’ve been watching Switch Angel shorts on YouTube and treating them like tutorials since you can just copy her code and make the same music she’s making. But you can also just look at the tutorials or the reference songs and then mess around.

Their Twitter bio specifics “all pronouns” and the behind the scenes for Misfits and Magic 2 lists their pronouns as “she/they/any”

The groyper narrative is an emotionally satisfying one because it explains a lot of things in an otherwise chaotic situation. I was convinced last week but now I’m not sure. We may just be seeing rise of incoherent “centrist” political violence. Jreg fans vindicated (I am aware, no need to hand it to them)

I have a plural friend with mad ADHD. It’s chaos (meant in the most affectionate way possible)

who the fuck is screaming ‘EXERCISING WOULD BE A BIG HELP FOR YOUR ADHD’ at my house? show yourself coward

Can someone explain what the hell lymph is? Looking it up doesn’t seem to provide much clarity

The Chapo gamedev discord looks like it’s still active:

https://discord.gg/cwfT38Vr3p

I may be hypomanic enough for this task

I came via https://stalin6969696969420666.chapo.chat/

Twine is the easiest option by far. If you click “use in browser”, there are tutorial boxes that come up to teach you how to use it. You could be up and running in a few minutes.

Here is the Unity plugin that Disco Elysium used to write their dialogue. I don’t believe you can recreate their UI trivially out of the box, though.

https://narrat.dev/ is as close as you’ll get to a free disco-like game engine, but it’s really just text over pictures. If you have any game dev experience, it seems like the major game engines have open source attempts to build off of that recreate a Disco-like dialogue system. Here is an example for Godot.

Alternately, prototyping in https://twinery.org/ seems like a good way to jump straight into work until you know you have something worth putting more effort into.

And finally, check out Esoteric Ebb for some inspiration. They are, as far as I know, the only Disco-like to ever come close to a commercial release aside from maybe its 50 sequels

I don’t even know what that is