Maplesyrupdrunk - I Fucking Love Maple Syrup

rule 1 of playing a ttrpg is have fun and be someone else <3

so i watched parkour civilization earlier because i could not stop seeing tweets about it and. man. this shit is so funny. it’s such a silly premise - the sort of thing that could only be born out of a community extremely dedicated to doing wacky video game challenges - but the execution somehow manages to be incredibly entertaining. it simultaneously breaks so many rules of storytelling (“telling” over “showing” to the extreme) while also having a super coherent, tight, and tension-inducing plot structure. you have to do away with all your cringing and embarrassment and just take the thing on its own terms. it’s a perfect, over-the-top pastiche of a certain type of shounen anime crossed with a certain kind of ya dystopia. it’s an ultra-accessible tale about class warfare and a fascinating takedown of meritocracy as a concept. it takes itself so seriously it’s impossible not to respect it. major kudos

Normal people: hey man how's it going

Guy who loves spreadsheets: can I make you a spreadsheet

https://www.sciencealert.com

i love knowing exactly enough graph theory to be able to tell if a stupid "go through every door once" puzzle is impossible