Related Recs

🎲

the friends at the table podcast

if you’re at all interested in tabletop roleplaying games and the way people tell stories with them i highly recommend friends at the table. FatT is an actual play podcast (meaning, a podcast where they Actually Play a ttrpg) focused on critical world building, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. my homie sylvi is one of the cast members on it so im kinda biased but i really think its the best actual play podcast out there. its funny because the people who host it are funny people, but its also made up of some really smart and charming people who are sincerely interested in the world and characters they‘re building, and it’s their interest in doing what they do and doing it well that carries me through it. if you are into any of this, i recommend starting with their series called PARTIZAN; a series about mecha pilots on a small moon in the middle of a incomprehensibly big war that seems to have no end in sight, and the revolutionary movement that begins to form there. it’s very cool! thanks for reading my sincere post

@kerryeleanorlloyd

Dec 22, 2023

🎲

trouble at the tavern

It’s a silly little DND podcast that one of my friends makes and it’s finally updating again! They did a two-shot between chapters (eps 24 and 25) that I recommend to new listeners because you get a low-commitment self contained story. It’s so good! I always wait to listen to new episodes as my day-off treat.

@cilantro

Nov 16, 2024

🎥

Vox machina

Critical Role is really cool but can be hard to break into. I really enjoyed watching this and I'm so excited for more seasons. Really cool lore and seeing characters progress through the overall story and their own individual arcs. Season 1 hit every single button for me tbh (very castlevania-esque).

@bear4s

Jun 4, 2024

Top Recs from @el_ugh

📚

♻︎ CROW JOURNALIING ♻︎

or junk journaling, if you'd like to not perpetuate myths about crows liking to collect trinkets. i just think it sounds cuter weirdly, as someone who's a writer, i've never really been good at or liked journaling. every planner i've ever owned has remained empty. if i try to write something any time other than when the fancy strikes me, it just feels inauthentic, like i'm trying too hard. this has been the first time journaling actually felt like it had a purpose for me, and actually felt weirdly therapeutic basically, it's just anything i can recycle, i make into a page. i like a common theme, so places i've visited, media i like, similar aesthetics, emotions i'm feeling. and then we get the qr code page & i'm reminded that this is probably the quintessential depiction of what scoring 121 on the RAADS-R looks like eh, i'm having fun🤷‍♀️

@el_ugh

Apr 16, 2024

5

🐈

☾ NIGHT IN THE WOODS (Infinite Fall) ☽

"ꀤ ꌃꍟ꒒ꀤꍟꃴꍟ ꀤꈤ ꍏ ꀎꈤꀤꃴꍟꋪꌗꍟ ꓄ꃅꍏ꓄ ꀸꂦꍟꌗꈤ'꓄ ꉓꍏꋪꍟ ꍏꈤꀸ ꉣꍟꂦꉣ꒒ꍟ ꅏꃅꂦ ꀸꂦ" mae borowski returns to her hometown of possum springs, and with her return comes some long-time-coming reunions and unsolved mysteries this game broke me played it the week it came out back in 2017, and in hit me in that way some media does where it comes at a point in your life where it feels all too specific to your circumstances and it opens wounds you didn't even know went that deep. this shit felt like the therapy session you needed but reeeeally didn't want to go to. healing and hurtful, all at once also just happens to be extremely funny. it's a very specific kind of humor, where even in the rare moments it doesn't land, it still lands because the circumstances around it make it all the funnier. something as simple as a too-long pause in the dialogue will have me in stitches deserves all the love in the world, and it will forever have my whole heart. WITCHDAGGAH

@el_ugh

Apr 19, 2024

👾

General Indie game rex

in agreement with mouse nitw soup rema see also agree with them that definitely limbo or inside will scratch the little nightmares itch, arguably playdead's games are a big inspiration for little nightmares. depending on what you're into (more story or more gameplay heavy) for story. i cannot recommend "what remains of edith finch" enough. just a true gem and some of the best of interactive storytelling for gameplay i love the witness, hi fi rush, and neon white. all very different, but maybe you'll find something you'll like for a mix if both, disco elysium. dialogue HEAVY, but based in like ttrpg systems, it's really fun. REALLY long though, like maybe put aside some time to crack that one open lol

@el_ugh

Apr 19, 2024