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Lately I've been thinking about this game as a way to tell jokes. Not a very cohesive idea yet, but it feels like it gets to the heart of some things that "regular" game design doesn't. Basically players join a round either with a joke they want to make in mind, figure one out early on (af...

Are we gonna throw a guy off a dam?

Geneticist speed injector is the worst IMO. Questionable stealthiness aside, having to research injectors *and* making an injector for every single use just makes it unwieldy and take like 20m to get use out of. You're better off locking someone into your gene pod, at least that starts a commotion. ...

Sudden thought but what if antag weighing involved trying to spread out picks across jobs? Feels like some jobs get fairly few traitor picks and so their job gear never really shows up (geneticist, roboticist, janitor, and in particular chef) while others get a ton by virtue of having lots of slots ...

This might get mathsy So the weighted antag picker has been out of commission since mid 2020 (technically, it's around but set to roll "pick random player" 100% of the time) But randomness is a fickle mistress and frankly I don't like it much. I barely trust the RNG to make a decent minin...

This fine day I had a fish lumpia, which is something I didn't know existed but it kicked ass.

You know I like the sound of this but I feel while we're at it we gotta address how opaque figuring out what minerals are good for what. I've gotten a bunch of this bullshit down through rote memorisation now and I still don't remember what things count as energy sources and whatnot. Not a slight or...

Kinda technical but I'm fairly sure the lookup for accessing one's bank account uses the name on the ID instead of some internal reference, which leads to a couple weird things: -If the HoP's a dick and changes your ID's name to FARTMAN or something, you lose access to your bank account -You can mak...

For thievery gimmicks:

Emerson Lake (the Palmer)

Musician themed:

Axel Jeff