What new pretentious wankery is this???

Fighterboy · December 22, 2021, 05:19:42 AM

OK, actually it's old pretentious wankery at the Purple Place which has had new posts to bring it back to life, so if it's been discussed here before please accept my apologies!

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/paul-czege-on-the-wild-energy-of-the-itch-io-ttrpg-scene-or-my-life-with-itch.853603/

There's a post in there praising an "RPG" whose core mechanic is based on making sandwiches. Sandwiches!!!

I no longer have anything in common with the place...

Svenhelgrim · December 22, 2021, 07:37:59 AM

Quote from: Fighterboy on December 22, 2021, 05:19:42 AM
OK, actually it's old pretentious wankery at the Purple Place which has had new posts to bring it back to life, so if it's been discussed here before please accept my apologies!

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/paul-czege-on-the-wild-energy-of-the-itch-io-ttrpg-scene-or-my-life-with-itch.853603/

There's a post in there praising an "RPG" whose core mechanic is based on making sandwiches. Sandwiches!!!

I no longer have anything in common with the place...

Is it Thirsty Sword Lesbians: Second Edition? Because that would be the ultimate troll.

Fighterboy · December 22, 2021, 08:47:51 AM

An "indie" game called Sandwich County, apparently (and I quote) it's "a solo game in which you make sandwiches, and the way you make the sandwich determines how you tell a story about visiting a fantasy land."

Svenhelgrim · December 22, 2021, 10:17:22 AM

...and the GM gets to eat the sandwich?

This could have potential.

GM: "The way you clean my garage/mop the floors/do the dishes/wash and fold the clotes/shine my shoes/dust and vacuum my living room/wax my car, determines how you tell a story about visiting a fantasy land."

Ghostmaker · December 22, 2021, 10:20:35 AM

I can't decide if this is serious or we're being epically trolled here. This is right up there with Feast of Legends (and at least that was done as a tongue-in-cheek marketing gimmick).

Fighterboy · December 22, 2021, 10:36:37 AM

Quote from: Ghostmaker on December 22, 2021, 10:20:35 AM
I can't decide if this is serious or we're being epically trolled here. This is right up there with Feast of Legends (and at least that was done as a tongue-in-cheek marketing gimmick).

The initial recommendation to the site where these "games" are hosted came from Paul Czege, who gave us such indie "gems" as My Life With master and Nicotine Girls, which were apparently very popular at The Forge.

I wish I had the imagination to make this shit up, pal!

Jason Coplen · December 23, 2021, 12:03:04 AM

Making sandwiches: the only for women rpg

Jam The MF · December 23, 2021, 12:54:49 AM

When Chuck Norris attends a feminist rally; he comes back with his shirt ironed, and a sandwich.

Spinachcat · December 23, 2021, 03:19:28 AM

1) Please link to this RPGing via Sandwich Making. This feels like an April Fools joke.

2) I don't believe the modern feminist is capable of making a good sandwich. Old school mamas? Hell yeah. 2020's blue hairs with metal bits in their face? No fucking way.

3) I'm a big fan of delis. Easily been to hundreds over the decades and the absolute best sandwiches have always been made by some burly dude with a questionable attitude toward humanity. If I'm looking for 2 inches thick of sliced pastrami on rye and a real dill pickle, I highly doubt any of the RPG.net freak brigade would be capable of such creation.

Fighterboy · December 23, 2021, 03:30:30 AM

Quote from: Spinachcat on December 23, 2021, 03:19:28 AM
1) Please link to this RPGing via Sandwich Making. This feels like an April Fools joke.

I can do better than that...here's a full page of food-themed "games," including the aforementioned Sandwich County:

https://itch.io/jam/our-little-food-jam/entries

It looks like you have to register with itch.io to download anything, which I have no intention of doing, personally, but this stuff does seem to exist.

Fighterboy · December 23, 2021, 03:42:12 AM

Except I couldn't help myself, I've registered with a spamtrap Gmail account to take a look...

It's...maybe a game to play with very young kids to make up stories while you're making lunch. Not a RPG by any measure - it's a story game. How do I request this post be moved to the proper forum please?

Still fucking mind boggling though!!

Omega · December 23, 2021, 04:06:57 AM

Some years ago I came across a solo RPG where you advanced through a dungeon based on how many and what type of exercises you performed and how healthy you ate. Actually not a bad little game and a novel way to get people to exercise.

There was another where you were isolated in your room and had to survive by foraging for things around the house.

3catcircus · December 23, 2021, 07:07:21 AM

Quote from: Spinachcat on December 23, 2021, 03:19:28 AM
2) I don't believe the modern feminist is capable of making a good sandwich. Old school mamas? Hell yeah. 2020's blue hairs with metal bits in their face? No fucking way.

Which one is she? Trudy, or Jody (the one with all the shit in her face)?

Sorry, couldn't resist the Pulp Fiction reference...

But, yeah - without fail all those blue hairs with the pussy hats wouldn't be caught eating... (GASP) meat (both figuratively and literally). And there ain't no kinda sammich worth a damn if it don't have done type of dead animal flesh in it.

S'mon · December 23, 2021, 11:35:46 AM

IME the average blue hair is just desperate for some jackbooted Richard Spencer type to chain her to the kitchen counter and make her make him a sandwich. They're very different from old school lesbian feminists who are now called TERFS and classed as rather worse than Nazis.

Rob Necronomicon · December 23, 2021, 01:06:30 PM

Quote from: Fighterboy on December 22, 2021, 08:47:51 AM
"a solo game in which you make sandwiches, and the way you make the sandwich determines how you tell a story about visiting a fantasy land."

What type of gonad would actually play such a piece of shit?