I haven't watched Severance, so I thought the tagline about reading a fanfiction review blog meant you were going to meta-review the other fanfiction newsletter I follow ("The Rec Center") which would have been highly entertaining. I hate-read The Rec Center (the people who run it have terrible taste lol).
Good to know I can avoid Ramna-- lots of people in my social circle like it for #gender but if that's not even really done interestingly, I will give it a pass.
I'm surprised that you got LIL recommended and not The Last Sovereign or something. It's a lot more of an actual game than LIL, though it does require an appreciation for RPG Maker combat and eventually you have to start spreadsheeting narrative variables. It also suffers from the long development cycle resulting in the worst content being frontloaded.
Oh whoops, I missed that footnote. I hope you do check it out someday, I found it to be a pretty engaging experience and used the simple graphics and easy development that comes with RPG Maker to punch above its weight in certain areas. There's also an ongoing sort of spiritual successor called Noblesse Oblige: Legacy of the Sorcerer Kings on steam that is doing a lot of the same things with better variable tracking so you understand what you're doing a bit better, but it's early in development and it remains to be seen if it pays off the stuff it's setting up.
I've known lots of people who tried it and failed over the years, though I haven't kept in contact because people who try to create a tulpa aren't usually the most stable. Maybe I could get Scott Alexander to ask about it on his next big survey for something slightly more rigorous.
I haven't watched Severance, so I thought the tagline about reading a fanfiction review blog meant you were going to meta-review the other fanfiction newsletter I follow ("The Rec Center") which would have been highly entertaining. I hate-read The Rec Center (the people who run it have terrible taste lol).
Good to know I can avoid Ramna-- lots of people in my social circle like it for #gender but if that's not even really done interestingly, I will give it a pass.
Thanks for the great writeup as always!
I'm surprised that you got LIL recommended and not The Last Sovereign or something. It's a lot more of an actual game than LIL, though it does require an appreciation for RPG Maker combat and eventually you have to start spreadsheeting narrative variables. It also suffers from the long development cycle resulting in the worst content being frontloaded.
There's a footnote about TLS! But yeah, no one has directly recommended it to me, I've just seen it around
Oh whoops, I missed that footnote. I hope you do check it out someday, I found it to be a pretty engaging experience and used the simple graphics and easy development that comes with RPG Maker to punch above its weight in certain areas. There's also an ongoing sort of spiritual successor called Noblesse Oblige: Legacy of the Sorcerer Kings on steam that is doing a lot of the same things with better variable tracking so you understand what you're doing a bit better, but it's early in development and it remains to be seen if it pays off the stuff it's setting up.
"These techniques don’t actually work, of course, but people love pretending they do."
Can you substantiate that? If you go down the rabbit hole of tulpas you'll find similarities with various unrelated traditions.
I've known lots of people who tried it and failed over the years, though I haven't kept in contact because people who try to create a tulpa aren't usually the most stable. Maybe I could get Scott Alexander to ask about it on his next big survey for something slightly more rigorous.