@CAPETOK
I would name her Phantom

@david_colquhoun @deshipu rofl. You goofy motherfuckers cant set up your own printers without asking a teenager for help but you still think you're gonna outflank them on tech.

For people unaware of all the role-playing game (RPG) subgenres, here’s a brief explainer:

TTRPG – Tabletop RPG. The original RPG. Played on a literal table. Dice, paper, friends, arguments. Everything else evolved from here.

Examples:

• Dungeons & Dragons
• Pathfinder
• Shadowrun

LARP / LARPG – Live Action Role-Playing Game. The version where people physically dress as their characters and act things out in person. Foam weapons, costumes, fake accents, and enough in-character drama to power three soap operas. LARPing as a concept goes back to the 1970s, right alongside early tabletop like D&D, but it didn’t get the “LARP” acronym until the 1980s.

Examples:

• Vampire: The Masquerade LARP events
• Amtgard
• Dagorhir

CRPG – Computer RPG. Born from tabletop, moved onto computers. The CPU handles all the dice rolls you don’t want to argue about.

Examples:

• Baldur’s Gate
• Fallout (1997)
• Planescape: Torment

TBRPG – Turn-Based RPG. Everyone takes turns. This is the “classic” RPG format, so people often just call it an RPG.

Examples:

• Divinity: Original Sin II
• Wasteland 3
• Trails in the Sky

SRPG / TRPG – Strategy (or Tactical) RPG. Same turn-based idea, but on grids—squares or hexes—with multiple units to command.

Examples:

• Fire Emblem
• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Tactics Ogre

RTwPRPG – Real-Time with Pause RPG. You pause to assign orders, unpause to watch them happen. Baldur’s Gate fans still swear by this.

Examples:

• Baldur’s Gate II
• Pillars of Eternity
• Dragon Age: Origins

ARPG – Action RPG. Real-time combat. No turns, no waiting—just swing when you feel like it.

Examples:

• Diablo II
• Dark Souls
• Kingdom Hearts

IRPG – Idle RPG. The game mostly plays itself. Perfect for people who like progression bars but don’t like playing.

Examples:

• Clicker Heroes
• Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
• AFK Arena

DBRPG – Deck-Building RPG. RPG progression tied to card decks. You level up by upgrading your deck rather than just your stats.

Examples:

• Slay the Spire
• Monster Train
• Griftlands

SurRPG – Survival RPG. Harsh environments, resource scarcity, and RPG progression systems. The game’s main plot is “don’t die.”

Examples:

• Outward
• Kenshi
• The Long Dark

RLRPG – Rogue-like RPG. Procedural generation, permadeath, and heavy RNG baked into an RPG framework.

Examples:

• Darkest Dungeon
• Stoneshard
• Tangledeep

SLRPG – Souls-like RPG. RPGs built around Soulsborne-style combat: stamina-based melee, brutal bosses, minimalist storytelling.

Examples:

• Dark Souls III
• The Surge 2
• Lords of the Fallen

JRPG – Japanese RPG. Made in Japan or heavily inspired by Japan’s approach. Console-heavy. Drama-heavy. Usually turn-based or action hybrid.

Examples:

• Final Fantasy VII
• Persona 5
• Dragon Quest XI

KRPG – Korean RPG. Similar to JRPGs but usually more PC-oriented. Often online.

Examples:

• Lost Ark
• MapleStory
• Vindictus

WRPG – Western RPG. Pretty much any RPG from the West that isn’t imitating JRPGs.

Examples:

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Mass Effect
• Fallout: New Vegas

PRPG – Polish RPG. Technically a WRPG branch, but with its own personality. Darker tone, folkloric influences, and PC-first mentality.

Examples:

• The Witcher series
• Seven: The Days Long Gone
• The Thaumaturge

GRPG – German RPG. RPGs developed in Germany, usually open-world Eurojank epics with handcrafted maps, tough early-game difficulty, and an earnest-but-campy tone.

Examples:

• Gothic II
• Risen
• ELEX

LatRPG – Latin American RPG. RPGs from Latin America, often mixing local folklore, indigenous mythology, and JRPG/ARPG elements. “LARPG” isn’t used because Live Action Role-Playing already took it.

Examples:

• Mulaka
• Tunche
• Cris Tales

MORPG – Multiplayer Online RPG. Small-scale online RPGs, often instanced or lobby-based.

Examples:

• Phantasy Star Online 2
• Monster Hunter: World,
• Dauntless

MMORPG – Massively Multiplayer Online RPG. Persistent worlds, thousands of players, endless grinds.

Examples:

• World of Warcraft
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Guild Wars 2

MOORPG – Massive Online Open-World RPG. Marketing term for the “bigger” MMOs. You’ve seen the ads.

Examples:

• Black Desert Online
• ArcheAge
• EVE Online

MRPG – Mobile RPG. Made for phones. Often gacha-heavy, session-based, or both.

Examples:

• Honkai: Star Rail
• Raid: Shadow Legends
• Summoners War

BRPG – Browser RPG. Runs in your web browser. Lightweight, accessible, usually free-to-play.

Examples:

• Kingdom of Loathing
• AdventureQuest Worlds
• Urban Dead

VRRPG – Virtual Reality RPG. Built for VR platforms. Often more about immersion than traditional RPG mechanics.

Examples:

• Zenith: The Last City
• OrbusVR
• The Mage’s Tale

BBRPG – Bulletin Board RPG. Forum- or post-based roleplay. Writing-heavy, rules-light.

Examples:

• Gaia Online RP forums
• NationStates roleplay boards
• Myth-Weavers

So yeah, there’s a lot of alphabet in the RPG soup. Some of it’s legit, some of it’s marketing garbage, and some of it’s just fans inventing labels because that’s what fans do.

But they’re all chasing the same dopamine hit: numbers go up, loot gets shinier, and suddenly your “quick session” has eaten the entire weekend.

Good news in hard times.

"Peak Energy just shipped the US’s first grid-scale sodium-ion battery"

Good news because we must transition off carbon fuels now, and good news because its not scarce or hard to mine, or behind some prick's tariff wall, its not dirty, won't burst into flames.

Because its salt. Like sunlight, its EVERYWHERE.

https://electrek.co/2025/07/30/peak-energy-us-first-grid-scale-sodium-ion-battery/

#climate #salt #grud #build #BuildFast #solar #wind

So this is how Newgrounds is apparently handling age verification RE: UK's Online Safety Act.

Their ultimate solution is... unique.

This conversation made me laugh

hacker: i am spying on you through your webcam

linux user: omg you got it working?

Motherfucking wind farms…

CNN bizarrely refusing to recognize Canada here

Tsunami warnings zone extending all the way to Canada and the US (yes, California, looking at you). #AKwx #BCwx #WAwx #ORwx #CAwx #tsunami

https://www.tsunami.gov/

I made a typeface, it's called Flexflex 🔠

I've been working on this project on-and-off for many months. Very happy to finally release it!

Flexflex is a typeface that responds to spatial requirements rather than imposing them. Built on a modular system, each letter can fit inside any given rectangular container and transforms continuously if its ratio changes. In theory, it's infinitely flexible.

For more information and interactive demos, see the website: https://ronikaufman.github.io/flexflex

I can report that 300+ paid subs have cancelled their subscriptions to my human rights newsletter—many citing my advocacy for Gaza.

I have 2 options. Tone it down, or double down. So let me be absolutely clear: Unsubscribe. Block. Cancel. Report. Do whatever the hell it is you need to do. I will not stop condemning Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. Free Palestine.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-300-paid-subscribers-have-cancelled

@Natasha_Jay
Amazing work!

Eva Krbdk, contemporary Turkish #tattoo artist known for her highly skilled intricate work, including iconic artworks #WomensArt

The Pipeline: Trump Model Management and the Machinery of Exploitation

By Tony Pentimalli

If America ever confronts the full truth about elite sexual exploitation, it won’t be because Jeffrey Epstein’s secrets were finally exposed. It will be because we stopped treating Epstein as the origin and started tracing the system that made him possible.

(1/18)

iconic wrestling douchebag dead

The persistent right-wing delusion that people care if Bill Clinton gets swept up in the Epstein thing. Like, nuke both of the Clintons from space if you want. Nobody gives a shit about them.

Last week, Republicans unanimously voted to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files, twice.

Today, July 22, Republicans shutdown the House of Representatives to block release of the Epstein files.

This is clearly a cover up.

This is the story. They protected the child rapist.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinList #Congress #Europe #uk #England #EuropeanUnion

A nice rule of thumb for setting boundaries with people is "Would the way I am setting this boundary make sense to my dog?"

Ending the interaction early? Refusing to give your time or attention? A firm, simple "no" backed by body language? Great! Proven tactics.

Using a mix of logos, ethos, and pathos to convince them to stop or make them understand what they did wrong? Nope! Your dog does not speak English.

This might seem patronizing but it could actually fix your life.