Episode 213 - Avoiding Tulpability

[Shell Game]

[vaMpiresoftWare]

The file appears to be faulty in some way.

Edit: Doesn’t work on my phone but plays on my PC. Podcast app is saying 1 hour 35 but the file appears to be 1 hour 59. Might just be the mp3 header is jacked.

Edit: This is working now.

[adrenochrome dome]

To give an example of the profound lack of imagination in some of these folks: one time I found someone who created a Pokemon tulpa to give them blowjobs. The problem? They couldn't conceive of the tulpa's mouth extending any deeper than that of a muppet. They were wringing their hands over the fact that they felt that they needed to perfectly picture every party of the thing's internal anatomy to get a decent feeling.

Maybe it's a consequence of basing your fuck buddy on a literal cartoon?

[Dr. Buttplug]

I love that the height of edginess is to have your tulpas put on a punch and judy show in your brain and then cuck you in Tumblr roleplay chat. Get that full Fight Club experience.

[Shell Game]

The file appears to be faulty in some way.

Edit: Doesn’t work on my phone but plays on my PC. Podcast app is saying 1 hour 35 but the file appears to be 1 hour 59. Might just be the mp3 header is jacked.

I'll look into it.

[Antivehicular]

The concept of using "the ancient art of the hover hand" on your own imaginary friend took me the fuck out. Thanks, some forums guy!

Also had a pretty sad chuckle at the forums dudes being like "just use high-level esoteric meditation techniques, moron" in response to hopefully-teen posters with broken imaginations. Kids who can barely rotate spheres in their mind deciding they're going to create sapient consciousnesses is grim enough without the veterans coming in to "just draw the rest of the owl!" at them.

[Devious Box]

These are people who started to grow up* and wanted to validate playing make-believe with themselves as an important valuable real thing. Jokes on them, you're allowed to just play make believe! And if you really wanna validate it just roleplay in an mmorpg or join a ttrpg group, its MUCH less embarassing than this.

[Antivehicular]

These are people who started to grow up* and wanted to validate playing make-believe with themselves as an important valuable real thing. Jokes on them, you're allowed to just play make believe! And if you really wanna validate it just roleplay in an mmorpg or join a ttrpg group, its MUCH less embarassing than this.

Yeah, I just keep thinking about how much healthier it would be for all these dudes to just start writing fanfic about their incredibly cool OC, Goku's long-lost brother Kogu, and maybe do a little Deviantart RP or something with other dudes' long-lost Goku brothers. Legitimately much better for mental health and creative skill development!

[CozyJosie]

I hate to be the bearer of the curse (this knowledge) but that one "Nyaruko" character is way weirder and/or dumber than simply being in a shitty romance anime. She's the 2000-years-old-but-looks-10 anime girl version of Nyarlathotep, from H. P. Lovecraft's fiction, who of course latches onto and dates the milquetoast default protagonistkid of the anime because reasons

don't shame me for this I hate that I know this too

also I sincerely hope that these kids one day learn what maladaptive daydreaming is and get help for it

[Antivehicular]

I hate to be the bearer of the curse (this knowledge) but that one "Nyaruko" character is way weirder and/or dumber than simply being in a shitty romance anime. She's the 2000-years-old-but-looks-10 anime girl version of Nyarlathotep, from H. P. Lovecraft's fiction, who of course latches onto and dates the milquetoast default protagonistkid of the anime because reasons

The domino meme, where the tiny domino is labeled "Enduring popularity of the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG in Japan" and the big domino is labeled "This Fucking Guy"