Episode 36
The Haters Episode
April 15th, 2026
59 mins 1 sec
Season 2
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About this Episode
No, this isn't about games we don't like; following up on a question from our Wisdom Episode, we talk about the parts of making games that are not fun, from merely boring all the way to actively hate. This turns into a conversation about how we get through those periods, how the unique nature of truly true roleplaying games makes perfection impossible, and harnessing the hate that flows through you for good. We balance that out with an update on something we're loving right now, the incoming artwork for Swords Without Master!
Nathan's game Mortal Skein is out! Here's the playtest materials on itch.
Show Notes:
- Great Courses: English Grammar Boot Camp
- CSS
- Tailwind CSS
- Pomodoro Technique
- Forest Timer App (the tree-growing one)
- Will Jobst's Plasmodics: Mutant Freaks in the Weird Future
Swords Artists:
- Shel Kahn
- Jabari Weathers
- GORAN
- Simon Roy
- Big Bluesky Thread of the Swords artists
And there's more: