What are your gripes/criticism of TiTs?

[Punccline]

Ultimately, the level of consistency and interaction that many of us want cannot be achieved with non-procedurally generated text written by humans. Maybe one day, when it's possible to add a Large Language Model that runs entirely locally (no using ChatGPT as Pronz-As-A-Service enshittification, please), games like this might be able to have that level of depth behind the game.
However, that day is not today.
Nor will it be anytime within about 5 years would be my guess.

Hopefully that day is never.

 

[LeDoraggo]

However, that day is not today

Thank fucking god ✌

 

[Jacques00]

(E.g. why can't I have dove wings AND a back shark fin at the exact same time? Though I'd imagine the simple answer is that that would be a coding nightmare.)

If I'm not mistaken, this was a carry-over from the original CoC, where the "wings" slot was reserved for anything that is positioned the back of the character (like the modern "back bling"), so only one type can define what it is. Now for TiTS, it can be a variety of things, from fins, to wings, to tentacles--but it is only one slot. Whether or not it would be a coding nightmare is up to the coder, but yes, going back to account for any situation where needing to mention both at the same time would be highly tedious and probably unnecessary work.

"Sharpies" (shark-harpies/sirens, the precursor of the suula) did exist in the CoC days and any back fin is either non-existent, not mentioned, or just implied via reader imagination. Not every detail has to be mechanically supported, especially for something so cosmetic. That said, think of the back slot more as "what is the main thing that goes here" rather than "this is the only thing that ever goes here".