By Yax - April 2, 2008 - 20 Comments

Cuddle Monsters

Don’t ask me why I did it – I have no clue: Cuddle Monsters

Feel free to speculate on what building that website says about my mental health.

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  1. Ben says:
    April 2, 2008 at 6:57 am

    Man What????? You need some help…. fun website though…

  2. KnowItAllDM says:
    April 2, 2008 at 7:21 am

    I don’t get how some of the people can vote what they did, but you need to add Dire Penguins to the list. Nothin’ cuddlier than a Dire Penguin!!!
    http://www.inkycircus.com/jargon/images/2007/05/15/penguin.jpg

  3. KnowItAllDM says:
    April 2, 2008 at 7:22 am

    Or, how bout a baby Dire Penguin?
    http://static.flickr.com/101/307632647_2667a7a082_m.jpg

  4. DarqRaven says:
    April 2, 2008 at 7:49 am

    Okay… I have to ask.
    Are either of you Linux users??
    Because you started talking about Dire Penguins and I thought of this image!

    http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c394/darqraven/?action=view&current=Tux_Redmond.jpg

    I know it is bad.. but what can I say… wicked minds and only half a cup of coffee. But hey… I can not say much as I created for my world, Banshee Bunnies found only in Ravenloft (for now). I got a few groans from my players on that one. I may have to update them for 3.5.

  5. Whisper the Gray Monk says:
    April 2, 2008 at 9:54 am

    Nice work, wish I had thought of it!!! I like the tally after each vote, I missed them at first. Thanks for a great website also,

    Whisper

  6. Hermeticgamer says:
    April 2, 2008 at 11:37 am

    Wholly addictive.

    I too missed the tallies initially but then it made it even more fun to see how on the money or deviant I was.

    Now with the correct counterbalancing of presentation, one could test a number of cuddleworthiness hypotheses. Several I noticed already…Sirens always cuddly. Humanoid more cuddly over non humanoid. Fur wins over scales or chitin. And of course 2 eyes over multi-eyed. Definitely demonstrating our humanocentric mammalian biases. Sorry it’s the psychologist in me.

  7. Yax says:
    April 2, 2008 at 11:51 am

    I’ll add new monsters whenever I have 5 minutes to kill. I’m glad you enjoyed the addictiveness. I have to move the tallies up too so everyone sees them.

    Thanks for the feedback and for taking it easy on the Freudian explanations.

  8. Yax says:
    April 2, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    I added the Dire Penguin.

    One thing I didn’t consider when I built the cuddle monsters website is that I would spend an inordinate amount on it. I get sucked in whenever I run some test on it.

  9. Dave T. Game says:
    April 2, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    “50% agree that Yak Folk are cuddlier than Yak Folk”

    Duplicates are a problem, but congratulations on creating another big time sink for me :)

  10. Yax says:
    April 2, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    Thanks Dave! I’ll look at duplicates – I thought I had it tackled but obviously I’m not as good a programmer as I think I am.

  11. Jason Attard says:
    April 2, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    I think it could use some leaderboards, so we can see the most and least cuddly monsters!

    I think my favorite part was the little comic of the cuddly Beholder up top…

  12. Yax says:
    April 2, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    Yeah. I took the cuddly beholder from YAFGC. I’m in the process of getting rights to that image since I like YAFCG and would like them to cash in on their art.

    http://www.yafgc.shipsinker.com/

  13. Sandrinnad says:
    April 2, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    *blink* *blink* *shakes head* *blink*

    hee!

    *15 minutes disappear from the work schedule*

    :D

  14. Pé0 says:
    April 2, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    I’m cuddling monster with 2 windows of IE. My day should pass twice as fast…

  15. Kane says:
    April 3, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    you need a Dire Duck in there

  16. Yax says:
    April 3, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    Check out the stats:

    http://www.cuddle-monsters.com/stats/

  17. argokirby says:
    April 3, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    Okay, that was EVIL! Yax, thanks to you I spent my entire day reading YAFGC… It was so underhanded I never saw it coming. I read from comic 1, the first 1, that was at 11am this morning. Its now 6:30, this is the first break I’ve taken!!!! I’m still not done.

    I will get you back…somehow /shakes fist in anger/

  18. Yax says:
    April 3, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    Er… You’re welcome?

  19. Tommi says:
    April 9, 2008 at 9:39 am

    I can’t help reading that one monster as Yax folk…

    (The Yak folk, unless it is obvious.)

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