Mental health break needed - gonna step off Bluesky. I’m on Discord @pcperini if you wanna chat — and please do hmu!

It's suddenly hit me. I'm not ready to say goodbye.

Please talk about the games you love. It can change the lives of the artists that pour their soul into them.

I mean it’s not WRONG

Normally this would be a day when I say "NEW GAME MASTER MONDAY" But I have a different announcement to make: In order to focus on our mental health and make the show better, GMM the podcast will be taking a short hiatus until March 23rd Our Twitch will still be going! But we need a small break:

Is it possible to give yourself goosebumps? Gallows Corner was such an amazing game to play and I cannot recommend it more highly if you're after a dark medieval romp as a downtrodden peasant who's had enough. www.kickstarter.com/projects/thr...

One of the best ever short articles in RPG theory claims that the entity called the "game master" is just a series of functional and social roles that can be divided up amongst a player group, easy peasy. You can read it here in the 2012 KP book if you wanna: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zj11u...

Have you recorded gameplay (publicly or privately) of @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social DIE RPG? Is it NOT on this list? Replies are open to send me links if I've missed anything.

On it, boss

Hey labor scholars are right

Rules of D&D (according to me) - a player must host - a player must provide snacks - all players must take notes - the DM must be served the beverage of their choice - all are responsible for the emotional well-being of the ppl at the table - all should talk about their expectations in advance

The "traditional" structure of TTRPGs puts an enormous amount of pressure on the GM to learn/refine & very little on the players. Which is somehow seen as more reasonable than spreading the load of learning/contribution across the whole table. Broader implications about community in there, y'all.

The perfect add on for your MOTHERBOARD campaign. Rules lite, minimal bookkeeping, and rules for battling Kaiju! MECHS BABY!

Thank you to the Cusco Webfest for selecting both Know Gods, No Afters AND The Way of the Hollow Star for their 2026 Webfest lineup.

Y’all don’t understand. I’m genuinely so excited about this book. This was made for me specifically.

LMFAO WE GOT THEM TO SHUT IT DOWN

So were the soldiers at the My Lai massacre, to say nothing of the Waffen-SS. How is this a defense?

grimacing as i check my stat screen for the first time. i’m on slow xp curve. my job points are fucked. basically no stam. my gear score is in the low-to-no teens. i’ve been on auto level up and the respec gems are like 9k (and need to be pre-approved by my bank). i’ve been overencumbered since 2019

"after entire internet yells at ceo" is a great title for an onion piece

You're fine. I just said: "I hate it. Everybody I know hates it. Nobody but dumbass CEO's want this awful shit that's going to crash the global economy later this year. Fuck off forever." Then it asked me my age. =P

Honestly, they seem to be the only company actually taking people's consideration into concern. Something that companies like Microslop and Google have forgotten.

And I quote "Do not use the ocean boiling plagiarism machine that is tripling peoples' energy bills, giving them psychosis and stealing their jobs".

I just got confirmation that this came from an in-app popup for the moderator of a mid-sized server.

Human art enjoyers and fellow Butlerian Jihadists, let them know this shit is poison. They're hoping to be able to gauge sentiment and call us rare outliers; we can go screaming right into the heart of this and make it clear it's suicide.

Was I too over the top when they asked for my feelings on the matter?

I told them to go fuck themselves and eat an ass for even considering it, so.

I said, "When the fucking bubble bursts I'm hitting the strip club," but I like the way you think too 😂

Absolutely. User researchers read every line, consider every statistic. Now, if you ask me how often user researches get listened to…

it breaks my heart and makes me nervous to know this survey even exists. i'm grateful it came across my timeline, because I absolutely gave them a piece of my mind.

Unfortunately, it's all grapevine, which suggests to me they weren't hoping it'd break containment. The domain, discord.sjc1.qualtrics, does seem to be linked to Discord's corporate Okta — suggesting it's their Qualtrics instance.

I was an early adopter for discord and I can be an early adopter somewhere else too

Filled in fuck no to every single question...

nah.

i appreciate at the very least they gave strong "no" answers to choose instead of the usual weasel shit where the strongest no you can say is still kind of a yes 🫠

I mean since they’re asking!

Did.

"Haha hey gamers who built this platform, do you want the AI that's actively shitting on you and making it harder for you to game and do your hobbies as part of your social platform? :D" Shitty short term profit read from Discord. Not even going into the privacy and ethics nightmare side.

If you were, I definitely was...

I included concerns about the how on the one side, summaries are not really reliable and they further alienate people from one another and on the other side they provide novel vectors for harassment. I maybe should have been more specific in addition to that.

made sure to tell them that jumping on this trend NOW, while the bubble is actively popping, would reflect poorly on Discord's leadership and paint them as gullible trend-chasers

Kinda went the fuck off on them. 😅 They deserve it for even *considering it*. Thanks for the link, reposted. ❤️

Nyah nyah.

(Takes like three minutes to go through and check off the bottom "keep that shit away from me" box on every question.)

I REALLY don't wanna hop onto Discord and be met by Grok Jr deciding today is a GREAT DAY for a hate crime. Left Livejournal when it got moved to Russia. Bailed on Spotify after it started using AI music & running ICE recruitment ads. Dropped Twitter like it was hot. Don't make me leave Discord, too

Remind discord that AI is being used to create massive amounts of sexually exploitative content of CHILDREN. And that hosting it in any fashion supports that kind of vile criminal activity.

If you use discord at all (even just for like, chatting with friends and nothing else the way I do) please fill this out and give them the business. Doesn't take long at all.