Bluesky weather is really heavy on the “it’s not that I’m the center of the universe, it’s just that the center of the universe is where I happen to BE” vibe today.

Finally got round to opening rpg swag parcels. Print on demand books from crowdfunders. The Far Roofs by Jenna Moran (this was my UPS headache last week). Tribe 8 - new Forged in the Dark version. Arcane Crimes Division - set a TV cop series in a fantasy city.

Hello - your friendly neighbourhood rape PTSD haver who is married to a veteran with PTSD. And you know what neither of us has ever done? Been the abuser in a relationship.

It goes without saying that if Joe Biden had done this, the entire Fourth Estate would immediately condemn his unprecedented violation of norms & write masthead editorials tomorrow questioning his fitness for office & calling for his resignation. But, you have to understand, He is One Special Boy.

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The issue here is drivethrurpg’s exclusivity agreement - if a publisher resells on other platforms, their dtrpg publisher % is lower.

Ok, just heard Ted Talks referred to a Joe Rogan for liberals, and I'm gonna have to sit with that one for a bit.

One of the challenges we face is that MAGA elites hold their voters in such withering, overwhelming and obvious contempt that for those voters to admit how baldly they were lied to would be a more humiliating admission than believing all of the bald lies.

"I bet conditions are fine!" they say. So you'll let independent or opposition journalists have unrestricted access to record and film? You'll let opposition politicians observe? 'Oh, no, obviously not.' Like, c'mon. If it was the Hilton, you wouldn't be fighting oversight so hard.

When you see trans women being banned from co-ed competitions like darts, billiard, and chess—where even if we did have more muscle in defiance of all natural laws—you start to realize that these bans aren't about "fairness." They're about never allowing undesirables to be celebrated.

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

By all means, let's stop experiencing things. Let's pay a rentier class of technocrats for a simulacrum of those things displayed on a screen.

This is the Fall Guys theory of TTRPG competition, a tortured analogy and also a thread. 1/

I am very skeptical of the judgement of anyone who played older editions of D&D and failed to learn that “Neutral” is bullshit.

I keep saying this: the reason [academic] didn't get hired is not that [woman or minority scholar] took their job, it is that 'their job' ceased to exist. The person in the line retired in 2010 and the department lost the fight to get the line back in 2014. No one 'took' it, it's gone.

I had not considered it until this Bari Weiss stuff intersected with other things, but “both-sides” neutrality and extractive optimization really have a lot in common, as they have replaced any kind of judgement or sense of “good” with something far easier (and worse).

I am SHOCKED that Cal Newport, the guru of “the secret to being able to focus on your work is ‘have an unacknowledged wife’” is bullish on AI productivity.

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

Wellll.... maybe "declines Satan's rave invitation in favor of brunch with the angels," but def the right choice.

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"I try to ask myself, before making any major decision, "Is this something Steve Rogers or Fred Rogers would do?" And if the answer is "Yes, to both," I try to do it twice."

The hero we need

Without naming names, a game I played recently reminded me why ”you always get core clues” is such an Important part of game design. If you do roll for clues at the least implement “you get the clue with complications” on a failure.

Yes, AND the supply of creative people ready to make something cool as a hobby is also inexhaustible. The fact that we HAVE something we can (loosely) call an industry is simply wild; this is a terrible business.

In Seattle, they're selling million dollar storage units to rich people, but God forbid we tax millionaires. www.seattletimes.com/business/whe...

This is good news! arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

A little bit of news from the Story Rich Showcase: BOTH Citizen Sleeper games are coming to Switch 2 on ⚡️June 25th⚡️ Existing switch owners will be able to upgrade for free!

Watch: "Trump Has Made $1.8 Billion From Crypto While President. A Corruption Researcher [hi] Explains How." joined @granthermes.bsky.social Friday on Make It Make Sense (Also, don't want to sound like Narcissus here, but may have to make that screen grab my new avatar.)

"What happens in the South isn’t something that is a South problem. What happens to Black folks ain’t a Black folks problem." Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12) Evening Keynote, June 5 #NN26 Philadelphia🔔

roguish familiars, which one would you take on adventure?

I love Ghost in the Shell very very much but I am beginning to think it is not worth the hefty cost…

Had a lot of fun dying in Deathmatch Island with @aavoigt.bsky.social @ehronlime.bsky.social @newmadras.bsky.social.

Not going to lie. Enjoying playing D&D makes me want to be playing Slayers.

Even if there are legitimate, non-flashy use cases for AI that competent people are aware of, I still fucking despise it because the stupidest corporate management types in the world have enshittified every platform I use with nonstop "AI Summaries" and "Rewrite post with AI?" They all need to die.

I adored this edition. It was also one of the most memorable nights of owning a game store. We did midnight release and sold over 100 of the Three Book sets of the game. It was a massive festival of new game joy. I'll never forget it or the feeling.

I continue to try to actively find the good uses of LLMs, if only to offset the sheer volume of examples of terribleness that I encounter daily. And I absolutely *have* found good example, some of them even significant, though the really good ones have all been interesting one offs.

Repurposing the memory of perhaps the greatest and most daring battle to fight the scourge of fascism in Europe into an explicit argument for ethnonationalist exclusion is an especially fascist rhetorical strategy.

Tumblr with another banger

Biggest? Actual Play presented as serialised shows.

I, the most important customer in the world, do not understand why people make things that I don't want.

Dear @brianmbendis.bsky.social, you have no idea how much this means to me. Following you AND @kellythompson.bsky.social writing Jessica was so intimidating I almost turned it down. But you encouraged me and it turned out to be one of my favorite projects. Thank you for being the best.

I am genuinely uncertain whether the US, as a society, are OK with our lawmakers being huge shareholders in the industries they nominally regulate, or if they just don’t know/believe that it is so. Not snark. I feel like a lot of Fox voters assume the norms of their youth are still in place.

Because D&D is about anticipation, I went and looked up what everyone in our Friday game will get at level 6, and it’s all pretty sweet. Then I thought, “out of curiosity, how would a wizard be doing now?” I should not have asked. They hate wizards so much.

Honestly incredible stuff but this made me gasp: "For $100 million a year we can get clean oceans,” he said. This is less than the annual marketing budget of most major consumer goods companies that produce the plastic The Ocean Cleanup is pulling from the sea. techfixated.com/young-invent...

"Decline of the humanities" is pretty easy to explain, and largely thanks to a political campaign against inclusion of marginalized folks in the discourse since the 70s. Measuring by no. of majors isn't "efficient." Screaming "GeT oUr ChILdReN joBS!!" at subject-area experts isn't either.

The Planetary Society built an interactive side-by-side "track changes" comparison for the proposed OMB rules. They show exactly what the current rules say versus what the proposed rules would change, section by section, across all *399* affected provisions. dashboards.planetary.org/rules-change/ 🧪🔭

The insistence that 40k be appreciated as something serious is a real barrier to appreciating it as something delightful and absurd. (And also in the way of appreciating it as a non-comics example of “canon” being WAY less persnickety a concept than fans imagine.)

guys they killed off all the space dwarfs because they thought the space dwarfs were too silly and then they brought back the space dwarfs in a new, more serious grownup space dwarf way. we are still awaiting word on whether or not they will grimdark the space halflings back into existence

Stumbled on a really great review of Witch King from back in 2023. I don't think I saw it at the time, but because of the cancer diagnosis and all the travel when the book came out, that time is mostly a blur. everybookadoorway.com/intimate-maj...