Ssssssss -- The 2025 Golden Cobra Challenge winners announced at Metatopia: (Thread)

This is what they took from you

Not to brag or anything, but I'm playing some Swords this Sunday. . . . And you could be, too.

"Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting," the protesters declared.

The temperature of a cup of coffee you poured an hour ago and then remembered you had to quick run to the library this morning so you left it on the counter awaiting your return take: The greatest failing of social media is the lack of monospace fonts + massive character counts.

The Rogue Stands Alone! Join @epidiah.bsky.social this coming Sunday, November 9, to try out the many-player, one-Rogue version of Swords Without Master. Drop-ins and new players welcome! Join our Discord: discord.com/invite/cgJa5... Scheduling Post: discord.com/channels/130...

Here We GO! Come along, my dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

We been here for years (1828).

Backed APOCALYPSE WORLD 3RD EDITION at the Creator level -- our game Escape From Dino Island is obviously fundamentally built on the PbtA system and we are thrilled to get more undoubtedly excellent game design work from the Bakers www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum... www.escapefromdinoisland.com

If you haven't, do watch the KS video. The animation segment is by Annika Sturmer and we're absolutely thrilled: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvno...

And away we go. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

I'm going to do everything in my power to make this one of those weekly memes.

Already.

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

I have seen the word "bird" enough times today that I'm beginning to think we've been misspelling it all along.

OK #ttrpg Peeps! The challenge is to get game zines ready for #ZineQuest / #ZiMo in Feb and pledge to put some/all profits raised into the Game Workers Union fighting funds. Who's up for it?

Here's the digital mockup from @ndpdesign.com for his "Big Lore" game, hearkening back to an old fantasy/weird west mashup world that never made it out of the desk drawer. Locations, factions and character development have card decks that reveal lore and guide growth in play.

Here's the cards @epidiah.bsky.social made for his exploration x legacy adventure board game concept. Go to places, meet some draculae, help some urchins, all in the context of a generative location-based game concept.

I absolutely ate up doing the homework for this one. And as it turns out, I'm really digging the homework for this week's recording, too.

New ep Wednesday! We make good on homework to design some cards for these speculative card-based game concepts we both have. This is where the (vegan) sausage is made! Listen: unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/26 Subscribe: unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/subscribe Support: patreon.com/UnwrittenEar...

Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚

Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help our fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union. Help us fight back! Anything you can donate will massively help our efforts to hold Rockstar to account. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

I was going to give ZineQuest a miss this year. Instead I'll launch a game and put the profits into the strike fund. Probs the least I can do.

Read the last sentence as many times as you need to, gang.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Sometimes it almost feels like the appropriate response to incipient fascism is not to move further to the right.

Well shit, maybe democrats should've ran progressive candidates sooner?

Such a fun conversation this was!

Captain Torture

Another style exploration, this time based on a photo taken back in highschool of a shady downtown courtyard. I wrote more about the whole process https://www.portablecity.net/style-test-fantastic-skyscraper-reinterpretation/

“I think a big part of it is to make Brownsville a place that you don’t have to leave to have that same life. There’s too many people for whom - stability, space, raising a family, you can only do it outside of New York City…” Mamdani x RZA x Riso A riso-printing rotoscope experiment #risoscope

My study of the devil's femur continues.

Ah yes, the grim math.

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

And here's where you can find your poll site! www.vote.nyc/page/find-yo...

Dick Cheney died! In case you see some vague posts celebrating a death and, in the bleary early hours of your new day, got your hopes up a little too high. Anyway, worthy of celebration, but not precisely the one we're all hoping for.

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

Once again:

You know that part of the roller coaster where the chain is cranking you up to the top of the first hill, and you're like, oh boy oh boy oh boy? That's us. T minus 1, part 2! Double fingers crossed for tomorrow! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

Ashley Altadonna crushed it filming this video! Behold, The HiFi as traveling snake oil salesmen in the coming post-apocalyptic hellscape!

Do not just behold, but LO!

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star slaps actually

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’