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Being a photographer is learning all the ways people will fuck you over and all the excuses people will have for not paying you

The dog of judgement is watching you. Repent or be destroyed

I wish I loved anything as much as my sisters dog loves fishing

This is precisely *who they're being made for*

Proof that bullying people for using AI works and we should bully them as hard as possible.

As PAXU panel pitches are due soon, I wanted to share that I'd love to be considered for your panels about GMing, worldbuilding, game design, and/or mentoring/teaching. I have a decade+ experience as a novelist, worked in publishing, and do game design (latest: Additional Designer for Daggerheart).

OK so it's not just me lmao I will say that this marketing tactic did get me to finally listen to the song in the ad in after seeing it on IG every day for a month and now 4 days later I'm obsessed and have a ticket for the show in October

Any chance there's a bunch of people who work in the physical TTRPG AP space who would be interested on being on a panel about TTRPG AP creation (would love to pitch a PAX U panel ft producers, set and sound designers etc from both large and small games)

One thing that doing creative work teaches you is that ideas are worth nothing. Anybody can have an idea. In a writers room you have to come up with a hundred ideas a day, and most of those don’t make the page. It’s the work of making something that gives it value. The patina of humanity.

Is it crazy that if someone texts me a crew coffee order before the shoot that the general assumption is that they want me to get the coffee and have it ready before they get there.

Doing a bit of a rebrand over on IG, please come say hello and maybe give me a follow (ones for work and the others for just the post convention dumps for my cosplay photography stuff)

Got really excited because someone recommended me for a PA job with a really good director, turns out the director just wanted someone to run garbages at his birthday party for 12 hours (no payment mentioned)😒 Stop treating people like this ffs

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.” Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

Someone put me in their PAX U panel. I can talk about a lot of different things I’m a very good yapper 😅

I wonder what they sell here

I love working in the film industry guys it is so fun having to advocate and push for THE BARE MINIMUM (getting paid for the time I worked for the job I did lol)

Warning: I am 10000% certain that Amazon has worded the user agreement so they will have sole ownership of anything generated by Showrunner. Please do not pay money to be part of a content farm.

I mirror this view, with one caveat: it will -not- necessarily find an audience and it won't necessarily be a success, but if you made it because you want them to exist, at least you have the reward of having pulled these never-made things screaming out of the sea of ideas into reality.

GenCon is fast approaching, and you can catch me at the following events: - Live show and demo games of @forceofextinction.com - Using Your Heart For Flair by @rahrah.bsky.social! If you see me on the con floor, please don't hesitate to come say hello - I'd love to meet you!

I first heard about what Saige had said about Omar last month. From a friend at a con in Canada, that had nothing to do with TTRPGs. Thats how widespread this rumor has gone

A reminder that Hydee Feldstein-Soto is an abusive alcoholic who tried so hard to pretend to be the DA and prosecute student protestors that the *LAPD* had to send her a letter to tell her to back the fuck off

Saige Ryan, a 🧵 After having done what I can to support Saige’s victims privately for the many months that this awful situation has gone on, and seeing now how it’s so publicly come to a head when those involved deserved only peace, I want to be clear: I believe Surena, Omar, and B Dave

Unfortunately the is is seemingly more likely to be true

Shoutout to IMAX for creating/sponsoring an AI film festival so I can feel extra validated

Watched a video from a Youtuber I like on Dashcon 2 and now have to live with the fact that I found my face in it not once but TWICE.

AI and machine learning are old as dirt. They include a lot of great tools. Generative tools and AI agents are the new slop-generators that are trying to take over your life. Know the difference.

High School Musical 1, High School Musical 2, High School Musical 3, Hannah Montana The Movie, Footlose (original and remake), Mean Girls (Regular and Musical) Les Mis, Phantom of the Opera, Beatlejuice, Teen Beach Movie 1, Teen Beach Movie 2, Grease, Grease 2, Mamma Mia, Mamma Mia 2, Titanic

Staring at my laptop until my adderall kicks in so I can finish this deadline and focus on playing Edge of Eternities and GenCon stuff. Side note: if someone had the skeletons of a ttrpg they're developing, would that person be able to playtest it at GenCon?

That's 👏 not 👏 the 👏 same 👏 type 👏 of 👏 AI 👏 you 👏 dipshits

So I think there was a misunderstanding with some people but I won’t be at Gen Con this year (it’s going to be a year since I got detained at the boarder while going to Gen Con last year and I’m trying not to jinx it even though I have successfully crossed into the US multiple times since then)

Everyone boo

I can’t speak on behalf of DesiQuest but I can speak on behalf of myself because I’m still mad about it: Bringing up the name of my production multiple times in a video meant to mislead people about a legal situation involving one of our cast members but not reaching out to anyone from our team/

I posted this on Insta a couple days ago! I think the misinformation has been largely cleared up (the creator who “reported” it took the video down with an apology, other involved parties have provided info, and there seems to be a healthy convo about how to read legal documents), but just in case!

Alright, here's what Saige did to me. If you're a PoC you are not safe around her. The last THREE YEARS have been heartbreaking and soul-crushing, and I'm SO glad to finally be able to speak out publicly. I'm still at SDCC, so I may add more later: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rcfsd...

I can't decide if I am more furious… or disgusted… or just really disappointed and disillusioned by some of the people in my industry.

Ify is one of the best people I’ve ever met and was one of the people to reach out to me about the terrible rumors happening. This has been an incredibly isolating experience and I know in my heart there will be many people who may start to act surprised online to distance themselves.

Believe them!! This shit has been going on for so long and was not my story to tell publicly but has been so painful to watch friends go through. I’ve seen what Surena, Omar, B Dave and *more* have been through and was so vocal about it behind the scenes but not everyone would listen-

Spoke with Surena, checked in, and I’m only going to say a few things. (Even if she did say I can let the chopper sing) The only reason I’m saying anything is because while everyone wants to step away “until they have all the facts”, that didn’t stop many people from spreading the lies via texts.

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

Stop using AI for placeholder assets. Use sketches. Use lorem ipsum. Use bright pink materials. Use programmer art for fucks sake, literally anything else. If your studio is using AI even for temp, even if they think they've covered their tracks, SPEAK UP because people WILL FIND IT

Do I know anyone who lives in Ottawa? Might have a job there starting in a week but I need to find housing and trying to avoid AirBnbs?

maybe strange women lying in ponds distributing swords *should* be basis for a system of government

Weirdly not as upset about this as I feel like I should be after spending 4 months researching and preparing my application for this.

Critical Role doing autographs at NYCC means I'll finally be able to get the tattoo I've been holding off on for the past 10 years lol

L.A. TACO has confirmed through its sources that ICE is currently at UCLA Ronald Reagan Hospital. UCPD is not cooperating and prevented ICE from entering. ICE is standing by in the lobby. 🧵

Maybe a hot take but Toronto LinkedIn Vancouver TikTok Newfoundland Bluesky

Artists and small business owners who use Stripe- there's a new "AI" feature for payment disputes, it's auto-enabled and will charge a 30% fee if you win a dispute using it. You might want to turn this off. I personally don't trust a slop feature to handle disputes for me either.

Oh to be a small dog in a stroller waiting for their owner to come back with ice cream