Papercult is still up and running and thriving, which is something I *should* periodically remind people when the owner of this site isn't crashing out, but especially when they are: papercult.club

one thing you should imagine when you read my posts is that whenever i am reading or writing on social media i am repeatedly making the pain grunt sound you hear in DOOM when you walk in acid

i was going to make some ragebait post about how i call a post on any microblogging platform a ‘tweet’ but really i call anything shorter than an essay or article a ‘post’ because i am in my late thirties

"He who saw everything, Center of light, Yesterday is mine, and I know tomorrow." -excerpt from the hymn of unknowing

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I love all my transgender brothers and sisters. Every single one, especially if you're weird. You have to live ok? It's important.

Thank you to the creator of the quesadilla. Thank you for inventing a perfect food

brb, going to the struggle session because i yelled at my printer

CASCADE ARCANA (TBC)

Sonder-44 A little bit about the process for designing the logo. Part of the overall philosophy for the graphic design and architecture of the world is breaking things down to basic forms. The idea is that in the face of time/space shattering, countries would rely on movements like bauhaus and

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

"just need more hours in the day" says man who sincerely wishes to play four additional hours of videogames

Okay, instructions: For each subchart, roll 1d6. Then, roll once on each chart with a d66 (1d6 for the tens place, 1d6 for the ones place) to get your bonus nonsense PLEASE post your results. bonus if you come up with the associated light novel title

Ohhh Andrea Gibson ;(

gravitational beam emitter

jc denton: word on the street is people can get anything from you. vaccines. drugs. even bofa. deus ex npc: what's bofa? jc denton, pulling out gun: i'm asking the questions here.

TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit

this is one of the most chilling scenes in jurassic park, wherein, rather than showing us the brutality on screen, the movie uses sound effects to imply the gruesome violence as the cow beats the shit out of a bunch of velociraptors

the perennial issue with this approach to populism is that you can’t solve a fictional problem. there is no political or social reform that will make the boogeyman disappear from these people’s heads.

in retrospect i’d like to clarify this further: when i say ‘replayability’, i’m not even talking about alternate routes or unlocks - i literally mean playing through the same experience more than once because the game is enjoyable to play

Doctors using ai should be considered medical malpractice

Them: So what have y'all been up to? Me: Haha, you know. The usual. The Usual:

this article captures a problem i’ve had with modern gaming that i couldn’t quite put into words: the change in focus from replayability as a metric of quality to the number of hours of Content that can be Consumed

The damage Dungeon World has inflicted upon the artform by the damage it inflicted by being the baseline-pbta-most-people-copy. This too is on them: PbtA rather than MC facing it went to "and I guess there is a MC there and we all copy and paste the same MC section"

i’ve been thinking about this a lot with LEVIATHAN recently. one of the factors to consider in a less-random tactical game is how much more predictable the pace will be. and if that is necessarily a good thing!!

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

if society doesn't fit *all* our people, thats actually our societys fucking problem

not psycholigically ameniable to modern society is not a fucking illness

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

If you haven't played Locus before why not consider it this halloween? We made it to be scary!

i feel like there’s going to be a new wave of discourse about game difficulty that conflates it with accessibility coming up soon. dudes rock (derogatory)

if you like ✅mech pilots ✅magical girls ✅racing drivers ✅musicians ✅saviors ✅whatever the persona characters are all of those are featured scenarios in burning hearts forever on sale for just 5$ right now! worstgirleva.itch.io/burning-hear...

The morphology of the classical grey alien is just what a human body looks like after experiencing the forces within an experimental stealth craft at full speed in "phantom phase". Survival rates very slim.

I've been thinking a lot lately about the different ways and approaches that people - and here I mean players, designers, observers, armchair pundits and more - have towards character internalities in tabletop RPGs. whether and how to mechanize them. This is a thread about Mara's Gamethinks.

"i'm a huge silent hill fan but i don't like the cult stuff" okay so you're not a silent hill fan

"Just tell them" is such an underrated piece of advice for telegraphing dangers in RPGs. "How can I hint that the hallway is trapped? How can I hint that if they defeat the dungeon lord, they become the next dungeon lord?" Just tell them. Tell them out loud. With your words.

Tbf, nothing will ever beat the GW website front page at that time. "The Queen is dead: PREPARE FOR SKIRMISH COMBAT!"

i will never stop hollering about Panic! At The Dojo by @velimini.bsky.social

technology used to be cool, but now it’s owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. but there are transsexual furry hackers out there still fighting the good fight

All right, it's time to reveal who won the Bannerless Tabletop RPG Grant for September 2025! I got *240* applicants, and paring that down to 10 was rough going. There is truly a wildly diverse, crazy-cool body of work going on ALL around us. Here are 10 of my favorites!

"Being mean to an LLM hurts your soul" I don't know that there is such a thing as a soul but I do think that on the balance of evidence it's likely that any interaction with an LLM whatsoever damages your brain

This needs way, way, WAY more responses. TTRPG people — readers, players, and creators — please share this around and take a couple of minutes to answer this 🥺 please

Ok, here's the blog post on how I set up my store to sell PDFs, while I watch itch burn. Hopefully this is helpful! www.patreon.com/posts/how-i-...

My hundredth one-page roleplaying game is HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOAT GIRL. You are a goat girl, most beautiful and dangerous creature, and it is always your birthday. Patrons get it a week early here: www.patreon.com/posts/138800...

The New Sun, 30” x 40” acrylic on canvas. Book of the New Sun fan art. This thing took me forever, started in October of last year. Will post more info on instagram when I have time. Also if anyone wants to put me in touch with TOR or the Wolfe estate that’d be cool. Alright. Thanks!

learned that Jackie Chan Adventures celebrates its 25th birthday today and immediately transformed into a mossy skeleton

A two-page "coming soon" ad from 1998 for Baldur's Gate, an RPG by BioWare taking place in TSR's Forgotten Realms campaign setting On one page looms your nemesis. On the other, screenshots and text teasing the "most anticipated RPG of the year" featuring "an immense, intricate game world".