Cyberpunk 2025

Royalties are powerful things! A frequent discussion ttRPG writer space is how we could make the jump to full time. More royalty-based models like this would make it way easier!

This is a great idea and I'm going to add to it by saying that I'm up for this. If you want me to do art for your project on a royalty fee structure instead of a one time payment, I'm happy to help out. We swim together.

you can def network vertically, but prioritize networking horizontally surround yourself with kind, hardworking, and talented friends, and it’s only a matter of time before your careers go places also: if you can’t take an opportunity, pass it on to a friend who’d do just as well if not better

Lots very excellent people in here!

Ah, that’s what happened. Hello new folx!

I didn't bother reading it (thank you for doing the unpleasant work, Kate!) but what bothers me most about this, I think, is the smug implication by the 'writer' that her time is so much more important than the reader's. "I use AI because I have better things to do than write for you!"

A lot of writers have busted their butts all year to publish great fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and journalism. Consider sharing their work today. Consider what you send people's attention to.

No, I won't accept your framing by rejecting it. I won't even acknowledge you. The plagiarism machine that is regularly factually errant, and that poisons the environment, and that ultimately serves the worst corporate masters imaginable, is beneath my contempt. I'm going to make breakfast.

Just to add it here, because you're right and these people are very very wrong - If anyone wants to read more about the problems with "Ghibli-inspired" faux-Japanese works like Obojima from a Japanese American perspective, here's Kashi: kashi-info.carrd.co

I really thought there was nothing that could make me hate this project more. Fam, I was wrong. I was very, VERY wrong.

That gets a follow and a sale. Check it out!

Make a Bond movie academic Doctor, No: An Overview of Political Interference on Medical Professionals During Times of Crisis

🤮 I’m so tired of this garbage. Copyright is dead and most people don’t understand the ramifications of what that means. Screenshot from FB

GROSSSSSS. Gross. Gross. Gross. Gross. Look, Khan Academy is useful. I have even considered applying to work there in the past. But everything Khan’s suggesting in the back of the books summary: it’s horrific. He says it would enhance human connection and I cannot disagree more.

Basically my expectation is that as in that Spongebob episode, you would recoil in horror when you find out that your prettily-painted shiny burger turns out to be EXTRUDED GREY FILTH GOOP on the inside and you would not eat it, no

Whether you celebrate Christmas, other winter holidays, or none at all, I hope you all are having a wonderful week and spending time with the people and activities you love most.

It’s almost like our Premier’s ideology is concentrating as much power in her hands at any cost…

I don't want a 2025 wrap from my electric company. I want your CEO to stop hoarding money. I want my state or federal government to make it a public utility again. Stop spamming me to pretend to be some small town creator trying to establish a parasocial connection.

If you like a book? Review it. Ask your library to buy it. If you can afford it, buy a copy for a friend. Recommend it wherever you're social. Send the author an email, or a skeet, or a Ko-Fi. Write fanfic. Blow under the wings of the paper airplane so it can fly a little farther.

10 TTRPGS I want to play/run in 2026🎲 - Scion - Mummy: the Curse - Starfinder - Curseborne - Be Like A Crow - Deviant: the Renegades - Root - JourneyMon: Monster Trainer - Castle of Memories - Mage: the Awakening

A common (ableist) mistake folks make is to discuss accommodation assuming that every disabled person knows they're disabled. So. Many. People. Don't. Know. They're. Disabled. Advice that begins "this doesn't apply if you have a disability" is STILL bad, because your audience *may not know*.

Oh dang, @foundryvtt.bsky.social is hiring a fully remote game designer and writer! Can’t imagine how competitive thst search will be 👀

I am once again tapping the sign.

The tell re:"AI deserves rights" crowd is that their arguments are all for the "right" of -the AI owners- to do more ignoring laws, privacy and rights of people who already exist that we definitely know are sentient beings. The autofill tech labelled AI cannot produce sentience & is a scam.

I would prefer to live in a world where no billionaires exist, but seeing Mackenzie Scott strategically divest herself of about half her net worth through charitable donations gives me hope some billionaires also agree billionaires shouldn't exist.

This is anecdata, but in my time in production, it was not the creatives (concept art, 3D modeller, rigger, SFX, animator, etc.) making the assets that were the bottleneck, but management making the decisions (or not making the decisions) the creatives just got _blamed_ for the bottlenecks

I'm not really into boxing, but I am into MAGA "alpha" influencers getting knocked the fuck out, so I guess I'm into boxing now.

One of the reasons I love fantasy ttRPGs with contemporary settings is that it drives me to learn more about our world. Be it through history, folklore, religion - there is no facet of our world that is uninteresting and these game seek that out. There is no RPG that does this better than Scion.

It is 2025, by this point I have fed so many authors and comedians that inspired me into the wood chipper, do they think they can threaten me by prosecuting a former president?! Ha!

I love how conservatives hold out Clinton like a shield, "ohhhh tut tut tut, we have ur beloved, BILL CLINTON, if u want to prosecute our guy u have to go thru--" meanwhile I am loading up my bazooka like, nothing would make me happier, okay

Grinchtopia

Hey as a question on behalf of folks who might be thinking about getting into creating podcasts, videos, actual plays, etc., for the Paizoverse, is there anything that y'all feel like is missing from the space?

So knowing Hiromi wrote this… I knew it was going to be good. But have desperately wanted more exploration of Golarion’s oceans and underwater civilizations for ages, so it’s an extra treat. And yeah, also jazzed over more planar stuff, because I’m predictable like that.

You could just choose not to worry about why someone needs disability assistance. You could read a book or scroll on your phone or do sudoku, and just let other people do their thing.

Have I recommended Slay the Princess enough this year? Better recommend it again just to be sure. Play Slay the Princess.

*vibrates violently holding a degree in interdisciplinary communication and collaboration* You do not need genAI to communicate your ideas as a non-artist to an artist! A generated image doesn't actually share the key info that needs to passed on AND it discourages fruitful discussion

This week in gaming CEOs:

Oooo, the Remaster conversion of Silver Dragons into Oath Dragons made Eranex even more interesting… Fey Oath Dragon? Yes please!

"AI usage in games isn't going anywhere. That will be $80 per game + $700 on hardware, please."

And there we go. My brain is back in Scion mode once more. Time to get mythological

This is just the Gangrel Clan from Vampire: The Requiem

Which is important to highlight cause I have seen a lot stupid about this. If Generative AI has been used at any point, the final product will have Generative AI in there.

Putting a call out for a Mongolian and/or Kazakh sensitivity reader! More info can be provided in DMs, and the project will be under NDA until release.

No, *you're* writing up a conspiracy board connecting Remedy games to White Wolf RPGs.

To RJ's point -direct outreach by publishers exploded for me in 2021 from some of my D&D character art floating online, until it fell off a cliff in 2023 as genAI started ballooning. GenAI platforms hamstring direct access to artists as much if not more than SEO by design.

What are your favourite non AI brainstorming, concepting, or draft starting techniques? I always keysmash on the page for a bit and then write out what I want to say in the most unserious way possible pain bad. discomfort ok. safety tools help discomfort be not pain. then refine from there

Azlanti propagandists are experts in using image generation AI, ensuring that a minimal number of 'true believer' artists are able to flood the market, present a front of inevitability, and outcompete the actual Star Empire artists who hate the fascism that their Azlanti rulers embody