What are your top 5 Stephen Kings? (Reverse order) 5. The Gunslinger 4. The Wasteland 3. The Shining 2. It 1. Joe Hill

Okay, time to rocking a book that I shockingly have never read, given the games I play and write. Hello Interview with the Vampire. Let’s do this.

Listen to @jeromyyyc.bsky.social put the Premier on blast for fear mongering and misinformation over immigration at pancake breakfast this morning has automatically made this the best Stampede in years.

god bless our Vatican TMZ

Look, I’ve grown well past the fandom rivalries that would try and get me to convert Masquerade players to Requiem. You absolutely can enjoy both. I WILL remind you that Paradox may be trying smother us under a pillow, but Chronicle of Darkness isn’t dead. Requiem is still cooking on the Vault.

Shoving my stupid government and finally playing Persona 5 for the first tiiiiimm… oh, yes, that’s why everyone says this has major Mage vibes.

Once again: Mark Carney is Stephen Harper hiding under several cans of red paint. All he needs to do is try to change the Indian Act without consulting Indigenous Nations and we’ve got the exact same situation that triggered Idle No More over a decade ago.

Software mostly sucks now. Games are getting waaay more expensive to play. They are trying to immerse our media in AI slop. Who wants that? No thank you. That is why retro tech is blowing up. Ppl are discovering hyper-capitalism'd kryptonite, which is one word: "Enough"

Mark Carney is just Stephen Harper hiding under a tub of red paint. The fact Liberal voters applaud him and Conservative voters hate him tells you exactly everything you need to know about how much voters treat political parties as if they were sports teams and how little policy matters.

I had been thinking lately maybe it was time to get a PlayStation so I could finally take a crack at God of War and Bloodborne. Yeah, FUCK that.

i regularly refer to myself as annoying not because i think i don't deserve friends but as a reminder that annoying is not the worst thing you can be no matter how incentivized other people are to punish you for it

No future without trans people. No future without immigrants. No future without strangers who become loved ones.

The part people keep forgetting is they don't show up to celebrate things, they show up to intimidate, threaten, and harm. The emotional/physical violence is what they want, not celebration. They want lynchings.

One of the biggest mistakes made on both sides of the Atlantic in the last couple of decades is people assuming that once a battle for rights is won, it's settled forever. It is not. You have to continue to defend those rights.

so I'm listening to *1984*, like you do not sure this is a fresh insight but gotta say: I was really struck this time through that the fiction is being written by machines but the history revisions are all done by hand, using human labor

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My 5 non-D&D TTRPGS to get to know me (2026 Edition): 1. Scion 2e (okay really 3e, but NDAs) 2. Promethean: the Created 3. Be Like A Crow 4. Castle of Memories 5. Changeling: the Lost

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the only way to defeat this assault on our collective humanity is a unified front making AI use in creative fields an anchor which drags projects and companies to the bottom of the sea

Good. Fuck AI and every game that uses it.

A Dark Eras Mage thought just wandered through my brain… what would Perfected Metals mean to Neolithic Wise? That’s going to be a fun one to noodle on.

Promethean my beloved. 2e core for this reread first, then 1e’s supplements.

If all you can see is D&D, you not only miss important parts the hobby’s energy now, not only miss HUGE swaths of the hobby’s history, you also warp the history of D&D itself. You don’t get @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social without Larp culture of the last several decades, for example.

THIS. THIS. THIS. There’s reasons why folks might focus on D&D depending on their scope/ research question. BUT I do not accept arguments for focusing on D&D like: - the extant research focuses on D&D - D&D is inevitable touchstone - D&D was first _________ - D&D can represent all of TTRPG

I dont blame people so much for entirely wrongly thinking that new Disney film used AI. I blame AI companies for helping destroy the trust between artists and their audience.

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

Too busy doing... Wait, what is it he does? If you want a job representing all Canadians, that means all of us.

That's right kids, we're at "How dare you hurt our game by making us tell our customers that we're using AI" That's the level of "no one wants the thing we're forcing on them" and "just stop fighting it" we're on. That's the degree to which fighting it is working.

I've long said we need more gaming events in Canada, and I love how Game Con Canada and NAGIS are addressing that. I spoke with several developers who explained why these types of Canadian shows are important and how they help support indies like Alberta's talented but oft-overlooked developers. 🍁

Getting pushed further everyday into the creative and RPG industries because it appears to be the last bastion of fuck this generative algorithm slop.

You're never too old or too young to learn and improve in art! The time to start drawing is when you decide to!

It reminds me of those random idea generators back in the day where you could click to get story prompts and it'd be something like "the wizard spun his plantings into gold" and you'd be like WOWWW I WANNA WRITE ABOUT THAT but then you realize there's. nothing there.

Dem establishment crying because a bunch of democratic socialists did well tonight is kinda funny but also infuriating that the future of working class power is making itself known and the Dems' first response is one of fear and condemnation.

Signal boost. If you are a certain age, this was a gateway series into information technology.

Co-signed by your friendly neighborhood atheist. News flash: atheism is rooted in Protestantism and you need to square with that. Further news flash: it is also rooted in imperialism, colonialism, and the boat load of other uglies that come with them.

:o The only people making a division are the people trying to /exclude/ topics and people.

"Be beige, not rainbow." Man, if that isn't white culture in one sentence.

if you are a baby digital artist and you do not know about: -layer modes -alpha lock (sometimes transparency lock or opacity lock) -clipping layers -gradient maps google all those things with the name of your chosen software. your entire life will change overnight

To all the impending Pathfinder Infinite writers waiting for the new society scenario guidance - Paizo has a NO GEN-AI policy. Not sure why I have to share this, but apparently I do. help.pathfinderinfinite.com/hc/en-us/art...

roll for initiative bitches

So I could pull a bunch of things about synaptic pruning because none of this is surprising from an educational neuroscience perspective. Instead, a visual. DALL-E went live in 2021, so we definitely knew it was coming in 2020. #1 is my art in 2020. #2 is a *practice exercise* I drew this evening.

This is Alberta’s endgame as well if we don’t punt these Christian nationalists from office

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I convinced some American friends to take Canada's Vote Compass survey. (I'm so much fun at parties.) Folks who consider themselves radical leftists were shocked to discover that they'd be centrists here.

As an Arab ex-Montrealer I find this “no systemic racism in Quebec” line by Québécois leaders tiring. Not surprising. Just tiring.

Happy Juneteenth! Today is about celebrating the freedom of our Black kin - which is freedom for us all. Share Black joy. Listen to Black folks. Uplift Black voices. Seek Black perspectives. Give Black folks money.