"Michelin is a tire company." -Marco Pierre White

The fact that the Rascal article is so well researched, documented, and earnest in documenting what happen and you STILL get people crying wolf about transmisogyny, weaponizing queerness EVEN MORE, spells how allergic these people are to critique; how brittle their overly online identities are.

i'm probably evil. i'm probably the devil. i'm probably fundamentally wrong

well well well

i gotta assemble my bitch squad and take revenge

well, you see, sam annasimps979-jpg.github.io/Free-Play/In...

there's also a line where someone says "have you figured out what you're doing in my country" to the cia agent protagonist and it whips

"Activists who packed the rafters in the Assembly chambers in Trenton’s Statehouse cheered loudly after the bill’s passage, hailing it as a landmark moment for immigrant rights..." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/divi...

you know what's a great movie nobody's heard of? zeros and ones

i need to take a break from being on here for my mental health. having enough money to get any significant amount of groceries would be huge for that. i appreciate all y'all have done for me; anything helps but take care of you.

If we are to see America as not blood and soil but as an idea - something that I think is p. strongly in line with the better angels of our nature one learns about in civics class etc - it's gonna be necessary sooner or later to interrogate this endless churn of xenophobic border panics at the root

didn't have time for #zinemonth but I made a little one-shot to procrastinate on making my damn website blue-phoenix-games.itch.io/a-game-again...

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

I do my best to not traffic in mythologies of "authenticity" but I strongly believe that it is best to attempt to be the kind of person you aspire to be rather than what you think everyone else wants. this is especially because what they tell you they want often isn't what they actually want

time to revise my collection

you can do this in after the end btw

really, my most controversial opinion is that sometimes your rpg should actually be a novel

didn't have time for #zinemonth but I made a little one-shot to procrastinate on making my damn website blue-phoenix-games.itch.io/a-game-again...

you say you want to make a "zine" but the only "zine" you should be "folding" is the "holy bible"

there is a very good reason I included this in my manual

the ghosts in your head aren't real. the ghosts in my head, however, are very real, and you're one of them

Guy playing D&D: hm. I kill my enemy.

anyway related you should buy Pathologic 3

where have I been, you ask? I have actually been working on editing my game's beta SRD. you can see the (totally playable!!!) Work In Progress here: annasimps979-jpg.github.io

now is a good time to log off, but not a good time to check out. there is a difference

I see stuff sometimes questioning the role of the designer in making a tabletop game. personally, as a writer, I think writing is valuable, but more than that I think when a game is underbaked, you really, really feel it. experienced players can ignore or work around this but newcomers cannot

where have I been, you ask? I have actually been working on editing my game's beta SRD. you can see the (totally playable!!!) Work In Progress here: annasimps979-jpg.github.io

I really appreciate this, not just because doing what they've done to trans people should be a stain, but because they cannot be trusted to report on the state murder of a queer woman and should not profit from it.

important message to all bluesky users

Would You Feed Me To The Wolves, Too?

me after learning the consequences of something I did voluntarily with zero prompting

"magic system that works on the basis of" lemme just stop you right there. did you know the most important parts of the steam engine & heat exchanger as technologies were invented by people whose internal concept of thermodynamics was literally backwards to ours

everyone wished really hard and manifested a friend for sinkdog

ADVICE FOR WRITING A TTRPG -they are building tunnels -beneath the earth -they want you to join them -you will, eventually -there is no way out

"what's nobilis" the gulag is over there btw

never forget

I'm always in the "descriptive not prescriptive" camp when it comes to Art Theory. first day of a mandatory-credit anthropology class I took the prof told us that the best working definition of music was whatever people call music and that has stuck with me since then

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1vH... this is high art, to me

i don't believe that anybody makes art for themselves. art exists to connect to others, to share ideas and feelings, to sound sympathetic notes ringing inside of their hearts, to make them hurt in the ways you hurt.

The IGAs Nomination Committee is officially retracting Debut Game and Game of the Year, awarding both categories to new recipients. Additionally, we are retracting one of the Indie Vanguard recipients. Full details can be found in our FAQ under Game Eligibility: www.indiegameawards.gg/faq

The Golden Rule of IPification is that eventually, it ALL has glowing space rocks and energy beams shooting into the sky

I hate the joy of creation, the wonder of discovery, the simple pleasure of connecting with other human beings. it would be wonderful if someone made a robot to automate all of that away

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

Kate, a Black Mage-style Witch im playing in @selenedijon.bsky.social's Last Odyssey. A really sick Final Fantasy inspired system.

I think it's bold of game companies to announce they will be using AI to make their products when they know full well that RPG players can just play Skyrim mods for the rest of their lives

1 good playtester is worth 1000 reddit comments