The complete and repeated failure of CEOs everywhere to simply Not Say Words in Public

Don’t use AI for Placeholder assets (or at all). The point is to make them obvious they need replacing Textures should be hot pink Text should be BOLD ALL CAPS Animations should be the Macarena When they say “we only used AI for placeholder” what they really mean is they hoped you wouldn’t notice

Happy holidays to those who celebrate

banana frog ! 🍌🐸 #frogart

For sale: Baby.

I beat Hollow Knight's Radiance ending, finally. From my first clear at 18hrs and 1 minute with 75% completion, this last 33% took me more than the same amount of time again! (I am aware there's another 4% to find, but that is Boss Rush Mode and I do not have the patience.)

trick or treat! 🎃🐸✨

pumpkin patch 🎃🐸 #frogart

Our Call of Cthulhu finale was last night, with the team performing a ritual to banish a horrible monster. They endured more Bouts of Madness than there were party members, but in the end they succeeded and survived without even a Major Wound between them! Elephant gun times fired: 1 (both barrels)

Nobody warned me adulthood was just Googling how to do things forever.

Game three of Call of Cthulhu last night. A nice day out for the team enjoying a nice spring afternoon, culminating with a barbeque, the professor comprehending unspeakable horrors, and the explorer almost getting his face torn off by a horrible monster. Elephant Gun times fired: 0 (again)

This is my favorite Games Night video yet. You have to check it out! Which Arnolds will survive vs The Predator in the Slasher Horror miniatures game 'Don't Look Back'? www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5mB...

After a brief pause, ran the second session of our Call of Cthulhu investigation tonight. Still great. The team enacted a heist in order to take a book out of a library; surely they have left no evidence that it was them, and certainly not a full paper trail. Elephant Gun times fired: 0 (still)

🎂 It's my special cake and candles day you all have to be nice to me because it's been QUITE the year 🎂 So share some of my paintings??

🐸🍄 #frogart

A warrior ceremony in ancient Crete We know so little about religious rituals in Minoan culture that I can't tell you what is happening here. But we can assume that war also played a role in them. Here my task was to imagine what it could've looked like if you were there. Client: Board & Dice

Introducing a new tool for literary analysis: the Béchamel Test. A work passes the test if it contains at least one scene where two named characters have a conversation about traditional French cuisine.

Ran the first session of Call of Cthulhu I've done in quite some time today. I had a great time with the party's heavily armed maniacs trying this thing called "Library Use" while their professor tried his very hardest to get expelled from the university. Good times. Elephant Gun times fired: 0

had to draw this

The End of a Dream

Thought of the day: If you're writing TTRPG rules and you give something non-magical a "once-per-day" limitation, you had better have a darn good reason for it in-universe.

Earlier this year, I did something very silly and reconstructed a full hour of Elden Ring gameplay audio using sounds from N64 Zelda games. By hand. It took a long time Here's a behind-the-scenes breakdown of the process:

I oft wonder how many little biases I'm missing in the news, as there are some phrases that jump out at me as obviously forcing a perspective only because I know a little bit about the story or subject in question. This thread prompted by the following article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I do feel the solution to this quandary is "do not eat the tiny but very poisonous crab."

Looking for a UK-based user of screen reader assistive technology on Windows (eg JAWS or NVDA) for a short paid user study. No required tech knowledge or location, just that you're comfortable regularly using a screen reader for web browsing and have an existing set-up for it. Drop me an @!

Folkies please remember that Alt text is an accessibility tool. It is not to be used for making jokes or statements about your opinions or beliefs. Here is some great advice: design102.blog.gov.uk/2022/01/14/w... #Accessibility #SocialMedia #Tips

Here's a record of my converted Lokhust Heavy Destroyer so that I can link to it when asked! One day I'll paint it, but at least this way you can see the Green Stuff.

The Game Accessibility Guidelines have been put together by game studios, specialists and academics. While they are not an official set of standards or documents, they are a collection of tips and techniques to help developers make games more inclusive. gameaccessibilityguidelines.com

More on this btw. Potential way to kick it from your servers. The ID is 1153984868804468756 Remember, never believe an AI bot's claims that they won't train your stuff without permission. They will. #Discord

update from the fantasy section

The scenario design of Frosthaven is so dang good! Every time we start a mission it looks impossible, and yet we've only had to actually retreat from one so far in the campaign. The game has a way of throwing just enough at you that you make it through by the skin of your teeth!

Turns out I do have one potentially non-standard "Line" for tabletop RPGs: "Your character drinks a lot and blacks out. Shenanigans ensue." Happened in tonight's game, though the GM was kind enough to find an alternative when I objected. I'll know for next Session 0 I guess.

THIS IS SO GOOD! I played through the demo earlier, and it lives up to the trailer. Check it out!

What the fuck, UK.

Hey everyone go give this some support Less then 1000 away from reaching 10k only 77 days left beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

If you're interested in what the madness in the USA means for board games, miniatures games, and tabletop RPGs, this might be an interesting read. www.goonhammer.com/tariffs-and-...

Drew some D&D Characters recently

This video of the best game animation of the year is great (as always), but I wanted to specifically shout out that not only are there custom captions, but the captions include the music during key moments. Now THAT'S how you know it's a well made video 😘👌🏻

Thought of the day: What if there was a plugin for this site which renamed the "Repost" button to "Riposte", just to confuse things. Or, even better, what if we just renamed the "Reply" button so your options were Riposte or Repost.

We spoke to a number of Black Library writers across the industry about the specific scraping of their work in a pirated LibGen library and larger issues with AI in...

As it's International Women's Day, have some international women and their emotional support arthropods.

Hey Microsoft, just absolutely fuck off with making me "sign in" and "update settings" to use my operating system. And stop trying to sell me shit while you're at it.

Who’s been putting off filling in that government consultation on AI then? Because you took one look and realised that fucking thing was designed SPECIFICALLY to put you off? Don’t worry, there are three online guides to help you: The Association of Illustrators theaoi.com/news/the-cop...

Today is the last day to voice your opinion on the Copyright and AI consultation in the UK. As companies like Microsoft are slowing down their investments in datacenters, one should ask: is this a sustainable industry basket to put all our eggs in? 🥚

Deadline approaching and I'm desperately hoping I haven't produced pure garbage!!!

Going to my agent with a manuscript that's way too long: Plot 50k words Character work 20k words Entirely unnecessary subplot that does nothing except please the author 60k words Worldbuilding 30k words someone who is good at the writing please help me budget this. my novel is dying

Just a little bee, but legit this is the first half decent photo I've been able to snag of one! They're so quick, and I'm not quick enough with my focus yet 😭 🪲ID Guess: European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) #ozinverts #bugsky

OK, as I work on an episode, help me out here: in a game, what makes a character or creature a Weird Little Guy?

Fantasy author: Vorshd’t Spellchecker: what the hell’s that, that’s not a word. Fantasy author: oh sorry right, that should read Vworshz’dt. Spellchecker: seriously wtf man?

#Greek #Mythology #Hades #Meme #Pokemon