In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

So my birthday is in just over a month and what I want for it is Some Place to Be comments, thoughts and discussions and I'm telling you all now so you have time to listen to an episode or two before then, please and thank you

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

Realizing I'm well into my boardgame iconoclasm opinions era 😂

As a crew of DJs, breakers, MCs, and graffiti writers, your art helps you heal & deal with the stress of life, but that same art can do more. It can move those around you. It can shake up the system. Grab the Five Fires (Ashcan Edition) #ttrpg and you can change the world! thoughtcrimegames.it...

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If you are financially able to do it and fit the definition, do it. We've benefitted so much. You know who you are! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Reposting this with alt text because shut up and take my money.

Look At My Book Everyone :)

I just backed Apocalypse World: Burned Over on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

There's a few games I point to that I say "that game made all of my GMing better" - Primetime Adventures and Apocalypse World are probably the two most influential games for teaching me how to prep, focus, and pace play much better.

Here We GO! Come along, my dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Fill the shoes of government-created super soldiers fighting against the empowered forces of the Third Reich in Reich breakers, by Shan Wolf, one of the amazing TTRPGs included in the Griot Anthology! #ttrpg thoughtcrimegames.it...

I should mention this again: Worldbuilders Market worldbuildersmarket.com/search?q=mar... has Murderbot and Sanctuary Moon merchandise where the proceeds go to charity. At this point as far as I know there is no other licensed official merchandise.

Between Vincent & me, we've backed 429 projects on Kickstarter, & funded 18 projects of our own. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum... will be our 19th. This is the longest wait we've ever had for a greenlight. Kickstarter United is now in the longest tech strike ever. Solidarity Forever.

Chicago deep dish is a casserole.

SHE. The worst, the best, irreplaceable

We're back for the first time in a long time, but a good time! Come by the Intelligame stream as we talk the current moment, card games, and open a package from @riotgames.com as they launch #Riftbound: (I have so many feelings about everything and they're all complicated) twitch.tv/intelligame

Listen: Batman Bump in the Night rules. It's some of the best podcasting I've done this year. And if we raise $500 for CASA by Friday, you can listen to it, for free. Also the $6000 reward is something I have been demanding for years, since the founding of Moonshot, and I really want it to happen.

Heads up mutuals I'm heading to the @overpowercardgame.bsky.social tournament at PAX Unplugged but I might be able to swing around to a booth or two during a meal break. May also have a bit of time Sunday before my flight so lmk if you wanna connect!

Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR

Seeing a weird turn in some of the online criticisms leveled against us for our unwillingness to allow "AI" in any way at Clarkesworld. Now they are claiming our decision comes from a place of being "traumatized" by the bad people using "AI" and that we just need time to recover. Keep dreaming.

If you donate food/money/time to a food bank or to help folks who didn't get SNAP benefits, I want to mail you a print copy of my goose game! DM me your address and what you donated (I don't need receipts) and the goose will be on its way! International is ok! I have a dozen to send out! HONK

Oh yeah Cassette Beasts was great

Playlist Dungeon, a 1-page "songcrawl" #ttrpg where you build characters and dungeons from your favorite songs, is out in the wild, along with the Wu-Tang inspired intro adventure, "Last Chamber". Check it out and start your own playlist below!

If you give an Eevee this rock they turn into a Nickelodeon

THIS Monday!! T minus 2!!! Whaaaa!

Watching college kids walk by in Heath Ledger Joker face paint and trying not to think about the fact that The Dark Knight came out when they were toddlers

A letter article between Chase and Thomas wonders how The Dice Tower mistook punching down on small games as having professional standards.

The kids are alright

Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels: • YouTube Studio • Settings • Channel • Advanced settings • Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality" • Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"

Would love some support on a Thoughtful Play I just put up for @intelligame.us ! Likes, comments? Subscribes? 🔔? 😅 Started checking out @somethingclassic.bsky.social 's Quartet the other day, and loving the Final Fantasy VI vibes. Great soundtrack, compelling writing, and PEOPLE OF COLOR TOO

I can't* believe folks are still out here a week into this trying to say that everyone has to prove Platner isn't worthy to be a US Senator. Nah, y'all. It's a job 100 people out of the ~350 million in this country can have at one time. He has to prove he is worthy and MOST PEOPLE CAN NOT. *I can

Zohran caught in LIES: Mamdani claims to have "loved Final Fantasy III" when he was growing up. yet research indicates that the game he played was in fact the SIXTH Final Fantasy game

Working on the AW3rd kickstarter (T minus 6 btw) and I notice that listed under Meg's and my name it says "11 created • 347 backed." Okay first of all, 347 backed, wowie. But of those 347, probably around 300 have been PbtA. That's a lot to be confronted with on a Tuesday morning.

18 years....................... Withers into dust

Was watching some Warcraft 3 videos and there was an interesting moment in one of them. The streamer in the video was reading off a comment about someone who complained about matchmaking being "broken" for matching them against the best player in the server 4x in a row. (1/?)

If you say that fanfiction, cosplay, and club organising and membership aren't real fandom, but bloviating grievance IS real fandom, then almost all fandoms skew VERY strongly male and unusually right-wing. Strange, that.

Lovecraftesque with Marn was my first episode, and it fully sold me on the power of this show Party of One makes good on the potential of one-shot games, showing you a brand-new world in a couple of hours, inviting you to explore a concentrated dose of incredible RPG play

Netease just went straight to my folio to copy/paste elements of my personal work to create their official concept art for their Wakanda map. I tried to get answers for a while but no replies from them so here we are. You can check one of them Dm'ing me on X.

I'm pretty sure I did literally this after buying my Bluetooth earbuds, guilty as charged 😂

T minus 11. An #ApocalypseWorldBurnedOver thread. In case you were wondering what we're cooking up in #AW3rd edition.

BREAKING: Platner explains that his tattoo actually means The Bart The

In Defy the Gods, you can roll too high and get a "burning success"—getting what what you wanted and more besides. One version that came into play tonight was "I Can Be Anybody":

Do you like lesbians and mechs? Messy power dynamics and half-alive robots you have to swap blood with? I just released GIRL FRAME, a TTRPG inspired by Mechsploitation, Armored Core, and Evangelion. Go check it out! anxiousmimicrpgs.itch.io/girl-frame

You can’t compromise on rights and especially on humanity. If one group says “This group can be sacrificed to save the rest of us,” it’s not a purity test to say “absolutely not.”

Dear xbox: You got me to select one of those advertisement cards you have mixed into your UI, and that should have been a victory for you, but the screen it took me too was “scan this QR code”, and seeing that on my already-internet-connected screen was too stupid and I died. -a customer

Pretty much every single one of these new government accounts is posting rage bait. It's possible (like 100% guaranteed) they are trying to provoke people here on purpose, so don't fall for it. Blockity block block block.