Gang. GANG. LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS. STOP USING THEM.

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I know the Prince of Darkness, he actually supports trans rights and isn't personally joining in state-directed dismantling of homeless encampments, what now.

A bit frustrating that I asked @contrapoints.bsky.social a straightforward question about the strategy of unconditionally pledging your support regardless of policy stances, she replied with a strawman, I called that out and elaborated on it, and she then responded to a bunch of people (but not me).

Watching my 17yr old nephew processing the fact I don't like Doug Ford's politics, and then watching him bend into a pretzel to tell me I shouldn't hate the man personally instead of the point I was making about his politics. 😅 Hoping he'll begin dissecting private vs public. 🤞 "He's a family man-"

Man looks like he skated out of a Dutch Renaissance painting.

I know it's meant in good faith but "if we just made smaller scope games and charged 20-40 dollars for them it would fix the industry" is very funny to me. indies release like 20 of those a week on steam. are you buying them? is the industry fixed? no? hm. sounds like you need a different solution

Promising headline that completely overstates what is expressed in the actual text Discord's response can be summed up to saying they're aware of the ethical and security problems, but they're not doing anything of substance to protect or respect users, and will make zero substantial policy changes

Spread the word and the love! (Happy birthday month @aleshakills.bsky.social !)

This is the only acceptable user of the name "Boaty McBoatface" from now on.

Just gonna say there are plenty of insurgent, anti-establishment candidates WITHOUT Nazi tattoos that the New Republic could have featured instead of Platner. You could ABSOLUTELY make the point that Ds are mad at the centrist leaders of the party WITHOUT helping rehabilitate this particular guy.

I am old enough to remember the era when Sony animation came in and was like rofl we're gonna steal all the talent and the other studios went, wait no you have to play the wage control game with us and that's when it got revealed.

Artists don't like to hear about hiking their rates, but the number of times I see job rates cited as *garbage* in the 80's appear everywhere as "industry standard", the more I know it's necessary. Unions, artistic or otherwise need a fresh interlinked root system of international solidarity.

Seeing another Reddit thread about 4E and dusting off this bad boy

Animators, i want to remind you that like 10 or 15 years ago there was a wage-fixing conspiracy involving 3 major studios, and they were found guilty in court and had to pay affected employees, but our rates never recovered. We have to make them pay all of us more than the minimum, when it pops.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Quinn's ideas live rent free in my head, it was great getting to talk and work with him. #ultrawolves

Self-care is not a luxury; it's a necessity. Make time for activities that bring you joy and peace, and watch as your passion for TTRPGs and creating flourishes. #TTRPGMotivation

it's 2026. PC Gamer is doing journalism while actual news outlets post more transphobia. a sandwich costs $16 or five easy payments of $5 with SandoLoan

Varg Vikernes is using genAI for his TTRPG apparently, and that might be the one best use case I've seen, whatever keeps that guy entranced and away from other humans is fine with me. Infinitesimally small W.

Also signed up for a Mothership game, and Thirsty Sword Lesbians, this is like the closest I'll get to catching new Pokemon without getting Niantic involved.

Dovetailing this with a point for new followers, if I see any of you posting genAI, you get blocked. I've noticed a few already. I'm not fucking around about this.

I'm for a ton of things that are talked about in progressive spaces, and I exp the same emotions about them. But telling me I'm regressive for objecting to your hope that OpenAI runs governments of the future? You're not actually paying attention to what the AI industry is doing within gov already.

bsky.app/profile/soft... Look! A stunning zine with lots of loving HUMAN MADE art! I fucking love Spirit Swap, am a big fan of the people making this and wish them to get paid for the ttrpg zone adaptation!!

I was going to lift weights today because of the recent improvement in my shoulder, but after I mopped the floor and dusted, the equivalent of a warm-up, I'm too hungry, sweaty, and in need of a shower. Cardio once again kicks me in the nuts as a reminder.

Bell of Lost Souls wants you to presume they had one.

Bell of Lost Souls promoting AI slop by a team that produces so much AI slop that I had to turn off my AI filter on DTRPG to see anything they make.

*checks notifications* I assume a starter pack I'm in is being shared today? 🤔 😅👋

Yoooooo

Signing up for #BreakoutCon events today, and wow ppl are hungry for Daggerheart, full up. 😅 I purposefully sign up for TTRPGs I haven't tried before. Some sounded hilarious, like Ceci N’est Pas Une Pipe, and Something Is Wrong With the Chickens. 😂 Finally going to try Fabula Ultima and MotW.

I don't know what exactly just happened, but wife and I heard a huge POP/SNAP originate from me over an hour ago, and my impinged shoulder's range of motion just dramatically improved. All the working out and attention to workbreaks paying off maybe, jaw/neck is way less clenched. 👍💪

It's been 11 days since On Call, the werewolf dispatching game, launched. Let's see how we're doing Backers: 70 Amount Raised: 1466 (48% funded) So we've slowed down for the past two days. Lets talk more about why I'm doing this backerkit. #ZiMo #dispatch #ttrpg #werewolf

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

one thing I find ridiculous is that people claim to find AI so useful for "idea generation", when I and every other remotely creative person I know has more incredible ideas than they can complete in a few lifetimes. If you need AI for ideas, no you don't -- you need to be more creative.

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I have not been doing well since December because stress due to money and having to constantly find solutions to get by and my PTSD (from being raped repeatedly by a DV abuser for years) being active as heck due to being retraumatized by the news about the Epstein files. I am not okay.

Wife and I went for pączki yesterday, and it was satisfying af waking up for hot coffee and plum-filled fluffy doughnuts this morning.

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

Keeping me medicated keeps me working on the editing and formatting pass for my Vermillion Vespers #vampire #TTRPG. Please give a #MutualAid boost. I don't know how long I can stay stable without my main medication. Here's more proof of work in progress.

Quinn's ideas live rent free in my head, it was great getting to talk and work with him. #ultrawolves

Getting ready for the next playtest of Ultrawolves (superhero space werewolves!) next week. Also getting some awesome sketches of some of the werewolves from @johnlattaart.bsky.social , like this awesome one of the "Dogsbreath", a werewolf with acid blood and creates noxious acid clouds.

Had a person contact me about buying my stock art directly from me instead of DTRPG, and that's cool. But now I'm also sitting here looking at how I could set up my own online store based through my website, and dying inside ever so slightly.

A bunch of projects launching for Kickstarter’s #ZineQuest this month are using Gen-AI. Even if the concept sounds appealing, please support designers with integrity first. If this sounds unreasonable, we shouldn’t be mutuals. Art by @/willowsquest.co.uk Logo by @/hinokodo.com

paladin with a demonic ancestry #DNDart #inkillustration #indieartist #ttrpg

Learning about Cam and DayLITE, dude followed me awhile ago, but we never really interacted, and I don't Follow for Follow. Particulars aside, what I'd give for a day in TTRPG space without a complete chode trying to tell you they're a "go between" preying on already active artists and followers.

Another reason I’ll never give Wotc another dime. They don’t fucking need it. Buy indie games. Play indie games. They’re better in truly so many ways.

Five Tiers of RPG Publishing Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earnings the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Games division was the only…

"Aesir" meant "Gods from Asia" to Snorri Sturluson, 13c Icelander who recorded everything we have today about 'norse viking epic sagas'. 18c "Sweden's 1st modern historian" Sven Lagerbring claimed Aesir are Turkish, image of Odin Sleipnir influenced by Attila the Hun. Orientalism IS their origin!

There is an ethical imperative not only to prevent yourself from profiting J.K. Rowling, but to prevent others from doing so as well. How you choose to do so—advocating for piracy, building social consensus against Wizards,etc—but there is no more "my dnd influencer is an innocent chungus!" people.