Also, good grief: if you can afford it, support this man's Patreon. Everything he has written and produced has been great, and we need more of this.

re: last quote post i am referring to this video, specifically, which is good and you should watch it

people need to send some resources and cash to aaron so we can get the follow-up/parallel video essay about the OSR(etc) side of game, then more money for the LARP side, then more money just because, and so on

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

In light of many taking to social media in celebration of their achievements this year, I'd like to remind you that it is okay if all you did this year was survive. That's all you had to do and you did it, I'm proud of you. You should be proud, you're still here, despite everything.

Happy birthday Utena! #rgu #art

I cannot imagine a world in which I expected people to ever take me seriously as a writer again after gleefully publishing the sentence "I used [...] generative AI to clean up grammar and structure" about something I'd written.

my latest conspiracy theory - after having done zero research - is that Poe Dameron from star wars is actually an homage to nicholas cage's character in Con Air, Cameron Poe

For a long time I believed that I had been set a series of taboos by the Sìdh, and that breaking them would lead to my downfall. It turns out however that the fey that reminded me of this was making things so I doubted my own memory. It’s horrible when you realise someone has been geaslighting you.

'tis the season for some Krampus!

Actual translation is work that can't be done by machines, but that doesn't mean translators aren't having their careers impacted—or destroyed—by AI. These are their stories www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...

This is smart and beautiful, and seems really under folks' radar, which is a real shame. Think THE UNWRITTEN by Carey/Gross, and that's not a comparison I would make lightly.

DIE slaps, and also something I wrote is in this bundle, so go support both of those things

Notice that most of the translators reposting or replying to this point out that revising the translation of a literary text by AI takes MORE time than it would to translate. And yet publishers will pay LESS for that labor.

So anyway I don't have a right answer there but just *throws up hands* Please value translation more? This shit is so difficult (end)

this has been happening in several italian publishers too, and for some time now, and it fucking sucks because there's always someone needing to pay the bills that takes it on

I'm once again hunting artists 🔍 BAME and BIMPOC only please this time, for paid work! @hatchlingdm.itch.io and I are looking for those interested in drawing dragons, high-fantasy mechs, and nature vs. technology for our Daggerheart compatible sourcebook based on 'Dragon Dowser', the solo game!

is there a better feeling than the first pass of green soap spray after a tattoo? yes, and it's the artist telling you were so good at staying still *currently preening with new rpg ink*

Wanted a clean thread to continually share as needed but hey are you annoyed by orientalist and blatantly obtuse games and their white designers? Throw money at an Asian designer and their games! You can find them so easily with the link below! Did you buy Obojima? Feel bad? Buy another game!

Hey folks! Did you know that it's really easy to find games made by poc on itch.io? Just use the "poc made" tag! There you'll find your next fav TTRPG & support some great designers, new and old! If you're a designer, tag your games poc-made so they show up on the feed! itch.io/physical-gam...

If you're wondering why creating faceless monsters you can kill without remorse because you feel you *have* to kill something is bad, please read this article I wrote ⬇️ & do read the *whole* article, not just what's available for free. www.rascal.news/ttrpgs-and-t...

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

you can take titterpig out of my cold dead hands

Guess I'll post this again

We cross the halfway point of Haz-mas tonight at 8 PM EST with Mörk Borg: Holy Night, featuring this incredible table! Join us for the seventh night as our weary band of kings try to end the blight plaguing their kingdoms while raising money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social!!!

reminder for folks in "canada": indigo is a no good, terrible company and you should be supporting local, indie bookshops anyway

Heather Reisman, Gerald Schwartz, and their many genocidal investments www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/who-received...

The problem with involving AI in the concepting stages is: 1: it steals from other artists without credit, so your ideas are poisoned in the well. 2: it steals from other artists without credit, which means you're stuck being derivative without knowing what you're even derivating from. So: bad.

I Fucking Love Art

Aggressively appreciating real art lately. 'Thank god it's not AI,' I think, 'a hemorrhoid on mankind, an opinion of which I will never, ever, ever change. Literally for real, never ever.'

Playing in a single session run by @alexvalente.fyi (Caliban’s Run) changed me from “interested” to “backer” during the crowdfunding for Dragon Reactor. And now you too can experience the anguish and exhilaration by picking up the digital edition!

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

the art? incredible work by @androidpeach.bsky.social the writing? so semantically rich, amazing stuff by @diceynova.bsky.social and @200proofgames.bsky.social the stories you tell? doomed, tragic, making you full shout 'NO!' as your friends succeed at horrible costs get in the fucking robot

Roads closed. People and animals evacuated. B.C. is once again grappling with serious flooding in the Fraser Valley, and some experts are asking why more hasn’t been done to mitigate risks. thenarwhal.ca/bc-fraser-va... #bcpoli

FRASER VALLEY: “Overflow from Washington State’s Nooksack River worsened major flooding across B.C.’s Fraser Valley on Friday, forcing evacuations, flooding farmland and closing schools.” www.ctvnews.ca/weather/arti... - CTV News #Abbotsford #BCFlood #BCPoli #CDNPoli #FraserValley #WashingtonState

okay these actually turned out so sick i'm so sad i can only ship to canada aplante.com/shop

finished re-reading all of Hollows, as final PDF dropped today, and what @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social have done with this game is truly something, especially @exstasisgames.bsky.social and @mazistyping.bsky.social on editing side & excitement for the game despite being involved in its making!

the fact that pen rome is being set up on the model of pen america is: - laughable - unsurprising - of course including a very specific set of writers who constantly wail about free speech

The Mecha TTRPG Bundle is live! Until Jan 12th, get Rivals, Mectors, Fist World Volga, Spectres Of Brocken, Rig, Leadbellies, S.W.O.R.D. Pilots, Brass, Rust Never Sleeps, Scars & Steel, MechFast, and more all in one place! itch.io/b/3426/sprin...

you know how Gundam: IBO is back in the anime news? well, Dragon Reactor is even more back (i.e. about to release), and it means YOU can be an IBO instead, and drag those reactors (across your emotions)

Brace yourselves, Pilots: Dragon Reactor’s digital edition releases NEXT WEEK! Sign up for our newsletter so you don’t miss the mythopoetic mech tragedy #ttrpg you’ve been waiting for! https://f.mtr.cool/aisrykzpwb

Want to support trans rights in Aotearoa & get a bunch of cool TTRPGs? The Ban the Ban bundle is raising funds for action against the NZ govt's blocker ban. Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now! itch.io/b/3421/ban-t... #transrights #ttrpg #nzpol

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Share a movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel! "Welcome to the library, young man..."

confirmed: secret people are very cool and i am very excited about secret thing

i am so incredibly excited and pre-emptively exhausted for tomorrow: - running the final session of my Hollows arc with a group 🗡️ - meeting secret people for a secret thing secretly 👀 - starting the bleakest game of Die i ever did see, with some very good players who are all hyped 🎲

Introduce yourself in 5 #ttrpg classes: - Godbinder (Die) - Snail Pilgrim (Heart, upcoming) - Wordbearer (The Wildsea) - Esoteric Hermit (Mork Borg) - Witch (Monsterhearts 2)