"The time for a softer, gentler Apocalypse World was gone." Apocalypse World: Burned Over represents the complicated ways that both the Bakers and reality have changed since the original RPG's release.

The right wing is fully aware of this One Weird Trick to claw back power

#Ttrpgs are potatoes, not carrots. There is no one true taproot origin story for any game, ttrpg or otherwise. Instead, all the nodes of experience & culture & family & etc etc go into whatever eventually springs forth. The interconnected web of all that came before contributes to whatever is "new."

T minus 12

The Gamer was pretty much the *only* outlet willing to stick their neck out for us adult game makers. Their coverage was invaluable in getting the word out about payment processor censorship 😥

"If amateur, part-time, or freelance writers are included, the number of departures from the games media swells to more than 4,000 people since October 2023." man.

Gaming Copilot (installing automatically on Windows 11 PCs now) trains Microsoft's models on users PC gameplay www.resetera.com/threads/13...

If you're interested in Roguelike Celebration it is a near certainty you'd be interested in The Banished Vault. I even gave a talk on how space travel is carefully abstracted a few years ago! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSJA...

45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

One of my favorite ongoing features for Remap is Steam Vent, where we purposely play games in the "new releases" category that are getting played by almost no one. We'll try anything—unless we see the AI disclosure. Then, you'll get skipped. End of story.

Something that ran through my head as I saw descriptions for Steam Next Fest games: if the project uses gen AI, it’s an instant skip Yes, even if it’s “just” for store assets However it’s intended, it LOOKS like an active gap in your craft, and there’s infinite other games to spend my time on

The Banished Vault is in this year's Roguelike Celebration sale! A strategy game of exploration, endurance, and space travel on an interstellar gothic monastery. 33% off now 'til October 27 🌙 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2341070/The_Banished_Vault/

Oh hell yeah!

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

It's fixed! Isopod is now out! Please go buy it! store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

Alongside KOSA, the 'Stop CSAM act of 2025' is a big priority target we need people to yell at their representatives about!

All of this stuff makes more sense I think if you realize that we have a bunch of losers who are slowly talking themselves into believing in the theology/ideology of slavery www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

Time to talk about *unproven studio heads, accountability, and the ones who invest >millions in them and their projects. This is something @writnelson.bsky.social and I had a fireside talk about at Reboot Develop 2024, and we should all be talking about on a greater level. 🧵

HAPPY MONDAY, FLYTRAPPERS. Welcome to The Flytrap's 1-year anniversary subscription drive campaign. We are celebrating a whole year of existence, and using this joyous occasion to delight our followers with paywall drops, flash merch sales, and subscription sales.

Oh my dearies. I have just been reading the finished (maybe? probably?) playbooks, and I love them so much. Only a few more days.

I'm still thinking about this show two years later.

In the documentary ‘Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron,’ filmed with unparalleled access to Studio Ghibli, Kaku Arakawa captures the vulnerability and genius behind master animator Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature.

FYI the questions are clearly written from the perspective of for profit AI companies and economic growth, so be bold in your responses so as to confront these questions when they happen. Took me about a half hour of long earnest answers to get this done

"How Hayao Miyazaki Creates" (from Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron documentary) www.youtube.com/watch?v=x01T...

I am perpetually thinking about this speech. The capitalism line is the most quotable, but so many concepts around it are much stronger.

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

As Bluesky becomes the "New Twitter" (positive) and the "New Twitter" (derogatory), just keep in mind that one day in the future this administration is going to so something terrible related to this place and the Bluesky Leadership Team is ABSOLUTELY going to fully cooperate and fuck people over

Please contact your senators about KOSA. This bill has amassed a lot of cosponsors. We can beat this, but we need people to call, email and send letters en mass. Please try to contact your reps as often as you are able to and encourage people you know to join you!

damn it's a shame news orgs dumped damn near all the people (critics) who know how to write about fash aesthetics

Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

YES. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaMK...

I’m hoping we see more of these. #over/under really is something special. Great high level overview of what makes it so fun.

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

Notable side effect of itch being down is that anyone (including me) using the itch io domain on our bsky accounts currently has an invalid handle That's gonna be a lot of indie devs not being seen or heard Make sure you check in on your favourite devs & share their work when things start working

Mothership's A Pound of Flesh is my single favorite TTRPG supplement ever, and this year's Mothership Month is a crowdfunding blitz for 27(!!) expansions to it... but I'm getting married next month, so I can't afford to back any. So here's a thread for shouting out those that caught my eye!

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

⚔️ The Season of Swords is upon us! Swords Without Master is coming out of the pages of Worlds Without Master Issue 3 into a full, stand-alone release! 🔮 Follow the Kickstarter page to get notified on launch in early 2026 www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

🚨🚨🚨 We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site. • We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon • Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n • See more: designroom.site

the degree to which i feel like i am living in the pre-title montage of a post-apocalyptic movie cannot be overstated.

Close them doors, close the doors... All I need is 100 people to play the free demo and leave a review.

Let’s make a character for Cartograph together! #ttrpgs #ttrpg

New @beatdown.city survivors demo is OUT for Next Fest! Added a lot to our previous demo, so even if you've played it, this will be a new experience! 🚆Fight in the new stage, the subway! 🐈Unlock and fight as a cute kitty ⚰️Kill vampires 💸profit? store.steampowered.com/app/3680270/...

Good News folks, you CAN now in fact, play this The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤