Expect Western news to imminently report about Lebanon's hospitals "failing" after "having been damaged" as opposed to the truth, which is Israel is committing a further ethnic cleansing in Lebanon, ensuring the Lebanese are exterminated or unable to live in their homes. apnews.com/article/leba...

Touched some grass

Gonna tell my hypothetical grandkids this was Rifts

Underrated destroyer of civilization was news media getting article level engagement metrics

Hot take: Conspicuous consumption of literary junkfood is almost as grim and embarrassing as boasting that you don't read books at all.

As always, remember that The Guardian maintain a 'strategic partnership' with OpenAI. They may sometimes publish more ambivalent pieces on the subject but they're little more than rhetorical chaff to try and make people forget that they are in effect a corporate mouthpiece for Altman and his company

thats not how capitalism has ever worked, the extra time from efficiency is filled with more tasks EVERY SINGLE TIME you could replace the word AI with the cotton gin, cars, computers, internet... promises of more free time are lies you'd think Mr. Capitalism & CEO of JPMorgan would know that

Make things to be used, or experienced, or read or seen or whatever. Then maybe sell them. But don’t make things to be sold, ever.

*reads news* I'd just like to say that tabletop roleplaying games are a hobby that you can play by candlelight and it's good to walk to your friends' house.

Fatherfog is out! Gonna need to give it a proper read through, but on first flush, yeah this fuckin slaps

The funniest possible thing would be for tomorrow to Be The Day It Happens

It is impossible to feel sad while listening to Wheels of Steel by Saxon.

Hell yeah this is gonna slap so hard, maximum unga bunga

Okay gotta admit, having the post that's just a photo of my RPG table be the one post that breaks containment is pretty nice. Playing RPGs >>> Discussing RPGs.

Doing cool spin attacks in the grounded working class folk horror game because my character is a cool guy who trained with badass warrior monks

Finally, tabletop roleplaying

Love, love, love that BFF got onto PC Gamer's radar.

Why does every Unreal Engine 5 game look blurrier than the last?

Conservative UK blokes flooding Green Party comments sections with Zack Polanski big naturals memes have coalesced into a kind of repressed psychosexual gestalt. They really want to see my boy Zack with massive honkers.

Imposing

Finally started playing Fantasian tonight. What a genuinely lovely thing it is. Seeing all the background art made out of handbuilt miniature dioramas actually made me well up a little. Sakaguchi forever the GOAT.

Many brave and sexy people are saying this.

"reminds me of disco elysium" yeah dude its called painting

shoutout to the systemd haters, you were correct the whole time

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My ideal computer would: - Be tiny - Run for 2-3 days on a single battery charge - Able to do most of the productivity stuff present on, say, a classic 68k Macintosh - Have a lovely little clicky-clacky keyboard - Have NO FUCKING INTERNET AT ALL I feel like there's a huge gap in the market tbh

Map of What is Effortless is still incredibly dear to my heart.

NEW RELEASES FOR MARCH! It's a big one this time: the long-awaited solo Troika! gamebook DOWN IN YONGARDY by @loottheroom.bsky.social has graced our hallowed shelves, along with DUNGEONS OF GALORA, a solo system and setting guide of decolonialized dungeon-crawling in a fantastic Latin America.

Watching Upstream Color was absolutely revelatory for me, it utterly scrambled my brain and put it back together. There still feels like a part of my heart that is missing because A Topiary will never be made. After his trial I have never given a dime to Shane Carruth and never will.

The mistake people make in understanding Bombadil is that they understand him to be the worst character in the book, when in fact he is the best.

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

my friend maya @cosmic-chill.bsky.social is moving and we are raising funds to help her move via a lovely little itch bundle. with cool games!! itch.io/b/3590/mayas...

Doing random pub fills in Marathon is like an incredibly violent version of omegle. Shout out to the guy who spawned in, immediately stepped on three claymores, opened an alarmed container and then went afk, I salute your complete lack of fucks

There's TTRPG rules talk on here today that hasn't transmuted into toxicity yet, so I'll throw my 2p in. I genuinely find following strictly defined top-down rulesets to be confusing and stressful, it's very rare where I play a boardgame or cardgame that I do not mentally check out of.

I wish every FPS was more like STALKER. Hunt? Give me a single player campaign in the vein of STALKER! Atomfall? Great game that would benefit from persistent offline NPCs! Destiny? Marathon? Imagine Bungie's gunplay and audiovisual design married to STALKER's freeform questing and exploration!

My user research team told me PvPers keep driving away our PvEers so I asked how many PvEers we have and they said they just buy more advertising to attract new PvEers so I said it sounds like we're just feeding PvEers to PvPers and then our lead designer started crying.

Epic Chuck Norris Fact: He's deid.

Yep. We established there were fundamental, intractable disagreements years ago, and it feels like a huge waste of everybody's energy and goodwill to continue trying to litigate them tbh.

another bundle to help Maya get herself to a better living situation!

Silverfish comes achingly close to capturing the magic of STALKER. The world feels alive and inhabited by NPCs with schedules and goals in a way that not even STALKER 2 has managed. There is so much delightful weird inexplicable shit at every turn. It absolutely fucking rules.

My man is getting Jelqed in 0 gravity

I almost feel like Nvidia's stupid-ass yassified face tech is just another dead cat. 'Oh you can turn it off, it's under the artists' control' etc, meanwhile the lighting is a diffuse, directionless mess and the specular response is completely jacked, and this is just as worthy of derision!

Goddamn this is some of the nastiest shit I have ever seen in my life. Digital Foundry plumbing depths of simpering credulity previously not known to science.

Wait why am I even remotely concerned about TTRPG discourse, I'm gonna be doing duet hexcrawling with my beautiful and fiercely intelligent goth gf. I have it made! Beat that!

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

like 3 days left on your chance to get glass men. after this bundle it won't be for sale for the foreseeable. itch.io/b/3536/mayas...

Myself and partner are going to resume our Forbidden Lands duet campaign next weekend - I really want to find out what happens to our friend The Orc That Refused to Stop Pissing. I should clarify that this is not a bit.

A lot of aspirational STALKER-like TTRPGs, none brave enough to mandate that the GM screams "You can't change the current reality and the ZONE kick you out!!!" at the top of their voice every time a PC death occurs.

People on here proudly stating that they don't read seems bad. Like idk dawg maybe you should.