@magpie.tips they're playing your game at Pax East, I guess they got the date of your birthday wrong

My take on "Are games art?" Art intentionally makes you feel something: Joy, frustration, amusement, sadness, confusion, satisfaction etc. So yes TTRPGs are art. Whether you bury yourself in Rolemaster or play Honey Heist is just a matter of taste. How you design a TTRPG is a matter of technique.

seems like we already have a solution

This is a terrific "reboot" of Blades in the Dark. If for whatever reason you bounced off the Penny Dreadful vibe of the original game, this is equal parts technicolor 60s action flick, spy thriller, and paranormal tv series. And if you want to play it as an Austin Powers goof, no one will stop you.

If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz

we beat canada at their sport and italy beat us at our sport so to restore equilibrium canada must beat italy at bocce

Sorry guys I almost forgot to share this photo of pip waiting for his coming home treat

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

Oscars Seek To Broaden Mass Appeal With New ‘Best Pizza’ Category

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project

I've been getting back into comics while I wait for more info from my concept job, and I thought I'd make a post about something very important to me, which is COMIC PANEL VARIATION and HOW TO THINK ABOUT IT.

“I never want to end up in a position where I’m one of the Ningyōzukai manipulating the arms and legs of this puppet that frankly hasn’t been relevant since the early 17th century,” said the Marty Supreme star

@magpie.tips they're adding Pippin to IOS 25.4

Some personal news: As of this morning I am now the acting CEO of Pippin. @magpie.tips, who has done a wonderful job over the past five years, will be transitioning to CIO of Pippin. I have some exciting things planned for Pippin, as you can see in the attached photo from our latest agile sprint.

@magpie.tips Ohhhhhh DONKEY!

One thing about all this that really hurts is just how utterly, completely unnecessary it all is. 😕

Saw that huge Bob Power playlist for going around and figured I'd port it over to TIDAL for folks who can't/don't use Spotify. With some adjustments. blog.djregular.tech/a-bob-power-...

“International Women’s Day” ending up on the only 23 hour day of the year.

My hottest mental health take: A lot of depression and anxiety is situational, and warranted, because people live in shit circumstances. They’re poor, without resources, etc. and the reason it’s become popular to blame “mental health” is because it’s a way of evading responsibility.

We should be allowed to skip the hour of our choosing.

idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet

Pretty clever of the FIA to add two more cars to the grid but revise the engineering specs so much that six of them have to drop out.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

yeah yeah we saw all you sly posters going "Blades '68? ...just ONE off." Well we're not COWARDS. Challenge accepted! At $420k we'll commission April Kit Walsh (designer of Thirsty Sword Lesbians) to write up... Blades '69 Time to put your money where your mouth is. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

This is the song they play in movies when things get extremely Irish. Can't believe they performed it so close to where I live.

I have been saying for many years that a reason to watch F1 is every weekend you can watch someone like Lawrence Stroll find out that spending infinity money doesn't actually make them smarter and better than everyone else

Spouse who is an immigration lawyer just got the world’s greatest USPS forever stamps for his mail

With alt-text: Agree that I hate this is still relevant.

🚀 BOOST 🚀 Almost at 30% of funds raised to pay off my CC after Franky's oncology visit! I also added a couple more crochet headphone sprouts to the Kofi shop which are pay what you want ($5 minimum) 🎧🌱 Anything helps and thank you for all the support so far 🙏🏻💖 ko-fi.com/havanarama

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I’m looking for speakers for a London event on the science of Star Trek. I’d really appreciate suggestions from underrepresented minorities in STEM, especially PoC/global majority. (10 min, central London, Sept, currently unpaid but I’m trying to fix that) Feel free to message

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

More songs should start like Monkey Gone to Heaven. "There was a guy." Ok I'm listening, what's this guy up to

I'm reliably informed there are just 69 minutes left so it's a nice time to pledge.

we are so back (in town)

wow, the writers guild staff union is now in week 3 of their strike. if you haven't donated to their strike fund, consider chipping in $25.

i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :) open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

Tonight in ~What We Do in the Shadowsdark~ The party (known as The Goof Troop) auditioned some new battlecries: "By the power of Goof!" "Goof on!" "It's Goofin Time!" "Goof Troop ASSEMBLE!" and "Shape of: A Goof! Form of: A Troop!"

The first Borg were just an annoying married couple

Yo-HO! March fo(u)rth! It's #InternationalGMsDay! And what better way to show your GMs your appreciation than another book for their groaning, overburdened shelves? MAKING ENEMIES is a deep dive into monster creation, a treasury of ideas for inventing all-new abominations for PCs to confront.

before sharing information 1) read the article 2) examine your source (what else has the reporter done? are they real? what else is on the website?) 3) check whether any other outlets are reporting on it ESPECIALLY IF - it makes you feel something - it confirms something you already believe

One of the crimes of AI has been the destruction of the beautiful "my nephew made this logo for me on his computer!" energy from all the hyper-local plumbers and taco shops. AI slop on white work vans is a crime against humanity.

Glad you guys are checking out election results but I have some more pressing issues at hand.

It’s Launch Day for Little But Fierce!!! Please come check out this awesome TTRPG system for kids!

@dreamwisp.bsky.social Watched this production of Richard III on the CBC this weekend and really enjoyed it. Not sure if you can get Stratford @ Home in the states but they have a ton of productions. Might be worth diving in for a month to binge. www.stratfestathome.ca/richard-iii

Shaq Warns Young Players Not To Do Movie About Genie https://theonion.com/shaq-warns-young-players-not-to-do-movie-about-genie/

Me: And now for sleep. Brain: Ever wonder what Stranger Things would be like in the 90s? Me: No? Brain: While the boys play Shadowrun, Eleven, an orphan raised by a shadowy megacorp, jacks into the Cyber, where she encounters a monster that will eventually be known as The Shredder. Me: plz stop