Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Maybe we should start referring to ChatGPT as "the chatbot that kills you"

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity. We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

Another one bites the dust. That AI is optional (as of now) means that former Affinity is still full of it, it just gives you an option to pretend it is not here. Affinity should not get a free pass just because it is pretends it is still good. If it was still good it didn't have to rely on AI crap.

Of course my contribution (*) to the language that specifically aims to be positive and minimalistic is to define a new word for a negative feeling. (kata, which to me now means 'fatigue', 'tiredness') I wish such personal word would mean something nicer but alas. (*) not a real contribution

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Not about TTRPGs but nevertheless a very interesting article. To me browsing without adblocks is like drinking unsafe water.

Just seems nonsensical to mock the aesthetic idea of a sensitive, feminine, progressive man instead of judging a man by his actions. There's a reason the "anti-performative-male" response just means replicating the manosphere aesthetic. We just reinvented the Fake Geek Girl for men.

Finally found 'Dhalgren' in a paperback I can take with me everywhere. 'Nova' was beautiful, so I have my hopes for 'Dhalgren.'

My Monday-or-Wedn. game is on hiatus for a while, and I am catching myself on the impulse to start another one: something low-preparation and a bit cheesy, such as a novice band of glam-rockers trying to get through the dungeon* to get a Big Deal if they manage to actially perform for Dread Lord.

Made a small thing for my headphones. I think for the first attempt at something like this it is pretty neat.

I have no idea what it is but it is weird in a good way.

(Just realized I will have to make "We have 'Planescape' boxed set at home" because barring some kind of miracle I'd never be able to afford the original (AD&D one) in nice conditions. There will be a time to glue some boxes then.)

Two of my favourite settings (the original 'Planescape' for AD&D 2nd ed., and 'Malfeas' for Exalted 2nd edition) both started as more broad strokes places, less detailed but vibrant, and refined years later. I've read settings _designed_ to be esoteric and strange, and I rarely even remember them.

How to make your megadungeon feel like dark souls step 1: make a roster of extremely weird fucked up knights with a strong visual themes matched to their tragic backstories and scatter them around the dungeon Step 2: refuse to elaborate when asked about them.

Unrelated to anything but watercolours: still upset that Kremer New York shop closed last month. Now it is only the international delivery and everything is in euros (i.e. about twice as expenseive.) Their Satingold is the best metallic watercolour gold I ever used.

“Goering shouted, ‘This [the Reichstag fire] is the beginning of the Communist revolution! We must not wait a minute. We will show no mercy. Every Communist official must be shot, where he is found. Every Communist deputy must this very night be strung up.’” - Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, p 139

I wish to spotlight this blogpost by Locheil of Nothic Eye, because despite knowing nothing about the setting, this list sits precisely in a place to invoke a sense of it. (Sadly a bad formatting. Please don't copy paste your work directly from Google Docs) nothicseye.blogspot.com/2025/10/cons...

Wrote almost 25 hexes for sui generia over three days. Not bad at all, especially after such a long break. It becomes a patchwork of micro-kingdoms which would made pre-unified Germany weep from envy but atvleast I didn't put the sphinx into a desert yet again.

This whole section really.

I have this strange idea. I think Bloggies only celebrate some rather dry material: their last year categories are Theory, Gameable, Advice and Review, and those categories seems to be taken over by very rational, very structured blogs, which are good posts, and useful, but not moving me in any way.

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

What conservatives want is akin to feudalism. Every part of your life determined from birth. Some people, themselves, hereditary elites; the rest serfs. Trans people and immigrants embody the human freedom conservatives hate. The freedom to choose your life, to live where and how you want.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.

Hey all! I'd like to thank the world's media institutions, and of course the Bluesky mods, for being totally normal and proportional about a barely famous trans woman cracking wise about a Nazi's death.

PSA: Discord is not a safe channel to discuss politics.

The article by Oscar about 'Unbound' reads as a panegyric. Of that specifically unpleasant kind where a thing praised cannot be elevated without stomping something else into a mud.

My next character (for an suitable game) is going to be an amnesiac who wakes up in prison bearing a strange scar.

(Memo to myself) It is a nice thought and I'd really like to play/DM like that but if players sacrifice two hours of their Saturday time to come to my game and just want to have fun, it isn't going to fly with them. I can 'expression' all I want (and I want it) but I will be left alone.

This is how worldbuilding can be very elegantly done (Skeleton Warrior from Black Pudding Play Book by J.V. West.; I cut the picture short to emphasise the writing but the pictures there are also very good). Good character creation should leave some enigmas to uncover. jvwest.itch.io/black-puddin...

it makes sense that the plagiarism script generated slop usually looks beautiful at first glance. It's a testament to how skilled the humans are who's artwork the scrapers stole without permission or compensation.

Melsonia, regardless of my conflict of interest of a few proofreading credits, has consistently been publishing books worth yr consideration as books (they're fun to read!) and products (they look nice!) as well as being excellent TTRPG books. www.melsonia.com/blogs/news/d...

Given ~10.5 hours workdays this week I cannot really care if Silksong is out today or not. What time I have to play is either Blue Prince, or Dread Delusions, either of which have comfortably close safepoints.

NEW: For #trans people incarcerated in Georgia's prisons and jails, the nightmare of losing access to hormone therapy has begun. Assigned Media brings you behind bars with an exclusive reported story by B Speaks. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

I really like this dungeon by Nothic's Eye: nothicseye.blogspot.com/2025/09/carr...

Black Pudding Play Book is live! You can get the PDF for PWYW, or get the hardback book + PDF option. If you ain't got no cash, grab the PDF for free. It's cool. Have fun out there! Play some games. #BPPB #BlackPuddingZine www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Good idea for a different Appendix N jam - write a microsetting/game/adventure under these principles. sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2025/08/rand...

Everytime I have a conversation about climate change, this is the thing I've warned people about. II've studied how the collapse of ice sheets led to massive freshwater input into the Atlantic and destabilisation of NAMOC in he last glacial, leading to glacial conditions and global cooling.

Reading TY Mindstorm "Sicko Worldbuilding" (bsky.app/profile/mind...) I cannot help but think how vulnerable such approach leaves such creator. One would expose their passions, idiosyncrasies, dislikes by putting too much of themselves into it. The internet will never forgive such openess.

There are a few fictional characters I despise more than Clea Dessendre from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

20 Aug 25 -- Bluesky has suspended multiple trans users for anti-J.K. Rowling posts even when they didn't mention threats or violence. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Social media should be safe for trans people. Pass it on

To whom it may concern at @bsky.app @jessiegender has received more hatred and vitriol in her career simply for being a trans person daring to exist in a public space. People like J.K.Rowling and her cronies have organised dog piles to ruin her life - please dont be part of that Reinstate her.

In Boston, when they "cleared the camps," homeless folks had pills, medical devices, and wheelchairs thrown into the back of a trash truck and compacted. this is what it means when someone "clears the camps" - taking what little these people have left, and destroying it. the hope is they die.

I always liked the ideas of rooms being different depending on how you open them. This would be difficult to run, especially compared to usual hack-n-slash, and even more confusing to play through, but I'd imagine, very satisfactory to figure out. goodberrymonthly.blogspot.com/2025/08/ever...

This is NOT a joke

I very much dislike how tiny are allowed pages for Appendix N jam. I came up with all those beautiful hexes, people, items and maps and they don't fit! Such frustration!