The best part of my year has been the VTM game that I play every Friday, and now also every other Thursday. 1.5 years + 3 chronicles in the same shared setting. Incredible players. The best storyteller you could ask for. It is my obsession and I got our map up to date for the end of the year.

This year has been a lot. Tough for me health-wise, but amazing relationship-wise. Challenging work-wise, but rewarding professionally. I’m so exhausted, but I’m happy. That’s gotta count for something.

done! (mostly, will probably do some minor edits and weathering when I get back to my laptop haha) #sinners

There is no AI used in Blue Prince. The game was built and crafted with full human instinct by Tonda Ros and his team at @dogubomb.bsky.social. It is the result of eight years of development, fuelled by imagination and creativity, and we are extremely proud of what Tonda has achieved.

genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.

Steal my gift idea: Every year I hand-pick a small/zine/solo TTRPG for each person that I play games with. I get to support indie creators/small press AND show my people I love them. And if I’m extra lucky, I get to play the non-solo ones with them. 😊❤️

I feel like we don’t get as many ensemble (non superhero) movies as we used to. Rewatched The Thing a few weeks back. Then Alien. Black Christmas. Now Ghost Ship. Core character traits and inter-group relationships established clearly in minutes bc they trust the audience to pay attention.

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

Sharing some of my thoughts from the other site but man I'm really pissed off about this shit.

Concept artists are the fucking coolest. The number of art books I own just so I can gawp at the imagination, talent, and skill on display in concept work is extremely large. There’s no place for a glorified predictive text generator in that work. Human conceptual creativity can’t be automated.

I wish all anti-AI Larian employees a very nice “I told you so”

Using genAI for concept art is so fucking stupid because like... that's where you get the cool shit. Thats the blue sky phase where artists make pieces of art that will be seen by a teenager later and change their life forever. Why would you want to start from mediocre. Why would you do that.

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This is such a bummer. Larian has made a point to lift up developers and artists, and somehow Vincke doesn’t see how his statements on their use of AI flies in the face of that? Extremely disappointing.

the only way to write something good is to write something bad over and over again until it becomes good. outsourcing all the writing something bad parts to a machine means you didn't write the good thing on the other end (if it's even good)

I get two Vampire super sessions over the holidays (different chronicles) 12+ hours of my favourite games TWICE I’m so excited 🥹

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Sometimes you just have to go. Letting the birdsong call your broken heart home to the starlight that birthed you.✨ Feeling this piece rather strongly today.

but also look at my outfit for running blood on the clocktower tonight

If you don’t get pre-game anxiety, are you really a storyteller/gm/dm

It is so forced too. Sinners wasn't some a small indie hit, it broke box office records for original stories, it was hugely popular AND critically acclaimed and rightfully so. The idea of a major mainstream outlet putting out their Best of lists and just happening to leave it out is clown shit.

The toxic yuri in my VtM game has just gotten 10x more toxic and I feel so alive

I think there should be more dice pool systems, actually

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

developing abs from being permanently tense and holding all my anxiety in my stomach

Hey #YEG friends! Are you involved in indie TTRPGs? Do you love running and designing and playing #TTRPG games? We've got a meetup for local indie TTRPG folks at @pemetawe.bsky.social on December 27 at 1:00 PM :D Be there or be too cool for this XD

Introduce Yourself in Five #TTRPG Classes 🎲🎲 - Toreador (Vampire the Masquerade) - The Operative (Monster of the Week) - Officer (ALIEN) - Witch (Pathfinder 2e) - Philodox Silent Strider (Werewolf the Apocalypse)

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

Migraines should be illegal, actually

There are so many things wrong with this but my favourite is either the fact that there are 7 bathrooms or that the only way into the house is through the garage

Direct action can be pretending to need to get some work done while your partner goes to bed so that you can turn off motion smoothing on their TV

Heck yes it was! And we finally got to see each other in person after years of loving everything Meric does ❤️

What a great headline

Vampire game tonight got super PVP in the best of ways. I love being at tables where everyone is comfortable with those conflicts and where they also do OOC check-ins to make sure it stays fun. There’s just something that can’t be beat by a PC group coming to blows 🔥

This is the most vile response possible. Sure our chatbot explained how to do it, encouraged him to hide it & reinforced his beliefs of worthlessness, but the suicidal teenager AGREED to the terms of use that promised he wouldn’t ask. What were we supposed to do? *Not* help him hurt himself?

Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!

The leftism leaving people's bodies like cartoon ghosts when people say "artists need to be paid" and "don't steal books."

Seeing my friends mask up at PAXU warms my heart. Thank you for taking care of yourself and others. ❤️

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

So many people are self sabotaging by deskilling via this nonsense right now. Want an edge in 2027? Don’t build reliance on bad tools into your process in 2025.

Can’t believe we’re living in a time where I agree wholeheartedly with the pope

The vibe this Sunday night at 1am: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

If you’re not making mistakes, are you really living?

You can’t stop me cause I’m cute

How is AI *really* impacting jobs? Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an: -8% drop in all jobs postings -~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs -22% drop in journalism jobs

Netflix I need you to take the hint

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.

working at the nyt

I was wondering why today was feeling like it is, and then remembered I’ve only slept for 7 of the last 72 hours. That proooobably explains it.

We got another new Baron in our VTM game last night. Fifth in three months. Her new policies are very serious.