Love it 🙌

"videogame" is not ensouled "computer game" contains a great deal of spirit

it's really cool how our medium is effectively monopolized by less than a half-handful of storefronts obsessed with infantilizing and coddling an audience against anything provocative, while still somehow stocking thousands of factory-churned AI hentai slop games.

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Powerful, heavy, incredible. I want so much to call this game beautiful (many aspects of it are!) even when the subject matter is so ugly.

Labour policy: Helping families who've been utterly hammered by greedy energy companies? ❌️ Helping thieving AI companies who profit off everyone else amd continually target creative industries? ✅️ If I describe the rage I just felt reading this, I would be banned from this site.

whats up my fellow gamers

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.

There are no words for how evil this is

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

elon musk: people in the uk live like hobbits. um let’s look at you for a second bro

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As Reeves travels to Riyadh to discuss trade, Saudi Arabia is in the middle of an execution spree. The UK must not cosy up to regimes with appalling human rights records. Trade deals can’t come at the cost of our values; our govt must not prioritise profit over human rights.

Well OpenAI may be doing serious damage to the mental health of thousands of people but at least they’re… *checks notes* …not even close to profitable

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

This was so much fun! Very keen to run more Triangle Agency, especially with its deliciously intriguing progression system... The game has base notes of Severence meets Pokemon (or maybe even Card Captor Sakura?), all on psychedelics (complementary). My new obsession. 🔺

I’ve recently run games of Mothership and Mythic Bastionland, and it’s been really great to stretch my GMing muscle in new and different ways. Would gladly run full campaigns of both, but for now I’ll stick to one shots of new systems. Triangle Agency next… 🔺

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Crazy to me that everyone’s sleeping on this game. You’ll all be talking about it in a couple weeks. Can’t wait! 🦸🏻

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A++++ would Silksong again

I think about this a lot! I notice it often when I’m a player, but it’s a lot harder to spot when you’re GMing. There’s much to say about setting table expectations and even permissions (yes you CAN talk to each other PLEASE), but mechanics can do some heavy lifting. Eg Daggerheart’s tag teaming.

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How can anyone not understand that we need a socialist revolution?

🥲 Been hoping for this one for a while.

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Genuinely terrifying and extremely unpleasant to read. Horrible horrible. Big content warning for suicide and self harm.

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

Gottem! See you all there. 😎

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

Original painting: art, deliberate, soulful AI 'exploration' of original painting: not art, ghoulish, inhuman, emperor's new clothes Putting the Doom UI over it: art, intentional, hilarious, human, quietly profound

When companies make workers sign strict NDAs, then high ups in that company confess to using AI every day in ways that mean their data is now owned by the AI company and, it turns out, searchable on the internet? Each time you use AI, you risk giving someone else and hackers your data...

This is how insane people sound when you tell them why A.I. is bad

This is beat for beat exactly what Section 28 did. Oh, and you can't blame this one on Tories. This guidance was drawn up exclusively after Labour took power. This Labour government is the single worst thing to happen to the LGBT+ community since Margaret Thatcher. Shame on every Labour member.

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I think AI being wrong half the time, the environmental cost, the cognitive decline of users, have no clear path to profitability, are used an excuse in layoffs, are all very important but to my mind mostly highlight how absurd the primary exploitation at the heart of AI company business models is

Honestly a good example of why studios shouldn't even internally use gen AI as placeholder assets. If it comes out like this it just damages a game and studio's reputation. And using it for last-minute translations and not disclosing it still feels gross, even if the plan was to fix it later

Most anti LGBT government of my lifetime

If I were to book a table or two in a pub near King's Cross for the evening of Thurs 17th July, for tabletop game-makers to just gather and have a chat and generally hang out, would anyone potentially be interested? Reply to let me know if so! (Replies aren't binding agreements to attend, though.)

Seen this going around but I’m Reposting it with the full alt text bc everyone deserves to read this glorious reply from Boy George

Extremely impressed with @adhocstudio.com’s ‘Dispatch’, a demo of which is available during Steam Next Fest. Insane quality of animation, coupled with sharp dialogue and a compelling first taste of its mechanics. Will definitely be grabbing this one, for sure! Check it out.

Pure fantasy. Train 7.5m workers to do actual jobs we know we will need by 2030. There are a lot of them.

Announcing: Mandrake! You play the last of the Mandrakes, a sorcerous line of gardeners. Horticulture is a cursed practice... except to you. Your family line is steeped in the green and growing arts, so you’re able to grow such marvels as: runner beans! Cherry trees! The humble turnip! 🌳

Quantum Kickflip is charming, expertly-produced, stunningly scored, and its new season playtests stuff from the upcoming #slugblaster expansion. BUT It also demonstrates a fascinating TTRPG phenomenon that I'm only just beginning to understand. 1/

Extremely this.

What boggles me the most about people using LLMs to brainstorm or write stories is that they're skipping the fun part of the process. That's the good stuff! I see something amazing in my mind that's unlike anything anyone else sees & I craft it using words my unique lived experience has taught me

Anxiety is absolutely destroying my poor hands. I clench when I’m asleep AND awake. Just constant strain on my knuckles. Anyone else experienced this? Any tips?