updating my rolodex, who are my setting/narrative-focused TTRPG writers who are open for freelance work? (don't have specific opportunities, but it's good to have folks to point towards when stuff gets sent to me that I have to pass on)

Me a few years ago: gee I really don't appreciate how radical new technology always seems to manifest out of the military industrial complex, be nice if the "best and brightest" didn't just get snapped up by the military for their work to only become public after a 20-year delay. Monkey paw: curls

no no nono nonono no nononononono. oh my god for so many reasons no.

Other people have said smart and useful things but that ain't me so here I am expressing frustration via mediocre memes.

Colour memory game, lil bit fun actually.

If you want to see posts from cool people on here, go to @moderation.bsky.app and turn off this label

Picking a hill to die on also involves picking worthy foes to face. Dont bother squabbling with a person for whom this interaction is the closest they'll come to companionship

Is uuhhh now a good time to bring this up again?

I think I speak for everyone when I say: 😡

having a low corporeality day, 3 definitely operational automatic doors have not opened for me.

Ad-free, privacy-first services supported through user subscription is a sustainable model. Unfortunately, investors don't want sustainable. They want infinite growth, and the fact that personal data is preferrable to actual money in the pursuit of this goal is... not great.

Writing an essay about how misclassification of transgender identity as "delayed" or "disordered" in cognitive developmental psychology has held the field back for decades... meanwhile next week's study materials straight up conflate gender with biological sex. This could be a tough one.

A new edition of Good Society is set to grace the ton! With revised rules and additional sumptuous art, this new edition will be useful, usable and scandalously good looking. Check it out and help support this unique game of regency romance, scandal and drama! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...

Mentioned to dad that the subject I'm doing at the moment is Human Development Across the Lifespan and he got up, went into a cupboard, and emerged with his own textbook from uni. It's interesting to see the history, and nice to come across his notes.

Never Another You is an album of lofi beats (not lofi bears, as I nearly typed just now) perfect for chilling out or doing creative work to Bandcamp: https://chrisbissette.bandcamp.com/album/never-another-you Itch: https://loottheroom.itch.io/never-another-you

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ever been so tired you enter shark mode and have to just keep moving because if you stop you might die

Hello! If you don't know me, I make TTRPGs, fiction, soundtracks, and adventures. From solo horror to dungeon crawls to folk horror advent calendars. 60+ products live now at https://loottheroom.itch.io

Ooookaaaaaaaaayy finally taking the time to kill the ol' hellsite account. Anyone got a tool they recommend for moving across from Twitter properly? Follows, etc?

Reverse dungeon crawls are good actually. CANDLE is one. Escape or die trying. https://loottheroom.itch.io/candle

For many years I lived in an apartment without aircon. My list of places I could go to escape the heat in metro Melbourne

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

It's that weird time between Christmas and New Year and I have 2kgs of marinated goat cheese.

simply loathe how machine learning & LLM-based generative "AI" have not just been conflated in the public consciousness, but how the latter subsumes the former to an extent where it feels like we're losing ground on useful ML by shoehorning a fucken plagerism chatbot into every goddamn thing.

Our PAX panel on gamemaster tips was a blast. Brian set up a brilliant framework about the moments when you felt your GMing tangibly improved. Mine sure did sharing time with @bwholland.bsky.social @vlxcat.bsky.social & @dailydael.bsky.social - such a brilliant trio. Level up acquired!

Take your Game Master skills to the next level as our panel of expert GMs share with you the tips and tricks to writing #TTRPG scenarios, running games, and making your game the best it can be! From #PAXAUS 2025.

More piccies from Malaysia, Ipoh is stunning and the X-M5 continues to be an utterly delightful lil camera to use.

Did you know that you can get all of my Wretched & Alone games in one bundle for just £30? Now you do. itch.io/s/159400/wre...

Someone in tonight's psych lecture asked if classical conditioning was the Pavlov and his dog thing and I said "ding ding that's right" because I have zero self control.

We had fun at #PAXAUS last month, with a fun-filled night of the world's best roleplaying game of mystery and horror! Our Stream of Chaos team played #CallOfCthulhu with special guest, BAFTA-nominated voice actor @ameliatyler.bsky.social (#BaldursGate).

Listen I am of the opinion that the best movies are 90 minutes long and 3 hours is frankly unnecessary HOWEVER there are two exceptions: every Lord of the Rings, and RRR. I for one can't wait for whatever the hell this is gonna be.

When I say this happens as soon as I sit down I mean IMMEDIATELY.

I miss written how-to guides, blogs, instructions with pictures. My kingdom to never have to pause scrub play pause scrub play pause scrub play pause scrub play pause scrub play a video again.

New PC build just dropped (spores]. news.osu.edu/powered-by-m...

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... "A key question was how such laws would be able to differentiate between a cult and legitimate religious groups." ...I'm sorry but if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... it might just be a cult.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

I briefly went to Malaysia right after PAX Aus for a friend's wedding and managed to cram so much amazing food into what was essentially a long weekend. Gonna be thinking about..all of this... for a while.

I'm sorry but Da Pope heckling Cubs fans is objectively funny.

heyyy everyone! it's my first ever #hauntalong entry, and it's indigenous peoples day, so we're gonna talk about PREY (2022), the coolest movie in the predator franchise

The venue featured colours from out of space: you can watch the Call of Cthulhu Live game from last weekend's #PAXAUS on Twitch here: www.twitch.tv/videos/25876... With Chaosium's Brian Holland as Keeper, the Stream of Chaos team, and special guest, Baldur's Gate 3 star @ameliatyler.bsky.social!

Great crowd for our 'Leveling Up: The Secrets to Becoming the Best Gamemaster You Can Be' panel at #paxaus2025 this afternoon. @markmwrites.bsky.social, @dailydael.bsky.social, @vlxcat.bsky.social, and @bwholland.bsky.social sure know a thing or two about GMing #TTRPGs, and shared their insights.

Call of Cthulhu Live at #paxaus2025 - our Stream of Chaos team and special guest Amelia Tyler from Baldur's Gate 3! Tonight in the Quakka Theatre! Watch here: Twitch.tv/pax2 #callofcthulhu #BaldursGate3 #ttrpg

The things I would do to become a morning person... Half the work I did before 3pm today is simply ~gorbage~

If you're a fan of horror, be sure to make it to Call of Cthulhu Live at @PAXAus ! The Chaosium Stream of Chaos is proud to be joined by special guest Amelia Tyler of Baldur's Gate 3! If you can't make it in person, you can watch live on twitch: Twitch.tv/pax2

Get excited for PAX Australia next weekend! Take your Game Master skills to the next (or event first!) level as our panel of expert GMs share with you the tips and tricks to writing scenarios, running games, and making your game the best it can be! #PAXAUS @PAXAUS

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Rebuilding website content at work for the last month has reminded me that doing a bunch of close reading and editing in the office for 8 hours makes it really hard to go home and do MORE close reading and editing. My reservoir for that thing is straight up empty.

PAX. Soon.

My cat woke me up this morning by sneezing directly into my face at 5am. Truly awful, 0 stars do not recommend.

I started watching this crew a couple of years ago, watching them play COC and Pendragon and really enjoying their chemistry. They are a group of players with Dave usually but not always the gamemaster who really seem to enjoy each other's play. You can't manufacture that.