Scott McCloud devotes a significant portion of the first chapter of “Understanding Comics” to creating a definition of comics In conversation with McCloud’s definition, let's consider the pros and cons of defining what comics are–and what they’re not. 1/14 #ComicsStudies #UnderstandingComics

my fav ttrpg classes 1. former villain working with the heroes to atone 2. former villain working with the heroes because they fight more interesting stuff 3. unsettling femme fatale 4. worse talker than she thinks she is 5. Cordelia Chase

All of the "oh, people who didn't love the new star wars just hate fun" complaints fall flat when most film snobs I know both watched and loved The Sheep Detectives

The last time I went to the movies I saw a trailer for a wacky 90s-style "the dad has to take care of the house and kids but he's sooooo bad at it" comedy and the time before that I saw a trailer for X-Men Origins: George Washington. I think mainstream pop culture is backsliding fr

This BONUS Unbundled is The Reaper's Almanac by Mitch Shiwal in the TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Texas bundle!

A Dungeon Game is here and it's free! (It's been both of those things for ages tbh) Explore subterranean depths, face dragons, and discover what lurks beneath. It's classic dungeon crawling with modern design (i.e. it's good). https://loottheroom.itch.io/a-dungeon-game

GENIE: I can summon anyone in history you’ve ever wanted to meet ME: Hammond Cheese. GENIE: … ME: The guy who invented the Hammond Cheese sandwich GENIE: That’s not a real guy. ME: Then I wish he WAS real, that he was here, and that he’d make me a sandwich GENIE: that’s three wishes ME: ok

Mild bad brain day so once again I fish for fanart

Interrogating violence in dungeon games by asking "why do you want to do this?" and they don't get a death blow until they come up with a rigorous justification for violence.

minimum wage kabru #costcomeshi (2024)

The Dreaded and the Deep is a nautical horror caltrop core game about obsession, death, and the sea. It's a #CaltropCore play-to-lose game, where perilous sea journeys grow longer and more difficult as your crew becomes increasingly obsessed with the sea. veilsedgegames.itch.io/the-dreaded-...

Frankenstein's Monsters ranked by how transfem they are

With the new class coming to Starfinder Second Edition, YOU wield the spotlight! Shine applause and glory on your allies or shroud your enemies in awkward silence and crickets with the Luminary Class—Playtesting starts NOW! Read the blog: buff.ly/2MfvHry

Reheated Giger leftovers! But that won’t stop @jmrivera.bsky.social from pitching an entire Species Cinematic Universe! Watch or listen at thepoduniverse.com

MAN: Hello, police? It's a terrible thing, you see, my wife was killed last night, I was hoping you could send someone to investigate OFFICER: Certainly sir, the great detective Columbo is in town. Go and see him, he will solve the case MAN: Ah, I see, very good. Oh, officer, just one more thing,

This week's Unbundled is Inventing Incantations by @tristanbwillis.bsky.social in the TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Texas bundle.

Every Cyclops multimedia appearance for the last decade has been an apology for the X-Men movies

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I’m an actual historian in the space used to the lament of all we’ve lost from stuff like Google+ & keenly aware of how much I’m writing against digital decay & this exchange just… I know they’re just bullshitting, but I really wish we had robust advocacy for the ACTUAL institutions Doing the Work:

Genuinely I think a law that says "payment processors are not allowed to dictate what payments they process" would be the greatest single boon for art currently available

"spicy literature" allowed but not "explicitly sexual content" is disgusting. This is effectively a blanket ban on any art deemed sufficiently degenerate.

You might be thinking, 'I make normal games so I'm fine' but, uh, you don't get to decide what 'normal' is – they do. Put any description of queerness or sexual trauma in your game and you've given them cause to boot you from their platform. Voidheart wouldn't pass these guidelines, I think.

Fucks sake, they're putting "spicy" in platform policy documentation now.

I'm immensely proud of the work contributed to Draw Steel but it's the most "can't explain to relatives" work I've ever done

I can’t help but think that some aspect of this four pillars thing—either the doubling down or the use of ai in the first place—is part of their marketing. At least in a “no publicity is bad publicity” way

"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend" Follow @wraithmarked.bsky.social for updates on my illustrated Frankenstein release 🫀

It’s frustrating to see people (not necessarily Ela) collapsing this as “leftists need to stop analyzing art” I’ve seen way more people struggling to hold both thoughts in their mind because they’re defensive than because they’re critical

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

The problem with adopting the “I’m a smug annoying guy but I’m *right*” persona online is that 1) some people will hate you regardless because you’re a smug annoying guy and 2) you have to keep being right for it to work

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move over hemingway, we found a sadder and shorter story

before and after smoking a big explosive cartoon cigar

FUCK. FUUUUCK

An odd thing I've noticed, but is kind of hard to articulate: around the 1960s, all big media franchises became "modern" franchises.

Quote with your X-Men art. Bonus Points if it's art of Jubilee.

Signing this petition takes less than a minute and you can even specify that you work in the games industry when you sign

Last week, workers at Magic The Gathering: Arena came together to form the United Wizards of the Coast-CWA union. We stand in solidarity with UWOTC and encourage everyone to sign their public petition calling for recognition by Hasbro. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcl... Solidarity forever ✊

From what I've heard, the new Star Fox design isn't traditionally attractive to furries, but imo I keep thinking he looks like the interviewer who outmogged Clavicular

It's interesting that, in the proliferation of lesbian genre fiction that still engages heavily with genre tropes, there's a weird gender dynamic where a fictional character can be Woman (Subject) or Woman (Wife)

No Unbundled this week! But next week will have two entries

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If you want to make homebrew playbooks for Masks, I have a template available on itch! It uses all free or adobe fonts so it's great for designers just getting started. Have fun, make some playbooks! veilsedgegames.itch.io/masks-playbo...

hark! a vagrant is really one of the greatest comics ever created, my favorite is still an outraged sasaki kojiro holding up a list of necessary components for a duel that just says - dudes - swords

ttrpg raspberries: - most racist osr author award - meanest tweet award - creepiest ap streamer award - "....for 5e" award - non-specific ghibliesque award - most dice & t-shirts in KS award - longest failure to deliver KS hall of fame induction

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