Just beyond belief. AI really has bought into sharp focus how profit-driven people will stoop to absolutely any lows imaginable to turn a dollar. They only work within the law bc they have to & the speed of change has left legal recourse running to catch up, leaving them free to steal & abuse

Shut up and go make some art that no one is asking for

It's only a matter of time. I can understand the temptations of using generative AI. The shortcuts you can take. Suddenly being able to visualize ideas instead of spending valuable time with tasks you are not able to do yourself or pay someone to do for you. 🧵...

One piece of advice I would give to all non-self publishing designers: Reach out to other designers your potential publisher has worked with in the past. Hearing about how smoothly the process went, how well they communicated, and things they wished they'd had in their contracts can go a long way!

it sucks that theres still some creatives out there who only seem to take issue with gAI when its in their field, but will happily use it to replace other creative workers. Its remarkably easy to have a bit of solidarity and never use this shit. Up till 2023 it was the default state

Played and loved the prototype.

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Everyone becomes disabled if they live long enough.

Why had he lived so long among those who were not kind?

~✨Good Morning✨~ Be well & love one another.🤍 #kindnessmatters #mentalhealthmatters #pinks

24 hours left to go on Chicken Fried Dice! We are beyond floored at the reception we've received throughout, but none more astonishing than 40+ of our friends swinging by to show love and their support for our game & campaign. Couldn't do this without y'all <3 www.kickstarter.com/projects/urb...

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Some games I saw and tried today. Peranakan: Tiles and Tactics. A bit like tic tac toe x tile laying. Collect kuih (traditional southeast asian sweet snacks) while you lay down traditional peranakan patterned tiles.

I'm considering releasing games on BGA before pitching them to publishers. What are the downsides or risks of this plan that I haven't thought of? 🎲✂️

RIP Reinhold Wittig, one of the big gaming pioneers in Germany has sadly passed away. In the 80s he was THE small indie-publisher, who established the "tube cames", i.e. games in a cube here. Also his artwork of games like Müller&Co is one of the best until today.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Playing games since ever. #boardgames

Run away with ABROAD. 2nd German Print Run in stores now.

This is what social media is meant to be about.

Es ist soweit! #konstanzspielt steht vor der Tür. Also schnappt Eure Lieben oder kommt alleine und spielt einfach mit! 😍🥰 Der #SpielraumBodensee freut sich.

This weekend at every panel I was asked "What do you think of AI?" My answer is the same every time.

Have you played our Postmark Original Roll and Write games? We think they’re poetry on the page, so what better way to get the lowdown than in Haiku format.

Good riddance, Sora. What you made with Sora did NOT matter. You could have rebuilt a war torn country with the money corporations spunked on that. Ended world hunger. Eased housing crisis in several places. And for what? Glorified piracy and a complete disregard for art. Fuck it, fuck it to hell.

Scam profiteer theory:

250 prominente Frauen aus Politik und Kultur fordern schärfere Gesetze gegen #Deepfakes und #Femizide. Das Bündnis legt einen 10-Punkte-Plan gegen digitale #sexualisierteGewalt vor. #GeschenkLink 🎁

Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

English edition of Abroad finally on its way to all the international travellers.

Heute gab es zum Tagesstart Lotti Karotti 🤭, danach Mischwald und Abroad. War gut. 👍 #Brettspiel

This is from 1975.

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I love this!

Overtourism ist ein echtes Problem. Und bei aller Urlaubsstimmung bei #Abroad wird es zu viert schon ziemlich voll auf dem Spielbrett 😅 Mit Festivals ist zudem gleich nochmal viel mehr los und alle versuchen, am Wochenende... [1/2] #Brettspiele #Brettspiel #BoardGames @1moretimegames.bsky.social

Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies. 🧵 1/3

🧠✨ Nur ein Wort fehlt zur richtigen Lösung. In One Word Away notiert ihr drei Hinweise – doch einer wird gelöscht, bevor geraten wird. Team vs. Team oder kooperativ auf Highscore. Wie treffsicher sind eure Assoziationen? Jetzt erhältlich: tr.ee/asmodee_flagshipstores

Anlässlich des Weltfrauentags präsentiert Dorothee Bär "Versäumte Bilder" von Wissenschaftlerinnen. Dafür werden aber nicht echte Fotografien der Frauen gezeigt, sondern attraktivere KI-Bilder. Das erschließt sich mir nicht.

The reason older generations of male wargamers think women do not wargame is that we don't wargame in unsafe or unwelcoming spaces. And guess who creates those conditions? It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

"The research suggests that generalizations about human behavior are often flawed because they rely on samples composed largely of White individuals."

This is also very true for board game design (in my experience). You don't need to be the best player or have played all games of that genre, but it REALLY helps to know what standards have been established for that genre. All full time board game designers I know "consume" tons of games. ✂️ 🎲

This is the way.

It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer. In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

Fantastic breakdown of the last hundred years of international meddling in Iran

I am in a very privileged position as a publishers to meet a lot of people who are new to game design and try to design games that can be signed by publishers (which is not everybody's goal as a game designer). What advice would you give someone new to the craft? 🎲 ✂️

90% of the problems "indoor people" have with homeless people's behaviour would be solved by making common public space an environment it is safe, tolerable, and livable to occupy. But the nature of capitalism is that nothing of value can ever be common.

Yeah! We need more market concentration and higher prices! AI will finally allow us to pay even more for a worse service. While stealing art, destroying nature and inflating share values with multi-billion dollar kickback deals.

I make games because I love every step of the process—the initial idea, the scrappy first prototype, the first playtest filled with glee and failure and hope. Here’s my scrappy first prototype of Tiny Towns. [1/6]

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there