Me playing Blue Prince

The Rocinante.

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

Thinking I'm going to have to ashcan this so I can get the latest Sixty Years in Space update out in the next week or so. Not ideal, as its missing a bunch of rules around the edges, but I think its necessary.

in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook

You should play Seance of Blake Manor by @spookydoorway.bsky.social. It's a masterpiece! Also Dooley is back!

As most of you (I assume) I'm part of way too many discords, but some I actually try to interact with. The problem is just that they are SO FAST. Like any time I open it the discussion is hundreds of messages further and has nothing to do with what was talked about before.

A nuclear refueler spaceship that delivers 3000 ton tanks of liquid methane using 41.6 km/s of deltaV to reach into the Outer Solar System. #space #art by FR0S7 www.artstation.com/artwork/5v8OwW

Ok am I really going to write my OSR using Traveller rules now?

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

There is a Black Friday sale in DriveThru and SAKE Full Book is part of it: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4... #ttrpg #rpg #sakerpg #sakettrpg #osr #wargame #blackfriday

Required reading from @astroroamer.bsky.social 🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Let's look at how the union busting of @gameworkers.co.uk has been working out... It would probs slow union growth if @rockstargames.com reinstated the workers now rather than keeping them out! If you work in video or tabletop games in the UK, this is the link for you: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

Instead of Traveller 5E, we should all give Traveller 5 another try, wouldn't you say? No? #ttrpg

Romeus 1, the "green ring" of a rotating orbital station. From its size and selection of plants, it is purely recreational, which is a valid choice for people living in space for long periods. #space #art by gianluca finetti. www.artstation.com/artwork/yJWRVn

One thing I don’t like about Star Wars is how every Yoda is on the Jedi council or connected to a prophecy or a beloved cultural icon, it’s time for a Yoda who works at Buffalo Wild Wings and has a 2014 Ford Focus

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Ha! I'm here to waste two minutes of your time making you stare in awe at a moving picture on the internet! 😈 in all seriousness though, this is simple but amazing!

"There are so many free fonts, why would anyone buy yours?!" and yet… 🤷‍♂️ itch.io/s/158296/40-...

The fact that itch posted this and not even an hour later I got a bunch of new sales proves how big it is when other people talk about your games. It can literally be a life changing events. When John Harper made a nice quote tweet about Breathless, hundreds of people looked at the game. Wild

Voidlight: A rules-bright sci-fi horror dungeon crawl where your only safety is a beam of light that shrinks every ten minutes. farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight

Most people hear “heat pump” and think of small air-source units at home. But Germany is building one of the world’s largest heat pumps in Mannheim: a 162 MW river-source system using heat from the Rhine. Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.

I played a very long campaign with a group over around 5-6 years. I had to remind them nearly every session on how to roll their skills. It was the best campaign I've ever played, because they were just so into it!

It's time to end the arguments, they've gone on much too long. Here is the definitive ranking of Star Wars: 1. Star Wars (film, 1977) 2. Star Wars (comic book series, 1977-present) 3. Star Wars (video game, 1983) 4. Star Wars (novelisation, 1976) 5. Star Wars (proposed missile defence system, 1983)

Growing up in Germany I got this question basically every day. It's totally unbelievable for people there that somebody doesn't drink, especially a guy. "Not even beer?!" Having moved to Italy now I've only had that question asked once in two years. It feels so nice not to fear saying no.

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.

Watching too many 3d printing videos and caught myself checking prices... Do I really need another hyper fixating hobby to procrastinate instead of finishing State Vector?

Self promo is my bane; it makes me feel like an immense tit when I post stuff about my writing (thanks to upbringing - never blow your own horn), but it is increasingly apparent that all it means is that I'm utterly invisible as a writer... So, anyway. I have books and stories out there.

The latest Cloudflare and Amazon outages have got me thinking about utilities. We can't build modern software without dependencies. The days of running entirely on the client are over, which I see as a good thing. The cost is that we rely on infrastructure. 1/5

without chatgpt this cloudfare being down joke isnt going to write itself

I loved the book and the show! Highly recommend!

(Ok, seriously this time). 🚀QRP with a moon in it 🌕

Refining details on the Light Hugger "Void Transcendent" based off the lighthugger concept from Alastair Reynolds "Revelation Space" book series. #conceptart #scifiart #illustration #spaceart #vehicledesign

I'm extremely confused. Is this a US thing? Because I never heard of something like this here in Europe. Or maybe me and all my friends are elitists, idk 😁

Astronomers have found the first gap-clearing planet, WISPIT 2b nestled inside the rings of its star’s debris disk, it could be the missing link in planetary formation. Credit: ESO/Laird Close, University of Arizona, R. F. van Capelleveen et al

My Revolver Cylinder Spinning Dice Holder (D6) design is now available to download on Printables! 🤠 Compatible with Apocalypse World and other PbtA games, Inevitable, Lady Blackbird, Blades in the Dark, and many more TTRPGs! 🎲 www.printables.com/model/147645...

I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name. Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole yesterday on ships-as-characters for a project. Trying to find a way to make attractive, but also useful art assets for a game.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

🚨⚠️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ⚠️🚨 i just found out that the smallest mustelidae is literally called the least weasel

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner. As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day! #histSTM #chemistry #physics #OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩‍🔬🗃️📜

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

Hey look, phrenology is back

Proton collisions at the LHC end on a high(-luminosity) note 💫 During this year, an exceptional volume of data was collected at a collision energy of 13.6 teraelectronvolts (TeV). Watch to find out more about what this means. 👇

Very close to have the Society rules ready for public playtesting. It's #StateVector RPG's faction system, designed to bring interesting narrative over long time-frames that come with slower-than-light interstellar travel.

Everything about making video games is harder than you think.

Rockstar: tries to bust unions🦹‍♀️ Us: Hold my controller 🎮🔥🔥 We're fighting back 💥💥 IWGB organized a protest in front of the @rockstargames.com parent company Take-Two Interactive in London today We'll make sure the credits are rolling on their corporate greed ❌️ @gameworkers.co.uk

We won't back down - we will fight @rockstargames.com & @taketwointeractive.bsky.social for our members' reinstatement. No one should be fired for union activity. You can support our campaign here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...