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REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Practicing 2d stuff. Did this with a mouse.

Still don't get why they changed the Supergirl villain from a unique pretty boy with a beard to Generic Background Goon #32.

I can't watch any of these live action anime shows they all look like Lazy Town

Thought this was an anime announcement for a second, hopefully someday.

Trying to watch an essay on a ttrpg but the essayist has brought up the hero's journey, save the cat, three act structure all within the first 5 minutes.

Just for fun, I decided that instead of killing droplets immediately on impact, I could just kill their momentum, reduce their volume, and let them keep on rolling, and omg, this is freakin' awesome. (Don't try this with a real Godot plushie!) 💦🤖🧸 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Saying this and then bringing up Star Trek is truly incredible. "Fiscally conservative but socially liberal" self-label strikes again.

This was originally rejected by my editor at Marvel, but it was always one of my favourites, so you get to see it here! Sunday Funnies YAY!

Next president will have to rebuild the federal government while fighting a cadre of insane billionaires the whole way. The more bleak things get the more absurd it seems to consider electing some common weasel who wants to be president because he wants to be president

posting a closet cosplay of charlie brown to soft launch having hoes

Omios Ures got a Rascal article! I'm so happy to have been interviewed by Thomas. If anyone wants to pick my brain a little, go give this a read! :)

“We’re “”just”” using ai for concepts but then meticulously following its orders by hand” is just production cuckoldry, you’re cucking yourselves

The other problem is that they thought "fortnites" were match-based multiplayer shooters with microtransactions when really "fortnites" are games that are fun when you aren't good at them and can be played with your friends as a non-goal-driven hangout space.

remember to tell the AI losers to "adapt or die"

NOTHING. OpenAI bought NO RAM. EVER. This was an entirely "letter of intent" based story that nobody bothered to actually read up on. An embarrassment to journalism that it spread this far

Top comment on r/technology lol www.reddit.com/r/technology...

Oh look I was right. Oh well, just $1 billion that never gets wired to anybody after an endless media hype cycle about the death of hollywood. Pobody's Nerfect! I'm sure everybody who wrote scary stories about Sora 2 destroying Hollywood will apologize www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

lineages of Omios Ures. top to bottom: Carverine, from the steppes of Valeron Human, from the city of Yellowdrake Bhek’Gaa, from the desert of Xumai Dweorg, from the realm of Drukdarog Gnomos, from the city of Karamouska

Creature of the great intertidal expanse 2

idk man if you start a fight with the biggest man alive in front of his kids i guess I think it's fine when you get beat up

What a fundamentally unserious and childish way to write a headline about something that holds the lives of innocent people in the balance. Grow up. www.thedailybeast.com/panicked-tru...

Reminder Ritchson isn't a right winger, and if he was still posting on social media (instead of his team), he'd be getting secret service visits like every 6 hours for great posts.

Cannot stress enough the importance of Noether's work to Physics and relativity. Energy is conserved because of time invariance of physical law, and is changed by work (force times distance). Momentum is conserved because of space invariance of physical law, and is...

Monday Sketch: Diegetic Inventory #archive

Heavily inspired by Morrowind, Planescape and 70's Star Wars with a dash of bronze age and art nouveau. The mood? Conan after Conan: all the heroes are dead and this is the world they built. That's OMIOS URES, my weird fantasy RPG. And it's FREE on itch.io! matheusgraef.itch.io/omios-ures

I've only had to deal with a few people like this in my career and I have enormous sympathy for everyone who has to deal with them regularly. It's fine to not have the talent or experience to do the work but if you literally cannot imagine a finished asset in place of a temp asset, please exit.

lol there's already high-res public domain photos of this exact type of painting and subject matter, like it's already free, all you have to do is to look and think about art

In the Mouth of Madness is so gorgeously shot for a movie that is shooting for pulp vibes. The wide compositions and the 70s feeling blacks are so classy

maybe studios should stop using AI placeholders so this doesn't keep happening.

An issue with the rise of video as the dominant form of information transmission: subject experts are often not adept at this form of communication. The written word still reigns supreme in most arenas where experts exchange ideas. We need more people steeped in the literature who are good on camera

The Last of Us landing right in the middle of "too woke, therefore evil" and "too grimdark, therefore morally bad", combined with the lead who doesn't seem to understand his own game, makes for a hell of a powder keg huh.

Given the mention of Eisenhower's military-industrial complex speech by a tech guy, would have loved to have seen @jacobsilverman.com point out another part of that speech that rarely gets quoted (screencapped from my own article 'The Technocratic Conspiracy')...

Currently working on some other stuff at the moment, but really itching to get back into ttrpg design, primarily motivated by the fact I keep seeing people write some of the most pretentious Design Theory rather than actually designing games.

nothing will ever top the experience I had OnLive, the original gaming streaming service, where I was having trouble on the last level of Amnesia. Random strangers could just spectate and talk to you, had a guy with an accent join and help guide me to the end. An AI could never.

and it's sick as hell

Some say that making a smaller game or simpler game are ways to cut down on dev time. This is also true. But if you're making a game of any size that has any sort of consistent production methodology, a good way to make everything take longer is to change standards and pipelines in production.

my friend send me this from the Ghost in the Shell exhibit currently running in Tokyo, and it perfectly summarizes what i think is being lost when art is increasingly machine-generated :

If you want a horrendously relevant show about a depressed, singing spy on a useless mission, watch Patriot.

it's really funny that the pinnacle of Graphics being touted by these brain dead execs is "de-aged luke skywalker"

DLSS5 Off /// DLSS5 On

qui-gon: i presume negotiations with the trade federation will begin shortly the trade federation:

new incredible Deimos F:NV art just dropped www.instagram.com/p/DV_PWmAAeEM/

weird that this impressive lighting tech also randomly turns everyone into yassified, looks-maxed freaks. it's like all this technology can't help itself but sexualize everything it touches. but like, through the lens of teenage boys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zlw...

I wish DF looked at things like art direction and intent and take that into account and not just about what’s the newest or most “realistic” or the biggest numbers going the best frame rates. It’s a virtual creative medium not a just a bar graph.

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ME: (chastising myself) Careful. We can't just paint every billionaire as an evil NPC with no inner life. They're just people, and we need to understand that if we're ever going to improve society BILLIONAIRE: I'm an empty shell, man. No thoughts up here. I'm essentially a void made to suck up money

The rest of the world to Trump: