My partner @soryane.bsky.social treated me to a dinner in a Greek restaurant. The server put this on our table for dessert. Me: look who made this! Her (Blank stare): Wha? Me: Loo Koo May Deese! Me (Super proud of my joke) Her (Judgy silence)

My #TTRPG hot take The grand majority of #TTRPG hot takes on how to play, what to play, or what a game needs to be "better played" show a staggering lack of perspective on the foundational reality of "Different games/styles/rule mastery/immersion levels" for different brains.

As an aside, my consumption of Diet Coke has EXPLODED and actually makes for a significant dent in my weekly groceries budget. But I buy it in large bottles :)

Thanks for your support all y'all. Makes being accountable easier. Big hugs (for touch acceptors) and meaningful nods to those who aren't!

I broke my 3+ years sobriety streak about 5 weeks ago. Was emotionally destabilized from losing my job, had a few drinks over a period of one week. And each instance made me feel physically queasy afterwards. So not worth breaking my streak. I stopped anew. Been 4 weeks. One day at a time.

Thread CW: Money, Privilege, Social Nets I have been out of a job since April. I'm actively looking. Documenting my applications. I'm lucky Canada offers a social net called "Employment Insurance". It grants subsistence money for up to a few dozen weeks. It's about 35% of my previous salary.

Note: We do not use AI. Period. We pay humans to create our games, end-to-end. Adobe recently implemented a feature that quietly injected AI alt text into Umdaar. We've removed it, updated the PDF, and disabled the feature. We apologize for the error, please download the latest PDF. Also: Fuck AI.

@bluenosemontreal.bsky.social Hint, I would probably be working close to you guys. :)

It's official. Our D&D 5.5 campaign is on hiatus. We're moving on to 13th Age 2e. My players are already planning characters: 1) A rogue that accidently caused an Archmage experiment to misfire during a heist. (Franky) 2) A cleric who sings all his spells accompanied by a choir of angels. (Math)

So finally that job interview I was convinced was for a pharmaceutical tech writer / documentation manager is for a completely different industry... a huge Montreal based Data Centre. That was unexpected. I will enquire more if my application goes to the next interviews.

Absolutely unrelated Quote Skeet of what looks like a game I will absolutely buy: Had I know that "Soup" was available as a TTRPG writer's name, I'd have considered it back when I named myself "The Chatty DM"

The tyrannical Masters rule the lands through vile sorcery and ancient technology. Rise up, Champion! Defend the Freelands, break the Masters’ control, and explore the ferocious wonders of the Wildernexus. Umdaar! 464 pages. Powered by Fate. Pay What You Want www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

I have an interview for a technical writer position tomorrow for one of Montreal's large pharmaceutical companies. Possibly one I worked at 20 years ago. It's sensibly the same thing I did back then, with a massive improvement in technological tooling... ... if they were properly implemented.

1st the bit: The opposite of a cheese pull, is a lactose intolerance yeet. Do not @ me, I'm quoting the Book of Science. 2nd the appreciation post: OMFG, I want to marry this pizza, have the messiest of divorce with it and cry for the rest of my life.

"Late in Life" neurodivergence self discovery is realizing, more and more, that 1) I've been self selecting many of my mid 30s onwards friends and partners in "same attracts same" manner 2) "All y'all's brain don't work like mine? Huh!"

Casting "Teleport Pizza to my Mouf Without Error"

My mind changed on this recently: If you, as a GM, have the time, enjoy doing it or have a special type of spicy brain that needs to do it. Then EMBRACE it. However: It does not change the fundamental truth that it very likely won't matter in your campaigns. And you can't force it to matter.

I have been playing a LOT of Caves of Qud these last few months and I finally found a relic (A mace that grants permalight and shoots lasers, just roll with it). The Achievement I got was called "Raisins in the Layer Cake: Find a historical relic"

I wasn't looking at my keyboard when I tried to write something. Turns out the thing was a few cm to the left of what I'm used to and I typed "DMSO" instead of whatever I was going wrong. Guess that after 41 years of using a keyboard, the layout still hasn't properly seeped through. #BiochemJoke

Today's daily quest for Caves of Qud makes you play the game as a Eunuch, a class of character I'd never played before. Because I'm mentally 14, I overcompensated and called them "Manny the Manly". That's it, that's the Skeet.

The explosion of YouTube ads for shitty AI-made apps reminds me of back of magazine ads from 80s computer magazines for sector editors, VISICalc clones, and MIDI controllers. "What if you..." No, just no. Whatever you're selling, there are better versions available.

yay, puckgame won. (I am such a traitor to my ancestors)

Is it time to share my concept of a Gamin semi-retirement home where we play TTRPGs, Wargames, and TCGs? The place would have an Inn for friends and vacationeer and studio apartments for residents. Lots of gaming space. Subsidized and heated through cogeneration from a basement data centre. In?

Starting to hit the "We hadn't planned this job to be taken by a senior professional like you" type of interview responses. The last 2 interviews 1) "Position pays half your previous salary." 2) "Let me check with the team to see if they'd hire above the original plan (an intermediate position)."

We played D&D last Friday, the PCs had to fight a Frost Giant, a Frost Salamander, and several archers... on a colossus of ice and stone that is slowly walking towards a nearby capital to CRUSH IT! Glorious! Then we played Love Letter and both Yan and I won at the same time. #PrincessThreesome!

Had an interview today for a position that offered... half my previous salary. While I've spent the last month learning to live correctly with a third of my previous salary (that's what our "employment inssurance" offers for about 40 weeks), I am worth more than what was offered.

"This is How You Build the Yeet: A Millenial's Guide to Making Catapults" I am here all weekend, don't forget to tip the serving staff!

After our first week we already have 18 supporters, thank you so much! With just 8 days until launch, feel free to contact us or share the project to help us reach more people. 🔥 #PotionRouge #Indie #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame #Crowdfunding

My mom de plume will be Kenrick Saint-Andrew as developer and designer.

Non profit director: Did you use AI for your resume? Me: Kinda NPD: Because we pay 500$ a month for a suite that detects it and your resume scored exactly 0% AI and 0% human, that has never happened. Me: Well my resume mentions I worked with LLMs nearly full time for 2 years. I am good at it.

I have an early meeting with the boss of an non profit org whose mission is to help 40+ people transition their careers. I won't lie, I'm planning my pre-retirement, hopefully in the next 7 years or so, I'd like to find something that will get me there in sound mind and body.

I didn't know I needed to see this this morning. Thanks @americanoonline.com.

Previous boss contacted me with note saying how much she missed us. Then went and asked where a thing was on sharepoint. Answered because it was the one freebie she didn't know she'd get. Then I told her to not contact me again for such questions. "It's not personnal, it's business"

And part 2 here (Sorry for stealing your thread, friend) critical-hits.com/blog/2012/03...

Here is a post I wrote a bazzilion years ago about the TTRPG I made up to play with my kids: critical-hits.com/blog/2012/02...

Ahhhhh! Wrong Mark Millar, but clearer reference!

Mathematical projections have concluded that Wizards of the Coast will run out of unique 3 letter codes for their sets in November of next year and will switch to Hexadecimals.

HA HA HA HA! Amazing! I'll rename them the Bovine Buccaneers!

I can't stop thinking about the criminal gang of Aarakocra thugs I added as minions in my last D&D fight. I named them "The Skawk Squad" in jest during play. But the alliteration is SO GOOD. I'mma have them be led by "Jarnathan "Iron Talon" Skybleeder"

Pepsi was the choice of a new generation. That generation was us. Gen X. (Chugs a 20 Oz. (Aka 591ml) of Diet Pepsi)

I wasn't expecting the new Scrubs season to hit me so right. Now I understand why my father kept watching all those MASH reboots and reunions. Sometimes, comfort comes in the form of familiar, yet slightly different stories.

Playlist Dungeon, a 1-page "songcrawl" #ttrpg where you build characters and dungeons from your favorite songs, is out in the wild, along with the Wu-Tang inspired intro adventure, "Last Chamber". Check it out and start your own playlist below!

Sigh... I didn't get the job. I'm saddened and disappointed. I'll process this and my losing my previous job and return with a plan. I know I will. But now, just now, it's alright to be sad about it.

I grew up near a hardware store called "Le Castor Bricoleur" with a cute "builder beaver" logo. I was yesterday years old when I learned that in English Canada, the store was called Joe Beaver (or was that just the name of the mascot) Gen Xer Canucks, please enlighten me.

I am a jobless bum! Or an early retiree? Professionally indisposed? A Vagabond Sellsword? A wordsmith of temporarily uncertain allegiance! There you go!

Last day at Vibrant Studios. In the last 30 months there, I've achieved a few things I'm real proud of: Dungeons & Dragons: The Immersive Quest Tintin: L'aventure Immersive Sad that the Transformers Immersive Experience I designed and wrote won't likely see the day. Who knows?

Let's just say I'd go to the UK Game Expo as a "I got a new job" trip (I haven't landed it yet, but planning accordingly)? Would anyone I know (virtual or IRL) be there? #Tabletop #TTRPG #UKGameExpo

I see frens, I see authors of books I've read and enjoyed! Go buy and read their books!

The interview went SO WELL that I have the second and decisive interview next week. I'll meet the team and I was given a UX writing-design review that I need to take lead on to show them my approach to solving issues.

Welp, I just landed a first interview for a content designer contract with one of Canada's largest banks... In one hour 😳. Send vibes!