This is pretty cool!! I think, generally, I'm on the complete opposite end of enjoying this kind of game, but I'm happy someone's articulated their thoughts about the games they want to make and see more of. Even more happy lots of ppl also want those!! More variety in games is a good thing :)

God, the energy in that room could light up the whole town. I was unprepared. What a gift to welcome @matthewmercer.bsky.social to Auburn, share some of the people, places, & projects I’m most proud of here, & remind all of us of the power of play & of imagining better worlds — now, more than ever.

You should still check out our latest adventure A Feast for a Sphinx!! evlyn.itch.io/a-feast-for-...

I think that right now these goals are actually not in tension besides. What the “centrist” crowd completely fails to understand is that politics right now is about authenticity. People can tell when they’re being bullshitted and they hate it!

This is so genuinely old-fashioned (I'm in my 40s, and this is a sound I associate with my parents) that I had to Google the guy to see if he was just lip-syncing in a TikTok or something. But no, he's the real deal.

Posting is a Faustian bargain where in exchange for degrading your mental health you intermittently get access to a far smarter meta-brain.

Adler makes a point: Any game excludes people. Every decision excludes people. The impulse is "exclude no one" but this is wrong, impossible. The question you *should* ask is: Is this game excluding *the same people who every game tends to exclude*? *That* would be wrong. This point generalizes

“I don’t know enough about the subject of Palestine” is not an excuse for not speaking up anymore. It is not. We’ve been flooded with information about Palestine for two years now. If you still don’t know, it’s because you don’t want to know. That makes you a coward in my book.

pretty simple imo

These sickos love indie #TTRPGs Hanging out on south street today slinging zines from local and global creators including @gatheraroundpjcts.bsky.social @jdragsky.bsky.social @robbiaburns.bsky.social @bastionland.bsky.social @quinnblackwell.bsky.social @oneshotrpg.bsky.social & more!

brb, ordering a custom ceiling fan for my bedroom where the central motor part is a human torso and the blades are all human scalps also there's no door, and the doorway is body-shaped when leaving the room but rectangular when entering

At Queerness in Games con. Watching Avery Adler's keynote

Last Train to Brooklyn's been out for a bit, but we're still obsessing over "See You in Hell," the song that our dear friend and collaborator Rowan McStay wrote for the actual play. Official lyric video is out now on our YouTube, go check it out! youtu.be/I2-rmdJF05M?...

this fucked up apple is trying to House of Leaves me

US State Dept on X: Earlier today, Colombian president stood on a NYC street & urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence Petro: I ask all of the soldiers of the army of the US not to point their guns at humanity. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity Fuckin based

it is kinda funny as someone that doesn't play MTG to see "wow, we made this sick fantasy space opera scifi setting AND ITS DROPPED, FUCK THAT SHIT, WE HAVE SPIDER MAN, and, if you're good little consumers, you can buy THE OFFICE themed cards!"

not true

one of the games i've been most excited for all year. a true love letter/condemnation to the internet in all its forms

It's wild when people get mad at players who "just play themselves". Everyone is playing themselves in some way. Even your weird little throwaway character is an aspect or part of you. Roleplaying gives you an excuse to play around with different selves, even if you don't know you're doing it.

[gripping your shoulders, wild look of revelation blazing in my eyes] the lizard girl has breasts because *she got implants*

this is how the honor student-to-puppy girl pipeline happens

POV I'm going to kill you with my sword

hey so me and some of the other girls and fems heard you were going to keep dancing at the pink pony club and we just wanted to let you know that's a little problematic because one time the owner misgendered Sock before he knew he was non-binary and he uses they/them pronouns

This here: GM Kayfabe is a whole, extensive thing, to the point that some games ought to address it way more directly.

having a lot of surreal medical experiences recently (1/2)

So, rather than my usual format for hacking up games, what I'm going to do here is talk about how "Xp for actions can cheapen things" is true, and how Chuubo's Marvellous Wish-Granting Engine goes about turning that problem upside down. 1/

The homogenisation and consolidation of buisinesses and brands has led to the erosion of the midlist, the indie movie or band or comic. There's a real sense of "I'll only try media that's already popular / famous," and I'm begging you to look for the weird shit, the experimental, the niche.

My favorite part of the apocalypse has been the constant fatigue

As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

I understand it's annoying how hard I'm pushing this pre-launch thing, but you need to understand the last time I ran a crowdfunding campaign, I posted about it daily for the full month it ran and still had dozens of people WHO FOLLOW ME complain that they were unaware of it until after it ended.

🚨 new blog post 🚨 What can OVER THE GARDEN WALL teach us about creating adventures? A whole lot, it turns out! Let's break down the structure so we can use it for our own designs. www.mindstormpress.com/under-the-ho...

there is a broad underlying truth here in the sense that analog film technology and pre-LED lighting required a somewhat more scientific approach, so a baseline level of evenly-exposed visibility was the standard. it is a LOT easier to be cheap and effortless these days than it used to be

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As a professional editor….a lot of professional writers needed to learn this.

Yes. You've gotta learn how to write with strict structure before you can learn to write without it. I think a lot of people who become pro writers were precocious bookworms with bookworm parents and don't actually need this the same way average kids do so are maybe blind to this

No matter how cool you think you are the next generation will find you deeply uncool it’s the circle of life

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Meanwhile, I would encourage my American fans to ask their FLGS to pick up copes of After the War and Once More Into the Void, both of which they can order from our friends at @ipr.bsky.social www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Genesi...

Well, this is wild! Audition for the Fox has made the USA Today Bestseller list at number 89. WHAT THE HECK?!? Thanks so much to everyone who has loved this book and supported it. I doubt it’ll be there next week, but this is pretty dang cool! @tachyonpub.bsky.social

a screenshot of someone getting utterly ratio'd with a speechbubble photoshopped on saying "i consent!"

I mostly agree with this, but more so: Any time spent on saying "they have incoherent politics" is probably better spent saying "what ideology, which policies, what social strategys have produced this violent nihilism, and what analogs do they have historically?"

CHOTINER: Some people say your unorthodox medical practice can be harmful. ME: You're talking about-- CHOTINER: Pagliacci. ME: I think, sometimes there's a reflex to reach for meds when what we really need is to laugh. CHOTINER: Of course. ME: If I had known, obviously. CHOTINER: Obviously.

imo a fork is just the knife of spoons

Sometimes you read an article that makes you feel like... idk... 15 years ago, some of us got on an express train and saw what was on the tracks ahead. And now we're on a call to the people on the slower train, now approaching, and they cannot comprehend the landscapes we describe as familiar.

give him some contacts please

Sex workers posting wildly incorrect WW2 rage bait to get people to click on their bio instead of thirst traps is the funniest anecdote you can tell about this place

do you think there’s a girl out there who describes her transition as “from pwning noobs to owning boobs” and if so do you think she’s on the market for some mid head

The way you can now put a simple idea into an LLM to have it spit out a bunch of words that express roughly the same idea, but with some random shit added to it, probably isn't good for the whole "words have meanings and are chosen on purpose, figure out what that purpose was" angle of text analysis

Did you know? The U.S. has no statutes under which groups are designated domestic terror organizations.

PROBLEM: Exhortations to get freaky with it being phrased in terms of permission implies that permission is required. SOLUTION: Exhortations to get freaky with it will now be phrased as commands.