LRP: my condolences to the original author But “it’s also a police procedural” seems like a way to scaffold an RPG session for the newest, greenest players. “You’re telling me that we’re all one fish with a knife? Uh… we send the blade to the lab and after the next scene we want a full report”

I will tell you this. You cannot craft any high concept so unfilmably far out, cosmic, punk, subversive, or abstruse that a producer will not pitch it as a police procedural.

The use case for abominable intelligence is now clear: expose CEOs to the machine that makes you go crazy and then get a huge settlement after the fallout

Reposting because of the sony news

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

I know we all know this, but just to reiterate, when a company lays off workforce *without itself closing* what the executives are actually doing is stealing the future wages of their workers - wealth that the workers themselves generated - to line their own cash-stuffed pockets.

Why is bsky weird and bad all of a sudden? > Oh after a recent update they sneakily restored the “this is a feed of stuff popular with your *friends*” feed > And made it the default How curious How quaint

"death of the audience" is genuinely unironically good advice for anyone who wants to make anything

RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time launches May 28th, 2026! store.steampowered.com/app/2809660/...

Financial circumstances mean I am available, possibly even a little desperate, for freelance gigs that can use my abiltiies as a writer (Cryptmaster, Valheim, Ironheart etc) and voice actor (Cryptmaster). Anyone who can pump the visibility on this will have my eternal(ish) gratitude!

868-BACK is freaking OUT. there’s a new michael brough game in the world and i’m choosing to believe it’s a positive inflection point for the universe as a whole. please enjoy this deep, revealing, marvelous chat we had with him to celebrate this amazing achievement secretlives.games/all-systems-...

Look ma, the game I spent eight years making has a BGG listing boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/46...

LRP: I’m in the southern hemisphere. Would be good to have a “retweet in six calendar months” feature

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

It took me way too long to re-find this quote since all search engines suck now, but this is true

Fresh new American dystopia headline just dropped www.thegamer.com/grammacracke...

In America; French toast and bacon and keep the change In Australia? $6 for coffee is a steal

I’ve been learning about prompt injection in the human psyche

We have this, it’s called an adblocker and all the websites I visit are annoyed that I have one

Many people are talking about microplastic ear fungus, which is mostly transmitted through earbuds. Any earbud made after 2025 can have this potentially dangerous fungus. Medical literature recommends an earectomy for known microplastic ear fungus cases but this remains an unpopular solution

Wow sucks to be those humanities students (an aide leans in and reminds me that I started an arts degree in 2005 and no, it has never been paid off) Goddamn, he got me

We interviewed EC on the red carpet for the Met Gala. EC says “we’re all still friends, the group chat is pretty active. I’d say I haunt them at least once, twice a year now.”

I don’t know if anything can really compare to the feeling of prototyping a new mechanic for your game and uploading it to the server for testing followed by immediately and decisively knocking an entire mug of fresh coffee over your laptop keyboard. Truly the most feeling ever

"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) has the most dramatic, most famous match cut in the history of cinema. remastered in HD: youtu.be/SsE6WgxG0aE?...

this shit is so stupid istg

twitter engagement bait: what’s a album from 1993 ⁉️ bluesky engagement bait: What’s a holiday that holds a singular sort of spiritual significance for you? I’ll start: for me, it is Christmas; not for any religious reason, of course, but because I love *giving*

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

Spoke to the guy who turned Inscryption into a full-fledged board game (do you know it's the fifth anniversary of Inscryption this year?), and how he managed to turn this extremely asymmetrical game into a two-player one www.rascal.news/inscryptions...

This is the long plan. They are going to get us hooked and then take down the industry. I'm kidding, I really appreciate the people that host the site. They are true heroes.

I usually post this on Anzac Day, but my access to the internet will be limited tomorrow, so here it is today. WWI soldier and casualty Wilfred Owen's words are as relevant as ever this year (The old lie Dulce et Decorum est, Pro patria mori (How sweet and becoming it is to die for one's country))

I have blocked out terrain for 23 levels of Undermountain Next steps: Interiors of two wizard towers merging 2das for door types Painting encounters on all maps Fast travel waypoints ??? Boss fights

“I must not fear, fear is the mind-killer.”

Thread. The tl,dr: IF YOU SHOP AT TARGET, THEY MAY HAVE YOU ARRESTED. Don't shop at Target.

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

The language of creation, but give it a subscription cost and all the syntax guides are behind a paywall Then when you do learn to speak it you find that goblins have recorded themselves shouting obscenities into loudspeakers playing on repeat When you speak it yourself, ducking autocorrect

Announcing Jubensha Con's full talk schedule! Ten speakers from around the world will explore: - How to make jubensha approachable - Adapting it for new audiences - Commercially publishing jubensha - Running jubensha at the British Museum - Trends in China and much more! jubenshacon.com/talks/

Kind of nuts that over 200 people have joined the #FakeTTRPGJam with still nearly a week left before it officially starts. Come on through if you wanna get esoteric with it itch.io/jam/you-cann...

“That would be sick actually; either you’re holding it until the actual late game, or you’re making it so every game is rad”.

Is a floating head reading out funny tweets on Facebook reels genAI? And if it was a human reading out the tweets is it still genAI

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

so this is part of why i'm doomerish about video games as a viable broadly mainstream industry: the console space is becoming a luxury pastime, which also means the barrier for new entrants becomes almost impassable - what person who isn't confident they'll play games will buy this to try one out?

Totally agree with this! Short game experiments are so important, but I *also* love long-stewing game projects. Slice & Dice is such a good example of this. You don't get the rich emergent strategy of v3.0 without ~7 years of gradual iterative development. bsky.app/profile/jfg....

I bought my copy and I love it. Ash’s status as the velvet underground of games publishing is potentially your gain, lucky reader

The Three-Headed Lich my latest private commission for a client/friend whom i've been so happy to return to working for, this piece was a fucking delight to paint

I made some loot cards for a D&D night! I’m fairly proud of the dwarven pride item. The mechanic reads well but I keep adding these to one shots instead of a campaign where they would have time to breathe. For this to work it needs a game loop where you spend long rests teeing up RP with your party

What's My JND? 0.0064 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

The world is ready for Kinect again. Kinect heads are out here demanding a new Kinect. “Project Helix Could Feature Up To Seven Kinects”, headlines read.

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The meta game aspect of having multiple groups going through the same persistent megadungeon is unexpectedly awesome. The *anxiety* caused in all new players when they realise that an unknown number of strangers (and ""friends"") are gunning for the same prize as them? Magical. There's your RP!