As a writer I can only aspire to create a single sentence this dense with implied horror

Why do you get angry if you have to look up a word while reading. Does it also piss you off to meet cool new people at a party

-without using AI. *cough*

dudes rock

my bday is in 5 days and also it's pride month: you should listen to sp2b you don't even have to commit to all of it! you can just pick a random episode! (might i suggest an episode from season 3?) we just released a new episode of sp2b today! what are you waiting for?!

VtM prologue session: Baby Nosferatu gets hauled in by the Sheriff, the Hecata promises a ghost to make her husband suffer (to be fair, he did kill her), and the Lasombra gets his arm lightly broken by his sire after suggesting that a gun would be better than a sword.

Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal

Come play vampires with me :3

Fortnite is going to be a lot of people's test on exactly how hostile they are willing to be to this garbage tech, I think.

I started reading Clean Room by @gailsimone.bsky.social yesterday and content warnings for basically everything in here, but garsh dang I love a good horror book. Jon Davis-Hunt's art is such a good pair for this story, grounded in reality and then out of nowhere the wildest shit you've ever seen.

People rail against the Supreme Court saying corporations count as people but it just codified what we already knew. We prosecute petty theft but not wage theft. We protect the intellectual property of companies who strip designs from indie artists In the U.S., ONLY companies count as people

The world is full of wonderful stories all around us and I’m pretty sure he splorted in the chowder.

From the Hellboy RPG:

Remember The Hobbit is about 15 guys conspiring to murder a billionaire because he stole too much money and then a sixteenth guy who was not even involved shot that billionaire because he just knew it was the right thing to. Class solidarity, you know? There also was a bear.

Saw an AI generated poster for a punk gig and, look, I know that declaring something to not be punk is as un-punk as you can be, but words do mean things and not making it yourself (even if what you're gonna make is a bit crap) is the exact opposite of what the entire scene stands for.

Tara Gilesbie, who wrote the much derided "My Immortal" fanfic, is a writer and will always be more of a writer than you if you use AI. She is present on the page, you will be nothing but the ghost of a corporate email.

this article is circulating with a COMPLETELY bullshit framing and clickbait lie about it, the "ai cybersecurity" firm is actually training AGAINST AI and the conan series is about helping people spot deepfakes and other gen-ai material, beginning with the famous robert smigel video mouth sketches

one of my favorite sketchbook comics, anime press conference

Hey so if you’re looking for a Monsterhearts 2 actual play that gets dark, that delves into themes of intimacy and isolation, that has death, violence, and sex, but also has safety discussions on air, our group of trans and/or ace queers is currently releasing one:

One of the greatest cons in my lifetime has been massive corporations convincing Gen X that their products were counterculture—e.g. South Park plushies from Hot Topic. And honestly that's probably why you have shit like "conserve is the new punk," because they think South Park was counterculture.

The cat is out of the bag (or should I say, the Kindred is out of torpor)! Keeping up the Masquerade has certainly been a challenge, but I can finally say I am the lead Narrative Designer on VtM: Eternal Whispers! I can't wait for y'all to discover Montreal! store.steampowered.com/app/4102480/...

A little excerpt from our conversation…

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

Oh goddammit. RIP Anthony Stewart Head. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Seeing what fuckery Wotc is doing during this union effort… stop giving them money. Stop buying their games. Stop playing their games. Stop giving their games free promotion on your actual play shows. Cut them off. They’re fucking evil. That company is fucking evil.

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.

Come play vampire with me I am no longer asking :p

we may never be leaving mitsuda month (schala WIP)

I’d like to see diabetes treated less as a cautionary tale of not having self control and more as what it is, which is a metabolic problem that causes inflammation The things you “shouldn’t do because they give you diabetes” are things that people do because they *have* diabetes

made this potentially for star wars amv night but i like my other one better. have @austinwalker.bsky.social l on @morecivilized.bsky.social reading Sheev's Plan set to video

GIRL GET OUT OF THERE

this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

Literally every single person I know who enjoys reading today started reading books WAY out of their age bracket as a youngster. Like all of them were reading Jaws or Pet Semetary or Cujo as middle schoolers. Talking down to young readers about what they do or don't want out of a book kills reading.

Okay, bear with me for a second. Because I've held this theory for a long time. And I kinda feels like this confirms it. The death of Harambe was the tipping point of no return for the unserious right-wing turn of America. 🧵

Good reminder that even if you're working with a company full of genuinely good people making promises they intend to keep *now*, all it takes is for those people to leave and be replaced by shitheads for all of those promises to be broken. This happens WAY too much in the arts.

to my mind, the core of pbta is not "2d6+stat with mixed successes", it's the system of "when x trigger happens in the fiction, apply y specific mechanic". Codified, genre specific moves are its main innovation. If you think pbta is just 2d6+stat with varied levels of success, you missed the point

section from the scarlet hollow episode 4-5 devlog regarding players sending hate mail over getting locked out of episodes 6 and 7 for using a hacked worldstate (which, while specifically about video games, is definitely relevant to fandom in general)

I do not believe there is a way to be vocally anti AI and still support/play/promote this company’s titles.

In sum, skip the Atlantic on this one and read Monstrous Regiment, a great standalone Pratchett and a perfect book for right now, because it takes on propaganda, war, gender, and how religious zealots starve nations and ruin everything. Quote me on that, why don’t you.

Mitsuda month in my composer series continues! One of my all-timers 😍 A Distant Promise - Xenogears (full vid: youtu.be/sdssnsSiK10?...) I love how this one plays a significant narrative role in the game as Fei remarks it's familiar to him when he hears it on the music box at Citan's house early on-

NEW COVER as Mitsuda month continues! Bonds of Sea and Fire - Xenogears (full vid: youtu.be/jENVxOUGf5A?...) another great example when he was going full-on Celtic in the PS1 era (triple meter, lilting melody, dorian mode). Based on an early 2000s arr. by Kevin Stephens on the now defunct VGMix

I just published my first vampire chronicle on Startplaying!! Please share this far and wide and maybe give it a try if a retro module set in 90s Milwaukee appeals to you! #vtm #vamily startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

congratulations to every indie game developer I know who has a more profitable business than openAI even if you never released your game or literally no one bought it

Call that the Joan Jett combo of Digimon crest and partner

reminder that Xbox is still a BDS target, so you can feel even better about cancelling Nitro and not giving Discord money than you previously would have

This is beyond disappointing. I still remember finding Neowiz a few years ago on a random TikTok where they were nothing but a small indie studio developing a victorian souls-like about Pinocchio. I have supported and awaited their updates ever since, and my support ends here. 🍅