sometimes, i like to make people really mad at White WOlf publishing by bringing up Scion WW2 and people go, "uh...what's...Scion WW2" And I go, "ehehehehehehe" and then start showing screenshots and people start going, "WHAT THE FUCK"

After reading a lot of Golden Age sci-fi and some of the absolute best-known New Age stuff as a kid I'm going back and reading some of the "slightly less famous" authors; CJ Cherryh, Vernor Vinge, and Octavia Butler have been absolute revelations.

hey man I don't think he's going to focus on something that is cross-purpose to his goal of immiserating everyone with disease and poverty

Playing 1D chess and losing

"Abolish ICE" is the compromise position. you're not allowed to talk about the actual position

I think what has me fucked up about this, without a framework at the ready for it, is that it feels in part nihilistic in the sense that it's a complete rejection of observable reality, and yet it's still all about wanting stuff. It isn't just giving up, it's demanding something that can't ever come

General: (on radio) Your weapons are powered by the guilt you feel over your dead wife. By harnessing Silent Hill’s fog energy you can unlock new Guilt Battle Stances. I’m marking a deposit of Guiltonium on your minimap

Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can capture much of their goofiness in one photo. 🪶

I'm kinda done with taxonomies of fantasy creatures and positivistic magic with energy sources and defined laws tbh

(I still need backers for my light novel about a guy surviving a badly-run RPG campaign, so if you like my work (or posts) I'd appreciate it if you spread the word! Tell your friends, your parents, your Discords, your subreddits, buy a haunted pizza joint and then tell the ghosts about it)

Newsom can say a lot of things at Trump but, let's be real here. He's not doing shit about this.

Every single post the Democrats or their paid consultants make on their behalf just honestly feels like this, "It's not liberating, some other thing" bsky.app/profile/anim...

Someday people will start noticing that the most eminent roboticist in the world has an uninterrupted multi-decade record of deep skepticism about almost all uses of robotics and “AI” that has been proven uniformly correct

Reagan had handlers, is the thing. Trump has always bristled at handler interference, but I suspect we are seeing that tendency become increasingly exaggerated as he slips into dementia and the sort of belligerence that often comes with it. This is "grandpa needs to be in a home" time I think

I have auditory processing disorder, and I love when captions use descriptive, evocative language to tell me the sounds I’m missing ”lilting, waltz-like tune” gives me the core idea better than “[music]” and I definitely want to know when there’s “squelching” or “flesh tearing” in my horror movie

The assholes are outnumbered. Every day is a testament to this truth. I see it all of the time. Most people are decent.

"Leaf you just said you're ace how can you find abstracted concepts hot? Isn't physical attraction inextricably linked to being aroused?" YOU'D THINK SO, BUT NOPE GUESS NOT

I just want to be sure what I'm seeing: the President of the United States, from his actual social media account, is promoting an AI video of himself promoting a made-up medical conspiracy? Is that what's happening?

Also this is appalling. Jesus Christ.

“It’s yet another way this regime practices eugenics. By refusing disabled people the accommodations they need, they’re targeting them for elimination. People die in ICE custody every year, but we often don’t hear about them. Their stories go untold, their pleas unheard and the eugenics unopposed”

okay trump posting ai slop of a fake news announcement for an insane conspiracy that i (way too online) had never heard of (medbeds) is approaching my breaking point. we are entering a world of Multiple Realities and i do not like it.

SUN TIGER The second of the two wallpapers I made for the new laptop, featuring OC's of mine. #art #digitalart #illustration

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For those curious: the guy who runs and owns inktober has a stipulation that anything you post for inktober he automatically owns the full rights to.

So much of everything these days, besides all the fascism, is just people pining for clearly made-up shit with all the credulity of an 8-year-old. I want a holodeck, I want an AI girlfriend, I want a medbed, I want a Mars colony, like a weird tech-utopian retreat into infantilism

The Sword, The Crown, and the Unspeakable Power, or SCUP. It is basically medieval Apocalypse World, but it was one of the few early PbtAs that actually understood Apocalypse World!

i haven’t actually played it but the beam saber supplement REARGUARD is truly one of the best pieces of game design ever made. completely rewired my brain. if i was thinking more about ttrpg design generally these days i would be insufferable about it roswellian.itch.io/rearguard

Psi*Run, which is the best and most wonderful game I've played.

"Our citizens aren't patriotic enough" is the sort of thing that should immediately disqualify a proposal regardless of whatever merit it might ostensibly have (it doesn't, but even if it did)

I mean, the unrepentant genocide enabling probably didn't help.

1. Funding and arming genocide. 2. The major things he didn't deliver: protecting abortion rights, prosecuting the fascists, BBB, etc. 3. Being senile and denying it until he couldn't, thus preventing the party from allowing voters to choose a nominee they liked.

he didn't deliver on any of those things lol. even pre-Trump we couldn't meet the pathetically inadequate standard of the Paris Agreement, the federal minimum wage is still 7.25, and Google and Microsoft still fucking exist

Deliverism doesn’t work. It’s that simple. It would work better if you actually delivered big, high profile things, instead of wonky friendly things based on Econ stats numbers. But nobody in the party has the stomach to do that.

$20,000 of royalty free commercial use video game music. Available now for only $10 on: moonanagames.itch.io/80-songs-pack Is it worth it? Don't take my word for it, just look at what the ppl have said instead. #gamedev 🎮 #ttrpg #vtuber

lmao the Genshin TTRPG story quest has a moment where one of the characters goes "don't worry about the rules too much, the GM will figure it out" and Clorinde (the GM's) voice actor just gives the most exhausted sigh you've ever heard in your life

A lovely and thoughtful piece from Kimimi. I'm of the same mindset: that it's important to fairly critique the things you love and accept the same critique from other people. I love Vandal Hearts dearly, but after a recent replay-through, I now have a laundry list of things it does poorly.

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My favorite kind of trans writing is whatever the writer is writing because their experiences are always going to be different and it's damaging to say one is more valid or "helpful" than the other. We're not here to constantly be the Best Tranny, we're here to be Honest and hope that alone helps.

when some lib posts that WW2 era politicians/generals were “the original antifa” it drives me up a wall as if by the 40s the american state wasn’t at least 3 decades into a purge of actual antifascists from the country

Can’t emphasize how good it is to have moral clarity on issues that are clearly night and day. Some stuff? Complicated. But the stuff that isn’t? Gosh. It’s nice to not clown yourself, to look back and know you weren’t doing genocide apologia.

I'm actually extremely normal and chill about SEE ISSUE X, is the thing. Maybe the MOST NORMAL. potatocubed.itch.io/see-issue-x

Emily Zhu's "The Houses of the Sun by Night!" It's such a neat game (or series of minigames), all using different forms of divination to play. Paired with some of the best prose in the scene, it's sooooooo good emilyzhu.itch.io/houses-of-th...

Do you have a ttrpg that in your opinion is so under celebrated that you have appointed yourself head of the PR committee for that game? Where on at least one occasion someone mistakenly assumed you must have worked on it but really you're just unwell about it? What's that game to you?

XII, the most plural trans game ever that keeps getting more plural and more trans, while also being the best Persona/JoJo game out there without even trying to content about that. It also brings the best of old WoD and amazing innovations with time mechanics cyberneticcoven.itch.io/xii-inner-de...

I think if you can't conceive of something such as CONSENT of the governed you're too far cooked to be thinking about government at all.

Stealing words from my friends mouth but "I like Hornet not as a graceful sword master but a thumbtack gremlin"

George Lowe was the first pngtuber change my mind