barrytryan
@barrytryan.bsky.social
unsanctioned ramblings. makes films and tv,(from Dead Man’s Shoes to Everybody’s Talking About Jamie to The Night Manager s2), plays RPGs like BiTD, WFRP. he/him
It’s on the telly! @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 3d agoCOMFORT BLANKET NEW EPISODE in the 2000AD run down of the TOP TEN SCI FI MOVIES… All together now… Klaatu Barada Nikto! It’s THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. Michael Rennie arrives to save us from ourselves. And not a moment too soon. pod.link/1614879928
What a beautiful line and thought “Art is immortal, creation is too radiant to contain in a body, we trot across time”
Chuck Tingle@chucktingle.bsky.social · 4d agoother day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time
If we were told how much benefit our country collectively gets from people making stuff up out of their heads, a truly socially mobile option, we wouldn’t know our proper place. It’s why they’ve made the arts almost impossible to pursue for ordinary people. Get back on your trawler, prole scum.
Jim Rossignol@rossignol.bsky.social · 4d agoThis gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
Tish Murtha (1956-2013), social documentary photographer who documented marginalised communities under Margaret Thatcher in NE England (© Ella Murtha) #WomensArt
A year on from me starting it, I complete my list of 101 TTRPGs I played before my 50th birthday. How did you spend your birthday? I bet it wasn't doing your work and then hammering out 3.5k words about the chatgames with funny dice (or no funny dice, or no dice.) #ttrpg
My 101 Favourite TTRPGS: 10-1 - Old Men Running The World
Lawks. We've only gone and done it. I set myself a year to write about my 101 favourite TTRPGs. In my tribute to freelancers everywhere, I do almost all the
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Waterstones have picked Pagans as one of their Paperbacks of the Year, so in all stores at 20% off!
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
it is my solemn pledge to you that if 1000 of you buy or subscribe to Wyrd Science within the next 24 hours then me, my horse friend and his wife will spend a chunk of that money reenacting this classic booze ad start the clock! wyrd.science
Especially enjoyed Lucas’ stance on Hollywood’s prudishness about sex
Matt Belloni@mattbelloni.bsky.social · 3w agoNew pod: Apple’s moment, Netflix’s split identity, Disney questions, and the triumph of Widow’s Bay, a very un-Apple show. Plus: Emmys afterparty food reviews! With @lucasshaw.bsky.social. Listen! Watch! open.spotify.com/s/9Vm1oFS
Hey it's my birthday so the corebooks PDFs for FiveEvil, a|state, Maskwitches and BEOWULF are all $4.99 for the day. Enjoy! Corebooks? Scorebooks more like amirite www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
As I've mentioned ad nauseum, I've spent my summer writing up the foresight review on safe adoption of AI in engineering that I've been working on for the past year (will be published in December). At the heart of it are some observations about AI safety culture (which is the hottest of hot messes)
McCarthyism by and for strip mall handjob recipients.
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 4w agoNew: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.
And otherwise, I think we should all remember that companies like Anthropic are choosing to continue making technologies they believe to be dangerous and putting them to market with insufficient QA processes to understand their capabilities.
Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie's "This is Information" from the 2002 9/11 Tribute Anthology comic is one of my favorite comics ever – its metaphorical approach to narrative had a profound influence on my comics making. I share bits of it in class frequently, but worth revisiting on this day...
Sure, if a board game had a face, ours would only have a chin... but what a chin? Do any of you remember the Judge Dredd game from Games Workshop in the 80's? Who's played this classic? Dredd fans, we have you covered 👉 https://bit.ly/4iRS6ry
The first episode of season two of Rascal Reading Club is out and we're off to a great start. We're talking about setting in Blades in the Dark and it's already got me thinking about games in new ways. 🧵⬇️ www.rascal.news/reading-club...
Reading Club: Blades in the Dark/Doskvol
This ain't Swords in the Light.
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At least two moments during last night’s watching of Furious made me punch the air at the quality of the writing. It’s not a police procedural; it’s a series of two-handers where characters surprise and delight you in combination. Every relationship is rinsed completely for truth. A masterclass.
With Cold City Hot War arriving with backers and pre-order customers, we thought it was time to take a look at... well, what even is it? handiwork.games/what-is-cold... #coldcity
This is a phenomenal breakdown of meta tv. Listen to this and then go and watch s3ep20
Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 2mo agoCOMING ON MONDAY Discomfort Blanket tackles The X-Files, in particular the genre-busting episode 'Jose Chung's From Outer Space'. Sure, I want to believe, but what the hell are we believing? EXCLUSIVELY on the BROKEN VEIL CHANNEL on PATREON patreon.com/brokenveil
In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.
