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Ceri Rowland

@crowlandwrites.bsky.social

He/him. Fantasy writer, Pathfinder player and GM. No tolerance for AI, crypto or bigotry.

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Ceri Rowland@crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 3d ago

Not only are you not supposed to identify with GTA protagonists, you are supposed to recognise a difference between identifying with a character and obsessing over that character's junk. It's basic media literacy, it came free with your higher brain function!

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 4d ago

Actual adult people who work in the mainstream press talk to this guy and take him seriously. He's a white supremacist, yes, but he's also just a premium sexless dork.

Richard Hanania: The point of a game like Grand Theft Auto is to identify with the character. By making a female character, the new game will be promoting autogynephilia. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with that, and if they make her bisexual then the game won’t necessarily be unhealthy.
Ceri Rowland@crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 4w ago

The secret to a good Pathfinder session is throwing in a weird merchant with a wheelbarrow full of badly labelled, heavily discounted bottles. One of my players spent all her money on bottles marked "GENDER".

Ceri Rowland@crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 4w ago

So they're gonna give their players a shitty spot-the-ball picture as a "puzzle"? Okay, cool. That'll take maybe 5 minutes if they're especially slow. What are they doing for the rest of the session?

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 4w ago

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 5mo ago

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

Micah@rincewind.run · 2mo ago

I’m not thrilled that apparently the secret to success in basically every field right now is “be really good at short form video”

GuNMouTH🏳️‍🌈@gunmouth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We DRASTICALLY cut back on factories, and the awful pollution they caused, back in the 1970's with the Environmental Protection Agency. We can ABSOLUTELY get rid of Data Centers, ESPECIALLY when they've been built when the people clearly said they DO NOT WANT THEM.

DON'T TELL US, "PANDORA'S BOX HAS ALREADY BEEN OPENED," or, "THE GENIE IS OUT OF THE BOTTLE," AS IF NOTHING CAN BE DONE... GENIES AND PANDORA'S BOX ARE NOT REAL. THE HUMAN SUFFERING IS VERY, VERY REAL. WE ABSOLUTELY CAN GET RID OF SOMETHING THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE OR NEED FIVE YEARS AGO. WE DID IT IN THE 1970's WITH THE EPA. WE DON'T NEED DATA CENTERS, AND WE CERTAINLY DO NOT NEED THE RICH WHO PUT THEM UP EVEN WHEN THE PEOPLE SAY "NO."
Ceri Rowland@crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"They didn't have that back then". "Back then" was a non-historical fantasy setting, tech level just barely pre-industrial, with largely modern social sensibilities, in no way trying to be "historically accurate". "That" was a cake.

S R Jones @aegisimmemorial.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you see this, please tell me the worst/most baffling bit of creative feedback you've ever recieved. Mine is still the time somebody told me my aliens had names that were too alien. Not that they were unpronounceable, just that they didn't sound enough like human names.