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Forgot to tag in our amazing cast for this show - my bad! @phonthelegend.bsky.social as Donovan @bachrach.bsky.social as Piper @stellarencore.bsky.social as Rider35 @aurora-lore.bsky.social as Zane

End Stage Mechaclysm poster with images of the players' mechs created using Retrogrademinis and coloured in GIMP

Underground Stage (ep2) A tentative ceasefire comes together, as the group discovers a sort of subterranean base and a secretive 5th faction with their own agenda. They get repairs and upgrades and a not entirely well-considered offer before yet again, unexpected occurrences force them into action.

"Underground Stage"- Ep. 2 - End Stage Mechaclysm

YouTube video by Halfling Wizard Productions

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Test Stage (ep1) We met our billionaire overlords and the unfortunate pilots they've sent out to a remote island battle ground to put their experimental gigantic robots through their paces. The PvP is intense, there's some immediate alliances and rivalries formed and things go awry quite quickly.

Test Stage - Ep. 1 - End Stage Mechaclysm

YouTube video by Halfling Wizard Productions

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Kyra McKinzie Nelson @kyramnelson.bsky.social · last mo.

Alert! You have less than 24 hours to get caught up on END STAGE MECHACLYSM before our next session goes live over at twitch.tv/halfling_wizard_prod You can catch the vods from the first 2 sessions on their YouTube (I'll link them below) and catch us live from around 7:30pm UTC Saturday 29th August!

End Stage Mechaclysm (mecha compilation)

YouTube video by Ben Newbon

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With Dolly's passing, I want to throw out there that I save classroom wishlists to donate to when I'm available. If you're a teacher, or know a teacher, please drop a link to a classroom wishlist ❤️

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · last mo.

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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In just 4 hours, End Stage Mechaclysm enters it's 2nd level, the Underground Stage! Pop over to twitch.tv/halfling_wizard_prod at 7:30pm UTC to see what happens when a bunch of uber-rich a-holes have way too much money on their hands and want to play with giant robots (and the lives of some pilots!)

A poster for End Stage Mechaclysm, a Halfling Wizard Production. Black background with a teal central rectangle, holding text and images of the players' mechs. The text reads: System created by GM Ben Newbon. Phon as Donovan Pembroke pilot of The Royal Regent. Hailey as Piper Aarons pilot of Spatha. Pan as Rider35. Aurora as Zane Waters pilot of Myeerah. Biweekly Saturdays 7:30om UTC twitch.tv/halfling_wizard_prod

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 2mo ago

Hey #ttrpcommunity! As well as those in #theater #film #authors! As tons of platforms have decided to be terrible, I’d love to help build community & support on platforms that support creators. Send me your ko-fi and Patreon links so I can follow and recommend you on my own page!

Twitch creators appear to be adding 'aioptedout' to their content tags to help indicate to audiences that they have toggled it off. Twitch CPO Mikey Minty was asked about an "opted in/out indicator" yesterday and said they had no plans to implement one for viewers.

Giant Mechs. Billionaires playing with the lives of others. Four pilots with so much to prove. END STAGE MECHACLYSM GM: @bennewbon.itch.io Players: @phonthelegend.bsky.social @bachrach.bsky.social @stellarencore.bsky.social @Aurora-Lore.bsky.social www.twitch.tv/halfling_wiz...

Austin Kelmore@austinkelmore.com · 2mo ago

Look at the world around you right now... Laws are clearly not here to hold the powerful to account. They are here to trick you into compliance, make you believe the powerful care. Laws constrain what you can do and how but to those with resources, they can pick and choose how they apply.

Agreed, it really sucks to learn that you've been lied to your whole life that laws will protect you.

Role D5 @roled5.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Recomfirming our stance here at Role D5. We do not support the theft of art and creatives

No Gen Ai
Role D5 will never intentionally use generative Al in our content. We remain firm in the stance that Gen Al is theft and devastating to the environment.

Twitch and Amazon have found another way to drive people from using their services. See my other post- info on how to turn off AI training (for now 😠) and a forum vote to let them know you don’t want to be used for AI training as default.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 2mo ago

No one wants to be used to train AI

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

Training for Generative AI

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more

Hailey @bachrach.bsky.social · 2mo ago

starting imminently!! here’s some character art I did…

A digital drawing of a white woman with dark blonde hair in a futuristic take on a fencer’s uniform

Ben Newbon@bennewbon.itch.io · 2mo ago

Next is @bachrach.bsky.social with ex-Olympic fencer, Piper Aarons and her agile, sword-wielding mech, Spatha, which can disrupt enemy systems with its special strikes.

A anthropomorphic black and white, sleek looking mech, standing cross legged with an electric blue flame like blade extending from its right hand
Made using retrogrademinis.com and coloured using GIMP

End Stage Mechaclysm is a big robot game using my own super simple Crit Core system (SRD to be finalised and released "soon"). We're going to be on the forefront of class war, taking on the world, the system, and everything that could possibly be thrown at giant machines, starting with each other!

The End Stage Mechaclysm title in sci-fi fonts, coloured kinda cyan with black and white patterning.

and finally, @aurora-lore.bsky.social as Zane Waters, a top level esports gamer, who's left their reservation for more exciting pastures and ends up in Myeerah, ready to smash shit up and can snatch ranged attacks right out of the air!

A bronze and black brawler mech in a braced stance with green glowing vents and an arm shield attached to its left forelimb
Made using retrogrademinis.com and coloured using GIMP

Also @stellarencore.bsky.social playing Barly, with a dark past and secrets galore, piloting the messy bio-mech, Grandstar, which has missiles embedded into its skin/hull and can "regrow" itself 😬

A gangly goblin shaped blue mech with many protruding spikes with red tips, crouching down and leaning one arm on its knee
Made using retrogrademinis.com and coloured using GIMP

Next is @bachrach.bsky.social with ex-Olympic fencer, Piper Aarons and her agile, sword-wielding mech, Spatha, which can disrupt enemy systems with its special strikes.

First up we have @phonthelegend.bsky.social playing as Donovan Pembroke in a mech of his own design, The Royal Regent, gold plated and gem encrusted with special plasma rifles and a super powerful turret-style mode.

A golden 4 legged mech with patches of bright blue, green and pink on its arms, holding two large rifles with bright blue highlights
Made using retrogrademinis.com and coloured using GIMP