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austin_walker

@austinwalker.bsky.social

Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games

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Carli Boo-locci 👻@carlivelocci.com · 5h ago

Games media is not only unhealthy because there aren't jobs. For years, games media (journalism in general, really) has run on a deeply unhealthy system that incentivized the worst kind of writing and devalued the labor of writers and other creators.

Toussaint Egan@thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 5h ago

I can tell that games media is in a deeply unhealthy place when I see some of the most talented, experienced, and incisive reporters and critics in the space say they don't know how much longer they can keep on doing the work. The industry is hollowing out and the writing itself is suffering for it.

headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · yesterday

new ggp!! today we begin our season watching iron blooded orphans; this is a free episode for any curious it's a great jumping in point and the anime is off to an absolutely fantastic start. if you'd like to join us for this season it's only $1/month at the patreon:

The Great Gundam Project 443: Iron Blooded Orphans 01 & 02 | Abnormal Mapping

The promised day is here, we finally begin Iron Blooded Orphans, the show that was new when we started this podcast. It's been a long road f

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David BASTARDspan@davidbix.com · 2d ago

#Thread 🧵: Now that there's no more risk of it causing any harm to PAC and WWE is trying to exploit his death solely for the purposes of wrestling war bullshit, everyone needs to know the extent to which WWE ratfucked PAC in 2018-2019 to try to destroy his livelihood by fucking with his work visa.

David BASTARDspan@davidbix.com · 2d ago

Since WWE's trying to exploit PAC's death, it's time to talk about this: Remember how PAC suddenly had visa issues when AEW started? That's because, when the AEW trademarks were filed, WWE called USCIS to claim he walked out on his visa. After leaving him alone for a year and giving him his release.

Everest Pipkin@everest.bsky.social · 3d ago

Handcoded in HTML, CSS and Javascript and running locally, Scrubjay is usable for research, collection, game-building, website construction or simply to hold little fragments of digital things, in the same way that you hold a pebble in your palm on a walk.

Everest Pipkin@everest.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look
Jeff Stormer@jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 3d ago

Getting to announce my good friend @superdillin.bsky.social as winning the William Dufris award for the tireless work he does championing Actual Play, and TTRPGs, and giving creators across the world a platform and a voice and a spotlight, was a distinct honor and a highlight of New Jersey Web Fest.

Dillin Apelyan - Bob the Builder's #1 Guy@superdillin.bsky.social · 3d ago

One Shot: Last Train to Bremen took home the award for Outstanding Drama, and I was awarded the William Dufris "Those Who Dare, Win" Achievement Award yesterday and I wrote a big sappy post about it on the pictures app. I'm feeling very good and warm. www.instagram.com/p/Dd1alTwEf6...

An octagonal glass award with the red new jersey webfest laurel in the center. Award titled William Dufris "Those Who Dare, Win" Achievement Award.
grace@gracemachine.bsky.social · 3d ago

For obvious reasons, I haven't talked much about it on here, but my father died suddenly while cycling. Grateful to @sltrib.com for letting me eulogize him and write about the absolute moral necessity of making roads safer for pedestrians and bikers.

Voices: Deaths like my father’s are not anomalies. They are the bloody cost of our car-obsessed world.

“We can, we must, take action now, before some new senseless death proves the need for change all over again,” Grace Benfell writes in an op-ed.

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Rowan Mysel Zeoli@rowanzeoli.bsky.social · 7d ago

I love to see more critical writing (and print media!!) in the TTRPG space, definitely support them if you have the means

Playtest Material Magazine@playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 2w ago

A serious one today. "This is a call to our readers and future readers: please, consider before scrolling away, if you think our magazine is worth £18+postage. It is not just an investment in a bundle of paper, but in meaningful critique in the ttrpg space." playtestmaterial.org/playtest-mat...

absolute horses@jcoglan.com · last wk.

the reporting on this stuff is a form of pareidolia. all this is explicable by a set of automatons stochastically exploring a state space and host environment with whatever predictive capacity an LLM affords them. absolutely no intent is required, they do not "know" what they are doing

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last wk.

It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product

Tom the Anime Sicko 🔜 Hell@tomharrison.bsky.social · last wk.

This is what I mean about how we have to become snobs. When a bitch says shit like this to you, the move is to immediately become very mean, and laugh at them, and say out loud that you don’t respect them, things of that nature, things Ezra Klein would never do

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · last wk.

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.
This Week in Videogames@thisweekinvideogames.com · last wk.

Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams says he has no need for GenAI, because his artists are bursting with cool, weird ideas like meat biomes and sphincter doors. "[Tolkien] didn’t have a sphincter door. I mean, I don’t think he did… Who knows what’s going on in, like, Minas Morgul though."

27 Chaotic Minutes with Dwarf Fortress Creator Tarn Adams

Tarn Adams talks about Dwarf Fortress, his favourite bugs of the last 20 years, and why it's incredibly important to have a "meat biome"

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austin_walker@austinwalker.bsky.social · last wk.

If Train Dreams ended in 2026 instead of 1968, it would close on a scene of Robert asking a custom AI agent for a multi-pillar structured analysis so he'd know which badass 3-leg Kalshi Combo parlay to bet on instead of all of that beautiful "connected to all of the world at once" airplane bullshit.

Created Wrongly@creativewronging.bsky.social · 2w ago

Preview of my upcoming FREE/PWYW #Realis Faction zine, I present to you; The Board 🎲 Hoping to publish sometime this week! 🤞 #TTRPG 🎨: courtesy of the Kattapulka Patreon @pbbeta.bsky.social & @garin.bsky.social

Preview image of my upcoming PWYW Realis Faction zine. There is art by Kattapulka of a wealthy science-fantast figure wearing a cloak with fur shoulders, wide-brim hat decorated with triangles, holding a cane. Text reads: "The Board Corporatists, criminals, two sides of the same coin. All takeovers are, by definition, hostile. Those who cannot be bought or bribed can be bullied, and those who cannot be bullied can be broken. The game is played one move at a time, and its best players are in a class all their own. The Market is a predator, and all other social interactions its prey. It assumes, consumes, & subsumes until all that is left are an invisible hand, and the pocket it picks."
Created Wrongly@creativewronging.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have begun layout & editing on my free/PWYW #Realis Faction! Very short, 3-6 pages, using art from the Kattapulka Patreon. Hoping to publish sometime in the next 2 weeks or so 🎲