getting tired of the “ppl just aren’t ready for ur rights” shit. black students had to be escorted by soldiers just to be integrated into schools. sometimes u have to force positive changes on a population that doesn’t want it

you, a bourgeois: visual art is elitist and inaccessible and AI will democratize art me, a pleb: just put some curves on a paper and highlight the ones you like el oh el

The issue with AI is inevitably a class issue: the workers using AI have no ownership of it & no control over what it can be used for, let alone whether that use remains the same day after day. It is a tool of capital, not of labor. In that, it is a failure, because it doesn’t drive profits.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5d ago

I get it. Most of the AI hype people were the same annoying scammy sociopaths hyping crypto. The tescreal people are legitimately insane. It sucks to believe that these people somehow actually stumbled onto paradigm shifting tech like this. But if we don't organize, they're gonna own all of it.

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G.E.O.@thegeo.bsky.social · 6d ago

@machineiv.bsky.social IHUNT MEDIA YEAHHHHHHHHHH Just got the email. I know you've talked about it for a while but the email makes it more real!

Control Resonant shows that @remedygames.com still has the absolute confidence to put an entertaining 7.7 action game on hold after 15-20 hours to launch you into a devastatingly emotional console RPG flashback and i’ll admit i was not expecting to ever find out what Not-Mother was but holy shit

I wouldn't call it "restrictive" so much as a game with a unified resolution mechanic says something different from a game with a variety of mechanics for different activities, and thus has a different potential that is not directly comparable.

Carl Hess@original-carl.bsky.social · 7d ago

The unified mechanic that so many seek in their games lives here in this place. It’s comfortable and gives the appearance of fairness in play. But it restricts the game and its potential. When your only tool is a hammer, all the problems become nails.

Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.

It's also about whether an issue (such as rampant, violent transphobia) is politically palatable or not. If you give a work of art your time of day, despite it being created by and funding a bigot, even without paying £, you say that you care about your entertainment more than trans people's lives.

Seán Ferrick@seanferrick.bsky.social · 6d ago

I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.

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.

Sexual puritanism is such a powerful force in a hobby where sex (with an optional side of romance) is still so common in the performance side of things.

🧟🎃 Gore By Night 🎃🧟@lorebynightvtm.bsky.social · 7d ago

Nabbed from a Discord server and I just find it hilarious just how true this is with how some of y'all react.

“How did you get into ttrpgs” there is only one way to get into ttrpgs, and that is an older cousin comes back from college having been indoctrinated into a sex cult with a sinister gleam in their eye

🍁 Levi Kornelsen@levikornelsen.bsky.social · last wk.

"How did you get into ttrpgs" Satan, of course. It was the late 80s, after all.

Jacob Geller is no longer a part of Nebula. Ongoing projects have been terminated effective immediately, and his content has been removed from our catalog.

“Shadowlands” sounds like an edgy fantasy location (and it is in Exalted), but it is also a first season Bluey episode that I think all game designers need to watch and internalize, with a message of “games have rules because rules make it fun, and ignoring the rules make games less fun”.

Another way I see people screw up the rolled move structure, even with this simplified spread, is by equating “miss” to “fail”. To “bad things happen to you”. All a miss often means the guest doesn’t get to have narrative input *now*, because the host gets to make move, hard as they like.

lumpley@lumpley.bsky.social · last wk.

No surprise, the skill check type moves tend to be like 10+ critical hit, 7-9 hit, 6- miss And the going into danger type moves tend to be like 10+ hit, 7-9 mixed or partial hit, 6- miss

One of the moves we had was “when you act around senpai, roll (don’t add any modifiers)”, because it didn’t matter how skilled or clever or powerful or not you were, everyone was equally bumbling around their senpai, and none of the outcomes could get senpai to notice you, nor could any other move.

Thiago Rosa@thiagorosa.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm guilty of that myself at least once, back when I was designing a wild west dating sim pbta with @khantalas.bsky.social, because I wanted generic open moves based on Fate's actions but they were smarter than me so we didn't do that

AW is one of the few games I've played where *not* rolling dice for a long time still feels like playing the game, because the players *want* to roll dice & narratively push themselves towards a move trigger which will let them roll. If you have a generic rolled move, that all falls apart.

lumpley@lumpley.bsky.social · 2w ago

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

Here's a flowchart as to some (non-exhaustive) ways how information discovery rolls can work in TTRPGs, in an attempt to explain why I dislike investigation / insight / perception checks in D&D (shout out to @levikornelsen.bsky.social for his insightful play loop flowcharts that inspired this one):

“British government accomplice to child murder through deliberate inaction” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, does it

Three people dead, including a child, in attempt to cross Channel to UK

Official says deaths – and dozens of injuries – were probably caused by crushing on boat carrying 105 people

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Pals I see you sharing links to London Daily & need you to know it's AI bullshit. The Louise Michel is real, Banksy really funded it, but that started in 2020 & the LD link people are sharing is timestamped to today but written as if it's 2020 & elides all the actual journalism about it.

As a non-smoker and very occasional drinker, I urge everyone who thinks this is in any way workable to understand that addiction is not a disease, it is a symptom of widespread public health problems. You cannot stop addiction by taking away the substance or the act, only by fixing the actual cause.

Alasdair Mackenzie@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 3w ago

From here

Burnham reappointed Shabana Mahmood. That made it clear that he’s not the man to deal with this.

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 3w ago

“The rise of anti-migration neofascism is more threatening than anything I’ve seen in my lifetime.” Good piece by @pollytoynbee.bsky.social challenging Burnham to confront the rise of the far right in his conference speech next week. Features @hopenothate.org.uk www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Something I read today that rings so true, paraphrased: trans people cannot simultaneously be *both* a minuscule minority that they are not worth alienating the ostensibly "moderate" voters over, *and* a large enough group that losing their support with your transphobia can cost you elections.

because autistic babies will die due to preventable diseases but so will allistic babies and at the end the ratio will not change in any meaningful way after all the baby murders the US government does

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump: "We're also going to be demanding the drug companies, with respect to a certain situation -- the autism -- that they make their doses in 20% shots. So you have shot 1, shot 2, shot 3, shot 4, shot 5 ... I think you're gonna see a massive reduction in autism"

I have a joke about Mythender but oh forgive me for my presumption Master Mythender please do not end me where I stand

Brian Ashford@brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have a joke about Fate but it's so bad you couldn't compel me to tell it.

One of the recent brainfarts I've had regarding TTRPGs is how underappreciated DIE: the RPG by is for giving the host a character sheet & stats & rules for what they can & can't do & rules regarding how they can cheat those rules & I think more TTRPGs should have a host character sheet.

wake up babe new lasers & feelings hack just dropped

🍁 Levi Kornelsen@levikornelsen.bsky.social · 4w ago

You have two stats, Monster and Trainer. When you do horrible things relating to animal fighting (and you will do horrible things), roll against your Monster stat. When you try to treat strange creatures as allies (despite them being abominations that crave the taste of your flesh), roll Trainer.

Democrats: If the next election was a tie, and there was one voter left, and he said “I’m willing to vote to stop Trump’s third term if you eat this hot dog,” would you eat the hot dog? Okay. So what’s to stop you from supporting basic human rights?

A big issue for me is thinking of TTRPGs as games where you tell a story. To me, that is wrong, because TTRPGs are games where you *draft* a story. You cannot tell the full story & know what the plot is until you are finished drafting. TTRPG stories are not written in ink if you still roll dice.

Rob Donoghue@rdonoghue.bsky.social · 4w ago

Using plot and story interchangeably lays a fairly bad foundation for discussing what happens in games.

so i had just recently started an essay on “ttrpgs viewed through the analogy of music as a medium” two days ago and i run into this out of nowhere

Bog Witch Riley@sicksad.games · 4w ago

Music is an overlooked influence on both writing and playing TTRPGs imo. They're both heavily vibes based, ostensibly *about* something whilst also allowing a large amount of interpretation on the listeners/players part. My first step in game writing is usually making a playlist that hits the mood.