juli // ChildishFilipino

@juliciel.bsky.social

⚔️ Creator of TACTICS MEMORIAM a Strategy TTRPG about Death and Identity 🎲 Best Indie Game Master Finalist (Crit Awards 2025) 🧚‍♀️ Award Winning Fantasy Writer (The Realm Tree audio drama) 🎭 Professional Actor, Voice Actor, and Comedian (NYC, Osaka) 💟 any/all

D&D surely is the lingua franca of Actual Play, just like English is the linguistic lingua franca of Actual Plays. That doesn't mean you can't introduce people to new languages. Just like "actual" languages, the more TTRPGs you "speak", the more colorful your experience in the hobby will be.

Debate over the classical validity of Nolan’s Odyssey confuses me. From Odysseus’s first scene in the movie (adopting a dog from the casual culling of a puppy litter) it feels clear that we are seeing a modern man navigate a lionized violent world, both among humans and monsters. (1/3)

I truly feel for kids growing up now who will have to unlearn using AI, but if you've been writing for more than 2 years it is the easiest thing in the world to just Keep Doing The Thing You Did and ignore AI tools!! It makes me feel crazy that people act like this isn't the case!!!

Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈@midimyers.com · 5d ago

it's actually sad as hell to use AI for research when research is the fun part. you can just email people and call them on the phone and ask them questions about the thing that they have expertise in. you can read documents & learn cool shit. ok now i'm just talking about how being a reporter is fun

The sad thing is, even if ChatGPT/LLM addicts let it sink in that they’re unreliable and a bad source of info, they can’t just go back to Googling like before because that whole site is also ass now due to AI A handful of greedy tech magnates made this tech ubiquitous and we’re all worse off for it

jess m. 🌤️@jametc.bsky.social · 5d ago

it all just sort of makes sense, now, huh. all this shit was just generated by AI and he believed it all enough to parrot it on his podcast, and his fact checking team had to clean up after him this is a really massive blow to popular science. Everything is in question now. does he realize this?

Hit my Tactics Memoriam playtester with a stealth map today. They had to reach a lever undiscovered to open a gate, or be mobbed by enemies. They had a three turn win which involved teleporting, movement boosting, and creating stone pillars to cut off a guard’s line of sight. I was so proud!

Saw The Graduate (1967) for the first time, and it seems like the film’s thesis is clearly “The malaise of the American upper middle class drives them to make insane, damaging decisions to stave off the constant creep of boredom” only for much of society’s takeaway to be “Wow Mrs Robinson is hot”

Most of the support characters in Avatar Legends are the playable characters’ teachers, family, and subordinates. The majority of Toph’s support characters are her wrestling opponents because she grows stronger when batting adversity than through the guidance of others. In this essay I will—

Toph’s support characters in Avatar Legends—a Badgermole, then the wrestlers The Boulder and The Hippo

Avatar Legends character gimmicks: Toph - Creates walls and drags enemies into your heavy hits. Countered by a strong air game. Azula - Becomes a more aggressive character after losing a round, her mental state translating into gameplay. Kyoshi - Big Woman The biggest, huuge Ozai - heelies

Ran a neat little 45 minute Tactics Memoriam session tonight—including a battle map! Glad to do a small part in showing TTRPG players that battles don’t have to take an hour, and sessions don’t have to take up half your day. There are snappy combat systems that are still satisfying!