We're showcasing Mandrake in the Choices Matter festival, thanks to the kindness of @telltalegames.bsky.social! Expect to see 25 minutes of narrative gameplay, including a first look at character creation. 🌱 See you there!

Telltale@telltalegames.bsky.social · yesterday

Celebrate narrative games w/ our first-ever CHOICES MATTER FEST on Steam! AUGUST 10 - 17th: It’s stacked with... 🪧40+ Demos 🪧Behind-the-scenes content 🪧Interviews 🪧A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-type quiz 🪧Exclusive announcements 🪧TWO WORLD PREMIERES (not ours) 🪧…and discounts on 90 featured games!

"If a colleague or manager suggests that something can be easily achieved by using GenAI, a simple "why do you think that?" can really derail the conversation. More often than not, they have a flimsy response and realize it's not more efficient or producing a better outcome."

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6d ago

Welcome to the resistance: meet the workers dodging (and sabotaging) their employer's AI mandates: aftermath.site/ai-resistance-...

But we approved your pardon!

First Prideosaurs Sticker pack is here! 🌈🦖🦕 To collect them all or share them with your friends! There will be more species in the future! ✨ 🛒: ko-fi.com/s/d0a70b38db [ #Merch | #Prideosaurs | #Prideosaur | #Dinosaurs | #Dinosaur | #Pride ]

Oh Jarnathan!

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That’s terrible! SNL meme clip

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The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

Well this was a nice thing to wake up to this morning!

Witnessed a murder on Facebook

Beowulf adapted by @mariadahvana.bsky.social please and thank you

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

I was going to go to the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire this weekend but tickets for a family of four are $192 just to get in the door and I can't justify that unfortunately. :( Maybe next year

I don't understand why anyone would be posting to this site when they could instead be playing Quest for Glory.

I don't give a fuck how much I might agree with your political meme or cartoon, if it's obviously AI generated, you're getting a block

There's a reason I rely on online random name generators and replace them if I eventually think of something better

Shifted gears to work on my next nonfiction project and I'm immersing myself in GDC keynotes and talks for research

MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY

This is an outrage!

Has someone done a Dungeon Crawler Coral joke yet?

10 minutes of actual thunder in Seattle The end may be near folks

I finally decided to walk away from a WIP novel I know I will never finish - but my loss is your gain! Here's the inspiration playlist I put together. Maybe this music will inspire you too? open.spotify.com/playlist/7H2...

Inspiration for a novel that will never be written

Playlist · Jason Mical · 39 items

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Me, trying to encourage a monk: Are you a mendican or a mendicant?

I'm on the second Dungeon Crawler Carl book and enjoying it immensely but I have to keep reminding myself that my own WIP doesn't have to be non-stop action to be interesting

Spinning my one RSD pickup from this year, the Canyon Trilogy by R. Carlos Nakai. Delightfully peaceful and meditative #NowPlaying #Vinyl #VinylSky

Sometimes writing is just staring into the middle distance while you spend a couple of hours solving a narrative problem

What's a word you can never spell right the first time? I'll start: bureaucracy

I've described my WIP as a mix of Firefly and The Expanse set in a Victorian era where space travel was invented, but I realized yesterday it's also channeling quite a bit of Guardians of the Galaxy energy too

Creator Mental Health Check. Go watch the numbers for a minute. Reflect. Let go the need to angrily debate some loser trying to claim this is inevitable and your hard-won skills are replaceable. isaiprofitable.com

No matter what happens with AI or how obsolete I become, I’m positive that on my deathbed (be it tomorrow or forty years from now), I will NOT wish that I had used AI to write anything. I’ve written a bunch of books, and each one, good or bad, is an expression of completely human creativity.

I love the idea of playing Baldur's Gate 3 one quarter at a time on Friday nights 😂

Niko Stratis@nikostratis.com · 4w ago

They shouldn’t make video games you can have at home at all, all video games should be big machines in the lobby of a Pizza Hut

Hi! I'm Jason Mical, writer. Work appears in The Expanse RPG, Eclipse Phase, KSP, & more! Current: @qfgbook.bsky.social - Questing for Glory, a complete history of the Quest for Glory series. WIP: a Victorian-era space adventure / found family story

Fellow authors; without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? "September 1850: Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, assembled her new, personal Analytic Engine at her family's estate in Surrey, eager to explore the mathematical mysteries of the universe."

Xero Reynolds@artificer-ind.bsky.social · 4w ago

Fellow authors; without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? "The ghoul had stolen my fucking sandwich."