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George Quail

@gquail.bsky.social

Glaswegian nerd, with particular interest in RPGs, wargames, board games & nervous breakdowns. Yes, the sideburns are real. He/Him.

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George Quail@gquail.bsky.social · 3d ago

Some fun art here. (And the Edinburgh accent makes this Glasweigan giggle) OCs are fun but I've always had a soft spot for taking a D list canon character and fleshing them out.

Dave Reyn@machsabre.bsky.social · 3d ago

Recent conversation reminded me I should reshare my stuff on Lifeline. So my idea with her more of a chaotic, prank pulling, promiscuous wine mom, with zero respect for authority... That's also one hell of a medic. Not quite up there with Ratchet, but up there. (Think Hawkeye Pierce from M.A.S.H.)

Eniko Fox@enikofox.com · 5d ago

we've created a no AI notice to reassure people seeing our trailers and games with hand drawn lettering and a relaxing cute fox, and it's also up on itch in multiple formats* for anyone to use: eniko.itch.io/cute-fox-no-... *with/without fox, transparent/opaque, in 4k, 2160p, 1440p, 1080p, and 720p

A sleeping fox on top of a red circle crossing out the word AI. Above and below it is hand drawn lettering saying "Made By Humans" and "No generative AI was used in the creation of this work.
Jo Wood@jwolondon.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Looking forward to reading this. I agree that the questions we ask can be quite revealing. I did this one based on Google queries in 2020 which reveals much about how the UK reacted in a year dominated by Covid (see alt text; questions best read from top to bottom in date order through the year).

A stacked line chart of white lines on a black background in the style of Joy Division's famous Unknown Pleasures album cover design. Comprises 44 lines each corresponding to most popular 'how / when / what / who' questions to Google over the period of a year. Lines arranged in time order based on the peak time in which a given question was asked. Read from top to bottom this reveals the most pressing questions changing over the 12 months of a year in which the Covid-19 pandemic arose. The questions reading from top to bottom (and therefore broadly from January to December 2020) are: When does Love Island start? Who killed Graham? What does woke mean? Who dies in Eastenders? Who is Mabel's mum? What time is Fury vs Wilder? How did coronavirus start? How many cases of coronavirus in UK? How many people have died from coronavirus? How to get tested for coronavirus How to treat coronavirus What are the symptoms of coronavirus? What is a pandemic? Who are key workers? How to boost immune system How to make hand sanitizer How to self isolate What is coronavirus? What time is Boris Johnson's speech today? How to cut your own hair How to make bread What does furlough mean? Who is Carole Baskin? How to cut men's hair When will lockdown end? What is VE day? When will schools reopen? How to make a face mask When does furlough end? Who was George Floyd? When will hairdressers open? When will pubs reopen? When will gyms reopen? What does WAP mean? When does Eat Out to Help Out end? Who did Zara cheat on Sam with? Who is Joe Biden? Who is the president of America? Who won the election? When does lockdown start? When will the new president be announced? Where does vanilla flavouring come from? How to cook eel What tier am I in?
Tristan Gray@eidyngray.scot · last wk.

Hahaha oh come ON! Guess what, this is even worse than "cyber correspondent for the BBC doesn't know what PHP is". He's WRITTEN A BOOK ON HACKING. He wrote a book on hacking and didn't know PHP existed. I wouldn't have even needed to provide a pic and you'd have been able to predict the man.

10:48 22 October Joe Tidy is pictured speaking in a BBC studio, wearing a pink shirt Cyber correspondent Joe Tidy says he didn't know PHP existed until yesterday morning - it's "one of these things we take for granted", he says.
Chaosium@chaosium.bsky.social · last wk.

A follow-up to our post about the recent proliferation of AI creations in our community content programs at @drivethrurpg.com and our efforts to combat it... 🧵

Chaosium@chaosium.bsky.social · 2w ago

Update on the use of AI text in Chaosium Community Content programs @drivethrurpg.com. TL/DR: Don't use it in our programs. AI is not art. It is theft from you and every writer who has gone before you, repackaged dishonestly and shamelessly as original. www.chaosium.com/blogupdate-o...

The Oldhammer Fiction Podcast@oldhammerpodcast.bsky.social · 2w ago

A good survey of the place of piracy in Rogue Trader. I have theories about why pirates were a thing then and became less of a thing later. The short summary is that RT, in its first years, was about social decay, an empire collapsing under the weight of its own perameters and adminsitrative...

Dr Tomas Rawlings@tomasrawlings.bsky.social · 2w ago

Warhammer 40,000: Space Pirates! Hoist ye solar-sail, weigh the servo-anchor, grab your robo-parrot and fly the jolly roger - it’s time to look at Space Pirates in 40K Rogue Trader exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/warhammer-...

An advert for RT601 Pirates, showing all the range of miniatures in this faction. Source White Dwarf 99 & Stuff of Legends