This shit sucks. But also, this is only partly an AI issue. I have never, not once, ordered at a restaurant online/via an app where less than 100% of the pictures were random stock images of foods that were only incidentally related to what I was ordering, probably from the app's CMS or something.

Rob Burgess@robaburg.bsky.social · yesterday

AI once again solving problem that doesn't exist and creating new ones along the way. Food existed before AI. Cameras existed before AI. Now I question everything about this restaurant. Not only does the fake food look grotesque, but now I wonder what other corners they're cutting where I can't see.

100% convinced that a significant chunk of boomer and gen x hangovers attributed to alcohol are actually just them not realising they're introverted and need to recover from a party

It's DONE, my Appendix N Jam submission is here! Made for the Cairn 2e and I am pretty happy with how it looks. dannyfist.itch.io/calling-upon...

Calling Upon the Bright Blizzard by DannyFist

High up on the holy mountain, there is a forest in perpetual blizzard.

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Danny Fist 👊@dannyfi.st · 6d ago

Back panel is done! Now I just need to export and do all the itch crap!

Love how specific these are. As someone who always adds half a star to any Letterboxd rating for movies that are at most 90 minutes, I feel especially well catered to.

Leaflet@leaflet.pub · 3w ago

Announcing a great slate of *Field Reporters* — publications on community activity from art to movies, soccer analytics to Black media, local & regional scenes & more! Excited to see how these can not only capture interesting Atmospheric activity, but help catalyze it. Check em out & subscribe!

My honeybee game is officially The Wax Marches - and is in alpha playtest on itch! tbr.bearblog.dev/honeybees-is...

Honeybees is officially The Wax Marches - Alpha Playtest Live on Itch!

Thrilled to celebrate a year of the TBR blog with a live playtest! Last July I caught the mechanical design bug and today you can role play as a mechanically...

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The kids are alright

Craig (Doc Webb) 🔜 home!@docwebb.bsky.social · 2w ago

One of the funniest things that has happened at my teens’ table is that, completely organically, the kids (who all have actual phones) have decided that they’re going to use non-phone items whenever they make phone calls in-character. It consistently cracks me up.

Another solid entry in the genre of "YouTuber who wanted to become a filmmaker coming to terms with being a YouTuber": www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZmJ...

The strange way you keep putting your life on hold

YouTube video by Lofi Cinema

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New Mythic Bastionland myth just dropped

Rob Zacny@robzacny.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last night: a spider wasp invades our bed and then disappears. Tonight: Our house fills with the smell of either a skunk or a ton of chemicals being deployed at the nearby farm. Dreading what the woods will bring tomorrow night.

This looks so.good. Really looking forward to the print version!

Tine Fieldling@tinefieldling.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ITS HERE! My setting guide is now available on itch! It’s full of awesome stuff and beautiful illustrations and silly little guys. Tell me what you think (unless you hate pigeons) tinefieldling.itch.io/into-the-haz...

Jun Suemi Wizardry illustrations. archive.org/details/wiza...

Go get yourself a little Raven Skull for your TTRPG project, from @coppershaman.com docs.ravenskull.ink

let him cook

videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

letter to the editor & reply, gamepro, magazine (1995) archive.org/details/game...

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THE KNIGHT ERRANT: EXPANDED EDITION'S PHYSICAL EDITION IS OUT NOW! The first Indonesian Tabletop RPG product published internationally! www.copypastecoop.com/shop/p/the-k... Thank you @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social, @daniellocke.bsky.social, Copy/Paste Co-op as our publisher! #osr #tabletoprpg

Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)@isaacisafraid.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A DEAD PLANET, A FORSAKEN KNIGHT AND A GROUP OF STRANDED SPACEFARERS The Knight Errant: Expanded Edition is now available on itch! A science fantasy old school Tabletop RPG adventure, designed for any Mark of the Odd games. Published by @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social Copy/Paste Co-op. Link below!

Yo @lusionltd.bsky.social, why did you have to make all of us small-time shitposters look so lazy? oryzo.ai

ORYZO AI

A physical product, reimagined for the AI era, proving even the smallest idea can feel extraordinary.

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So... anyone from Germany got a free weekend next year and wants to spend it getting weird?

jay Dragon is sleepy@jdragsky.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Seven-Part Pact, my fantastical and ornate TTRPG about the seven most powerful wizards in a fantasy world, is coming this summer to kickstarter!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

same energy

Finally managed to write up my notes on A Perfect Rock by @deepdark.games! dungeonmerl.in/3mgzespqirc2e

Notes on Every New System I Play this Year #6: A Perfect Rock - Dungeon Merlin

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When you're searching for images of actors to see how they look now, at what point in the year do you switch from adding the previous year to the current one?

Only relevant review of Paradise: defector.com/its-just-ano...

It's Just Another Day In 'Paradise' Cover Song Hell

Paradise is a good show. I have to get that out of the way early, because I do think that it’s fun and well-plotted and knotted with enough twists to sustain a strong momentum throughout its eight-epi...

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New blogpost, daydreaming of Mythic Bastionland: A knight can interact with the themes of a myth to draw closer to it. PLUS 12 myth-specific relics. #osr #ttrpg #blog

Myth Attunement

12 new items and new houserules to draw your knights deeper into myth

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with all the deskilling and gell-manning (etc) we're gonna get from automated thinking machines, now is the time for the 'tools for thought' crowd to make tools that help you think things through for yourself. tools to do *more* hard thinking. it should feel effortful. cherish that feeling.

Have you blogged today? You should blog today! Make sure to link to other posts as well! Your inspirations, and posts you disagree with. Keep the conversation going. Or just posts you enjoyed. Every post and every link will last infinitely longer than any skeet, reddit comment or discord message

elmcat@elmc.at · 5mo ago

February Blog Graph Update: - Added few more blogs I've missed. - Fixed an issue with Medium blogs where every link to any medium page would be counted as a link to that blog. - itch blogs are now included as well! graph.elmc.at

This new video essay by @thomasflight.nebula.tv on the role extras play in movies pairs perfectly with this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwUr... Love this trend(?) of essays on the less obvious things that impact how a film feels to watch.

Why Some Movies Feel More Alive

YouTube video by Thomas Flight

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher@jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwP... This is a great essay, and one of those things that reminds you to be in constant awe that something like movies even exist. It's also one of the rare essays that really makes the most sense as a video essay.

A friend created his own perfect version of "A Perfect Rock" by @deepdark.games and brought it to our weekly RPG meetup yesterday. This game plays as smooth as those planets look, really enjoyed our time with it!

Fascist #slopaganda isn't about seducing anyone. They're aware that their nostalgic images are ugly & fake, and that their promise to return to an imaginary past is a fraud. They're proud of the shallowness of their nostalgia, because their real promise is to legitimize cruelty against others

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The good old days when shops didn't have doors, windows had flags mounted in them, the local bakers sold baguettes and we used decimal currency?

Seen a couple of clips the past week from some 1995 Kyrgyzstan documentary The Universe of Manas and had to check out the whole thing. Just absolutely fucking unreal levels of drip here youtu.be/jgJZCaOI5KE?...

Even better: write 24 episodes just in time like pre golden era, to react to the viewer‘s reactions during the early episodes and find what works.

Oregon 🕎🎲@oregonthedm.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Let's be real The show you enjoyed on netflix didn't get a second season because it dropped all at once and prevented any sort of fandom from blossoming in a functional fashion. Even the stranger things splitting up seasons helps do that

I blogged: personable.blog/human-centri...

Human Centric Game Design: A Manifesto

Exploring how we make games designed for humans to play with humans.

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