I will not read your Substack Not EVER Substack is owned by literal Nazis Is everyone there a Nazi? No. But the money GOES to Nazis So yeah. I will never, ever, ever read your Substack
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He/Him. Former voice and stage actor. Contributing writer on The Between, Brindlewood Bay, Public Access, The Lands Remaining, Trophy (the Ruin compilation), and more. Trans rights are human rights.
13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.
You know ai is the future because every time a popular creator gets caught using it they have to make big dramatic statements and beg their viewers for forgiveness
We have a single digit number of Stonetop copies left for today, we will have more tomorrow, but if you wanted a copy today you better run
There is a Welsh cheddar with whole grain mustard seeds in it called Red Dragon that is absolutely delectable.
Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese
Name a hated film you are willing to defend: Okay it's not "hated" but it's memed and dunked on all to hell but Top Gun (1986)
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Alt: A clip from Top Gun: two F14 Tomcat Jets in Formation
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𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔@daniel-qualls.bsky.social · last wk.Name a hated film you are willing to defend: Speed Racer (2008)
I've been digging into The East Palace on Netflix, and each time the characters talk about the titular palace, their eyes go to middle distance as they wistfully rue the intrigues and disgraces that they cannot fully voice, and I go fucking feral for it Every. Single. Time.
Mackyuu@kmacku.bsky.social · 3w agoMy guilty pleasure is when movies do this thing kinda like a bait n' switch, where Act 1 (and usually the trailer) is about the surface of a place or thing, and the middle of the movie is about how this thing sucks but you can't live without it because it's all you know. (...)
I really hate this modern thing where gamers get difficulty sliders so they crank every one up to max, and whether they want to or not, this becomes "the intended way to play", anything less and you're a baby mewling kitten aw wook at yuuu.
The Odyssey is such a ttrpg campaign. Pitched as a game that takes place over 10 years, then proceeds to spend 8 years in one location and gauntlet runs the final stretch. GM has a great idea for a horror boss and one dude can't stop with puns and wordplay.
I have precisely zero confidence in the new Blade Runner thing. It'd be one thing if media literacy was just dead. At what point do you start to wonder "no, it's worse. They get it, and what they're doing cannot be attributed to ignorance, but active subtextual malice"?
An autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop, sources have reported.
Autistic man with special interest in Harry Potter gets over it, leaving you with no excuse
An autistic man with a special interest in the Harry Potter series has made the decision to value the lives and dignity of his trans friends more than a book about a wizard who grows up to be a cop,…
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So, ngl, as someone who likes Stonetop, I want to express that I also really like indie games that clock in at sub-100 pages, and I don't want this to become the new normal.
Indie Game Reading Club@indiegamereadingclub.com · 2w agoWhat a time to be an indie gamer. Big, audacious, fully developed grown-up games. I love them. I estimate @olddog.games 's Blades '68 is about 0.45 Stonetops. That's gonna be a couple long weekends of reading.
I think I sometimes fall into these depressive non-productive stretches not because I *have* writer's block, but because I'm afraid of the possibility of having it. Why risk running up against a wall when you could just boot up Steam and grind out a game, knowing you *will* make progress?
I miss reading Tanith Lee. Where fantasy just needed a good explanation. "Why of course your death was just a minor inconvenience. You died fighting for someone else. He died in lust and rage so he gets reincarnated as a snake." Miss me with that Brandon Sanderson "magic system" nonsense.
You’re in her dms, I’m in a haunted Antarctic research station being tormented by ghostly visions
I might've had one hell of a time trying to run Band of Blades, but there's a world in which I write a campaign for it set some 300 years earlier than the vanilla campaign, a desert expedition that's basically Dark Fantasy Deserts of Kharak. I'm gonna do it someday.
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
My guilty pleasure is when movies do this thing kinda like a bait n' switch, where Act 1 (and usually the trailer) is about the surface of a place or thing, and the middle of the movie is about how this thing sucks but you can't live without it because it's all you know. (...)
Sprigs & Kindling, our free anthology zine of creative TTRPG works from the Carved from Brindlewood and Trophy communities is up for two ENnies. Huge shout out to our whole team of contributors, artists, and editors <3 sprigsandkindling.com
So, Reddit USED to be the space where experts and fans interfaced. Several steps occurred, stuff like the death of r/iama, the push to sell data, but among them, there were just way too many episodes where "Reddit experts" got upvoted more than *real* experts; usually the real experts are working.
The problem is that "guns" is a category that spans almost 2000 years of development. One person hears "guns in fantasy" and thinks militarized fireworks. Another is asking why you're giving the elves Glocks. You can't say "add gun" when swords that were used centuries apart are in the same party.
Erika Chappell 🏳️⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs@opensketchbook.bsky.social · 3w agoalmost every single fantasy setting, going by the other available technology, should have guns it is legit irresponsible that they don't, and it creates a false impression of how early guns became widespread
Lindsey Graham isn't alive to see your posts celebrating his death but the other sycophantic homophobic war hawks you know will. Think about how this will affect them before you post and then post it anyway.
Had a neat eureka moment. Some game designers are engineers. They will develop, experiment, refine. They come up with beautiful machinery, or efficient systems. My dad built scaffold. I built scaffold with him, for a while. And I think some of that rubbed off on me.
Coming down off another banger session of Under Hollow Hills, and my players are just...the best. This time the threat of cold iron was actually there (but didn't manifest). But I'm so fucking scared for my circus for entirely other reasons, y'all.
idk which is worse: the generation of techbros that think any kind of critical analysis is for beta cucks, or the one previous, who treated Sun Tzu's The Art of War like if it was The Secret as written by Joe Rogan. Who am I kidding, they're both different flavors of The Worst(tm).
Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 4w agoTolkien wrote a YA novel where the villain was Smaug, an evil dragon that hoarded wealth & polluted the earth. Everyone working in tech who loves that book & that author has missed its point. These are also the same people who assert that thinking about literature is a waste of time. 🤬🤬