A logo and a concept wins an award. Is this like the FIFA Peace Prize?
When most of the internet is AI content and most of the traffic reading that content is AI bots, there doesn’t leave much room for actual humans online… www.fastcompany.com/91579817/dea...
The ‘dead internet theory’ is real. And it’s killing the web as we know it
If you can't monetize human attention, what do you monetize?
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So, those of you at Gen Con--what's the temperature like? Hope the exhibit hall has good aircon!
So WotC shared most of the keynote stuff with press beforehand (which is why we've all got articles and stuff up so quick) but they kept the Star Wars stuff back! That was a surprise!
So looking forward to this. We’re invited to CERN to meet with the RPG club (scientists love nerdy games—who knew?), a tour of ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider, the antimatter factory, and more! And playing games with people way cleverer than us! Plus a day hanging out in Geneva because why not?
It's always funny when outlets 'break' news while using our screenshots (yes, to the pixel--at least change the filename, dudes!) without mentioning us. Then again, I guess that's not worse than those youtube channels who just read out our articles, word for word.
There's speculation that the D&D book which appeared on Barnes & Noble codenamed "GOLLY" might be the World of Warcraft D&D book--World of Warcraft is often abbreviated to "WoW", and 'wow' is a synonym for 'golly'. Just speculation though.
Dungeons & Dragons’ next major product announcement leaks--and it's WORLD OF WARCRAFT
www.enworld.org
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I saw new Star Trek and it was good. Plus La'an punched a dinosaur, which was not on my Bingo card.
Closed a thread as people were shouting at each other & I have better things to do than moderate arguments at 2am. Deathbringer fans say that makes me "such a fag" and an "irrelevant iron-fisted East Berlin". Yet they're all reading my irrelevant site. And we'd been supportive of Deathbringer.
I've decided that my new least favourite phrase on the internet is "you do realise....?" It's worst on Facebook. Within 3 posts, every conversation devolves into somebody snidely saying "You do realise...?"
Make your mind up, Mirror! These two identical yet opposite articles, both today? Is this like A/B testing reality itself?
Ugh. Trying to get stock art off Shutterstock and it makes it so hard to avoid the AI slop. Doesn't help that uploaders don't always label it. My current trick is to only use art uploaded before 2021, but that feels like it screws genuine artists uploading new stuff.
Do I know anybody who is a massive fan of James Bond and a great 5E game designer?
"You sound like AI" -> "No, AI sounds like me because it scraped my work"
Summer Brennan@summerbrennan.bsky.social · last mo.I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.
Nope! Though at one point 25 years ago my parents did at least ask for a copy of books I made. That lasted about 2 years. I'm pretty sure they never so much as opened one!
JoypadLad.com X SuperStickerClub.com@joypadlad.bsky.social · last mo.If you're a creative person, do you have friends and family that actually care about anything you make?
I am proud to announce that we are still proud of our record-breaking 27-year streak of zero award nominations for any gaming awards program! Long may it continue!
Writing for this has been underway for about a month, and I just got the first draft of the EQUIPMENT chapter in and it looks GREAT! www.kickstarter.com/projects/enw...
Coming soon: Steel & Skill: The Complete Fighter's Field Guide
Complete handbook for D&D fighters with new subclasses, backgrounds, fighting styles, class features, equipment, magic items and more!
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Bad news: still homeless due to gas leak. 15 days now. Good news: our visit to CERN later this year has been confirmed. Can’t wait! Geneva’s nice and inexpensive, right? ;)
Saw Supergirl today. Flawed, but fun. And grabbed some random nerd stuff.
It’s my birthday! I’ve been homeless for 9 days now due to a gas leak, so it’s not the birthday I would have wished for. But I still have a family dinner tonight and a movie tomorrow to look forward to, as well as a Kickstarter you can back if you want! (Please!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/enw...
We’re homeless and it’s my birthday tomorrow so how about you cheer me up and back our latest Kickstarter? We could really use a win right about now! #sympathycard www.kickstarter.com/projects/enw...?
D&D EN5ider Annual--adventures and rules for D&D 5.5E!
A massive 360-page hardcover with 20 adventures, a whole new class, and a ton of new options!
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Another sweltering day spent wandering the earth, homeless and with no end in sight…
If you've been waiting on me for anything work related, I'm afraid it might be a while. We were evacuated last week due to a gas leak, and at present it doesn't look like we're going home soon. We have our phones, two dogs, not enough changes of clothes, and that's about it!
That's some well-targeted spam, Scott. Me and my nutritional products.
Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday
New editions are always a big hurdle--thus WotC insisting that 5.5E is not a new edition, despite us being unable to sell any 5E stuff to people at UKGE who without exception asked "is this 5.5E?" and did not accept an answer that they were compatible.
Masters of the Universe is utter gorgeous joyous fun. Film of the year so far. Everything Mando should have been but wasn’t. That is all.