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Rooting for the #Grizzlies. Still searching for "my" #WNBA team. Big #TTRPG nerd and forever GM by choice. Former linguist. Work in GRC & IT Architecture. Autistic and queer (🩷💛💙. Married to the love of my life (💛🤍💜🖤). ENM. Avatar via HeroForge.
just sang "I'm not a trad wife I just cook a lot" in a Big Pun voice while pickling onions if you want to narrow in on my exact demographic
I mean, I get through my entire day without it already, and everyone else who does/is made to use it would have to return to, like, 2022, so, yeah, it's fine, chuck it out
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 12h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
My starting position on GM-less games is the 2012 essay from Boss, Vaghi, & Morningstar: "The game master holds a role more akin to a sports referee, or a game-world engine as it is represented in a video game. The role can be broken down into specific tasks." ia801600.us.archive.org/16/items/201...
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Alt text: Screenshot of an article showing a photograph of the McDonald's logo stanchion with a cloudy sky in the background. The headline is: McDonald's Replaces US President After Slowest Growth In Over A Year
Lauren Skye@laurenskye.bsky.social · 18h agoMost deceiving headline ever
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
A logo and a concept wins an award. Is this like the FIFA Peace Prize?
Not only is "friendslop" good, this newly defined genre of tightly-focused multiplayer indie games have been able to swing at AAA live service games for real good reasons lately. Also, after the top of the page, I pitch the new name "bestiecore" here. Yay bestiecore. www.mmorpg.com/editorials/s...
Smaller 'Friendslop' Games With Friends Highlight What Big Live Service Games Get Wrong | MMORPG.com
Live service games are losing the plot, and Victoria is here to tell you why.
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"Hell Hawk" from the Crow Investigations books by @sarahpainter.bsky.social has quickly joined "Stars & Stones" (Dresden Files) and the various versions of [DEITY]'s [BODYPART] (Pathfinder Tales) as one of my favourite oaths in fiction.
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
stoked to see gencon hauls with with copies of THE DUNGEON THAT TOPS YOU from @sandypuggames.bsky.social in them i promise that if you ever see me in the wild, and you have THE DUNGEON THAT TOPS YOU with you, i will sign your copy of the game and draw a cartoonishly lewd skeleton inside the cover
It's called generative AI because it generates a lot of problems
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
Kelsey Plum talking to the media for the first time since being traded to the Mercury, confirms that she's available for 20 min tonight. Notes that she hasn't practiced with the team or even played for five weeks: "It's a cocktail for success as far as I'm concerned."
Miami Marlins acquire the player with a name that most sounds like an arms dealer from a Steven Segal movie--Victor Vodnik.
Unfortunately this problem was impossible to solve before the advent of AI, which is why no one ever put puzzles into their games before 2022
In Wiesbaden, about to see Corrosion of Conformity (and support act Red Stone Chapel) 🤘
You can tell the author of the Crow Investigation is British purely based on the fact that she describes tapas as "intensely-flavoured" 😂
Our GMs and players at this Gen Con are on another level... one table playing Old Gods of Appalachia (at 11pm, mind you) wrote AND SANG an entire song to make a Level 7 Ritual succeed!
Does it still count if there's an eternity between releases? Lateralus 10,000 Days Fear Inoculum
Aaron Blackshear@aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 3d agoArchers of Loaf Icky Mettle Vee Vee All the Nations Airports
Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.
With the success of SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, THE ODYSSEY, BACKROOMS, TOY STORY 5, PROJECT: HAIL MARY, and SUPER MARIO GALAXY, it's clear audiences are hungry for original stories over tired rehashed IP, like the critics have been opining about for months... Hold on, I'm being handed a note.
Me to Jonathan Frakes on my TV during episodes of Beyond Belief
USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 4d agoStill sounds like utter shite to me whatever you choose to call it. Wrong. Incorrect. Fiction. Not supported by facts. Erroneous. Cloud cuckoo land. Untrustworthy.
Good morning to everyone buying a new TTRPG this weekend who has three or more unopened TTRPGs sitting at home on their bookshelf, and to them only.