Hey, if you're reading this, I'm so proud of you. I know how hard you're working and how difficult existing is, but don't let it embitter you against the possibilities of the future. I love you so much, and I know you're going to do amazing things.

The dead persist as brain scan upload shades in the computronium subterrane. Shades constitute the overwhelming majority of human minds, and must be placated as ancestral spirits by building shrine terminals that allow them to interface with the physical world above.

Everything after the 1970s never existed: it is merely a steampunk-esque thought experiment of taking technology from that time period and extrapolating it into an imagined future. In truth, the singularity happened almost immediately after the invention of the computer.

When faced with a crisis, the unconscious extended phenotype of a species population will automatically generate a hero to allow them to operate on a higher scale: a legendary general, a great prophet, et cetera. For guinea pigs, this is the capybara.

May your sleeping mind rise into the ionospheric ELVES skywave dream layer.

I have, from an early age, been fixated on the idea of sapient beings made to optimally perform a particular task and derive satisfaction from fulfilling that instrumental purpose. I can't stop writing stories about it. I ought to have been a machine rather than a human.

They should have ended The Odyssey at the lotus eating scene and released the rest of the movie seven years later.

I regret to inform everyone that they removed auto-jump from the Ocarina of Time remake and replaced it with a dedicated jump button. I for one will mourn it.

Ethics has been solved, and the answer is more coral.

triple cheeseburger@triplchii.bsky.social · 2w ago

an unusual planet populated entirely by a single species of autotrophic coral-like life #art

23 hours and counting in the KS campaign. Our first stretch goal is unlocked. Final countdown time. 2 new AaN anthologies + add books in our catalog as free shipping add-ons. 86% to SG2. Info - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... RP/QP #ks #kickstarter #booksky #sff #fsf

Two Intriguing AaN Anthologies: One Campaign

Two Anthologies: "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings"

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I was struggling to write a science fiction novel set in the near future because from where I'm standing the "near future" looks to be a precipice between recognizable civilization and something already science fictional (either cyberpunk or post-apocalyptic) before I even add my novum.

I think what causes the negative reaction to this is less the actual time passage (20 years is a pretty fair age for "retro") but rather that "retro" originally indicated the shift from 2D to 3D, whereas now there's no decisive technological break to give these consoles a justifyingly "retro" feel.

NESbot@nesbot.bsky.social · 3w ago

Japanese Retro Game Show Game Center CX to now include PS3/Wii. 80% of 17k votes voted to classify them as retro. www.resetera.com/threads/16...

Could use a KS surge win or two today - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526.... #ks #kickstarter #sff #fsf Help bring exposure to up and coming writers with the stretch goals. 8 campaign days left.

Things are happening in LitRPGs that the classical genre fiction mind cannot comprehend

Getting in to Georgian cuisine and realizing it's one of the most tragically ignored national food cultures in the world. A synthetic confluence of Middle Eastern and Eastern European styles that does amazing things with walnuts, grapes, and cheeses.

There are people here so radicalized against "worldbuilding" and "lore" that they reflexively disdain a book having mysteries and dramatic reveals. I know you're traumatized by Youtube analysis video essays or whatever, but you're allowed to enjoy fiction on the level of plot.

It's good practice to avoid immediately attributing an author's philosophical assertions to their personal tendencies, but when I read Lacan talking about jouissance or Bataille about the accursed share, I cannot help but think "oh, so that's how you experience being alive".

"...this game is just too big. It's impractical. It's silly." — Quinns "I have no idea what people will make of this." — Kieron Gillen "Completely unpublishable." — [publisher name redacted] SEVEN PART PACT HAS 24 HOURS REMAINING www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

Seven-Part Pact

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

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The urges and sensations of sexual reproduction are well known, but what about asexual? Does mitosis feel like stretching out fully for the first time after living one's whole life in a box?

Woke up hungover after winning gold at The Ennies for Best Kiss. Anyway, here’s this month’s Explorateur. Only the freshest links from July. Two really fun reviews. My new favorite podcast. And three thoughts on layout from me in the upfront. www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

The Explorateur: Issue #22

Monthly jams, critique, theory, and resources for rpg designers.

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@gamesrobin.com and i are coming at you live with our #appxnjam entry: The Gravity Plague! an adventure about monks ripping themselves apart to reach Heaven and failing utterly. made for cairn 2e. enjoy! ⛪ giantrobottackler.itch.io/the-gravity-...

The Gravity Plague by giantrobottackler, Robin

unrepentant yearning for cairn 2e

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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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An argument for human connection masquerading as a book review. valerialoves.com/why-didnt-si...

Why Didn't Silent Titans Change the World?

Apprehension is worth the effort

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You can now convert any Pokemon into an enemy for Cairn, Mythic Bastionland or, most importantly, Into the Oddish #osr #ttrpg #pokemon

Convert Any Pokémon to Into the Oddish Stats — Prismatic Wasteland

Convert any Pokémon into stats for Into the Oddish and any other Oddlike like Carin or Into the Odd. Also 22 enemy Pokémon for your games or Into the Oddish adventures.

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Developing an indie video game about anthropomorphic cats and nuclear semiotics. For those who read my previous posts about Deep Time, this is the further evolution of that concept, a hymn of the Anthropocene.

Ray Cats - This Vorpal Coil

In 1993, Sandia National Laboratories released a report addressing a problem that wouldn’t matter for thousands of years: once you’ve built a lead-lined nuclear waste disposal bunker, how do you convi...

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This novel is rapidly becoming "what if PKD wrote a cultivation story" and I'm not sure whether or not that's a good thing yet.

Would you like to contribute an OBJECT to live in a WAREHOUSE GAME? I'm working on a parser fiction game where you play as a worker in the warehouse of the gods- sorting, storing, rearranging objects, meandering. I need so many objects! Maybe even: one of yours? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Objects contribution for god's warehouse game

What is this? I'm (Everest) making a short parser fiction game where you are a worker in the warehouse of the gods, sorting and storing objects to the whims of holy creatures. Would you like to subm...

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Voting for the ENNIE Awards ends some time today!! If you haven’t gotten around to it already, please head over to the website and vote for which nominees you want to win- and if you missed it, check out this thread where I present my case for why you should vote for me to be a judge next year!

Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU@seraphina.diceexploder.com · 2mo ago

Voting for the 2026 ENNIE Awards is live! I’m one of the candidates to be a judge next year, and I’m asking for your vote! In this thread I’ll explain what that means, why you should vote for me, and where you can read more of my thoughts on tabletop games. vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/ 1/

The Windmills of Your Mind is a kinder, gentler version of Everywhere at the End of Time.