David 🍂

David 🍂

@gearm.bsky.social

blessed with the desire to learn (autism), cursed with a limitless capacity for trivia (also autism) i make games, vidya and tabletop working on mine by night, and by day, working on yours - dev @ the best virtual table top on the world wide web

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RFK talks about autistic and Arabic people the exact same way. He assumes they are not capable of ordinary or extraordinary achievements because of who they are. He considers them sub-human because they are not like him. This makes it plain that his is a white supremacist eugenicist project.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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After 1.5 years of pouring my heart into my very first game, I'm so excited to finally announce that... Drawquarium is coming to Steam on November 13! 🥹 Draw your own fish, bring them to life, and create your little underwater world, even as a live wallpaper! Like+RT = ♥️ #IndieGames #Cozygames

My first 5 TTRPGs, in the order I played them (I think): 1. HeroQuest 2. Pathfinder 1e 3. D&D 5e 4. Monster of the Week 5. Cyberpunk RED

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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

yeah, gop supports pedophiles, water is wet

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

NA games "leadership" has no interest in making games - only in making money. Large NA game studios don't have leaders - they have owners.

Max Nichols@maxnichols.bsky.social

Watching this industry over the last 15 years has been so painful. The closest thing we have to a universal recipe for making great games is keeping teams together over time, and letting them cook. _Teams_. Of _people_. Seemingly nobody in NA games leadership has ever valued or understood this

And, to be clear, they struggle very hard to make money because you cannot make good art - and games are very much art - if you are not interested in art. Can't make good games if you just want to make money. You make money when you make good games, which you do when you want to make good games.

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Replying to @taniel.bsky.social

This chart is somehow more eye-popping. bsky.app/profile/djso...

Dj@djsoke.bsky.social

Was able to use the absentee files in NC to compare same day 18-29 turnout by party reg % of 2022 / % of 2024 by party D: 197.3% / 55.3% R: 83.9% / 12.6% Oth: 205.8% / 43.8%

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The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

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Raise your hand if you've ever put the triangle in the square hole. 🙋 What the genre that you've seen someone try to wedge into D&D? #ttrpg #meme #rpg #dnd #ttrpgsky #ttrpgcommunity

My trans loved ones are extremely *not* disposable, and I oppose fascism and genocide deeply. I piss off family members and sometimes feel I risk my work to speak my mind and push further left. And this is why I *will* be voting for the person who can beat the Republican! We are past the primaries.

I think I just have to accept that nice people like this consider palestinian children and trans americans subhuman and disposable, even if they won't admit it to themselves.

I just don't know how else to say it: there actually is a lesser evil, and when you do not choose it over the greater evil, you don't win anything. More people just fucking die. I want less dead people. Change is possible and good and in fact easier when the opposition is not literal nazis.

If you want to withhold your vote, fine. That is your prerogative! Who am I to judge your reasons? But suggesting that other people who are going to vote against the more fascist option are monsters lying to themselves about their genocidal tendencies? Come on.

If you are considering not voting against the greater fascist evil - and that *is* what not voting for Dems means in the gen. election - ask yourself what you aim to achieve with that. Is it practical, or even possible? If your aims hold to scrutiny, okay, you do you! Just be honest with yourself.

Only a gigantic fucking idiot would say "no more hand-written code" and I don't think that director realizes how much that outs them as not knowing a damn thing about their job.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

NEW: Epic Games has delayed its upcoming (not yet announced) Star Wars + Marvel shooter as it pivots to complete AI game development. "No more hand-written code," a director told staff. All art "generated with full AI workflows." Full scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I have played some just-okay boardgames and had them become really great fun because we all decided to roleplay our board game play.

Scare-on Lim 林家丰@ehronlime.bsky.social

you can play boardgames like role playing games and you can play role playing games like boardgames so ‘boardgames’ and ‘roleplaying games’ are really more like stances of play rather than different products

🔥🔥🔥🔥 Ossoff has the juice, man. Back when he first ran, I had friends working for him, but even then we thought "yeah, sure." But now? Dude has the juice, for sure.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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Q: Many feel you have not addressed the fact your son in law is a white supremacist influencer. What have you said to your family? COLLINS: That's my family OSSOFF: Imagine running for Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your home. That's Mike Collins.

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Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"

Didn't have to wait long for that fundraising email! Pfft.

David 🍂@gearm.bsky.social

oh lmao well uhhh when I get the next of your 5+ fundraising emails today, I will let your team know how I feel I hope you win, @drannieandrews.com , but I hope its really, REALLY hard. That's what you sign up for by adopting this terrible rhetoric. Sincerely, a former donor, SC-born and raised.

oh lmao well uhhh when I get the next of your 5+ fundraising emails today, I will let your team know how I feel I hope you win, @drannieandrews.com , but I hope its really, REALLY hard. That's what you sign up for by adopting this terrible rhetoric. Sincerely, a former donor, SC-born and raised.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

SC Dem Senate nominee Annie Andrews released an ad calling trans women "biological men." She embraces sports and surgery bans for youth. Her campaign even says she won't work to overturn the HRT/blocker trans youth ban. She once argued against capitulation. Subscribe to support our journalism.

And @drannieandrews.com, if this is not really how you feel, please publicly backtrack and privately fire the f****** idiot who told you this was a good idea. And while you're at it, fire whoever keeps telling you to give your emails panicky subject-lines. Probably the same people.

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The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. https://bit.ly/4hMhPzG

Which pack of consultants are telling Democrats to title their emails "i messed up" and "disaster for our campaign" - do you understand that's demoralizing to GOTV efforts? Have you read the research? It makes your candidate look incompetent. Are you professionals? I just want to talk.

and, CRITICALLY, *you let them do it.* We used to break up companies when they got too big. My first email address was "...@bellsouth.net." You know what Bellsouth is? One of the remnants of the Bell System after it was broken into pieces in the 80s. We should never have stopped trust busting.

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

And just FYI - that particular breakup has been all but reversed as AT&T has reacquired the pieces, like the dismembered pieces of a lich crawling back together to form the evil whole again. Trust busting is one of the most important things our government can do - especially in a global economy.

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folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*

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All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

Arguably the biggest democracy referendum next month: Virginia is one of only three states where the state constitution says people should lose their right to vote FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIFE if they are convicted of any felony. This measure would allow anyone to vote after prison.

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Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."

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15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

Kieron Gillen@kierongillen.bsky.social

WHAT HAPPEN?

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Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

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Roll20Con Tip #3! 💡 5 lesser-known shortcuts on Roll20 to make running games easier! THREAD 🧵 1. Hold Alt while selecting multiple objects to select ONLY objects classified as drawings