Dissonance

Charge OpenAI with mansluaghter right the fuck now.

Some little indie rag wrote about #iHunt? NBD but you should check this out.

I am only slightly ashamed to admit that You Can See Everything is one of the only films to ever inspire me briefly speak out loud in a movie theater because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

My first five TTRPGS 1) DnD 2) Delta Green 3) Dungeon World 4) The Quiet Year 5) Microscope

I've been visiting my mom, who is in poor health, and it's been both nostalgic and melancholic, to say the least. One thing that I'm only just feeling now, after 26 years away: my home town is small and poor as hell. Yeah, it's larger than other towns in Southern Oregon but that isn't saying much.

The polyamorous people I know are all pretty normal people. Maybe less prudish than your average person, less religous, and with a dating life that doesn’t abruptly end in their thirties. But they aren’t the drama engines folks on social media like to portray us as.

It's interesting watching the second season of Edgerunners and noticing how much it seemingly takes inspiration from the TTRPG (versus the first season being more inspired more directly by the video game) and uses that to tell a very different, but complimentary, story.

GTA 6 is going to come out soon and I highly suspect nothing will be done to YouTubers reproducing movie theater shootings or clubbing naked strippers over the head. The selectivity of these sorts of content bans is absurd and, no, I’m not on the side of censorship, here.

So my standard Seattle coffee order has shifted greatly over time but I think my current selection is an all timer: Herkimer cortado (served with an equal portion of sparkling water) and a ginger molasses cookie. The ginger, molasses, and bitter coffee just go so well together 🍪🫚☕️

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

The Oleander Daemon is released! My squad-based FitD campaign of military sci-fi action about a guerilla force fighting back against an occupying invader is available in both PDF and softcover POD. tLBP: buff.ly/797VvFw DTRPG: buff.ly/67gBMOl Itch: buff.ly/GCKR8XF Lulu: buff.ly/5duEpis

“How did you get into TTRPGS” I read the game manual for the original Baldur’s Gate and learned that it was based off an even BIGGER game manual I hadn’t read yet and, oh boy, was that exciting.

The degree to which universities will go out of their way to help young men avoid felony rape charges is inexcusable.

The new characters seem cool but I can’t go back to Sweat and Slurs: The MOBAning. My patience for that particular multiplayer experience has worn thin.

Part 1: The Early Years

The NY Times “The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century” list feels like rage bait.

Chemtrail people literally looking at clouds like

An honest question: If NDA’s were made illegal would it have any negative societal effect at all? There are plenty of other mechanisms available to people interested in privacy and IP protection. All NDAs seem to do is encourage criminal activity.

Hearing some very conflicting reviews for both Fire Emblem Fortunes Weave and Control Resonant and I’m not really sure who to trust.

Last four rulesets played: -Blades in the Dark (ongoing) -Stonetop (ongoing) -Realis (a short three-shot) -Mothership (one shot) Last adventure played -many of the games I play are improvisational, not scenario based -If they do benefit from scenarios (like Mothership) I tend to write my own

IP (Inventory Points) are the future. Get on board or get left behind. Truly IP (Inventory Points) are the only brand of capitalism RPGs require.

So every interview show has a goofy gimmick, now, huh?

Blades '68 is a technicolor retro-futuristic take on the original Blades in the Dark experience, and it's available now on our website!

I’m enjoying season 2 of Dark Matter so far but I can’t help but draw comparisons to one of my favorite comic series of all time, Black Science. It’s much pulpier, to be sure. Basically an inter-dimensional Lost in Space meets Sliders meets … well … Dark Matter.

The Dagger Isles supplement seemingly borrowing ideas for '68, Band of Blades, and more to create a revolution story? Really cool.

In Australia, a teacher runs Band of Blades every day for more than 30 students. @newmadras.bsky.social tells that story, alongside his personal recollections of the game and what makes it unique. It's not just a single narrative, it's...

Me every time I download a new font

Seeing more and more ttrpg inspired mechanics in games, I wonder if we’ll ever get a AAA “fail forward” story-centric video game. We’ve gotten close with the normalization of “iron mode” in games but it’s definitely not the same.

*Toymaker winds up and releases the toy designed to destroy competing company's wind-up-toys* *Wind-up-toy attacks and destroys competing wind-up-toy company* "IT'S SENTIENT! IT'S GOT A MIND OR IT'S OWN!"

A decade ago, several friends of mine had the opportunity to get involved in Blue Origin and Space X. They were each excited to play some small part in the rejuvenation of the space race. I sometimes wonder how they feel now that both companies have proven to be vanity projects for billionaires.

Keighley's disinterest in excluding AI trailers really devalues the whole thing. These events are rarely to my taste, but the experience of watching "ONL" was one of watching slop. Even non-AI games are tainted by the association — we have to second-guess, every time.

QTP with a game released the year you were born.

Very hyped for Duskbloods. I cannot wait to play as … 🦖 Senator Dinosaur 💿 Chakrum Snake Girl 🪄 Machine Gun Magician 🤿 Metal Mosquito 🔫 Sniper Zombie 🪓 Pajama Executioner And whoever the other four are.

Look, she’s not as charismatic as Mamdami but I am very happy we finally have a leader who isn’t a centrist shill who thinks kids shohld go hungry.

Blades ‘68 but the Tycherosi are all Muppets.

New update to my cool cyberpunk card game CARD DRIVES where you deface a deck of playing cards has you hack corpo networks by playing poker hands: www.patreon.com/notwriting/p...

Kill the puritan in your heart that pipes up with its shrill little voice every time you see something that you find off putting. Ppl publicly sneering at sex in art – including porn & kink – may as well just carry water for Mastercard, PayPal, and the conservative animus rn. I don't respect it

And ANOTHER thing ...

Why does this Star Wars cartoon have gold digging fantasy dwarves mining spackle rocks?