Mark Mausz

Mark Mausz

@redwizard86.bsky.social

Love my family, my cat, my friends, and my life. Games, anime, comics, occasional random/deep thoughts.

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Things I like for the algorithm: Pokémon Dungeons & Dragons Pathfinder Mass Effect Spider-Man Cats Anime X-Box Star Wars Star Trek Final Fantasy Kingdom Hearts Batman Doctor Who Inject all that sh*t straight into my veins!

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Well folks, after 10 years without being laid off, it finally happened. I’m now the FORMER narrative lead on skate. If you know of anyone looking for senior narrative, quest, or mission design roles, I’d love to chat about it with them (or you!)

Last night I wrapped up the first D&D campaign I’ve ever DM’d for. The players were all first timers too. I’m relieved now that the work is done and glad they enjoyed it. It was a lot of work but definitely worth it. I decided to commission this for them as a gift. I think they turned out great!

What the fuck, no! You don’t let a comment like that slide! You ask him what exactly he meant by that and hold him accountable for his threats to the people he was elected to govern! Stop giving him a pass on everything!

Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social

Someday soon hes going to be over and trans folk will continue to exist and, hopefully, thrive, for as long as there are humans on this planet.

On my niece’s recommendation I decided to try watching the Amazing Digital Circus. I just watched the pilot. Does it get better? If I’m kind of “blaugh” on it now is it just now for me? #AmazingDigitalCircus #ADC #FirstTimeWatching

A recreation of one of the most epic Spider-man comics I’ve ever read but with Petra. Art. Pure absolute art. #SuperiorSpiderman #PetraParker #Spiderwoman

Brandon Santiago@4brandonjs4.bsky.social

Norman discovers Petra. 🕷️🕸️ #spiderman #spiderwoman #marvel

I used my day off to play the new Halo. Damn it’s good! It looks amazing of course but it’s just as fun and addictive as it was 25 years ago. I also noticed some of the level layouts felt different. Maybe I’m remembering wrong but the Library level felt shorter. #HaloCampaignEvolved

D&D commoners seeing PCs using magic and not understanding what’s happening must feel the same as people who don’t know how to recognize ai. “What do you mean it’s not real? I just saw it!” “No dad that was just a minor illusion. They’re everywhere now.” “Well how do I do that?” “Please don’t.”

About to do a session zero for a new PF2e campaign tonight. Haven’t played pathfinder in a few years so I’m rusty. Feeling a little nervous. Any advice out there ttrpg fans?

I sell phones for a living, so I hear a lot about ai in iPhones and Samsungs and so on. Often I’m encouraged by those companies to push their ai to sell their phones. The other day a rep from one of the big companies told me ai in phones now is like how cameras were added to phones 20 years ago. …

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People in certain industries are losing their jobs every day due to ai, which removes spending from the economy. Now you could definitely argue that phone cameras were a huge blow to the camera industry and you’d be right, but ai is designed to replace several industries and many more people will…

… feel the squeeze. 7 Ai, as it’s most commonly used today, doesn’t do anything for us that we can’t do ourselves. I could keep going but I think I’ve made my point. #Fuckai

I sell phones for a living, so I hear a lot about ai in iPhones and Samsungs and so on. Often I’m encouraged by those companies to push their ai to sell their phones. The other day a rep from one of the big companies told me ai in phones now is like how cameras were added to phones 20 years ago. …

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2 While it’s true very few people asked for cameras no one really objected to them, especially not as much as people hate ai now. 3 Phone manufacturers didn’t invest billions into cameras and needed to push people to use them or risk losing all that money. 4 Cameras don’t require enormous amounts…

… of power causing a huge drain of natural resources and droughts in towns unfortunate enough to have to live near their infrastructure. 5 Ai chat bots have talked unwell people into suicide. Correct me if I’m wrong but no one was ever killed by a phone camera. 6 Ai is horrible for the economy…

I sell phones for a living, so I hear a lot about ai in iPhones and Samsungs and so on. Often I’m encouraged by those companies to push their ai to sell their phones. The other day a rep from one of the big companies told me ai in phones now is like how cameras were added to phones 20 years ago. …

No one asked for cameras in phones but now no one can imagine a phone without one, “it’s the same thing” they say. I couldn’t argue with them at the time so please let me express why that’s bullshit here: 1 Cameras aren’t built on plagiarism. No one wants to call what ai does plagiarism but it is. …

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if any Xbox employee from any studio or part of the company want to chat with a reporter about all this, anonymously or otherwise, my email and Signal are in my bio, and I would like to listen. I cannot fathom what everyone must be feeling right now.

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This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

Game Informer@gameinformer.com

Sega confirms and responds to generative AI content in the new Crazy Taxi. "Generative AI was used to support our teams during the development of background assets for Crazy Taxi: World Tour," Sega says. gameinformer.com/2026/06/07/s...

we don't usually see each others headers, but here's mine. quote post with yours (if you feel like it) I had just finished FFVI for the first time.

LittleKuriboh@littlekuriboh.bsky.social

we don't usually see each others headers, but here's mine. quote post with yours (if you feel like it) *looks at header* it's YOU??? IT'S YOU.

TTRPG opinion: 5e is not a broken game. It is breakable, but so is almost everything if you try. I play 5e and sometimes get people saying “Why? There are so many better systems out there! 5e sucks! It’s so broken!” It’s not. It CAN be. But only if you break it. If a kid smashes their…

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… rules that are harder to break because they leave less room for interpretation. But I like a little vagueness in my rule system. It leaves room for exploration and imagination. If you hate 5e because of WotC or Hazbro, I get it! The people running them suck. But lots of us still love D&D…

… and are going to continue playing it with our friends (while paying WotC as little as possible). If you want games to be less broken, stop trying to break them. /rant #TTRPG #D&D5e #5e #DnD

TTRPG opinion: 5e is not a broken game. It is breakable, but so is almost everything if you try. I play 5e and sometimes get people saying “Why? There are so many better systems out there! 5e sucks! It’s so broken!” It’s not. It CAN be. But only if you break it. If a kid smashes their…

… favourite toy on a rock and then comes crying to you saying “This toy was broken when I got it!” you’d explain to them that “No, trying to break toys can break them.” Are there other systems out there that are arguably more resilient? Sure. PF2e is a great example of a game with more complex…

It’s dawning on me that there’s no Colbert tonight, and there won’t be tomorrow or the day after. It sucks. Even if you didn’t like his show, the fact that a president can pressure a network into canceling a show that criticized him should piss you all off. #LateShow #CBS