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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 1h

I'm going to talk a lot about the 1920s

cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 1h

HEY! On Thursday (10/16) I am giving a talk at Auburn about how we depict and talk about worlds in tabletop and miniature games. It's about granularity and how fiddly we get about the worlds we make. It's at 4pm and it's free and the info can be found at this link cla.auburn.edu/cah/events/?...

Events - College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 1h

Love this.

Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 1h

I am so very very excited to have Cameron driving across the border with his students for what I hope is the first of many such exchanges down here.

cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 1h

HEY! On Thursday (10/16) I am giving a talk at Auburn about how we depict and talk about worlds in tabletop and miniature games. It's about granularity and how fiddly we get about the worlds we make. It's at 4pm and it's free and the info can be found at this link cla.auburn.edu/cah/events/?...

Events - College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University

cla.auburn.edu

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 1h

HEY! On Thursday (10/16) I am giving a talk at Auburn about how we depict and talk about worlds in tabletop and miniature games. It's about granularity and how fiddly we get about the worlds we make. It's at 4pm and it's free and the info can be found at this link cla.auburn.edu/cah/events/?...

Events - College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University

cla.auburn.edu

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 1h

That is… not my experience of Reddit but I’m very glad it is yours!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

You can get that PROTECT TRANS YOUTH t-shirt, designed by @tombofnull.bsky.social, from @greenpeapress.bsky.social! Proceeds benefit Huntsville's Free LGBTQ+ Closet!
www.greenpeapress.com/shop/p/prote...

Protect Trans Youth — Green Pea Press

Due to the very sudden influx of orders of this product, we are currently working to restock low quantities. We must have gone viral, y’all! Please sign up to receive a restock notifications. Thank yo...

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 1h

YAY

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2h

The precursor of the Presidential Medal of Freedom was the Congressional Medal of Freedom, which was established in 1945 to honor civilians who aided the fight against fascism in WWII.

from wikipedia, a bronze medal with an image of Columbia crowned with stars and an eagle headdress over the word Freedom, with a red ribbon and a bronze palm.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 2h

And yet I keep mulling over what it would be to have a DM learning a system on mic. I don’t even know how you’d pull off that trick. Maybe it’s impossible.

I find myself thinking a lot about authority versus hosting/facilitating — there’s overlap, of course, but can a group learn together?

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 2h

Instead, it’s QS as teacher (Sage on the stage, with the occasional fruitful glimpse at his exasperation), with two bright students with exceptional trust (& healthy lack of deference). It’s real & yet constructed — as any class is, really.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve been talking to KG about the role of the GM, especially in PTFO, which began from a pedagogical brief. What strikes me as I try to define what pedagogical AP is these days is that what I thought from Q’s original pitch — that we’d see HIM learn, as audience avatar, couldn’t actually happen… 1/?

Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 18h

So, for me, more useful and interesting than most traditional actual plays. More dramatic actual plays will tell me a story. More factual ones will show you how any given game is done. This isn't either. You want to know what it's like to enter the world of Jorume or Nobilis? These are audioportals.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 18h

Up to date with this, and am really enjoying it - I find myself thinking what Quinns is doing with these heavy games is doing what most these games don't - follow the old screenwriting adage of Turning Exposition Into Ammunition. As such, it's both an intro to the players AND the audience.

Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 11d

The new season of my actual play show where we play old rpgs from history BEGINS!

Here at the start of the season I mostly hold it together as the GM. Later, you can practically hear the steam coming out of my ears. Podcast links are in the video description!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTLB...

Play to Find Out, S3E1: Nobilis

YouTube video by Quinns Quest

www.youtube.com

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 2h

Also here for the “yes and” of B5.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d

Based on these prints I found after last night’s open hours @skeuomorphpress.org, I’d say things are happening in the cornfields of central Illinois

Two posters, one on orange paper and one on yellow, reading “LUDDITE SOCIETY” in large wood type. underneath the letters is an illustration of a flame printed from a linocut

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone, the days of NOT CREDITING photojournalists and video journalists are OVER. You MUST CREDIT photographers and videographers who are risking bodies and lives.

Also very important, we can't verify without knowing sources.

No one is being singled out. But from now on, you will be CALLED OUT.

Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 3h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 4d

Okay folks, if you or anyone you know would like a Frog of Portland necklace or keychain with @queermedieval.bsky.social design, fill out this form and Venmo me $10 (or $30 for 5). Half goes to Miles, half goes to supplies. Support a trans artist & share the joy! 🐸🌈 #DHmakes

Frog of Portland necklaces / keychains!

Frog of Portland design by Miles (@queermedieval.bsky.social), laser cutting & logistics by Quinn (@quinnanya.me). Venmo @Quinn-Dombrowski-1. Half the money goes to Miles -- supporting trans artists, ...

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Cam Banks 🇳🇿 ❌👑 @rustysellsword.com · 4h

Literally nobody else does breakdowns like this. Amazing.

Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 9h

Q3 sales numbers (public-facing, primarily volume based, no strong distinction made between physical and digital sales, but still, visualization) for Evil Hat: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Archive going back to 2016 (when I switched over to doing them in Drive) drive.google.com/drive/folder...

2025Q3 Quarterly Numbers for Evil Hat

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

On Sunday, I visited DEAR NEW YORK, Brandon Stanton's "love letter" to the city he's been documenting for years as "Humans of New York" for their family reception with student artists.

It's a gorgeous exhibit that's transformed Grand Central Station. See it before 10/19!

Zohran and Brandon standing in Grand Central Station. Brandon has his arm around Zohran's shoulder showing him the exhibit.

A group photo with Zohran and Brandon sitting on the floor with a dozens of students around them.

Zohran and a student artist admiring a photographer.

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Meghan 🔜 PAXU 🖤✨ @meghanlynnftw.bsky.social · 6h

They're here and I love them!
Want to get your mits on one? I'll have them at #PaxU!

A photo of a hand holding a small zine called "They're You're Problem Now: A Shit post TTRPG collection"

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 13h

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 6h

Visa and Mastercard have the opportunity to do something really funny.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 10h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social · 7h

Today we got to do something INCREDIBLY exciting that was one of the core reasons we started the Many Sided Network:

We got to pay our affiliates!

No one is receiving a lifechanging amount of money—far from it—but we're proud to help small independent podcasters make a bit of money from their art

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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 8h

Part 2: I gave my presentation (partly) on how I'm not sure Games Workshop cares about people making GW style miniatures. Then in real time they sued someone for doing just that.

Oops. But also maybe not oops. On analog games as platforms.

stuckness.ghost.io/when-your-ac...

When your academic presentation is maybe wrong, or Games Workshop sued someone again

My presentation at the Games Workshop Research Day last weekend was on the Chapterhouse case. Very, very briefly: Games Workshop lost (most of) a lawsuit against a small manufacturer of conversion "bi...

stuckness.ghost.io

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 7h

Today’s class on LITTLE WARS became an object lesson in reading against the grain, the ways canon-formation works in all kinds of institutional ways, shaping even the names of streets (the first literary canon that ever taught me)

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