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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected]

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💛 I make tools for GMs for 5e, A5e, and Free5e 🤍 I do developmental editing and design. 💜 I broadcast TTRPG news and support indie devs and artists. 🖤 I chat about funding and publishing TTRPG books. http://Homebrewandhacking.com

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · Dec 6

"I followed this profile" reaction table (2d6)

Hostile
2- You're selling AI or investment opportunities
3- You're on BS to talk about US politics
4- You expect me to auto follow back

Unfriendly
5- You don't use alt-text
6- You haven't filled in your profile

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 7h

Elephant seals dive to 300 metres depth.

Whilst enjoying a little REM sleep nap.

Flip over, spiral down, and then wake up to hunt.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Brain activity of diving seals reveals short sleep cycles at depth

Elephant seals sleep 2 hours a day while diving for months at sea, rivaling the record for the least sleep among mammals.

www.science.org

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 7h

I keep trying to tell people that _punching_ Nazis to get them to shut up and stop Nazi-ing in public is the humane and life-saving approach.

Everyone just assumes I'm joking.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 8h

The word “essay” means “to try” and it’s just not worth reading if the author did not.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 8h

I think one realization that a lot of people resist is that a good essay is as much entertainment as it is persuasion or edification.

Which is partly why I have a really hard time engaging with AI generated content the same way.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 7h

Pain, that thing that doctors thought babies didn't feel (and therefore didn't need anaesthesia during surgery), that thing that autistic people are famously great at expressing.

Surveillance state society meet abject stupidity and the denying of the validity of people's internal worlds.

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 10h

A new book for What's Old Is New, the generic system which combines fantasy, "modern 00s" and futuristic. It's a bestiary with a lot of creatures.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/enw...

#WOIN

What's OLD is NEW Bestiary For Fantasy, Modern, & Sci-fi

Over 250 monsters and NPCs for the What’s OLD is NEW TTRPG game system--plus the starter set for those new to WOIN!

www.kickstarter.com

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 10h

So: he's got a new book. In it he refers to the practice of non-linear design, as pioneered by Jennel Jaquays, as Zandering.

I.e. he named it after himself.

Huxley popularised "On the Origin of Species". But we say Darwin invented the theory. (Leaving Galton out of this.)

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 10h

Oh the Alexandrian? Hadn't you heard?

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks for the article. Good covering of the process.

Do you have any similar references to people from non-credit stealing types? E.g. Alexander claiming Jaquays' non-linear design as "Zandering". And the arguments fall between those who favour Huxley's theory of evolution and Darwin's.

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

I quite liked Heart of Darkness by this designer. This naval horror game should be good.

bsky.app/profile/navy...

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now that I've traumatised a non-zero portion of my readership...

Heart of Darkness by @navypink.itch.io is a 4-10 5e DnD adventure I backed on kickstarter.

I am a lazy hack GM that enjoys running modules. I can, have and will make up my own stories but see first sentence.

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The book heart of darkness by Navypink with map and a cute lil handwritten note

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

The Bronze Age just keeps getting cooler.

Punt
Sea people
International trade networks

There's a lot to like

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

That does sound like he considers Germany home.

Apparently Spain and China don't like dual citizenship!

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

An Eastenders marathon should cure them. 😀

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

Anglophiles I take on a case by case basis.

I apologise for my poor communication. I quite like Americans*, and coming from the 80s, I _can_ see why people over romanticise the US. 😀

*the government is a different story

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 1d

Huh...

Moved here in 2012, as the Cameron government was kicking into high omnishambles, and... likes it better than the USA.

Really hard to navigate this cultural shift. Some of my contemporaries are ardent americanophiles and I can understand why.

youtu.be/M1QvVnjiegE?...

How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

youtu.be

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Spooky Saba 🏳️‍🌈 @ace-of-dragons.bsky.social · 2d

are you an artist who takes TTRPG character commissions? would you like to be in a starter pack?

let me know below! 🫶🏻 I'm hoping to put this together in the next few days~ 🩷

#DnD #SupportArtists

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 2d

Short of physically setting it on fire, there are few _worse_ uses for $40bn then AI.

It's costing billions and maybe making millions, so that's less than a 0.1% return on investment for the companies _shilling_ AI.

Companies using AI? Short term wage reductions but then they have to hire again.

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 2d

Ohhh it's ash fall... damn that's evil...

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 2d

*looks up*

Is... is that snow? 😀

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 2d

So good! I'm quite a keen amateur, but the fact that I can cross-check what he says with other sources makes me more confident in his work.

I've got to find time to see the latest one on starfish!

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 2d

Vancouver Island was absolutely stunning when I visited (back in... '05) SO MANY Bookshops. Loved it. And you have cougars! #SoBlessed :)

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, there's a periodic memetic scourge ("discourse") where people argue things like "YA fiction isn't real writing".

People are always welcome to disagree with me, but my personal experience as a person who is no longer young, is that I quite enjoy reading it and think it's very valuable.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 2d

And the blurst (best-worst) part of this is if Venture Capital had thrown as much money into TTRPG at this rate as they are doing AI?

They'd have a MUCH better return on investment.

Seriously, they're not seeing 0.1% returns.

Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 3d

i have amazing money trick you give me 10 million dollars, I will turn it into 1 million dollars of TTRPG sales

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 2d

Young Adult fiction is harder to write and often better to read than regular fiction. People who look down on it don't appreciate good stories and fun times from people who are competing with smart phones.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 2d

If a government did things that I disagreed with but otherwise maintained solidarity with marginalised groups then I would be prepared to consider them on the merits. Pragmatism is important, and the perfect is the enemy of the good.

But actively harming minorities to court fascists isn't ok.

PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 2d

Good question, is Polanski splitting the "leftist" vote?

I'd argue no. The minimum requirements to be considered a "leftist" are to be standing in solidarity with marginalised groups.

This "Labour" government has thrown trans kids and disabled people under a bus. I don't consider them "leftist".

Sky News (Mirror) @skynews-m.bsky.social · 2d

Is Zack Polanski squeezing the Labour vote? Sky's Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy discuss the polls post conferences and assess who the winners and losers are. Listen to #PASAA wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
https://trib.al/M1dnPFD

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