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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 1d

Hey did you know I have a new game out? I haven't been shouting about it much as I've been busy, but I think it's really good and the physical copies will be out soon, so go check it out! You could be the first to buy one ;)

Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · Aug 14

Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition is out now on digital release! You can get the PDF at ehronlime.itch.io/ithaca-in-th... for $15. This GM-less blackjack driven storygame has you playing as doomed travelers on a perilous journey home, pitting your hand and hearts against Fate.

Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition by ehronlime

A blackjack-driven storygame about doomed travelers on a perilous journey home.

ehronlime.itch.io

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 1d

also ice cream for breakfast

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Black Cats Gaming @blackcatsgaming.bsky.social · 1d

We launched The Spy Game: Spymaster's Toolkit kickstarter yesterday!

Have you backed yet?

Come in from the cold, join the Agency.

Black Cats Gaming @blackcatsgaming.bsky.social · 2d

Agents, The Spy Game: Spymaster’s Toolkit is LIVE on Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/287...

Expand your options for espionage with new archetypes, feats, gadgets, NPCs, and tools to make your own supervillain lairs!

Back now, and come in from the cold...
#TheSpyGame #ttrpg #tabletop #5e

The Spy Game: Spymaster's Toolkit Supplement

An RPG expansion for spies of all levels, powered by 5e.

www.kickstarter.com

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 1d

We will allow you to tick the “menty h is a-ok” button and then you’ll be able to get tips to kys. Much safe. Very emoji.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

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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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 1d

Further to this: if you record audio-only, you create something that works way better. When you’re recording video, people fall back on hand gestures, talking over one another, not describing what they’re seeing. If your conversation is recorded as just audio, it’ll make for better listening.

Robin in the woods @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

"Is the audio-only podcast on the way out?"

Friends, if you're thinking of it as "audio only", you're doing audio wrong. Your medium is what you use, not what you're limited to. It's like saying "visual-only painting", "words-only novel", "food-only cookery", "audio-only music"

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like there’s a huge parallel between Carpe Jugulum’s Vampyres and tech oligarchs, where their eventual downfall will be from trying to modernise their evil and more and more brazenly treating people as things.
At least, I hope so - be nice to see a some torches and pitchforks one day.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 2d

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle

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Morgane Magloire illustration @morganemgl.bsky.social · 2d

Hi it's #portfolioday !

I'm Morgane a freelance artist who loves to illustrate deep emotions,I do book covers, interior art, and recently started to do card illustrations for MTG🥹

Woman with a big pink dress looking behind her back

A couple exchanging their last kiss underwater

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 2d

Battleshits

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 3d

The first I NEED A MIRACLE live show is at @audiodramahub.bsky.social Hubfest on 1 November! You can get tickets for the whole day or just for the live shows in the evening

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/audio-dram...

The full Audio Drama Hubfest 2025 itinerary, including I Need A Miracle listed as one of the Live Shows from 18:45 to 21:15

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 4d

Salty chips gonna do that

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 5d

Pool’s a little sparse tho

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 5d

Scouseritter

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 19d

And yet - nothing about this is on the BBC main app.

It’s hidden under Welsh news.

Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun, The Times.

Seems like Farage’s opinions on everything make front page news EXCEPT when one of his guys admits to taking Russian bribes….🤷🏼‍♀️

13/14

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 6d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 7d

Just thinking of how joyless “did you know that line was a hallucination that wasn’t in the original prompt” is, compared to the inspirational spontaneity of human cinema.

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 7d

I would be in favour of Mr Beast if he were forcing billionaires to perform demeaning tasks for the right to retain their wealth.

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 7d

The viewers will like what I tell them to like.

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Mike Harrison-Wood @mikeharrisonwood.bsky.social · 7d

Role announcement!

I play as Clive Donahue (narrator and protagonist) in Paraspective, a free to play visual novel!

Without saying too much it involves some awesome meta-narrative stuff that keeps you on your toes and leads to the "true" ending. Can you find it?

housewrennt.itch.io/paraspective

Paraspective by housewrennt

What if you were the monster?

housewrennt.itch.io

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 7d

For those unsure, here are 1d6 leftovers:
1 Just over a mouthful of curry
2 Bowl of stir fry, where you ate all the bits you like most already
3 Too much rice
4 Between 1/4 and 1/8 of a pizza
5 Meat of an age you are still willing chance
6 Pasta bake that has t h i c k e n e d

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 7d

I would be in favour of Mr Beast if he were forcing billionaires to perform demeaning tasks for the right to retain their wealth.

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 7d

Unreasonably incensed by an advert that describes making a meal out of "leftovers", then proceeds to make a toastie using a new, unopened jar of pasta sauce, some grated cheese, and two slices of sourdough.

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Ursidice @ursidice.bsky.social · 7d

Stirges just pufferfishing and dropping to the ground like a fat blood balloon.

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 7d

On the board at 35!!

Digital Media World Cups | WSWC & AFWC @dmwcinfo.bsky.social · 7d

🚨🚨🚨 October 2025 AFWC Update! 🚨🚨🚨

There's a *ton* of movement on the ranking with a lot of festivals still to go in 2025 with a ton of movement yet to come!

Many 2026 festivals are open! Submit your work to them today! https://digitalmediaworldcups/audio-fiction-world-cup

The updated rankings for the Audio Fiction World Cup as of October 8, 2025.
1 - Merona Grant & The Lost Tomb of Golgotha
2 -Leylines
3 - Planet Arcana
4 - My First Dungeon: The Wildsea
5 - Godkiller: Last Hope
6 - Curious Matter Anthology
7 - Fables of Eyrde: Lost Mine of the Colossus
8 - The Witches of Wederra Keep
9 - The Adventures of Bud & Herb
10 - DINK: The Musical
11 - The Storyteller Squad, The Fourth Age
12 - Dark Dice
13 - KIND: An LGBTQ+ Mythical Noir
14 - The Caller

The updated rankings for the Audio Fiction World Cup as of October 8, 2025.
15 - Wayward Autumnal
16 - Fawx & Stallion
17 - Unbalanced Encounters: Small Gods Scatter, The Spectral Silhouette Radio Show
18 - Twilight Meridian
19 - Table Read Podcast
20 - Levian, Godkiller: Balance
21 - Liberty: Tales from the Tower
22 - We’re Alive: Descendants, Tales Yet Told: 2048 AM Voices in the Wood
23 - Observable Radio
24 - The Book of War, Silvertongues
25 - The Treacle People: Still Sticky

The updated rankings for the Audio Fiction World Cup as of October 8, 2025.
26 - Howl
27 - Beneath the Surface, A Haunting, Beloved
28 - Gather by the Ghost Light (The Other Me), 5 GMs in a Trenchcoat
29 - The Corner of Pleasure & West River, Murderer’s Murder, Mage Hand High Five: The Badlands
30 - Moose on a Highway
31 - The All-American Ruins Podcast
32 - Unlicensed Magic
33 - The Cleanup Crew
34 - Windfall, Quest Friends!, Malevolent

The updated rankings for the Audio Fiction World Cup as of October 8, 2025.
35 - Unbalanced Encounters: Rally, The White Vault: Goshawk, Kobalt Pier, I Need a Miracle, Ghost InSpectors
Demons & Daughters
37 - True Crime Rectum, Partial Veil
38 - The City: Revolution, RPG for You and Me - Absolute Zero, Forsaken
39 - Stowaway, Old Cove, Alpha 8
40 - What Will Be Here?

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