justin achilli
@jachilli.bsky.social
Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Studio Hermitage | ex-WoD, ex-Ubi, ex-etc. | shoe enjoyer | he/ him
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On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
Hello, welcome to my life.
Study Finds Processed Meats Carcinogenic But They Were On Sale https://theonion.com/study-finds-processed-meats-carcinogenic-but-they-were-on-sale/
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Hello, welcome to my life.
TIL NOW, I ALWAYS GOT BY ON MY OWN
I NEVER REALLY CARED UNTIL I MET YOU
I NEVER REALLY CARED UNTIL I MET YOU
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
TIL NOW, I ALWAYS GOT BY ON MY OWN
I NEVER REALLY CARED UNTIL I MET YOU
I NEVER REALLY CARED UNTIL I MET YOU
Absolute garbage modern Jedi-type, complete trash mystic, potential measured in microplastics instead of yodachlorians
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Absolute garbage modern Jedi-type, complete trash mystic, potential measured in microplastics instead of yodachlorians
Winter horror recommendation: The White Reindeer (1952). An early influence on folk horror, in which a Sami woman seeks a romantic charm, but her innate magical nature makes something more sinister happen. Evocative, moody practical special effects, especially using contrast, light and shadow.
December 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Winter horror recommendation: The White Reindeer (1952). An early influence on folk horror, in which a Sami woman seeks a romantic charm, but her innate magical nature makes something more sinister happen. Evocative, moody practical special effects, especially using contrast, light and shadow.
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Take a listen to an interview with the Game Mechanic Podcast team and @jachilli.bsky.social talking about @ourbrilliantruin.com and all our products! We are at the 36 minute mark. #paxu #paxunplugged #pax2025
The Mechanics went to Pax Unplugged! Well, Greg did and met a bunch of really cool folks and talked about their games and their favorite game mechanics. #paxunplugged
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2gnj...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2gnj...
Mechanics at PAXU - GM2 39
Podcast Episode · Game Mechanics - A Critical Tabletop Podcast · 12/02/2025 · 55m
podcasts.apple.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Take a listen to an interview with the Game Mechanic Podcast team and @jachilli.bsky.social talking about @ourbrilliantruin.com and all our products! We are at the 36 minute mark. #paxu #paxunplugged #pax2025
“Must be nice to play video games all day.” I wouldn’t know, man, because making them is very different to playing finished versions for fun.
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Must be nice to play video games all day.” I wouldn’t know, man, because making them is very different to playing finished versions for fun.
You have to wonder if these people even look at the things that they say are going to revolutionize [SOMETHING].
December 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
You have to wonder if these people even look at the things that they say are going to revolutionize [SOMETHING].
It’s me, the guy whose jukebox set makes the bar turn down the volume.
November 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It’s me, the guy whose jukebox set makes the bar turn down the volume.
The whole point of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories: Wooster is a complete goddamn idiot and would slam his own groin in a car door repeatedly until he died unless Jeeves was there to tut-tut him into not death-slamming his groin in the door, and to extricate him from post-groin-slam consequences.
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The whole point of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories: Wooster is a complete goddamn idiot and would slam his own groin in a car door repeatedly until he died unless Jeeves was there to tut-tut him into not death-slamming his groin in the door, and to extricate him from post-groin-slam consequences.
Anyway, we're playing Mothership tonight. I asked the host to set aside 1/3 cup of the chili they're preparing for use as a discoverable in-game artifact. It will represent what's left of the pilot, assuming they enter the cockpit.
November 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Anyway, we're playing Mothership tonight. I asked the host to set aside 1/3 cup of the chili they're preparing for use as a discoverable in-game artifact. It will represent what's left of the pilot, assuming they enter the cockpit.
AI creates an illusion of work, not work proper. It's not for writers, it's for people who want to 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯. It's not for creators, it's for people who want a portfolio or a container full of "content." It is opposite to human expression; it is simulacra. A plastic hamburger on a tray.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
AI creates an illusion of work, not work proper. It's not for writers, it's for people who want to 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯. It's not for creators, it's for people who want a portfolio or a container full of "content." It is opposite to human expression; it is simulacra. A plastic hamburger on a tray.
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A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
This is the penultimate result of declaring sociopathic avarice a virtue and putting the nation’s most depraved individuals in charge of realizing that as policy.
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is the penultimate result of declaring sociopathic avarice a virtue and putting the nation’s most depraved individuals in charge of realizing that as policy.
Imagine a nation so diseased that it considers children being murdered in educational settings to be a source of revenue.
The entrepreneurs who are part of the booming school safety industry face a cruel irony: they are dependent on the uniquely American epidemic of school shootings.
Inside the $4 billion industry built on America's school shooting epidemic
Filmmakers Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari examine a troubling new market.
www.motherjones.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Imagine a nation so diseased that it considers children being murdered in educational settings to be a source of revenue.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Black Friday Sale! Get 50% OFF everything at Darker Hue Studios! Dive into award-winning worlds:
Haunted West – Supernatural horror meets the Wild West
Harlem Unbound – Lovecraftian horror in the Harlem Renaissance
Everything is HALF OFF through December 2nd.
Haunted West – Supernatural horror meets the Wild West
Harlem Unbound – Lovecraftian horror in the Harlem Renaissance
Everything is HALF OFF through December 2nd.
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We can read 4000 year old texts. We can't open 20 year old digital documents
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
We can read 4000 year old texts. We can't open 20 year old digital documents
Some of these are fun and comical, conveying the attitudes of developers, but -all- of them convey aspects of the game world and say things about the spaces where they're encountered. When your game has an ambient detail that's a magazine titled GREED, that says something very specific.
I'm concerned that one thing game companies will use genAI for is populating background details like fake magazines, store shelf products, and book covers. This is what they're trying to take from us. This is what's at stake. (Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines, Dead Rising, and Plastic Battlegrounds VR)
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Some of these are fun and comical, conveying the attitudes of developers, but -all- of them convey aspects of the game world and say things about the spaces where they're encountered. When your game has an ambient detail that's a magazine titled GREED, that says something very specific.
Very strange dream. Met some people who were not at all to my liking who were running some sort of off-the-books airline or railroad or something out of a derelict… department store?
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Very strange dream. Met some people who were not at all to my liking who were running some sort of off-the-books airline or railroad or something out of a derelict… department store?
100% the sort of thing some coterie of neonates would do, having convinced themselves that this would absolutely hamstring the Prince.
Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
100% the sort of thing some coterie of neonates would do, having convinced themselves that this would absolutely hamstring the Prince.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
• The Damned
• Orville Peck
• Public Enemy
• Cocteau Twins
• Madonna
• The Damned
• Orville Peck
• Public Enemy
• Cocteau Twins
• Madonna
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
* Paradise Lost
* The Sisters of Mercy
* Iron Maiden
* Alien Sex Fiend
* A-Ha
🤘😉
* Paradise Lost
* The Sisters of Mercy
* Iron Maiden
* Alien Sex Fiend
* A-Ha
🤘😉
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Bon Jovi
Jim Byrnes
Joan Jett
The Who
Imelda May
Bon Jovi
Jim Byrnes
Joan Jett
The Who
Imelda May
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
• The Damned
• Orville Peck
• Public Enemy
• Cocteau Twins
• Madonna
• The Damned
• Orville Peck
• Public Enemy
• Cocteau Twins
• Madonna
that “dog park” commercial sounds like an LCD Soundsystem song
November 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
that “dog park” commercial sounds like an LCD Soundsystem song
Discoverability. Your creative work shares mindspace with everything that ever came before you as well as your contemporaries and the new hotness that'll come after your title.
Less of an issue if you're doing things solely for the creation, but PRIMARY if you're trying to make a living at it.
Less of an issue if you're doing things solely for the creation, but PRIMARY if you're trying to make a living at it.
What's the flavour of the current era of TTRPG design? Social Media Refragmentation? Is it a consolidation cycle? What are the new upcoming designers struggling with and against now?
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Discoverability. Your creative work shares mindspace with everything that ever came before you as well as your contemporaries and the new hotness that'll come after your title.
Less of an issue if you're doing things solely for the creation, but PRIMARY if you're trying to make a living at it.
Less of an issue if you're doing things solely for the creation, but PRIMARY if you're trying to make a living at it.
Worth noting, too, that Debs’ sedition conviction was a bipartisan enterprise of Democrat and Republican cooperation. Historical unity, ruling classes, etc. etc. etc.
"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose—especially their lives."
- Eugene Debs, 1918 (this speech landed him in prison)
- Eugene Debs, 1918 (this speech landed him in prison)
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Worth noting, too, that Debs’ sedition conviction was a bipartisan enterprise of Democrat and Republican cooperation. Historical unity, ruling classes, etc. etc. etc.