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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 1h

LIVE NOW!
www.twitch.tv/onlyplaywiza...
#TheExpanse #RPG #TTRPG

Abraxas' Precipice, The Expanse RPG Actual Play @abraxasprecipic.bsky.social · 6h

🚀The crew gets back home to Mundos Edge, while they await the completion of their new ship. What does home look like to those on the frontier of humanity?
📺New episode tonight at 6pm PST on twitch.tv/onlyplaywizards
#TheExpanse #RPG #TTRPG

a woman says " the fight is not over " in front of a blue sign

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 1h

LIVE NOW!
www.twitch.tv/onlyplaywiza...
#TheExpanse #RPG #TTRPG

Abraxas' Precipice, The Expanse RPG Actual Play @abraxasprecipic.bsky.social · 6h

🚀The crew gets back home to Mundos Edge, while they await the completion of their new ship. What does home look like to those on the frontier of humanity?
📺New episode tonight at 6pm PST on twitch.tv/onlyplaywizards
#TheExpanse #RPG #TTRPG

a woman says " the fight is not over " in front of a blue sign

ALT: a woman says " the fight is not over " in front of a blue sign

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 4d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2h

2021, MSFT claimed a Teams app could read emotional affect & I's like "holy shit this will fuck over so many Black & autistic & otherwise neurodivergent & women & non-binary ppl & ppl w/ chronic pain & … like Everybody at any of those intersections."

This PainChek thing is that, but a doctors' tool

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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dimples-n-doom! @dimplesndice.bsky.social · 2h

Would you come watch Vampire the Masquerade if we were live now? I think you should!

The Monster Within starts now!

twitch.tv/dimplesndice

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 2h

"Looks like it is my day of the week to cry myself to sleep. Glad it didn't fall on a Tuesday."

John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 2h

Like a chore wheel, but for the struggle.

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 2h

It's a feature, not a bug!

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 3h

Peak game design

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Apr 22

wizardry 8, sirtech software, official website, excerpt (1998) web.archive.org/web/19981202...

an excerpt from the official wizardry 8 portion of sir-tech's website, which was coming soon at the time. a screenshot of the inventory screen for the game for a faerie ninja (lots of user interface filling up the screen). the website itself is a kinda bright pink. there is a menu up the top: contest, what's new, store, press, support, our story, home, coming soon.
down the left hand side of the screen is a scroll bar and a bunch of hyperlink icons, leading to various games that sir-tech is working on or has released: xfire, jagged alliance 2, virus the game, armed and delirious, excalibur, shadows over riva, fable, trivia challenge.

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 3h

Goes back to your point about how networks the TTRPG space is. Sometimes nice to have strangers.

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 4h

What is interesting is the non-TTRPG players' perspectives. Think that is an advantage of not making playing mandatory as I see with other classes on the topic.

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 5h

Chris is really getting into the overlap of the TTRPG & Federal Politics worlds are. Good stuff!

John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 5h

$100 to lose
Everything to gain.

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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 5h

This season of Peacemaker was incredible.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 5h

Broadly: it feels like everyone is making things for me more difficult than they need to be.

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 6h

Round 2 with @newsnerd.bsky.social & my #TTRPG class @ucmerced.bsky.social
Good insights.

Students are interested in journalism broadly but also the dynamics of the TTRPG spaces.

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 6h

Struggling a bit. Lot going on. Work. Personal. Games. Gonna keep on trying, keep on keeping on.

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Abraxas' Precipice, The Expanse RPG Actual Play @abraxasprecipic.bsky.social · 6h

🚀The crew gets back home to Mundos Edge, while they await the completion of their new ship. What does home look like to those on the frontier of humanity?
📺New episode tonight at 6pm PST on twitch.tv/onlyplaywizards
#TheExpanse #RPG #TTRPG

a woman says " the fight is not over " in front of a blue sign

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 6h

That is some horny cereal.

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 7h

Discussion of the influence that @rascal.news has on the journalism of tabletop games.

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 7h

Chris & I are nerding out about @vampiresnvino.bsky.social & how to not freak out when chatting with someone we are big fans of.

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Beware, A Mad Wizard @jhwilliams3.bsky.social · 8h

#Halloween post: Don’t remember if I posted this before, but fine to repeat😎Raw art for The Walking Dead deluxe connecting covers I did some time ago. This is 42 inches across.

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Eric Campbell @16biteric.bsky.social · 7h

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As a GM, I say ditch the mindset that "no" is bad, at the table. "No" can 100% be abused and can stifle fun, that's true. But it's contemptibly narrow-minded to vilify "no". Used skillfully, "no" can inspire creativity, protect the integrity of the table, the game world and the story. (1/6)

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 7h

Great insight from Chris who worked in political reporting: DC's intertwineness is a lot like TTRPG industry intertwineness.

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