Jim Rossignol
@rossignol.bsky.social
Writer. Makes games. Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS.
And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
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Guest Post: On OVER/UNDER, by Our Man In California
Ahoy! You probably know what this newsletter is, since you signed up for it. But if you don’t, why not come by the Discord and ask someone? Perhaps Marsh or...
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The latest TEETH newsletter features a guest essay on OVER/UNDER by prolific journalist and role-player @markwallace.bsky.social
It's really good. Have a read!
It's really good. Have a read!
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I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful
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Sometimes people ask me how to get better at improvising in TTRPGs and I shrug helplessly, saying "...uhhhhh.... Ummmm," and things like that.
To improve this response I rolled on a spark table and followed the prompt "write a blog post about it".
To improve this response I rolled on a spark table and followed the prompt "write a blog post about it".
How to get better at improvising - Old Men Running The World
You will get better at improvising.
oldmenrunningtheworld.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Sometimes people ask me how to get better at improvising in TTRPGs and I shrug helplessly, saying "...uhhhhh.... Ummmm," and things like that.
To improve this response I rolled on a spark table and followed the prompt "write a blog post about it".
To improve this response I rolled on a spark table and followed the prompt "write a blog post about it".
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A reminder that Thursday is the last day before our Christmas holiday. If you were thinking of placing an order, now is the time! All orders placed from Friday the 19th will be shipped in the New Year.
Thank you everyone for your support and your love!
👉🏼 helleborezine.com
Thank you everyone for your support and your love!
👉🏼 helleborezine.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A reminder that Thursday is the last day before our Christmas holiday. If you were thinking of placing an order, now is the time! All orders placed from Friday the 19th will be shipped in the New Year.
Thank you everyone for your support and your love!
👉🏼 helleborezine.com
Thank you everyone for your support and your love!
👉🏼 helleborezine.com
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As with many other commenters I suspect this will be ignored, begging the question why go through the costly, time-wasting business at all?
🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
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- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
🧵 1/2
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
As with many other commenters I suspect this will be ignored, begging the question why go through the costly, time-wasting business at all?
Sometimes people ask me how to get better at improvising in TTRPGs and I shrug helplessly, saying "...uhhhhh.... Ummmm," and things like that.
To improve this response I rolled on a spark table and followed the prompt "write a blog post about it".
To improve this response I rolled on a spark table and followed the prompt "write a blog post about it".
How to get better at improvising - Old Men Running The World
You will get better at improvising.
oldmenrunningtheworld.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Sometimes people ask me how to get better at improvising in TTRPGs and I shrug helplessly, saying "...uhhhhh.... Ummmm," and things like that.
To improve this response I rolled on a spark table and followed the prompt "write a blog post about it".
To improve this response I rolled on a spark table and followed the prompt "write a blog post about it".
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Really hoping that anyone making a "Games to look forward to in 2026" list hasn't forgotten about our game, Forbidden Solitaire, which is due out early in 2026.
store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
Forbidden Solitaire on Steam
Forbidden Solitaire is a card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed. From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Really hoping that anyone making a "Games to look forward to in 2026" list hasn't forgotten about our game, Forbidden Solitaire, which is due out early in 2026.
store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
Also see Massachusetts, which now has more ultra-wealthy residents than when the tax was implemented. Wealthy flight is nonsense: people want to live where they live, and especially want to live where there are good public services.
Wealth taxes aren't some wild, untested idea.
In fact, they already have them in 🇫🇷 France to 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇪🇸 Spain, and 🇨🇭Switzerland.
Here's what we can learn from them.
In fact, they already have them in 🇫🇷 France to 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇪🇸 Spain, and 🇨🇭Switzerland.
Here's what we can learn from them.
December 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Also see Massachusetts, which now has more ultra-wealthy residents than when the tax was implemented. Wealthy flight is nonsense: people want to live where they live, and especially want to live where there are good public services.
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When I interviewed Lee Gold for the backmatter of DIE, one of the things which struck me was her arguing that they played things they considered roleplaying games PRIOR to D&D. So one could argue Theatre Kids have been incredibly patient with everyone else who colonised their hobby.
December 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
When I interviewed Lee Gold for the backmatter of DIE, one of the things which struck me was her arguing that they played things they considered roleplaying games PRIOR to D&D. So one could argue Theatre Kids have been incredibly patient with everyone else who colonised their hobby.
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December 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Explaining the other day that the moral puzzle about universal health care is not why poor people get it, but why richer people do. The answer from Beveridge, the Liberal (not Socialist) who recommended the NHS is economic efficiency. Universal healthcare removes huge transaction costs.
December 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Explaining the other day that the moral puzzle about universal health care is not why poor people get it, but why richer people do. The answer from Beveridge, the Liberal (not Socialist) who recommended the NHS is economic efficiency. Universal healthcare removes huge transaction costs.
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My personal opinion: use whatever toilet you are most comfortable with.
It doesn’t bother me.
Because I’m a grownup who doesn’t invent things to be afraid of.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It doesn’t bother me.
Because I’m a grownup who doesn’t invent things to be afraid of.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said
www.bbc.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My personal opinion: use whatever toilet you are most comfortable with.
It doesn’t bother me.
Because I’m a grownup who doesn’t invent things to be afraid of.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It doesn’t bother me.
Because I’m a grownup who doesn’t invent things to be afraid of.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'London, Houses in Snow' (1920s) by Janet Cumbrae Stewart
(National Gallery of Victoria)
(National Gallery of Victoria)
December 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
'London, Houses in Snow' (1920s) by Janet Cumbrae Stewart
(National Gallery of Victoria)
(National Gallery of Victoria)
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Random reminder that the last game I released is free - I teamed up with @1neila1.bsky.social and also @agaitcheson.bsky.social did a cool thing in it, and you can download it! It's golf meets platformer meets... shenanigans?
Xenosphere by Nifflas
A golf-like platformer with adaptive music
nifflas.itch.io
December 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Random reminder that the last game I released is free - I teamed up with @1neila1.bsky.social and also @agaitcheson.bsky.social did a cool thing in it, and you can download it! It's golf meets platformer meets... shenanigans?
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Perversely, I'm seeing a lot of postings for copywriter positions via Linkedin, Indeed, etc. -- but they're almost all part-time and/or contract jobs writing copy for AI training purposes. They want people to sign up to train their own shitty replacements.
When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Perversely, I'm seeing a lot of postings for copywriter positions via Linkedin, Indeed, etc. -- but they're almost all part-time and/or contract jobs writing copy for AI training purposes. They want people to sign up to train their own shitty replacements.
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Realis is coming sooner than you think! Sign up to be notified at launch when the print edition of @austinwalker.bsky.social's TTRPG goes live in 2026, and start bracing yourself for all the additional art, player options, and GM resources being added to the game: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Realis is coming sooner than you think! Sign up to be notified at launch when the print edition of @austinwalker.bsky.social's TTRPG goes live in 2026, and start bracing yourself for all the additional art, player options, and GM resources being added to the game: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
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13/12/25 - nocturn
December 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
13/12/25 - nocturn
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud are on sale at the same time!
🍄⛏ Get both with the Best Patch Notes bundle: store.steampowered.com/bundle/38314...
🍄⛏ Get both with the Best Patch Notes bundle: store.steampowered.com/bundle/38314...
December 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud are on sale at the same time!
🍄⛏ Get both with the Best Patch Notes bundle: store.steampowered.com/bundle/38314...
🍄⛏ Get both with the Best Patch Notes bundle: store.steampowered.com/bundle/38314...
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
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Soma is going for an absolutely silly discount right now, 95% off.
If you've not played it, it's perhaps Frictional's best. I never finished it, cos I got too scared
If you've not played it, it's perhaps Frictional's best. I never finished it, cos I got too scared
Save 95% on SOMA on Steam
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very exi...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Soma is going for an absolutely silly discount right now, 95% off.
If you've not played it, it's perhaps Frictional's best. I never finished it, cos I got too scared
If you've not played it, it's perhaps Frictional's best. I never finished it, cos I got too scared
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insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
December 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
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The next instalment of my 101 TTRPGs, where I revealI am a bad person, and a terrible GM, with awful recollection of details. My 98, 99, and 100th favourite TTRPGs ever...revealed!
My 101 Favourite TTRPGS: 98-100 - Old Men Running The World
We finally return to my list of every single TTRPG I've ever played (up to my 50th birthday) as ascertained by my rigorous and definitely not entirely
oldmenrunningtheworld.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The next instalment of my 101 TTRPGs, where I revealI am a bad person, and a terrible GM, with awful recollection of details. My 98, 99, and 100th favourite TTRPGs ever...revealed!
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people