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Known as @noise there.
I don't post much but I am reading.
Please don't 'likeback' due to politeness, or (even worse) engagement if you don't really find the post interesting.
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Known as @noise there.
I don't post much but I am reading.
Please don't 'likeback' due to politeness, or (even worse) engagement if you don't really find the post interesting.
It is ok not to follow me if you don't find my writing of any use.
During downtime players form no memories. Sure, they might imagine how things went, or there might be a DM-given paragraph of how things went, but ultimately downtime is extremely blank.
I increasingly want to use a quick lyric game to fill these gaps. Not to determine outcome but make it to exist.
I increasingly want to use a quick lyric game to fill these gaps. Not to determine outcome but make it to exist.
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
During downtime players form no memories. Sure, they might imagine how things went, or there might be a DM-given paragraph of how things went, but ultimately downtime is extremely blank.
I increasingly want to use a quick lyric game to fill these gaps. Not to determine outcome but make it to exist.
I increasingly want to use a quick lyric game to fill these gaps. Not to determine outcome but make it to exist.
Increasingly it appears to be that sorcery in one of my games works by VtM principles, as turns out sorcerers can diablerize each other. The process isn't as easy as just having a snack in VtM and is pretty dark for everybody involved but in a game with only 7 lvls a temptation of power is strong.
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Increasingly it appears to be that sorcery in one of my games works by VtM principles, as turns out sorcerers can diablerize each other. The process isn't as easy as just having a snack in VtM and is pretty dark for everybody involved but in a game with only 7 lvls a temptation of power is strong.
In much less exciting news one of my best maps, Melrose, along with the map for Tyn Mava seems to be lost or stolen. I took them out for Summer Lego Jam 2 but forgot to put back, and all this time thought I did but now they seem to be just gone.
July to August were so mind-muddy I am not surprised.
July to August were so mind-muddy I am not surprised.
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
In much less exciting news one of my best maps, Melrose, along with the map for Tyn Mava seems to be lost or stolen. I took them out for Summer Lego Jam 2 but forgot to put back, and all this time thought I did but now they seem to be just gone.
July to August were so mind-muddy I am not surprised.
July to August were so mind-muddy I am not surprised.
I had too much fun making a little count-down verse in style of "And then there were none" to be (hopefully at some point) sung by shit-talking devil-god about questors fighting an evil aristocrat lady (and losing terribly).
November 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I had too much fun making a little count-down verse in style of "And then there were none" to be (hopefully at some point) sung by shit-talking devil-god about questors fighting an evil aristocrat lady (and losing terribly).
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Look upon the cowards and remember well they want you dead. They want you to suffer while they line their pockets with your blood, sweat and toil.
There is no wall befitting such lowly collaborators to the authoritarian in charge. Let'em slither to the curb and know the boot is too good for them.
There is no wall befitting such lowly collaborators to the authoritarian in charge. Let'em slither to the curb and know the boot is too good for them.
Trump is filling his government with Nazis, consolidating authoritarian power, and eroding democracy at every chance.
And yet these 86 House Democrats voted for a right-wing messaging amendment to say that the real authoritarians are the socialists.
Pathetic.
And yet these 86 House Democrats voted for a right-wing messaging amendment to say that the real authoritarians are the socialists.
Pathetic.
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Look upon the cowards and remember well they want you dead. They want you to suffer while they line their pockets with your blood, sweat and toil.
There is no wall befitting such lowly collaborators to the authoritarian in charge. Let'em slither to the curb and know the boot is too good for them.
There is no wall befitting such lowly collaborators to the authoritarian in charge. Let'em slither to the curb and know the boot is too good for them.
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Our sense of reality is inter-subjective, social. It relies on feeback from other people. Without that, our false thoughts go uncorrected. They accumulate, build on each other.
The powerful risk this kind of madness when they surround themselves with sychophants. We all need peers to stay sane.
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The powerful risk this kind of madness when they surround themselves with sychophants. We all need peers to stay sane.
4/
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Our sense of reality is inter-subjective, social. It relies on feeback from other people. Without that, our false thoughts go uncorrected. They accumulate, build on each other.
The powerful risk this kind of madness when they surround themselves with sychophants. We all need peers to stay sane.
4/
The powerful risk this kind of madness when they surround themselves with sychophants. We all need peers to stay sane.
4/
PSA of a sort:
"Vine is coming back in name and format along with an anti AI pledge, but it’s funded as a subset of a company who is building and training code for new AI models. They want non-AI uploads so they have a pure training sample. Do not engage."
(I trust this person on this opinion)
"Vine is coming back in name and format along with an anti AI pledge, but it’s funded as a subset of a company who is building and training code for new AI models. They want non-AI uploads so they have a pure training sample. Do not engage."
(I trust this person on this opinion)
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
PSA of a sort:
"Vine is coming back in name and format along with an anti AI pledge, but it’s funded as a subset of a company who is building and training code for new AI models. They want non-AI uploads so they have a pure training sample. Do not engage."
(I trust this person on this opinion)
"Vine is coming back in name and format along with an anti AI pledge, but it’s funded as a subset of a company who is building and training code for new AI models. They want non-AI uploads so they have a pure training sample. Do not engage."
(I trust this person on this opinion)
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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Maybe we should start referring to ChatGPT as "the chatbot that kills you"
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Maybe we should start referring to ChatGPT as "the chatbot that kills you"
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This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings
Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’
www.bloomberg.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
Another one bites the dust.
That AI is optional (as of now) means that former Affinity is still full of it, it just gives you an option to pretend it is not here.
Affinity should not get a free pass just because it is pretends it is still good.
If it was still good it didn't have to rely on AI crap.
That AI is optional (as of now) means that former Affinity is still full of it, it just gives you an option to pretend it is not here.
Affinity should not get a free pass just because it is pretends it is still good.
If it was still good it didn't have to rely on AI crap.
Sayonara, Suckers. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya (the brain).
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Another one bites the dust.
That AI is optional (as of now) means that former Affinity is still full of it, it just gives you an option to pretend it is not here.
Affinity should not get a free pass just because it is pretends it is still good.
If it was still good it didn't have to rely on AI crap.
That AI is optional (as of now) means that former Affinity is still full of it, it just gives you an option to pretend it is not here.
Affinity should not get a free pass just because it is pretends it is still good.
If it was still good it didn't have to rely on AI crap.
Of course my contribution (*) to the language that specifically aims to be positive and minimalistic is to define a new word for a negative feeling.
(kata, which to me now means 'fatigue', 'tiredness')
I wish such personal word would mean something nicer but alas.
(*) not a real contribution
(kata, which to me now means 'fatigue', 'tiredness')
I wish such personal word would mean something nicer but alas.
(*) not a real contribution
October 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Of course my contribution (*) to the language that specifically aims to be positive and minimalistic is to define a new word for a negative feeling.
(kata, which to me now means 'fatigue', 'tiredness')
I wish such personal word would mean something nicer but alas.
(*) not a real contribution
(kata, which to me now means 'fatigue', 'tiredness')
I wish such personal word would mean something nicer but alas.
(*) not a real contribution
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A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
Not about TTRPGs but nevertheless a very interesting article.
To me browsing without adblocks is like drinking unsafe water.
To me browsing without adblocks is like drinking unsafe water.
I got distracted while working on some other projects and instead wrote a lot about the horror of experiencing the internet without an ad blocker
dungeoncrab.neocities.org/rants/abject...
dungeoncrab.neocities.org/rants/abject...
Abject Horror of the Unfiltered Internet
dungeoncrab.neocities.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Not about TTRPGs but nevertheless a very interesting article.
To me browsing without adblocks is like drinking unsafe water.
To me browsing without adblocks is like drinking unsafe water.
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Just seems nonsensical to mock the aesthetic idea of a sensitive, feminine, progressive man instead of judging a man by his actions. There's a reason the "anti-performative-male" response just means replicating the manosphere aesthetic.
We just reinvented the Fake Geek Girl for men.
We just reinvented the Fake Geek Girl for men.
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Just seems nonsensical to mock the aesthetic idea of a sensitive, feminine, progressive man instead of judging a man by his actions. There's a reason the "anti-performative-male" response just means replicating the manosphere aesthetic.
We just reinvented the Fake Geek Girl for men.
We just reinvented the Fake Geek Girl for men.
Finally found 'Dhalgren' in a paperback I can take with me everywhere.
'Nova' was beautiful, so I have my hopes for 'Dhalgren.'
'Nova' was beautiful, so I have my hopes for 'Dhalgren.'
October 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Finally found 'Dhalgren' in a paperback I can take with me everywhere.
'Nova' was beautiful, so I have my hopes for 'Dhalgren.'
'Nova' was beautiful, so I have my hopes for 'Dhalgren.'
My Monday-or-Wedn. game is on hiatus for a while, and I am catching myself on the impulse to start another one: something low-preparation and a bit cheesy, such as a novice band of glam-rockers trying to get through the dungeon* to get a Big Deal if they manage to actially perform for Dread Lord.
October 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My Monday-or-Wedn. game is on hiatus for a while, and I am catching myself on the impulse to start another one: something low-preparation and a bit cheesy, such as a novice band of glam-rockers trying to get through the dungeon* to get a Big Deal if they manage to actially perform for Dread Lord.
Made a small thing for my headphones.
I think for the first attempt at something like this it is pretty neat.
I think for the first attempt at something like this it is pretty neat.
October 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Made a small thing for my headphones.
I think for the first attempt at something like this it is pretty neat.
I think for the first attempt at something like this it is pretty neat.
I have no idea what it is but it is weird in a good way.
October 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I have no idea what it is but it is weird in a good way.
(Just realized I will have to make "We have 'Planescape' boxed set at home" because barring some kind of miracle I'd never be able to afford the original (AD&D one) in nice conditions.
There will be a time to glue some boxes then.)
There will be a time to glue some boxes then.)
October 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
(Just realized I will have to make "We have 'Planescape' boxed set at home" because barring some kind of miracle I'd never be able to afford the original (AD&D one) in nice conditions.
There will be a time to glue some boxes then.)
There will be a time to glue some boxes then.)
Two of my favourite settings (the original 'Planescape' for AD&D 2nd ed., and 'Malfeas' for Exalted 2nd edition) both started as more broad strokes places, less detailed but vibrant, and refined years later. I've read settings _designed_ to be esoteric and strange, and I rarely even remember them.
October 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Two of my favourite settings (the original 'Planescape' for AD&D 2nd ed., and 'Malfeas' for Exalted 2nd edition) both started as more broad strokes places, less detailed but vibrant, and refined years later. I've read settings _designed_ to be esoteric and strange, and I rarely even remember them.
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How to make your megadungeon feel like dark souls step 1: make a roster of extremely weird fucked up knights with a strong visual themes matched to their tragic backstories and scatter them around the dungeon
Step 2: refuse to elaborate when asked about them.
Step 2: refuse to elaborate when asked about them.
October 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
How to make your megadungeon feel like dark souls step 1: make a roster of extremely weird fucked up knights with a strong visual themes matched to their tragic backstories and scatter them around the dungeon
Step 2: refuse to elaborate when asked about them.
Step 2: refuse to elaborate when asked about them.
Unrelated to anything but watercolours: still upset that Kremer New York shop closed last month. Now it is only the international delivery and everything is in euros (i.e. about twice as expenseive.) Their Satingold is the best metallic watercolour gold I ever used.
October 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Unrelated to anything but watercolours: still upset that Kremer New York shop closed last month. Now it is only the international delivery and everything is in euros (i.e. about twice as expenseive.) Their Satingold is the best metallic watercolour gold I ever used.
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“Goering shouted, ‘This [the Reichstag fire] is the beginning of the Communist revolution! We must not wait a minute. We will show no mercy. Every Communist official must be shot, where he is found. Every Communist deputy must this very night be strung up.’”
- Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, p 139
- Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, p 139
October 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“Goering shouted, ‘This [the Reichstag fire] is the beginning of the Communist revolution! We must not wait a minute. We will show no mercy. Every Communist official must be shot, where he is found. Every Communist deputy must this very night be strung up.’”
- Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, p 139
- Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, p 139