Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and more inclusive experience for users over the age of 13.

So Discord just decided to commit suicide.

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It's not like hackers can steal *everything* this time, right?

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The Protectorate of Ostrye Continuing in the series of setting samples from my group's home Fabula-Ultima-Except-Surprise-Bitches-It's-Actually-Final-Fantasy game, I figure it's time to start getting into our villains. And the....

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New blogpost this week. Catching up's been difficult since I'm a bit sick.

My Experience with Lone Wolf: Part Four In addition to the long conversations I'd been having with my friend Vincent over the topic of Magnamund lore, I'd been sharing a fair few at the time with Andreas, the proofreader for the story I'd.....

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Imperium Mercantillum: Xenos So I'm behind by about two weeks on these blogposts, and as penance for my sins (I was too busy moving into a new apartment) I'm doing some catch up posts to make up for it.  Recently I and my group.....

Catching up on my blog backlog today.

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... a Macross fan huh? Get at me in DMs... I've got something I'm working on...

Psychic Kids: Elegance and Congruency in Game Design When I was at Gen Con last year, I ran into the people from Wet Ink Games, and they introduced me to a fascinating little creation; their game Psychic Kids , which in this case made me want to gush a....

New blog post today, talking about my own design philosophy, and a great little game called Psychic Kids by @wetinkgames.bsky.social

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The Grand Regency of Uthea, and the C.I.D. For my gaming group, because no one can stop us, and it's not as if Square-Enix's lawyers can kick in my door and hold me at gunpoint over what I'm choosing to do at my own table, we've decided to...

New blogpost this week. Talkin about my home game of Fabula Ultima and a bit of worldbuilding, with a hearty dash of homebrew.

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The beauty of Multiculturalism This is not a blog that I claim is particularly well-researched or rigorous (I got out of academia for a reason after all), or indeed anything but my own meandering thoughts on a variety of subjects.....

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Finding Space To be Creative I am at times an inveterate procrastinator. Usually it comes down to how much energy I have on a given day. And as time's gone on, I've discovered there's some factors to that. Health issues I've...

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I've supported you from the moment I first learned about your campaign years ago.

Fight the good fight, ma'am.

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

At last feeling better and back to work. Been editing an interesting piece for a friend; a noir-ish short story about modern gods and architectural trends.

It would require them to not be Republicans.

So as the topper to an already rough week I found out yesterday that I've got a deviated septum, which has been impacting my breathing since childhood, and now I've gotta get my nose broken from the inside, wheeee.

Ugh. What a week I've had. Between having to replace my phone and not being quite as over what I picked up from GenCon as I thought, and a ton of household cleanup I've barely gotten anything done.

OK, back on the horse and working on my 'Digital Rolodex". I'm gonna have so many emails to send out this week.

Been sick all week since GenCon, finally on the mend.

Frosting your cake is cowardice.

A.I. is at best, a parrot, repeating only what probability says is the most likely follow up, understanding none of it.

"Looking forward" to about 7 hours of flying. Wheeee.... glad that all the books I managed to squeeze into my bag clocked in at 49.5 pounds exactly. Still having to cart around a heavy bag. Hope it fits in the overhead.

"When people tell you who they are, you should believe them the first time" is generally good advice.

"Good artists copy. Great artists steal." -Pablo Picasso. I think he'd be flattered.

“[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

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I'm about to leave my first GenCon! Every part of me is tired,but I think this has been great! I've got so many business cards to file now 😁. And I might need to get a new shelf for all the books I got.

And like, people process trauma a lot of ways, and you shouldn't dictate that kind of thing, especially when a lot of it is just fiction or fantasy. Thoughts aren't actions.

Aaaand boom! They've got your info and mine now, thank ya I'd not have stopped off to check them out without ya and it went *great* I can send you their info via a DM for when you're ready.

General submissions open: 9–19th August 2024

We’re open for general submissions 9–19th August, for horror stories of up to 6000 words (including flash). You may submit one reprint and one original, and we allow simultaneous submissions (but please tell us).

More here:

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I'll get back to ya and let ya know!

To be clear, if you are a person with 4 million dollars to spend on a comic project and you invest that money in a system that takes work away from artists and disincentivizes people from pursuing art professionally rather than in artists to make your comic, YOU are the one gatekeeping art.