Either celebrate games as art, or drop the pretence. There’s not really a middle ground.

Fallen of Originality, Rust, Cemeteries, Iniquity, and Diagnoses

Wet season

that they are freaking out this badly over a surtax on second homes worth more than five million dollars - the most excessive rich person thing imaginable, which doesn’t even affect most of them - really makes it clear how little attention you need to pay to the freak outs

"a frog in the fall" by Linnea started, a beautiful hardback comic book

I finally own a copy of the good frog book. The one by @decassette.bsky.social. The good book you know the one that one with the FROG
YEAH

21st century realism is an aesthetic — it literally doesnt matter how connected to historical record or scientific research it is, what matters is that it *conforms to* "realistic." basically all chud hypocrisy around realism gets resolved through understanding this

Franvacar, dying of Layouts

whoa

It's true AI is genderless - it's not human ffs. BUT the choice of putting a female face to this and using female pronouns says so much...

Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose | Who Really Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee? How TTI and Stanley Black & Decker took the same playbook in opposite directions. One invested $206M in R&D and grew to 4,000 workers. The other is $6 billion in debt and closing its hometown factory.

www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-power...

Attention larp sickos, the new KP book is out www.nordiclarp.org/wiki/Seasons...

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

If “frame a scene” sounds scary, try this one weird trick Sorry, For The Queen, there’s a new beginner-friendly, card-based story game in town.

Zhenya's Wonder Tales is pretty wonderful.

I made a coiled sword for my home bonfire and posted it in the dark souls reddit and got comments asking how people could commission one. I replied "sorry, I can't discuss that here, I'm not allowed to self promote" and got a permanent ban for "self promotion by admitting you take coms elsewhere"

F420.3.4
Water-spirits have laws.

My day job (self-employed) includes wandering around the internet and keeping track what people say about PbtA. Occasionally a new one will pop up.

Lately I've been seeing "in a PbtA game, you shouldn't be rolling dice that often anyway."

I'm like, you shouldn't what now? Where did THIS come from?

as far as i can tell pope leo has never mentioned trump by name hes just like “killing people is wrong” or “concentration camps arent good” and theyre all taking it personally

Gendonia, dying of Catfish

Collectible Trading Moon Game by leakyeaves a card game where every card is the moon

My new obsession is Collectible Trading Moon Game: leakyeaves.itch.io/moongame

Crab, fish, net, gryphon among poppies and a shooting star. Illustration made digitally

Free Ornamentation IV. This work is dedicated to the public domain 🐌

guys, this is how you lose the time war

straightforward, easy to explain, obviously sane, will eventually be the consensus position that everyone will pretend they were on the side of

What an insanely good offer for an exceptional game. Fellowship has irrevocably shaped the way that I write games, and is a must-read for anyone trying to create gonzo PbtA fantasy. Its moves, unlike many thin pastiche games of its era, do such unique and playful things, and the Frameworks are sick.

Court Reform Is the Only Real Exit from Today’s Political Hellscape Opinion: The problem starts and ends with Democrats' unwillingness to wield their power and money—whether they want to admit it or not.

Allow me to yell about court reform for a bit.

My latest:

More higher ed discourse like this please

In case you didn't know I released an open source app that does markdown + CSS to print layout

You can edit text via the browser app
Or in the editor of your choice (obsidian, sublime, vs code...)

Web pixelppr.com

Desktop github.com/the-coded-ty...

Attached example of what you can do with it

an elderly woman is sitting on a couch talking to a boy . ALT: an elderly woman is sitting on a couch talking to a boy .

RPG Zine Club 2027 Story Games Pitch form is open!

We are looking for small games with rich narrative choices using systems like Belonging Outside Belonging, PBTA, CFB, or other more bespoke mechanics.

Solo, duet, GMful, or GMed #TTRPGs are welcome.
Games from diverse voices are desired.

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As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.

Taxing billionaires is not radical.

What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics

"Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president" #ELB NPR: A national effort to circumvent the Electoral College has gained another state. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill Monday that adds the state to the National Popular Vote Compact, an ...

“Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president” electionlawblog.org?p=155426