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The cover of Blades in the Dark next to the cover of Blades '68

In celebration of the imminent Blades ‘68 campaign, I thought I’d talk a bit about its graphic design.

BUT FIRST let’s compare and contrast with the graphic design of Blades in the Dark, a landmark in the history of RPG layout.

Type nerdery ahoy 🧐

very exasperating that when I try to find work now, all I get recommended are jobs training AI to write

No one is interested in the skills I have, just in trying to make the future bleaker

2008: "You can't trust everything that's on wikipedia"

2025: "Wikipedia is the last bastion of pure truth online."

here's how to have your own personal copy of wikipedia while it still persists.

We have to face facts: WW2 combat flight sims disappeared from the mainstream and fascism began making a return. Indeed they were replaced by their Wario / Scratch: the live service combat arcade game, where military hardware was stripped of context and rendered morally neutral and brand safe.

starting a thread of NPC names I invented that made my D&D party so mad they yelled at me

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

The Western/Fantasy Kitbashing will continue until morale improves...

#FrostGultch #WelcomeToFrostGultch

A SKELLETON PREACHEN TO THERE FOLOWERS THAT A HABURGER SOULD NEVER BE MORE THEN SIX BUCK'S ,AND REALY THAT SHOULD BE FIVE BUT IF YA DONT LEAVE WIGGLE ROOM THEN YOUR NEVER GONGA BE ABLE TO DANCE ,DA WHOLE THING IS OBVIOUSLEY A SCHEME TO PUSH ALL OUR MONEY TO DA TOP OF DA PYRAMID, CANT THINK OF A NAME FOR IT BUT THATS WHATS GOING ON, AND DA TEX SAYS "A HABURGER SOULD NEVER COUST MORE THAN $6.00 - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

IM RIGHT - dashare.zone ADMIN

We had a perfectly good word for what “content” was supposed to represent: media.

We make media, which benefits from media literacy. It’s thoughtful and meant to be interpreted and considered.

Content is the fast food equivalent, optimized and generated by systemic profit machines.

In 2024 I'm ending the use of the word "content" for everything I do.

I write
I take photographs
I build models
I paint
I make chill videos

I do *NOT* 'produce content'.

We should stop using that word. It's soul sucking and awful. It implies consumption is the only end game, not inspiration.

miniature of a cartoonish wizard in a pointed hat and scarf wrapped around their face holding a bool painted in teal and orange

miniature of a dwarven wizard holding a book and wielding a magic staff above his head that is shedding a green light over him

a painted miniature of a green dragon

a painted miniature of an ettin (or two-headed giant) with red hair shown from the back

Spent the last month looking for a job and getting into mini painting

sonic video games meme but just the and im NOT KIDDING part is left

i want stupider looking cars that drive slower

the narrator from darkest dungeon writing to posters returning from the war (twitter)

you remember our venerable posting app, opulent and imperial. it is a festering abomination! i beg you, return home to bluesky, claim your birthright, and deliver our family from the ravenous clutching shadows of the Tech Billionaire.

dudes have all these fantasies about femme fatales setting up honey traps and IRL it's just some lady in her apartment in her sweats texting "oh wow, interesting" until they admit to federal crimes

Really astonishing that the GOP looks at the bombardment of Gaza and the first thing they can think of is "How can we use this to help rich people pay less taxes?"

shaved my beard and am reminded by my complete lack of chin

kind of sick of being the unemployed friend…

Get your facts straight

The GRE is cheater >:(

I am proposing a new system for how we rank fighting game players

Y'all are absolutely going to need to quit asking people to explain gaps on their resumes.

It is none of your damned business. What's more, have you even TRIED to get a job in the last decade? And you still have the audacity to even ask that damned question?

I think it’s notable that some of the first real limits on the use of generative AI were brought to us by labor. Not Congress. Not “ethical” AI shops nestled inside big tech companies. A union.

hello my name is jrr tolkien and i wrote a whole book series about what it would be like if some funny little guys who just like to hang out and eat and have friends were drafted into a nightmarish conflict vastly beyond their understanding and were forever changed by it also wwi was normal for me

I'm going to do my very best to make tomorrow a better day.

my advice to young writers? if you buy coffee in brick packaging it can be tough to open, easy to spill, and difficult to reseal. the trick is to buy a can of coffee first, and when it runs out, reuse that can as a place to pour bricks of coffee in. i’m sorry, what was the question

the best thing about the volcano snail is that it looks EXACTLY how you’d want a volcano snail to look

Normal vegetables: you must store us at the right temperature, in the right humidity, or we will spoil and rot in no time. Potatos: WHERE'S THE FUCKING SOIL [Photo of a potato with roots reaching out everywhere from the shelf it's stored on]

if a doctor says you’re “healthy as a horse”, you can ask them “which one?” and they have to show you a picture