Jason Mical

You will be visited by three spirits.

I don't believe it when anyone tries to say artists are gatekeeping creativity because every artist I know is so generous. Lots of us sharing tutorials, free brushes and assets, share our manus, etc! There's no shortage of info or free tools out there if you're willing to look and learn.

A basket of large foam dice, with a d12 at the center, the 2 side up.

12 DAYS OF 12 GAMES, DAY 2: Another dozen-share of games (and game-adajcent things) that I like, and that you might too. And each comes with a link so you can support great designers, writers, and artists! #12days12games

I hope your new adventure is as awesome and fulfilling as your last!

These are the people who are supposedly driving our future, people too stupid to raise a baby without consulting the suicide bot?

We're cooked, as the kids say

You are ❤️

Ain't that a kick in the head!

Will do some deep research for a cyberpunk RPG by replaying the Judy romance storyline in Cyberpunk 2077

My friend @inkslinger.bsky.social is posting 12 game recommendations a day for 12 days. He's never steered me wrong before, so give him a follow for good game recs!

<3

Screenshot from Terminator 2 of the skeleton by the fence being incinerated by a nuclear blast

Actual picture of me after I turned my sun lamp all the way up to escape the SAD

A bunch of large foam dice. A blue d12 with the 1 face up is in the center.

12 DAYS OF 12 GAMES, DAY 1: A dozen-share of games (and game-adajcent things) that I like, and that you might too. And each comes with a link so you can support great designers, writers, and artists!

A screenshot of Red Dead 1 poker showing a 6 and 7 as pocket cards

My kids were watching me play poker in Red Dead Redemption and went crazy when this hand came up

your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you

Something is always good, and worth celebrating!

the yellow sign cake is so fucking dope

Photo of a round cake covered in yellow frosting with Hastur’s Yellow Sign piped on top in black. The cake is also covered in black and red sprinkles to represent ants.

We wrapped up our #pathfinder Strength of Thousands campaign last night so I made an “ant” covered yellow sign cake (:

#ttrpg

While it's one of my favorite methods of making an RPG character, I'm starting to think pantsing when writing books isn't working out for me very well

Nice

That dirty rat

Fuck yeah

Steve from Stranger Things wearing sunglasses and carrying a nail bat. Text reads "Cracking open an Old One with the boys"

Them: quick, think of a new Call of Cthulhu character

Me:

I admit part of the lure of a LFL is that I get to build it :D

Wrapped when you have kids is always a fun experience :D

I had also been thinking about doing a LFL that's just my indie RPGs I've accumulated over the years.

Maybe I should do both?

My friend let me know there's a Little Free Library at Third Place Books for records instead of books and now this is solidly lodged in my head as a Thing I want to do

Brilliant!

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Screenshot from Tumblr, user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.

Seems more promising than "there was an em dash it must be fake!"

And yeah, I might not be able to remember every detail about the stuff I've written, owing to my moth-brained memory, but you risk me launching into a loving 6 hour presentation if you ask me questions about a scene or character.

I cannot stress how much I hate being blown off by doctors

Goes with the territory when you have 2x mental illnesses plus an autoimmune disease, but I still hate it from the bottom of my heart

:(