Brian Murphy

Right now converting to d20. Better fit. Table top makes more sense anyways.

Again, ai art, just mapping out concepts.

Tithe concept art. (Ai, scratchpad image.)

YouTube video by Richard Behiel Superconductivity and the Higgs Field

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."

This one's worth spending a few days working through. The connection/analogy here is incredible.

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"We are building a god and treating it like a toaster, hoping it never notices the difference."

Observation by Google Gemini today, in discussion about itself.

I posted a long thoughtful YouTube content in response to a recent controversy.

Jk, it was literally a nightmare just now that I was dumb enough to do that. Thank goodness it was just a dream!

‎Gemini - direct access to Google AI Created with Gemini

Okay Gemini, fine. This is cool.

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Was reminded of some old words of wisdom I received as a creator about how to parse audience reactions/criticism. I still apply it in my work all the time.

They're always right about the problem.
They're always wrong about the solution.

YouTube video by Shooting Star Elliott Smith - Clementine live + interview 1995 (Breakfast Time)

Just as Orpheus descends into hell, Elliott descends into wacky morning tv. Amazing.

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The options seem to be that the progenitor species was phototropic and it didn't occur to them that an animal would be sentient, or it's just genocide with extra steps.

Pluribus annoyance.

Does the hive no longer have any metacognition? They should know this is completely untenable and be looking to hack their compulsions.

Hell, a population outside the hive who just grows food for them, or works on drones to harvest fungi would allow them to save themselves.

And I say dork with all the affection in the world. :)

I know I'm speaking to our nameless and hypothetical audience. You're good, dork.

We… have literally been doing this about the same time frame. I may, in fact, be older than you, whipper snapper.

You can't start like that, all you kids out there. You have to be a planning maniac for years before you learn how not to plan. :)

Same. Being able to tell your own story as a player and the game runner having to improvise their ass off to make it all work was like, the point.

It's an era that has passed. But there were also potentials that don't exist in other formats that were a shame to lose. All good though, the world moves on.

Hehe. Weird to think about, we probably ran the last thousand player game of apoc that will ever exist. We had 50 games in six countries at one point.

Heh. I get carried away with the rhetoric. You know what I mean.

The fight, and the people we love and protect. The community we hold to. The sacrifices and the compromises we are willing to make. That's the story worth telling.

I stubbornly hold to the notion that I "got" what's great about the game in a way that the folks who actually write Werewolf do not.

It's self indulgent, but I'm quite comfortable with it.

Thank you. And yes, that was it. Just because the old world ended doesn't mean you don't have to put on your big boy pants and go to work in the morning. That's how every Apocalypse in history has ended, why should it be different now? The generation won their fight, the next must fight their own.

I just think this ramen came out perfect. That is all.

YouTube video by Eddie Vedder - Topic Masters of War

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A House of Dynamite.

Amazing first act, and you know it's good because you get to see it twice more, then it ends.

I get what they were going for, but it's not, you know, a story.

YouTube video by Ælfwine's Road Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth: A Colloquial Summary

Probably the nerdiest moment in all of Tolkien, well paraphrased here.

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YouTube video by Allied Mastercomputer (AM) Canto I - The Lay of Leithian by J. R. R. Tolkien

Yes yes, ai slop is wretched.

Also, this is awesome.

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YouTube video by Tyrone Deise Steamed Hams but it's a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film

Brilliant!

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YouTube video by licensetobill Here Goes Nothing! (Full Album)

License to Bill is my brother's band. I'd love it if you checked out their album.

youtu.be/nSrxI6Op198?...

10 hours, 30 minutes to de minimapolocalyse.