Jim Rossignol

An arithmometer, a wooden box casing some switches and slides that act as an early digital calculator. It's all very steampunk with a dose of 70s rec room chic.

I know my geeks will love this. This is an arithmometer. It's your Texas Instruments digital calculator's great grandpappy. They started making these in the 1850s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmo...

Wow.

Anyway I hired the guy because of the pun. He's a nice man and chopped a tree real good.

📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW!

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100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max...

ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!

It's like googling "coca-cola" and getting a full page of ads for Pepsi. (Of course, you get zero sponsored ads in front of either of those!)

That's true, but it's still bullshit.

Comment on this post with a number between 1-300 and I'll reply with a unique hand drawn unicorn.

Fair enough, get the sponsored results if I do a generic "tree surgeon near me" search, but if i *specifically* search for the bad pun? Fuck you, capitalism.

I find it outrageous that googling the company name of our local tree surgeon, who rightfully uses a terrible pun as the name of his company, puts two other tree surgeons ahead of him in the results. This surely means that they have used the name of his company as key words in the google ads?

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

🧵 1/4

It occurs to me that if the government did force UK writers to hand over their work to the big AI companies, that would now among other things mean contributing to the development of US advanced weapon systems.

I haven't done shading in my sketches for more than 25 years. Always felt like it could put the lines at risk of becoming unreadable. It is strange how we creatively change over time.

Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too Not for your eyes only.

I didn't think Meta's creep glasses could get any creepier but "an army of contractors watches everything you record to render your life into AI training data" is creepmaxxing

Again contact MP’s, tell organisations that represent creative groups and industry’s and share the word. This stuff passes so much easier with apathy and giving up at the hint of any news like this. Don’t let the billionaire running these companies go without a fight.

Draw Maps, Leave Blanks (Dungeon World) with Tim Denee — Dice Exploder How detailed of maps, and how big of blanks?

This week on Dice Exploder I've got @olddog.games on talking Blades '68, Dungeon World, and "draw maps leave blanks". How much should you define about your game in advance - as a player, as a GM, as a designer? Tim's smart!

Hunt seems to trail in player numbers behind because it focused on being the best designed shooter ever made, which is... weird?

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something

Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Most of my family. Because they need to feel small-c conservative.

Blimey. Sky News reporting YouGov / Sky News / Times voting intention

*Greens leapfrog Labour into second place*

RefUK 23% (-1)
GRN 21% (+4)
LAB 16%(-2)
CON 16%(-2)
LDEM 14%(nc),

Pollster note: This is the highest we've had the Greens, the first time we've had them in second

THREEDOM: MYTHIC BASTIONLAND - Old Men Running The World Mythic Bastionland, the latest game in Chris McDowell’s Bastionland series, was one of the best-smelling books we had ever encountered when it arrived last

This week eminent gamesmaster @kierongillen.bsky.social and I got to talking about Mythic Bastionland, which, by sheer chance, we've just played a campaign of!

Hit or *myth*?

I make that joke several times, so please enjoy the repetition.

THREEDOM: MYTHIC BASTIONLAND - Old Men Running The World Mythic Bastionland, the latest game in Chris McDowell’s Bastionland series, was one of the best-smelling books we had ever encountered when it arrived last

This week eminent gamesmaster @kierongillen.bsky.social and I got to talking about Mythic Bastionland, which, by sheer chance, we've just played a campaign of!

Hit or *myth*?

I make that joke several times, so please enjoy the repetition.

a crude illustration of a sad looking man unenthusiastically poking a flaming globe with a stick and saying "c'mon buy a magazine"

shop.wyrd.science

One of the worst things about AI, for me, is that it takes away from people the sheer joy of writing. Schools don’t often make this point, but writing should be fun. Putting words together, finding ways to express yourself, the pure pleasure of a well-crafted sentence. 1/5

Graphic from the Blades '68 BackerKit crowdfunding campaign, showing stretch goal contributors Avalyn Ramsay writing "Psychic Commie Rats" and Aaron Lim writing "Report on the Inaugural Crowfoot Wargaming Convention of '68".

They announced my stretch goal for Blades '68! Let's get to $390,000 so I can write about The Inaugural Crowfoot Wargaming Convention of '68 (which split of from the Charterhall Conference On Historical and Strategic Wargames that started two years before). www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

In the style of an industrial warning sign — WARNING Cognitohazard: Do not think about it

I kept needing this, so I finally made it.

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Mama's Sleeping Angels on Steam A 1 to 4 player Y2K dream-exploration game. Free your imaginary friends trapped to eternal sleep by the goddess Mama. Collect cursed items and use weapons to face the monsters in Mama's dreams.

What if Friendslop was Girlslime Gendercore? Mama's Sleeping Angels is a TRIP. On the surface, kinda REPO/Lethal Company co-op. Explore dreams, collect cursed items.

The aesthetic & tone is a sensory assault of oneiric weirdness and subtext. Dream-things sometimes need shooting, sometimes smooching

Me and @lincodega.com are a stretch goal for this. hope it hits. It’s my folk horror tom bombadil incursion.