When an account without a pfp comments something like โwould you have smashed the printing press?!?โ on a post critical of AI, you can just block them. It feels really good.
04.08.2025 12:57 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0@dericbindel.bsky.social
Zey/Zem/Zeyr | 29 | Robogender Anarchist | Digital Artist & Tabletop Game Dev | Art : #DericArt Games : #DericGames Sales : #DericSale Fiction : #DericWrites Find this unit's games at: https://dericbindel.itch.io/
When an account without a pfp comments something like โwould you have smashed the printing press?!?โ on a post critical of AI, you can just block them. It feels really good.
04.08.2025 12:57 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Play and discuss as if you were friends trying to get to know each other better, rather than as if you were rival squawking merchants trying to sell competing goods in a marketplace. The world is full of friends and potential friends, and it's much lonelier and more frightening when it isn't.
04.08.2025 11:11 โ ๐ 506 ๐ 98 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 15STOP DOING OFFICES meme
getting into this template
16.05.2023 14:25 โ ๐ 3130 ๐ 1358 ๐ฌ 38 ๐ 43Page from upcoming TTRPG
04.08.2025 13:31 โ ๐ 319 ๐ 34 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 0I can finally talk about it because it's released! Introducing Five Minutes, Not 5e! The first entry is discussing Shadow / Giant with @psychhound.bsky.social!
But what is Five Minutes, Not 5e? #5mn5e
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJSI...
1/9
In an email to GamingOnLinux, one of their team said they expect the de-listing situation to expand further and in their discussions titles like "Grand Theft Auto, Duke Nukem, and Saints Row were described as potentially at risk"
Gaming storefront ZOOM was also targeted by payment processors for censorship due to its adult titles.
Important quote:
www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/zoom...
The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.
04.08.2025 10:30 โ ๐ 8242 ๐ 2234 ๐ฌ 131 ๐ 253Talking shop with friends and fellow designers is just SUCH a great way to hone one's craft in any field, especially game design. This unit finds such value in it!!!
04.08.2025 14:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0this is quite literally how i learned game design. actually, this is how i *continue* to learn game design
04.08.2025 13:56 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0The heavy usage, equivalent to tens of thousands of households, comes as residents are told to conserve water.
02.08.2025 22:00 โ ๐ 317 ๐ 195 ๐ฌ 22 ๐ 29Graphic that reads: Bannerless Games Tabletop RPG Grant 10 grants at $200 apiece Applications open until August 31 bannerless.games/grants
Hello again, tabletop RPG designers! The second Bannerless Games Tabletop RPG Grant is now taking applications!
I'm looking to award up to 10 grants at $200 apiece.
Applications open until the end of the month. Apply here: bannerless.games/grants
Cashmereโs recluse attire~
04.08.2025 12:32 โ ๐ 346 ๐ 67 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 0Tarborn transformation - " Laying his hand on the gem, his head was filled with the booming voice of an ancient, hostile god.
'Forfeit your body, you shall be one of my subjects. I shall grant you everything you require, you will not need your trinkets and weapons anymore. Bring the others to me.'
"
the Mars missions proposed in the 2020s Planetary Science Decadal Survey have really quite nice cover art for their proposal final reports.
04.08.2025 00:34 โ ๐ 56 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0i get why people hate AI and i definitely dont want to starve right but some of you are really weirdly into using racial slurs but for robots and idk i just don't think that Finally! Art I Get To Call Degenerate! is the progressive position some of you are making it out to be
04.08.2025 09:38 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0An eyeless impish fellow with smooth grey skin gives a peace sign to the viewer with a big smile.
quick summon doodle while I watch evo teehee
04.08.2025 04:26 โ ๐ 231 ๐ 40 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Idk how much is coordination vs animals acting on instinct, but they know that THIS is their chance to make free speech and free expression well and truly a thing of the past
We all have to act and make our voices heard
#SaveSpeech
its been a week, and while we cannot let up pressure on making phone calls, we need to start applying pressure elsewhere now as well!
PHASE 2: START MAILING PHYSICAL LETTERS
imgur: imgur.com/a/3pVupWQ
more comprehensive info can be found here:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
04.08.2025 00:02 โ ๐ 4997 ๐ 1660 ๐ฌ 48 ๐ 33It really is now or never. Both paypros and government are making the big push to effectively kill the internet. We might be talking about porn now but porn is step one in a process that moves blindingly fast
04.08.2025 11:54 โ ๐ 750 ๐ 484 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2I think itโs worth reiterating that all the games under attack right now are independent games. The full weight of the AAA industry would come crashing down on all the players in this equation if this was about EA or Ubisoft or Rockstar. But itโs not
03.08.2025 23:24 โ ๐ 243 ๐ 111 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 0this is a must-read. and it's not great that zero democratic politicians/candidates have been willing to speak up about this level of corruption over the last decade. no wonder consultants are so terrified zohran
03.08.2025 20:34 โ ๐ 574 ๐ 216 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 21@voronoi-studios.bsky.social Introduced me to something I was entirely unaware of. I'm starting just some initial experiment work in relation to a game project I've been putting together. This is a mock-up modular engine for said project. More details soon.
04.08.2025 01:35 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0An illustration of a stone building with pipes affixed. The blue-grey color is applied via halftones on half of the stone, with darker tones in the doorway, and orange for the pipe in its roof, which bellows smoke
Experimenting. Doodling.
#icog
Stop.
Collect yourself.
Take a deep breath.
Exhale.
Unclench your jaw.
Stretch your fingers.
Relax.
Relate.
Release.
If just getting up is all you can do and thats okay too. But try to find something resembling your own peace. I hope you have a decent day.
Jane Fonda with short white hair, black leather knee high boots, and a red ensemble with red gloves. Shes in a horse stance and ready to fuck you up
Jane Fonda, seen here about to explain her life story and motivating philosophy before having a fight to the death with Solid Snake
03.08.2025 11:45 โ ๐ 1594 ๐ 381 ๐ฌ 27 ๐ 62I cannot describe how fucking happy it makes me seeing journalists just pointing out that they're lying. Once again, if you're calling, bringing up these articles as why you're calling is a VERY good idea.
Why are they lying? Why are they refusing to process legal transactions?
Hey Fellow ๐จ๐ฆ Miscreants
The Senate's trying to slip Bill S-209 through on the down-low, and it's basically a photostatic copy of the UK's Online Safety Act except worse because they're making your ISP do it (Telus, Rogers, et al)
Time to start raising hell on our own soil now.
Ok here are our goals for the time being:
-Email Youtube/ Google and tell them to backtrack on this AI thing.
-Call Reps to shut down KOSA or else a free internet is dead
- Keep calling Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Stripe until they fully reverse their decisions on their ends