Thoughts about “AI”
Yes it’s:
The slop
The theft
The brainrot
The loss of work
The crumbling of creator rights
The destroying of the environment and infrastructure
But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you.
Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical.
Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school.
It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large.
[At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]
Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
12.08.2025 08:32 — 👍 2615 🔁 1327 💬 26 📌 15
Photo of a small gallery room with various paintings scattered around, only some have been hung on the wall.
A poster for the art exhibition opening night.
The exhibition is titled visions: through The eyes of a Palestinian prisoner.
The opening is on Saturday the 22nd of November at 6:00 p.m. at the creator incubator in Hamilton, Australia.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of volunteering my time to help install a gallery exhibition.
We're showcasing some work by Palestinian artists and also fundraising for the Palestinian social fund.
18.11.2025 21:58 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
MANDELBROT SET cover. A pink, purple, blue and red drawing of a soldier's head exploding to strange geometry over a surreal kaleidoscope background. Text reads:
MANDELBROT SET
Deep in the Nevada desert, a military experiment goes haywire and a kaleidoscope of parallel worlds collides. Only FSIT can breach the Fractal Zone.
REVIEWERS AND ACTUAL PLAYERS - want a free copy of our new FIST campaign kit MANDELBROT SET? reply here or DM us and we WILL hook you up!!
16.11.2025 07:02 — 👍 63 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 3
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
17.11.2025 06:37 — 👍 9826 🔁 3347 💬 95 📌 174
Oh hey! It's my game.
This was one of the first projects I ever published, made for the emotional Mecha game jam.
Nice to see it still giving attention all these years later.
13.11.2025 21:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Live. Love. Die. Remember - Solo RPG List
**Live. Love. Die. Remember. is a GMless RPG for 1 to 4 players** about mechs falling in love with their pilots, reliving their memories of love before the end,... By Ray Cox
New to the #SoloRPG List: Live. Love. Die. Remember from @uselrei1500.bsky.social
A final battle. A decision to make. What will you sacrifice to make it through? Your love, your life, or peace itself? #Mecha #TTRPG
CLICKY:
13.11.2025 10:45 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
This really struck me. If Uber were legally acknowledged as an employer, then it would be the biggest employer in the world, with over 9,000,000 employees globally. Think about how many taxes, wages, and protections are being lost b/c of their intransigence.
12.11.2025 21:35 — 👍 511 🔁 161 💬 2 📌 7
so much i could say about how this ruling proves women, cis and trans alike, are the same class in a world that despises them both. womanhood can be revoked at any time. even sex assignment at birth, something transphobes SWEAR is ironclad, doesn't matter--you can be un-gendered at any time.
12.11.2025 20:43 — 👍 30 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
An astronaut floating in space with coming soon over it
Null space
Freelancing in the solar system of the 24th century
Basic rules
NULL_SPACE IS COMING
ZINE MONTH 2026
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW SOON
12.11.2025 16:34 — 👍 115 🔁 41 💬 1 📌 2
And perhaps most importantly, I've realised that the division 2 has a similar skeleton to my game Defence of Babylon.
Of course it being a video game and dob being a tabletop role-playing game. I'm not sure how much of it is transferable but I definitely want to do something to make missions better
12.11.2025 20:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Early game does a good job of building on the first games story without massive exposition or requiring you to have played it.
Once you get to end game and transition into what must have been the games season structure...it falls apart.
A whole fully populated settlement appears out of thin air.
12.11.2025 20:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The rarest and best guns in the game, have cosmetic features that make me not want to use them.
The legendary guns have sculpted accoutrement and strange particle effects that make them look like guns that couldn't exist... And that breaks the tone/vibe of the game... And so I don't use them.
12.11.2025 20:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Despite the missions pretty much all being identical, they somehow managed to remain engaging.
They have this structure of go-to place, push button, kill guys, push a different button, kill boss, leave.
I think they stay fresh by always coming up with unique dressing for that mission.
12.11.2025 20:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It's almost a game about Anarchist Communities.
The post-catastrophe settlements you help out are well on their way to fixing their own problems when your character walks onto the scene.
The people there are working together, and it feels like your character is a catalyst rather than a saviour.
12.11.2025 20:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I've been very distracted the last 2 weeks, by the Division 2. So distracted in fact, I have found it difficult to not play the game.
Here are some observations:
12.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ethan, a robot soldier that fights alongside the main character.
There's some solid compilations on YouTube showing his best moments.
He's kinda similar to TARS from Interstellar... In characterisation not physical design.
04.11.2025 08:21 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
And it has one of the best robot characters in all of science fiction
04.11.2025 08:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An illustration of a red London bus, filled with various animals from Australia and UK. In the background is the London Bridge and London Eye. The event's details are at the top, and sponsors and organiser logos are at the bottom. The events sponsors are Screen Australia, Screen NSW, and IGEA. The Organisers are GDL and Noble Steed Games.
✨Games Exchange is back!✨
We're trading indie games with the UK! Try out some games, have a cuppa, and enjoy an evening with devs/games enthusiasts!
⏰14th Nov, Friday, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
📍Redfern Community Center
Tickets are free: events.humanitix.com/australia-x-...
04.11.2025 07:36 — 👍 26 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 3
I grew up without fluoridated water, and it nearly ruined my teeth.
02.11.2025 02:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wheelchair Accessible Dungeons
A conversation about representing disability in RPGs
New blog article about representing disabled people in RPGs. Features some quotes from my interviews with @uselrei1500.bsky.social and @ratbastardgames.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/martianc...
25.10.2025 05:57 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Great read, can't wait for more!
28.10.2025 08:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is the true wisdom.
28.10.2025 05:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There's nothing I love more than playing a piece of shit US Marshal and sending him cowboy hat first into a haunted house in Jersey.
Why is such a stressful game so stress relieving?
28.10.2025 05:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What in the actual fuck? Googles AI basically hallucinated that I somehow accused my podcast host & close friend of toxic behavior & harassment - killing her channel. Keep in my, Vera and I host a podcast together regularly and are good friends and her channel is amazing. This is absolutely fucked.
26.10.2025 21:09 — 👍 2121 🔁 645 💬 75 📌 28
I feel like every game of yours I've ever looked at had a lot of polish, where as I often fire things off half baked.
26.10.2025 08:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This game sounds sick as hell!!
26.10.2025 07:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Order of the Morningstar by WuDeRPG
Hunting Vampires in the name of the Virgin Mary
Do me a favor, will you?
Spread the news far and wide:
The Order of the Morningstar is recruiting faithful disciples to take the oath, the oath to hunt, fight and kill vampires!
#ttrpg #rpg #vampire #nosferatu
wuderpg.itch.io/morningstar
25.10.2025 06:00 — 👍 31 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 6
In service of trying to relax more, today I played a one shot of Delta Green and pretty much immediately started down an insanity spiral. 😆
So much fun, genuinely.
26.10.2025 04:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
So I've been trying to relax after three straight weeks of doing gaming events around the country.
What does that look like for me?
Started doing some casual game design on a sequel to black skies for Babylon.
Finished playing some video games.
Went bird watching for the first time.
25.10.2025 21:33 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Boundless RPG by Fari RPGs
Soulslike TTRPG
I made this super cool one page Soulslike TTRPG with old school grit and modern designs that's available for free.
You should download it and tell me what you think.
farirpgs.itch.io/boundless-rpg
24.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 45 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 3
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RPG designer | naarm/melbourne | Mothership 3rd party publisher
same @ on twitter
i will playtest your game!
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Developers are experts in making amazing and memorable experiences. We are the experts in helping people discover them.
We're a scrappy indie team from Aotearoa making games that tingle the brain and tickle the weenus - like Burger Bois! 🍔
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#cozygame #cookinggame #wholesomegame
We're making a Fox and Shadow, a scifi dual deckbuilding roguelike.
The world is in ruins; salvage your self.
An upcoming, short narrative game about a retired thief, the whispers around town, and a growing concern in the darkness of the mountains…
buruthegame@gmail.com
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I create terribly dangerous things for the right reasons to help the people I care about.
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Academic turned game writer. PhD on permadeath in videogames. Based in Melbourne, Aus. On itch: https://cindercritter.itch.io/
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99% space fiction (licenses) and its creation.
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Publisher of optimistic science fiction and fantasy. 『Habitats Volume 2』on Kickstarter now! ☁️
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Diana Jones award nominee
Solo developer of Quasar Tales From The Endless Void
Designer of tabletop terrain and miniatures
✋🏻إنّ الأعلى من الأسفل والأسفل من الأعلى🫳🏻
https://arcane-whiskers.itch.io/quasar-tales-from-the-endless-void
He/him/ia. Māori and Queer TTRPG designer from Aotearoa. Takatāpui & tangata ira tāne. Ngāi Tahu me Te Ātiawa. find my games at takataapui.itch.io
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Copious consumer of tea and toasted sandwiches.
www.thesojournaudiodrama.com