Evan Torner

1990s goth girl cultural language was Poppy Z Brite, and 2020s goth girl cultural language appears to be *checks notes* Virche Evermore ErroR

Man centaur hunting with his bow

The majestic man-taur
Half man... half another man

REPEAT AFTER ME (but really, after Neil Kraus):

Wage stagnation and underemployment are not problems that education can fix. We cannot "upskill" students into well-paying jobs that do. not. exist.

Comes from a space of experience and player care!

"Keep that coffee or whatever that is comin"

Watched an undergrad panel this fall with childless students loudly declaring "Parents should do [X]" and I had to simply stuff my tongue in a black hole to stay silent during the Q&A.

"Take one look at my day and then tell me what I 'should' do. Dare ya!"

A moment of pause before I wake the kids and unleash the forces of carnage.

My body will collapse and dissolve for the holidays. Hopefully to at least regenerate my attention span in exchange.

My partner just taught me about an example of why you shouldn't use AI for translation.

Shrek is hugely popular in Poland. This is partially because the localization is incredible. They localized jokes, references, political references, everything.

It is a lot more than just translating the words.

ODYSSEUS LARP Odysseus is a Finnish style larp originally played in 2019. Epic journey will return in summer 2024!

Oh, yay you know Eevi! She was part of our Odysseus 2024 crew --- Nordic larp network, y'know.

odysseuslarp.com

a child is laying on the ground in the rain Alt: a child is laying on the ground in the rain

Yesterday was writing / emails from 3 - 6:30 am, getting myself & the kids out the door from 6:30 - 8:30 am, non-stop meetings and exams from 9 - 5, kid care and dinner from 5 - 9, and then I promptly passed out at 9 only to wake up at 4:30 to do it all again today.

I watched the Macworld conference tech demo of Halo live back in 1999, when Steve Jobs announced it *for Mac* (before the MS acquisition of Bungie etc).

We nerds literally gasped when the figure ran from within a ship interior to a beautifully textured outdoor setting, & with a drivable jeep!

Opinion | Banning Abortion a Hallmark of Authoritarian Regimes Seda Saluk writes about how U.S. policy on abortion rights has started to mirror patterns seen in authoritarian regimes around the world.

The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros. LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Disc...

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

Hironobu Sakaguchi, recently, on his X account, has been posting an absolute treasure trove of design docs and promotional materials from early games. These are early design docs from Final Fantasy 3.

@brocktoon.bsky.social has an excellent contribution to miniatures studies, and I never knew the colonial erasure in the name "mancala."

AND we had a great time at the inaugural BIPOC in Gaming conference at @thestrongmuseum.bsky.social

Larp and tabletop communities get really insistent that their forms are staggeringly unique, when there's so much productive overlap.

In freeform larp, we explore precisely that design space.

“Students learn how to spot deception across subjects: in maths, they see how statistics can be manipulated; in art, they explore how images can convey misleading messages; in history, they study famous propaganda campaigns; & in Finnish, they examine [how] words can be used to confuse or mislead.”

Movie you've watched more than six times with a Gif. Hard mode-no Star Wars, Marvel

My favorite one! Also: the one I played in Radio Shack when it was released

I am a guest with @simifilm.bsky.social on the latest Every Sci-Fi Film Ever podcast, in which we discuss Ikarie XB-1 (1963) with the inimitable Ayesha Khan.

(This film is a socialist-surrealist classic definitely worth your time!)

www.everyscififilm.com/listen/episo...

Once it sunk in she was just kinda a white billionaire person who was into more than a little self-worship, the attention bubble popped

Infinity Blade tattoo

Infinity Blade tattoo instructions

Bit of "early mobile era" game ephemera.
Infinity Blade temp tattoo, maybe from DiGRA in Utah, 2014?

"...mega-donors' influence doesn't primarily come from their ability to sway voters... Instead, their leverage comes from convincing politicians that they need mega-donor money to win."

Another (good) example of how D&D combat works with respect to literally all of your other prep & narrative decisions.

Sounds gripping!
I wonder how it ends?

“The cost of this, says Farid, is that it is almost impossible to know what’s actually going on in AI – for journalists, the public, and even experts in the field: “You have no chance, no chance as an average reader to try to understand what is going on...Your signal-to-noise ratio is basically one”

OK!

Modern frameworks that are good for educators (I can follow with links):

* Lasers and Feelings
* Fiasco
* Caltrop Core
* Archipelago II
* Powered By The Apocalypse
* Descended from the Queen
* Thousand-Year Old Vampire
* Mothership
* Dread
* The Quiet Year

Are you looking specifically for modern systems that deal with historical content, or just universal rules-lite systems that are good as design frameworks?

I managed to knock down 3 tasks this afternoon, but had to add 5 new items to the to-do list.