*Raymond Vermeulen

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

Visualising the Flow: Ink Explorer TL;DR — A tool for stepping through Ink visually and keeping track of variables.

Another tool! Ink Explorer.

Visualises the shape of an Ink story and lets you play through from any point, watching variables (and tweaking them), keeping track of visit counts, and letting you snapshot and restore the state.

Early days - hope it's useful to someone!

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Nothing reminds me how online and trans I am than trying to talk to random cis people irl. Nobody knows what mechsploitation is. They’ve never heard of Pathologic. The concept of fursonas is alien to them. They’re pretty sure T4T is a cell service company. It’s a disaster

It's now time to enact my get rich quick scheme: designing and publishing indie TTRPGs

We're Hiring! Join the NYU Game Center Faculty as an Associate Professor! - NYU | Game Center Description Associate or Full tenure professor position for the NYU Game Center New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Position Overview The NYU Game Center is seeking applicants to join its fa...

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential!
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I injured my arm doing some light wrestling 3 weeks ago and it's still sore. Fucking sucks.

Can these AI fucks sort out the mind uploading instead of stealing art already, fuck

Entropy will unmake us

The reality of this is pretty orthogonal to what exactly LLMs do; LLMs are just the latest tool to continue ruining our lives. This will continue until they're all drowned in their own blood. The end.

You won't be able to talk to a customer service rep any more, and the chatbot you'll talk to will be less capable; you'll simply give up on getting the service you would be getting previously. This will be regarded by the business as a cost saving. That's the most likely economic impact of chatbots.

transition is a choice that anyone can make for any reason, and if I do it because of the Latent Transsexual Genes Lurking In My Head and some other bitch does it because she wants to attract lesbian librarians by bending over in a pencil skirt by the periodicals we are both right to choose it

my politics

Can I get some sort of white tea with a biscuit

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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one of many reasons alt comics are systemically superior to mainstream comics: the rarity of division-of-labor renders “who’s more important, the writer or the artist” discussions null and void; there are very few non-artist writers and we basically all agree that, duh, the artists can do without us

Had one, once. Wild stuff.

D&D is the premier fantasy kitchen sink turned dungeon crawler turned kitchen sink

Back in 3e/3.5e I definitely recall the default assumption being to just toss out the setting, and beat the system into doing whatever sort of game you wanted (political intrigue, heisting, murderhoboing) instead of grabbing a game tailor made for the experience you're after.

Maybe they're talking about the greater visibility of systems that really lean into their setting and genre with the rulesets? PbtA is basically all intensely Like That

It's all still turbo modular tho so uh?

I've been really fucking with ZA/UM Atelier for that reason: atelier.zaumstudio.com

i’m just saying more friends should stop by my place randomly for tea while they’re running errands

i think in the name of fairness the producers of the baldur's gate tv show should demand that tv writers do at least a year of running around in circles doing unpaid writing tests before they're allowed to write for the show

So all my meals today are train meals, it seems. Hrm.

Seriously. Bleghhhhhh

And yet you're still kicking fucking ass, so the road not taken can fuck off on the creeps it rode in on

The block that keeps on giving

Furries have already achieved the dream of every shit silicon valley technology and in a more ethical and less cringe way

The metaverse: VRChat
NFTs: adoptable fursonas
Typing words into a text box and having art appear: commissions

Fantastic M&S breakfast, a bottle of still water and a British Ham sandwich without mayo.

Fine dining on the early morning Eurostar

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

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Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

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Let's just say that if you were a fan of Gaiman's writing before all this came to light I think it's pretty reasonable to make some assumptions about you...

(You are 35-45 and probably weren't super-popular with the in-crowd at school.)

Had a dream that Geralt of Rivia was actually an inch-tall lilliputter given a magic potion to size up and join the world of tall people, to save his tiny hometown from invasion. He promptly fucked off his quest. Made the whole Witcher thing up to sound cool and mysterious.

Brain, what