Karen Twelves

This is Button. His family decided he was ready to be left home alone for the first time today. As it turns out, freedom can be a little awkward. 12/10 (TT: beginningwithbutton)

@FuctupMike - 2h Bernie Sanders should be forced to give away 90% of his birthday cake. #HappyBirthdayBernie @HireMelmFunny Replying to @FuctupMike Have you ever been to a birthday party, Mike

What is a roleplaying game? Nobody really knows. Roleplaying Games, otherwise known as TTRPGs (see below), were first discovered in 1972 by Lieutenant Frances Games as part of an experimental military programme. We still don't know exactly what they are or how they work, but researchers at DMI have compiled the following informaiton. We hope you find this useful. T Time-intensive T Transphysical R Rote P Procedural G Activities FACTS: -TTRPGs involve a shared psychosocial experience of high-intensity events mediated through THE FIELD. -Operating a TTRPG requires a reference textbook that weighs over two kilograms, dozens of information-dense forms, and a selection of random number generators. -A team (known as a "cell") is required to correctly operate a TTRPG. Rumours of "solo" roleplaying have not been successfully replicated in laboratory tests. -Incorrect operation of a TTRPG can cause physical and mental distress. User caution is advised. MYTHS: -TTRPGs lead to satanic beliefs: FALSE. Laboratory test sessions did show the spread of a belief system referred to as "Red Nihilism," but this is not a cause for concern. -TTRPGs require a physical proxy for events depicted: FALSE. Lt. Games invented a proprietary form of cerebral processing that we now call imagination(TM) to parse the shared reality. -There's no wrong way to play a TTRPG so long as you have fun: FALSE. There's a reason that TTRPGs are operated with textbooks that run hundreds of pages long. Every minutiae of the rule system must be obeyed or catastrophe can occur (see [REDACTED] INCIDENT [RECACTED]).

This is tangential but the best "what is a roleplaying game" section ever is from Deathmatch Island:

A mockup of the Rocket Club RPG by Em Hubbard showing three teenagers with rocket-powered gear running away from a trio of UFO that are emitting sinister light beams. In the background, a model rocket, a baseball, and an old CRT style TV sit on a desk. Caption: Playtesting now.

Now playtesting: Rocket Club by @emhubbard.bsky.social!
In this game of teens fending off an alien invasion, each roll results in an outcome, mood, and side effect. It's great for one-shots or short campaigns and includes two sample scenarios. Worlds collide in Rocket Club!
🚀👇
evilh.at/rc-playtest

MOLACULT — Too Weird to Fail MolaCult.com was taken. Welcome to MolaCult2.com.

new favorite website

www.molacult2.com

[From Wikipedia] Catbus (Japanese: ねこバス, Hepburn: Nekobasu) is a fictional character in the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is a large, grinning, twelve-legged cat with a large bushy tail and a hollow body that serves as a bus, with windows and seats covered with fur. Here we see Catbus with a manic expression on their face as they zoom out of the sky and across the landscape leaving behind a Catbus-colored (tan and brown striped) streaking trail of jagged letters reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

my guy you have literally just explained why this is a serial animal abuser who has now moved on to humans exactly like the literature warns

I do not miss shopping there. The price-to-quality ratio was abysmal anyways.

I talked with @olddog.games about the fever dream that brought us to Blades '68 (from @evilhat.bsky.social). How do you take a setting and shift it 100 years into an entirely new era with new touchstones? Find out on Tabletop Talk (on all podcatchers) and here: open.spotify.com/episode/4dkd...

What is the hottest part of a dragon? WRONG. Her mind. This is why you're getting nowhere on Dragon Hinge

@wyattyhalpert They're giving He-Man pronouns @jondelarroz Now they're making a Masters of the Universe and giving He-man pronouns. These people won't stop until they ruin everything.

They're giving He-Man pronouns

J_whose When ur cat is stuck in the wall and you throw ham on it

I’ve stopped saying “or I’ll eat my hat!” as an expression of certainty. I like my hat. I’ll eat someone else’s hat, if it comes to that.

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

A photo of a light-colored cat with a gray face and ears and wide blue eyes. Unknown forces are holding up to the cat’s ear the handset of a beige antique-type touch tone phone. A rectangular speech bubble with a jagged tail has been drawn on the photo to indicate it is the sound coming out of the handset. Words inside the bubble read, ‘Maybe it will happen today…’

@HelloCullen 8 days ago ai wont replace you but a person using ai will. that person is CEO's stupidest nephew. his name is Chart and he got kicked out of his frat for killing a dog

the decomposing pile of (alleged) human flesh known as donald trump wearing a USA hat that's definitely going to fire its agent for this gig

Best alt text ever.

You know the rules, you gotta repost

@sabbox97 about a month ago religion @wesyang about a month ago It's super interesting that there are cultures where homosexuality is grounds for death but raping boys is fine, what's a good explainer of this phenomenon?

feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

It would be great if it happened today. Just saying. It would really brighten my day.

We're 53 backers away! You (yes, you!!) could be the one to finally put an end to this mystery.
Find out more about the technicolor dystopia of Blades '68 here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Black and white digital illustration on a warm gray mottled background. Stout, indeterminately goth-y serif lettering filling out a shield-like shape with some decorative additions top and bottom. Like lettering you’d see on an overly ambitious gravestone or an overly sincere tattoo. Kind of runic. Kind of metal. And a little Victorian with flourishes and vines twisting through the spaces. It reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A digital illustration of a black crowned night heron in profile looking right, with a prominent bright red eye making them look especially expectant. Standing on a rock with green river-like swirly colors behind. The drawing is framed by a simple line, and under the frame lettering reads, 'Maybe it will happen today'.

Final proofs sent!

Now I've got an index to review and 75 more pages of a 180-page draft to read before inputting edits. Should be able to do all that by Sunday.

A screenshot of an email from an ad agency to Evil Hat Marketing: Hey Evil Hat team, Promised this is the last time you’ll hear from me. We are wrapping up generating content on the house. The AI studio is starting to get fully booked with our paying clients, and I have strict orders to stop promoting this come the weekend. I figured Evil Hat might as well get some work out of us at no cost while you can. Want in before we close it up? Best, [redacted] And then our reply: Hi [redacted], We will never use AI for our games or for our marketing. It's toxic to our customer audience and it's an ethical violation of the hard work put in by the human artists we hire to illustrate our books and the human writers who design our games. In short, it's not "free work" it's theft. Feel free to take me off your mailing list. Hope you turn around your business model because frankly, your current approach sucks shit. -Tom

sometimes you have to be clear about your values

Tweet from Custard Smingleigh (@Smingleigh): I remember when email was useful. Now it's all * Confirm your email address for Slorp * Thank you for creating a Slorp account * Slorp is now BONTO! * BONTO!'s terms and conditions have changed. * BONTO! misses you. * BONTO! is shutting down.

a man covering his face with his hands while sitting in front of a microphone with a sonic cup in the background Alt: Simon Cowell has covered his face with his hands but peeks through his fingers

omg I want to watch but don't want to watch

Reviewing author comments and updating accordingly...