Wurtz ⏭️ PAXU

If anyone going to #PAXU wants a recommendation for great Malaysian food, Banana Leaf Malaysian Cuisine rules. It's authentic, and exactly the sort of food I remember from my childhood in Singapore/Malaysia.

Only downside is there's very limited options for vegans.

Zohran, the Sickos Guy, and Tim Onion.

One last time: Every time I post it he goes up five more points.

Let's fuckin goooooo

YouTube video by Auralnauts STAR WARS EP 1: Jedi Party

I am sad to hear that the Auralnauts Youtube duo are splitting up to focus on their own work, this does give me another opportunity to share what is, I think, there best series...

The recut of Star Wars into.. well.. an entirely different story.

Enjoy!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSCm...

That's literally the only way Eleizer Yudkowsky knows how to write, because his entire belief system is so absurd it can only seem plausible if described in parables and references to movies or video games

No amount of GM prep for your RPG night is better than making sure you're excited when your friends walk through the door

OpenAI will be releasing a new version of flappy bird

And if you want to know more about this dragon and the other super cool Remastered dragons, check out my video about them!

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Acts of imagination and creative play do have a place in countering the rancid, psychotic imagination of this administration. It's just one way, but the juxtaposition is important because it helps us remember how utterly bankrupt it is in normal human values.

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

We have a cover for next year's Children of Strife!

It Only Tuesday

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

It's like the Greatest Hits of bad sustainability: making plastic trees for an overproduced crowdfunding game *and* greenwashing by tree planting?

I expect the shipping of these games (they even have plastic freight containers!) alone will wipe out any contribution from the trees.

The Psycho Gundam, imo. Especially the Mk II, and definitely the one that shows up in GQuacks.

Huge and blocky like a tank, and has the domineering vibe that anything sitting on the monster-angel line needs.

Let's fuckin gooooooo

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

If you haven't checked this out yet, I highly recommend taking a look at Dragon Slayers.

Slayers is fantastic, and More Slayers™ is something I've always wanted.

If Sentences Could Kill

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries

- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support

youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

Humanity in HELLPIERCERS: needs to seize Heaven to get into HELL.

Foxes: lol, lmao, git gud

Of course there's a world building course. Can't be a Board-Certified D&D Dungeon Master University alum without that.

Red pop but add Tajin on it.

Did you hear the news? Mutants & Masterminds 4th Edition makes its debut at this year's Gen Con, in the form of the 4e Heroes Handbook: Origin Edition! Learn more about our plans by watching the announcement video- and stop by booth 101 at Gen Con! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-mQ...

Honestly can't think of a product I'm more excited for. Mutants and Masterminds 3e was formative as hell for me, and I'm hype to see what 4e brings to the table.

A bingo table for people posting that 4E is bad, with spaces like: They Insulted The Players No I didn't play it, why do you ask Pathfinder outsold 4E. Source? Uhhhh Every class is the same. Casters AND fighters are good Faerûn went through a world-changing event. This has never happened before 4chan meme It's a superhero comic Can you believe a D&D game would use a grid?? There's no roleplaying Clean layout and clear rules are bad, actually It's a video game It's an MMO It didn't “feel” like D&D (free space) It's a tactical minis figure battle combat skirmish tactics wargame It's a board game Healing surges don't make sense, if you pretend not to understand how HP works Gnomes/Tieflings/Dragonborn/Turbodraculas It's an anime What looks like a game design term until you realise it's almost exclusively used in 4E posts Disassociated mechanics (okay, fine, fill in the one on the left too) Warlords don't make sense, if you pretend not to understand how HP works “Here's why this rule makes no sense” example that relies on the group acting like space invaders in human suits If they called it something else, the #1 TTRPG would have been more successful How do daily powers work? What was wrong with “1/day” Someone posts an actually good critique of 4E without hitting another square

Came across another discussion of D&D 4E and had a brain wave

※HELLPIERCERS※

Is adding exclamation points okay or can I only HELLPIERCE without punctuation?

Slayers was my first real exposure to the modern indie RPG scene, and it still rules!

Go get yourself one (1) Slayers.