Matt Sheridan

Archvile vibes. Nice.

My theory is that they came up with that number by making it higher than the number of sex-trafficking incidents recorded for some sex-traffickers they (for personal or professional reasons) didn’t want to ban.

Folks, this book is so fucking good.

Hell yeah, love this. I immediately thought "I hope this is from a TTRPG, because I want to play that game."

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My man did like to show off the goods in his little miniskirt.

Finally comparing the two, the DMG dungeon generator is very clearly descended from the TSR one (no surprise!), but one of the notable changes is that the DMG version makes 45-degree turns less likely. The “Side Passages” and “Turns” tables really show that.

...In fact, Tonisborg looks so much like my TSR 01 experiment that I wonder if earlier versions of those same tables were involved. They're credited to "Gary Gygax, with special thanks to George A. Lord; Preliminary testing: Robert Kuntz and Ernest Gygax", but maybe Svenson used something related?

Yeah! I recently tried generating a dungeon using the tables in . . . I think it was The Strategic Review, maybe the first issue. 45-degree turns were all over the place! I was mapping it out in Dungeon Scrawl, and I ended up having to resort to the freeform polygon tool a whole lot.

Yeah, I've noticed that a lot of maps from that era have a kind of horror vacui going on! And of course that fits with that method of filling out a map to uncover secret doors: If you expect every square to be filled, an empty area on your map looks really suspicious!

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Yeah I guess if anyone was gonna make the real Illbleed sweepstakes amusement park it totally would be Mr Beast and it totally would be in fucking Riyyad

The map also seems to come distinctly from that “Mapping from verbal descriptions is part of the gameplay and should be a CHALLENGE” school of thought. But at least it’s Jaquaysed as fuck.

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For my birthday, plz read what is up of my webcomic/signal-boost this skeet? It would mean a lot to me!

Only 50 pages so far. It hasn't updated in ages, but I'm still working on it. Updates will resume when the backlog reaches 50 pages.

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Yep. This is why the layout process for print material often includes a lot of low-res images marked “FPO” (“for placement only”).

Yeah, I was interested in that one! Haven’t been playing Vintage Story lately, though.

I’m really starting to realize that the kids have done a much better job of promoting their memes.

Fucked if I know. The only one I got was “pingas”.

Why the fuck do I know all of the new memes and only one of the old ones. I am 48 years old.

Haha! Holy shit!

Somebody is out here using “Gmail” as their tag.

Racial Resentment Among White Americans by Birth Year and Demographics This figure presents the same four-panel layout (education, gender, geography, religion) but for White Americans from birth years 1940 to 2000. Education panel: A pronounced divide shows non-college Whites with substantially higher resentment across all cohorts, increasing sharply for older birth years. College-educated Whites rise more modestly but remain distinctly lower, especially among younger cohorts. Gender panel: Male and female trendlines rise together, with women slightly higher in mid-century cohorts. Younger cohorts of both genders start lower and climb with age. Geography panel: Regional lines separate clearly: the South is highest in resentment, followed by the Midwest. The West and Northeast show lower levels, with the Northeast consistently at the bottom. All regions slope upward toward older cohorts. Religion panel: Protestants show the highest resentment, peaking among mid-century cohorts. Catholics sit in the middle. Non-affiliated Whites show the lowest resentment, especially among younger respondents, with a small rise among mid-century generations. The figure notes CES 2024 data with GAM-smoothed trendlines.

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

Yeah, I can definitely see some fertile ground there! I dig the idea of there being a smooth grade of undeadness from “just a person with no pulse” to “bestial monster” to “mindless husk”, with lots of uncomfortable ambiguity and fluidity in there.

(Man, I loved iZombie and Santa Clara Diet.)

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Those are some wild graphs! Gems and jewelry are nuts. But maybe this is actually awesome, in a Skinner-box-reward-schedule kind of way?

I fell deep into that Lungfungus document while trying to figure out treasure placement recently. Ended up going with the easy “10 rooms to level 1 PC” rule.

Wow, these are PATHETIC. Like, I wouldn’t expect GOOD results, but it’s so blatantly obvious that they’re using the same Ghibli generator that they HAVE to one everyone hates.

I keep thinking Activision has hit rock bottom, but they just keep on digging deeper.

Ah, the two genders of OD&D city encounters: Men and Undead!

For real, though: That is a worrying ratio. That’s like a FromSoftware game. Folks must be taking vacations in the werewolf-haunted wilderness just for a break from all the Draculas.

For real, you should check these out, even if you are a grown-ass adult. Same with the other eight or so books we've got on sale today!

Okay, this is a rad article. Last time I ran a campaign, I presented the main city as a big, nasty, Lankhmar-type place, but (mostly) ended up playing it as pretty safe and reasonable. This gives me some stuff to think about.