Chris Payne

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

I think it's notable that even Particle6's own youtube channel has no examples of Tilly Norwood actually ACTING. I suspect the first director to attempt to coax a performance out of this thing is going to be disappointed...

I've worked in video games for 30 years at places like EA and TT Games, ran my own studio AND know hundreds of folk in the games industry...and I'm still finding it hard to find a new job.
It is absolutely an industry-wide problem.

You still here too, huh?

Greens outshine rivals on public ownership, analysis finds M Zack Polanski after being announced as the new leader of the Green Party at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, London, September 2, 2025

Our Public Ownership Party Scorecard is live! 📣

Find out where the parties stand - it might surprise you. 😮

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In some ways I'm quite releived Corbyn and Sultana's effort is falling apart, we don't need to split the left when there's a perfectly good party already.

That would work better than the "beat target by 8" which means that with hard skill checks it is impossible to crit.

Good for you! I'm also a member. It frustrates me how unnecessarily hostile the media are to the Greens.

'Quiet sense of pride': Large majority of Brits back ambitious climate action Poll of over 7,000 people reveals strong support for clean energy, nature restoration, and climate action - but a deep disillusionment with politics and the cost of living remains

Poll of over 7,000 people reveals strong support for clean energy, nature restoration, and climate action.

A large majority made up of people who think they are in a small minority, thanks to relentless misinformation online and in the mainstream media.

Aargh the playlist is backwards 🤦‍♂️

It absolutely is.

My phone didn't go off :/

Dare you to rewatch the Data eps of TNG...

It wasn't just the rules - I only knew board games and CRPGs, so I had to reverse engineer the entire concept of freeform roleplaying (pre-internet of course). Fascinating intro to the scene...

Colour me interested 👀

- Spelljammer (I had to infer the AD&D 2nd ed ruleset)
- Amber diceless
- Mage: the Ascension

I think the fact I bound the latter two in sticky backed vinyl like schoolbooks says more about me than the choice of system though.

Sadly, current employer doesn't have enough work to keep me on...so I'm looking for a new thing.

Anyone need a director/designer/programmer with 30 years experience on 35 published games across 13+ platforms?

I've got one or two of those as well :)

I already knew I wanted to get into the industry, so wanted to know about games on ALL systems not just the one I happened to have.

Still got a bunch of ACE and The One magazines that I must donate to the Video Games Museum...

a cat is holding a microphone in its mouth and singing into it . ALT: a cat is holding a microphone in its mouth and singing into it .

Call for a voice actor!

We’re looking to cast a female actress for our next game. Vocal age 25-35, Northern England accent, preferably Mancunian, incl. Pakistani and Indian Mancunian accents.

That’s you? Then send a sample to info@inklestudios.com, marked “casting call”.

Paid gig, ofc

<3 RTs!

Getting heartily sick of VR development. Would be nice to work on a flatscreen game and not have to put the damn headset on and off all day...

You get much more conflict out of an unfair social structure, and what's more unfair than lifelong hereditary rule?

EHRC Drops Workplace Toilet Advice Amid Legal Threat - Law360 Britain's equal rights watchdog has dropped its advice to employers that they must provide single-sex toilets in the wake of a landmark U.K. Supreme Court decision in the face of a court challenge.

None of those newspapers (or the BBC) that gleefully ran stories when the EHRC gave trans people a shoeing will now report on the EHRC admitting they (and hence those stories) were wrong. Are those outlets craven - or dishonest?

Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...

Presume you saw that Perkins and Crawford have just joined Darrington Press? CR have done a great job of building goodwill even as Hasbro have burned it for D&D...D&D still leads in nostalgia value and name recognition but falling behind in every other department...

The D12 is cute but what I really love is that the hope/fear mechanic prompts you to think narratively about EVERY ROLL, instead of just success/failure.

Silence, but for hiss. Flicker of daylight blue on the horizon. The thunder washes gently across the land. Silence, but for hiss. We watch the rain, my brother and I, each alone with the elements. And far away our lives wait patiently for our return. There’s no hurry. The storm will last forever. Watch the rain.

Fragment of a poem from long, long ago...

Chris dressed in LARP costume with white contacts and a beard.

LARP photo from last weekend. I'm growing the face fuzz out for a role, so Idris has a beard now.

Opinion | I know RFK Jr. is wrong about autistic people — because he's talking about me “These are kids who will never pay taxes,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said of autistic children Wednesday. "They’ll never hold a job.”

While RFK Jr. Made his remarks saying autistic life is a tragedy that destroys families, I sat right in front of him and made it a point to let him know he was wrong. My latest for @msnbc.com
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The absence of trans people from the British media is part of the problem. I'd like to offer mentoring to trans people trying to get into journalism, free of charge. Most of my experience is obviously in political commentary, but I might be passably useful in news and other areas.

Chris, dressed as a wizard, standing in front of a standing stone inside a huge tent.

Last weekend I crewed the debut event of Menhir's Fate - the UK's 4th fest LARP - and it went remarkably smoothly. Players loved the format, which is plot intensive by design. Enjoyed helping players do bespoke rituals around the eponymous Menhir.

Event 2 is only a few weeks away...
Menhirsfate.com