Pam, Godkillingway v.2025, Patch "Eepy"

"For a long time, Dave Arneson had not been getting credit. It was all Gary Gygax, Gary Gygax, Gary Gygax, everywhere. And I love Gary Gygax, but still, you know, come on, Gary."

(This interview reminds me of how Marketing and Legal affect History and Scene Memory...)

tehran is a city of 10 million people, and this article was published one week ago, to give you a sense of the urgency here

1. endeavor to be born to a middle class family in europe

“Oh I wanna age gracefully, I wanna age like a fine wine” well I wanna age as disgracefully as possible, like the Burger King.

A grey and white cat staring at the camera, looking very done.

Pinball the cat had some feelings he wanted to express.

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

A list of only the confirmed children massacred by Israel's pure evil and relentless genocide in Gaza. Many estimations are that the actual amount of adults and children murdered by Israel could be double, or even triple. They will likely remain unnamed.

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Black girl with braids and glasses who is wearing overalls and a striped shirt. She is playing chess and reaching toward a peace. Text reads “One of the wildest things about chess is learning how to become an imperialist who was adept at battle strategy at nine years old.”

Chess memories

This school rejected a student because his parents are gay. Now some parents are leaving. - LGBTQ Nation “Silence is acceptance,” said one school parent after the kid was kicked out.

shit continues to unfold at St. Agatha y’all

—parents pulling their kids en masse
—teachers resigning
—lemonade stand over the weekend raised $1500 for LGBTQ rights
—protest outside Mass got spicy
—cowardly priest flailing, desperate to pass buck to Archbishop Sample
—the mood is EXPLOSIVE

I'll go a step further her and discourage my US-, Canada-, and Europe-based colleagues from attending or giving talks at GDC. It is, at this juncture, just irresponsible to promote a US-based international event. They don't even pay you for your free labor!

If IGN has layoffs, nobody in games press is safe. If Microsoft has layoffs, nobody in platforms is safe. If Ubisoft and Bungie and NetEase have layoffs, nobody in game development is safe. If the Romeros get their funding pulled, no studio is safe.

It's rough out there, right now.

U.S. may require visa applicants to post bond up to $15,000 to enter country The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.

If you're from a country with a weaker economy or difficult entry requirements into the US: do not spend money on GDC. Do not book a ticket. Do not book a hotel. Do not pay for a visa. Skip that cynical for-profit extortion, or the US will take your money & spit you out.

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Dragon Slayers TTRPG Heroic fantasy roleplaying using the award winning Slayers system. Time to slay a dragon.

5 more book backers and we can call it a day

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If you live in Seattle, today is a great day to remind your friends that our mayor sucks shit and they should vote for Katie Wilson tomorrow

I'm amused that there's an entire cottage industry of D&D content creators whose entire thing is, "Want to level up your D&D game? Use this (uncredited) idea from Apocalypse World! Also buy my PDF where I wrote it down!"

Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash Tesla was caught withholding data, lying about it, and misdirecting authorities in the wrongful death case involving Autopilot that it...

The most damning part: The car was programmed to send all the information to Tesla then delete the local copies. Which speaks to a clear conspiracy to hide the fact that "driver assistance" features contributed to an accident #teslatakedown electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

Adam Turck, beloved actor, shot when he stopped to help a stranger in Richmond As the police investigation continues, Adam Turck's friends, family, and loved ones want to make sure the community knows the about the impact he made on this world.

Please meet Adam Turck, an incredible human, artist, activist, and moral compass.

Adam lost his life this weekend standing up for the world in the way we all hope we would if it came to it.

He was indeed a super man. Fly high, superman.

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What a thread of testimony to a life.

Hello all! I've made the decision to push publication of Issue #3 back to this Friday, August 8. I'm sorry for all the date shifting and I'm sure these announcements get tiresome. But there are things afoot in my personal life which are taking a toll on my mental health, which in turn makes it...

COLLECTIVE. ACTION. WORKS.

Don’t quit yet, keep up the pressure, but at the same, celebrate your victories.

I made an interactive fiction game about some of these questions (although not with the current sense of “ai girlfriend”) forever ago

Brazil’s supreme court judge orders house arrest of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro Bolsonaro accused of breaking ‘preventative measures’ imposed amid concerns of avoiding penalty over alleged coup attempt A Brazilian supreme court judge has ordered the house arrest of former president Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly breaching “preventative measures” which were imposed amid concerns the far-right leader might abscond to avoid punishment over an alleged coup attempt. According to the ruling on Monday by Justice Alexandre de Moraes, Bolsonaro breached a ban on using social media which was imposed last month, when he was also ordered to wear an electronic ankle tag. Continue reading...

Brazil’s supreme court judge orders house arrest of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro

Bad news: you’re not immune to propaganda, bias, or perpetuating harmful -isms.

Good news: Once you accept this, you can reject harm & join liberation movements!

It’s not too late to put on an n95. To oppose genocide. To divest from fascist corps. To demand climate action. To protect trans people.

Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI

threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

Idk who needs to hear this, but cussing out front desk workers will never get you what you want

Get Ready for Ways & Means: A Heart Sourcebook From Rowan, Rook and Decard - Get Ready for Ways & Means: A Heart Sourcebook

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (it's a train)

I really like this honest answer about how the OGL was a tool to dominate the market and protect against certain legal risks. There's been a lot of talk about SRDs and where they come from -- and this is basically it, right?

A set of 7 ttrpg dice. They have different pink flowers against a black resin background with swirls. The numbers are gold.

Arcadia
»Turns out the gods we thought were dying were just sharpening their blades«

Will be available 05/08! 🥰 A personal favorite from this drop for sure.

The image is a black-and-white cartoon featuring a humorous take on plant smut diseases, playing on the double meaning of the word “smut.” The humour comes from the risqué implication of the word “smut,” combined with the fact that most of these smut diseases are destructive plant infections, except for corn smut, which is actually considered delicious. My cartoon plays with this contrast, making delicious (corn) smut the unexpected punchline. The individual cartoons were drawn in black pen on A5 (148 x 210 mm) sheets of white watercolour paper, and combined digitally, with text added above and below the drawings.

I drew a cartoon about smut - the fungal kind. I created it for the @plantpathgrads Art in Phytopathology competition.

This is the funniest I will ever be. I have peaked

For details and an explanation, see: hgpenningtonart.com/...

there are people whose entire lucrative careers are based on just being able to make mouth-noises about the latest trendy tech topic of the week

it very much feels like "bullshit artisan" is becoming the *only* stable professional career track in the US nowadays, and that's not good for society.