The Gorilla Of Destiny

Im trying to convince my friends we should try hat-oween, it's like Halloween, but instead of buying a whole outfit, you wear one hat + your normal clothes to try and approximate a character.

I just need to find a way to monetise this idea and ill be living the easy life

POV, you're my PhD supervisor, and you've just told me I need to write my research down

I must sound insane at work to say things like
"Yeah writing my D&D science books has actually been really useful experience for writing my PhD thesis"

Im at a loss for what spell it could be

YouTube video by GorillaOfDestiny Wizard Reading Circle #dnd #dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #spellwritingguide

A few weeks ago, I came across the @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social account on YouTube. Who came up with a really cool way of writing spells in DnD (if you are into networks, at least) 2/4

youtube.com/shorts/hXbkB...

Your regular reminder that NSF grants built the internet and helped the U.S. dominate tech.

The proposed NSF cuts in America are genuinely insane. I can't see a single benefit that could possibly outweigh the long-term and short-term costs to every aspect of life.

That is, of course, assuming their goal is to make life better...or that they're acting on any semblance of logic.

Nvm got it

a pixel art drawing of a man with gray hair and a blue jacket ALT: a pixel art drawing of a man with gray hair and a blue jacket

Me trying to figure out why my Druid code stopped working for no reason

Arcane Engineering for sure

Coadded images of NGC 1514 at 7.7 µm (upper left), 12.8 µm (upper right), 25.5 µm (lower left), and a three-color composite image of the three. The origin (0′,0′) corresponds to the position of the central binary star.

New MIRI image of NGC 1514 was released in a recent article.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.212...

The hardest part of a PhD is having to think "I don't envy the person who has to do all that work" before realising you are the person

Genuinely very frustrating

I slightly modified the #DND spell writing system by
@gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social
and built a little tool to supplement my non-existent art skills.

You can mess around with it here: joshgold.me/tools/dnd-sp...

Here are two variations of Phantasmal Force (one of my favorite spells):

Starting a new campaign and realising with much frustration that individual purchases haven't been allowed on D&D Beyond for almost a year.........

Genuinely got me and my players thinking why we bother using digital character sheets anymore

They're doing so well

If true, this would be insanely devastating. Like..."bias"?? "Inclusion"??? These come up all the time in standard scientific writing??????!??

(Also, it'd still be evil even if it was applied in a way that only impacted people...)

"There is a curse.
They say:
May you live in interesting times."
-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

I have so many projects to work on and I've had so little time outside of work

Until now...

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

I anticipated some rightwing weirdos in my comments for today's video but what's amazing to me is the difference in tiktok and youtube's vibe

Sometimes you just have to step back and realize you made something pretty incredible.

The Mighty DM's Dice Box from materials to completion (minus all the hard work 😅). Wait till you see the inside...

A baddly drawn cartoon frog with pointy teeth and a vampire cloak and the caption "Frogferatu" in a gothic german script on a whiteboard.

It's hard work being the office Artist :(

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

It's so good!! I can't believe someone else is making maps in the way I do, surreal. I literally saw it and went, "I don't remember drawing that"

I'll especially miss all the musiciansand animators I found through tiktok

Genuinely still a bit stunned by the tiktok ban 😅
Kind of assumed it was too ridiculous to blow over but alas. I'm not American so feasibly it doesn't impact me directly but the sudden loss in audience and fellow creators will be significant

Unironically need this for personal reference constantly

More relevant than ever.

Image of the Moon, on a background of the blackness of space, and foreground at right of Earth's atmosphere in shades of blue, taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the ISS in 2012.

Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... 😉