jenn sutcliffe 🔜 Games for Change Festival

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A reminder: TTRPG Actual Play has been compared to reality tv, professional team sports, pro wrestling, audio drama, early television, & more — all for MANY years.

Its roots are many & include a wide variety of other play & performance practices, & the phrase derives from play reporting practices.

Party Girl is such a funny movie, the happy ending is grad school

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Fascism overpriced eggs and bird flu

Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
A roleplaying game is a collaborative storytelling experience between the other players at the table and you.

Don't wait to stand up for disability rights until you become disabled yourself

Salt & Sanctuary
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Brothers: Tale of Two Sons
Little Nightmares

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

Maybe my favorite red carpet look ever. I’m not a connoisseur—I usually don’t pay that much attention—this one is too eye-catching to ignore.

Man, ppl filming their process and then ending vids w/ artwork I never could have imagined is THE STUFF. Watched a dude create dyes from leaves near his house for a knitting project . A person who made stop motion animation with slabs of clay cut into pieces where each piece is a single frame. Like!

That makes a lot of sense

It’s mutable and created in real time, while most games and other media are fixed and created before consumption.

The rule set is the basis for the structure but it’s not the structure

The evolving interaction between the players, GM, and rule set is the structure

After more discussion with my gaming group, I think the core of any activity that we do that’s “unnecessary” for mere survival, like a game, is enjoyment and self-expression. That’s not specific to TTRPGs tho

I would be interested to hear your thoughts

What do you think they are about? (genuine, sincere question and not looking for a specific answer)

If I think of another medium like a musical, people come for the story but the core is the music, which has many layers to it that work together to allow the story to be told

A siff cinema marquee that lists both the movies baby girl and nosferatu

baby girl nosferatu

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

the We Bought A Zoo fandom is dying! retweet if you are a true Zoophiliac 🫡 🐯 🐻 🦁

Education Is Key to Fighting Disinformation on Social Media In our interconnected modern world, education is critical in the fight against disinformation.

My new piece for the New York Times, where I make the case that we need a lot more education to deal with disinformation, not more censorship and fact checks
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...

I must not dunk. Dunking is the riff-killer. Dunking is the easy path that brings discourse. I will face the dunk. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn my mind to seek the riff. Where the dunk has gone there will be nothing. Only the riff will remain

I heart this more than once

It kinda sneaks up on you like that

I'm lucky that I get to hang out and talk with @hancluster.com about RPG publishing and design. This week, we had the joy of including @jennsutcliffe.bsky.social to talk about technical and instructional writing in game design.

it’s giving tuesday

it’s giving thanks

This song is about a fart

lowkey believing in hexes is self care

petition to rename “Starter Packs” to “Juice Boxes”

👏 bring 👏 back 👏 blogger 👏 culture

I also want to see more academic blogs written for non-academic audiences

Vincent D'Onofrio & @vincentdonofrio Pigs can't look up. But I could pick a pig up one night and raise it into the sky and tilt this pig ever so gentle. I can make sure this pigs eyes line up with the stars. Imagine seeing the stars 4the first time.l want 2b treated that kindly and see the stars for the first time.

I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time

when your cat hears a weird noise and they’re like
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As long as people keep saying “I’m not saying skeet” people will keep saying “skeet” so people should keep saying “I’m not saying skeet”