Chris Shaffer, aka MythicFox

Ah, always a fun game to play: "AI slop, or just a generic art style and bad at hands?" I'm actually leaning towards today's contestant being the latter, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn some of these are draw-overs, either.

If you're looking for fantasy games that don't funnel money to transphobes (and in fact has a number of queer and trans creatives involved with it), may I recommend Realms of Pugmire? It's kinda like D&D, but with cute dogs! realmsofpugmire.com

"Five minutes ago, you were all 'Fire cancels out Dark's weakness to Fairy,' and *now* look at you."

TeddyDeadrat - Twitch [Actual Rat] [EN] Are we a good sheep or a bad sheep?

Going dead! Playing games and stuff! Let's hang out!
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The cover of the graphic novel, a colored illustration by Daun Han depicting King in the foreground, Luz and Harpy Eda behind him, and the other cast of characters framing them including Willow, Hunter, Gus, Papa Titan, the Collector, and Amity.

We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel!

The Owl House: The Long-Lived King
Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social

Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social

We're so excited to tell a brand new story.

Woomy!

He doesn't need to think, just enjoy all the petting he's about to get.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Yeah, I used to run Pathfinder 1e using regular XP rules. But it made managing homebrew adventures' progression a PITA, and in Adventure Paths, the group kept skipping side quests/activities and falling behind the planned pacing. So I switched to story-based progression for both.

I mean, I'm indoors and it sounds like it's a good distance away tonight, so odds are it was hooting before and I just didn't notice until I started thinking about it. But still.

So I played a clip of an owl hooting for my roommate to give him an idea of what I heard for literally hours last night, and then afterwards the actual owl started hooting in the distance. I'm pretty sure it's a coincidence, but there's a part of me wondering if I accidentally got its attention.

Reminder that "degenerate" was a term coined by Nazis to describe art they didn't like and labeled problematic.

Unless you have proof of real world harm, leave people alone and let them draw fucknasty shit. You have block and mute features. Stop making your disgust everyone else's problem.

@funranium.bsky.social As much as I don't wanna *automatically* do the "it's a 'radiation' thing, Phil should see it," thing, well... here we are.

So fierce! So adorable!

I never had that issue, but I got into the series for a bit a few issues in. I vaguely recall it having some interesting ideas regarding mutant powers and the notion of the original X-Men as legendary figures.

I also recall it being so x-tremely 90's you're legally required to spell it like that.

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

Am I the only one who actually clearly sees the tip of her index finger when I zoom in on her hand?

Age verification?

I got a copy of Dragon Warrior free with a subscription to Nintendo Power.

Another way to submit your feedback about this utterly garbage policy is here, as their emails are apparently backing up already. Make more noise. Make discord fucking listen.

dis.gd/contact

Make as much noise as possible. Send multiple emails, call them, rattle their cage and be absolutely unavoidable about this to this goddamn company.

Contact info is right here, make a lot of goddamn noise.

discord.com/company-info...

It's the 'guy with his girlfriend looking at another girl' meme. Except the other girl is labeled "oof" and the girlfriend is labeled "finding a way to express to my venting friend that I sympathize without being patronizing and that I empathize without making the conversation about me, while also expressing they can keep talking if they aren't done yet."

*hugs*

Screenshot from Tumblr User hatingongodot: “In 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, “Do not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.“ LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy User Shitacademicswrite: i thought maybe this was fake, but there’s even a citation! Taejong Sillok Book 7. 5th year of King Taejong’s Reign (1404), February 8.

Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!

Belly pics, perhaps?

Can I borrow it to take pictures of you?

Aww, so precious!

TeddyDeadrat - Twitch [Actual Rat] [EN] Reading aloud: Ozma of Oz (from ch 6)

Going dead! Reading aloud tonight, continuing Ozma of Oz!
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So I need at least one more player, maybe two for my D&D 5e (2014) two-shot adventure. We'll be playing on February 28 and March 14, for four hours each day. Likely starting at 3 pm US Eastern Time. Here's a link to the adventure introduction: drive.google.com/file/d/1Yt5W...

The alien ambassador sidled through the museum in awe.

"You Humans have so much art! Do you have machines to make all paintings, poems, stories and songs?"

"We experimented with that, briefly," the guide said. "But humans are both cheaper and more creative. And, well, we will make art regardless."