Max Moon Games

I am a recluse. I don’t want anyone to know what I look like. But also, I am a firm believer that if I am afraid of something, that is a good reason to do it. So I thought, well if I don’t want people to see my face, then I think I should design a shirt with my face on it.

Stoked to print these.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Movie made me cry lol. I have been wanting to check this out for a long time but waiting to stumble onto it used. Curious.

There are an infinitum of better tools and practices. Creativity research will back me up on this.

Love you. Now go be human.

PS: what I like about AI will be coming sometime.

But when we use AI, we shift our role from being in relationship with the world and translating experience into object to a new role: consumer.

So if you are using AI to help prompt your creativity, please know that you are decreasing the likelihood of having good ideas.

It can work, but

Wants to poison you. It will almost always feed you garbage unless it makes a mistake.

I would say that any good idea AI has is only good because a human has seen the cross connective value they superimpose onto an AI generated concept.

And this is actually harder to do with AI than without!!!

Go for a walk, read a book, take a bath, dance, kiss someone, or lay on a bed of nails.

Prompting AI to give you a list of ideas is like ordering a cheeseburger off the menu at McDonald’s. Sure you can get weird with it, but you are constraining yourself to work within a system that inherently

And ideate at the same time!

Like I said, quantity of ideas is helpful, but it isn’t the core.

Having a list requires sorting and a focused cognitive load that is an added barrier to accessing the unconscious awareness of cross connections.

This is why if you need ideas, it is better to..

These ideas spark precisely because we are in the world, experiencing a diversity of experiences.

The idea’s potency comes from our ability to draw unlikely connections across many systems.

And because we don’t have to sit and think until we receive good output, we are able to simultaneously live

Creative folks don’t have a plethora of ideas they record and then select the right one from.

Ideas spark, many of them bad, while we are doing laundry, eating a sandwich, taking a shit, and that isn’t a bug that is fixed by entering a prompt and receiving a list instead.

It is a feature.

I still hear people talking about how good AI is for prompting creativity and helping with ideation.

This comes from a highly uninformed position on the topic of creativity.

Here we go. 🧵

Creativity isn’t about quantity of ideas. However, creative folks do tend to have more sparks of ideas. But..

#digitalinflation I like this term. If it already has meaning I think people should join me in using it to refer to the rising inverse relationship between cost and physicality rendered.

Also, I love digitally produced artwork. This is about the capitalism creating non-extant content and extracting value by selling digital vapidity to people who never asked to purchase non-things in the first place. Digital inflation is logarithmically approaching paying more to receiving nothing.

In this world that increasingly devalues physicality and craft, we are conversely motivated to produce beautiful objects.

Physicality matters. It impacts our experience. Disembodied content reinforces Cartesian duality and the hierarchy of mind over body.

Ink is good. The body and mind are one.

I got a chance to play this recently and it is so damn good. Highly recommend giving it a go!

OSE Month is coming. I've been working on the DEMONIC GRIMOIRE, coming to Backerkit along with more fine infernal tomes by other old-school luminaries in May. www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

We learned today that all the brakes need redone….nearly $1000. If rotors, than $1400. 😔
So reworking some old originals to put up for sale soon cause that kinda bill puts me back 3 months…
Hope to have about 5 pieces available

Join us. I am still early into it but I am loving this shit so much.

Highly recommend this. Texting some folks right now. Thanks to @theweeklyscroll.com and @explorersdesign.bsky.social for practicing community generosity by taking the time do do this episode and sharing their insights. Amazing.

Loved getting to play some Rumpus with TWS!

"No fonts? We'll make them. Other publishers said it's too much trouble? We'll still do it. … No electricity because of airstrikes? Our designers plug into generators and keep going. That's the spirit of the game, defiant. And that's the spirit of Ukraine right now. So… perfect match.”

Twelve Years at Sea, by Dark Valley 12 track album

Go give a listen to Dark Valley’s Twelve Years at Sea soundtrack! It turned out so damn good.

darkvalleyds.bandcamp.com/album/twelve...

#dungeonsynth

Damn that is looking good so far!

Nice to see a couple Transfigure Print Co. things on the wall!

We have a fascination for the Hand of Glory. So, we had to make one…or 100. These are available for preorder now.

A collab with Mithras Candle.
Made with black beeswax and tallow.

Includes a ghostly zine of 5 rituals and a new translation of an excerpt from Le Petit Albert!

flaminghand.com

Oh hey, we're live to review WEIRD HEROES OF PUBLIC ACCESS from @joeyroyale.bsky.social, a ttrpg that lets you and your friends step into the shoes of quirky public access TV personalities to save your beloved town of Fairhaven.

go here 👇
twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll

Our new publishing company and store is up and running. If you haven’t already got Sölitary Defilement…there aren’t a lot left….again. We try to keep this in print but demand is constantly surprising us with being even greater than the last run.

Paul Simon’s Graceland

Did I show you the graphite work Mystic Barbarism did for Abyss?

Perplexing Ruins NPC illustrations for Abyss of Hallucinations are absolutely perfect. Decadent, psychedelic, and weird as fuck. Thank you for your vision!