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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 10m

Hey, lab rats! Tonight, at 5:00 PM CDT, I'm playing more Vintage Story with the rest of VTC Inkwell! Be there or be square! Er, wait - www.twitch.tv/docvivileandra #vtuber #envtuber #vsky #vtuberswithdisabilities

Doc Vivi and Inkwell on a promo image for Vintage Story

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Jason @envinyon.bsky.social · 16m

frankly, corporations have been pushing this for decades brands are important, not artists sequels to games, movies, etc., are often made by completely different people and companies do their best to hide that

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 25m

So when do we start finding out about AI-Driven Erectile Dysfunction. Like there's clearly millions of people pounding it to AI Slop art or chat bots, are we gonna have the 'gen alpha developing ED in their mid 20s' news cycle in a decade

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Death to fascism, freedom to the people @atriflemiffed.bsky.social · 1h

Not only is this obviously awful and completely monstrous, but it's also just depressing how hard this shit is being pushed by supposedly democratic institutions. It blatantly exists to destroy indies and protect large publishers and isolate kids online which will absolutely not protect them

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 1h

We just can't catch a break, can we? The EU Kids Act is nightmare fuel, if you look beneath the honorable surface claim of "protecting kids online". The breakdown: www.youtube.com/watc... #StopKillingGames #StopKillingTheInternet

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Morgan Mithril @morganmithril.bsky.social · 20h

Estrogen saved her #deadlock

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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 9h

This part kills me 🤣 - "fall of" (11,527 results on Steam) - "echoes of" (2,750 results on Steam) - "shadow of" (8,243 results on Steam) Excellent insight from @itshannahflynn.bsky.social about game naming (I contributed a few words, too)

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male to fujoshi transsexual @foxglove.bsky.social · 28m

Why does Firefox look like Opera now?

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Dyke Spiegel @cowgirlshebop.bsky.social · 38m

If Steve Bannon is agreeing with you, you’re probably an incredibly evil dude.

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 43m

It's crazy how straight women go absolutely crazy over any "attractive wolfman" characters in video games to the point of going viral but more games do not simply add one It seems like a free path to word-of-mouth marketing, lol

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 41m

end result of a decade+ of corps treating art like Product and fine-tuning it to this end, many don't view art as a thing made by another person as a form of communication, they view it as a product like milk or eggs, ergo if you can have a machine endlessly produce things to your tastes, good

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dragonetti @dragonetti.bsky.social · 1h

I'd really like to know why there is such a push to ensure you never have to interact with another person ever again. And I have weird social hang ups sometimes. I get it. but to want this is something very different

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Korlis @korl.is · 6h

Yes, exactly! If he wants to clock off and not deal with this on his own time or othersise limit who interacts with his personal posts I can't really complain. Ironically, another reason it was a massive failure to anticipate the need for private accounts!

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 6h

Like it wouldn't bug me if all he talked about on that account was sports teams and video games and posting memes, but he very much makes his job His Whole Ass Personality. It's his fucking banner.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 6h

Or separate the accounts! Like, by all means, have a private account for whatever, but then have an official Trust and Safety for *all* work related comms. The fact that he makes statements about the implementation details or philosophy of T&S on his private account, then blocks people...

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 6h

Folks is it a good thing when the head of trust and safety assumes you can automate blocks on the platform you're purportedly running trust and safety for This is forum drama levels of passive aggressive moderator behavior

Aaron Rodericks posted on Bluesky: "Automated block actions on my account, so that I can stay Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In my lane. Focused. Flourishing.

TBH it was well overdue."

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Alchemist @alchemist64.bsky.social · 48m

Please help and share if you can!

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Axle @axle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 1h

It's really cool to me that both Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have both had illustrious careers playing total freak characters

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 1h

like other bots it can be almost certainly manipulated by outside actors because i guarantee not only is it vibecoded but its ductape holding llms, jev and half-assed ml all the way down its built upon a fundamentally failed principle

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 2h

As Baker himself notes (and he would know), Apocalypse World moves have a variety of frameworks beyond "10+ = good thing, 7-9 = good AND bad thing, 6- = bad thing," but this is what a bunch of people took away as "the default" for how any given PbtA move should work

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 2h

The bigger Discourse Perceptual Issue surrounding Apoc World (and PbtA in general) comes down more to "not every roll needs to have the same Move Framework attached to it," which is where you get the common idea that every roll in a PbtA game is like the jokey post linked in the OP

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 2h

Apocalypse World is pretty specific about this in places, in fact!

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Johnny Normality @probgobl.in · 2h

I don't know when exactly it happened but, at some point, GMs stopped believing in The One Basic Truth Of Running A Decent Game: "Not everything needs to be a roll."

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 2h

Leave it to Vince Baker to aptly distill 10+ years of PbtA discourse down to the crux of the issue, which is "not everything you do is Acting Under Fire"

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Alchemist @alchemist64.bsky.social · 1h

For as much as TTRPGs are a social hobby, they can make you feel lonelier than other hobbies when your interests are consistently unaligned with the people around you.

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Cheez 🖤 comms closed! @ricecakehomie.bsky.social · 1h

Gonna start needing help with bills this month, rn I have about a week for the gas & electric so anything helps!!! I'll keep this up until everything is covered for later in the month but im so sorry to keep asking so soon over & over ;; www.paypal.me/ricecakehomie

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Chris Hutton - TTRPG Insider @newsnerd.bsky.social · 2h

White Wolf announced that Renegade Game Studios will no longer manage or develop the TTRPG part of World of Darkness as of 2027.

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NO GODS, NO MASTERS, BISEXUAL DISASTERS 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🔞 @travisteatime.bsky.social · 1h

"Her new chief strategy officer tutored reporters on the company’s economic challenges." Oh, okay, yeah sure why the hell not, if all reporters do is uncritically regurgitate corporate PR, you may as well also give them lessons in how you'd like those regurgitations to be framed, wonderful.

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NO GODS, NO MASTERS, BISEXUAL DISASTERS 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🔞 @travisteatime.bsky.social · 1h

It may be low on the list of problems GamerGate caused & worsened but I still resent them for turning "ETHICS IN GAMES JOURNALISM!!!" into both setup and punchline because... well...

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Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.social · 2h

This also impacted things like why “you don’t have to roll” didn’t catch on, and why “some rolls are only to determine which positive effects if any take effect”: these are *at odds* with the mainstream mood of “this is what and how you do in RPG”, subtextually. It all tracks.

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Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.social · 2h

Around the time of Apocalypse World being made, one big influence was busily defining how a 7’th level portrait painter had 7d6 hit points and a +4 attack bonus. Another one was claiming to be a game of social intrigue and horror and devoted 65% of its rules text to elaborate brawling situations.

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Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.social · 2h

I’m bathtub posting so maybe this is only gonna make sense to me but: one of the reasons Act Under Fire was so quick to become “the” model for the cultural mindset is because of how the most widespread games were all related around violence and skirmish heroics as a primary standard.

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 3h

Now, this misunderstanding of PbtA— Good happen, so-so happen, bad happen — it's not the fault of the people who've had PbtA presented to them this way. They shouldn't somehow know better, when this is what people have been telling them!

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 3h

Why didn't these kinds of moves— Pick 3, pick 2, pick 1 Pick 2, pick 1, pick none Exceptional success, success, compromise — become "how PbtA works"? Like I say, I think it's obvious why, but choosing one move to be "how PbtA works" at all was the first mistake.

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 3h

There are also moves in Apocalypse World that go like this: What happen? On 10+: Exceptional success! On 7-9: Success! On 6-: Partial failure or compromise! If you need a roll for someone taking action within their strengths & skills, cool, just use this template instead of the more punishing one.

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 3h

As it happens, Apocalypse World has a move for cooking a Michelin star meal. It's not a basic move, it's a playbook move, because not everybody cooks at that level. It works like this: What happen? On 10+: Pick 2 good things! On 7-9: Pick 1 good thing! On 6-: NBD but meal is still delicious.

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 3h

@homebrewandhacking.bsky.social 's complaint about PbtA feels right: > "I try and cook a Michelin star meal. Oh no! A 7!" > "You partially succeed. You cook the meal but it poisons the reviewer." It's a great example! It nails the problem of treating acting under fire as the underlying template.

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 3h

I understand why it happened this way, and I think it was probably inescapable ... once it came into somebody's head that there should be, or must be, one template underlying all of the game's moves. There's not one!

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 3h

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

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thorny, proud Bleeter @ithinkiplaygames.bsky.social · 3h

dude is so eager to spread his rape apologia to Bluesky that he hasn't even taken a break to set his profile picture or write a bio yet

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Read Settlers da Silva @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 4h

Remember when you got your shit rocked at the Ann Coulter event at TCNJ

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 2h

One lesson they should have learned from other fields of engineering is that attempting to use engineering to control human behavior always has massive adverse effects Look at the design of the city of Brasilia, for example, lol

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 7h

Those arguing for mass-adoption of AI art always seem intent on proving the wrong thing; that AI tech will change beyond all recognition. They seem less inclined to prove their argument's much wilder claim; that human nature, and all previous modes of taste, emotion and investment, will change too.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 8h

It's easy - and correct! - to focus on just how ghoulish and profane this view of human creativity is. But even if you're the most cynical capitalist on earth, the evidence that people would enjoy entirely dehumanised content, at anything like a scale that would justify this hype, is extremely thin!

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 8h

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 8h

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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TomTC 🐰 @tomtcart.bsky.social · 4h

“Forgot yours, too?”

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