iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 8h

To be loved is to be changed

Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 16h

That phase of finding a new streamer/YouTuber where you've gotta piece all the lore together like they're a character in a Dark Souls

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Plotweaver RPG @plotweaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Plotweaver Artist Search Finalist Highlight🪡🎨 Introducing another one of our finalists, Julian Del Rey! Julian (he/him) is an artist known for his work with Riot Games on League of Legends! These are two more monster ancestries for our modern setting, Hexbeat, which is now in open alpha testing. ✨🧵

A man with cat ears and east Asian features stands behind a man made of blue stone. "Plotweaver Artist Search Finalist Julian Del Rey"

A man with cat ears and east Asian features holds a flaming microphone in one hand and conjures flame in the other. "Kitsune" is the name of this ancestry.

A man made of blue stone with an open front orange puffer jacket that his spikes seem to break out of. "Stonecoat" is the name of this Monster ancestry.

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Garlic bread

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Pb @pbplaysinside.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🔵LIVE! Tonight we are looking at the good ducks from the 2026 Federal Duck Stamp Competition and chilling. www.twitch.tv/PbPlaysInside

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PbPlaysInside - Live on Twitch

We're looking at good ducks today. | Streaming just chatting.

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 08/10/2026

It is one of the international days (IYKYK), so I am rerolling 1s today

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Hilltop Studios @playhilltop.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

THE NEW CURSE OF RESTHAVEN DEMO IS LIVE! Just in time for Next Fest, you can now play the first full time loop and get a massive taste of what awaits you on the island. And YES, your save carries over when the full game launches October 29. Check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/3796150/...

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Plotweaver RPG @plotweaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Meric wrote a scenario for use with the Hexbeat open alpha test materials, as well as gave a sneak peek into some cool Cosmere RPG insights from this years Chasmfiend Magazine! Check it all out over on Plotweaver Academy 🧵https://www.patreon.com/PlotweaverAcademy/posts/hexbeat-scenario-171509542

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One other thought about the union announcement: A lot of people who laid the foundation and culture for this moment over the last few years aren’t at Wizards anymore for a lot of reasons and/or are contractors/freelance contributors. This is your win, too. Thank you for making it possible. 💜

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

goofy hunting poses runs in the family

A tuxedo cat laying on her back, mid-kick while holding a mouse toy on a string in her mouth

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Plotweaver RPG @plotweaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hexbeat open alpha testing starts today! You can find a scenario to run alongside the playtest materials over on the Plotweaver Academy Patreon ✨ www.patreon.com/cw/PlotweaverAcademy

A skeletal character with 2 graffiti cans sprays paint over her shoulders. She wears a cropped top under an open button up jersey shirt, exposing her spinal column and the bottom of her ribcage, and jeans with more graffiti cans affixed to her belt. She has long braids of green and red under a hat and gold headphones.

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the pinnacle of hunting grace

A calico cat laying on her back, legs splayed out, partially curved around a mouse toy that's barely holding on to its stitches. Her expression looks partially surprised, partially crazed

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the fiercest hunter

A calico cat desperately trying to grab a garlic plush. Her paws are stuck under the tail of a blahaj plush while her head is laid on top of the tail.

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Ethan @superrobotbear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am both very proud of, and disgusted by, the art I've done for TO HEAR THE CALL, a survival body horror game about trying to escape a divine circus with your humanity intact. Even if you don't want to play the game I'd like you to check out the art! superrobotbear.itch.io/to-hear-the-...

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To Hear the Call by superrobotbear

A game of dreams, excess, and change.

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 03/10/2026

This is actually mostly true if you consider effectively being born into tabletop gaming a form of conscription 😂

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 03/10/2026

"How did you get into TTRPGs" I was conscripted into it

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Watched Treasure Planet for the first time, what a delightful movie

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 02/10/2026

Roleplay Cafe attempts to position itself as a home for TTRPG communities in their many forms, but it does so while eschewing community in its creation. To me, technologies that seek to replace the human connections and collaborations that define community cannot have any place in such work.

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 02/10/2026

You state that building at the scale and complexity of more mature platforms is out of reach for an individual, but you haven't justified why *you* should be the person to take them on. Why should others put their weight behind you when you are already poised to replicate your competitors' failings?

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 02/10/2026

You have prioritized your access to a certain product or business model over the actual humans working in the industry around you. You have compromised on the need for collaboration while asking for trust. There is limited professional interest, and significant ire, to earn by making that choice.

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 02/10/2026

your respect for human work is conditional. "I could have paid a professional, but it would have been expensive or time-consuming" is the exact excuse being offered by certain game producers using this tech to replace writers and artists in their games and the issue is the same:

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 02/10/2026

Ultimately, you have asked the industry to trust your platform over competing platforms like Demiplane or DTRPG, and — even setting aside the hubris of trying to step into an arena that has had decades to mature technologies and build market share — right out the gate your actions demonstrate that…

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 02/10/2026

Having one's identity harvested to train a facial-recognition technology — even assuming the individual is doing so voluntarily — is not meaningfully equivalent to renting the resultant surveillance tech so that you can implement it in your product.

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 02/10/2026

I disagree with the base premise that a user whose data is exploited by a platform is complicit in their own exploitation, but, even were I to agree for the sake of argument, that's not the same as using those tools directly.

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 02/10/2026

My expectations for you, an individual with a conscience not wholly subsumed by a profit motive, are higher than for a corporate entity. That said, I have the exact same criticisms of Twitch's, Discord's, and Bluesky's use of LLMs. Their dominance shouldn't be confused with a lack of criticism.

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 01/10/2026

This may be true but *damn* does a lot of my favorite music come outta that country

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 01/10/2026

Andreas, what you are saying with this statement is that when faced with the choice between giving work to a competent professional and using a tool built on and sustained by destruction, you chose the latter. While nuance around LLMs may exist somewhere, this is literally one of the main critiques

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Give em the old razzle dazzle ✨

A tuxedo cat tucked under a table, her front paw pressed against one of the legs and extending her leg sideways

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Music is over" is the mating call of a creature that thinks we sat around a fire 20,000 years ago and invented drums as an investment vehicle

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Getting emotionally punted by events happening out of my control that have wildly outsized impacts on my life this week I just want to write and play video games and pet my cats in peace 😭

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Environmental storytelling happening at the grocery store again

An aisle of kool-aid jammers, with one tide pods container and a bag of loose juice boxes

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 29/09/2026

Well, Kienna, Jess, and I are all planning on playing if that's a factor 👀

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 28/09/2026

Who do I know that is planning on playing WoW Forever when it comes out? 👀

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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today's wisdom

A design featuring a beige paper background, a rainbow snapped in two and the phrase "All iPhones are foldable, Bitch" in dark gray

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Ethan @superrobotbear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Big art update for To Hear the Call! Check it out please and tell me what you think of its delightful monstrosities. superrobotbear.itch.io/to-hear-the-...

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To Hear the Call by superrobotbear

A game of dreams, excess, and change.

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Jess/Fawn (they/them) 🍉 @faunandgames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The first thing i do when i wake up is want to go back to sleep

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Come say happy birthday to my favourite Dylan!!

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

She's beauty, she's grace

A calico cat laying down on a blanket, one hind foot curled around a lump under the blanket

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 24/09/2026

As a Dylan who came into the world on September 24th, it's like this game was made for me specifically. I'm streaming CONTROL Resonant for my birthday, come hang out! twitch.tv/anarisis

CONTROL Resonant
twitch.tv/anarisis

An illustration of Dylan (made by @Dragonsparkz.bsky.social) cheering excitedly is superimposed over an image of a man in grungy workwear wielding a huge stony hammer. Behind him the New York skyline is twisted and corrupted by red energy.

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 24/09/2026

The idea is to get you to ask "what thing are you saying is a waste of time?" so you to click the video to find out. This is actually shockingly effective 😅

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Dylan Grinder is marketably frightening @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 23/09/2026

Designers love systems for their flexibility and robustness. Players love *games* for the fantasies they inspire and support. Players might develop opinions of a system as they grow familiar with it or find that it doesn't align with their gameplay tastes, but fantasy comes first!

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Re-posting with typo fix and re-boosting this for the US east coast time folks, I moved to Scotland and landed in an unlivable flat, so am offering 15 drm-free books of mine as a thank you for anything you offer as a way to get into a safe living space:

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Ghoula RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NOVA 2 is live on Kickstarter! Pilot powerful mechs on a sunless world in this action packed scifi TTRPG. This new edition of NOVA improves on, and adds a ton to the original. Let's get ready to go NOVA! www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

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NOVA 2

Pilot mechs in a sunless world in this exciting second edition of the NOVA TTRPG!

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lucy is a pothead

A tuxedo cat with catnip caught in the fur on top of her head

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Ethan @superrobotbear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New cover drop for To Hear the Call!

"TO HEAR THE CALL - OF PLEASURE AND PLENTY" a tabletopl roleplaying game by me.
Features a number of circus acts including a clown, knife thrower, strongman, ropedancer, lion, and juggler. Only the clown is smiling. The texture of the bill looks like artistic meat. Hidden in the corner of the image is "Coming for you soon."

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