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Liminal Borne @liminalborne.bsky.social · 14h

If a rule needs a flowchart, a spreadsheet, and three specialized dice to resolve a basic action, it's over-designed. Elegance unlocks depth. Simple or crunchy? #ttrpg #5e #dnd #GameDesign

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 11h

Renaissance painters used to add gratuitous guinea pigs to scenes because they were exotic New World fauna. The same wonder at the new was behind this line in Hamlet: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Like …GUINEA PIGS, Horatio!

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 17h

I remember the first time people were excited about VR back in the 1990s Spending a day working in a headmount in 1994 disabused me of the notion that it was the wave of the future. The same overhype stink clings to AI right now.

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 19h

Roddenberry called TOS “Hornblower in Space”. Star Trek has always borrowed plots from the Age of Sail.

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You do. You do want to hear this story.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This piece of the puzzle isn't talked about nearly enough. I am willing to bet it's not the kids who do their own homework who will be left behind in the future. The stans are screaming this because they need it to be true or they are proper fucked.

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Although it might also be to cue that that the dumpsters are climbable.

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Intermittent wall socket failure is a WiFi issue I’ve never encountered before, but that’s our current working hypothesis. Surprisingly it wasn’t Spectrum’s fault.

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Environmental storytelling! Every week the trash men drag the dumpsters to the curb for the truck to empty. This week they all have new yellow caution tape. What happened last week?!

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s a nice trick to have up your sleeve when you really need to ship. Gameplay kind of dull? Add a timer as a low-risk fix!

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If a challenge is too easy, a cheap way to make it harder is to add time pressure. Most game timers aren’t artistic attempts to evoke anxiety, they’re just quick fixes for broken mechanics.

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Back in the before times we called these losers “script kiddies”.

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dude went to Adlai Stevenson high school and still doesn’t know what Stevenson’s first name was.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.

scientificamerican.com

How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit

And how they might have helped save the future of American apples

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Working with my wife to adapt situational play theory to music and we just came up with a tidy formulation of the pleasures of listening to covers.

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They should totally have done this with the Flintstones … .

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’ve spent the last 3 years learning this history. If you don’t hate Jews, you should learn it too.

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of the perks of going to the dog park in LA is getting writing advice and encouragement from veteran screenwriters. “As Blake Edwards told me … .” 😁

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Waiting to buy a new laptop until after the AI bubble pops. I figure it will happen right after the November election.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A massive group of demonstrators is currently forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center following Trump’s threats against it

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The first Civilization. I was over at a friend’s apartment and he let me play it on his computer. I kept playing Civ until he made me go home the next morning.

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have six rules of game design: 1. Choice - the player makes decisions. 2. Variety - the decisions change over time. 3. Consequence - the player’s choices must matter. 4. Predictability - consequences are knowable. 5. Uncertainty - but not perfectly. 6. Satisfaction - frustration is temporary.

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

No you *couldn’t*. You know nothing about the conversion process.

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DCMediaGroup @dcmediagroup.us · 19/09/2026

At the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1000s have linked hands and are demanding “Hands Off the Arts” while surrounding the center.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

as it is right now, AI companies literally cannot afford the data centers they've already signed for and bought the land for lol, they're all currently defaulting on all that right now. How the fuck are they going to afford the data centers for more? exponentially? it's nonsensical, it's unrealistic

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.

The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Impressed that I got out of my toxic 1st marriage, found true love, had 2 great kids, designed some hit games, moved to LA, and wrote a couple of books. He’d be disappointed I never learned Japanese though … .

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Alan Au @alanau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The danger is not that machines will become "too smart"; the danger is foolish humans who insist on surrendering control to very dumb machines. Less Skynet, more Universal Paperclips.

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is just pork for SpaceX, right?

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Welcome to the Butlerian jihad! It will be a long fight, but we’ll win in the end because AI is really stupid.

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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Beautiful! Sarah Kendzior: "I do not use AI: not for research, writing, photography, or anything else. I never will. I’d rather be a ghost haunting the machine than a vampire imbibing it."

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 15/09/2026

I'm convinced this is true. The amount of clearly LLM automated unsolicited messaging I now receive on every communication channel is something I've complained about before. It honestly feels like being stalked, but I think it's just what happens when your contact info makes it into an agent swarm.

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Humans have been anthropomorphizing complex phenomena for thousands of years. If you know anything about anthropology, technology, or epistemology you *should* be skeptical about the deus ex machina du jour.

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Jack Brewer @jackbrewer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"What every faction has in common —from the proponents of some AI apocalypse to the anti-regulation types — is their disinterest in responding to the realistic risks AI poses. "The U.S. intelligence community provides the most reasonable account of the actual dangers."

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 13/09/2026

What they mean when they say these things is "I need the government to make it illegal to compete with me", it has nothing to do with actual harms caused by these companies. They want to divert anti-AI sentiment into vague concern about fake sci-fi bullshit.

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Role-playing Journals are an amazing evolution of the hobby! I’ve been using Civil War re-enactors as an example of adult Coherence Play, but RPJs are even better.

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...

ms.now

A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms

The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I always thought this was one of the silly elements of something like a Cyberpunk2077 setting, where cyberspace was a discrete space AIs could live in, rather than, y'know, the sum of a bunch of computers running in meat-space that could be destroyed or unplugged.

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

White boy from Tulsa here. I will always be an ally to black people, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because I’ve seen how you stood up when the mob came for the Jews.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

1934 Rock-Ola World's Series - a stunning example of pre-war, purely mechanical pinball. You play "one half-inning" of baseball using 15 balls and three outs, with mechanical scoring for hits, runs, balls, strikes and outs - all accomplished without electricity. IG: @pribspinballrepair

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was going through cruise books a couple days ago (essentially like school yearbooks) and it is always remarkable how unremarkablly regular everyone looks

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Malcolm P. Johnson @admiralmpj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This video not only shreds AI Slop for its historical inaccuracy, but it also shreds AI in general for producing AWFUL results. But I will say this: Dr Eleanor Janega, the historian analyzing these images, is someone I need to have a beer with. She's awesome! youtu.be/wmn55r0zdmE?...

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Medieval Historian Reacts To HORRIFIC AI Slop

YouTube video by History Hit

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Grunge no Hamster @bbupton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For years I’ve referred to AIs as “faces in light sockets.”

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