Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 7h"we want to use the climate destroying plagiarism machine made by people who are actively belligerent and say it will kill us all, but we don't want people to yell at us for it." 0133
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Engineer: due to high stress duty cycles and reduced work volume projections the unit was taken offline for preventative maintenance. Unit is now fully restored and ready to return to operation for new product lines. 061
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 11/10/2026X days from now: I gave grok my credit card and it bought $30000 worth of anime models. No one could've predicted this. 000
Reposted by BlaineEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You know what I don't see on the agent who shot a dad with a military assault rifle? THE BODY-CAM THAT THE TRUMP ADMIN HAS PROMISED TO PUT ON ALL ICE AGENTS. 20803270
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they did not consider the idea that America wasn't the main character for any reason. 000
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The thing that gets me is ... These billionaire fucks are never working for anything more than more money. Sure they'll say it's for a base on Mars or the 3 day work week or whatever the fuck. But it's only ever lip service that could vaguely be at the end of what they've decided to do right now. 000
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Gonna start a podcast* about being a Transdimensional Logistics Officer in charge of picking people to isekai, facilitating said isekai, and picking worlds and cheat powers etc for them. *I do not, under any circumstances have the executive function to follow through on making a podcast. 110
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Nebulous them: "you have to put hot liquid warnings on everything or you'll get sued into the ground" Me:*looks at all the crimes being done* "where are all those litigious people and companies that I was told to worry about? Seriously, do you have their number? Feels like they should be on this." 010
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Giving myself a cookie as a treat because I made a generic reusable controller for my bevy experiments. Honestly, the hardest part was setting up an abstraction layer so I can use it as a base implementation of wasd controls plus some basics (jump, sprint, etc) and only do fancier stuff if I need it 100
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"How did you get into ttrpgs?" Buddha rubbed his belly and told me to meet him after school. 100
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In a game of I'm sorry did you say street magic and we just invented a wet two headed cryptid that steals beer and likes to party. 110
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026At a bar and one of the TVs has an anti Abdul El-Sayed ad and I don't have the audio or CC and like half the imagery is just socialism spelled out with dominoes or underlined or whatever and it's just... Completely laughable. 000
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ttrpg designers: I write directly into layout like a freak! Ttrpg consumers and devs: *loud applause* Me: We are a billion $ industry. We deserve SW designed for us to directly design into! Ttrpg designers: *crickets* Software devs that are also in ttrpgs: *crickets* Everyone else: *crickets* 100
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Litrpg novel that's actually a poorly disguised mega dungeon for the author's ttrpg when? 011
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sometimes they only load on wifi. Sometimes they only load on mobile data. Sometimes they don't load at all! 🙃 000
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I returned home from an overnight stay and this is my welcome back as soon as I landed home on the couch. 000
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Pbta game except instead of different playbooks it's different decks that you can draft new moves from. On level ups you can pick to draft or upgrade a move. Some special moves/conditions let you draft from different decks. 161
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 14/09/2026A non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.static.klipy.comTTGL Simon: Determined Anime HeroAlt: Simon from guren lagann, tho I'd bet kamina could as well. 000
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Feeling ambivalent about boycotts these days. Not in a being a scab/crossing the picket line way, just in a like, "I already never would've given them money so my part of the boycott won't register" and a "unless I decide to go off grid I can't realistically boycott them in any way that matters" way 010
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 12/09/2026We were supposed to have a score to smuggle a rare monster into the city in our playtest, but discovered our city wasn't really defined enough yet, so we pivoted to I'm Sorry Did You Say Street Magic lol. 100
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Sometimes I block people that I know based on context I'll likely never encounter again, just for the dopamine hit and I'm not sorry. Lol. 000
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I don't really have a dog in the fight because I never played the original and am unlikely to play the remake, but I do not care for wet Link. 000
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I saw an especially stupid cyber truck yesterday. It was just a regular cyber truck except it was blue and where a hot rod would have some bitchin flames it had these boxy ass lightning bolts coming off boxy ass patches of flat yellow. 010
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Rumplestiltskin: my uh gold and jewelry exchange startup is going poorly and I'm depressed. Shady Doctor: well if you're in a bind about money I know a guy that will take straw and spin it into gold. Rumplestiltskin: but Doctor, I *AM*... <Squints> wait a fucking minute. I'm not falling for that. 010
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Do UPS drivers think they're ninjas or something? Three days in a row I've been home for all three delivery attempts. Never so much as knocked on my door. But they left a fucking sticker. 110
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Legit? I bet reaction from my friends would be, "it's closer to 2029." "Goddammit. Fine. Here." 000
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 30/08/2026CW: spiders I'm at a fire now, but this spider and I gave each other a jump scare as I was leaving. I grabbed the door handle and felt something off, checked it out after I let go and there she was. 100
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Ok, I know the variables are all over the place and we're in fuck I hate this territory, but... These times are like a million PhDs worth of social studies theses or something, and that's just aiming for the nose. Listen, I'm looking for a motherfucking silver lining. I'm not being particular. 100
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026For absolutely no reason* Wondering what people might want from digital tools for ttrpgs. I've got my own concepts of course and will serve them first. But like, what do y'all think the elements of a ttrpg are? * Not actually no reason 310
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The reference I initially taught myself computational geometry with I cannot find anymore. I do not mean it's gone. I do not know if it is or isn't. I do not mean the links to it are broken. I mean I cannot find it anymore. Fuck AI and how it's completely fucked the utility of searching. 230
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026At this point I'm partial to the idea AI is being hyped to push data centers, and not the other way around. The Web got bigger than anyone expected and no one is investing in the infrastructure to the extent the people selling it want, + data centers were always unpopular. AI enter stage right. 110
Reposted by BlaineDidi is a trans immigrant 🏳️⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 29/08/2026And if you don't want to buy a book from me because I called a racist a racist, I don't want you in my community. I don't believe a truly safe space is possible. People hide the worst parts of themselves. But I believe the effort is worth making. I believe in making my space as safe as possible. 1424
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026People online: y'all is performative People from Tennessee/the South (my connection is Tennessee fam): The Fuck're Y'all on about this time!?!?!? 000
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Ttrpgs mesh really well with an entity component system framework imo. that's how I think about them most of the time, and this post is kind of why. You've got things (entities) which have data (components) that you do things with (systems) 110
Reposted by BlaineDragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026this data is gonna make some people Extremely Normal, so we have to post this graph. a lot 324972
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I was into genetic algorithms and neural nets before LLMs were a fucking thing. I'm not a tech hater. I hate what current tech fuckers are doing, specifically. 110
Reposted by BlaineDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"AI" is a brand that is being actively marketed to us, shoved in existing apps, forced into use at work. So of course people use the term AI to complain about it. Nobody is talking about ML in science and research. When you "well actually" this, you're just being a useful idiot to billionaires. 8670225
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Apropos of absolutely nothing* I am currently wondering about what the fea of various woodworking joints look like. *Not actually nothing 000
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Decided I've done enough fucking around learning rust/bevy and it's time to find out. First up is some basic reusable controls and cameras and lighting utility stuff, then I'm going to dive in with some proc gen stuff I think. 120
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Logged in and I had 30+ notifications so I moseyed over to see what hornets nest I could have possibly kicked. I had zero notifications. The 30+ indicator immediately disappeared. Business as usual around here I guess. 000
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 20/08/2026There's a full ass random egg in my yard. Almost ran it over while mowing. Presumably it's from one of the nearby houses that has chickens? I've never seen them in my yard, but that doesn't mean it never happens I suppose. 011
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Petra Parker/trans Spiderman thought: I kinda wanna see a short run comic about MJ getting more and more flustered about the upside down kiss and thinking about Petra because Spiderman is trans too, until it all collides in a big mess. There's some juice there, me thinks. 220
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Gonna get real into warding away evil spirits and inviting in good spirits, under the interpretation that both are part of the great poster spirit. The great posters can transmute the evil spirits into good posts, but compared to them I am but a novice and am only rarely capable of such wonders. 010
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Apropos of nothing, I kinda want to see a karaoke competition for best classical Latin covers using period instruments. 010
Blaine @blainem.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Keeping The Faith On The One Night A Year When It's Legal For Unmarried People To Have Sex 011