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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes you go 3-18 in a day, you're sad, and that's fighting games

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve just spent the last two months prepping a megagame. Its a live text discord RPG set on a space station full of factional intrigue and desperate people, incorporating all the lessons we've learned since the time we all did that last October. Enjoy! thegardenbelow.blot.im/apa-1/so-im-...

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APA-1 / So, i’m running a megagame. - The Garden Below

An announcement of a new live text discord megagame starting October 16th 2026.

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That feel when you start designing something, and then you see it rapidly becoming a game that already exists lol

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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Disable gambling ads:

Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Sponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Manage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh no I think I like baseball

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Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"These Games Are Not For Sale" is a little project @tonytran.bsky.social and I have been cooking up. It's a festival celebrating game design for the sake of it; games that can't or won't be commercialized. Please give this account a follow if you're with us:

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Oh my god Apocalypse Keys fucking rips--what a juicy game

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Riot Games is killing their fighting game, 2XKO. Man. It hasn't even been a year :/

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

Al policy

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Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.

Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.

The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.

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itch.io @itch.io · 04/08/2026

Enjoy 127 items by 109 creators and support game devs effected by recent layoffs: itch.io/b/3802/game-...

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Ethan @glyphtide.games · 04/08/2026

Going to Gamehole Con? If you're a POC and make TTRPG content, join @lyla.bsky.social and me at the POC Industry Dinner, sponsored by @montecookgames.com and @brotherwisegames.bsky.social! Meet creators, find mentorship, grow our industry. 🌽 Apply by 8/23: bit.ly/ghcpoc26 🌽

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kheehoon chan Still Needs Work @crapstacular.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Rascal is a lifeline for me, and it is because of the subs that I was able to do some really cool work for the TTRPG space. Please consider tossing a coin or two if you can afford it!

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Wait, W is just double-U?

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It's been such a privilege to write for Rascal, to write for you, and it would be really nice if I could do it next year as well. If you can sign up, please do. I would do so much better, the work world be so much better, if the site wasn't precious.

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edmo @edmocat.itch.io · 02/08/2026

If you haven’t seen Elmcat’s visualisation of the rpg blogosphere… you simply must. So cool

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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Hey so I haven’t really talked about it much but I finally started a new job! I’ll be running a tabletop game store called Play Play Asia at GMBB KL (GM1-13 on level 1) We focus exclusively on Asian tabletop games, including TTRPGs! More details as we get closer to opening.

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Adam Bell @adambell.games · 19/07/2026

hi I'm in the middle of receiving absurd veterinary bills and could really use some work, if your projects need anything reach on out to me (I think the freelance section of my website is down but that's s thread gives an idea of what I can do)

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🍀 LuckyStar ✨ @luckystarbecca.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

IMAGINE IF THE FGC HAD THIS MUCH OF A FUCKING BACKBONE TO STOP PARTNERING WITH EVO, SNK, EWC, ETC. IMAGINE THE BETTER FUTURE WE COULD HAVE

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Just Kaylee @deer.stream · 04/07/2026

This upcoming Friday I will be hosting a LTRP based around every player being a knight competing in duels and jousts, lasts for a week. This will feature some new ideas I had inspired by MUDs (travel, description, inspect commands). If anyone is interested in joining just let me know!

--= User Commands =--
/join: This lets you play the game! It creates your character and makes your personal channel. You can even set a /description here early! Example /join A noble lady with kind face and flowing brown hair. She wears a forest green dress covered in golden flower embroidery.

/status: This shows your current player status. How you check your crowns, title, age, ect.

/description: With this command you can set the description that others will see when you arrive or when inspected. Example, /description A noble lady with kind face and flowing brown hair. She wears a forest green dress covered in golden flower embroidery.

/inspect: Inspect how a player looks in your location. This will show you their description and a rough guess on age.

/work: How you earn your crowns. Shows others publicly how your character has worked for the day to earn a wage. The more details the more crown. Example, /work standing guard for a troop of merchants who were loading up supplies from their guild house

/pay: Owe someone some crown? You can use this to pay it out.

/horse: Travel taking too long and you have the crown? Buy your own steed to name. Reduce that travel time in half.

/join_guild: Interesting in signing up for a guild? Do you wish to show support? This is how.

/renounce_guild: Decided the life of a guildmember is too much? You can quit anytime, as long as it's public.

/travel: Sick of standing around in the same place? Travel elsewhere!

/arrive: Did you travel and miss the arrival button? You can use this command instead.

/roll: Rolls up to twenty d6, publicly.

You were all born in the lands Kallisto, during the time known as the age of prosper. The time period is roughly the same as what you would expect from a medieval low fantasy book, leaning towards the late middle ages.

The king of these lands has decided to put on a contest. Two new generals are needed as the king themselves plans for a war. Those with the highest amount of duel wins and joust wins will be dubbed Baron/Baroness and join the king to battle. That is not all though, the one who can amass the greatest amount of wealth will too earn the title of Baron/Baroness and join the King's staff as a treasurer.

There are three active guilds in the lands, one in each city.

Ironcliff houses the Order of the Flowering Knights. A group whose goal is to defend the weak and do right by others.

In Stagcross you will find the Guild of the Golden Leaf Trading Company. Traders and merchants who prefer the use of crown over steel.

And Pinedale hosts the Brotherhood of the Hearth. Those who still worship the old rites.

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Blood on the Clocktower has so much support for play! Super cool to see for someone new to the game (is me, I am new)

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Thursday Garreau @keftiu.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

i am once again demanding that y'all join me on Paper Cult Club, an exceptional little slow forum about indie TTRPGs (and other typical message board nonsense) papercult.club

papercult.club

Home | Paper Cult Club

Visit our forum at: papercult.club

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Man, NPR had me crying in my car over hot dogs wtf

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I'm in the process of writing my love letter to fighting games, so I booted up Ultra Street Fighter IV for the first time in 10 years. Training mode. El Fuerte. I tried an old combo I hadn't been able to hit all those years ago: run stop fierce. Today, I could finally see the path to the summit.

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Brian Liberge/Freddie (she/he) 🔜 NotAConCon @brianliberge.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

To clear up some misinformation, Games on Demand at PAX East and PAX Unplugged requires every GM to use safety tools. We've been doing so for years and we are not the only group to do so. We take GM volunteers regardless of background. We ran 230 game sessions last Unplugged, and 82 last East.

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KinoFabino 🇵🇸 @kinofabino.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Reposting because of the sony news

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Minærva McJanda 🔜Metatopia @minahoneybat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

As someone who does the vast majority of her roleplaying by PBP these days, this blog post really hit for me. raines.bearblog.dev/discord-tool... Discord is *so good* for RPGs, especially once the RPG is flexed a little to account for the restrictions of the format.

raines.bearblog.dev

A Discord Toolbox for Play-by-Post Perverts

I am chronically ill, and I speak by writing. That's hyperbole, but not by much. I'm capable of speaking——sometimes I even do it——but the number of people...

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Adam Bell @adambell.games · 25/06/2026

itch summer sale! get all my paid games for $45! That includes all 5 brand new releases from 2026 itch.io/s/193202/sum...

screenshot of my itch summer sale page. $45 for ten games

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Puck @ahjeez.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Your friends think fondly of you when you aren't around. You can't stop it.

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 19/06/2026

Next week, @unwinnable.com's 200th issue comes out, so I put together a gallery of all 202 covers of Unwinnable, dating all they way back to 1872. Er, I mean 2014. unwinnable.com/2026/06/19/2...

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202 Covers - Unwinnable

202 covers to celebrate 200 issues (we're writers, not mathematicians).

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A little over two weeks ago I released a jokey blog post about what to expect going into an o/u-like LTRP. Now its time to give Baseline Drift the chunky post-mortem blog treatment as its predecessor with a reprise of my first ever blog post. thegardenbelow.blot.im/voice/expres...

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Voice / Expression / Reprise - The Garden Below

Exploring markdown formats, plural identity, and other tools of live text expression in the wake of Baseline Drift.

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Aki @akinomiiart.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Its time for my annual #AAPI Month OC thread where I get to yap about the symbolism/history behind my OCs! If u don’t know, I'm a mixed Asian #TTRPG Creator and my OCs are/were in active APs. My background inspires a lot of how I rp/design and what stories I want to tell. 🧵 #aanhpi #ocsky #oc

5 panels of pictures of asian women side by side on a light salmon bg with red Chinese/Indian inspired decor

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elmcat @elmc.at · 27/05/2026

google search is broken? fear not! rootring now has a search engine that lets you look for posts and contents from blogs on rootring search.rootr.ing

search.rootr.ing

Search · rootring

Search indexed posts from across rootring.

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cannibal princess @yyakamo.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Hello! @deer.stream and I are running an Over/Under-like called Baseline Drift. It starts on May 29th at 11am CST until June 14th. The max player count is ~300. We would love to have you join! The Discord! discord.com/invite/j9WqG... The Rules! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Does "skill expression" mean something to RPG folks? Or is this mostly a video game idea?

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James D'Amato @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The Edition Wars Tornament in now live at Gencon! This is your chance to finally prove your favoirite RPG is the best game in the world objectively: By building a Bracket 2 Commander deck based on it, and winning a tournament.

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user_null @user-nu11.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

#OVER/UNDER obsession got so far, I'm doing a university project about it. If everyone who participated could fill out this really cool questionnaire, it'd be so amazing :)) forms.gle/h5D2motTcDcD...

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OVER/UNDER questionnaire

Consent form: Study details The purpose of this study is to better understand how OVER/UNDER influenced the participants' minds. This study will consist of the following questionnaire and will be l...

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Hmmm, I feel like if text chatting in 2XKO lobbies had chat bubbles people would be more responsive, but idk

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Just finished playing #Unbeatable! Lots of great moments, and the game has its flaws, but maybe it's better for that? It also has a very endearing and cute end credits, so that's nice :)

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The dumbest, worst, most annoying person has already done the thing you want to do and someone probably loved it. So you might as well just make the thing

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Man, I hope the Daigo vs MenaRD set will be good...!

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

My friend and I talked very seriously about horny games, and I think he's now out to write it! Will share when it's complete and if he's open to it, then :)

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Can confirm witch hat good

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

You can leave a comment for the FCC's proposed change to make transgender people of any kind inappropriate for children's media. Go to this link and let them know you are commenting in regards to MB Docket No. 19-41 A massive public outcry is needed on this.

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DB @dicebob.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Whew, Fabula Ultima does not feel great with a 3-phase boss battle. Maybe there's better ways to go about it, but I don't think I can pull it off! The book does say to be prepared for a 3-phase boss fight to go long, but yeahhhh, it is wayyy too long (3+ hours for us)

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This year's Indie Groundbreakers Awards feature so many talented nominees. It's shocking to see my name among them. SPINE is nominated for 3 categories: • Game of the Year • Most Innovative • Best Writing Fellow SPINE nominees include @furtsburrow.bsky.social, @naladraws.com, and Holly Freiberg.

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Indie Groundbreakers Awards — Indie Game Developer Network

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