iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

cryptid @disquisition.net · 26/07/2025

anyway, i wonder if those folks feel safer now that big brother has stepped in to protect them? itch.io/docs/creator...

We don’t allow hosting content that includes sexualized images or videos of real-life humans. Fictional, illustrated, and rendered content is generally fine, assuming it’s legal. AI-generated imagery that is designed to resemble photographic content of real people is not allowed. Content glorifying sexual violence is not permitted. Depictions of minors, minor-presenting, or suggested minors in a sexual context are not allowed and will result in account suspension.

Our policy is not an invitation to push the boundaries of what is acceptable. Violations that result in administrative action are permanent with no chance of appeal. Any funds on the account will not be eligible for payout. There is no second chance.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of prohibited themes present in card processing networks. We are unable to support the sale of any works containing these topics:

Non-consensual content (real or implied)
Underage or “barely legal” themes
Incest or pseudo-incest content
Bestiality or animal-related
Rape, coercion, or force-related
Sex trafficking implications
Revenge porn / voyeur / hidden cam
Fetish involving bodily waste or extreme harm (e.g., “scat,” “vomit”)

It’s almost impossible to come up with an exhaustive list of unacceptable products to sell, so often we have to take content reviews one at a time. If an issue arises with your account that isn’t already covered by our policy, then we will contact you and share what options you may have.

cryptid @disquisition.net · 03/07/2025

in case you're wondering what kind of ttrpg campaign pitches my long-suffering players have to put up with, here's a peek behind the scenes

1. Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, 1815: The French Empire has fallen, but not before looting the riches of Italy and leaving much of the north in the hands of Austrian suzerains. Your patron is a Venetian merchant of noble lineage who has assembled a band to travel to Paris and restore to him a number of valuables—everything from paintings to rare books—which are rumored to have been taken into the personal collection of a Bonapartiste general. If the news is to be believes, Paris is currently in the grips of a new White Terror, a series of purges by ultra-royalists against the Bonapartistes, but only time will tell if this will hinder or aid you.
2. Empire of Ethiopia, 1440: Emperor Zara Yaqob of the House of Solomon has consolidated Christian rule over much of the Horn of Africa and as part of his efforts to improve relations with the Mother Church, he has ordered the assembly of a delegation to travel north to the land of Italia where, soon, a great council of all Christian churches is to be held in order to reaffirm the unity of all good peoples, but your mission also seeks to invite the skilled artisans, architects, and engineers of the Italian republics to return with you to the Ethiopian court to share their knowledge.
3. Pannonian Basin, 972: After a series of military defeats, the threat of the heathen raiders of of the Magyar federation have finally been contained, and this turn of events has resulted in the rapid consolidation of power by the pagan Grand Prince Géza Árpád, who is said to be a reformed who seeks closer ties to his Christian neighbors. It is now a race between Rome and Constantinople to see who can secure the faith (and therefore might) of the heathen horde occupying Pannonia. To this end, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Basil I, has dispatched a mission to Géza's court ahead of a tribal assembly to curry favor with the Grand Prince and his vassals.

050

cryptid @disquisition.net · 01/06/2025

Belltower, Op 1: "Shell Game"

An array of items on a tabletop, from left to right: several dice in a dice tray, custom Scum & Villainy character sheets, some player handouts describing a scenario on a planet called "Byelithor", pencils, a legal pad, and index cards.

010

cryptid @disquisition.net · 08/05/2025

hmm... something's missing... can't quite put my finger on it...

A description of a clock mechanism that reads as having been directly inspired by Blades in the Dark by John Harper.

010

cryptid @disquisition.net · 23/04/2025

ive been looking at medieval maps like the reproduction below and i want to be able to play on this, not with hexes overlaid, not with predefined points, just straight up play this map

A modern reproduction (1959) of the Catalan Atlas (originally c. 1375) depicting the eastern Mediterranean region.

032

cryptid @disquisition.net · 20/03/2025

Let's take these two examples which are supposed to represent fundamentally different approaches to roleplay. (These examples feel easiest to compare because they're both are techno-fantasy-themed.) [2/11]

"Because the goal in these collaborative storytelling games is not “To win” (slay the dragon, solve the mystery, etc.) but rather “To tell an engaging and meaningful story, together,” a cool move is much more about how it contributes to the story, or the world, or whatever else you care to write about together. The cool move in Microscope might well be to say “Oh, wait, what if each of the psionic cyborgs had like, an astral umbilical cord situation, and sometimes those cords got cut and the cyborgs were severed from the Hive Mind and became independent? But it was like, an existential crisis each time?”—a move that solves no problems for the characters in its redefinition (indeed, it probably only creates more), only redefines the world in an exciting way."

"A cool move in a post-OSR game looks like, say, using the engine block from your party vehicle to run electricity through the toxic oil seeping out of the facility, thus shocking all the techno-goblins inside. Or surveiling the vice president’s wayward child for scandalous kompromat to use as leverage in gaining access to a CIA field base. Or even just jamming a pair of sabers through the handles of a door to hold off the Imperial soldiers trying to break in. Whatever. The point is, a cool move involves using the in-world resources and options available to the characters in an unexpected, powerful way. The options available to characters and the options available to the players are, for the most part, one and the same."

110

cryptid @disquisition.net · 20/01/2025

This quote from @austinwalker.bsky.social about Realis honestly reminds me of the instant appeal of Troika!, where it feels like almost everyone who starts flipping through the backgrounds has a moment where they stop and think "ooh I just thought of a good one!" www.rascal.news/realis-ditch...

Quote from Austin Walker about his game Realis reading, "I've made a lot of stuff that has great fan reaction with incredible fan art, fan fiction, music, animation and everything that you can imagine. I've never made anything that has so quickly inspired people to say, I want to make my own class, I want to make my own thing, in the way that great tabletop games can do. Because it's just so easy. You have an idea for class, you write down four sentences, two bonds, and a few dream ideas. And the bonds and dreams aren't even necessary. They're like bonus things. Cool, done. Got it out."

010

cryptid @disquisition.net · 15/01/2025

mountains of personal debt in a country with no safety net whatsoever might actually be a threat to national security but what's that got to do with tiktok

bsky thread in which some jagoff asserts that tiktok must be banned bc "[China will] pay off your debt for a few pictures of a government facility near your town", which of course makes no sense.

000

cryptid @disquisition.net · 28/12/2024

im sorry but this took me out lmao

Screenshot of a post reading the following:

“Capitalism subsumes all critiques of itself”

I mean… so far.

Lately I can’t turn my head without seeing or hearing someone or something critical of the status quo.

And you think Squid Game did absolutely nothing to move that needle for anyone?

220

cryptid @disquisition.net · 21/12/2024

working on a little project of mine and thinking about what it feels like to grow up

I Saw the TV Glow (2024). Owen and Maddy are bathed in dim purple light and gaze past the camera at a TV set—Owen impassively, Maddy seeming to be on the verge of tears.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). Laura Palmer gazes up at her father, her face stricken with terror.

Channel Zero: No-End House (2017). Jules writhes in subdued pain against a malignant sphere containing a number of horrible, probing figures.

Nowhere (1997). Bart sits on his bed, legs splayed, chest bare, his back to a wall plastered with unsettling script, his gaze cast past the camera at a TV set, and his body appearing enervated by the images projected by that TV.

010

cryptid @disquisition.net · 19/11/2024

ive seen a lot of this bizarre form of toxic positivity both on and off bsky and while we do need people activated politically rather than withdrawing into despair, you definitely do not get there by accusing anyone publicly going through it of being an evil energy vampire

Bluesky post reading, "bluesky request.

do not follow or reward quote-doomers. people who quote an article and only add something like "you have no idea how bad this is" or "it's over" or "say goodbye to everything you love".

they succeed from your stress. they're bringing you down with them. stay awake; not like this."

110

cryptid @disquisition.net · 16/11/2024

i didnt even have to lift a finger 😌 bsky stays winning

111

cryptid @disquisition.net · 08/11/2024

Letterboxd vibe check 📽

A screenshot of my Letterboxd favorite films (Possession, First Reformed, Andrei Rublev, and I Saw the TV Glow) and recent activity (Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, Nostalghia, Belladonna of Sadness, and The Beast Within)

010

cryptid @disquisition.net · 08/11/2024

the democrats yet again lost a completely winnable election so it might actually be worth asking how they managed to do that instead of throwing your hands up and saying it's not possible to know if kamala ran a good or bad campaign

Two posts from NYT journalist Jamelle Bouie reading, "as long as journalists and pundits act as if they are amateur political strategists & not people trying to understand and tell the truth about the world, they are going to take the implicit view that voters can never be wrong, which then demands endless explanation of their morally blameless choice... not me. it is not my job to say what a political party should or should not be doing. it is my job to tell the truth, and the truth is that a lot of people willingly abandoned their faculties to make a bad, destructive choice"

020

cryptid @disquisition.net · 02/11/2024

While I think the general discussion is worth having, one of my biggest issues with video game remake discourse is this: "originals" are allowed to be both of their time *and* "unique," whereas if the "remake" is likewise of its own time, it is a failure

Excerpt from a blog post reading, "The original (hereafter referred to as Silent Hill 2) has much that is of its time: the often-stilted performances, the tank controls, its distant camera which cuts to new angles with every room you enter. Bloober’s recreation of Silent Hill 2 (hereafter referred to as Remake) removes these elements and replaces them with slickness and sterility. Remake is exactly what I feared it would be when it was first announced back in 2022: a reverent recreation that nevertheless rubs all of the original’s unique texture away."

Excerpt from a blog post reading, "In Remake, combat is less avoidable (there are even sections where you can’t progress until you kill a certain amount of enemies). James slips into combat mode easily. He pops out the pipe from a portal in his jacket as soon as an enemy approaches. He can switch from a gun to a melee weapon without any awkward scramble for purchase. He can do combos, and has i-frames. The result is something that feels both more and less hostile. The combat is tenser and faster. Individual enemies pose more of a threat and are less predictable. But it also makes killing less eerie. It is less like killing an innocent, and more like fighting video game enemies. It’s also more like Alan Wake 2, which is like Dead Space (2023), which is like Resident Evil 2 (2019). Remake reconfigures Silent Hill 2 to be like every other AAA horror video game out there."

100

cryptid @disquisition.net · 23/10/2024

Look, I hate "AI" as much as the next guy, but when there's apparently just a loaded 45 loose in the house I do begin to question whether the chat bot is truly the culprit

On the night of Feb. 28, in the bathroom of his mother’s house, Sewell told Dany that he loved her, and that he would soon come home to her.

“Please come home to me as soon as possible, my love,” Dany replied.

“What if I told you I could come home right now?” Sewell asked.

“… please do, my sweet king,” Dany replied.

He put down his phone, picked up his stepfather’s .45 caliber handgun and pulled the trigger.

151

cryptid @disquisition.net · 16/09/2024

bsky is just masto with better pr but i will admit this is a pretty good server

Image notifying me (and now you) that I was the 278159th Bluesky user (which falls amongst the first 10% of registered users).

000

cryptid @disquisition.net · 15/08/2024

the rhetoric of this election reminds me so much of 2016 and it's genuinely making me very nervous haha

Headline reading, "Yes, Kamala is Brat: What binds Charli XCX and Kamala Harris together is that they are both it girls, though of extremely different kinds"

000

cryptid @disquisition.net · 10/07/2024

why are people still doing "link in replies" style posting on here. this was probably never more than magical thinking on twitter, but it absolutely 100% does nothing here except put your link one additional click away from your audience.

A screenshot of a series of two Bluesky posts, the first of which advertises an upcoming Kickstarter project with a line indicating that the link is in a follow-up post, and the threaded reply post which actually includes the link to the project's Kickstarter page

000

cryptid @disquisition.net · 06/07/2024

if a girl identifies with this imagery u know she a freak

Kuromi from the My Melody universe, a white rabbit or imp-like creature wearing a black jester's hat with a pink skull on the front and a black devil's tail

000

cryptid @disquisition.net · 04/06/2024

ttrpg bloggers like this truly crack me up 😂 d20 rolls ruined role playing... my bold proposition is... extremely slightly different d20 rolls... please clap

Blog post headline reading, "How Difficulty Class and the D20 engine ruined roleplaying"

Blog post body text reading, "No, the real point here is that there's an unintended side effect to DCs as a unified mechanic. There are other downsides to it as well that I will go into below too, but this first one is the big one.

It turns everything in the whole gaming world into a mechanical widget. At first glance, one might think 'marvelous, innit? It resolves everything.' A quantum gravity theory of RPG in one simple equation. But, subtle as it may be, as it turns out this is actually something horribly insidious that tilts the game in a direction from being a roleplaying game to being a board game without the board."

Blog post body text reading, "With all these things in mind, what's the better alternative then? Here's my radical proposition:

A 'roll under' ability check + assorted other mechanics

Yes, the old school ability check.

'But Anders', the frustrated reader remonstrates, 'That is still a d20 roll!'

Yes, but the d20 die here doesn't have the flaws it does in the D20 unified mechanic, since we are not working with increments on the die to establish difficulty. There is a fundamental difference in approach however, that gives us a baseline for a resolution mechanic that we actually want to have:

1. With the D20 unified mechanic, you roll against the situation and apply ability modifiers
2. With the "Roll Under" Ability check, you roll against your own ability and apply situational modifiers"

140

cryptid @disquisition.net · 12/02/2024

"parts of the TTRPG community" is an weird way to say "the OSR." ZS was widely considered a bully and harasser outside the OSR for 6+ years before Amanda finally spoke up. the entire OSR scene has a deep debt to her and all of ZS's victims for supporting him as long as they did. gofund.me/ca6fbf48

A post from @zedecksiew.bsky.social reading, "Amanda spoke up about her abuser and broke his spell over parts of the TTRPG community. Because of her I stopped buying the bullshit of that abuser. Now he is suing her. Support Amanda!"

163

cryptid @disquisition.net · 01/02/2024

im not reproducing the whole thread here but for my ttrpg folks i just want to say i think the latest chapter of "xandering" discourse is bullshit and i hope you agree :)

so justin alexander posted a big long blog post filled with timelines, clarifications, and apologies. you know what he didn't do? get rid of "xandering". his new post is just a smokescreen to distract from that.

the discourse around this has somehow gone from being about alexander rewriting history to credit himself instead of a trans woman to now being about whether or not jennell was okay with people using the term "jaquaysing" (she was, but we already knew that)

im glad the relatively minor issue of alexander vaguely implying jennell didnt approve of the term "jaquaysing" is cleared up, but the bigger issue that he's still trying to center himself instead of jennell in all future conversations about nonlinear map-making is still unresolved

083

cryptid @disquisition.net · 31/08/2023

i watched that ttrpg video essay everyone's talking about

thoughts watching that vi video essay: 1) having your labor gamified and playing a game are two different things; 2) so vi was a practitioner of abusive "therapies" but it's ok bc they regret it now while brandon is damned for doing the same even tho... he also regrets it now? 3) this feels like an ad for vi's editorial services; 4) yet another person "raising awareness" about the toxicity of the forge while borrowing ideology from ZS, who remains unnamed! wow! 6) my god how many times is vi going to deadname ph lee??? 5) the fetishization of adventure modules is something i dont think ill ever understand

000

cryptid @disquisition.net · 18/08/2023

always funny when D&D players try to caricature other ttrpgs and end up describing the D&D experience. somehow too simple *and* too complicated? rolls have a bunch of contingent rules about lowest and highest results? it's boring? buddy, the call is coming from inside the house

Skeet reading, "you're STILL playing D&D? look, you gotta switch to Whistling & Stained. it's somehow both so oversimple that it feels fake AND so complicated your players will hate it. first off, instead of a boring old iconic d20, you'll be rolling six d6s, doubling the highest and lowest, and then falling asleep"

030

cryptid @disquisition.net · 17/08/2023

yeah i tried this for like 2 seconds and was introduced to like ten incomprehensible and seemingly years-long beefs that people really wanted everyone who followed them to care about. so im done with that now

A skeet reading, "One thing I think people are missing about having to rebuild their cozy Twitter networks #onhere is the opportunity to meet a lot of cool new people, cause this site is full of em"

110

cryptid @disquisition.net · 12/08/2023

im honestly so fuckin sick of yall lmao

000

cryptid @disquisition.net · 08/08/2023

this is how your email finds me

A voyeuristic photo of Irish actor Cillian Murphy standing on a porch in flip-flops, shorts, and thin white shirt, and a bath robe, eating what appears to be a bowl of porridge.

010

cryptid @disquisition.net · 19/07/2023

lil bro thinks he's going on an adventure 🤣

a kirby stuffie with a comically large straw hat on

010

cryptid @disquisition.net · 13/07/2023

the only things you can report an account for are impersonation and spam? reports for specific posts have more options, including specific categories for copyright infringement and nudity, while i guess racism, sexism, transphobia, ableism, etc all get thrown in the "anti-social behavior" bucket?

The "Report Account" modal, showing the categories "Misleading Account" and "Frequently Posts Unwanted Content."

The "Report post" modal, showing categories for "Spam," "Unwanted Sexual Content," "Copyright Violation," "Anti-Social Behavior," "Illegal and Urgent," and "Other."

000

cryptid @disquisition.net · 10/07/2023

i got a few cute, simple sets from knaveofcups.com last year

010