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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 35m

Gamers out here showing that they understand that most fundamental of economic realities:

Screen grab from Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The lead ape, Caesar, is holding a bundle of sticks to make his point, which is written across the photo, and is "Apes together Strong".

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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 3h

The kickstarter for the new Microscope is live! I can't wait to see what you make with the new edition www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

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Microscope (2nd Edition)

The award-winning game of epic fractal histories

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 1h

As the cash cows, it's likely the corpos will want to do more. Unless they've learned something. (My money is that the suits have learned nothing.)

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, and any employer that says they own the work you do off the clock is a loathsome stain worthy of your deep scorn and deserving of being booted up their ass until their learn to act proper, just as a by-the-way. bsky.app/profile/rasc...

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2h

I regret only that I have not been able to give so many of your strange fanatics the magnificent deaths they were so clearly chasing after.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2h

Or hey, there's the direct "Stomping down on the practice of holiday layoffs, which rouse our disgust every few years."

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2h

Also a contender for filling the blank: "Giving a shitload of queer designers a stronger voice to go OH HELL NO for when corporate inevitably tries to sneak some Harry Potter into their workload *somewhere,* because they want that cash and already have the rights to make stuff."

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2h

This unionization should have OVERWHELMING support just on _____________ alone, and there are a bunch of things that can go in that blank. "Stopping AI encroachment" might be the dearest to a lot of folks out here, though.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2h

Do you want to help block AI from being normalized as part of the TTRPG industry? Yes? Great! Hasbro corporate leadership would like to stuff it into your face, while the actual creatives don't want it. So go sign the support letter for the D&D and Magic Workers unionizing.

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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!

The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 3h

Very low, I think, if only because "Don't use the Pinkertons for it, the customers don't like them".

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 4h

The chances of this being a clean fight are... Not high.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 4h

A strong enough union at Wizards could (and likely would) knock down about half of my "This company is fucking evil" notes, so I'm deeply interested in seeing them get recognized and see what comes out the end of their first round of negotiations after that. (This will probably involve the courts).

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 4h

...And then backed up with a monstrous-sized mod team, ready for a bloodbath at launch, because... Yeah.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 4h

This is the kind of situation that should have been foreseen and where signup should have had giant signs with plain language "If you post anything that's not family-friendly, immediate permaban, no middle gears, no appeals. This is the tidy official site, not your den of glorious kinky iniquity".

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 4h

"Judge Dredd (Adeptus Arbite) goes to the viking death planet (Fenris) and is informed of the local cult customs (Space Wolf Recruitment Tactics) to which even the judges must adhere." is a return to the mad satire of time past.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, there's a parallel in there for sure! There's also... odd stuff. Like, oiled-up gym bro Vikings going for-real raiding with swords on longships because that's how cult daddy did it, and cops are required to put away the laser guns and defend with spears, because the cult owns the planet.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 4h

Just like that, yup. Tiny dash. Hardly noticeable.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 7h

(I'm not sure if this is fun or nasty, it just wandered past and I wrote it down.)

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 7h

Stray thought: "Only men can be Space Marines" is a *psychic* rule, not a genetic rule. You need to be obsessive about attaining the specific masculinity the chapter founder displayed, sufficiently so that you can bond to their geneseed. Toxic hypermasculinity with juuuust a dash of homoeroticism.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 8h

This to say that claims that it's fully fair use are, uh, pretty strongly undermined by *the behaviour of the platforms themselves.*

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 8h

Then the claim was that LLMs didn't normally hold copies in lasting memory and so it didn't apply at ALL, and rare 'memorization' issues would get solved (I actually bought this one for a minute). But that didn't happen; they just threw up (very fallible) blocks to seeing what was memorized. (+)

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 8h

They used to have technically separate institutions where one was "research", to take advantage of the copyright carveouts for that. I don't know where those went (might still be some). (+)

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 8h

(The contrary pose that also lives in my head is "You can, through a series of fully valid artistic choices, render yourself inaccessible enough to be irrelevant, and the most I can do is to try not to laugh at this.")

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 9h

(You can also decide "I'm only interested in the audience who has time for me" and such; this is a valid choice and might let you reward your selected group more strongly. Be proud of this choice if you make it, and treat it as a feature to advertise!)

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 9h

Imagine a slightly confused and time-pressed but good faith reader. That's the cutoff point of actual audience; non-readers and bad faith ones aren't part of it.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 17h

The degree to which video game Narrative Design is serious on immersion and flow is wry comedy coming from TTRPG discourse.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, hey, an addition to the list of deaths that make me wish I could believe in hell.

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Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

COME AND SEE- *AHEM* LISTEN.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Geomantic testing: After testing movement, found that 75cm x 75cm (about 2.5 feet per side) is, if not the sweet spot for board size, much closer than I was working with, so I chopped my board down, and... it even *looks* more like it should. Plus at that scale, "kitchen table" is a real option.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Like, I assume there's a partial analog in indie mobile games vs. AI shovelware, but there's not that same clearly identifiable "We elevate what shovelware degrades" segment, there.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This contrast leaves me curious what the presence of both of those on marketplaces like Drivethru is doing. Like, is the flood of AI crap making OSR folks go even harder for word-of-mouth on finding new stuff? Or is more stuff just getting missed? How's that working?

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So, the OSR has light anti-shovelware properties - Like, that's where you'll find tons of people who'll make a "101 magic items" and giant random tables, and genuinely try to elevate that and make them GOOD. GenAI, on the other hand, drives mega-shovelware environments. (+)

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The principles are the product" is a helluva line.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's from an Episode of Red Dwarf about them finding an earth where time runs backwards, ends with a "Just gotta go use the bushes for a second" and: That.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As an aside, if your interest was piqued by that thread about the licensed "Dallas" RPG, but you'd prefer killing people with knives to be better supported, a modern game that's playing in approximately the same ballpark is "The Devil City & its 77 Vicious Princes": dukerino.itch.io/vicious-prin...

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The Devil City & its 77 Vicious Princes by Dukerino

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you don't have a rough fellow what ain't perhaps lived as a man should, how are you gonna kill Dracula?

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The traditional conservative here was always the rarest of types, to the extent I wonder if any of those that actually did mean it looked around at some point and have a Truman Show realization of "Wait, you're ALL lying?"

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is, I think, a lovely move on their part, since it heads off all the whatabouts with a nice clear "The bar for consideration is here, can you beat it?" and answers "One day, AI will...." with "Great, come back then."

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(This maybe sounds mean, but "Academic-thinker gets +1% a year over amateur-thinker" is a *spectacular* increase; it's just that it's early days on that.)

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Which is to say, yes, obviously, it's a form of solo play; we've talked about this *extensively*.

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