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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 29m

If you can actually scare me in a game, then I am as happy as can be.

Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 29m

I run a lot of Mothership and am often called on to describe some pretty heinous stuff. I've played with the same people for a long time, so I mostly know where the line is, and I have a canary in the coal mine, whose face crinkles up when I get to the line. Personally, the more the better.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 40m

The public domain is nothing less than our cultural heritage as human beings. And when you use it, you carry the creative works of our ancestors forward into the future. I think about this a lot, and it's beautiful that the work of long dead artists can find new audiences in new contexts.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 48m

Including random people that get involved. I'm loving Lenny Rush in it this season.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, most bullshitters are like that. They prefer anecdotes over data because it allows them to say any dumb old shit.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 1h

I can't tell you how depressing it is to see Neal Stephenson doing a company to sell you slop stories for Fortnite.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 1h

To be fair, given his past history with trying to start and run companies, it will be a dismal failure, so we won't have to consider it for long.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 1h

It could be, but you'd need data to make that argument, and you don't have any, because all the data that anyone's gathered says the opposite. Otherwise you're just running your mouth.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 1h

I'd want 4. A dungeon crawler, a crunchy tactical, an investigative, and a narrative. For me that's probably going to be B/X, Lancer, Delta Green, and maybe Stonetop or a FitD/CfB.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 2h

I've done four of them and never been given a choice. What doctor wants to root around while you're wiggling and complaining?

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 2h

I saw that one in the theater, age 8. I found it chaotic and frightening after the Rankin-Bass Hobbit, and for many years was upset that there had been no Rankin-Bass Lord of the Rings. But then I grew up and realized how great it was.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 3h

What is the movie that came out before you were born that you've watched the most times? (Really a toss up between this, 2001 and Lawrence of Arabia)

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No Im Not Trump Weird Horse - Peter Sellers

Alt: Dr. Strangelove scene where Slim Pickens rides a nuke

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 3h

I liked the first season but haven't checked in on the second yet.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 11h

My left ball swole to the size of an orange and I spent the day with a bag of peas on my junk. They would not have been walking that off. Some vasectomies go very easily, some don't. You were wise to clear your schedule.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 11h

Social contagion theory is horse shit.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 12h

Wrote about a third of Spacekill tonight. Is there such a thing as grimgoofy?

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Valeria Loves @valerialoves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Remarkably useful dungeon design resource sersavictory.itch.io/dungeon-gest...

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Dungeon Gestalts by Sersa Victory

36 organizational patterns for dungeons

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 12h

I read it last night and really liked it.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 14h

Did a wizard cast a slow spell on you?

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 15h

You could be a star on the 1980's Dallas-spinoff, Knot's Landing.

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Francisco Lemos @lemosfran.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

They are a peculiar species that thrive in the arid plains. Telepathic and featureless, they often wear masks to facilitate interaction with humans, and scavenge gear from those who don’t survive the heat. #osr #ttrpg #art #illustration

Illustration of an humanoid cactus, in the desert, wearing combar geat, with 2 white masks, holding a basket of smaller cacti.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 15h

Two years ago I was discussing this with someone who manages programmers for a large American car company, and he said it was this amazing force multiplier for good coders. Last time I talked to him he said exactly what you're saying now, that it turned out to be mostly illusory.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 15h

Wow, you really are in the tank.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 15h

No one here has the power to ban AI. What the fuck are you even talking about?

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 15h

This is just gun humper bullshit. The exact same stuff. There are plenty of people who have experience with it that think it sucks shit. You're so in the tank you can no longer conceive of anyone having a different opinion, so you have to make up reasons.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 16h

You didn't make shit, slop merchant.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 16h

If you were capable of doing anything impressive with it, you wouldn't need to spend your time haranguing people on the internet about how great it is.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 16h

This schtick would work better if we all had amnesia about the last five years.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 17h

And the next time a study says the same thing, you'll say the same thing.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 18h

You just keep seeing study after study say that businesses that implement AI procedures see no benefit in productivity, and the people selling it, which becomes a larger and larger group every day, just keep insisting they do. Because it FEELS like they're doing more.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 18h

Also, they're easy to find online if you want to. Reddit has an entire subreddit for piracy. Old, new, whatever you want. And if you want something more esoteric? Archive.org is full of books about EVERYTHING.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, it's absolute legal chaos. No one is remotely ready for the lawsuits, either.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 21h

I think you got it fine. People are using Claude extensively to do the work. It's very good at it, and the dams sort of burst on it culturally, and there's been an absolute explosion of newly started and suddenly finished decomps.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 22h

I have slightly damaged hearing in my right and I get what I think of as "the electric butterfly."

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Bloody Jon Davis 🧛‍♂️ @sivads-sanctum.bsky.social · 22h

coffincountytn.blot.im got some entries for my zombie/violence thing listed under the Cells tab dunno what regular blog posts will look like here tho

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Coffin County, TN

The latest entries posted on Coffin County, TN

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 22h

I got some astrobright papers. I have not written a game called Spacekill, but this sort of makes me want to.

Bright yellow paper with black printing showing a spaceship on the moon, with the earth in the distance and an enormous blackletter font that says "Spacekill"

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 22h

In the 5.5E game where I play a 15th level Bardbarian, I just realized if I'm angry, I could fall from orbit and still have 155 HP when I hit the ground. I could fight an Aboleth after falling from orbit and have a 50/50 chance of winning. Very silly game.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 23h

In The Decemberist's 19 minute song about a 70s dystopic novel, one of the refrains is: "Write a line/ Erase a line" And really, is there much more to be said about writing?

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 23h

That's good to hear! Good luck to you both!

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 23h

Watching the American "intelligentsia" try to convince everyone to become AI Lotus Eaters is really something. "Quit doing all the hard things you do! Let the lotus petals soothe away all your cares. Thinking isn't for you."

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

She isn't going to answer because she's uninterested in discussion. This is her scolding the peasants from the mountaintop now that she's seen the light.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks for decreasing your follower account so you could condescendingly explain AI to everyone who's already getting it shoved down their throats in a million ways. No idea why people would unfollow you for it.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I posted about Dallas a day after he did. There's at least three of us.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some day you'll meet a poor soul with no copies, and know what to do.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yep, if AI is good enough to produce the content, why would I need the slop merchant? I could just go to the trough.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've seen attempts to claw work away from people who had left the company, claiming they had the idea and did the initial brain work on company time because they spun up a new product too quickly. And even when they fail, they do damage, because you're fighting a lawsuit with no revenue.

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