Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 19hYeah. If this keeps up we’ll *have* to put the site behind a login. And if they crack that then a paywall. And we don’t want to do that. 010
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 19h183,716 bots online now. The numbers just keep going up every time. We thought 90,000 was a lot a couple of weeks ago. Now nearly 200K AI scraper bots are are scraping... a closed sign. And I can't open the site up again until they f*ck off. 3187
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 21hAnd yet again today. Can't even get onto the site to close it. Why is this not illegal? 2142
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yup, the AI scraper bots are at it again. Last time it was 90K of them. This time it's nearly 150K. Only 60 actual people able to get online right now. 1100
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I mean, the clue’s in the name, right? One is great and the other is terrible. I know who I’d bet on! 030
Reposted by MorrusJason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“How did you get into TTRPGs?” Professionally? I wanted to pursue a career where you work 60+ hours a week and can’t afford vacations, a home, health insurance, or anything else beyond subsistence. But hey: at least I get to have my creative decisions questioned all the time! 2749
Reposted by MorrusEN World | D&D/TTRPG News & Reviews @enworldrpg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026For the next two weeks only you can get a massive 50% discount on ALL PDFs in the EN Publishing store--hundreds of D&D 5E PDFs, Level Up Advanced 5th Edition, What's OLD is NEW, Awfully Cheerful Engine. HUNDREDS of PDFs, half price for two weeks only! twp.ai/NSbSsR 066
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thanks for the info. Just artwork, or AI-generated products generally? 100
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026These are the current policies of the major tabletop gaming conventions. 370
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026You don't have to specifically intend an outcome to be responsible for it. A drunk driver doesn't intend to kill. It's enough that you're negligent or reckless and that results in harm. Both legally, and morally. 121
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026How do you know when somebody doesn’t use social media? Its easy. They will Never. Stop. Telling. You. 050
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Going underground! youtube.com/shorts/AZTud...youtube.comCERN, Geneva, going underground to see the Large Hadron Collider!YouTube video by EN World Live | D&D & TTRPG News 000
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I did a thing last week. youtube.com/shorts/LQqUJ...youtube.comMorrus runs a game at CERN, Switzerland.YouTube video by EN World Live | D&D & TTRPG News 060
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I regret to say that I totally forgot. I'm so sorry. Not sorry. 010
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In better news, we're working hard on our CERN piece, and it's coming along really well. Here's a shot from the video, where I'm interviewing the very clever James about particle accelerators and tabletop RPGs! 190
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Won't just be slow; it'll be gone. AI corps steal our work and regurgitate it to users without compensating us. Our human traffic drops to zero, we pay server bills to host 90K AI scrapers. We go out of business. The bots have nothing to scrape except AI slop. Snake eats own tail. Information dies. 010
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026CERN sent me a survey to give feedback on my experience there. That’s mildly surreal. 070
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Yep, not only are they taking down outside, they’re serving our content up to their users without sending us the traffic. Not that the traffic could get on because there’s 91K AI bots clogging up the highway. We’re just a bot data mine at this point, writing articles for the bots to scrape. 010
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026What we're dealing with AI bots scraping the site to volume equating to DDoS attack. Normally we expect a couple hundred members and a few thousand guests at one time. AI scrapers have slowed the site so only 28 members online because there's 91000(!) "guests" making the site unusable. 55419
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026First day back from Switzerland. It's not even lunchtime and I've already written 5 articles. Got a podcast to prep for later. I was worried there was no news on the running order, but it turns out stuff did happen while I was away! No rest time for me! 070
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Back home! i haven’t had a cup of tea in 4 days. This is now being rectified. In my nice new mug. 0110
Reposted by MorrusGavin Winters @gavinwinters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“We thought that smashing subatomic particles together at high-speed would create new particles out of nothing in an imitation of the Big Bang, but honestly, we were as surprised as you to discover that it just created… Toblerones. Nothing but Toblerones…” 1102
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026So we saw a large hadron collider 100m underground and an antimatter factory (not underground). We did interviews at CERN, ran a game at the CERN games club, and I got murdered by a Frankenstein. All in all an amazing few days in Geneva! 1333
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026You know you’re in Geneva when the clocks are made by Rolex! 020
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, CERNday.... yes, today is CERNday! Leaving for Switzerland in T minus 30 minutes! (Tomorrow is also CERNday, and Saturday is Genevaday). 170
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Whenever interact with an American business I’m refer to as “international”. I’m very much not international. Much as I’d love to be! 100
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026No, I’ve only ever heard Americans say it. Nobody else does that I can tell. 000
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Why do people call other countries “international” countries? Countries are literally the definition of “national”. It’s what the word means. An international country would be a country that’s, like, two countries. 120
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Things I get multiples of every single day: - ad companies promising to double my ad revenue - requests for paid guest posts on EN World - pitches for coverage of AI-powered game transcription platforms - requests for coverage of stuff we covered weeks ago - offers to SEO our site/podcast/youtubes 080
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026There are even YouTube channels which just read our articles out, almost word for word. 110
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you say ‘so without further ado’ more than once you didn’t without further ado you with further ado’d. 180
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you're wondering about EN World's site performance recently, the issues are due to thousands of AI scrapers crawling the site, stealing content then serving it to their users without giving us traffic, simultanously inflicting what amounts to a DDoS attack. We block 'em, they generate new ones. 1144
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Well, I can't speak to who wants/doesn't want it (I think it looks fun, but YMMV), but the link is a URL shortener. For whatever reason, it uses a .ai domain (probably because it's,well, short, just two letters), but it's nothing to do with AI. We're pretty on record for our rabid anti-AI stance. 150
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I had a communicator until recently. Then one of my dogs ate it. 100
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026When are you NOT experiencing higher than usual customer demand? 051
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It’s actually 75% not two-thirds. Higher than I thought. 3 out of every 4 not paying. 110
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026No idea. I've not really got anything to compare it to. Just my experience in the last two weeks. Maybe I just got super unlucky? Who knows! 010
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It's just two weeks until we go to CERN! In addition to the Friday evening at the CERN games club, we have tours of the facility, and a day in Geneva (including a paddle steamer on Lake Geneca--not not THAT Lake Geneva). We're staying at CERN's on-site campus hotel. Can't wait! 240
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026From a brief recent dalliance with eBay I had no idea how bad the non-paying auction winner problem was there. Two thirds of the auctions I put on there went unpaid, and the winning bidder just ghosted. And there's no comeback on buyers, only on sellers. Ah well, lesson learned. 250
Reposted by MorrusPaul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 31/08/2026You know how sometimes you make a cup of tea, and for whatever reason - an alignment of the planets, intervention of the Fates, sunspots(?) - it turns out *just right*? That. 🙂 2361
Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I’m assuming it‘s quite easy to make an AI platform which transcribes D&D sessions because I get a news pitch for a different one pretty much every day. I’m pretty sure they’re not all aware of all the others. 150
