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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 03/10/2026

just to be clear, i laughed out loud at this but it sounded more like a bark than anything

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 02/10/2026

yeah, fr where's the llm that can change over my dishwasher/washing machine

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 02/10/2026

until they release baba, rem remains king

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 02/10/2026

basically my list, too, except if there was a way to put violet in a theoretical #20 slot, i would, she's so weirdly generic

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 29/09/2026

i don’t know quite when i became allergic to this, but it definitely happened i almost immediately quit zero company as soon as i saw the upgrade trees 😭

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 29/09/2026

frankly, before you start throwing accusations like this around, i would implore you to please wait for chancellor jarnathan himself to arrive

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 28/09/2026

Sorting through things to start the week, I chucked a few new community copies of my worldbuilding game Wiztographer up onto itch! It's honestly my favorite full tabletop thing that I've made thus far. yourgmjack.itch.io/wiztographer

yourgmjack.itch.io

Wiztographer by Jack Shirai

Solo or collaborative map-making with wizards and legacy rule unlocks

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 27/09/2026

Really fascinating how much political fallout has stemmed from "the closest place to sell loot is run by a randomly generated neutral evil wizard". 😂 If you ever have need of more players, I'd be super interested, btw

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 20/09/2026

watching this happen outside of my body, i am

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thinking about this exchange today

A YouTube video for the Water Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The comments section has an exchange as detailed below. “@TheMrdangles16 • 11y ago:
i hate the water temple... too confusing :(“ “@KeithHalsell • 2y ago:
it's been 9 years, i hope you are doing great in life now.” “@TheMrdangles16 • 2y ago: it couldn't be going worse Keith.”

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 31/08/2026

this is legit good, but for some reason it suddenly made me sad that we've never got a knopfler version of private dancer, either with him singing or tina

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 19/08/2026

“i would have liked nolan’s odyssey a lot less if i hadn’t just listened to the @morecivilized.bsky.social run about the thrawn trilogy” was a real position i just took

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Dr. Kill Everyone (Eclipse) @eclipse.gay · 15/08/2026

if you're somehow still alive, and you're seeing this, please - pokemon go to the escape pods

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 15/08/2026

great read, appreciate you writing your experience up! i am very much a proponent of "have the writing done before you fund", i don't think i could live any other way 😅

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 11/08/2026

great read, i hadn't actually been exposed yet to anarchist critiques of abolition

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 10/08/2026

release the horizon’s gate aura mod list 🤣

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 09/08/2026

i note that you have bestowed a mere ten percent of your prosperity upon me for my labours, i pray, sir, that the spirits spare you their wrath on your journey home

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 08/08/2026

“Important” tweets? Milkshake Duck Torment Nexus Leopards Eating People's Faces Someone Good At The Economy Please Help Me Tweets that have most infected my vocab? Torment Nexus Charlie Brown Had Hoes Looks Like He Brought a Bag Lunch, Smart ”Not Involved in Human Trafficking" Shirt

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 08/08/2026

somehow i had never once seen the paris tweet, incredible

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 07/08/2026

very fitting that the third part of the shadowhand key is hiding in the shadows 🤣

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 23/07/2026

I don’t care whether this actually happened or not. I want it to be true.

Social media screenshot, in theory:

@whyuhhhhhhhhhh
So last week, I noticed my coworker kept saying weird phrases in meetings. Stuff like:
"We'll take this to the synergy zone."
"Let's triangle back on that."
"Put that in the idea fridge."

No one reacted. Everyone just nodded like it was normal. I figured it was some corporate lingo I missed.

Day two, I hear: "We'll verticalize that bandwidth."

I write it down to Google later. Nothing.

By day three, I'm starting to use them, too. "Yeah, we should put that in the idea fridge." People nodded. I felt included.

Friday rolls around. He pulls me aside and goes:
"I've been making them all up. No one knows what they mean."

HE GOT THE ENTIRE TEAM SAYING NONSENSE. Even the manager threw out "triangle back" in a call.

Now the whole office is trapped in fake jargon with no way out.

I respect it. I fear it.

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 15/07/2026

solid reporting and explainer video, penny, thank you

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chris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Maine officials search the rocky beach for a new senate candidate. They find an unconscious man clad in tattered rags washed upon the shore. The sea provides for Maine, it always does

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 08/07/2026

yeaaaah, that tracks, especially when you consider the player archetype who doesn't want to know where the bandits/goblins came from, and just wants a group of NPCs that they can mow down and be lauded as a hero for doing so

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 04/07/2026

Yeah, I’d be interested! I’m really keen on the overlap between MUDs and the sorts of O/U- and Cataphract-likes folks have been playing.

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 03/07/2026

i can’t believe this is how i learned how stoppage time actually works

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 01/07/2026

Yeah, ultimately I just want you to play (and hopefully enjoy!) what I make. Most of my digital output is free and/or massively multiplayer stuff, but as far my tabletop designs go, if there aren't community copies readily available, just reach out and I will set you up. We're in this together.

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 30/06/2026

ah you understand my hesitation 🤣

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 30/06/2026

I hesitate to bring it up, but: weatherfactory.biz/oblique-stra... Specifically, that I'm not alone in writing something diegetic as a character to get a feel for them. "Harrison Violation" was also immediately useful shorthand to me. I recall there's a decent piece about codexes over there, too.

weatherfactory.biz

“Oblique Strategies, mid twentieth century literature, bourbon”: Part 1 – Weather Factory

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 25/06/2026

read a good piece yesterday on whole foods that boiled down to “having an initially nice founder cannot save you once you expose yourself to the perverse profit drive of investors and shareholders” www.worseonpurpose.com/p/whole-food...

worseonpurpose.com

Whole Foods Got Worse On Purpose

How Whole Foods went from local-sourcing pioneer to Amazon-owned chain, squeezing small suppliers and cutting worker benefits along the way. The full sourced story.

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 24/06/2026

wow, this is how i learned there’s a 1.0 version now 👀

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 22/06/2026

i feel you, i wouldn't want any kind of campaign, but counterpoint, i think a pool of hostile npc runners/crews that you could become familiar with would be more interesting than what we have now i'd easily trade the two novel player interactions i've had to never get spawn rushed in cryo again

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 22/06/2026

The Ones Who Walk Away from the Author

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 21/06/2026

every day we are confronted with difficult choices

A picture of a strip mall in winter containing two businesses: one labelled as the Marketplace of Ideas, and the other an Arby's restaurant

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 21/06/2026

i would simply never enter the marketplace of ideas, doesn't sound like there's anything for me in there

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 21/06/2026

a mini-crisis, of course, i don't really believe that my being able to quickly learn how to play a board game from the manual and then turn around and teach the other players is the cause of society's ails but it COULD be

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Jack Shirai @yourgmjack.itch.io · 21/06/2026

having a mini-existential crisis this morning after realizing that my ability to condense a large text into a smaller summary tailored for particular audiences, one that i'm proud of and have spent years honing, is maybe A Part Of The Problem

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