A killer feature cohost had compared to every other social media site I've been using is rich webpage embeds. Any webpage you linked to, it had a high chance of embedding a usable, readable, etc. copy of whatever is at the site. It wasn't just OpenGraph previews, but a richer embed of the site's actual content much of the time. Means there was less of a culture of sharing inaccessible screenshots, and more just pasting links.

This photo of the Bridge Fire in the hills behind Los Angeles speaks to the fact that we are in the midst of a cataclysm and the vast majority of people have no idea

@ash
Rando: what's your gender?
Space Marine: my gender is WAR
rando: no like, what's in your pants?
Space Marine: so many guns

It’s now safe to turn off all computers

Embrace the power of your true self and defy an oppressive society in Girl by Moonlight! This standalone #ttrpg takes the rules engine behind Blades in the Dark and transforms it into a standalone exploration of the whole Magical Girl genre.
Available now: https://evilhat.com/product/girl-by-moonlight/

It wasn’t journalists, tech bros, and influencers who made the Internet a thing. It was librarians, scientists, educators, and programmers.

Rounding out our Blades in the Dark panel for Dice Pool is Sharang Biswas, winner of two IGDN awards, three Ennie Awards, an IndieCade award and a Golden Cobra award for roleplaying games.
For a one-time pledge of $10 you get access to this panel of #ttrpg GMing advice plus three others!
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/evil-hat/dice-pool?ref=mastodon

there are really only like 7 key anti-trans journalists in the UK, we just need to find another 6 nice girls to parachute into their local communities.

One of the talented GMs sharing their insights for Dice Pool is @ash! Ash is an Australian #ttrpg & digital game designer living in Sweden, exploring emergent play and resisting patriarchal norms in design.
Blades is just one of four panels featured in our lineup:
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/evil-hat/dice-pool?ref=mastodon

We've assembled 12 talented GMs to share their smartest tips, tricks and advice for running our most popular games.
For a one-time spend of just ten bucks, you can tap into all that #ttrpg knowledge.
Dice Pool. Crowdfunding now.
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/evil-hat/dice-pool?ref=bsky

Something you may not have realised is right-handed: playing cards.

When you pick up a card with your dominant hand and add it to the front of a card you're holding in your non-dominant hand, you create a fan towards your dominant hand.

Standard playing cards have a small version of the number and suit in two corners so that you can see them no matter which way up the card is, *as long as they're fanned right*, and many modern card games follow suit (ha!) without thinking, for the convention or aesthetic

Consider mirroring important summary information in both left and right corners (Ticket to Ride does a great job putting the suits in both corners while maintaining the pleasant asymmetrical feel of having them in one)

It's admittedly only a tiny accessibility issue, but it IS an accessibility issue, so have think about it.

#GameDev #Accessibility #a11y #TableTop #CardGames #BoardGames

"Trans Anarchy Now"
Seen in Bratislava, Slovakia

it's fucking crazy to me that we have a real life Voight-Kampff test and it fucking works

Ursula Le Guin: “A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.”

A Sociology of Tabletop Roleplaying Games

I. Dear Reader, Every once in a while, one must embrace hubris. In today's post, I'm going to try and explain everything I understand about the TTRPG hobby. Yeah, everything. I've called it a sociology because that's the best word I can think of. Let's start with play. Play is an important part of life - mentally, spiritually, emotionally, physiologically, grammatically.

https://ttrpg.in/2024/06/16/a-sociology-of-tabletop-roleplaying-games/

Changing the metaphor for LLM unreliability: they're bullshitting, not hallucinating:

https://www.psypost.org/scholars-ai-isnt-hallucinating-its-bullshitting/

#AI #LLM