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Eddy Webb (with a “y”) is a writer, designer, and consultant for video games and RPGs. He’s worked on Pugmire, Transformers, Futurama, Red Dwarf, Sherlock Holmes, and much more. When not talking in the third person, he can be found at pugsteady.com.
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Oh cool, we're back to the "every notification and email is met with existential dread" stage of anxiety. This is such a magical time to live in.
Gonna drop this in here : Canada recently changed the rules on citizenship by descendence, opening it up from one generation to pretty much "whenever". For folks who have **any** Canadian ancestry (which is a lot of the US), there is a path to citizenship in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
2000 AD Prog 2473 Preview
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#judgedredd #comics #comicbooks
Yeah, they're great! I've signed up for their monthly credit program. Plus I can keep all my audiobooks DRM-free!
As we wait to hear from Ministers next week on copyright + AI, we support the ‘empty book’ campaign signed by thousands of authors, which shows the depth of feeling across the UK creative industries about the large-scale theft of writers' work
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I read that article prepared to hate the game in question, but the designer "compromise" is wonderful.
Its disturbing that I wrote a script for Extra Credits about this nonsense last year, and nothing has changed.
2000 AD Prog 2473 is out on 11th March - featuring BRINK: THE CALL OF THE VOID, Part Two by:
📝 Script: Dan Abnett
✏️ Art: @injculbard.bsky.social
💬 Letters: @simonbowland.bsky.social
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People aged 11-16, there's a short story competition open for you! sherlock-holmes.org.uk/75-story/
Phoenix Wright from Ace Attorney drawn in a poster format, mimicking an advertisement. Text on the poster reads, "Have you been accused of murder? Good! I mean, not good but I can help you! Not with the murder. Not that. I'm a lawyer. Phoenix Wright. I won't steer you wrong. Maya, you better not be writing all that on the poster."
Trucy Wright and Apollo Justice in a poster format. Text overlays them, reading, "Have you been accused of murder? Or do you want to hire a magician? We can do both! Dark Age of The Law... begone! We can also provide pianist services, free chords of steel, and we are not liable for any noise complaints. Contact Wright Anything Agency Today!"
attorney adverts #aceattorney
Put aside Levine's AI.
One had not truly experienced Shada unless one has read it in its original Middle English.
#DoctorWho
Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.
Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.
This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got.
Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean?
Last line is especially ominous
What do you say to someone who believes their chatbot has unlocked the keys to the universe? I talked to mental health experts who are following the 'AI psychosis' issue closely to find out: www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...
People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason
Game Subtitles - what to do if your text is just too long?
I've created a tool to make this easier - paginating and hyphenating where it needs to, in a variety of languages. In the vain hope that maybe I won't have to worry about it ever again!
You can find it here:
medium.com/@wildwinter/...
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England.
1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".
"OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah?"
For International Women Day you should read Maria Ying books since we're a team of 3 women, so that's 300% women in the bargain.
mariaying.itch.io
For all the men posting about the amazing women they've worked with in honor of International Women's Day: Good job! Now do that more often and not just on the day that reminds you. Champion great women to the people making decisions. Advocate, don't just appreciate, please!
A copy of wyrd science with a pair of googly eyes and a big mouth stick on it
Oh no, top cognitive and brain science researchers at Wyrd Science Inc. believe that Wyrd Science, the best tabletop game magazine in the world, may have developed consciousness & all this ‘print is dead’ talk is making it anxious
Maybe you should buy a copy so this little chap doesn’t feel so sad
I'm all in favour of abolishing daylight savings time, there are loads of reasons why we work better without it, etc.
But man, I secretly love the three week period where US and UK DST is out of sync, and all my US client meetings are an hour earlier.
The actor David Tennant, a man wearing glasses, smiles and holds aloft a sign that reads “Will you sign the letter?” As Georgia Tennant chats to people stood behind at an event
We’ve seen some amazing feedback and support for the campaign this week, perhaps most importantly from the trans+ community themselves, although a couple of higher profile allies have really helped boost our message.
Thank you David and Georgia Tennant 🙏
That sounds incredibly frustrating. I'm glad at least that you father was there to also notice it was really strange.
Man in Blue Suit by Kurt Komoda
Something new is coming.
I’m starting a series where we build a noir game together and it starts with Dead City Blues.
If you like noir, mystery, and helping shape a TTRPG from the ground up, come take a look.
Patreon link below. #HarlemUnbounding #DeadCityBlues
Picture of Zack Polanski holding a board that says: Will you sign the letter? Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community Nion Women logo notinourname.org.uk
Thank you to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for your clear support for the trans community. In a political climate where too many are stepping back, visible allyship from political leaders matters.
We were proud to meet Zack at launch of the Trans Lives Report by @transactualuk.bsky.social
