Robert Denton III

Bros I think print publishing might be broken

This is a good thread about traditional publishers and #ttrpgs, great insight into the differences between those industries, but ho boy did this stand out to me.

If I sold 13,700 copies of Tiny Taverns, that would sextuple my yearly income. In traditional publishing, that’s a line-ending failure.

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

Look let me talk to them, I'll simply explain that they're wrong and everything will be alright

More @jmreynolds.bsky.social L5R stuff, and in a genre I adore? Yes please

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

Look let me talk to them, I'll simply explain that they're wrong and everything will be alright

Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

You think "the online left" is unhinged, dog please talk to an independent voter IRL. They want universal healthcare and abolish taxes. They want to dissolve the coast guard. They want to rename the army the coast guard. They want their alien implants removed, and they also want more alien implants

I'll add to this assertion by saying: TTRPG writers and designers need to play more games than they create so they can remember that a game is supposed to be fun.
#writing #ttrpg #ttrpgdev

Writers need to read more than they write so that they can remind themselves of what an actual good story sounds like. #writing #fiction

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

give me the ferments
and free my soul
I’m only eatin yogurt
at the super bowl
I’m RFK

You non-sports fans have to understand that for people who are really into pro football, today is basically their Super Bowl

It’s Beignet’s Gatcha Day, and he’s from New Orleans, so I made gumbo to celebrate. Four years since we made the Louisiana purrrrchase!
#cooking

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

How much changes mechanically if D&D humans were called something else (like Tallmen, via Delicious in Dungeon), and they, along with elves, dwarves, goblins, etc were considered "human?"
"Nonhuman" implies they're not mortal people, but in most fantasy settings, they very clearly are those things.

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I grow less comfortable with "human"/"nonhuman" being based on biology. I think that division is a symptom of D&D brain.
Homo Sapiens is a species, but someone is "human" if they are mortal and have personhood. Doesn't matter if your ears are pointy.

They are ghouls. They volunteered to do this. They need to be abolished. They need to be prosecuted.

“The way to live your life is sacrificing your health and personal life to make ME richer, and me specifically.” - A guy who hasn’t lived a quarter of his life yet

Marketing garble is not life advice, marrying is not a Steam achievement, and when death comes, if you are fortunate enough to see it coming, you will not wish you’d “hustled” more.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February

"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March

"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Eh, why not? The more options the better, right?

Dude, same.

Sitting down for like the fourth time today saying "Okay, time to start doing Work" and instead scrolling for news out of Minnesota.

I have to imagine most users' feeds are a horror show right now, and I don't want to add to that because, well, what do I have to add that hasn't been said by better, more courageous people than me? Feels wrong to draw any attention away, though. A lot of folks need to look at what's happening.

If they can kill you because you’re carrying a gun, you don’t have the right to bear arms.
Conservatives know that, right? They know ICE is a checklist of everything they claimed to hate about big government, correct?

The scale of this is mindblowing

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.