matthewphillion.bsky.social
Author: the Indestructibles, Echo and the Sea, the Dungeon Crawlers.
Formerly: Chaotic Good GM for the Ravenfolly Institute podcast.
Belligerent idealist.
he/him
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The best part was watching everyone’s faces on camera as the scene unfolded.
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Sometimes when you play this game, you end up in a situation so surreal you have no idea how you got there. Like a sentient puppet speakeasy in a Necropolis.
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His PC got them into this situation, but wasn't the necromancer in question. His puppet cleric has learned that there's an underground society of puppets and one of the other puppets took a liking to the wizard. (This is what happens when I improvise a session cos two people are missing.)
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Future generations won't compare him to fictional characters; he will be the archetype to which new bastards will be compared. The same goes for the other guy.
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Publishing is just a microcosm. "I don't use it for X, I use it for Y" is the default mode for too many people.
(FWIW, knowing how the sausage is made, intimately? I'd rather live in a fucking cave than use gen AI for anything at all.)
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What I found in those interviews - and the consultants were VERY good and had inside tracks with big tech - was that you could explain how it was harmful to them personally, but literally everyone would find an excuse that might harm someone else they could justify if THEY could benefit from it.
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The problem with using AI in TTRPG’s is that even if you’re using it to “organize” information or as a “joke”
You’re still using it. You’re depriving yourself and sucking the life from your game.
I will continue to believe that AI has zero place in TTRPG’s.
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My brain immediately rewrote the meme: if not food, why food shaped?
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To be fair, the task set before me was “badly,” but now I want to see a Finding Nemo/Jaws mashup. Buddy movie. They torment Quint together.
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Also, I don't think Oprah is a bad person necessarily, but her book club is like the Forbes 30 under 30 for authors, just a pipeline directly to scumbaggery.
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If there’s anything I hope viewers will take away from my own contributions to the discussion, it’s that when you sign a contract, it’s not just with the cool editor you’re friends with, it’s with the techbro who might buy the company in 2 years and who would happily feed you into a woodchipper.
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Identifying when a company is in a death spiral is a skill I wish I hadn't developed. And people who haven't been through it before tend to look at logical warnings from those who have like we're out of our minds, don't they.
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Which is great, cos most of us have been playing together for over five years, so it's added some new spice to our usual recipe. (They're also really enjoying the Grim Hollow player options. Love that third-party publisher stuff is now an option on there as well as in print.)
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Honestly, it depends entirely on where you are, who your doctor is, the day of the week, who's doing the billing and coding, how much you push back when you get the bill, if a butterfly flaps its wings over the Atlantic... Our costs are entirely arbitrary and hidden from us.
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A woodchuck! That’s right!
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I remember you were having trouble with varmints defeating all of your attempts to protect the crops, too. Raccoons figuring out fencing or something like that?
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It was surreal to just instantly recognize the lighting and trees. I suppose I only looked at that footage for 600 hours though so no reason it wouldn't be perfectly embedded in my memory, right? (It's still up on Vimeo if you ever want to time travel to the old look!)
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I was scrolling by, said "I feel like I shot a film there," then saw it was your post, and then was like "oh I DID shoot a film there!"
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(Number rather, not numbers. Apparently I am incapable of posting without typos anymore. I’m waving the white flag of surrender.)
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Have you listened to Worlds Without Numbers yet? He’s at the top of his game there.
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I keep cross posting even though I know Threads is bad for my mental health. I did meet a few really cool people there early on I stick around for, but it's also AUTHORDRAMACENTRAL and it's exhausting. Bluesky is like a coffee shop with no Wifi by comparison, it's peaceful.
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I did a pretty good job curating my feed there early on (AKA blocking like it was my job) but the algo is a nightmare. I dropped a post about that asshole Clegg's comment about AI on there that went wider than I wanted it to and the reply guys have been out in droves for two days.
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It feels like a perfect convergence of everything wrong with Old Twitter and Facebook migratory birds who never used Twitter.
AuthorThreads is actively ugly.