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I go to a weekly board game meetup. Start getting a game of Arcs set up with two regulars, and a new guy comes in. Arcs goes to 4, so, sure. As we're teaching him the rules he asks something about if we mind if he uses ChatGPT. We all look puzzled. (1/x)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Party hard

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Put a teaspoon of ground cardamon in my coffee grounds this morning. It's a nice little treat.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes the dice are just like that.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not big on the specific mechanism mentioned by OP, but I do love making camp/rest/downtime a tactile part of play. In the OSR space, the implementation I like best is the camping procedures in Dolmenwood.

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It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

submitted 6 days ago • 408 comments

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

submitted 8 days ago • 79 comments

Here's my lightning talk about AI at #acrl2025 this morning. Thanks to @nicoloff.bsky.social for recording. youtu.be/H2UdS1MqH8w?...

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

The stocks market is still strong. The pillory market too. And, oh boy, the guillotine market…

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Home from ACRL!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Once upon a time I repped Mazovian Socioeconomics in Animal Crossing.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Beastie Boys were mostly right- You DO gotta fight for your right to party. But you gotta fight for everyone’s right to party.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

If you're a tabletop designer and/or publisher whose business will be adversely affected by Donald Trump's April 2nd suite of tariffs, I want to hear from you. Changes in business, canceled or delayed projects, etc. email: [email protected] Signal: ChaseTC.24

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Space Pig is blasting off to ACRL.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment