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dasemu.bsky.social
he/him | techno-optimist, ttrpg writer, ex-professional game developer, flightless bird, storyteller I write mainly about tabletop RPGs and video games, my WIP hard SF ttrpg StateVector, and interesting science stuff. Occasional left-wing politics.
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The Crock Pot is one of the only times when real life works like video game crafting. You dump in some powders and the remains of several vile birds and out comes hot delicious food

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This is Gus. He was caught sitting at the kitchen table while home alone. His motives remain unknown. 14/10 (TT: milolovesromeo)

submitted 2 days ago • 525 comments

Following the recent article from @rascal.news about Rebel Scrum being removed from DriveThru RPG for "hateful" politics, I believe it’s time for a better alternative; one that truly listens to its community rather than taking advantage of it. Plus, I think I figured out taxes so... 👀

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh

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Here's my illustration for the special edition of "Go Straight: La guía definitiva de los beat 'em ups", a book about the story of the beat 'em up genre, published by @heroesdepapel.bsky.social. It was a fun challenge trying to synthesize the vibe of a whole genre in an image.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Modern life with ADHD is so weird. How can you be overstressed and bored at the same time? And which kills you first?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Indie RPG designers; if you are looking for free typefaces, illustrations, brushes, or vectors, you can pick them up at Creative Market. I signed up for their periodic emails and get useful resources about once a month. For example, Amora Display typeface is free. creativemarket.com/gunastudio/2...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

COMMISSION SALE! Happy #wipwednesday #ttrpgcommunity! I'm in a financial hole, so I am doing a 10% off sale of my map commissions! If not, retweets help too; some examples of commisions are below! #dnd #dndmap #ttrpg #battlemap #commission #commissionsopen #commissions

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Asteroid mining using fleets of small spacecraft, each <500kg delivering 100 kg of water at a time, extracted using microwave heating of regolith: arxiv.org/pdf/1808.05099 It's made possible by a number of very close NEAs that sit within 0.1 AU and only take <500 m/s dV to reach.

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Shadows Over Sol supports a wide range of #scifi themes and tones, and is designed to adapt to different levels of #horror. Easily dial your game down to survival horror or up to action horror! Follow on KS: https://buff.ly/4dYdgi2 #ttrpg #alienrpg #mothershiprpg #dnd #rpg

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Hello new followers! We're Rascal News -- a scrappy team of four(ish) journalists reporting on tabletop culture, art, and politics. We are fully independent, worker-owned, ad-free, without any corporate sponsorship. We rely solely on subscriptions to fund our work. www.rascal.news#/portal/

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Very cool first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. But the real science contribution will not be images of galaxies, it will be a "synoptic" survey - scanning the sky repeatedly every few nights. Opening up time-domain astrophysics in an unprecedented way.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

For #PaidRPGDay you can buy over a million words of solo-developed TTRPG from me for the low low price of USD $60 ($10 per book). That’s 0.00006 cents per word, which means I only have to sell 16,500 more copies to get paid as much as Hemingway did in 1936. half-apress.itch.io/60-years-in-...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

About half of every dollar spent at Tabletop Bookshelf goes directly to independent publishers and creators Another 20-30% goes to promoting their work. Most of rest goes to storing and distributing that work. None of this happened without an audience willing to pay for that work #PaidRPGDay

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Do you love small press, indie TTRPGs? Do you want to support the designers and publishers who make them? If you have the means, buy the games and back the Kickstarters? But even if money is tight, you can share the games and publishers you love with people in your circle. 1/2

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I'm revealing my big ttrpg project soon, and I need my followers to appreciate why it's taken so long. This week I'm doing my final pass over the (tr)ashcan edition, sitting at 140 pages with no almost art, no GM materials, and minimal setting fluff. It is a big and absurd game for tactics perverts.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Difficult, as I usually don't play multiplayer games and those tend to accrue the higher numbers. But I think: - Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9, 10 probably (over multiple playthroughs) - Civ 4 most likely - RimWorld apparently (at least Steam days 204 h) Seems I have a lot around the 150 mark at least.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I really need to get my ass up and start writing more of the content tables for #StateVector. I love designing the rules, but hate writing down the contents of tables. I mean I chose to have a life path system with various careers, better start writing down more than one career!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Amazing thread and wholeheartedly agree. But to my mind the ones that need to be taught first are the teachers. In my school and uni years I never once saw a teacher not immediately throwing a fit if presented with more correct and up-to-date information. The 70s textbook was right, even in 2005.

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So we have workers in the house who need to replace our mains power cable to the house. They said they only need to remove power for half an hour. It's been two hours and they are stuck with a broken and stuck cable under the house and no way to reconnect...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1561

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I think for #StateVector I will have to hire an experienced solo rpg designer. I personally can't really get into solo RPGs, so whatever rules I could come up with will never be as good as that of someone who plays them themselves.

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