Jack Norris
@jackno.bsky.social
Game designer, writer, consultant, attorney, scholar on various topics, and all around professional nerd.
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Jack Norris
@jackno.bsky.social
· Sep 16
▶️▶️ Learn all about character creation for our new anthro sci-fi RPG Untamed Worlds - out this week - in the author Jack Norris's design diary on our website blog: bit.ly/46JN2Ov
Osprey put together a fun package to go with my blog on character generation in Untamed Worlds.
HEMA dudes making vids: this silly "anime" weapon won't work! (Smug smile)
Uh while many anime weapons will not...that's a real weapon from a non Western culture and either you're ignorant or trying to pull off that idea for some reason. Either way? Nah...
Uh while many anime weapons will not...that's a real weapon from a non Western culture and either you're ignorant or trying to pull off that idea for some reason. Either way? Nah...
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
HEMA dudes making vids: this silly "anime" weapon won't work! (Smug smile)
Uh while many anime weapons will not...that's a real weapon from a non Western culture and either you're ignorant or trying to pull off that idea for some reason. Either way? Nah...
Uh while many anime weapons will not...that's a real weapon from a non Western culture and either you're ignorant or trying to pull off that idea for some reason. Either way? Nah...
Its cute that Trump was enamored with Mamdani but remember when he wanted to be involved with Obama and Barry was all "Uh no thanks, clown" and now we're here?
Just saying let's not push the "awww he's not so bad" crap too much, shall we?
Just saying let's not push the "awww he's not so bad" crap too much, shall we?
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Its cute that Trump was enamored with Mamdani but remember when he wanted to be involved with Obama and Barry was all "Uh no thanks, clown" and now we're here?
Just saying let's not push the "awww he's not so bad" crap too much, shall we?
Just saying let's not push the "awww he's not so bad" crap too much, shall we?
Gen X "influencers" need to try harder or shut the fuck up.
Yes yes, you found that one idiot girl with the nose ring and the pink hair acting like Gen X not Boomers pulled the ladder up behind them. Probably because her on the border of the two gens parents sucked. You better tell her...yawn.
Yes yes, you found that one idiot girl with the nose ring and the pink hair acting like Gen X not Boomers pulled the ladder up behind them. Probably because her on the border of the two gens parents sucked. You better tell her...yawn.
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Gen X "influencers" need to try harder or shut the fuck up.
Yes yes, you found that one idiot girl with the nose ring and the pink hair acting like Gen X not Boomers pulled the ladder up behind them. Probably because her on the border of the two gens parents sucked. You better tell her...yawn.
Yes yes, you found that one idiot girl with the nose ring and the pink hair acting like Gen X not Boomers pulled the ladder up behind them. Probably because her on the border of the two gens parents sucked. You better tell her...yawn.
Oh hey Marjorie Taylor Greene is being threatened by MAGA. Man we should really consider... that she's still a racist bigoted shitheel.
November 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Oh hey Marjorie Taylor Greene is being threatened by MAGA. Man we should really consider... that she's still a racist bigoted shitheel.
Asking Bobby Kotick about how good Elon Musk would be at running a video game company is a bit like asking a rotting corpse which roadkill would make the best perfume.
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Asking Bobby Kotick about how good Elon Musk would be at running a video game company is a bit like asking a rotting corpse which roadkill would make the best perfume.
So I never knew or cared who Olivia Nuzzi is until a few days ago. And I still don't but I looked her up since I was curious. Boy, these authoritarian smugfucks sure have a type don't they?
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
So I never knew or cared who Olivia Nuzzi is until a few days ago. And I still don't but I looked her up since I was curious. Boy, these authoritarian smugfucks sure have a type don't they?
The modern GOP is so weird because look, there's no such thing as a comfortable number of pedophiles. One is one too many. But despite this reality? The GOP has managed to overcome that truism with raw force and present that they have a truly uncomfortable number of such pedophiles.
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The modern GOP is so weird because look, there's no such thing as a comfortable number of pedophiles. One is one too many. But despite this reality? The GOP has managed to overcome that truism with raw force and present that they have a truly uncomfortable number of such pedophiles.
I'm expecting the released Epstein files to look a lot like this:
"So yeah, I'm sending three [redacted] to [redacted] for the party at [redacted]-a-[redacted] this weekend. He can't get enough of them watching him work Bubba's [redacted] like a [redacted]."
"So yeah, I'm sending three [redacted] to [redacted] for the party at [redacted]-a-[redacted] this weekend. He can't get enough of them watching him work Bubba's [redacted] like a [redacted]."
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I'm expecting the released Epstein files to look a lot like this:
"So yeah, I'm sending three [redacted] to [redacted] for the party at [redacted]-a-[redacted] this weekend. He can't get enough of them watching him work Bubba's [redacted] like a [redacted]."
"So yeah, I'm sending three [redacted] to [redacted] for the party at [redacted]-a-[redacted] this weekend. He can't get enough of them watching him work Bubba's [redacted] like a [redacted]."
I don't care that Josh Gad is in Wonder Man like he's some celebrity cameo that were...common in comics during and the 70s and 80s.
I mean imagine if Sting showed up at a superhero wedding! It would be...a non issue. Or John Belushi showing up as a samurai! Geez.
I mean imagine if Sting showed up at a superhero wedding! It would be...a non issue. Or John Belushi showing up as a samurai! Geez.
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I don't care that Josh Gad is in Wonder Man like he's some celebrity cameo that were...common in comics during and the 70s and 80s.
I mean imagine if Sting showed up at a superhero wedding! It would be...a non issue. Or John Belushi showing up as a samurai! Geez.
I mean imagine if Sting showed up at a superhero wedding! It would be...a non issue. Or John Belushi showing up as a samurai! Geez.
If you need proof that today badass good guy merc assassins common in fiction don't really exist? Look no further than the lack of a dismembered Saudi Princes found with a pithy note like "he went to pieces over Kashoggi."
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
If you need proof that today badass good guy merc assassins common in fiction don't really exist? Look no further than the lack of a dismembered Saudi Princes found with a pithy note like "he went to pieces over Kashoggi."
Unlike some I'm not that upset with entertainers going to specific Saudi events. I just think if their royals are going to take advantage of increased intellectual freedoms enabling attractive entertainment for them? They should get used to being called murderous shits by those in the same spaces.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Unlike some I'm not that upset with entertainers going to specific Saudi events. I just think if their royals are going to take advantage of increased intellectual freedoms enabling attractive entertainment for them? They should get used to being called murderous shits by those in the same spaces.
I think I realized a problem: the left has no idea how the right argues. Especially the perpetually online troll types.
For ex: someone does something truly bad the right is okay with. The left rightly points it out. But then they get greedy and cast nets so wide they give the right their defense.
For ex: someone does something truly bad the right is okay with. The left rightly points it out. But then they get greedy and cast nets so wide they give the right their defense.
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I think I realized a problem: the left has no idea how the right argues. Especially the perpetually online troll types.
For ex: someone does something truly bad the right is okay with. The left rightly points it out. But then they get greedy and cast nets so wide they give the right their defense.
For ex: someone does something truly bad the right is okay with. The left rightly points it out. But then they get greedy and cast nets so wide they give the right their defense.
We won't be doing the "the white supremacist who finally saw the light, left the group, and walked into her Oprah spot and book deal" redemption run with MTG, thanks.
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
We won't be doing the "the white supremacist who finally saw the light, left the group, and walked into her Oprah spot and book deal" redemption run with MTG, thanks.
It seems more likely Trump hired contractors to blow Bubba, refused to pay them, and then took credit for the job.
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It seems more likely Trump hired contractors to blow Bubba, refused to pay them, and then took credit for the job.
Do we think Meagan Kelly saw how MAGA was all "bring back Milo!" and decided the lesson was excusing pedophilia is cool?
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Do we think Meagan Kelly saw how MAGA was all "bring back Milo!" and decided the lesson was excusing pedophilia is cool?
Jack's Rules of Choices Matter Video Games:
1. First playthrough is just what makes sense for me. No hunting around forever if time in story is sensitive, no reacting on what I "know" from articles and such.
2. Realize your choices will be mocked by those showing who they really are. Just go play.
1. First playthrough is just what makes sense for me. No hunting around forever if time in story is sensitive, no reacting on what I "know" from articles and such.
2. Realize your choices will be mocked by those showing who they really are. Just go play.
November 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Jack's Rules of Choices Matter Video Games:
1. First playthrough is just what makes sense for me. No hunting around forever if time in story is sensitive, no reacting on what I "know" from articles and such.
2. Realize your choices will be mocked by those showing who they really are. Just go play.
1. First playthrough is just what makes sense for me. No hunting around forever if time in story is sensitive, no reacting on what I "know" from articles and such.
2. Realize your choices will be mocked by those showing who they really are. Just go play.
The folks defending Meagan Kelly's "15 not 5" comments are telling on themselves for when they want to consider kids, especially girls, to be adults.
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The folks defending Meagan Kelly's "15 not 5" comments are telling on themselves for when they want to consider kids, especially girls, to be adults.
That a number of MAGA call Trump "Daddy" has somehow gotten even worse in the last few weeks.
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 AM
That a number of MAGA call Trump "Daddy" has somehow gotten even worse in the last few weeks.
Really enjoying the video game Dispatch. One ep to go. But I can just feel in my bones that the gamer culture around this game are going to develop a "good people do choice X, not like you sick choice Y fucks!" culture I desperately want to be wrong about.
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Really enjoying the video game Dispatch. One ep to go. But I can just feel in my bones that the gamer culture around this game are going to develop a "good people do choice X, not like you sick choice Y fucks!" culture I desperately want to be wrong about.
People are posting their top 10 films of the year and then others are predictably whining how boring or predictable they are because lots of folks liked Sinners, Superman, etc.
To those "oh how boring!" types? Oh fuck off. I owe you nothing and neither does anyone else.
To those "oh how boring!" types? Oh fuck off. I owe you nothing and neither does anyone else.
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
People are posting their top 10 films of the year and then others are predictably whining how boring or predictable they are because lots of folks liked Sinners, Superman, etc.
To those "oh how boring!" types? Oh fuck off. I owe you nothing and neither does anyone else.
To those "oh how boring!" types? Oh fuck off. I owe you nothing and neither does anyone else.
So I think we need to normalize being more critical of modern horror that presents a narrative about fanaticism and witch hunts only to reveal the threat was essentially what they're crazy over.
Even when, or perhaps especially when, the story is actually pretty good.
Even when, or perhaps especially when, the story is actually pretty good.
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 AM
So I think we need to normalize being more critical of modern horror that presents a narrative about fanaticism and witch hunts only to reveal the threat was essentially what they're crazy over.
Even when, or perhaps especially when, the story is actually pretty good.
Even when, or perhaps especially when, the story is actually pretty good.
Time to start snoozing/ muting some liberal online friends who just refuse to filter or remove their vile MAGA sucking relatives from their posts. I don't check out what people are saying so racist old uncle Chet can say anyone who thinks Trump is an abuser is an Epstein lover.
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Time to start snoozing/ muting some liberal online friends who just refuse to filter or remove their vile MAGA sucking relatives from their posts. I don't check out what people are saying so racist old uncle Chet can say anyone who thinks Trump is an abuser is an Epstein lover.
Ever notice how MAGA is crazy about finding pedophiles and evidence of the powerful in secret deals to abuse kids until the info comes out about who really does that and then it's "nononono, liberal lies!"
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ever notice how MAGA is crazy about finding pedophiles and evidence of the powerful in secret deals to abuse kids until the info comes out about who really does that and then it's "nononono, liberal lies!"
Oh good, we've reached where people with some followers who don't live in my city are telling everyone what Pritzger and anyone else they've decided is a target that gets them clicks is doing that's bad because of how bad the city is based on... shit they insist from way over there. Assholes.
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Oh good, we've reached where people with some followers who don't live in my city are telling everyone what Pritzger and anyone else they've decided is a target that gets them clicks is doing that's bad because of how bad the city is based on... shit they insist from way over there. Assholes.
As someone who spent part of my childhood in the third notch in the Bible Belt? This baby formula social experiment went pretty much how I thought. A few poor rural outliers and several non Christian religious orgs offered to help. The busybody "good Christians" didn't do shit.
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
As someone who spent part of my childhood in the third notch in the Bible Belt? This baby formula social experiment went pretty much how I thought. A few poor rural outliers and several non Christian religious orgs offered to help. The busybody "good Christians" didn't do shit.