Ian S. Frazier
@tibermoon.bsky.social
Game designer, forever DM, RPGphile, lover of musicals, painter of minis. Senior Creative Director on the Iron Man project at EA Motive. Opinions my own.
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Just finished Dispatch. Hot damn, that was great. :)
I’ll need to do at least one more run with very different choices.
I’ll need to do at least one more run with very different choices.
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Just finished Dispatch. Hot damn, that was great. :)
I’ll need to do at least one more run with very different choices.
I’ll need to do at least one more run with very different choices.
Behold my probably-contentious ranking of all the Monkey Island games:
1 - Curse of MI
2 - Secret of MI
3 - Tales of MI
4 - MI2
5 - Return to MI
6 - Escape from MI
1 - Curse of MI
2 - Secret of MI
3 - Tales of MI
4 - MI2
5 - Return to MI
6 - Escape from MI
a video game called the secret of monkey island
ALT: a video game called the secret of monkey island
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Behold my probably-contentious ranking of all the Monkey Island games:
1 - Curse of MI
2 - Secret of MI
3 - Tales of MI
4 - MI2
5 - Return to MI
6 - Escape from MI
1 - Curse of MI
2 - Secret of MI
3 - Tales of MI
4 - MI2
5 - Return to MI
6 - Escape from MI
My hard copies of MCDM’s Draw Steel arrived this week. Gotta say I’m really pleased with the quality of the print and binding—good stuff!
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
My hard copies of MCDM’s Draw Steel arrived this week. Gotta say I’m really pleased with the quality of the print and binding—good stuff!
I have at last defeated Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, for the SEGA Master System. Those quality-of-life improvements in this version were definitely appreciated but still, the Abyss is no joke.
VERAMOCOR!
VERAMOCOR!
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I have at last defeated Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, for the SEGA Master System. Those quality-of-life improvements in this version were definitely appreciated but still, the Abyss is no joke.
VERAMOCOR!
VERAMOCOR!
I am really enjoying Dispatch.
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I am really enjoying Dispatch.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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"Gary? Yes... that was what they used to call me. Dark Gary. That was my name.
I am Light Gary, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide."
I am Light Gary, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide."
October 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Gary? Yes... that was what they used to call me. Dark Gary. That was my name.
I am Light Gary, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide."
I am Light Gary, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide."
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This October marked 20 years as a game dev. It has been a wild ride of high highs and heart-rending lows. I’ve met incredible people along the way, some of them my truest friends.
Yet our industry is in unprecedented times, leaving me to wonder if 20 more is viable. I’d like it to be.
Yet our industry is in unprecedented times, leaving me to wonder if 20 more is viable. I’d like it to be.
November 2, 2025 at 5:23 AM
This October marked 20 years as a game dev. It has been a wild ride of high highs and heart-rending lows. I’ve met incredible people along the way, some of them my truest friends.
Yet our industry is in unprecedented times, leaving me to wonder if 20 more is viable. I’d like it to be.
Yet our industry is in unprecedented times, leaving me to wonder if 20 more is viable. I’d like it to be.
The number of trick-or-treaters who have complimented my X-Men ‘97 shirt gives me hope for the future.
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The number of trick-or-treaters who have complimented my X-Men ‘97 shirt gives me hope for the future.
Really enjoying my game rotation lately:
* Hades II
* Ghost of Yotei
* Dispatch
* Ultima IV (SEGA)
* Hades II
* Ghost of Yotei
* Dispatch
* Ultima IV (SEGA)
October 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Really enjoying my game rotation lately:
* Hades II
* Ghost of Yotei
* Dispatch
* Ultima IV (SEGA)
* Hades II
* Ghost of Yotei
* Dispatch
* Ultima IV (SEGA)
Game development is hard. Very hard. But I am so damn proud of what our team is doing.
a man in a suit is flying through the air with a rocket coming out of his chest
ALT: a man in a suit is flying through the air with a rocket coming out of his chest
media.tenor.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Game development is hard. Very hard. But I am so damn proud of what our team is doing.
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Thrilled to see that Designers & Dragons: Origins hit its third stretch goal while I slept, for $100,000.
(That means more content for the backer-only preview, The Adventurer's Hoard.)
Thanks for the interest & support. I do my RPG history work because people tell me they like it!
(That means more content for the backer-only preview, The Adventurer's Hoard.)
Thanks for the interest & support. I do my RPG history work because people tell me they like it!
Designers & Dragons: Origins
From the birth of roleplaying to the discovery of the Forgotten Realms, from the rise of Basic D&D to the fall of Mystara, historian Shannon Appelcline brings you the story of OD&D, Basic D&D, and AD&...
www.backerkit.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Thrilled to see that Designers & Dragons: Origins hit its third stretch goal while I slept, for $100,000.
(That means more content for the backer-only preview, The Adventurer's Hoard.)
Thanks for the interest & support. I do my RPG history work because people tell me they like it!
(That means more content for the backer-only preview, The Adventurer's Hoard.)
Thanks for the interest & support. I do my RPG history work because people tell me they like it!
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Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.
October 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.
I have long since played all the Ultimas, and even their NES and SNES ports, but somehow I had no idea that they made Ultima IV for the Sega Master System.
It was never released in the US but I’m playing now and wow, it’s a *way* better port than any of the others. Very nicely done.
It was never released in the US but I’m playing now and wow, it’s a *way* better port than any of the others. Very nicely done.
October 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I have long since played all the Ultimas, and even their NES and SNES ports, but somehow I had no idea that they made Ultima IV for the Sega Master System.
It was never released in the US but I’m playing now and wow, it’s a *way* better port than any of the others. Very nicely done.
It was never released in the US but I’m playing now and wow, it’s a *way* better port than any of the others. Very nicely done.
Don’t worry, my dinner plans are well balanced, with both food groups represented.
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Don’t worry, my dinner plans are well balanced, with both food groups represented.
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Keeper is a lovely bit of magic; joyously realised, gently moving (but never mawkishly so), and it sees Double Fine - hardly a studio known to flub its big creative swings - on exceptional form.
Our review: https://bit.ly/47vYvm8
Our review: https://bit.ly/47vYvm8
October 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Keeper is a lovely bit of magic; joyously realised, gently moving (but never mawkishly so), and it sees Double Fine - hardly a studio known to flub its big creative swings - on exceptional form.
Our review: https://bit.ly/47vYvm8
Our review: https://bit.ly/47vYvm8
I am given to hyperbole and I hate it; it’s the absolute WORST trait a person can have.
October 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I am given to hyperbole and I hate it; it’s the absolute WORST trait a person can have.
Hades II is brilliant in a lot of ways, but I’m particularly fond of the “just skip the type of minigame you don’t like” design for familiars.
October 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Hades II is brilliant in a lot of ways, but I’m particularly fond of the “just skip the type of minigame you don’t like” design for familiars.
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RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.
His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.
A massive loss 💔
His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.
A massive loss 💔
October 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.
His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.
A massive loss 💔
His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.
A massive loss 💔
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades
October 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades
It's pretty cool how the market has gone all-in on AI, such that if the AI enthusiasts are *right* then the entire white collar world is about to implode, and if they're *wrong* then we'll have a global depression when the market figures that out. Either way, everything's coming up Milhouse!
October 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It's pretty cool how the market has gone all-in on AI, such that if the AI enthusiasts are *right* then the entire white collar world is about to implode, and if they're *wrong* then we'll have a global depression when the market figures that out. Either way, everything's coming up Milhouse!
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
I was in musicals back in school and I’ve worked with computers for decades soooo can I update my bio with “veteran of stage and screen”?
October 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I was in musicals back in school and I’ve worked with computers for decades soooo can I update my bio with “veteran of stage and screen”?