Jim Dagg
@vagentzero.bsky.social
Professional code monkey, amateur cook, hobbyist TTRPG dev of player-empowering, positive action-forward games. Find my work at vagentzero.itch.io!
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Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons
(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored …
pathikablog.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
This right here. If you're asking whether the world is better with you in it, I promise you, in my heart of hearts, it is.
Before I head to my workout, here's something that may help you today:
You are worth being heard. You are worth being seen. You are worth being loved.
Thank you for existing. 🤍
You are worth being heard. You are worth being seen. You are worth being loved.
Thank you for existing. 🤍
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This right here. If you're asking whether the world is better with you in it, I promise you, in my heart of hearts, it is.
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I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
October 20, 2024 at 7:00 AM
I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
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The guy from the "Hit it, Joe!" photoplayer meme is starting his own nonprofit to preserve silent cinema technology:
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
This instrument from the early cinema is disappearing. But not on Joe's watch
Joe Rinaudo is doing everything to ensure his passion for photoplayers, the self-playing pianos that scored silent movies, outlives him even as interest in the instrument has waned for a long time, wi...
www.latimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The guy from the "Hit it, Joe!" photoplayer meme is starting his own nonprofit to preserve silent cinema technology:
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
We're skipping Starbucks for a lot of reasons now. So let me share my learnings - I spent a lot of time trying to perfect my home coffee routine. Spent more than I care to admit on equipment, grinders, etc. Here's what I found produced the best, most consistent cup of coffee: (1/5)
November 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We're skipping Starbucks for a lot of reasons now. So let me share my learnings - I spent a lot of time trying to perfect my home coffee routine. Spent more than I care to admit on equipment, grinders, etc. Here's what I found produced the best, most consistent cup of coffee: (1/5)
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Stealing this wording from my wife:
signatures appreciated and meaningful if you have any interest in pinball as a sport, and particularly as a sport that's fair and inclusive for *everyone*. c.org/6hBpyV8DNh
a recap of events in the link to follow (minus the awful statement from Josh Sharpe today)
signatures appreciated and meaningful if you have any interest in pinball as a sport, and particularly as a sport that's fair and inclusive for *everyone*. c.org/6hBpyV8DNh
a recap of events in the link to follow (minus the awful statement from Josh Sharpe today)
Have you seen this petition yet?
Remove WPPRs from OBX Fall Flippers - failure to follow IFPA guidelines.
c.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Stealing this wording from my wife:
signatures appreciated and meaningful if you have any interest in pinball as a sport, and particularly as a sport that's fair and inclusive for *everyone*. c.org/6hBpyV8DNh
a recap of events in the link to follow (minus the awful statement from Josh Sharpe today)
signatures appreciated and meaningful if you have any interest in pinball as a sport, and particularly as a sport that's fair and inclusive for *everyone*. c.org/6hBpyV8DNh
a recap of events in the link to follow (minus the awful statement from Josh Sharpe today)
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What is the point of having a women's board if you just ignore them when they give you urgent, unanimous guidance?
I don't really play much pinball myself, but it's deeply upsetting to see something so near and dear to the hearts of so many wonderful people I follow implode like this.
I don't really play much pinball myself, but it's deeply upsetting to see something so near and dear to the hearts of so many wonderful people I follow implode like this.
remember that the entire IFPA Women's Advisory Board has spoken out against this, and they have been vetoed by one man
November 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
What is the point of having a women's board if you just ignore them when they give you urgent, unanimous guidance?
I don't really play much pinball myself, but it's deeply upsetting to see something so near and dear to the hearts of so many wonderful people I follow implode like this.
I don't really play much pinball myself, but it's deeply upsetting to see something so near and dear to the hearts of so many wonderful people I follow implode like this.
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The Pinball Primer (which you may have seen linked from matchplay) has taken down all its pinball strategy guides, in protest of the IFPA.
pinballprimer.github.io
pinballprimer.github.io
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November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The Pinball Primer (which you may have seen linked from matchplay) has taken down all its pinball strategy guides, in protest of the IFPA.
pinballprimer.github.io
pinballprimer.github.io
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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The IFPA has chosen to shut down discussion of the OBX event in their own discord server.
As everyone knows, shutting down discussion of a topic in one singular place will surely get people to stop. /s
As everyone knows, shutting down discussion of a topic in one singular place will surely get people to stop. /s
November 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The IFPA has chosen to shut down discussion of the OBX event in their own discord server.
As everyone knows, shutting down discussion of a topic in one singular place will surely get people to stop. /s
As everyone knows, shutting down discussion of a topic in one singular place will surely get people to stop. /s
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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
Had an insight this weekend - holy shit, the horrors and simple lack of practice have me out of the habit of actually sharing myself on here and social media in general. I've been keeping my feelings, my work, my joy to myself. It's been lonely, and it's a prison of my own making.
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Had an insight this weekend - holy shit, the horrors and simple lack of practice have me out of the habit of actually sharing myself on here and social media in general. I've been keeping my feelings, my work, my joy to myself. It's been lonely, and it's a prison of my own making.
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Yeah, your favorite writer/actor/musician/etc isn't inherently a better human than any of their fans and we have some (unfortunately) recent evidence that they can be generally worse. We're not amazing creatures of light or any of that nonsense. We're just usually decently good at our jobs.
In my experience, any creative who expects you to act as if you're talking to one of your betters is a creative you can kick to the curb.
November 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Yeah, your favorite writer/actor/musician/etc isn't inherently a better human than any of their fans and we have some (unfortunately) recent evidence that they can be generally worse. We're not amazing creatures of light or any of that nonsense. We're just usually decently good at our jobs.
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Many of you fine folks might have heard about Cosmopolitan Fantasy Games Sig: Manual of the Primes and Sig: City of Blades. Did you know that they are available in an affordable bundle with some extra goodies over on DriveThruRPG? www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Sig: Cosmopolitan Planar Fantasy [BUNDLE] - Genesis of Legend Publishing | DriveThruRPG
This special bundle product contains the following titles:
Sig: Manual of the PrimesRegular price: $15.00Bundle price: $12.00Format: PDF
THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE CITY Sig is the nexus of the multiver...
www.drivethrurpg.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Many of you fine folks might have heard about Cosmopolitan Fantasy Games Sig: Manual of the Primes and Sig: City of Blades. Did you know that they are available in an affordable bundle with some extra goodies over on DriveThruRPG? www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
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PSA: Discord just introduced custom text displays for people's names as a Nitro perk. It's not just you, everyone's names look silly!
Thankfully, you can turn this off. It's in the "Accessibility" settings panel, this setting labeled "Display Name Styles". Turn it off to return to the default font.
Thankfully, you can turn this off. It's in the "Accessibility" settings panel, this setting labeled "Display Name Styles". Turn it off to return to the default font.
October 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
PSA: Discord just introduced custom text displays for people's names as a Nitro perk. It's not just you, everyone's names look silly!
Thankfully, you can turn this off. It's in the "Accessibility" settings panel, this setting labeled "Display Name Styles". Turn it off to return to the default font.
Thankfully, you can turn this off. It's in the "Accessibility" settings panel, this setting labeled "Display Name Styles". Turn it off to return to the default font.
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Unless I absolutely must for professional reasons, I will not be watching your nuclear war movie. I will not be watching your incredibly bleak and depressing murder show. I will not be watching your artistic despair. It’s nothing personal, I just don’t order water when I’m already bailing my boat.
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Unless I absolutely must for professional reasons, I will not be watching your nuclear war movie. I will not be watching your incredibly bleak and depressing murder show. I will not be watching your artistic despair. It’s nothing personal, I just don’t order water when I’m already bailing my boat.
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Every mention of SNAP being frozen should include this simple fact:
TRUMP is CHOOSING TO CANCEL FOOD ASSISTANCE. There are literally emergency dollars available to keep SNAP funded.
TRUMP is CHOOSING TO CANCEL FOOD ASSISTANCE. There are literally emergency dollars available to keep SNAP funded.
October 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Every mention of SNAP being frozen should include this simple fact:
TRUMP is CHOOSING TO CANCEL FOOD ASSISTANCE. There are literally emergency dollars available to keep SNAP funded.
TRUMP is CHOOSING TO CANCEL FOOD ASSISTANCE. There are literally emergency dollars available to keep SNAP funded.
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When he says “hit it, Joe”, I don’t think first time viewers are going to be prepared for just how hard Joe hits it.
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
When he says “hit it, Joe”, I don’t think first time viewers are going to be prepared for just how hard Joe hits it.
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
Our current regime is a hellscape. I'm sorry that the PSF had to reject a major grant to defend its (correct) position, but proud of them for making the choice.
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Our current regime is a hellscape. I'm sorry that the PSF had to reject a major grant to defend its (correct) position, but proud of them for making the choice.
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Quick reminder today:
Always observe Shut the Fuck Up Friday
Always observe Shut the Fuck Up Friday
October 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Quick reminder today:
Always observe Shut the Fuck Up Friday
Always observe Shut the Fuck Up Friday
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Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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Remember our mantra:
Don't Engage, Just Block.
Don't Engage, Just Block.
October 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Remember our mantra:
Don't Engage, Just Block.
Don't Engage, Just Block.
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i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.
October 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.
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almost every single one of the gov accounts that got created today have kicked off with some message blaming dems for shutdown, they’re trying to turn back the tide of public opinion blaming them, just block them
looks like it is, block them anyway, depriving them of oxygen is an extremely effective strategy
it’s not impossible that this is legit, but it’s unlikely, they’re not using the domain verification, block them either way
October 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
almost every single one of the gov accounts that got created today have kicked off with some message blaming dems for shutdown, they’re trying to turn back the tide of public opinion blaming them, just block them