geyik
@ali.daelightstudios.com
In varying degrees: mathematician, game-designer, software engineer, comic-reader, metalhead. In short: a nerd. They/he.
No sympathy for fools.
No sympathy for fools.
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The Unnamed Three by Daelight Studios
A minimalist generic RPG
daelightstudios.itch.io
so, while we wait for last bit of work to be done on our big project, i designed another game (as small as it gets). graphics & layout by @eda.daelightstudios.com
daelightstudios.itch.io/the-unnamed-...
#indie #rpg
#ttrpg
daelightstudios.itch.io/the-unnamed-...
#indie #rpg
#ttrpg
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Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
December 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
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99% of rpg zines and books should have page numbers.
And that's just the start. There's actually a lot of technique and intentionality behind things like page numbers, running headers, etc.
Let me know what you think!
www.explorersdesign.com/designing-si...
And that's just the start. There's actually a lot of technique and intentionality behind things like page numbers, running headers, etc.
Let me know what you think!
www.explorersdesign.com/designing-si...
How to Design Signals in Books
User-friendly definitions, tips, and tricks for tabletop rpg designers.
www.explorersdesign.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
99% of rpg zines and books should have page numbers.
And that's just the start. There's actually a lot of technique and intentionality behind things like page numbers, running headers, etc.
Let me know what you think!
www.explorersdesign.com/designing-si...
And that's just the start. There's actually a lot of technique and intentionality behind things like page numbers, running headers, etc.
Let me know what you think!
www.explorersdesign.com/designing-si...
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This little bit of snark spiralled into a little history thread about different scenes in early TTRPGs, as best I understand it.
It's hard to believe that it's only been ten years since UCLA English Lit grad Lee Gold launched her influential zine Alarums & Excursions (named after Elizabethan drama). Its hard to believe, as it's actually 50 years, as it launched in 1975, and she only wrapped it this year.
I cannot express how pathetic you have to be to believe this happened in the TTRPG hobby in the last decade
December 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This little bit of snark spiralled into a little history thread about different scenes in early TTRPGs, as best I understand it.
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so insanely fucking real for this
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
so insanely fucking real for this
What i love(!) about these dumbass AI videos is how they cannot keep a shot for longer than 2 seconds. Like AI-induced psychosis, it seems like they’re trying to engineer epilepsy crises too.
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
December 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
What i love(!) about these dumbass AI videos is how they cannot keep a shot for longer than 2 seconds. Like AI-induced psychosis, it seems like they’re trying to engineer epilepsy crises too.
It’s extremely weird that housing is seen as an investment in the USA which does, in fact, have a healthy(?) financial market. Doubly so when avg building quality (cardboard walls etc) should mean a fast-depreciating “asset”
And the reason why they block new housing is because they treat houses as investment and not necessity commodities.
We're going to have to come up with a policy that discourages that practice, and, well, good luck. It would upend the idea of economy as we know it.
We're going to have to come up with a policy that discourages that practice, and, well, good luck. It would upend the idea of economy as we know it.
December 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It’s extremely weird that housing is seen as an investment in the USA which does, in fact, have a healthy(?) financial market. Doubly so when avg building quality (cardboard walls etc) should mean a fast-depreciating “asset”
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Meta lost $77 billion on this metaverse folly. For perspective, Netflix’s winning bid for the entire Warner Bros studio and its subsidiaries, the IP, the facilities, and all those assets was $82.7 billion.
For Meta, that’s “oops, back to the drawing board” money.
For Meta, that’s “oops, back to the drawing board” money.
Meta Platforms is planning cuts to the metaverse—an arena Mark Zuckerberg once called the future of the company—and will shift spending to AI wearables.
Meta Plans to Shift Spending Away From the Metaverse
Zuckerberg’s bet on immersive online worlds has lost the company more than $77 billion since 2020.
on.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Meta lost $77 billion on this metaverse folly. For perspective, Netflix’s winning bid for the entire Warner Bros studio and its subsidiaries, the IP, the facilities, and all those assets was $82.7 billion.
For Meta, that’s “oops, back to the drawing board” money.
For Meta, that’s “oops, back to the drawing board” money.
Curious question: i know most people see #Robocop as satire but i can’t catch it. Yes, i’m aware of hyper-violence, privatization of security etc but here’s what i don’t understand: if one were to make a movie that 100% buys into those ideas in 1987, how would it differ from the movie we got?
December 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Curious question: i know most people see #Robocop as satire but i can’t catch it. Yes, i’m aware of hyper-violence, privatization of security etc but here’s what i don’t understand: if one were to make a movie that 100% buys into those ideas in 1987, how would it differ from the movie we got?
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Assuming there isn’t more to this than we know, it is indeed very embarrassing to see an industry obsessed with being taken seriously as an art form self censor in this way.
You need the grit if you want the pearl, dweebs. No amount of trotting out auteur film directors on stage offsets that need
You need the grit if you want the pearl, dweebs. No amount of trotting out auteur film directors on stage offsets that need
Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...
Horses Is Tame
Horses, the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form.
aftermath.site
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Assuming there isn’t more to this than we know, it is indeed very embarrassing to see an industry obsessed with being taken seriously as an art form self censor in this way.
You need the grit if you want the pearl, dweebs. No amount of trotting out auteur film directors on stage offsets that need
You need the grit if you want the pearl, dweebs. No amount of trotting out auteur film directors on stage offsets that need
Same for the academia
If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
December 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Same for the academia
A few weeks after @hankgreen.bsky.social ’s “(American) slavery was racist” piece…
USA passed the point of being “funny to outside observers”
USA passed the point of being “funny to outside observers”
Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A few weeks after @hankgreen.bsky.social ’s “(American) slavery was racist” piece…
USA passed the point of being “funny to outside observers”
USA passed the point of being “funny to outside observers”
so, while we wait for last bit of work to be done on our big project, i designed another game (as small as it gets). graphics & layout by @eda.daelightstudios.com
daelightstudios.itch.io/the-unnamed-...
#indie #rpg
#ttrpg
daelightstudios.itch.io/the-unnamed-...
#indie #rpg
#ttrpg
The Unnamed Three by Daelight Studios
A minimalist generic RPG
daelightstudios.itch.io
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
so, while we wait for last bit of work to be done on our big project, i designed another game (as small as it gets). graphics & layout by @eda.daelightstudios.com
daelightstudios.itch.io/the-unnamed-...
#indie #rpg
#ttrpg
daelightstudios.itch.io/the-unnamed-...
#indie #rpg
#ttrpg
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perfect is the enemy of good. so nowadays, i make simple sketches rather than trying to achieve perfection
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
perfect is the enemy of good. so nowadays, i make simple sketches rather than trying to achieve perfection
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Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
Mapping the Blogosphere
An interactive graph of TTRPG blogs, showing who links to whom, how communities change over time, plus stats and how it all works.
elmc.at
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
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as a software developer i'm watching LLMs stripmine the field that I love. I'm watching all my coworkers trade creative connection with their peers for the instant responses of a chatbot, and the clarity and purpose of documentation and design for (temporary! destructive!) speed.
I think that may be the core division here: if you are an author or an artist the cons of generative AI very likely outweigh the pros for you
If you are a software developer the opposite is true
If you are a software developer the opposite is true
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
as a software developer i'm watching LLMs stripmine the field that I love. I'm watching all my coworkers trade creative connection with their peers for the instant responses of a chatbot, and the clarity and purpose of documentation and design for (temporary! destructive!) speed.
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257. Rise of Skywalker is probably not the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but it is the movie that made me the angriest
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
257. Rise of Skywalker is probably not the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but it is the movie that made me the angriest
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149. If your favorite part of Star Wars is the political intrigue stuff- I’m looking at you, Andorheads- then you owe it to yourself to read Claudia Gray’s excellent Star Wars: Bloodline novel, where a maturing Leia Organa bears witness to a New Republic making the same mistakes.
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
149. If your favorite part of Star Wars is the political intrigue stuff- I’m looking at you, Andorheads- then you owe it to yourself to read Claudia Gray’s excellent Star Wars: Bloodline novel, where a maturing Leia Organa bears witness to a New Republic making the same mistakes.
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
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Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
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Ok, here’s the deal: you’re going to want to keep track of Rae and Type Speaks. The chance to talk about design from a different angle than I usually get to explore was an absolute joy. Rae is a great interviewer and I hope I get a chance to do a Part THREE some day.
Meguey’s in-person conversation with WEGL is also now live:
Tabletop Games Before the Internet… and After // Type Speaks // 02.16
YouTube video by WEGL 91.1
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Ok, here’s the deal: you’re going to want to keep track of Rae and Type Speaks. The chance to talk about design from a different angle than I usually get to explore was an absolute joy. Rae is a great interviewer and I hope I get a chance to do a Part THREE some day.
Eşim bana “liseli gençler sana ‘abi’ diye seslendi” diye takılıyor. Ne ala! “Amca” da diyebilirlerdi!
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Eşim bana “liseli gençler sana ‘abi’ diye seslendi” diye takılıyor. Ne ala! “Amca” da diyebilirlerdi!
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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
Why i cut money and economics out
When you're writing a tabletop roleplaying game, the mechanics should evoke the atmosphere you want in your story.
A simple example: we're writing a cozy woodland mystery game. What are the combat mechanics like? Well, clearly there aren't any. Combat isn't part of our cozy woodland story.
But...
A simple example: we're writing a cozy woodland mystery game. What are the combat mechanics like? Well, clearly there aren't any. Combat isn't part of our cozy woodland story.
But...
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Why i cut money and economics out
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This morning I'm feeling an intense desire to play, to create, to draw, to walk in the woods, to shelter everyone in my life who's ever been hurt, and to burn every single structure of power and violence in our world to the fucking ground.
November 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This morning I'm feeling an intense desire to play, to create, to draw, to walk in the woods, to shelter everyone in my life who's ever been hurt, and to burn every single structure of power and violence in our world to the fucking ground.