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'made a loss' is a fascinating turn of phrase
Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article, headlined "OpenAI Made a $12 Billion Loss Last Quarter, Microsoft Results Indicate"
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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What if writing games is as much fun as playing them oh no
1.6 JUST HOW SEXY IS ‘SEXY’? 1 Cute 2 Like French New Wave 3 Like Steve McQueen 4 Like the dance floor 5 Like the shock of the new 6 Like it’s literally a sex game with a veneer of derring–do 2.2 WHAT’S ABOUT TO HAPPEN? Roll twice. One disaster gives cover for the second, much more dangerous disaster 1 Sexy is banned! Who punishes you if you’re caught? 2 Your future selves have arrived to end your timeline! What are they trying to prevent? 3 Someone hacked your floating loft apartment! Who are they, and why did they take control of your shit? 4 Those sexy robots you used to know have been reprogrammed! To what terrible purpose? 5 The tournament begins! What will you be competing in? 6 Some gods appear! What do they think you’ve taken from them? 3.1 WHAT MAKES ME SEXY? 1 Your physical presence 2 Your innate style 3 Your sense of humor 4 The way you battle 5 The way you wizard 6 Nothing but confidence 3.2 HOW DO I BATTLE? 1 Vogue 2 Parkour 3 Three punch combos 4 One weapon, oversized 5 Two weapons, dual–wielded 6 From the top rope!
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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A still from the animated Transformers movie, featuring a close up of Unicron, as voiced by Orson Welles
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Dungeon Raid, a match-3 roguelike that hasn’t been playable for almost a decade due to iOS upgrades. An all time favorite with a name so forgettable I had to google it
Screenshot of a mobile game featuring an interspersed grid of swords, shields, and health potions, along with various character stats
October 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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EVERYTHING SEXY BATTLE WIZARD
7.2 I USE MAGIC 1 Roll 7.3 OOPS 2 It doesn’t seem to do much 3–5 It goes as planned 6 You’re a SEXY BATTLE WIZARD
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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WIP for @gshowitt.bsky.social's kitbash game jam
WHAT’S THIS RPG ABOUT? 1–5: In a world where everyone is a battle wizard, you are a Sexy Battle Wizard. Everyone lives in magical flying castles but yours is fucking brilliant. You float from city to city looking for sexy times with other Sexy Battle Wizards, but no matter where you go you find yourself entangled in trouble of one kind or another. 6: Two hours long, if you run a game like I do
October 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I like this game
A d6 table from an rpg: 4.1 I ATTEMPT TO AVOID DANGER 1–2 I make the situation worse. If it hurts, roll IT HURTS 3–5 I dodge the proverbial bullet. If it’s a literal bullet, roll I CAST THE SPELL 6 I get away clean as a cucumber
October 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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My new magic system is donezo
A screenshot of a table. It reads: 4. Wizards 4.1 I know just the thing 4.2 I cast the spell 4.2.1 Oops
October 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Started to do the math and discovered that I've designed over 100 books in this series? www.versobooks.com/collections/... That's too much book! Nobody should make that many of a thing.
Cover selections from volumes 4 through … 11? 12? of the Radical Thinkers series from Verso Books
September 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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If you only follow me on bsky it may surprise you to learn that I am not only a designer of games that you will not play, but for many years also a designer of books!
A photograph of World Ending Game by Everest Pipkin A photograph of the Radical Thinkers series, volume 4, from Verso Books A photograph of 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning, by Slavko Goldstein. Published by The New Press. A photograph of The Ministry of Nostalgia (hardcover), by Owen Hatherley. Published by Verso Books.
September 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Is it better in black or?
September 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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GUN MAGIC TECHNO POP
The cover of an rpg the size of a standard comic book. The title reads Gun Magic Techno Pop. An illustration covers most of the cover. It shows three black silhouetted busts, out of which appear (as if peeking out from human-shaped caves) colorful figures
September 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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GUN MAGIC TECHNO POP
Drawing of a figure in black bra, jeans, and boots. They wear a semi-opaque rain poncho thing with pastel details. They are posed with one hand forward and one foot back, as if mid-vogue
September 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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GUN MAGIC TECHNO POP
Drawing of four characters. In the front a woman kneels, while behind her are a long haired weirdo, a robot person, and a fourth figure being hugged from behind by what appears to be a large ghost
September 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Not me, though. I keep that shit sloppy and trust that your brain will fill in the rest
A digital ink drawing of a woman close to the viewer flashing a peace sign. Behind her is a car crash involving a police car. It’s nighttime in a city, probably New York
September 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Come again?
Excerpt from a New York Times article on the police and FBI investigation into the Charlie Kirk shooting: “Emergency radio traffic in the minutes after the shooting suggested a chaotic search for leads. There was talk among officers of various people who might be connected: a man dressed in a suit, a person who seemed to be going to hospitals looking for Mr. Kirk, someone who had removed an anti-Kirk post online, someone with a bionic arm.”
September 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Faction naming, still got it
#4: Vanta Bloc, unaffiliated group of anti-capitalist agitators
September 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Oh sorry, I meant p4 of the Peregrine preview
August 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Better
August 23, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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I'm laying out Gun Magic Techno Pop in Focal and it's such a blast to work with. I wish phototypesetting had still been in use when I began my career, I would have eaten that shit up. Focal designed by @greggazdowicz.bsky.social, available from @commercialtype.bsky.social
The inside cover and front page of Gun Magic Techno Pop. The inside cover reads "It's 1999 and time is speeding up," with the 'p' in arc being looped endlessly, getting skinnier and skinnier, as if the word were being squeezed into a high-pitch electronic note. The other page is a lengthy book introduction. A later spread from Gun Magic Techno Pop. On the left-hand page is an overview of how characters work in the game, with a diagram of the character sheet itself. On the right-hand page is a character sheet for the Mundane Mage. The character description reads "Make the trains run on time."
August 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Team Cherry remains undefeated www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
“What is Jira?” Gibson said when I asked if they used the task-management application. “Is it a software?” Pellen said, adding that they’d briefly used Trello before their account was deactivated because they didn’t use it enough.
August 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The gunniest and the wettiest
Cover for Gun Magic Techno Pop #1, featuring the title in bold all-caps and a psychedelic illustration in the lower 3/5. The illustration, rendered in hot reds and pinks with highlights of neon blue, is a loosely-inked drawing of figures peering out of the silhouettes of other figures
August 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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This but when it's done you think hmmm how do I judge and rank these new friends of mine? compared to all the other friends I've made along the way?
Every season of Taskmaster UK, ranked visually by season
August 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Gun Magic Techno Pop #1 is complete except for a key table that I still need to write. Gun Magic Techno Pop #2 is complete except for two key tables, and possibly illustration if I don't want to keep it stark black and white. They are related to one another in spirit but are otherwise distinct games
Screenshot of a rpg game book cover, the size of a standard American comic book pamphlet. The title is Gun Magic Techno Pop #1. The cover features a colorful psychedelic illustration of people inside other silhouettes of other people The cover of Gun Magic Techno Pop #2. This is an A5 pamphlet, entirely black and white, with no art featured. Instead it features a four-paragraph introduction in stark text: "It’s summer in the city and everything’s kicking off, everywhere. The students are rioting and the transit workers are striking, and the business district has become an occupied autonomous zone. Most evenings there are street fights between the black bloc and the neo-nazis, and if the cops intervene it’s only to escort the fascists out of town. And watching everything from their invisible skyscrapers are the YES/NO, BLACK/WHITE, GIRL/BOY-enforcing Binary Wizards, who can get fucked. The Binary Wizards are the city’s occult establishment, equal parts government and mafia. They move through the city like blood through the body, touching everything and everyone, and they wield the tremendous and restrictive power of binary magic. They’re the power behind the power, surrounded by zealots, collaborators, and profiteers. But not you. You’re a member of the School of Liquid, a loose-knit network of esoteric radicals fighting a war of occult liberation, and you practice liquid magic. Liquid magic allows ideas to coexist in any manner, however contradictory. It’s open, like a fist. You know a few liquid words and can use them when attempting the impossible—and you’re always attempting the impossible. Your goal: Break the power of the Static Wizards at every level of every institution, and contribute, wherever possible, to the greater struggle city-wide."
August 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Very excited for my assigned title in the Appendix N adventure jam itch.io/jam/appx-n-jam
Centered all-caps text reading Anzu Demands! Typeset in Doss Problem No.
July 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM