Joshywa
@j0shywa.bsky.social
I live in a tiny northern town in the US. It’s almost Canada. Sometimes I wish it was Canada. 📖GM 🧭solo RPG enthusiast. ✒️writer. 🎭Creative. Into shared art and worldbuilding. Tell me about your #TTTPG game!
Tonight, I'm running a heist one-shot set on an airship using the D&D 2024 rules. I'm pretty proud of the maps I knocked out in only a couple of days.
February 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Tonight, I'm running a heist one-shot set on an airship using the D&D 2024 rules. I'm pretty proud of the maps I knocked out in only a couple of days.
It says a lot about our current society that when overly enthusiastic content creators burned out on social media, the solution wasn't to re-think the platform but to create AI profiles that mimicked that kind of fake energy.
January 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It says a lot about our current society that when overly enthusiastic content creators burned out on social media, the solution wasn't to re-think the platform but to create AI profiles that mimicked that kind of fake energy.
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All the arguments against trans people are ludicrous but it being “against Jesus” is especially silly given that the dude identifies as bread and wine on the regular and folks are fine with that.
January 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
All the arguments against trans people are ludicrous but it being “against Jesus” is especially silly given that the dude identifies as bread and wine on the regular and folks are fine with that.
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Mister Rogers never misses
January 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Mister Rogers never misses
My New Year’s Resolution is to read some Sanderson and I’m starting early with The Way of Kings. I’m four chapters in and I have serious opinions already.
December 29, 2024 at 6:07 PM
My New Year’s Resolution is to read some Sanderson and I’m starting early with The Way of Kings. I’m four chapters in and I have serious opinions already.
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I've been working on a fantasy-style map of Seattle and it's surrounds, and it's coming along nicely. I thought folks might like seeing pieces of progress.
(lest anyone want to get pedantic about how it looks re: actual space...it's not supposed to be accurate. It's supposed to tell a story)
(lest anyone want to get pedantic about how it looks re: actual space...it's not supposed to be accurate. It's supposed to tell a story)
December 28, 2024 at 5:58 PM
I've been working on a fantasy-style map of Seattle and it's surrounds, and it's coming along nicely. I thought folks might like seeing pieces of progress.
(lest anyone want to get pedantic about how it looks re: actual space...it's not supposed to be accurate. It's supposed to tell a story)
(lest anyone want to get pedantic about how it looks re: actual space...it's not supposed to be accurate. It's supposed to tell a story)
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One must imagine Sisyphys goated
December 29, 2024 at 1:06 AM
One must imagine Sisyphys goated
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I fiction theme I often related to:
Adult generation who letdown the new gen and make them bitter and unwilling to grown up.
Just a note for myself to use in game design at some point maybe.
Adult generation who letdown the new gen and make them bitter and unwilling to grown up.
Just a note for myself to use in game design at some point maybe.
December 28, 2024 at 11:07 PM
I fiction theme I often related to:
Adult generation who letdown the new gen and make them bitter and unwilling to grown up.
Just a note for myself to use in game design at some point maybe.
Adult generation who letdown the new gen and make them bitter and unwilling to grown up.
Just a note for myself to use in game design at some point maybe.
This kind of scoreboard watching is how we end up with an endless cycle of unfinished Netflix shows.
We turn art into competition and instead of asking insightful questions about the actual substance of the work we churn out garbage about mathing the money.
Fuck this.
We turn art into competition and instead of asking insightful questions about the actual substance of the work we churn out garbage about mathing the money.
Fuck this.
Disney’s $645 Million ‘Andor’ Budget Shows How It’s Lost Control Of ‘Star Wars’
www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...
www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...
Disney’s $645 Million ‘Andor’ Budget Shows How It’s Lost Control Of ‘Star Wars’
The future of Disney Star Wars remains unclear, but this latest bit of news about Andor must produce a reckoning inside the company of what exactly they’re doing here,
www.forbes.com
December 26, 2024 at 8:12 PM
This kind of scoreboard watching is how we end up with an endless cycle of unfinished Netflix shows.
We turn art into competition and instead of asking insightful questions about the actual substance of the work we churn out garbage about mathing the money.
Fuck this.
We turn art into competition and instead of asking insightful questions about the actual substance of the work we churn out garbage about mathing the money.
Fuck this.
Andor may be one of those shows I re-watch every year. It is stupid good. Officially a “Josh cries multiple times while watching” kind of show.
December 25, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Andor may be one of those shows I re-watch every year. It is stupid good. Officially a “Josh cries multiple times while watching” kind of show.
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Sort of regretting buying the edible googly eye cookie decorations.
Every year we make a Tim Curry cookie, but this year, "Legend" devil Tim Curry looks like he has seen something he cannot UNSEE.
Every year we make a Tim Curry cookie, but this year, "Legend" devil Tim Curry looks like he has seen something he cannot UNSEE.
December 25, 2024 at 3:56 AM
Sort of regretting buying the edible googly eye cookie decorations.
Every year we make a Tim Curry cookie, but this year, "Legend" devil Tim Curry looks like he has seen something he cannot UNSEE.
Every year we make a Tim Curry cookie, but this year, "Legend" devil Tim Curry looks like he has seen something he cannot UNSEE.
Why am I turned on by...whatever this is...
a capivara sambista natalina passando na skyline pra animar você nesse natal hohoho
December 24, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Why am I turned on by...whatever this is...
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Lots of new followers and interactions over the last day and a half thanks to a silly post about books.
Y’all are going to be surprised when all I talk about is tabletop games, finishing a PhD program, k12 education, and my cat.
Either way, welcome! Here’s a basque cheesecake I just baked.
Y’all are going to be surprised when all I talk about is tabletop games, finishing a PhD program, k12 education, and my cat.
Either way, welcome! Here’s a basque cheesecake I just baked.
December 24, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Lots of new followers and interactions over the last day and a half thanks to a silly post about books.
Y’all are going to be surprised when all I talk about is tabletop games, finishing a PhD program, k12 education, and my cat.
Either way, welcome! Here’s a basque cheesecake I just baked.
Y’all are going to be surprised when all I talk about is tabletop games, finishing a PhD program, k12 education, and my cat.
Either way, welcome! Here’s a basque cheesecake I just baked.
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Can't wait for my photos app to give me my annual video collage of some of the worst days of my life
December 23, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Can't wait for my photos app to give me my annual video collage of some of the worst days of my life
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It’s OUT! Bare Your Soul is probably my most punk game ever. Fight THE MAN and their oppression with the power of style! It’s gorgeous and @alisoncybe.bsky.social gave some wonderful, formative advice to make this game really sing!
Do your games need more wild choices for clothing? Doublets and jerkins just not cutting the mustard? Then play around with BARE YOUR SOUL, a #ttrpg by @percypropa.bsky.social about the revolutionary power (lit.) of clothing - or the lack thereof!
It's live RIGHT NOW on @itch.io, and it's GREAT!
It's live RIGHT NOW on @itch.io, and it's GREAT!
Bare Your Soul by Far Horizons CoOp
A TTRPG about the power of clothing, or lack thereof, to cause a revolution!
far-horizons-co-op.itch.io
December 20, 2024 at 10:18 PM
It’s OUT! Bare Your Soul is probably my most punk game ever. Fight THE MAN and their oppression with the power of style! It’s gorgeous and @alisoncybe.bsky.social gave some wonderful, formative advice to make this game really sing!
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That’s my show!!
We are new grant recipients from the Tabletop Arts Fund!!✨
Grateful for the talents that I get to tell stories with. 🤍
- @blackgirlmage.bsky.social
- @causticphoenix.bsky.social
- @edwardspence.bsky.social
- @jwcartwright.bsky.social
- @critbard.tv
#LOTR #TTRPG #ActualPlay
We are new grant recipients from the Tabletop Arts Fund!!✨
Grateful for the talents that I get to tell stories with. 🤍
- @blackgirlmage.bsky.social
- @causticphoenix.bsky.social
- @edwardspence.bsky.social
- @jwcartwright.bsky.social
- @critbard.tv
#LOTR #TTRPG #ActualPlay
Congratulations to our fourth winner: The Fourth Age!
December 21, 2024 at 1:34 AM
That’s my show!!
We are new grant recipients from the Tabletop Arts Fund!!✨
Grateful for the talents that I get to tell stories with. 🤍
- @blackgirlmage.bsky.social
- @causticphoenix.bsky.social
- @edwardspence.bsky.social
- @jwcartwright.bsky.social
- @critbard.tv
#LOTR #TTRPG #ActualPlay
We are new grant recipients from the Tabletop Arts Fund!!✨
Grateful for the talents that I get to tell stories with. 🤍
- @blackgirlmage.bsky.social
- @causticphoenix.bsky.social
- @edwardspence.bsky.social
- @jwcartwright.bsky.social
- @critbard.tv
#LOTR #TTRPG #ActualPlay
This looks heckin’ rad
Today's recommendation is Godkiller by @byconniechang.bsky.social, a holypunk duet game about the only mortal with the power to kill a god. To see the game in action, check out @transplanarrpg.bsky.social's incredible AP Last Hope, starring Connie and @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social.
GODKILLER: First Blood Edition by Connie Chang
A holypunk TTRPG for one player, the Godkiller, and one GM, God.
byconniechang.itch.io
December 19, 2024 at 7:05 PM
This looks heckin’ rad
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netflix should do a documentary on people who aren’t ready to order when they get to the counter.
December 17, 2024 at 6:23 PM
netflix should do a documentary on people who aren’t ready to order when they get to the counter.
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If there's ever a post of mine that you share, make it this one
The UK government is considering allowing copyright exceptions for AI training. Below is a letter I sent to my MP explaining why this is a terrible idea, along with instructions on how to forward it to your own MP
justpaste.it/fpyt5
The UK government is considering allowing copyright exceptions for AI training. Below is a letter I sent to my MP explaining why this is a terrible idea, along with instructions on how to forward it to your own MP
justpaste.it/fpyt5
Template Letter to MP Concerning AI Training
justpaste.it
December 15, 2024 at 5:37 PM
If there's ever a post of mine that you share, make it this one
The UK government is considering allowing copyright exceptions for AI training. Below is a letter I sent to my MP explaining why this is a terrible idea, along with instructions on how to forward it to your own MP
justpaste.it/fpyt5
The UK government is considering allowing copyright exceptions for AI training. Below is a letter I sent to my MP explaining why this is a terrible idea, along with instructions on how to forward it to your own MP
justpaste.it/fpyt5
After TLOU tv series was a hit, I was kind of hoping Druckmann would just retire to Hollywood and make shitty movies for the rest of his life.
The thing is, no one in Hollywood is going to give him as much creative control as Naughty Dog.
The thing is, no one in Hollywood is going to give him as much creative control as Naughty Dog.
December 18, 2024 at 6:46 PM
After TLOU tv series was a hit, I was kind of hoping Druckmann would just retire to Hollywood and make shitty movies for the rest of his life.
The thing is, no one in Hollywood is going to give him as much creative control as Naughty Dog.
The thing is, no one in Hollywood is going to give him as much creative control as Naughty Dog.
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Just going to leave this here.
December 17, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Just going to leave this here.
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Our administration has adopted the position that everything is better if it's done by ChatGPT, which puts me in a difficult position as a professor trying to convince my students that there's an ethical issue if they don't write their own papers.
Looks like my university let AI rewrite our tenure and promotion policies. It even created entirely new ranks out of thin air.
December 17, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Our administration has adopted the position that everything is better if it's done by ChatGPT, which puts me in a difficult position as a professor trying to convince my students that there's an ethical issue if they don't write their own papers.