Matsci
@matsci.bsky.social
CCTV Tech for Big Brother. General Nerd. Plays game, poorly.
Old enough to have seen the original Live Action TMNT in theaters, and to remember not to post things like your age where bots could scrape it.
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Old enough to have seen the original Live Action TMNT in theaters, and to remember not to post things like your age where bots could scrape it.
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we tried to play umineko once and it took like 20 hours to get to sort of finding out what the plot actually was and then we fell off of it and now i don't remember anything that happened and i cannot bear to start over. so from my perspective the story is that everyone died, once, and that's it
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
we tried to play umineko once and it took like 20 hours to get to sort of finding out what the plot actually was and then we fell off of it and now i don't remember anything that happened and i cannot bear to start over. so from my perspective the story is that everyone died, once, and that's it
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I think the more people talk about the AI bubble bursting, the more investors will fear it’ll burst, we can make this a self-fulfilling prophecy just by yapping enough
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I think the more people talk about the AI bubble bursting, the more investors will fear it’ll burst, we can make this a self-fulfilling prophecy just by yapping enough
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please, fellow #artists!!
i feel so bad not reskeeting your beautiful work, but i also have a policy of only reskeeting images with #AltText, whenever possible.
i feel so bad not reskeeting your beautiful work, but i also have a policy of only reskeeting images with #AltText, whenever possible.
Artists PLEASE I am begging you to use alt text on your art. I want to support you and RT your art but I'm not going to if it does have alt text, and there are so, so many people who feel the same
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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A-HA, there's the catch.
Oh yeah btw the reason why Vine is being relaunched with great fanfare and no Al is because it's jointly operated with an Al company and they probably don;t want to pollute their scrap pile with stuff they've already shat out.
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
A-HA, there's the catch.
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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
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There is a game I really liked that has AI art and you know what I have done since I found out?
actively told people to not buy it (it's Annihilate the Spance, which sucks because it rips)
actively told people to not buy it (it's Annihilate the Spance, which sucks because it rips)
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
There is a game I really liked that has AI art and you know what I have done since I found out?
actively told people to not buy it (it's Annihilate the Spance, which sucks because it rips)
actively told people to not buy it (it's Annihilate the Spance, which sucks because it rips)
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October 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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I enjoy how I can tell from the way that submissions to the 200-word RPG jam drop off to nothing over the weekend, only to promptly pick up again first thing Monday that some of y'all are writing 200 word RPGs on company time.
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I enjoy how I can tell from the way that submissions to the 200-word RPG jam drop off to nothing over the weekend, only to promptly pick up again first thing Monday that some of y'all are writing 200 word RPGs on company time.
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this line from cloud is in my head at least once a day
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
this line from cloud is in my head at least once a day
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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 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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...
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What if we took one of the most iconic female protagonists in video games, famous for facing danger alone, and gave her a gormless wojak to mother? He could follow her around going "Well, THAT just happened!" and soyfacing at everything, like Navi, but with learned helplessness and a Funko Pop room!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What if we took one of the most iconic female protagonists in video games, famous for facing danger alone, and gave her a gormless wojak to mother? He could follow her around going "Well, THAT just happened!" and soyfacing at everything, like Navi, but with learned helplessness and a Funko Pop room!
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the goo goo ga ga baby games company when they accidentally end up with a tense, atmospheric sci-fi series: "what if it was fucking dogshit?"
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
the goo goo ga ga baby games company when they accidentally end up with a tense, atmospheric sci-fi series: "what if it was fucking dogshit?"
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"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it"
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
June 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it"
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
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The problem with setting furry fiction in the Actual Real World Of Earth 2025 is that if you worldbuild enough, you will eventually encounter what I describe as The Question from Hell, which is "what species was [controversial, important historical figure]?"
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The problem with setting furry fiction in the Actual Real World Of Earth 2025 is that if you worldbuild enough, you will eventually encounter what I describe as The Question from Hell, which is "what species was [controversial, important historical figure]?"
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Exactly. It’s insane that we let the Republicans characterize the rural south and Midwest as “real” America. 1 out of every 35 people in the country lives in LA County (2.8%). We are real America.
June 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Exactly. It’s insane that we let the Republicans characterize the rural south and Midwest as “real” America. 1 out of every 35 people in the country lives in LA County (2.8%). We are real America.
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Lmao so the Technocratic Union almost existed in the Mage: The Awakening timeline as well, except the Nameless Orders who would become the Free Council were like "nah fuck you fascist"
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Lmao so the Technocratic Union almost existed in the Mage: The Awakening timeline as well, except the Nameless Orders who would become the Free Council were like "nah fuck you fascist"
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apropos of nothing in particular
It is one of my strongest held beliefs that mercy and the avoidance of unnecessary self-satisfting bloodshed is one of the noblest actions one can take.
That even the vilest deserve the fairest trial that can be given
For any less is a disservice to *ourselves*
It is one of my strongest held beliefs that mercy and the avoidance of unnecessary self-satisfting bloodshed is one of the noblest actions one can take.
That even the vilest deserve the fairest trial that can be given
For any less is a disservice to *ourselves*
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
apropos of nothing in particular
It is one of my strongest held beliefs that mercy and the avoidance of unnecessary self-satisfting bloodshed is one of the noblest actions one can take.
That even the vilest deserve the fairest trial that can be given
For any less is a disservice to *ourselves*
It is one of my strongest held beliefs that mercy and the avoidance of unnecessary self-satisfting bloodshed is one of the noblest actions one can take.
That even the vilest deserve the fairest trial that can be given
For any less is a disservice to *ourselves*
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five guys getting rid of the cups for fries is fuckin' hilarious
really? $200 for a burger and fries and you can't afford cups any more?
get real
really? $200 for a burger and fries and you can't afford cups any more?
get real
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
five guys getting rid of the cups for fries is fuckin' hilarious
really? $200 for a burger and fries and you can't afford cups any more?
get real
really? $200 for a burger and fries and you can't afford cups any more?
get real
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Behold. Creechur. @caffeinekobold.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Behold. Creechur. @caffeinekobold.com
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Me, thinking about causing problems on purpose by synthesizing discourse: Rule 0 in TRPGs is an example of over-tutorialization
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Me, thinking about causing problems on purpose by synthesizing discourse: Rule 0 in TRPGs is an example of over-tutorialization
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Synthesizing more discourse: the failure of the Metroid series to adequately convey the apparent authorial intent for Samus Aran to be an altruistic, motherly figure is an example of why System Matters
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Synthesizing more discourse: the failure of the Metroid series to adequately convey the apparent authorial intent for Samus Aran to be an altruistic, motherly figure is an example of why System Matters
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Also, I have to say, it's a little funny seeing takes which are basically "western audiences in particular only see Samus through the lens of badass violence rather than emotional expressiveness" and then see 1000000 pieces of "Samus Aran as a lesbian failgirl" fanart every week on the ol' timeline
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Also, I have to say, it's a little funny seeing takes which are basically "western audiences in particular only see Samus through the lens of badass violence rather than emotional expressiveness" and then see 1000000 pieces of "Samus Aran as a lesbian failgirl" fanart every week on the ol' timeline
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star wars 5e is funny for lots of reasons, but the one that's currently inflicting lasting harm on me is that there are Legendary torpedoes
i'm sorry what do you MEAN there is a piece of materiel worth "at least 500,000 credits", which i can shoot from a shoulder-mounted tube, and then miss with
i'm sorry what do you MEAN there is a piece of materiel worth "at least 500,000 credits", which i can shoot from a shoulder-mounted tube, and then miss with
November 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
star wars 5e is funny for lots of reasons, but the one that's currently inflicting lasting harm on me is that there are Legendary torpedoes
i'm sorry what do you MEAN there is a piece of materiel worth "at least 500,000 credits", which i can shoot from a shoulder-mounted tube, and then miss with
i'm sorry what do you MEAN there is a piece of materiel worth "at least 500,000 credits", which i can shoot from a shoulder-mounted tube, and then miss with
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enough alternate histories about "What if the Nazis got octopus" and "What if the Confederates won the Civil Warp" no, fuck that, I want the alt history where Alan Moore kept the monetary rights to Watchmen and kept writing bangers for DC comics
November 15, 2025 at 6:23 AM
enough alternate histories about "What if the Nazis got octopus" and "What if the Confederates won the Civil Warp" no, fuck that, I want the alt history where Alan Moore kept the monetary rights to Watchmen and kept writing bangers for DC comics