WiserOdin
@odin032402.bsky.social
TTRPG Dev/Writer/Bat/27
Caution: I do repost weird porn
Account manager and Translator for https://okatart.newgrounds.com/
PFP and banner courtesy of @cymtk.bsky.social, love you man
Caution: I do repost weird porn
Account manager and Translator for https://okatart.newgrounds.com/
PFP and banner courtesy of @cymtk.bsky.social, love you man
Pinned
WiserOdin
@odin032402.bsky.social
· Oct 21
How to Write a Commission
Here is a step by step guide on how to unfailingly get a commission that an artist will not complain about and will ensure that you maintain a healthy working relationship with them. DO NOT CONTACT T...
docs.google.com
Hey I know life is hard. But I'd like to make sure people don't make it harder for artists. I've shown this to quite a few, and they all agree it's pretty good!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Reposted by WiserOdin
The issue with The Outer Worlds is, on reflection...it's just not very funny, and thus, it's not very convincing and, thus, it's not very engaging.
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The issue with The Outer Worlds is, on reflection...it's just not very funny, and thus, it's not very convincing and, thus, it's not very engaging.
Reposted by WiserOdin
I quit my job at the three choices factory
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I quit my job at the three choices factory
Reposted by WiserOdin
so uh
one of the tweaks that you can optionally turn on or off in viva new vegas is "skip lockpicking minigame if your skill is high enough" and you can adjust how much higher your skill HAS to be!
I set it to...0! 0 higher!
one of the tweaks that you can optionally turn on or off in viva new vegas is "skip lockpicking minigame if your skill is high enough" and you can adjust how much higher your skill HAS to be!
I set it to...0! 0 higher!
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
so uh
one of the tweaks that you can optionally turn on or off in viva new vegas is "skip lockpicking minigame if your skill is high enough" and you can adjust how much higher your skill HAS to be!
I set it to...0! 0 higher!
one of the tweaks that you can optionally turn on or off in viva new vegas is "skip lockpicking minigame if your skill is high enough" and you can adjust how much higher your skill HAS to be!
I set it to...0! 0 higher!
Reposted by WiserOdin
Considering all the NDA work I do, this feels vaguely illegal on Gmail's part.
Anyways.
You gotta do this for EVERY gmail account you use. Even if they fall under the same umbrella.
Anyways.
You gotta do this for EVERY gmail account you use. Even if they fall under the same umbrella.
Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Considering all the NDA work I do, this feels vaguely illegal on Gmail's part.
Anyways.
You gotta do this for EVERY gmail account you use. Even if they fall under the same umbrella.
Anyways.
You gotta do this for EVERY gmail account you use. Even if they fall under the same umbrella.
Reposted by WiserOdin
i had an online debate and ended the biggest socialist organization in the US whose candidates just won mayoral races in major metropolitan cities on both coasts
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
i had an online debate and ended the biggest socialist organization in the US whose candidates just won mayoral races in major metropolitan cities on both coasts
Reposted by WiserOdin
one weird misstep in the Outer Worlds 1 is how they don't let you be the straight man outsider nearly often enough. Like, 90% of your dialog should be, "What the fuck are you talking about?" and "have you ever heard of communism?"
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
one weird misstep in the Outer Worlds 1 is how they don't let you be the straight man outsider nearly often enough. Like, 90% of your dialog should be, "What the fuck are you talking about?" and "have you ever heard of communism?"
Reposted by WiserOdin
This is brutal. The useful lesson of this Administration -- it's often faster to destroy something by empowering insecure incompetents than through active interference. Corrosion is more effective and widespread than interference.
New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is brutal. The useful lesson of this Administration -- it's often faster to destroy something by empowering insecure incompetents than through active interference. Corrosion is more effective and widespread than interference.
Reposted by WiserOdin
But interestingly many of them still pen articles and send posts defending peers who cover up compromising materials about child sex traffickers or have affairs with their profile subjects.
They defend that & yet fold to attacks them should upset them (the piggy comment, the AP Gulf of Mexico ban).
They defend that & yet fold to attacks them should upset them (the piggy comment, the AP Gulf of Mexico ban).
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
But interestingly many of them still pen articles and send posts defending peers who cover up compromising materials about child sex traffickers or have affairs with their profile subjects.
They defend that & yet fold to attacks them should upset them (the piggy comment, the AP Gulf of Mexico ban).
They defend that & yet fold to attacks them should upset them (the piggy comment, the AP Gulf of Mexico ban).
Reposted by WiserOdin
The important thing about “quiet, piggy” is not that Trump said it, it’s that no journo in the room considered it worth speaking up to defend their fellows or themselves against
At some point ya just gotta assume that flies are drawn to shit because they like the taste
At some point ya just gotta assume that flies are drawn to shit because they like the taste
political journalists have no standards and that's a lot of how we ended up here
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The important thing about “quiet, piggy” is not that Trump said it, it’s that no journo in the room considered it worth speaking up to defend their fellows or themselves against
At some point ya just gotta assume that flies are drawn to shit because they like the taste
At some point ya just gotta assume that flies are drawn to shit because they like the taste
Reposted by WiserOdin
eating this before bed so i have crazy dreams
March 1, 2024 at 2:12 AM
eating this before bed so i have crazy dreams
Reposted by WiserOdin
>be the top selling annual franchise ever since CoD4 dropped
>make Infinite money by Warzone reviving interest in the series on a gameplay level during 2020 lockdown
>gets bought out by Microsoft once
>fucking dies
What did they mean by this?
>make Infinite money by Warzone reviving interest in the series on a gameplay level during 2020 lockdown
>gets bought out by Microsoft once
>fucking dies
What did they mean by this?
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
>be the top selling annual franchise ever since CoD4 dropped
>make Infinite money by Warzone reviving interest in the series on a gameplay level during 2020 lockdown
>gets bought out by Microsoft once
>fucking dies
What did they mean by this?
>make Infinite money by Warzone reviving interest in the series on a gameplay level during 2020 lockdown
>gets bought out by Microsoft once
>fucking dies
What did they mean by this?
Reposted by WiserOdin
How do you make a CoD that bombs bro its fucking CoD that's the easiest moneymaker on the planet
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
How do you make a CoD that bombs bro its fucking CoD that's the easiest moneymaker on the planet
Reposted by WiserOdin
moreover that elites capturing is a general feature of our political environment and not a special demerit of a particular political style or aesthetic (like, for instance, identity politics)
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
moreover that elites capturing is a general feature of our political environment and not a special demerit of a particular political style or aesthetic (like, for instance, identity politics)
Reposted by WiserOdin
it would indeed seem that elites are capturing much of our politics
In the past decade, billionaires have been more empowered than ever before to spend money to influence American elections.
Here are the billionaires who make up the top 20 political spenders:
Here are the billionaires who make up the top 20 political spenders:
The top 20 billionaires influencing American politics
The group has spent nearly $5 billion on elections since 2015.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
it would indeed seem that elites are capturing much of our politics
Reposted by WiserOdin
I think AI is being pushed by a bunch of people who do not have society's best interests at heart (some even counting on a collapse), and I also think there's a bubble that's about to pop
But just like how the internet kept going after the dot com bubble, I think AI has its uses, in theory at least
But just like how the internet kept going after the dot com bubble, I think AI has its uses, in theory at least
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I think AI is being pushed by a bunch of people who do not have society's best interests at heart (some even counting on a collapse), and I also think there's a bubble that's about to pop
But just like how the internet kept going after the dot com bubble, I think AI has its uses, in theory at least
But just like how the internet kept going after the dot com bubble, I think AI has its uses, in theory at least
Reposted by WiserOdin
I liked that it knew which emails were likely advertisements and put those in their own tab, I like that it could tell what orders were being shipped and when they'd arrive and it put that at the top when relevant.
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I liked that it knew which emails were likely advertisements and put those in their own tab, I like that it could tell what orders were being shipped and when they'd arrive and it put that at the top when relevant.
Reposted by WiserOdin
Turning off smart features in Gmail (which I'm to understand stops AI from reading your shit) makes it load SO much faster which is nice, but I didn't realize there were a number of quality of life features that were apparently reliant on AI.
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Turning off smart features in Gmail (which I'm to understand stops AI from reading your shit) makes it load SO much faster which is nice, but I didn't realize there were a number of quality of life features that were apparently reliant on AI.
Reposted by WiserOdin
Big cum
Terrible launch for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 in Europe. The game sold 63% fewer copies at launch compared with Battlefield 6. It's also more than 60% down over last year's Black Ops 6. (Digital and physical sales. GSD Data) www.thegamebusiness.com/p/call-of-du...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 European launch sales are 63% down over Battlefield 6
But a strong launch for Ubisoft's Anno 117: Pax Romana
www.thegamebusiness.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Big cum
Reposted by WiserOdin
Remember what I said, about how the only real way to make rockets more efficient is to shave weight off their safety factors?
Anyway-
Anyway-
lol this image from last night shows SpaceX is popping open LOX tanks during routine pressure testing. The Starship program was being hyped as closing in on rapid commercial launch cadence 2-3 years ago
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Remember what I said, about how the only real way to make rockets more efficient is to shave weight off their safety factors?
Anyway-
Anyway-
Reposted by WiserOdin
An unintended side effect of the WOTC product fanbase growing older and skewing PMC (early 40s with disposable incomes) is that they've also realized the young kids of these consumers are also getting into Magic and DnD so taking child safety seriously wins them points and saves them lawsuits
when i worked for WotC i learned tons about compliance and safety as it relates to kids’ data and usage of apps, because there were some kids on their products and they took that seriously
roblox’s JDs talk less about specific-to-kids safety than Wizards
roblox’s JDs talk less about specific-to-kids safety than Wizards
November 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
An unintended side effect of the WOTC product fanbase growing older and skewing PMC (early 40s with disposable incomes) is that they've also realized the young kids of these consumers are also getting into Magic and DnD so taking child safety seriously wins them points and saves them lawsuits
Reposted by WiserOdin
so there's this guy #talesoftheabyss
November 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
so there's this guy #talesoftheabyss
Reposted by WiserOdin
An anecdote here is that every LGS got kicked in the nuts by Covid but the ones that survived and are now thriving are the ones that pivoted toward casual formats and "third space" type of stuff because my LGS gets most of their business from DnD and EDH nights
Don't get me wrong, the neckbeard shops are definitely still out there but the LGSes in my hometown (a wealthier suburb near Oakland) very clearly understand that their demographic is an SWE in their 40s who is playing DnD and EDH with their kids
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
An anecdote here is that every LGS got kicked in the nuts by Covid but the ones that survived and are now thriving are the ones that pivoted toward casual formats and "third space" type of stuff because my LGS gets most of their business from DnD and EDH nights
Reposted by WiserOdin
... If I had a nickel for every Italian TTRPG designed to emulate Japanese video game conventions, I'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice, yeah?
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice, yeah?
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
Twilight Sword
Become a Champion and bring back Hope to the lands of Radia!
Twilight Sword is an adventure role-playing game inspired by classic video-games like The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Ni No Kuni.
www.backerkit.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
... If I had a nickel for every Italian TTRPG designed to emulate Japanese video game conventions, I'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice, yeah?
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice, yeah?
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
Reposted by WiserOdin
Reposted by WiserOdin
God this animation is so much better than I remember.
The backgrounds are slick. The choreography is fire. There are goons. What else do you need?
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
God this animation is so much better than I remember.