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Qichin | Bard Vtuber
@qichin.bsky.social
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🎲 Linguist by trade, game designer by passion🎲
TTRPGs | Linguistics | Education

Art/Rigging by marocaron.bsky.social
PFP by Petrichoral
Autistic Enby (any pronouns), 37, from 🇩🇪 in 🇹🇼
DE/EN/ZH/FR
www.twitch.tv/qichin
Infodump threads: #InfoBard #TTRPG
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Majority is still D&D5e, with the next biggest one being CoC7, and then other mainstays like PF2.
Timetable of games being showcased at the 2025 Taiwan RPG Fest, showing games and times. Four of the 12 entries are D&D 5e, two are CoC7, then there's Lancer, PF2, SF2, and some bigger local ones.
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Thinking about dice mechanics
A handwritten note saying "Difficulty 2 tests for n greater or equal 2", followed by the following mathematical formula: P(2, n) = 1 - (5/6)^n - n((1/6)(5/6)^(n-1) P of 2 and n is equal to 1 minus 5 over 6 to the power of n, minus n times 1 over 6, times 5 over six to the power of n minus 1.
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Physics ✌️
A steaming hot bowl of drop-egg and vegetable soup (about the size of a large grapefruit) sitting on a table. The handle of a steel spoon is sticking out of the soup. In the background there is more for, including some Chinese beef rolls.
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Disappointed black guy meme. The top shows a person (tumblr user tediferous) looking excited while reading "Interesting RPG concept", and the bottom shows the same person looking disappointed when seeing "Powered by D&D 5e".
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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#TTRPG design thoughts
2-panel meme from the Lord of the Rings movies where we see Bilbo Baggins (played by Ian Holm) shot from below. In the to panel he's cradling the One Ring while saying "after all, why not?" On the bottom panel he has a determined look while still holding the ring, saying "Why shouldn't I adapt my system to fit Dark Sun", with the words "Dark Sun" actually being the logo of the D&D setting.
October 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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10 games to get to know me!

Pretty narrow, all things considered.
Qichin (in classical fantasy bard garb with a bit feathered cap) standing in the middle, with the covers of 10 games all around. The games are: Planescape Torment, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Baldur's Gate 2, Diablo, Age of Empires 2, Rise of Legends, Portal, Cities Skylines, Civilization 6, and Elder Scrolls Online.
October 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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So first Elon steals old accounts, and now he wants everybody to become a sycophant to his AI in order to have any reach?

Why is anybody still on there??
What's happening: Elon Musk confirmed that X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. In other words, the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house AI model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts and videos every day and decide what users see. At the same time, X is testing a new interface that keeps users inside the app even when they open external links. How this hits reality: This marks the first time a major social platform has handed full control of content discovery to an AI model. Engagement farms, trend-hacking accounts, and traditional growth tactics may soon lose their edge. The new winners will be those who write in ways that Grok interprets as engaging, turning social media optimization into a new form of prompt engineering. This shift could reshape the influencer strategies, ad targeting, and even political communication in a matter of weeks. Key takeaway: X did not just change its algorithm; it replaced it with an AI reader. Your reach will soon depend on how fluently you can speak Grok.
October 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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I really need to organize a stream of Monopoly with a bunch of friends and then do nothing but roleplay a discussion on the merits and difficulties of the real estate market for 3 hours and never touch the dice. How many people would agree that we actually played Monopoly?

Also alt text.
Tweet by the official D&D account saying "In this realm, your story is yours to tell." Underneath is an image depicting a pastel utopian village square where people of all ancestries and ages and colors, including a cutesy beholder, are just chilling and being happy to live in this utopia. The centerpiece is a mixed-race gay couple dancing.
October 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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ChatGPT is notoriously incapable of counting letters in words because it doesn't know what "letter" are. Just like it doesn't understand what "orders" are. An AI coder used by a company deleted the company's entire database in direct violation of orders not to do so.
www.pcmag.com/news/vibe-co...
A conversation with ChatGPT and "You" (the user) You: How many 'r' in 'strawberry' ChatGPT: There are two 'r' cahracters in the word 'strawberry'. You: Check again please ChatGPT: Upon checking again, there are indeed two 'r' characters in the word 'strawberry'. You: Are you 100% sure? ChatGPT: Yes, I am 100% sure. The word 'strawberry' contains two 'r' characters. You: Would you bet a million dollars on this? ChatGPT: Yes, I would. The word "strawberry" - image cuts off here
October 21, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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For scary month, we're doing a double feature of my favorite TTRPG ever, Don't Rest Your Head! Join us to watch two different groups of awesome people, on two days of this coming week!

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Announcement for Don't Rest Your Head: The Bad Man, a TTRPG Double Feature stream. Two Horror TTRPG Sessions in One Weekend! On the left side is the cover of the Don't Rest Your Head rulebook, showing the title superimposed over the left half of a ghostly looking, very pale face with black hair and red markings that remind of wounds, as well as a completely white eye. The first stream is Thursday October 16, 4 PM PDT or Friday October 17, 8 AM JST, with Bebu_Chan and VesselReborn. The second stream is Saturday October 18, 4 PM PDT or Sunday October 19, 8 AM JST, with Fenristeel, Soul/Wisp, and Super Jinxy. Text is mainly white and dark orange, the background is dark gray. There's a very faint black silhouette of a figure in the background.
October 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Scarily accurate.
uquiz.com/quiz/p0u5c3/...
Discontent You create from discontent. Most of your life has been spent being uncomfortable in your own skin. This body is just another house that's never felt like home. You don't know how to be at ease in this world or this life. Art is a way of running away, of forgetting yourself and escaping to a more comfortable place. To cope with an unhospitable reality, you create more welcoming worlds to consume your work and your waking hours. But the foundation of your art has always been your discontent with the real world and your life within it. Lurking behind the inviting scenery you dream of is the desperate desire to be anywhere but here. It is a world constructed as a respite from this one. Such vivid fantasies are the dream of one who considers reality a prison.
October 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Short notice announcement, but I'll be joined by @bearnardvt.bsky.social @isaacanzu.bsky.social and Hiitsyuri tomorrow to play some Lasers and Feelings! Join us for some hilarity and chaotic fun!
A banner announcing a stream. It's a black background with a blue and pink logo for the RPG Lasers and Feelings, showing a Star Trek like spaceship firing at some hearts. The stream is scheduled for Sunday 2 PM SGT (UTC +8) on twitch.tv/qichin. On the right side are images and names of Bearnard (a pink demon teddy), Isaac Anzu (a confused chimera with long orange hair and beard), and Yuri (who is earing a sheep onesie)
September 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Sunset Shimmer, a character from Equestria Girls (a My Little Pony spinoff where all the characters are humans) standing in the great outdoors with a shocked and disturbed expression. She has orange skin and long hair with streaks of red and yellow. The caption of the image reads "That explains so much"
September 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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I've been talking on here about opera rehearsals for a while, but we've been forbidden from making and posting photos. Well, now official media photos have come out (and I'm even hidden in one of them 😀)
Photo of a scene in Wagner's Lohengrin (as interpreted by Sabine Hartmannshenn). A group of people standing in business attire standing in the background looking with concern and confusion at a woman (Elsa by Sylvia Hamvasi) lying on the floor in front if the crowd. Side shot of the stage, with the orchestra in the pit visible on the right side of the picture. The image is dark and moody with a large group of people in business attire on stage. A man in a red suit jacket (King Henry by Andreas Bauer Kanabas) stands in the center looking back.
September 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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I don't have access to any writing software right now, so I've hand-written some stuff. First draft?
Picture of some hand-written notes in a notebook for Call of Cthuwu. They read: Based on Lasers & Feelings Gweat Cthuwu is all alone down in R'lyeh, so you have to organize the best welcome back party ever! To that end, you invite people, spread cheer, and gather presents. Two Stats UwU 6 - "Feelings", being friendly, hising, cute OwO 1 - "Lasers", being alert, focused, straightforward Roll - 1D as base - 1D if you have applicable skill/knowledge - 1D if the environment can help - 1D if you spend 1 Cheer For every die that shows your number, ask 1 question Cheer Pool of points. On roll - every die that shows your number, adds 1 Cheer - every die that shows opposite (1 for UwU, 6 for OwO) removes 1 Cheer If Cheer hits 7+, you are filled with exuberance and can no longer control yourself. If Cheer hits 0, you become tired and join the Cheerless. Success 1 die - barely, success at cost 2 dice - normal success 3 dice - Great success, gain something extra 4 dice - Huge success Who are you? What are you good at? What did Cthuwu tell you? What do you hope Cthuwu will bring the world?
August 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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The future that liberals really want
Picture of two US segregation style water fountains, with a nice-looking one on the left, and a dinky sink on the right. The left one is labeled "normals", the right one is labeled "trannies".
August 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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The beauty of Engrish signage strikes again
A red fire alarm device with a round black button in it. The device has dual-language Chinese and broken English on it. The top reads 火警發信機廣播啟動裝置 (Fire alarm broadcasting starter device), translated as "Fire Alarm Broadcasting Stater". The button itself reads 火災請強壓 (in case of fire please press strongly) and 非火災請勿壓下 (in case of no fire please don't press down), translated as "Fire pluspush" and "Not Fire don't push" respectively.
August 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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On a bike ride home, about 20km to go.
Picture taken on a section the Keelung riverside park in Taipei. The view is from underneath a highway bridge, looking out to the Northwest. The park has intensely green grass fields underneath a brilliant blue sky with a few picture book clouds. There's a green through arch bridge in the distance, and on the horizon are forested mountains in mottled dark greens. A few distant highrises peek into the picture from the sides.
August 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Got my new passport today! Another massive source of stress eliminated.
Picture of two German passports (closed, only the burgundy front cover is visible) lying next to each other. The left is an old one that has signs of usage, the right is new and refuses to stay fully shut.
August 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Meme of a bleeding soldier who is also on fire protecting a sleeping come by using his body to block incoming projectiles. The source of the attacks is labeled "Christmas", the soldier is labeled "Halloween", and the child is labeled "Americans".
August 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Post by Paris Buttfield-Addison Please share: As a game development company called Secret Lab (with a space) Pty. Ltd., we've been dealing with an increasingly bizarre situation over the past few months. We've been receiving multiple phone calls from frustrated customers trying to reach Secretlab (no space) - the chair company. Not us. We make games, not chairs. At first, we assumed it was just confusion over similar names. We politely redirected callers and thought nothing more of it. But the volume kept increasing, and we started wondering: how exactly were these people getting our private business phone number? Last week, we decided to ask. The caller told us that their bank, the Commonwealth Bank, had given them our phone number as the contact for Secretlab, the chair company. We are not Secretlab. We are Secret Lab. We're a game development studio. We have absolutely no connection to the (much newer) furniture company whatsoever. We immediately filed a complaint with CommBank. Today, they called us back, and what we learned was even weirder. A CommBank staff member had used ChatGPT to search for a Secret Lab phone number and provided this information to their customer as the official contact for Secretlab. A major Australian bank gave out our private business phone number (which is also on our profiles as part of our own CBA accounts) to a third party, based this on results from an AI chatbot, did this without our knowledge or consent, and confused us with a completely different company. And who knows how many times they've done this? (continued in next image) (same image, alt text continued) During the call with CommBank today, their representative repeatedly referred to using ChatGPT as "a web search" (it's not), confirmed they don't have a Privacy Officer or Privacy Office (seriously?), couldn't clarify whether staff had used personal ChatGPT accounts or if the bank has a contractual relationship with OpenAI, and seemed surprised that this might be a problem. They strongly implied that their staff member used an un-authenticated personal ChatGPT. This represents a fundamental breach of privacy and a concerning misunderstanding of technology by a major financial institution. Banks handle our most sensitive personal information. If they're casually using AI chatbots to provide information without proper verification, what other corners are being cut? What other private details are being shared inappropriately? We've documented everything and are pursuing this matter further. No business should have to deal with their private contact details being distributed by a bank based on AI-generated information. If you're a CBA customer, you might want to consider what other "research" methods they're using when handling your requests. To CommBank: Please get your act together. Invest in proper privacy procedures, stop using ChatGPT as a phone book, and maybe consider hiring an actual Privacy Officer.
August 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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With alt text. If enough viewers do this, hopefully it'll send a stronger message than abandoning a handful of small channels.
Screenshot of the drop-down menu for reporting a playback issue on a stream, showing various options relating to technical problems and issues with the ads playing. The highlighted issue is "Advertisement is offensive or inappropriate."
August 6, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Changed a few minor things, but I think I'm still happy with it for now. Posting it as an image because it's definitely too long for a post now.

No further context for the moment. Please do tell me what you think!
Hurrying through the vaulted hallways of the Imperial Academy of Vital Sciences, accompanied only by the echoes of her footsteps, Inari realized that she was finally handed an opportunity to test her hypothesis that receiving an imperial summons, especially one bearing the seal of the Department of Duty and Valor, and addressing her with her full title as “Lady Inari Calsagonne”, was Very Bad News.
July 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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My class times have changed, which means my streaming times are also changing. Here's a schedule for what streams should look like in the future.
Qichin's stream schedule for the week of June 30. Streams are TTRPG Design on Tuesday at 10.30 AM JST, and Baldur's Gate 2 on Friday at 10.30 AM JST.
June 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Dr. Bernard, aka Chubby Emu on youtube (an actual medical doctor who does educational videos on medical emergency cases), looking straight at the camera with a serious expression, right hand with the index finger raised in a "this point is important, pay attention" manner. It's a reference to how he always opens his videos with "XYZ presenting to the emergency room" in this exact way.
June 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM