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WeARGames is a small team making Unfiction and TTRPGs. We've been at it since 2018, and we're getting better all the time. We're an all-queer staff, most of whom are also disabled.
https://weargames.carrd.co
https://discord.gg/2Qykcb8aGw
https://weargames.carrd.co
https://discord.gg/2Qykcb8aGw
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Hi, hello, nice to see you!
We've been in hibernation for quite a long time now. Slowly but surely, we're working on resurrecting this thing. Bluesky is hopefully a step in the right direction!
Happy to have found a thriving #Unfiction community on here, and looking forward to joining in again.
We've been in hibernation for quite a long time now. Slowly but surely, we're working on resurrecting this thing. Bluesky is hopefully a step in the right direction!
Happy to have found a thriving #Unfiction community on here, and looking forward to joining in again.
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With the news of David Lynch's passing, here's a passage from the interview book Lynch on Lynch where Lynch credits the remarkable Blue Velvet scene where Dean Stockwell lip-synchs Roy Orbison into a work light to a weeping Dennis Hopper entirely to trusting the actors and random chance.
January 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
With the news of David Lynch's passing, here's a passage from the interview book Lynch on Lynch where Lynch credits the remarkable Blue Velvet scene where Dean Stockwell lip-synchs Roy Orbison into a work light to a weeping Dennis Hopper entirely to trusting the actors and random chance.
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Actual pro tip: the best way to break into any creative profession is by helping to support and advance other creators. Your peers are not your adversaries. They are your support group.
January 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Actual pro tip: the best way to break into any creative profession is by helping to support and advance other creators. Your peers are not your adversaries. They are your support group.
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a good game can turn into a great game if it sucks a little bit in an interesting way
January 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
a good game can turn into a great game if it sucks a little bit in an interesting way
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Watching the Gumby movie and. Things keep happening. In this movie.
January 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Watching the Gumby movie and. Things keep happening. In this movie.
tfw you calculate 1000 years of global population flux (based roughly on real-world data) after your fictional apocalypse to have internal consistency in your worldbuilding :)
also tfw you painstakingly translate a real city map into what it might be like 750 years after an apocalypse
also tfw you painstakingly translate a real city map into what it might be like 750 years after an apocalypse
January 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
tfw you calculate 1000 years of global population flux (based roughly on real-world data) after your fictional apocalypse to have internal consistency in your worldbuilding :)
also tfw you painstakingly translate a real city map into what it might be like 750 years after an apocalypse
also tfw you painstakingly translate a real city map into what it might be like 750 years after an apocalypse
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Aversion to feedback is so fascinating to me.
You mean to tell me you don't want to improve? You don't want to know what could've done better? You don't want to know where and how a "win" can be a bigger win? You just...want to remain stagnant?
Beloved: why? (This is rhetorical)
You mean to tell me you don't want to improve? You don't want to know what could've done better? You don't want to know where and how a "win" can be a bigger win? You just...want to remain stagnant?
Beloved: why? (This is rhetorical)
January 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Aversion to feedback is so fascinating to me.
You mean to tell me you don't want to improve? You don't want to know what could've done better? You don't want to know where and how a "win" can be a bigger win? You just...want to remain stagnant?
Beloved: why? (This is rhetorical)
You mean to tell me you don't want to improve? You don't want to know what could've done better? You don't want to know where and how a "win" can be a bigger win? You just...want to remain stagnant?
Beloved: why? (This is rhetorical)
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Hello it is book publication day so if you see this baby out in stores please tell me so I can cry like a little baby
Do y'all want to see something cool?
Something available for preorder right now that is coming out this January that you can get from your favorite bookstore?
If you said "no" look away right now, because here it is
Something available for preorder right now that is coming out this January that you can get from your favorite bookstore?
If you said "no" look away right now, because here it is
January 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Hello it is book publication day so if you see this baby out in stores please tell me so I can cry like a little baby
After being sick all week, I'm trying to get at least a little work done today. I just found an awesome new bg noise to work to—
mynoise.net/NoiseMachine...
I use the noise generators on here TONS. My partner stays up late gaming w/ hys friends and Night Blue + Train sounds really helps me sleep
mynoise.net/NoiseMachine...
I use the noise generators on here TONS. My partner stays up late gaming w/ hys friends and Night Blue + Train sounds really helps me sleep
Hands of Time | Salentin, Scheffler & Miketta
Introducing my friend Hans-Jörg Scheffler and his friends.
mynoise.net
January 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
After being sick all week, I'm trying to get at least a little work done today. I just found an awesome new bg noise to work to—
mynoise.net/NoiseMachine...
I use the noise generators on here TONS. My partner stays up late gaming w/ hys friends and Night Blue + Train sounds really helps me sleep
mynoise.net/NoiseMachine...
I use the noise generators on here TONS. My partner stays up late gaming w/ hys friends and Night Blue + Train sounds really helps me sleep
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Reminder that my second middle grade horror chapter-book SCAREWAVES: BEYOND THE GRAVE comes out this August, and i think it's pretty cool. Keep an eye out for it if you're into monsters, slime, things of that sort.
January 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Reminder that my second middle grade horror chapter-book SCAREWAVES: BEYOND THE GRAVE comes out this August, and i think it's pretty cool. Keep an eye out for it if you're into monsters, slime, things of that sort.
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I don’t think all art is subjective because art belongs to a lineage. All art is a conversation and what people often think of as subjectivity is actually picking what side of that conversation you are on.
January 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I don’t think all art is subjective because art belongs to a lineage. All art is a conversation and what people often think of as subjectivity is actually picking what side of that conversation you are on.
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art is like philosophy in the sense that it's an ongoing conversation with ideas that build from its predecessors. "art is subjective" is as dismissive as it is ignorant
January 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
art is like philosophy in the sense that it's an ongoing conversation with ideas that build from its predecessors. "art is subjective" is as dismissive as it is ignorant
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Hi, we’re the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Nothing gets us revved up for a hot slice of ‘za more than living next to all the turds and piss of the city. Cowabunga!
January 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Hi, we’re the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Nothing gets us revved up for a hot slice of ‘za more than living next to all the turds and piss of the city. Cowabunga!
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Every year, millions of Americans are born without the Knowing When You’re Standing Right in the Fucking Middle of the Grocery Store Aisle gene. Incurable, unfortunately
January 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Every year, millions of Americans are born without the Knowing When You’re Standing Right in the Fucking Middle of the Grocery Store Aisle gene. Incurable, unfortunately
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Hey. Hey. The present is full of grief and the future is full of terror but there is still joy in the world. Take a minute to let something make you happy.
January 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Hey. Hey. The present is full of grief and the future is full of terror but there is still joy in the world. Take a minute to let something make you happy.
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We released Delta Green: Countdown in 1999 for $39.99. It was considered one of the best RPG books we ever released. It was 429 pages. It took four years to make.
I STILL get emails complaining about the price.
I STILL get emails complaining about the price.
Tabletop RPG books aren't overpriced. Not even the ones that just had price hikes.
They're specialty technical creative writing social interaction manuals.
At x2 current prices, they wouldn't be overpriced.
This is a huge part of why most ttRPG creators leave the industry.
#RealGameIndustry
They're specialty technical creative writing social interaction manuals.
At x2 current prices, they wouldn't be overpriced.
This is a huge part of why most ttRPG creators leave the industry.
#RealGameIndustry
January 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
We released Delta Green: Countdown in 1999 for $39.99. It was considered one of the best RPG books we ever released. It was 429 pages. It took four years to make.
I STILL get emails complaining about the price.
I STILL get emails complaining about the price.
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game design tips
(source: Notes on the Opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Bertholt Brecht, translation from Brecht on Theatre - 2015 edition edited by Marc Silberman, Tom Kuhn and Steve Giles)
(source: Notes on the Opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Bertholt Brecht, translation from Brecht on Theatre - 2015 edition edited by Marc Silberman, Tom Kuhn and Steve Giles)
January 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
game design tips
(source: Notes on the Opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Bertholt Brecht, translation from Brecht on Theatre - 2015 edition edited by Marc Silberman, Tom Kuhn and Steve Giles)
(source: Notes on the Opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Bertholt Brecht, translation from Brecht on Theatre - 2015 edition edited by Marc Silberman, Tom Kuhn and Steve Giles)
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BATTLE AWAITS. HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.
January 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
BATTLE AWAITS. HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.
Another, possibly MORE random question— Does anyone have experience with bullet journaling, and would be willing to walk me through setting one up for some in-character materials? My ADHDtism makes bullet journaling alien technology to me, no matter how many aesthetic youtube videos I watch.
January 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Another, possibly MORE random question— Does anyone have experience with bullet journaling, and would be willing to walk me through setting one up for some in-character materials? My ADHDtism makes bullet journaling alien technology to me, no matter how many aesthetic youtube videos I watch.
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Make a Scene! 2025 scenarios look Under The Surface, beyond first impressions and shallow artifice to the truths beneath, whatever the cost. Let’s delve deeper together!
To premiere your live action scenario, submit a short synopsis by March 10.
To premiere your live action scenario, submit a short synopsis by March 10.
January 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Make a Scene! 2025 scenarios look Under The Surface, beyond first impressions and shallow artifice to the truths beneath, whatever the cost. Let’s delve deeper together!
To premiere your live action scenario, submit a short synopsis by March 10.
To premiere your live action scenario, submit a short synopsis by March 10.
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Just learned my Taylor Swift puzzle "Deep Conspiracy" got selected as a finalist for the 2024 Bravo Awards!
puzzles.mit.edu/2024/mythsto...
puzzles.mit.edu/2024/mythsto...
Mystery Hunt 2024
The 2024 Mystery Hunt hosted by TTBNL
puzzles.mit.edu
January 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Just learned my Taylor Swift puzzle "Deep Conspiracy" got selected as a finalist for the 2024 Bravo Awards!
puzzles.mit.edu/2024/mythsto...
puzzles.mit.edu/2024/mythsto...
Anyone have any experience in designing newspapers (specifically)? I'd like to create some for the ARG I'm working on, and would ideally like them to be formatted for print, in case I ever want to make actual physical, tangible copies.
Paper size, margins, programs, formatting tips all welcomed!
Paper size, margins, programs, formatting tips all welcomed!
January 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Anyone have any experience in designing newspapers (specifically)? I'd like to create some for the ARG I'm working on, and would ideally like them to be formatted for print, in case I ever want to make actual physical, tangible copies.
Paper size, margins, programs, formatting tips all welcomed!
Paper size, margins, programs, formatting tips all welcomed!
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My story "In the Blue Room," about a Pepper's ghost illusion that goes horribly wrong during a college production of HAMLET, is now available to read for free in the latest issue of The Dark:
www.thedarkmagazine.com/in-the-blue-...
www.thedarkmagazine.com/in-the-blue-...
January 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
My story "In the Blue Room," about a Pepper's ghost illusion that goes horribly wrong during a college production of HAMLET, is now available to read for free in the latest issue of The Dark:
www.thedarkmagazine.com/in-the-blue-...
www.thedarkmagazine.com/in-the-blue-...
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If anyone is interested in sending a promo for their project. May it be website, art, music whatever.
To be in the second coming of ARG digest.
Check out argdigest.com for how to submit
To be in the second coming of ARG digest.
Check out argdigest.com for how to submit
ARG Digest | Observe The World Beyond Your Own
ARG Digest is your go to source for a prime cross section of the vast and varied world of ARGs.
argdigest.com
January 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If anyone is interested in sending a promo for their project. May it be website, art, music whatever.
To be in the second coming of ARG digest.
Check out argdigest.com for how to submit
To be in the second coming of ARG digest.
Check out argdigest.com for how to submit
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Here's a pretty good Bot Block List (64k accts so far) bsky.app/profile/did:...
January 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Here's a pretty good Bot Block List (64k accts so far) bsky.app/profile/did:...