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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 32m

State legislature is involved.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 1d

Send us your larps!!

The Golden Cobra Challenge @goldencobra.bsky.social · 1d

Sssubmissssions now arriving!!

We needss them.

We needss YOURSS.

Due: Monday

goldencobra.org

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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 5h

There are so very few games that accurately capture the challenges of self-governance because they take either extreme of total conflict or total cooperation. By contrast, Ben Hammer's "We All Take From the River" gives each player agendas that create conflict and collaboration organically.
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Ethan 🔜 Gamehole Con @glyphtide.games · 1d

PREQUEL, the tactical storytelling game of heroic sacrifice is now available digitally!

If you've already played the game, ratings and reviews are appreciated!

glyphtide.itch.io/prequel

PREQUEL by Glyphtide Games

A tactical storytelling game of heroic sacrifice

glyphtide.itch.io

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KOKOTÖNA is LIVE on Kickstarter 📌 | E💀C @elchupalabras.itch.io · 9h

The FLESH covering your bones is a stolen gift...

#KOKOTÖNA, my #MÖRKBORG hack inspired by the myths and legends of pre-colonial mesoamerica is now LIVE on #Kickstarter

Explore a brand new setting with original classes, monsters, magicks and more!

#TTRPG #RPGLatAm #Lodelrol #SelfPromoSunday

KOKOTÖNA: A Grimdark RPG inspired by precolonial Mesoamerica

A standalone, MÖRK BORG-compatible descent into a Mesoamerican-inspired apocalypse. Dark fantasy roleplaying of xokol & blood-obsidian.

www.kickstarter.com

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 6h

Our 2012 DAAD workshop took place parallel to the SCT at Cornell: we were having a cozy daily discussion in German Studies, and then we'd go to the SCT lectures which were intense and then followed by English-discipline knife fights.

"Don't y'all, y'know, *like* each other?" I asked an attendee.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 11h

Trying to remind myself that I am a slow(-ish) writer in part because I am constantly disciplining myself against grad-school-imparted flourishes, jargon, shorthand, and dismissiveness.

I want to write texts that people will want to read, and people will read them at a certain rate.

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 12h

Harvard-Ökonom David Cutler hat ausgerechnet, dass Long Covid so teuer ist, dass praktisch jeder Aufwand für Diagnose, Therapie und Prävention gerechtfertigt ist.

OECD geht von 0.5-2.3 % des Bruttosozialprodukts allein für 2024 aus.

Long Covid kostet USA ohne Berücksichtigung der reduzierten Produktivität 3.7 Billionen $, entspricht 17 % des US BIP vor der Pandemie, entspricht Kosten der grossen Rezession.
Harvard Ökonom David Cutler: aufgrund dieser hohen Folgekosten lohnt sich praktisch jeder beliebig hohe finanzielle Aufwand für die Diagnose, Behandlung und Prävention von Long Covid.

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Julia Hauser @juliahauser.bsky.social · 15h

Unser offener Brief, in dem wir fordern, Privatdozent*innen in Reformen der Personalstruktur an Universitäten einzubinden, kann noch bis Montag unterzeichnet werden. Bitte unterstützt unser Anliegen!

#IchBinHanna #PDprekär #StableJobsBetterScience #AcademicPrecarity

Netzwerk Nachhaltige Wissenschaft @nnwiss.bsky.social · 5d

Wichtige und dringende Kampagne! Bitte teilen und unterschreiben!

Privatdozent:in, Universität X @pdprekaer.bsky.social · 6d

Der Brief und die Möglichkeit zur Unterschrift sind unter folgendem Link zu finden:

chng.it/VhcP5tDBBY

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 21h

"while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us."

Wow -- OOF
Lorde knew how to speak to us all.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 21h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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J. Rey Lee @jreylee.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Evan!

If folks want to check it out, I've got all the info including three design diaries up here:
lookingglance.com/unsettling-c...

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 1d

OK this is the weekend when we lose special ed apparently.

To which I say: We absolutely need sponsored, stable, unstigmatized special ed in this country!! There is no argument worth hearing as to why different educational needs shouldn't be met on their own terms. Educate *all* Americans.

Disability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: per internal sources, the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including OSEP and RSA beneath them, was RIFed last night at the Department of Ed. Developing story. DoEd union says may take 1-2 days for all affected employees to receive official notice.

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 1d

VORE has blossomed from a simple Soulslike-inspired cannibal fantasy game into something fully inspired by the gameplay loop of Lie of P and the mechanics of Cooking Mama so take that as you will

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 1d

If video games frequently disavow their TTRPG heritage, we can at least proudly own the fact that TTRPG work is deeply inspired by video games. Most of us have an origin story or two.

SLAYER CAKE is inspired by Brütal Legend.
"Something to Drink With That, Sir?" inspired by dys4ia.

What's yours?

Levar Burton Hotling Bling Meme -- AI-inspired GMing vs Video Game-Inspired GMing

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Lord Frezon @lordfrezon.bsky.social · 1d

I'm DMed games inspired by Bloodborne, Path of Exile, and Halo. Video games rock and so do TTRPGs, add them together and they double rock.

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 1d

If video games frequently disavow their TTRPG heritage, we can at least proudly own the fact that TTRPG work is deeply inspired by video games. Most of us have an origin story or two.

SLAYER CAKE is inspired by Brütal Legend.
"Something to Drink With That, Sir?" inspired by dys4ia.

What's yours?

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Nova, but spooky @diceynova.bsky.social · 1d

You're In Space And Everything's Fucked is basically the Dead Space TTRPG and more people need to play it

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 1d

If video games frequently disavow their TTRPG heritage, we can at least proudly own the fact that TTRPG work is deeply inspired by video games. Most of us have an origin story or two.

SLAYER CAKE is inspired by Brütal Legend.
"Something to Drink With That, Sir?" inspired by dys4ia.

What's yours?

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Grassdragon (Anonymous Internet Troll) @grassdragon193.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome To Hell York is the Final Fantasy Legend game boy trilogy but set inside Shin Megami Tensei.

HORSERADISH!! is chasing the nostalgia of 8/16-bit platformers with attitude (Alex Kidd, Sonic, Sparkster, Bubsy, etc).

Everything is a vibe.

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 1d

If video games frequently disavow their TTRPG heritage, we can at least proudly own the fact that TTRPG work is deeply inspired by video games. Most of us have an origin story or two.

SLAYER CAKE is inspired by Brütal Legend.
"Something to Drink With That, Sir?" inspired by dys4ia.

What's yours?

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 1d

One doesn't need to be!

We are doing a straight-up Hades by Supergiant larp too

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 1d

@chirographum.bsky.social -- And here is my copy, LIVE IN THE FLESH

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see the Tabletop Games series at @uofmpress.bsky.social take off with @jreylee.bsky.social's book on Catan.

Clear, unambiguous writing on abstraction and gaming with regard to colonial themes.

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Lyssa Biscuits, A The Award Winning Designer @spitemoth.bsky.social · 1d

A Hunt Through the Bittercold is just Inscryption percolating in my brain until a game spontaneously appeared on my Affinity.

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 1d

If video games frequently disavow their TTRPG heritage, we can at least proudly own the fact that TTRPG work is deeply inspired by video games. Most of us have an origin story or two.

SLAYER CAKE is inspired by Brütal Legend.
"Something to Drink With That, Sir?" inspired by dys4ia.

What's yours?

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, Bleak Spirit is very much my love letter to Dark Souls and was inspired by my DS3 playthrough.

Crucible is inspired by my favourite roguelikes: Dungeons of Dredmor and Stone Soup.

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 1d

If video games frequently disavow their TTRPG heritage, we can at least proudly own the fact that TTRPG work is deeply inspired by video games. Most of us have an origin story or two.

SLAYER CAKE is inspired by Brütal Legend.
"Something to Drink With That, Sir?" inspired by dys4ia.

What's yours?

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Tracy @theothertracy.bsky.social · 1d

Iron Edda exists because of Skyrim. I day dreamed about what it would be like if the dwemer automata rose to the surface. How woupd they be fought?

Bone giant mecha was the answer and I made three entire games about it.

theothertracy.itch.io/iron-edda-ac...

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