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Paul Czege

@paulczege.bsky.social

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Game designer. Currently shipping a zine about how to play immersive journaling games: https://www.paulczege.com/ On Masto as @[email protected] He/Him. #JournalGaming #ttrpg

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · Sep 1

It would be such a missed opportunity to not talk about the journaling game zines I've published on this platform where you actually see the posts by people you follow.

The Ink That Bleeds is about immersion and bleed and self care and...

A copy of The Ink That Bleeds and a copy of Be With Me, both journaling game / zines by Paul Czege.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 1h

How horrid these tech bro companies and venture capitalists are. If your business fails in a way that breaks the world economy you should go to jail.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 3h

Innovation in comics has never felt to me as overwhelming and exhausting as innovation in ttrpgs or innovation in fiction.

What's the most innovative comic you know?

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Dr. Lisa Calderón @lisafordenver.bsky.social · 6h

Disillusioned with the Democratic Party? You’re not alone.

Meet Melat Kiros — daughter of Ethiopian immigrants, attorney, barista, scholar, & unapologetic progressive.

She’s taking on a 30-year incumbent to fight for working people in CD1

🗓️ Oct 16 — join us #MelatForCongress

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 6h

Everybody cuts the sleeve down as the eraser gets smaller, right?

A white Staedtler Mars plastic eraser that's now about half its starting size, with its blue cardboard sleeve cut down to fit what's left of the eraser.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 1d

In case you're wondering what crunch week looks like for a comics artist just eight days before Pike's Peak Zine Fest.

#PPZF2025 #comics #zines

My son heads down with a clipboard on his lap drawing panels for the forthcoming fifth issue of his comic we do together, which will be released at Pike's Peak Zine Fest 2025 on October 18th in Colorado Springs.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 1d

In case you're wondering what crunch week looks like for a comics artist just eight days before Pike's Peak Zine Fest.

#PPZF2025 #comics #zines

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

No shade to any of the Vertigo relaunch writers, but this is what the lineup looks like with me no longer in it, lol.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · Jul 2

Good topics for a first date with someone who also plays immersive journaling games:

Ever murdered anyone?
Do you have a place that feels like home in your inscape?
Tell me about the worst villian you've ever contended with?
Ever died and come back?
Ever met a supernatural being?

#JournalGaming

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen that cover. I didn't realize it was your work. Love it.

Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 2d

No edit button on Bluesky. Here's the correct link.

www.lulu.com/shop/greg-sa...

Ruby

…Beyond Earth. Earth is a distant memory. Welcome to the Red System. …Beyond Humanity. The human race is finished. NuManity rules the Red Worlds. …Beyond the Body. NuMen ‘Dream’, Casting forth their i...

www.lulu.com

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 2d

Ruby:
www.lulu.com/shop
Phenomenal, compelling worldbuilding, but I'd have to gird myself for its system or design a replacement.

The cover of Ruby, by Greg Saunders, showing a four-armed beast with fur, fangs, and bladed weapons, rushing at you.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 11d

It seems like a lot of them, maybe more than you're prepared to deal with?

I'm not sure what to do about that. You don't know how many more I have drafted and playtested that I know I want to make for you! One's a sequel to Inscapes, about making games your approximate self..

#journalGaming #ttrpg

Journaling game/zines by Paul Czege arranged nicely on supported displayes in the grass. There's The Balsam Lake Unmurders, The Ink That Bleeds, Inscapes, Be With Me, The Sneeze, Nice Pin, and on 5" x 7" cards, Vampyres Are People Too, All You Desire, and Millennium Self.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 5d

Two Raw Morsels
a journaling game by Paul Czege

They shackled Prometheus, the embodiment of foresight, to a mountain as punishment for aiding humankind and giving us fire and its secrets, where Zeus' eagle comes and eats his liver and tongue each day at dawn. It tears into him voraciously...

Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 8d

Who else is doing this jam!?

(I haven't done a jam in...two years 😱. I was doing so many before that. But I'm doing this one.)

A ttrpg header image sized for itch.io that says Two Raw Morsels: A Journaling Game by Paul Czege and shows Prometheus in agony with his side torn open as painted by José de Ribera.

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 2d

rereading a novel from the 50s set in the 30s and i know this passage did not hit as hard when i first read it in the 90s as it does now

Photo of a passage from "The Watch That Ends the Night"

Jerome stopped and stared at me with incandescent eyes.

"Try and understand this-the fascists have brought back tor-ture, and torture calls for martyrs. And what else is fascism but the logical product of the capitalist system?"

"What do you mean—torture calls for martyrs?"

"Simply this. Unless a man is able to stand up and look the torturer in the eye and say, 'I'm not afraid,' torture becomes the way of the world. It's as simple as that."

"Is it really as simple as that?"

"No." He shook his head impatiently. "No, because underneath it all is the plain economic exploitation of a rotten world.
The communists are the only people who understand that. How can you pretend they're not one hundred percent right when they say that at a time like this the life of a single individual isn't worth a snap of the fingers? Wasn't Debs right when he said that so long as there was a soul in prison he wasn't free?

What does a single marriage count in a balance like that? It isn't easy being me. I know what all this means. [Highlighted sentence:] This evil inside the human animal-the fascists are charming it out like a cobra out of its hole and the capitalists let them do it because they think it's good for business. You think I'm abandoning Sally by leaving for Spain. I tell you, if I don't leave for Spain then I really do abandon her to a future of fascism and concentration camps."

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 2d

"can u explain this gap in your resume?" of course you see that's the rupture in my symbolic order where i briefly touched the Real

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 2d

Rhymes with dolla-poggo

Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 2d

Locals do not say guh-lapago
They say gala-pago

Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 2d

Locals do not pronounce it like the Galapagos Islands.

Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 2d

What do you think @jen-the-magician.bsky.social ?

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 3d

That's a nice haul.

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S. Kaiya J. || Mirror-lock Atelier @mirror-lock.bsky.social · 3d

Who's excited for spooky season? 🎃✋

Who's also struggling with SAD and and feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of small tasks to juggle every day? ✋✋

If you're interested in a tiny game that encourages mutual accountability through hexing your friends, keep a sharp eye out here next week... 👀

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 3d

I looked in my same desk drawer a dozen times the past two days for my Mars eraser where I always put it back and couldn't find it. And I looked again just now and the damned elves must have returned it in the night because it was there.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 4d

Check out this close-up from a photo a player of The Balsam Lake Unmurders just sent me. You can see how he tracked his suspects to crack the case.

A hand-written list of names of suspects like Mae Carune and Emmeline Statz, each with three boxes labeled ♣️❤️♦️ used to track method, motive, and opportunity from journaled interactions with them.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 3d

"I roomed with sociology major and she was insufferably self reflective. Nobody wants that," said Badenoch.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 4d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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