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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady

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Eddy Webb (with a “y”) is a writer, designer, and consultant for video games and RPGs. He’s worked on Pugmire, Transformers, Futurama, Red Dwarf, Sherlock Holmes, and much more. When not talking in the third person, he can be found at pugsteady.com.

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 10d

Curseborne Player's Guide, Pokemon-themed wrestling, and the need for absurdity in our lives. It's my latest newsletter! buttondown.com/pugsteady/ar...

Love What's Weird

The Curseborne Player's Guide, the Green Hornet, and the need for absurdity in our lives.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 14h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 12h

‘Section 28 2.0’: New “transphobic” curriculum restricts teachers from encouraging Trans+ pupils to understand their identity 👇

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-new-transphobic-curriculum-restricts-teachers-from-encouraging-trans-pupils-to-understand-their-identity/

RSE guidance is “patently and cruelly transphobic” - community responds to ‘Section 28 2.0’ curriculum

It has taken a "trans exclusionary" approach and received widespread condemnation from the LGBTQIA+ community

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 1d

It occurs to me that the Doctor's polyethnic identity in recent times recontextualises Peter Davison's casting in quite an interesting way.
(For context, although you'd be unlikely to guess it by looking at him, Davison's paternal family is Guyanese. He has close relatives who are visibly Black.)

Peter Davison, a fair-skinned blond man, as the fifth Doctor, circa 1982.

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 19h

Occasionally I poke around on Instagram and report transphobes and racists for the transphobic and racist things they say. I know Meta won't do anything, but it wastes the time of a bunch of people I don't like.

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 20h

Wooww
Hi, for those who don't know, it doesn't matter one single iota if your project is "free". You do not have the rights to use art you find and distribute it. That's literally what licensing is for.
Your circumstance and goal has nothing to do with whether you are allowed to use anyone's art.

Allie Briggs @alliebriggsart.bsky.social · 1d

NO. IT. IS. NOT.
#art #ttrpg

Screencap from reddit.

"sorry I caught you off guard with the post. In the dnd homebrew space it isn't standard practice to gen in contact with artists for incorporation their work, provided that they are adequately credited and that the homebrew work is available for free, both of which are the case here."

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 19h

You can make SCATTER CHARTS.

Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 20h

Seriously. Baseball is a sport where you can make SPREADSHEETS.

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 1d

Every comic cover since has been trying and failing to reach the heights glimpsed by this Carmine Infantino cover for Flash #133 in 1962. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

Flash being turned into a puppet while thinking "I've got the strangest feeling I'm being turned into a PUPPET!". FUN FACT: it is impossible to see this cover and not want to see more

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Larry Blamire @larryblamire.bsky.social · 1d

What kid didn’t wish he or she had these when they didn’t have them?

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 1d

This has strong "nine women can have a baby in one month" energy.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

NEW: an internal Meta message we obtained tells employees on its metaverse team that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster”. That's 5 times faster, not 5 percent more www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 1d

That makes a TON of sense. I never considered that angle before.

Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 1d

Weirdly, I feel the same way about Shattered Glass: I loved the concept with it was a niche (if obvious) fan idea with a handful of repaints. Now that it has comics and official releases, I'm a bit bored with it all.

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Red Moon Roleplaying @redmoonroleplaying.bsky.social · 1d

In London’s decadent underbelly, our investigators pursue a painter whose disturbing works may be more than art. “Mask of Nyarlathotep” continues with @symphonyhorror.bsky.social, @pugsteady.com and Matthew Dawkins.

Episode is here: youtu.be/ongpvW_TTTI?...

Call of Cthulhu: Masks of Nyarlathotep 27 (Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition, Actual Play)

YouTube video by Red Moon Roleplaying

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 2d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 2d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d

WAIT WHAT'S THIS?

💿There is a demo live for EARTH MUST DIE!

🕹️This gives you (most of) the tutorial section for the game! Have fun, and if you haven't wishlisted the full game yet DO THAT NOW PLEASE it really really helps us out.

Enjoy!

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

Earth Must Die Demo on Steam

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

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MX Publishing @mxpublishing.bsky.social · 2d

This Saturday is the world premiere of the movie Sherlock Holmes and The Angels of Vengeance mxpublishing.com/products/she... and we're proud to have published the script for fans worldwide

Sherlock Holmes and The Angels of Vengeance

Your Other Options: Amazon USA Barnes and Noble You may think you know Sherlock Holmes. Chances are, you have heard many stories of his exploits. But there is one story you do not know... one case his associate John Watson did not turn into a sensational tabloid tale. Because some tales are too personal for that. In

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 2d

Seriously! Like, being a Doctor Who Tory cosplayer is one thing, but to SPECIFICALLY wear Seven's jumper is WILD.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 2d

Oh wow, that looks great!

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 2d

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

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rabbitsmom.bsky.social @rabbitsmom.bsky.social · 2d

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

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