Mackyuu
@kmacku.bsky.social
He/Him. Voice and stage actor. Sometimes Game Master. Trans rights are human rights.
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If you order a latte at Starbucks, customize it a bunch of ways, and let people taste it, you still didn't make the latte. You ordered it.
People who use GenAI will never be artists any more than people ordering lattes will never be baristas.
People who use GenAI will never be artists any more than people ordering lattes will never be baristas.
Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*
Using genAI is proof you don't.
Using genAI is proof you don't.
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If you order a latte at Starbucks, customize it a bunch of ways, and let people taste it, you still didn't make the latte. You ordered it.
People who use GenAI will never be artists any more than people ordering lattes will never be baristas.
People who use GenAI will never be artists any more than people ordering lattes will never be baristas.
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Just got back from PAXU and feeling energized, inspired, and ready to create something? I have some opportunities that might interest you! I'm hitting the ground running on a new project, The Lands Remaining, and there are ways to get involved. Details in the thread!
(Art by PK Ashur)
(Art by PK Ashur)
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Just got back from PAXU and feeling energized, inspired, and ready to create something? I have some opportunities that might interest you! I'm hitting the ground running on a new project, The Lands Remaining, and there are ways to get involved. Details in the thread!
(Art by PK Ashur)
(Art by PK Ashur)
PAXU: I miss seeing dim sum game. Where art thou, dim sum game?
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
PAXU: I miss seeing dim sum game. Where art thou, dim sum game?
This is a great opportunity!
Writers! Particularly TTRPG writers, but anyone comfortable with fantasy: The Gauntlet Pitch Day is coming December 6th!
Details at the link below.
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pitch-day.html
Details at the link below.
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pitch-day.html
Pitch Day
Pitch Day: The Great Forest We’re taking pitches for our upcoming game, The Lands Remaining ! Pitch Day will be December 6th, 2025. There will be three different Zoom calls you can join to make...
www.gauntlet-rpg.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is a great opportunity!
I am enjoying PAX, but not the rate at which ideas are flowing and I wish I could be at my computer putting them on page.
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I am enjoying PAX, but not the rate at which ideas are flowing and I wish I could be at my computer putting them on page.
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We never left the Forest
Happy Friday! We're getting hyped for an upcoming project, looking to crowdfund physical copies in March 2026! That's right, we're getting MORE (unofficial)TROPHY! In partnership with @jesseross.com and @pemetawe.bsky.social, with a stellar list of writers! #TrophyTTPRG #Trophy #TTRPG
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We never left the Forest
PAXU: a friend was talking about a "dice trading" event, but I heard "dice training".
So now I am just imagining a bunch of people rolling dice to the tune of "Eye of the Tiger" hoping to improve their probability.
So now I am just imagining a bunch of people rolling dice to the tune of "Eye of the Tiger" hoping to improve their probability.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
PAXU: a friend was talking about a "dice trading" event, but I heard "dice training".
So now I am just imagining a bunch of people rolling dice to the tune of "Eye of the Tiger" hoping to improve their probability.
So now I am just imagining a bunch of people rolling dice to the tune of "Eye of the Tiger" hoping to improve their probability.
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Cloudflare is down, but you can still download and read Sprigs & Kindling! We have 5 free anthology volumes of Carved from Brindlewood and Trophy TTRPG supplements, including essays, art, and mysteries!
sprigsandkindling.com
sprigsandkindling.com
Sprigs and Kindling
An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games
sprigsandkindling.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Cloudflare is down, but you can still download and read Sprigs & Kindling! We have 5 free anthology volumes of Carved from Brindlewood and Trophy TTRPG supplements, including essays, art, and mysteries!
sprigsandkindling.com
sprigsandkindling.com
Me, starting The Secret History:
How could those kids kill their friend? What monsters!
Me, a little under halfway through The Secret History, which is told in flashback:
Jesus, how haven't they killed him yet.
How could those kids kill their friend? What monsters!
Me, a little under halfway through The Secret History, which is told in flashback:
Jesus, how haven't they killed him yet.
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Me, starting The Secret History:
How could those kids kill their friend? What monsters!
Me, a little under halfway through The Secret History, which is told in flashback:
Jesus, how haven't they killed him yet.
How could those kids kill their friend? What monsters!
Me, a little under halfway through The Secret History, which is told in flashback:
Jesus, how haven't they killed him yet.
Tbh, it hasn't quite set in yet that I'm going to PAXU, probably because I still have a few shifts left at work between now and then.
But I hope to see some of you there!
But I hope to see some of you there!
November 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Tbh, it hasn't quite set in yet that I'm going to PAXU, probably because I still have a few shifts left at work between now and then.
But I hope to see some of you there!
But I hope to see some of you there!
Satisfactory is one of those games that I want to enjoy, but I get to (roughly) the same spot each time and when things don't divide neatly, "burn out" doesn't even begin to encapsulate the rate at which my brain collapses on itself and I nope out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Satisfactory is one of those games that I want to enjoy, but I get to (roughly) the same spot each time and when things don't divide neatly, "burn out" doesn't even begin to encapsulate the rate at which my brain collapses on itself and I nope out.
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With 40 major airports having flights delayed or cancelled, double check that your flight to/from Philly wasn’t one of them!
Make sure to check periodically and stay safe everyone!
I can’t wait to be surrounded by the ttrpg community at #PAXUnplugged once again. ✨
Make sure to check periodically and stay safe everyone!
I can’t wait to be surrounded by the ttrpg community at #PAXUnplugged once again. ✨
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
With 40 major airports having flights delayed or cancelled, double check that your flight to/from Philly wasn’t one of them!
Make sure to check periodically and stay safe everyone!
I can’t wait to be surrounded by the ttrpg community at #PAXUnplugged once again. ✨
Make sure to check periodically and stay safe everyone!
I can’t wait to be surrounded by the ttrpg community at #PAXUnplugged once again. ✨
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To be very clear, The Gauntlet is an unabashedly queer-centric publisher, our games put themes of queerness and gender front and center, and our founder and operator (me) is a gay POC. Our values are in every single page of our games.
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
To be very clear, The Gauntlet is an unabashedly queer-centric publisher, our games put themes of queerness and gender front and center, and our founder and operator (me) is a gay POC. Our values are in every single page of our games.
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Does anyone know what system this Apocalypse World game runs on?
I’m seeing it everywhere.
I’m seeing it everywhere.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Does anyone know what system this Apocalypse World game runs on?
I’m seeing it everywhere.
I’m seeing it everywhere.
Thinking of that one dungeon from the JRPG Legend of Dragoon where you have to go through literal bureaucracy to complete the dungeon, using the process of submitting and implementing bills into law to open doors/shortcuts.
Wild.
Wild.
November 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Thinking of that one dungeon from the JRPG Legend of Dragoon where you have to go through literal bureaucracy to complete the dungeon, using the process of submitting and implementing bills into law to open doors/shortcuts.
Wild.
Wild.
My dumb ttrpg hot take is that a culture of houserules/homebrews has been created based on games where the rules kinda stink, so when games come out with actually decent rules and structure, the first thing people want to do is change or ignore them, to their own detriment.
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
My dumb ttrpg hot take is that a culture of houserules/homebrews has been created based on games where the rules kinda stink, so when games come out with actually decent rules and structure, the first thing people want to do is change or ignore them, to their own detriment.
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I sort of love how this erotic role playing game appears to be built on a solidly math heavy 1980s rules framework.
November 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I sort of love how this erotic role playing game appears to be built on a solidly math heavy 1980s rules framework.
Seen a lot of people observing that Halloween candy singles are smaller (remember when Reese's were one regular cup?). They used to call them "fun size". But since these are even smaller, I feel like we can only call them...
Unfun Size.
Unfun Size.
November 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Seen a lot of people observing that Halloween candy singles are smaller (remember when Reese's were one regular cup?). They used to call them "fun size". But since these are even smaller, I feel like we can only call them...
Unfun Size.
Unfun Size.
I don't know what Over/Under is, and at this point, I'm scared to ask.
November 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I don't know what Over/Under is, and at this point, I'm scared to ask.
Why I value community: my music taste, left to my own devices, was pretty awful. My first CD was Astrolounge, by Smashmouth.
Friends and colleagues introduced me to new music, expanded my tastes, in ways I could not have done on my own. Even with "research".
Friends and colleagues introduced me to new music, expanded my tastes, in ways I could not have done on my own. Even with "research".
October 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Why I value community: my music taste, left to my own devices, was pretty awful. My first CD was Astrolounge, by Smashmouth.
Friends and colleagues introduced me to new music, expanded my tastes, in ways I could not have done on my own. Even with "research".
Friends and colleagues introduced me to new music, expanded my tastes, in ways I could not have done on my own. Even with "research".
Political systems in strategy video games are gonna be insane in the years to come, aren't they?
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Political systems in strategy video games are gonna be insane in the years to come, aren't they?
Book 3 of the Dandelion Dynasty introduces a villain so one-dimensional that, had I read this book in 2018 or so, I would've put the series away right then and there.
But seeing her speech and intentions mirrored so exactly in my government kept me riveted, in that horror-novel dread way.
But seeing her speech and intentions mirrored so exactly in my government kept me riveted, in that horror-novel dread way.
October 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Book 3 of the Dandelion Dynasty introduces a villain so one-dimensional that, had I read this book in 2018 or so, I would've put the series away right then and there.
But seeing her speech and intentions mirrored so exactly in my government kept me riveted, in that horror-novel dread way.
But seeing her speech and intentions mirrored so exactly in my government kept me riveted, in that horror-novel dread way.