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🍁 Levi Kornelsen

@levikornelsen.bsky.social

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Canadian maker of tabletop RPG bits and assorted weirdness. Most of my things are at: https://levikornelsen.itch.io/

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · Nov 14

Having reached a thousand followers here (!), it's clearly time for me to do a big ol' self-promo thread of "Here's the parts of my TTRPG work I think you should know about!".

So here we go:

#ttrpg

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 53m

Interview on the actual critique of enshittification, with the coiner of the term:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1EK...

The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow

YouTube video by Adam Conover

www.youtube.com

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 13h

Question:

Common challenges a GM can prep *that are fully systematized*:
- Combat enemies (monsters, bandits, ships, mecha, etc)
- Traps!
- Perilous Locations (esp. with grid or measured movement, timed-events, etc.)

What else comes to mind (including "in THIS game, these are")?

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BiRdMaNsf67 🌈 @morrowjamesadam.bsky.social · 20h

yes

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 22h

"This is clearly an inhuman combination of many sources" is good, actually, insofar as it's clearly not "This is a direct ripoff of someone".

Plus it could actually be on track to get less and less resource-intensive, which: Want.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 22h

If the only change in AI art regulation was copyright enforcement, and companies were held fully responsible when their AI produced clear derivative works, that'd clear the whole board.

We'd be back to "soupy freaky mashup" pictures - to my eye, the coolest stage, most clearly doing NEW things.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 22h

It's tricky, because Mastodon is a LOT of platforms, and the quality... varies. I'm on a great one! Not all of them are similarly great.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 23h

There's totally 2000 word to say about those, but you have to care about X and Y in the way MtG players care about deckbuilding, where it's all about being really into combinatorial stuff more than artistic depatures from tradition.

Which, uh. Not that big a niche, admittedly.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 23h

(Assuming trustworthiness doesn't mean passing on cutting the damn cards, tho')

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 23h

Other way around: I assume trustworthiness in experts unless they make it clear they have politics contrary to competence.

We are currently heavy on highly visible faux-experts and "let me show my whole ass" incompetence (especially in, say, Economics), which can make this hard, but.

Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 1d

If you trust health officials, doctors and scientists based on their politics, you're doing it wrong.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 23h

It is, of course, kinda janky, but the bridge from Bluesky to Mastodon got a pretty big upgrade.

(I suspect people will use this for "Back up my Bluesky on Mastodon", as much as actually move, but this is a good time to have backups, sooooo.....)

www.theverge.com/news/678928/...

Bounce lets you move from Bluesky to Mastodon without losing followers

If you want to expand your reach, this seems like a simple way to do it.

www.theverge.com

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 1d

An essential website for US government use.

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

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

isportlandburning.com

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2d

I attempted a five-second search and was all "Widdie... dragon.. horse... Bah, I know it changed not that long ago!".

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2d

Am I making progress on ANY personal projects during the teachers' strike up here? Fuck no.

But for a nice change, I don't feel even slightly bad about it.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2d

I am particularly embarrassed by both of these people, in large part because if you go far ENOUGH back, I have been both of them.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2d

2/2

...Flash card reading device and *colourful* worksheets arriving tonight, and I'm making an exercise using Once Upon A Time Cards for teaching "Basic story elements", which should shift us to four (better) worksheets, five activities tomorrow?

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2d

Papa School in teaching strike, day 2:

Worksheet-heavy day attempted: Six worksheets plus three activities. Functional, and I'm not falling-over drained, but not highly engaging, and probably low-retention for kiddo. But...

1/2

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2d

PBTs: Potato Benchmark Tests.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2d

Yup!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2...

Prism - Whitney Marie Delaglio | DriveThruRPG

Prism is a diceless roleplaying game about relationships and conflict resolution. Set in an aquatic word with its own deities, ethical cultures, and unique families. Recommended for those who enjoy in...

www.drivethrurpg.com

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2d

Just saying, Prism has a fairly direct way of answering "I want to do X with my inferno (or other) power, how hard is that?" that's worth seeing.

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Kamen Dad @kamendad.bsky.social · 2d

The chief lesson of Final Fantasy Tactics is that real heroes will be demonized and attacked and erased, not celebrated, by those in power.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 3d

Read it aloud, as dialogue between Vladimir and Estragon!

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 3d

Godot produced this, and you'll never convince me otherwise.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 3d

They've had at least a few days to recover, so maybe we should check in and see how the robot sex was?

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 3d

Had it all growing up, and naturally became a reckless fool that caused the death of a lover. Was driven into exile as a result; then became a bitter intellectual...

Look, that's an unsuccessful questor for resurrection, who turned to black magic in grief, but didn't learn what they *wanted.*

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 3d

"We'd have a recession if it wasn't for all the AI spending" actually means "We are in a recession which is partially obfuscated *from statistics* (and nobody else) by rich people playing silly buggers with large transactions between each other".

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