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NickVersus

@nickversus.bsky.social

Whenever I see someone call her “Invisigirl”.

December 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM

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Supergiant Games

@supergiantgames.bsky.social

We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games.

Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏

December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM

NickVersus

@nickversus.bsky.social

"Cultural artistic expression reflects philosophical evolution, interest in growth. Perspective. Observation. Interpretation. Suspect you won't see any art in Collector base. Culturally dead. Tools for Reapers."

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora

Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer

openai.com/index/disney...

As part of this three-year licensing agreement, Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that can be viewed and shared by fans, drawing on more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters.
Agreement will make a selection of these fan-inspired Sora short form videos available to stream on Disney+.
Disney and OpenAI affirm a shared commitment to responsible use of AI that protects the safety of users and the rights of creators.
Alongside the licensing agreement, Disney will become a major customer of OpenAI, using its APIs to build new products, tools, and experiences, including for Disney+, and deploying ChatGPT for its employees.
As part of the agreement, Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, and receive warrants to purchase additional equity.

December 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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Crippled Giraff Decals

@crippledgiraff.bsky.social

Getting real fucking tired of seeing people get fucking kidnapped. crippledgiraffdecals.bigcartel.com/product/anti...

Anti-I.C.E. Dinosaur - 4 inch Glossy Vinyl Sticker

A high quality vinyl sticker for a radical dinosaur defending her neighbors!

crippledgiraffdecals.bigcartel.com

December 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM

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Allison McKenzie

@allimack.bsky.social

If anyone still uses FB, I made a new art account there 🤣
I had one for AGES and got rid of it a few years ago, but...whatever, here we go again!

www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

December 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM

NickVersus

@nickversus.bsky.social

I'm dabbling in fighting games at the moment and one of my opponents just messaged me "al spawn gas" after a few matches. I feel like this was meant as an insult because I won more rounds than he did, and I definitely won the final round, but I have no idea what on Earth he was trying to say.

December 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM

NickVersus

@nickversus.bsky.social

"Spend your free time intentionally" is either the dumbest thing I've ever said or a life-changing piece of advice that will shatter your mind and leave you irreversibly changed.

You be the judge!

December 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM

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Brian Schaab

@brianschaab.bsky.social

My 1st level adventure for Draw Steel is done! And it's completely free. Get The Tangleblight below at the link below.

It is a 38p adventure for 1st level Draw Steel heroes featuring radenwights and a thorn dragon.

#drawsteel #ttrpg

schaab.itch.io/the-tanglebl...

The Tangleblight by Schaab

A Level 1 Adventure for MCDM's Draw Steel TTRPG

schaab.itch.io

September 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM

NickVersus

@nickversus.bsky.social

Funnily enough, this is the state of my current game! Before our holiday break, the Heroes were faced with an adversary that they seemingly aren't going to be able to just smack until he goes away. I have no idea how they're going to defeat him, or what he'll take before they do. It's great!

NickVersus @nickversus.bsky.social · 3d

When the players understand the rules and the stakes and they talk about how they should engage, what will happen if they don't, what they're willing to give up to stop this person...that's the game, folks. That is TTRPG magic and it is what sits me in the Director's chair week after week. 5/5

December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM

NickVersus

@nickversus.bsky.social

Saw a thread in the #DrawSteel subreddit about a Director who was surprised that a Hero in their Delian Tomb game died in one hit. The context of this story is that the Hero only had 2 Stamina when combat began, and it's got me thinking a lot about the certainty of victory in TTRPG combat. 1/

December 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM

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Leftist Gamer Memes

@leftistgamermemes.bsky.social

🌳🔚🙅‍♀️

December 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM

NickVersus

@nickversus.bsky.social

I'm gonna take the liberty of saying devil horns count just because I want to post this beautiful picture of Aria that @smanfa.online drew for me many years ago.

Original character Aria (elf, female, medium-light skin, black hair past her shoulders) poses in a goth/rock outfit and smirks at the viewer while giving the devil horns hand sign.

December 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM

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Josh Foreman

@josh-foreman.bsky.social

Tumblr user nocryptographer:
I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation.
A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.
AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.
Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.
There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.
I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it.
If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene...
then it's real.

December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM

NickVersus

@nickversus.bsky.social

I'm running a holiday special in #DrawSteel and tonight's puzzle got my entire table reciting Twelve Days of Christmas multiple times to solve a puzzle.

Merry.

December 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM

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Allison McKenzie

@allimack.bsky.social

May you all eat well today 🍗

November 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM

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Allison McKenzie

@allimack.bsky.social

Remake #TifaLockheart , but make her #aerithgainsborough 's class

December 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM

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Mayasacha

@mayasacha.bsky.social

Funny doodle between projects, have some kremlings floating by on your feed!
(added the 2 others cuz I didn't want the King alone)

Watch them looking stupid~

Inspired by the #crocodile video where one just float by 🐊
Enjoy! <3
#art #KingKRool #fanart #DonkeyKong #Nintendo

November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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Chesto

@chesuchesuto.bsky.social

November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM

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Faebelina

@faebelina.bsky.social

Some gift art for a friend of their gorgeous DnD character!

November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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Ori the Cartographer

@orithecarto.bsky.social

You can get all the battle maps in high quality, without signature and grid by subscribing to my Patreon, to fully enjoy your campaign! Also available as FoundryVTT scenes and through Moulinette Cloud!

#battlemaps #TTRPG #encountermap #DnD #VTT #DnDart