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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 1h

But doesn't the term "gacha" originate from a physical distribution method? Like those little plastic capsules with collectible toys inside?

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 2h

Is Magic The Gathering technically a gacha game?

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 2h

It is friday, which I am told by experts is prime money-spendin' time. If that's the case for you, consider supporting a small, independent #ttrpg project by a prolific and multiply marginalized designer, instead of giving it to Disney or whatnot? Check it out!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Shores Of Night

The hot, new, rules-medium take on weird, surreal, and cosmic horror roleplaying (no gods, no kings, no sanity mechanics, all cubes)!

www.kickstarter.com

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 2d

Hello #horror #ttrpg enthusiasts. Would you be interested in a new game, written and illustrated by yours truly, a fellow human who is #notAI, and is also an #lgbtqa+ icon? Check out Shores Of Night!

PS: I could REALLY use your help boosting this.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Shores Of Night

The hot, new, rules-medium take on weird, surreal, and cosmic horror roleplaying (no gods, no kings, no sanity mechanics, all cubes)!

www.kickstarter.com

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah ... and it usually feels like I'm groping around in the dark, without any guarantee that what I'm doing is even useful or meaningful in any way ... but if I just take that time to do the actual making of stuff, which makes me happy, then there is zero chance that anyone will see said stuff...

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 2d

Hello #horror #ttrpg enthusiasts. Would you be interested in a new game, written and illustrated by yours truly, a fellow human who is #notAI, and is also an #lgbtqa+ icon? Check out Shores Of Night!

PS: I could REALLY use your help boosting this.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Shores Of Night

The hot, new, rules-medium take on weird, surreal, and cosmic horror roleplaying (no gods, no kings, no sanity mechanics, all cubes)!

www.kickstarter.com

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 2d

Like, I am pretty friggin' good at actually MAKING stuff, I promise ... selling it is a whole 'nother matter ...

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 2d

Self publishing is cool and all, but I really wish I had someone other than myself to do all the actual, you know, *publishing* stuff that I suck at, like promotion / marketing, etc. so that I wouldn't have to spend all these many hours trying (and usually failing) to do it all myself.

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 3d

Hello #horror #ttrpg enthusiasts. Would you be interested in a new game, written and illustrated by yours truly, a fellow human who is #notAI, and is also an #lgbtqa+ icon? Well, check it out.

If you back and we fund, you can get the ashcan in early November!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Shores Of Night

The hot, new, rules-medium take on weird, surreal, and cosmic horror roleplaying (no gods, no kings, no sanity mechanics, all cubes)!

www.kickstarter.com

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Savage @nerdsomatics.bsky.social · 3d

A free local event next Thursday in Silver Spring. Come join the tarot / gamer party!

An orange and green gradient flyer reads "Tarot x Gamer" Join local game designers to play with tarot cards in new ways: crafting rituals, storytelling games, rpg design, and card spreads for community repair.
In the center is a photographic imagine of two tarot cards crossed 90 degrees over each other, with the Ace of Cups on top.
The bottom text reads "Oct 15/6, 2025, 6pm til close @Pure Panic 8317 Fenton St, Silver Spring, MD
The bottom left has Pure Panic's stylized pogo of rainbow loops

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 3d

Gods, I am so FUCKING tired...

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 3d

It ain't a conspiracy. It's just simple-mindedness.

The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 3d

Like, they're playing this stuff in the middle of a blue county in the bluest of blue states in an establishment where almost every customer except the obligatory embarassment of cops is a POC. Like, they can't even bother to vary it by market, which would be operationally trivial.

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder if it's a coincidence that the Dunking Doughnuts "radio station" immediately switched to a roster of almost exclusively "trucks and beer" country music just under a year ago.

Hmm.

This isn't a doom post. It just shows that corporations are basically dumb as rocks.

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 3d

Hello #horror #ttrpg enthusiasts. Would you be interested in a new game, written and illustrated by yours truly, a fellow human who is #notAI, and is also an #lgbtqa+ icon? Well, check it out.

If you back and we fund, you can get the ashcan in early November!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Shores Of Night

The hot, new, rules-medium take on weird, surreal, and cosmic horror roleplaying (no gods, no kings, no sanity mechanics, all cubes)!

www.kickstarter.com

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 4d

We're about a third of the way to the 3k goal, so I've cause to be hopeful. Word-of-mouth helps so much, so even if you can't back directly, your reposts and comments are worth a fortune.

I'd love to keep it up and maybe get on to the super cool stretch goals.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Shores Of Night

The hot, new, rules-medium take on weird, surreal, and cosmic horror roleplaying (no gods, no kings, no sanity mechanics, all cubes)!

www.kickstarter.com

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💀 SkeleMarvelous 💀 @codemarvelous.bsky.social · 3d

Every kitchen drama show

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 3d

If you're performing baneful magicks of a witchy and/or occult variety for the purposes of encouraging swift infernal and divine retribution to fall upon the heads of the unjust and the oppressive, and are looking for sweet background tunes, this one is a real banger:

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 4d

The currently announced stretch goals:

4k - Official solo rules packed into the core rulebook.

6k - Replayable, procedural module, heavily inspired by House Of Leaves, titled "The House That Eats Your Face" - explore the Labyrinth of You, alone or with friends.

#ttrpg #spooky #octoberween

The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 4d

We're about a third of the way to the 3k goal, so I've cause to be hopeful. Word-of-mouth helps so much, so even if you can't back directly, your reposts and comments are worth a fortune.

I'd love to keep it up and maybe get on to the super cool stretch goals.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Shores Of Night

The hot, new, rules-medium take on weird, surreal, and cosmic horror roleplaying (no gods, no kings, no sanity mechanics, all cubes)!

www.kickstarter.com

The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 4d

We're about a third of the way to the 3k goal, so I've cause to be hopeful. Word-of-mouth helps so much, so even if you can't back directly, your reposts and comments are worth a fortune.

I'd love to keep it up and maybe get on to the super cool stretch goals.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Shores Of Night

The hot, new, rules-medium take on weird, surreal, and cosmic horror roleplaying (no gods, no kings, no sanity mechanics, all cubes)!

www.kickstarter.com

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to the dark and mysterious days of Spooktoberween. The Kickstarter Campaign for Shores Of Night, the latest and greatest spooktacular #ttrpg from yours truly, recently launched. Original artwork, tons of words, yes!

Please check it out and signal boost?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Shores Of Night

The hot, new, rules-medium take on weird, surreal, and cosmic horror roleplaying (no gods, no kings, no sanity mechanics, all cubes)!

www.kickstarter.com

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 6d

At this point, my continued presence on this website appears to be less desirable to its administrators than my dipping out, which basically means I'll be sticking around, more or less out of spite, until it stops being useful to me, and when that does happen, no skin off my ass.

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to the dark and mysterious days of Spooktoberween. The Kickstarter Campaign for Shores Of Night, the latest and greatest spooktacular #ttrpg from yours truly, recently launched. Original artwork, tons of words, yes!

Please check it out and signal boost?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Shores Of Night

The hot, new, rules-medium take on weird, surreal, and cosmic horror roleplaying (no gods, no kings, no sanity mechanics, all cubes)!

www.kickstarter.com

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 7d

Good news! The Shores Of Night crowdfunding campaign is now live on Kickstarter, just in time for Spooktoberween.

It's a #ttrpg of strange horror and I've been working really hard on it! We just need to hot 3k for base funding. There are stretch goals too!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Shores Of Night

The hot, new, rules-medium take on weird, surreal, and cosmic horror roleplaying (no gods, no kings, no sanity mechanics, all cubes)!

www.kickstarter.com

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