Austin Rusk
@austinrusk.bsky.social
IATSE local 44, Game designer @biscuitwolfgames.bsky.social, GM of Crit Squad, mostly bourbon and coffee. Profile art by Shelly Lo
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This is the funniest shit I have ever seen. He kicks the dude in the beans and then mocks him
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This is the funniest shit I have ever seen. He kicks the dude in the beans and then mocks him
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Debate kids are like if thinking Guitar Hero made you good at guitar was a political ideology.
December 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Debate kids are like if thinking Guitar Hero made you good at guitar was a political ideology.
This is a bit, right? I feel like I saw this as a joke in some movie.
December 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is a bit, right? I feel like I saw this as a joke in some movie.
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Fuck all of you saying "this is inevitable" or "it's here deal with it" or even "it's fine"/"it's not a big deal". Be antihuman on your own time. This is a moveable needle. It's ruining lives (mine included already), ruining the environment, ruining art and creativity, isn't needed and isn't wanted.
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
www.wired.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Fuck all of you saying "this is inevitable" or "it's here deal with it" or even "it's fine"/"it's not a big deal". Be antihuman on your own time. This is a moveable needle. It's ruining lives (mine included already), ruining the environment, ruining art and creativity, isn't needed and isn't wanted.
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If your looking to support small creators, and maybe pick up something fun for your GM or table, take a look at our wares! We've got magic items for Draw Steel, rituals and contraptions for Blades in the Dark, and newspaper templates for (almost) any system and setting!
Biscuit Wolf Games
biscuitwolfgames.itch.io
December 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
If your looking to support small creators, and maybe pick up something fun for your GM or table, take a look at our wares! We've got magic items for Draw Steel, rituals and contraptions for Blades in the Dark, and newspaper templates for (almost) any system and setting!
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At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.
December 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.
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TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
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Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
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THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.
December 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.
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Setting up a campaign for the new year, doing another pass of edits on [REDACTED] and if we're lucky, playtesting a party game. We stay busy!
It's the Weekend 🎉
What are your #TTRPG plans for the weekend? Got any exciting sessions planned? Tell me about them below, let me live vicariously through you!
What are your #TTRPG plans for the weekend? Got any exciting sessions planned? Tell me about them below, let me live vicariously through you!
December 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Setting up a campaign for the new year, doing another pass of edits on [REDACTED] and if we're lucky, playtesting a party game. We stay busy!
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
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1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
terribleminds.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...
Absolutely insane that HBO, a channel that has made culture and taken big swings for decades, is now going to be owned by Netflix, a company that regurgitates culture via algorithm. People know we're losing a major institution, but I don't know if we can really reckon with the culture shift yet.
December 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Absolutely insane that HBO, a channel that has made culture and taken big swings for decades, is now going to be owned by Netflix, a company that regurgitates culture via algorithm. People know we're losing a major institution, but I don't know if we can really reckon with the culture shift yet.
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
So at this point, Netflix and Disney own like 60% or so of television and film between the two of them?
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
So at this point, Netflix and Disney own like 60% or so of television and film between the two of them?
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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Thanks for shouting out Apparel of The Brawler in your latest video @hellomcdm.bsky.social!
P.S., if you like Monkey Man and The Raid, you would love Sisu (pronounced see-soo... It's Finnish)
P.S., if you like Monkey Man and The Raid, you would love Sisu (pronounced see-soo... It's Finnish)
November 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Thanks for shouting out Apparel of The Brawler in your latest video @hellomcdm.bsky.social!
P.S., if you like Monkey Man and The Raid, you would love Sisu (pronounced see-soo... It's Finnish)
P.S., if you like Monkey Man and The Raid, you would love Sisu (pronounced see-soo... It's Finnish)
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If you've run Blades in the Dark, you know how hard it can be to come up with ritual sources and inventions on the fly. We made 73 of them to be dropped into any game! From shifting your soul into a rat's body, to Jekyll and Hyde elixirs, these are both great rewards and potential story hooks!
The Lost Archives: Inventions and Rituals for Blades in the Dark by Biscuit Wolf Games
73 strange and unusual sources and blueprints
biscuitwolfgames.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If you've run Blades in the Dark, you know how hard it can be to come up with ritual sources and inventions on the fly. We made 73 of them to be dropped into any game! From shifting your soul into a rat's body, to Jekyll and Hyde elixirs, these are both great rewards and potential story hooks!
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Our Black Friday sale gets you our popular newspaper templates, for everything from medieval to modern to space opera, our "Where Did You Get That?" minigame to tie your characters outfit to their backstory, AND a VTT map with varying light setups, at noon, dusk/morning, and night all for $5!
Black Friday Sale! by Biscuit Wolf Games
A bundle by Biscuit Wolf Games, $5.00 for Castle Ruins On A Hill VTT Maps, TTRPG Newspaper Templates, Where'd You Get That? A Costume Generator For Your Character
itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Our Black Friday sale gets you our popular newspaper templates, for everything from medieval to modern to space opera, our "Where Did You Get That?" minigame to tie your characters outfit to their backstory, AND a VTT map with varying light setups, at noon, dusk/morning, and night all for $5!
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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We've got a Black Friday sale to appease the marketing gods, where you can get a bunch of our paid supplements (including our popular newspaper templates!) for $5! Total! Check it out!
Black Friday Sale! by Biscuit Wolf Games
A bundle by Biscuit Wolf Games, $5.00 for Castle Ruins On A Hill VTT Maps, TTRPG Newspaper Templates, Where'd You Get That? A Costume Generator For Your Character
itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
We've got a Black Friday sale to appease the marketing gods, where you can get a bunch of our paid supplements (including our popular newspaper templates!) for $5! Total! Check it out!
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?