Remember: "I was just following orders" wasn't a valid defense at Nuremberg either.

Lmao let’s take half a million cars off the road before we start worrying about inhalers, Jesus christ

I want to make it clear at the end here that I am not affiliated with Kickstarter United, I'm merely an interested party taking cues from their website. While I have my gripes with Kickstarter and its place in the TTRPG field as a whole, those have nothing to do with the workers. Solidarity forever!

5. Watch their September 5 solidarity rally

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

You'll get the chance to hear from other union leaders and pro-labor politicians, to help build that hot union forever energy

4. If you have a project on Kickstarter *right now*, use some pro-union assets on your page.

kickstarterunited.org/union-assets/

Same logic as the previous points, except that this way the average backer won't be able to not see news of the union's fight if they're on project pages

3. If you've *ever* put a project on Kickstarter, sign on to this petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Again, we want to show management that creators (the people that actually, y'know, make Kickstarter more than a blank webpage?) stand in support with the workers

2. Send letters to management to tell them to meet the workers' demands!

actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

You can show whether you're a community ally, creator, backer, or more than one when you send these letters. A bunch of backers and creators on the workers' side? That sends a message

How can you support them? I'm so glad you asked, because there are so many ways to do so!

1. Donate to their solidarity fund!

This keeps vulnerable striking workers fed, clothed, and housed while they fight for their rights amid pay-stoppage

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ki...

First things first: Kickstarter United (the union) is *not* calling for a boycott! They have been on strike for 5 days fighting to protect the 4-day workweek they've had for 3 years and for a minimum, livable-wage salary

kickstarterunited.org

My September TTRPG Crowdfunding Retrospective is here!

ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/10/sept...

But since last month was a pretty standard month for the campaigns themselves, I want to highlight the Kickstarter strike that's currently happening! Yes, it's hot union summer, fall, and forever

Please don't be AI bullshit

Please don't be AI bullshit

Please don't be AI bullshit

Please, Affinity, please don't be AI bullshit

The overwhelming majority of the time, whatever problem you’re having at a ttrpg table can be solved by one simple trick.

Having an adult conversation with your friends.

Basically all of the ttrpg discourse is solved by having an adult conversation with your friends.

I've been promoting our next DMV tabletop game event, but this morning it feels wrong to post without comment.
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Local communities belong to a place, and our place contains Washington, DC. Many game designers are federal employees or contractors by day. During a government shutdown, many of us
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thank u Hades 2 for adding animal familiars 🐸💕

Regular reminder that behind damn near every large-scale "Automated" "AI" system is a team of underpaid and otherwise exploited humans. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I mostly agree with this, but more so: Any time spent on saying "they have incoherent politics" is probably better spent saying "what ideology, which policies, what social strategys have produced this violent nihilism, and what analogs do they have historically?"

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.

I'm talking about something very different.

Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.

Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.

But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

The sequel was not quite as good, but still pretty great

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine is one of the best sci-fi books I’ve read in recent years

And yeah, of course it imposes a difficulty in scheduling and keeping games going, but there is a real appeal as well to making a commitment that you’re going to meet up with friends every single week (or however regularly it is)

I don’t think so! Not only was it the historical basis of the hobby, it’s also a kind of experience (collaborative ongoing group fiction) you don’t really get in any other medium

No piece of fiction has done more damage to my brain (derogatory) than

"Power connection: tiny little scuff marks around the edge of it. Every night he goes to plug it in to charge but his hands are shaking. You never see those marks on a sober man’s phone; never see a drunk’s without them."

If anyone knows what game / author [PUZZLE 2 SPOILERS] “paragon of inseparable gods” is referring do us a solid please. It’s not Agon or A Fool’s Errand

#TTRPGPuzzleHunt2025