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@themightytej
Writer of fantasy, sci fi, and Christian theology.
I have a website where I compile all my projects! Want to find me on other social media sites? Check out Tall Tales? Keep up with my fanfic or the young audiences stories I write under a psuedonym? Check out my gaming livestreams? Everything public I'm working on is available on or through my website! I encourage you to click through the above link and poke around a bit!
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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Inner Light Playtest
So I put together a short (4 page) rules light ttrpg called Inner Light, and I'm looking for playtesters! I put out the call on the Rabid Haberdashery Discord server and in the Rabid Haberdashery newsletter, but the newsletter got flagged because apparently some bot set up 18 subscriptions and then unsubscribed from it all at once? So the email sender flagged it as suspicious for the high number of unsubscriptions? I was very upset and I don't know how this happened.
Anyway! It means no one got the newsletter and therefore didn't sign up that way! So I still need help.
Inner Light is a game of intrapersonal balance. Each player takes on the role of an Aspect, one inner motivation or voice, with the party serving as the interior forces directing the words and actions of a single individual. Maybe these Aspects are a panel of emotions, maybe they're alternate personalities, maybe they're representatives of morality or physical needs. It's up to you!
Most of the gameplay centers around determining which Aspect will take charge in a given situation, and how the other Aspects will influence decisions even when they are not in control. Aspects grow in their ability to nudge outcomes by turning inward and facing off against moral dilemmas, forces of emotional disruption, and even other Aspects.
Shoot me an ask or DM if you would like to get a group together to try this game out and are willing to fill out a Google Form (linked in the rule book) with feedback on your experience!
Someone, tell me to finish the lore, so I can release the Chimera Girls! Update that makes the combat actually playable for the Warden (GM)
Write. The. Lore.
curious about something so i want to conduct a free-response survey. who (or what) first comes to your mind when you hear the name sebastian
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Inner Light Playtest
So I put together a short (4 page) rules light ttrpg called Inner Light, and I'm looking for playtesters! I put out the call on the Rabid Haberdashery Discord server and in the Rabid Haberdashery newsletter, but the newsletter got flagged because apparently some bot set up 18 subscriptions and then unsubscribed from it all at once? So the email sender flagged it as suspicious for the high number of unsubscriptions? I was very upset and I don't know how this happened.
Anyway! It means no one got the newsletter and therefore didn't sign up that way! So I still need help.
Inner Light is a game of intrapersonal balance. Each player takes on the role of an Aspect, one inner motivation or voice, with the party serving as the interior forces directing the words and actions of a single individual. Maybe these Aspects are a panel of emotions, maybe they're alternate personalities, maybe they're representatives of morality or physical needs. It's up to you!
Most of the gameplay centers around determining which Aspect will take charge in a given situation, and how the other Aspects will influence decisions even when they are not in control. Aspects grow in their ability to nudge outcomes by turning inward and facing off against moral dilemmas, forces of emotional disruption, and even other Aspects.
Shoot me an ask or DM if you would like to get a group together to try this game out and are willing to fill out a Google Form (linked in the rule book) with feedback on your experience!
Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things
@westernmassposting
Amherst, MA
new DB Cooper theory: he’s still falling
If you follow me, you have to play one of my ttrpgs at least once… please… I even made free ones…
I haven't yet, but Oneiroi is in the list of games we're compiling for when we finish our current livestreamed campaigns and move to a game-of-the-month model for a while.
What do you do if you notice one of the NSFT accounts you follow is okay with minors interacting?*
Report their account to Tumblr.
Privately inform any mutuals that this account allows minors.
Make a post telling others that this account allows minors.
Block them.
Unfollow them.
Send them an ask/message telling them they shouldn't allow minors.
Send them an ask/message to get more information about why they allow minors.
Ignore it (it doesn't make me uncomfortable).
Ignore it (but it makes me uncomfortable).
Other
*You have not seen them having any NSFT interactions with minors but their pinned/bio say something like "minors welcome" or "I don't care if minors interact".
For responses, choose the first response that applies.
The entire concept of "allowing" groups of people to interact with your blog is deeply strange. You people should probably know that.
Now, I've never seen the circumstances being described, and NSFT covers a MASSIVE range of materials, some of which is more acceptable for minors to see than others. But the fundamental issue here is the assumption that blog owners have a responsibility to manually vet everyone who interacts with their blog. But this is absolutely unreasonable, and in many countries, legally untrue. It is the responsibility of tumblr to provide adequate tagging and filtering tools (where legally demanded, it is also the responsibility of tumblr to handle user verification, even though that's garbage); it is the responsibility of users to utilize those tools. This means, if you post something sexual, tumblr is supposed to have a way to mark it as such and you are supposed to use that method to mark it as such. That's it. That's where your responsibility ends.
This whole mindset that people posting on tumblr need to be worrying about the age of every person liking or reblogging or following them is nothing but unwarranted anxiety. It's bad enough if you submit yourself to it, don't go around trying to enforce it on others.
If you ask the characters in the world of the Coraxiad how magic works, they will describe to you something that sounds very like a hard magic system. They will tell you the rules about how magic works, what magic can and can't do, what the price for magic is, who can learn magic. Some of them will point to elaborate charts or books or treatises that give deep, complex knowledge about the relationship between will, the spirit, energy sources, and the power of magic itself.
And all of them will describe it differently.
Some of those differences will be minor. Some of them will be directly contradictory. But all of them will work. Magic will do exactly what they think it will do, in the way they think it'll do it. The only exception is anyone who believes magic has no rules, that there is no real inherent cost, that you really can just do whatever you want however you want, that all of the options really are equally valid; magic will not function at all for that person. The one thing that is absolutely certain is this: there must be rules, and you must truly believe those rules are binding, or magic will not work.
The dominance of D&D in ttrpg spaces means there are always people who would rather stick by it, no matter how much they have to bend and break its rules to make it work, no matter how bad WotC is, than try anything less popular. They will get upset and argue when you suggest they try a different game. These people make terrible arguments and it is worth recognizing that.
I don't care how famous and entertaining and cool they are; your favorite DM is wrong when they say D&D is a game that can handle every genre and play style, and they're obscuring how many house rules it takes to play that way. I have seen people whose views I otherwise tend to respect bemoan how hard it is to teach players a new system, and therefore how unreasonable it is to ask them to try something different. People who make their livings off running games.
I do it for free. My table plays multiple systems.
In fact, Rabid Haberdashery started doing livestreams for charity in 2015, and in that time, we didn't take our first crack at D&D 5e until THIS YEAR. We didn't do any edition of D&D until 2024 (it was 3.5).
And when we were reminded who WotC is, we dropped D&D immediately and ported the campaign to Pathfinder. We voted on what system to move it to, and half the party had at least heard of Pathfinder.
Now, yes. I have ttrpgs, both playing and reading them, as an autistic special interest. But that's just me. The IT professionals and software developers and nurses and auto mechanics and line cooks I've worked with in that time? This is just a fun weekly thing with their friends to them, and that's great! I am happy to provide that for them! I don't expect them to have the same obsession with it that I do, that would be unreasonable.
Almost every single one of them has done more than one system with me. And I do expect them to learn and manage some of the rules of every system they play in. Not every rule. But I don’t hold their hands forever. I push them to learn enough to read their own sheets and understand what their character does and how that impacts the party and the story at large. How to make their own decisions, and what they need to roll to attempt a course of action.
These are the people that creators are wringing their hands about when they say it's too hard to teach people new systems, and I'm asking them to learn more of the systems than many of those creators would be. And they do it, and they do it well, and they enjoy it! Because it's part of the game! Most of the people who just did that D&D-to-Pathfinder conversion with me also play a separate Shadowrun campaign! And we all learned that together, I didn’t know the rules of it before we started. Half of them originally joined for a Mutants & Masterminds campaign, a game they did not know existed! We're actively talking about starting a game-of-the-month rotation loaded with indie games!
The point is this. There is no reason to stay doggedly bonded to D&D. And with WotC being what they are, and the sheer number of other high fantasy dungeon crawler ttrpgs available, there's no NEED to give D&D any money or visibility at all. If you do so, it's a choice, and you should own that fact. Rabid Haberdashery decided it was a route not worth taking. We even had a vote!
Do I still have some D&D campaigns I play in? Yeah. Do I give WotC money or use my (small) platform to put their game in front of more people? No. Will I cycle out of D&D entirely again, as I have before? Certainly.
You, too, can disconnect from Wizards of the Coast. You, too, can play ttrpgs without giving Hasbro money. Your actual play podcast can actually play a different game, and I think it would be better for it.
Go. Play without fear. Try something new. You may be surprised at how smoothly it goes.
Friends of mine are working on their Kickstarter for their TTRPG Trainpunks! If you could give their Kickstarter a follow, that'd help them out 💖
A TTRPG about magical punks fighting eldritch horrors in a bizarre underground train system
HELPPPPP
Reminds me of Jason Kander, former Missouri Secretary of State. When he went to the VA hospital to treat his PTSD, he told the nurse that Obama told him he should run for president, and she thought he was delusional.
Correction: It was worse. She asked him how long he's been hearing voices.
I think I'm gonna make this my go-to story. It's not the worst I've ever heard, which is an asset because people won't believe you if you tell them the actual bad stuff those people do. And it just perfectly sums up the casual arrogance everyone working in mental health seems to have. The way they treat you as inherently Lesser for being in their care.
If they can't even handle basic, easily verified shit like "I'm a lawyer" they are never going to believe you when you tell them that you know how to manage a condition you've been dealing with for decades better than they can or will.
And then there's Alexander Morris, who was put in a straitjacket, called racial slurs, and denied treatment for his potentially life-threatening heart condition when he told them he was the lead singer of the band he was lead singer of.
The lead singer of the Motown group the Four Tops has filed a federal lawsuit against Ascension Macomb Oakland Hospital in Warren, Michigan,
There are multiple parts of that article that are Jae droppingly awful but this one really gets me:
They almost let this man die in a straight jacket simply because they were too racist. And then when they realize their "mistake", they tell him that his life is worth a 25$ supermarket gift card. Of course he's suing them for $75,000 as he should but like. Can you imagine how insulted he must've been. The 4 Tops were one of the top Motown bands of all time. You can be at the top of the music scene and still, they'll kill you because you're black. And they'll use fake claims about mental illness and "aggression" to justify it
& to be clear: none of this is good for anyone. actually delusional people, people who actually hear voices or see things, do not deserve to be treated like this. there is nothing about a person harmlessly believing something fantastical (or which sounds fantastical to you) that requires you to put them in a straightjacket and drug them or deny them necessary drugs. Black mentally ill people do not deserve to be tortured and murdered in a hospital for being Black and mentally ill.
this kind of system is a weapon which can be pointed at anyone. in order to prevent shit like this from happening, we also need to deconstruct how we view mentally ill people, including people who are delusional and hallucinate, and what we view as "reasonable" or "necessary" when it comes to such people.
Black people- including famous black people- have been arrested for "breaking and entering" their own homes due to a neighbor witnessing them unlocking their own house door with their own house key and calling the cops. College professors, celebrities, politicians, and everyday people such as my own father.
It's common enough that young black kids are told to keep any identifying information on them at all times just in case someone reports a black kid breaking and entering by walking into the house they've lived at since they were born. Because that has happened.
When you add mental illness and the healthcare industry into the mix, things only get worse from there. To be clear, you don't need to be black or mentally ill to be treated poorly by a doctor or nurse that's decided they know you better than you do. But it sure doesn't make things easier.
And people have died as a result- or have we already forgotten the death of Adriana Smith who went to THE HOSPITAL SHE WORKED AT AS A NURSE reporting severe headaches and was dismissed as exaggerating and imagining the severity, only to be declared brain dead upon arrival less than 24 hours later and artificially kept alive to force her dead body to carry her baby to term- which couldn't even happen and they had to remove him via C-section anyway.
These are related problems. And until we fix the root cause, they will keep happening.
why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....
