And yet it seems like everyone else knows the rules doesn’t it? They got a fucking manual and we didn’t. Life’s not fair kid, but it’s horrible and messy and wonderful, just like what you’re chasing after.
Making AI Practical and Practicable
Category: Hobbies
Things I do for funsies, rather than a salary
totally reasonable to expect that I could just post through it, right friends? Abandon everything you’ve ever known, pick up another language, navigate an alien, baroque and frankly mildly hostile bureaucracy, and keep on trucking. Very normal, very reasonable expectations.
There was a moment early on in Koriko: A Magical Year, somewhere between sketching out my little witch-in-training’s emotional baggage and stacking a tower of dice like I’m trying to defuse a goddamned bomb with a mercury switch when I realized I was doing something I almost never really get…
Solo TTRPGs do a very silly thing. They ask you to be surprised by a magic trick you’re also performing. In a group game, a huge part of the joy, on both sides of the screen, is not knowing exactly what’s going to happen next. As a GM, you prep…
Depending on how you want to count, I’ve been roleplaying for over three decades now. Personally, I think the pretend games I was playing with my friends as a young child count, as we were adopting roles and negotiating what happened in a shared fiction. Even if you don’t count…
There’s a certain kind of quiet you only get late at night. The world thins out a little, and your brain starts telling stories to fill in the gaps. That’s always been part of the appeal of solo TTRPGs for me, not the mechanics, not the dice, not even the…
Flip over to TTRPG youtube, and you won’t be able to go more than ten minutes without some creator with more followers and clout than I could dream of saying “Everything is Play”. Why do they say that? Well, a few reasons, but here is what I think the biggest…
I turned 41 earlier this year. That means, by my count, I’ve been playing RPGs for something like 37 years in one form or another. It started with games of pretend, proto-LARPs which ended in a lot of “I hit you!”s and “Nuh-uh!”s. As I got older, my games became…
A short story on the dangers of misapplying generative AI technology, born of a prompt for a writing competition and more than a few at-bats with folks wanting to treat LLMs as a panacea.
This is a short story I wrote for a competition whose theme was queer joy. It’s a fictionalized account of how we settled on my parental title in our little family.