I spoke with @abundance about World Ending Game, their brilliant new tabletop game.
(w/ a cameo appearance by @endingsummary / @jplebreton ) filmmakermagazine.com/117752-e…
Beyond the Third Act: Everest Pipkin’s Cinema-Inspired Tabletop RPG World Ending Game | Filmmaker Magazine
“Endings are very hard,” said Everest Pipkin. “It’s one of the most difficult things about making anything, and only gets harder when you are collaborativel ...Joanne McNeil (Filmmaker Magazine)
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I had my doubt about kolektiva[DOT]social, but as I just discovered Anna from witchesDOTlive has found a home there, that's an immediate #fediblock for me Anna is well known to be on of the primary antagonists of PV back in the day, enabling all sor…Ubiqueros: A PV Joint
Hey all, NightBlade here. Most of you know me from Twitter. I'm a solo evenings/weekends #IndieDev #GameDev dad. I mostly make smaller 2d pixel art games.
Currently wrapping up #GemWorlds for release on Steam: Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Inspired by the #puzzle games Supaplex and Boulder Dash from my youth, with a mixture of #roguelike elements and a touch of minimalism.
Check it out, every wishlist and follow helps:
store.steampowered.com/app/185…
Gem Worlds on Steam
Gem World is a short roguelike/puzzle hybrid. Explore 50 levels in 5 unique worlds. Dodge boulders, collect gems, fight (or avoid) monsters. Unlock and upgrade more than 10 diverse skills. Exploit obstacles like mines, icicles, cactii, and more.store.steampowered.com
Holiday Encore: Best of Boomer Shooters Bundle
Get retro FPS games like DUSK and AMID EVIL in our Boomer Shooter bundle. Plus, pay what you want & support charity!Humble Bundle
This would be a really really good time to support the admins of the Mastodon server you're on.
Find their support links, chuck them at least the price of a coffee each month.
Putting my money where my mouth is.
Most servers have 2 patreons, one for server costs, and one little tip jar for the admin.
Most instance admins won't take money for themselves from the server cost patreon, so if you want to support your instance admin, be sure to chip in for them, too!
There's an Elon tweet for every shitty move he does.
So about banning a bunch of other social networks now in place on Twitter.
Well...
Bruno eyes a beautiful glass ornament from his perch 2/3rds off the way up our Christmas tree. There are no more glass ornaments in our tree, he got 3 later that night. The rest went back in the box.
Let’s just say, I’m early for next week’s #Caturday.
Wonder what it’s like to be on the Moon? #Apollo17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt said:
“Working on the Moon is a lot of fun. It’s like walking around on a giant trampoline all the time and you’re just as strong as you were here on Earth, but you don’t weigh as much.” #Apollo50th
#NASAhistory
Watching the moon walkers, I wondered about this. We'd see them bounce about, but always very gingerly, and no one does the great leaps that early SciFi movie astronauts enjoyed.
You do weigh less yet have the same strength, but you also still have the same inertial mass. Wouldn't that cause problems when stopping or turning?
It's like the great spinning space stations. Who would have thought the coriolis effect would pose such a problem?
APOD: 2022 December 18 - The 25 Brightest Stars in the Night Sky
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
The Genius of Lionel Messi Just Walking Around
Jody Rosen on the legendary striker Lionel Messi, who can often be found off the ball, strolling and dawdling and looking mildly uninterested.Jody Rosen (The New Yorker)
#Introduction Reintroducing to the new friends here.
I'm Marisa, the voice behind MySciVoice. Genetics Lab Scientist, dwelving into #SciComm and passionate about (sci)art.
One of my initiatives is an animation series on the impact of Genetics on Human Health.
If you want to know details on this and other projects you can check 👇🏽
Also if you are on LinkedIn, drop by my little nook, say hi and let's connect 👇🏽
www.linkedin.com/in/myscivoice
Various people have been talking about a gathering of cooperative and collectively owned and operated instances (mostly here: matrix.to/#/#democratic-fedive…)
I set up a public Loomio subgroup on the social.coop Loomio for organizing an initial event.
If you, or someone you know, is interested in helping to organize this event for early 2023, please join this subgroup.
Admins or active members from #Black, #BIPOC, #Disabled, #Feminist, #LGBTQ+ instances please take a look.
loomio.com/socialcoop-2023-gat…
Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversationmatrix.to
Just a reminder if all you want is the news without my (it’s just one person @Sirsquid) extra spicy takes there’s RSS: gamingonlinux.com/article_rss.…
wsj.com/story/how-to-use-masto…
How to Use Mastodon, the Social-Media Platform Blocked by Elon Musk’s Twitter
Mastodon could be the future of social media—if you can figure it outJoanna Stern (Wall Street Journal)
This Christmas song makes me laugh hard. It is soooo Spinal Tap
@Christoph S You might like it too @Cass M
The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) (Official Music Video) [HD]
You're watching the official music video remastered in HD for The Darkness - "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" (2003).Celebrate this holiday season...YouTube
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25 Brightest Stars in the Night Sky
Image Credit & Copyright: Tragoolchitr Jittasaiyapan
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221218.ht… #APOD
APOD: 2022 December 18 - The 25 Brightest Stars in the Night Sky
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
I've seen this one before. I still love this season's greetings card!
And for the dog lovers, these doofuses!
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A front page article on the Washington Post telling people how to get started with Mastodon?
That’s a big deal.
washingtonpost.com/technology/…
A guide to getting started with Twitter alternative Mastodon
How to get started on social-media site Mastodon, whether you're leaving Twitter or just looking for people who have.Heather Kelly (The Washington Post)
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"The dark edges between the thalli are called the prothallus, and are where the fungal partner is present without the algal partner" — Dr. Mike Simms, Lichenologist, personal correspondence.
The searching fungi draws borders on stone.
Pen and ink drawing of 'Fuscidea cyathoides', growing on quartzite, Inishowen peninsula, Ireland, as part of an art-research residency with Artlink Fort Dunree, throughout 2022
A lichen that is coloniser and collaborator, teaching me something about porous edges and permeable places. Apparently, after growing for thousands of years, they create spaces where they (co)exist.
There is a lot to unpick here, and a lot to learn.
Then and now.
Discover the differences and similarities between launch and recovery during the Apollo missions and the #Artemis I test flight around the Moon. See how @NASA_SLS and @NASA_Orion broke records and passed milestones: go.nasa.gov/3YxSjU4
#NASAArtemis #Artemis
Then and Now: Apollo to Artemis
More than 50 years ago, NASA sent the first humans to the Moon through the Apollo program. Now, NASA is preparing to send the first woman and first person of color to the lunar surface as part of the Artemis program.Jason Costa (NASA)
#ISS
Controllers Evaluating Soyuz After Successful Thruster Test
NASA and Roscosmos continue to evaluate an external leak that occurred Dec. 14, from the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked to the Rassvet module of the International Space Station.blogs.nasa.gov
Servius' list of the Pignora Imperii shoud be corrected, according to Falconet: I am convinced that instead of acus matris Deum, one should read caus, the same word as cautes.
From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pignora_…
The first item on the list: "The needle of the Mother of the Gods (Acus Matris Deum), kept in the Temple of Cybele on the Palatine Hill."
No not a needle, but a stone, indeed, a meteorite.
What Elon Musk is doing with Twitter and journalism is a dominance ritual much like the ones the 45th POTUS was pulling. The best response is to leave Twitter and ignore the Mediocre Bond Villain #MBV.
Reporters Need to Pull Out of Trump’s Dominance Rituals
Not long ago I was talking with my colleague David Kurtz. We agreed that in many respects the big mainstream media players – the 'MSM'Josh Marshall (TPM)
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Baby man musk is still blocking links to profiles here while he wants to be thanked for bringing people "free speech".
That is such little man energy... little tiny man.
GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Would love to see the Muskrat get around this. Scan it ;)Mastodon
#NASAExoplanets
Hubble Views a Star-Studded Cosmic Cloud
A portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded with stars in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
Art Trend of 2022: How AI Art Emerged and Polarized the Art World
Artificial intelligence has been around for years, but AI-generated artwork has really taken off in 2022. With its growing presence and its rise in implementation, AI has proven to be a powerful yet controversial tool in the art world. Its use leads many to ask several questions: Is it art? Is it cheating? And who does the credit go to?
Art Trend of 2022: How AI Art Emerged and Polarized the Art World
2022 has been a year full of monumental moments for AI artwork. Learn about the rise of AI art and the controversy around it.Madyson DeJausserand (My Modern Met)
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(it's early days and the search tool needs some refinement but someone's making a start, so that's good)
#10YearsAgo today, the GRAIL mission ended as its twin spacecrafts, Ebb and Flow, deorbited to the lunar surface. The mission created a detailed gravitational map of the Moon, providing insight into its structure and composition.
Learn more about GRAIL: go.nasa.gov/3Hv4XNU
#NASAhistory
GRAIL - Moon Missions - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Launch and mission summary for NASA's GRAIL mission, launched in September 2011 to measure the moon's gravity.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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