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Brian Stauber

@staubington

Coach - Facilitator - GM - Dad - Nerd (in no particular order) Finding human connection through shared experiences https://www.staubercoaching.com https://staubington.itch.io/

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This is the kind of energy I wanna see at my tables! Go hard, test the limits of your holodeck until you find the walls, then break out of them.

06.03.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can’t look at a file without singing β€œI am a file and you put documents in me!”

Can’t wait for a whole new slew of ear worms.

23.02.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes β€œI love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

22.02.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 13945 πŸ” 2515 πŸ’¬ 107 πŸ“Œ 135
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The Hidden Cost of AI Art: Brandon Sanderson's Keynote Brandon Sanderson's 2025 keynote on the hidden cost of AI art.

Brandon Sanderson had a pretty good take on this recently, especially in the context of games and literature as art.

www.brandonsanderson.com/blogs/blog/a...

19.02.2026 20:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It should come as no surprise that people who choose to play physical games at a table with other humans care that they are supporting actual game designers and not whatever soulless solution the c-suite thinks they will consume.

19.02.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Friendly reminder that just because LinkedIn is an insane cesspool of AI-written posts glorifying AI doesn’t mean the rest of the world wants to follow suit.

19.02.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Cue the Nelson β€œHa Ha!”

Im sure he’ll land a similar position at another publisher once the furor has calmed down, but the messaging from the community that it won’t accept AI in its creative space is always heartening. It’s a counterbalance to constant LinkedIn slop that we all need right now.

19.02.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 πŸ‘ 32277 πŸ” 13861 πŸ’¬ 589 πŸ“Œ 1595

Completely lost it at Slap Mandel and never got it back!

27.01.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Twelve people enter... twelve people leave πŸ˜‰

#gladlands

27.01.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 154 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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A major glitch has emerged in the regime's plan to send Tom Homan to Minneapolis

26.01.2026 14:51 πŸ‘ 235 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0
26.01.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 7840 πŸ” 2111 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 21

Still dying from these @dimension20.bsky.social Chili Cook off Contestants

Slap mandel
Dorothy Suzuki
Otto von skid
Bean can
Palma egress
Wandy scrapes
Splat the eye kisser
Twit ogalvy
The Fetted molar
Friedrick lube

24.01.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mancalpoly!

16.01.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's free and was designed in mind for those who faced the loss of a job, a whole career trajectory, or a struggling to handle the transition to this absolutely bonkers time we are living in.

Please pass it on to anyone you think it would help!

14.01.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rend Repair Repurpose by staubington A journaling game about making something new from that which was lost.

Rend Repair Purpose is finally up!

Drawing from the art forms of Kintsugi and Blastover tattoos, it’s a journaling game about creating space to grieve then reconstructing yourself to face the world with boldness.

staubington.itch.io/rend-repair-...

14.01.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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IT’S HERE 😍😍😍 After a superbly fun weekend at @magfest meeting all you lovely, sparkly gamers, OUR STEAM PAGE IS LIVE! Add us to your WISHLIST!!

#GloxiniaGame #MAGFest2026 #DanceGame #IndieGame #Coding #GamePlay #RhythmGame #Unity #CSharp #FMV #AfterEffects #Steam #SteamWishlist

14.01.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Snorlax woke up in a rave! #magfest

10.01.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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For anyone at #magfest make sure to check out my very good friends’ booth in the Indie room!

Queer Rhythm Game Fever Dream! Space Channel Five but it’s Town at 3 am

Booth 67!

10.01.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Let me go on
Like I blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hat, I know you're the one

10.01.2026 15:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Which is straight up Stanford prison excitement as art.

It’s frustrating that in so many β€œgaming” spaces best practices from one well-practiced part of the community don’t permeate to people coming at it from a tangential discipline (β€œart”). I wasn’t onboarded right into Counting Sheep” either.

10.01.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The creator of this was a keynote speaker at NASAGA this year and had no experience with games before this. He hopped right from doing theatre to finding a Warhammer designer to make the skipped the part in the middle about what happens when you pull in real people and assign them a role.

10.01.2026 14:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun

25.12.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 4289 πŸ” 773 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 22

If you’re naming me in the same breath as TTRPG studies then you should be following and listening to and citing Professor Torner who has done more for analog game infrastructure than any one person can comprehend. (Any number of us shine from reflecting Evan’s light)

23.12.2025 02:18 πŸ‘ 104 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Imagine someone stole all your shit and then you give them a billion dollars.

11.12.2025 15:27 πŸ‘ 447 πŸ” 92 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 6

Such a fun sourcebook to play around with! We have a riot sneaking in as many historical anachronisms as possible.

Flagbearer is a rad, queer-friendly organization that does great educational work!

06.12.2025 20:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t wait for the Ken Burns documentary of our times where all of the celebrity-read letters have Minecraft or Subway Surfers in the background.

05.12.2025 14:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Gales of November This year marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. Its tragic story was the focus of folk-rock artist Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 ballad, β€œThe Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald....

βœ… Get a write-up in @rascal.news

My thought experiment on what a TTRPG expirience based on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald would look like got covered!

Wasn’t expecting this honor but definitely something to check off from my bucket list.

www.rascal.news/the-gales-of...

04.12.2025 17:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Super cool that Affinity has stopped allowing you to buy their software around the same time my free trial expired.

Was trying to avoid paying a subscription fee for InDesign, much less reformat the projects I was working on, but here we are.

06.10.2025 03:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0