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Gav Thorpe

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New York Times Bestselling Author, world creator, consultant and games developer specialising in SF and Fantasy. Proud daddy. Whitecishet. He / him.

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African Boardgames Convention crowdfunding is now live.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/uvbgc2024

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Make your own fun out of hard disk, RAM, download speed…

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I’ve been building up to it 😄

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Ooooh. Just popped over the 1.5k followers mark. Thank you all!

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Does it mean something like this?

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Dan Morison's avatar Dan Morison @darkmechanic.bsky.social
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It's me, Dan Morison! Concept artist, character artist, scifi & fantasy and illustration artist! Consider me for your jobs!
#portfolioday

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I was just looking at Death in the Spires (17 in the Kindle store!) and I saw the AI summary of the reviews: "Readers praise the writing as excellent, grammatically correct, and free of weird words." If ever AI proved it was bullshit. I have never written ANYTHING free of weird words.

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Four Weddings and a Baby. Ice Age of Ultron. The Dark Knight at the Museum. Law Abiding Citizen Kane. Robin Hood: Prince of Persia.

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Turned out that the freedom of A level self-led learning and lots of coursework wasn't necessarily a recipe for success for someone with ADHD... (unknown at the time, obviously). But the basic grounding has persisted I think.

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As with much of that era of SF, conceptually gripping, narratively... sufficient. Haven't watched the show yet, but it's on my radar now that I've caught up with The Expanse. Sweet Tooth S3 is next though.

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I was going to follow this account, but feel attacked by the idea of ‘vintage’ catalogues from the 90s… 😭

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This is the Platonic cut. Makes it look like you have maximum sandwich.

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I was doing (badly) an A level in Sociology 😄

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(Apropos: in the synopsis for my Regency WIP I inadvertently typed there would be a "bug gambling scene", and liked the typo so much I did, in fact, write a bug gambling scene. They raced beetles.)

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Alice Fraser's avatar Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social
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Let’s reframe taxes as a monthly subscription service to public utilities so that tech bros will get behind the idea.

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Not enough Primarchs disguise themselves as animals or objects to seduce mortals.

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Paul Scott Canavan's avatar Paul Scott Canavan @abigbat.bsky.social
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Hiii, I’m Paul, an art director and artist who has worked on IPs including Magic: the Gathering, Silent Hill, DnD, Destiny, Guild Wars 2, LoL and more.

For the last 9 years I’ve been developing my own game, the witchcraft TTRPG, Pale Tides. I’ll be sharing a lot more soon 👁️👄👁️
#PortfolioDay

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Alasdair Stuart's avatar Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com
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Signal Boost time. If you've got a creative project you want to promote, leave the details people need in replies, like a title or a link. If it's a crowdfunder pre-launch, let us know 2 weeks out. We'll include as many as we can in this week's issue of The Full Lid.

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I need to remember to take it more often.

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The coming Civil War in the UK Conservative Party. Queen Mary University of London and Sussex Uni conducted its post-election Party Members Project survey of Conservative grassroots. On a potential merger between the Tories and Reform:

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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 18/20

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Not published yet - hopefully it’ll get picked up by someone.

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Needed to set full screen in the launch options for some reason. (Worked fine already in my Steam account…)

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Thanks! Setting the launch options had fixed the problem. 🙂

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Fear and Loathing in Llenelli. Things to do in Swansea When You’re Dead. In Bangor.

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It’s been this way for a while unfortunately. Only just got round to asking for advice 😆

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Erin Biba's avatar Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social
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For a while now I have had this icky feeling that a lot of our use of AI is us just using it to find examples to show each other how bad AI is and TBH I think we should probably all stop doing that cause excessive energy consumption doesn't differentiate between real use and joke use. 😬

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PC folks! My son’s been trying to launch Among Us from Steam but this keeps happening instead. Other games run fine. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled files and verified them. Web search not helpful.

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Chaosium's avatar Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social
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This is true: the #RuneQuest Humble Bundle includes literally *everything* released for the RuneQuest - Roleplaying in Glorantha #TTRPG line up to April this year, plus the 800 page Guide to Glorantha. All for $18.00. Ends July 27th.

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Jarrod Baker's avatar Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social
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imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists

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There’s a great bit in Sourcery. When asked if it can destroy cities, Rincewind replies that it takes out people but leaves the buildings standing.

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Anna Meier's avatar Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social
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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.

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Steve White's avatar Steve White @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social
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Following a Late Triassic mega-monsoon, a Fasolasuchus scavenges the corpse of a Shastasaurid ichthyosaur washed ashore. A trio of Zupaysaurs await their turn at the carcass. A herd of dicynodonts pass along the storm-lashed shoreline. A3 piece for the new book.

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Small Robots's avatar Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social
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Please do consider signing up to my Patreon - it's my only source of income these days, and you get access to everything for a quid/buck a month, or even less than that if you pay for a whole year in advance. It really is a lot of content for basically fuck all money!

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Saucy Rick Havoc 's avatar Saucy Rick Havoc @rickhavoc.bsky.social
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Time for an economics lesson.

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Ana Visneski's avatar Ana Visneski @oceanbound.bsky.social
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I mean… this is so on brand for me it almost hurts. (Also lawyer answer lawyer answer crisis manager answer.)

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So what you’re saying is that catheters and nurses are like a crashed computer and the person from the IT dept?

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Those of a certain vintage were raised with a pervasive Steven Spielberg presence in cinema, but other than recent flawed attempts to reboot Indy, it feels like that's really not part of the culture any more. 'Family' films as a genre have been all but replaced by franchise films.

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