I think most people who aspire to be career writers should internalize that if you can’t pay your bills with it, you shouldn’t go full time freelance. its extremely hard to do and most people can’t do it. I can’t!

I’m convinced that, outside of sports, STRANGER THINGS is the closest thing we have to a monoculture event. Ie an event everyone cares about. Now that it’s ending, what will be the next thing?

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

Your annual reminder that THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING is a Christmas movie (The Fellowship leave Rivendell on Christmas Day).

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Not only is Die Hard a Christmas movie, it is also a scathing critique of Cold War era bureaucracy and the Reagan administration, in this essay I will

We're reportedly going to get a reality show based on FALLOUT: SHELTER www.theinsneider.com/p/fallout-re... I don't know the sourcing, so take it with a TON of salt, but I feel like Amazon continues to miss the POINT of a lot of the stories it runs. Assuming this is true.

Vince Zampella, former CEO of Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty, died Sunday at 55 in a single-car crash in Southern California (NBC Los Angeles) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Not feeling particularly holiday inspired this year. Maybe it’s just job market stuff but finding it hard to get hyped about Christmas.

Mythbusters is forever my 'comfort food' when I want television that I can just turn on and have on in the background. I've probably watched most seasons at least once. But watching them talk science makes me happy.

The amount of AI-related journalism jobs on LinkedIn is too damn high.

Hi, this is Chris Hutton of @ttrpginsider.bsky.social. This is my more 'personal'/non-TTRPG feed. As I'll explain tomorrow in a post on the newsletter, I'm doing less writing for it in the coming year. I still love TTRPGs, but I have other things on my plate and must focus there.