Miracle Mile has an ending that is somehow bleak and romantic all at once.

Backed project for Blades in the Dark just arrived. Quality looks good. A fine XMas gift for myself.

Kinda sucks to see a product like a gaming map projector that looks amazing but to then immediately get bad vibes when you see it’s just a bit too cheep.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Because I love you and I want you to be happy.

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." "In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy"- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Yep.

Some good, thoughtful work here. Worth your time.

Where my head is at.

Hey how do you self censor a post?

gorp?!

Gonna wait to see what sorts of economic package Santa is offering but definitely keen to get this.

Folks, the number of children harmed by playing youth sport is magnitudes more than those who regret receiving gender affirming care.

"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie."

New Jersey

You Sir!

So am I correct in assuming that a MST40K army would have to be Adeptus Mechanicus?

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

While it can take some prompting, it’s nice when the ideas flow #ttrpg

Amen.

I went to see "Event Horizon" with friends, and a couple, likely on a date, was seated in front of us. At some point, around the end of act II, one of the pair said, clearly confused, "I don't get it." Their date, frustrated, replied. "It's possessed!" We had to fight to not cackle loudly.

# Christmas carol lyrics that go hard when you paste them over a picture of Stacker Pentecost

Just remember, whenever you see someone doing a thing you can do, super poorly, but with a heaping amount of unearned confidence, that is just reality giving you a taste of what you are capable of surpassing should you try. This reminder is for me specifically.

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

I really do wish that students wouldnt seek to call my bluff when I make plain that they risk failing if they don’t get their work in.

Where my head is at:

Sad to say that at the moment there is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to "Supernatural Investigator in a Victorian-ish setting" TTRPGs over the last few years. I would love to buy more of them, but I have an aversion to having multiple games covering too similar a ground. Best wishes

You will be visited by three spirits

Again telling my students that older people insisting that this is the best times of their lives are selling them short. Don’t peek before 20, I beg of you.

Well put it on my list of possible pick ups for next year.

Well damn.

Great Film. Great Review.

For many of you:

Call of Cthulhu: There are things worse than not winning. Much worse. Vampire the Requiem: Now you are the monsters. Paranoia: Working together is over rated. Daggerheart: Same Genre, different vibes.

Where my head is at:

I put out a wish into the world and it came true!

Just two killing machines chillin and being pals.

One of my favorite movies.

Adapt Swansgrave to Daggerheart eh…

Today's Gaming Heresy: If you buy a game and find that it doesn't fit your needs, doesn't inspire you to use it, or just feel that after a time it has been replaced, pass it along to someone new, by trade, gift or sale as best fits your needs. Each game is for someone not everyone.

Random GM Advice: Don't force system engagement. Abandon things your players don't seek out or at the very least, limit it's intrusion into your games. ex: If your build a campaign around piracy and create/find detailed rules on sailing and navel combat, but find that the table disengages when >

One of the challenges that will ever persist in the information age is parsing out the differences between what disturbs us, what offends us and what harms us, with extra complication coming from us being both personal and collective in this case. No easy, one size fits all answer.

Real talk: if you are operating in a creative space and not pushing back against AI proliferation I’m just not going to vibe with your content. I’m not speaking merely of those using such I mean people who are throwing up their hands and claiming it’s inevitable. Get thee behind me.

"When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, +

A good discussion here about house rules and their impact. Worth your time.

Sending strength and wisdom to all my academic colleagues for whom final grade tallying can be heartbreaking. Remember that you do not own the weight of student failures. You did your best. So many students are incredible and do well. Others fail. It is not your fault.

For the Emperor! Gotta love how WH40K just embraces the face that a purely void based fleet in no way has to look practical when done to a ludicrous scale.