Add a word, ruin a movie. The Fellowship of the Ring Doorbell

Watching the Winter Olympics, and every 30 seconds when the “Milano Cortina 2026” logo appears, my brain goes, “They set the numbers at the same font size as the letters but the extended set width of the letters means the numbers look too small!!!”, and I’ve got another week of this to get through.

I have been *so desperately* trying to finish this next issue of Wolf so I can have it for @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social , I havent been sketching much! I've really behind where I wanted to be. >< Here's a little something I noodled the other day. #sketch #sketchbook #ballpointPen

“Epstein talked to Ross about funding an exhibition titled Statutory that would feature underage models … who ‘ look nothing like their true ages … . Some people go to prison because they can’t tell true age,’ Epstein explained. Ross responded to the idea saying: ‘You are incredible!’ “

This, ten thousand times. For me, Roy Lichenstein’s blanket pass from the art world for copyright theft has always said an awful lot about the art world’s attitude toward creativity.

The final 24 hours of the dark fantasy-horror Night Hunters project is started! To celebrate, I want to share this art process/ preview compiled by @koboldpress.com AD Marc Radle. koboldpress.com/less-than-24...

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

Throwback Thursday: ‘Gwannyn’s Song’ by JM Landels | pulpliterature.com/throwback-th...

Important to remember that the social contract works in one direction. The players HAVE to trust the DM, she's their only lens into the world and the ultimate arbiter of their actions. The players CAN'T deceive the DM and if they did (ie lying about dice rolls) it would be considered cheating.

FRPG Player Tip: When joining a new game, definitely think about whether the system feels like a good fit for you. But every system is capable of telling a dizzying array of stories as it’s filtered through the players, so look first and foremost to the type of story the other players want to tell.

Run, motherfuckers.

New Patreon post about magic and chaos in Crows! www.patreon.com/posts/150528...

An Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) card game created by an Indigenous designer right here in #Winnipeg. Currently $4,110 pledged of $7,000 goal.

Hello! I see you've decided to conflate a human being being an evil fascist apologist committing crimes and perpetuating fraud with (checks notes) being a woman. Perhaps you would like to not do this.

RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included his work in my own art collection.

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

Absolutely true across all storytelling platforms. If everything is quicksand, I'm not going to trust someone telling me it's now lava when it's actually been shag rug the entire time.

Lettuce goes back to the ancient ancient worlds. Ancient peoples were fond of lettuce just as we are today. The late bronze age saw a budding cult of the lettuce arise. Their services always began with "lettuce pray."

This is something that @lochinvar.bsky.social and I talk about a lot. We trace the issue to a different core problem of gaming: *in general,* players don't have enough foundation in a setting to know if a lie is plausible, nor the resources to fact-check an NPC's deception.

FRPG GM Tip: Feints, red herrings, and unreliable narrators are great tools for fiction, but a campaign feels more personal than any fiction ever can. Using narrative subterfuge once to deceive the characters is fun. But doing it over and over again runs the risk of the players feeling deceived.

Bravo Ireland. This is such a great boost for artists. I have an Artists tax exemption in Ireland for works under 50k. It helped me so much - existence in a feast or famine career is hard. But consecutive Irish governments realized that writers, musicians, artists are the lifeblood of the country.

I will call attention to the official Wizards statement on the topic: www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/c...

Fund this book so I can fill it with art!

I’m honestly surprised that my friends and I didn’t try to figure out the math on this while playing Traveller or Mechwarrior all those many years ago.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

FRPG GM and Player Tip: The flavor of spell effects can almost always be reworked without breaking the game. Change up a spell’s appearance, components, damage type, or the way it’s resisted to create interesting cult casters, PCs and NPCs with unique magical backgrounds, and more.

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The new official video game of @unpub.org gradient.horse

Hey! Draw Steel won an Editor's Choice award from @gamingtrend.com! gamingtrend.com/reviews/draw...

“But I’m not giving up That easy I’m not giving up My mind ’Cause the more that you try The more that they need There’s nowhere to hide When they break out the guillotine…” Radio Free Isheridar.

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FRPG GM Tip: The best way to improvise is to do so before your game as well as during. Ad-lib or generate lists of NPC and location names, wandering monsters, bits of discoverable lore, NPC mannerisms and secrets, and anything else you can think of, then pull randomly from those lists as you play.

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

ICYMI, the full Half Time show with Bad Bunny, aka the Benito Bowl. youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8?...

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Good grief. What a read. Polygon on why the Vecna Eve of Ruin adventure (and so much more) fell flat. www.polygon.com/dnd-5e-final...

If you have a Ring device you can encrypt it's output so videos can only be seen by you on one of your whitelisted devices. Sharing for no reason...

I’m watching a lot of petty, mean-spirited haters dunking on Kid Rock on every platform and seriously you all rock.

Remember when we thought Sarah Palin was the dumbest person in politics Good times.

In the late 1980s, I had a Champions character, Ironclad, who was a heroic engineer with a slow, heavy suit of battle armor. His ability to dodge attacks, his accuracy, and most of his attacks were below average. But his armor defenses were way above average. 1/x

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

FRPG Player Tip: When a new session picks up after a week of real time but only ten minutes of game time, you’re going to have trouble remembering things that would be fresh in your character’s mind. So keep notes of party goals, recent discoveries, upcoming plans, and more to close that gap.

Gonna continue this train and talk about another black creator that means a lot to me. Dwayne McDuffie. One of the founders of Milestone comics which was the first comic book universe that featured black and POC characters and of course Static Shock. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_...

So it's Black History Month and that means I think it's a good time to get familiar with Mike Pondsmith, if you're not already. When you see R. Talsorian Games, that's him. When you see Cyberpunk 2077, that's his world. Mekton, Castle Falkenstein, also him. cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Po...

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

If Ken Whitman is not a name known to you, 1) congratulations, and 2) this quick read is worth your time. www.designers-and-dragons.com/2022/08/16/t...

Ken “Whit” Whitman, notorious in tabletop gaming for various get rich schemes and scams, is back trying to promote a Best Tabletop Designers of All Time Facebook page where he ranks creators using generative AI slop entries and art. Please don’t feed the troll.

FRPG GM Tip: The different modes of many fantasy RPGs — combat, roleplaying, and exploration — are often talked about as separate elements, even as they most often play best in combination. Look for roleplaying opportunities during battles. Have exploration trigger quick and easy battles.