KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS. Director’s Cut. Restored and Remastered. In Theaters October 16.

i kinda miss the era where i mostly did a bit of describing TTRPGs as vaudeville and dismissively referring to AP as "the talkies" but finding people who played games and playing games in the era didn't require a lantern by daylight

One of the greatest SF films of all time

ttrpg raspberries: - most racist osr author award - meanest tweet award - creepiest ap streamer award - "....for 5e" award - non-specific ghibliesque award - most dice & t-shirts in KS award - longest failure to deliver KS hall of fame induction

Star Wars doesn't hold up, isn't as good as the source material (Flash Gordon) and isn't worth caring about other than as a kinda embarrassing cultural phenomena, the first two movies are alright and everything past that is a parade of garbage and nostalgia bait

never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or a hugo award-winning sff author what they were posting about isabel fall in 2020

Incredible how when all we have to lose is our chains how many will opt to glorify those who forge fetters

hemp farming into textile/paper output as a localized production emphasizing soil restoration, create a seed library and greenhouse, survey the plants known as american tobacco (presently not a cultivar), create a wealth destruction machine

Rhode Island Day/Indie Bookstore Day is kinda a nice combo

It's today, today!

The logical conclusion and counter-reformation of the commercialisation of TTRPG crowdfunding is for (actual) small creators to start adding stretch goals like "£1,000,000: Don't stop making news things, renounce the world, and meditate in an undisclosed stupa for the rest of my days."

Glad to see people taking games theory seriously tasker.land/2026/04/21/w...

"Swann’s fantasies spoke to the feminist, gay-rights, and environmental movements. His intense focus on 'civilization' processed the growing sense of cultural malaise." Sean Guynes on Thomas Burnett Swann: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thomas-burnett-swann-fantasy-sf-queer-romance-wolfwinter/

so i have a personal hobby in infohazards but i have a thread from every president of my lifetime and the infamous college dropout who got a job teaching at a private school before his handler picked him up and honed his predatory instincts like a skinner box & think he's the tip of a network

i would hone my occult skills to a degree that this world is not ready for

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

In fact, we are convinced, for most of us, the mythic beast 'audience' is simply an assortment of 'creators' one tier lower than oneself on the 'attention' pyramid.

it does sometimes feel, walking around PVD (a city that i love), that fixing a lot of the problems with the city are basically Urbanism 101 questions you would put in a midterm and watching Smiley routinely try to dismantle bike infrastructure has been embarassing

i know this may be wild as a thought experiment but, given gold = xp seems to cause people to explode into incandescent rage sometimes have we considered: gold is a (currently) near universal symbol for value and conversion is as simple as creating an xp economy if that is a central problem

a thing i think a lot about is how video games had a really weird period in the late 90s and early 2000s when like brand partnerships were treated as increasing the verisimilitude of games (eg Crazy Taxi i think is a pretty bland example) and their legitimacy and gaming journalism kinda said hell ya

I would like to confess to all of you I am not in any way affiliated with the Suckler. I have not ever hung out with the Masked Strangler nor did I have a "slam sesh" with the Notorious Pervert nor did I "slurp some fat ones" with his despicable affiliate, "Pussy Steve."

one of the most black pilling things in existence is finding out almost the entire field of criminal forensics is made up bullshit

Honestly the Lunar Trilogy has really stuck with me this Season of Death & Rebirth

Is a Paracosm a TTRPG?

Honestly beyond his deeply unpopular opinions that are radically out of synch with the city he allegedly represents but excessively aligned with the ghoulish national party, it is incredible to see how unsuccessful Smiley is at even feigning interest in holding his seat

That meme where like... Kojima is just kinda describing reality in a surreal 1980s movie way and people act like it is way weirder than it is with "Notable Dog Execution Enthusiast, Criminal Against Humanity & Philanderer's Husband is into Sissy Hypno/Bimbofication" is probably a distraction FNORD

i think my least popular take on X was that the field of TTRPGs would improve with UBI as many people would actually play games or work in the field they actually want to rather than joylessly churn out product, i believe this strongly

every few months i see a thing about a new low for the NYT and, as i never was a liberal nor a crossword enthusiast, i don't really get it? Like i was a teenager when they openly ran propaganda for a war whose architects should see the gallows in the Hague. Is this surprising?

lifehack: in games where you name yrself naming yr PC Dank Weed ends with the occasional moment of jovial laughter and feeling genuinely less wretched

sometimes when i wake up and get high i have paranoid thoughts like "maybe the internet is just a gamble on making Psychohistory real because it worked in Foundation (ignoring it is a science fictional framing device) and AI just kinda got folded into it (in SF and utopiawank)"

starting essay writing again and struggling with my usual problems with essay writing: - there's a near 0% someone has a baseline knowledge of what i am talking about - academic writing drills in an inefficient solution of creating context while simultaneously acknowledging objections

None of y'all will do it.

When i worked in a corporate bookstore during the last recession the disk in the store player slipped so we only had one disk playing and i tried to time breaks to avoid ever having to hear Viva La Vida by Coldplay which may be the worst fucking song i have heard the whole way through

QTP with a game with a 10/10 Soundtrack

Economy so bad I'm following my dreams

As an emotionally unstable madwoman, i really do owe a debt of gratitude to Yorgos Lanthimos for Κυνόδοντας / Dogtooth (2009) which in a long path lead to me reading House of Psychotic Women which really made me feel seen as someone deeply opposed to "representation" as a metric of social acceptance

666 Followers feels like an accomplishment

[Joins the Group Chat: "Grand Masons of the Shaver Mysteries, Moloch-Leninist (Non-Ethnonationalist)"] Chat, the wife said that calling the Moon People "Lunatics" is SANIST because it isn't their fault the Victorian Illuminati let Fantomas build a Lunar Base via Verne Gun but Grand Moff Karl says...

against what most people will give advice to do in TTRPGs: talk shit on people, talk shit about the slop they peddle, make fun of bad ideas and shitty discourse and, hope against hope, most of these dipshits will chase another trend to get paid instead of churning out soulless slop

doing a magical girl transformation sequence and by the time its finished the only noticeable difference is a visible bulge from a handgun tucked into the waistband of my sweatpants

seeing ads for Brett Smiley really highlights that it is actually embarrassing that he ever held the office before stressing that it is hilarious how little he has to even run on

The quasi-official Troika dungeon rules continue to expand. Your parents always told you "keep strict time records, you'll understand when you're older" and they were *right* : dsell.me/dan-rulez/

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

Gonna start calling life a "Persona-like experience simulator"

i'm not telling anyone what to do but tbh even ironically engaging in the sudden onslaught of using terms like max and mog feels extremely astroturfed and i'm just not doing it, that shit's a tulpa, man all of it is tulpas you don't have to substantiate the tulpa man

Teletherapy getting desperate in ad pitches to me, a person who left psych as a field early on because i think clinical psych is a scam to sell dodgy pills that don't work rather than just legalize drugs

a new adventure for violence is now for sale. all proceeds are being donated to @cosmic-chill.bsky.social to help her relocation efforts. if you already donated, lmk and i'll hit you with the pdf. it's a very horrible adventure. lukegearing.itch.io/glass-men