to whomever in Bayonetta did the vocal line for the continue screen screaming "THE SHADOW'S STILL CAST" thank you for giving me life on many occasions when i have wanted to quit

You can probably define games by an axis of skill/randomness (i.e. closed systems are defined by the absence of skill because there is a right move with the randomness of "luck of the draw") and TTRPGs by how much skill exists to both circumvent the randomness which is the system

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

Why Write Adventures? (i refuse to resume blogging) because adventures (unlike systems) contain things that people can creatively re-use and reappropriate to whatever their situation is (they are primarily descriptive of a place/time in theory) while systems provide a model for action within a space

On Thursday, the Providence General Assembly will bring their anti-ICE demand to the City Council The PGA will host a “Rally and Speak-Out against ICE on Providence City Property and ICE Terror and Brutality” outside Providence City Hall on Thursday, January 22, at 5 pm.

Damn nice to see some vindication

We're so proud and happy to hear that @thomasha.bsky.social is a 2025 Philip K.Dick Award Nominee for UNCERTAIN SONS. Congratulations, Thomas!

Domino Meme: Florida Radio Host/Cuckold has Tucker Carlson declare Holy War on the Middle East Hulk Hogan Hotwife Situation Post Coital Racist Rant Peter Theil (Conservative Mass Surveillance Oligarch) Decides To Destroy The Free Press over Outing Bog TERFs Capitalize "Eve Fartlow" Present Day

in most times i find the 1st and 4th chapter of the Zhuangzi extremely comforting

to whomever in Bayonetta did the vocal line for the continue screen screaming "THE SHADOW'S STILL CAST" thank you for giving me life on many occasions when i have wanted to quit

Not a home for all in your city's jail, who you have categorically ignored even after brave witnesses said that Shacoby Kenny, a 32-year-old pretrial detainee, was brutally beaten by COs until he died on 12/7. A month of silence is a month too long, @wutrain.bsky.social. #bospoli #ShutDownSouthBay

if the most evil thing you believe you can claim is that you have imagined doing wrong i hate to tell you about materialism comrade

Most are, thankfully, dead and cannot benefit from my patronage but we could start with "objectively murdered someone" to "outright called for or participated in crimes against humanity directly or indirectly (including taking CIA money)" or being utterly horrible to everyone around them

i do credit my success in this world to my knowledge of esoteric spiritual techniques, familiarity with and comfort forging bonds/contracts with otherworldly entities, lifelong fascination with nerd/engineering stuff and inability to be impressed by influencer tricknology

i guess it's good that everyone is learning what a massive piece of shit Brigitte Bardot was but maybe if more people had paid attention while she was still alive she wouldn't have gotten away with it for so long

what's up gamers, I'm back with another blogpost about editing. this one's about development editing rather than line and copy editing, though, so the tips are all a little more vague and philosophical. hope you enjoy anyways: samsorensen.blot.im/ten-intangib...

doing the actual work of learning/apprehending things so imagined things are more interesting is the unglamorous part of creative work along with developing yr own taste rather than simply consuming consensus. That, negative feedback and people not giving a shit how hard you worked is the life.

hi new followers, weird because i have no idea why i am getting followers, i am disconnected from using social media in a meaningful way and this is not really "my" account in terms of anything i have accomplished but is "my" account in that occasionally i post about bookselling (which i like)

if anyone ever called me an influencer i think i would slap the spirit from their body, bind it to a nail and spend my remaining years in this mask tormenting their spirit

in the days of the great dark, hail to the cold devouring maw, may it eat yr enemies rather than you.

book title: my year of injaculating badly like someone should write this, i am both not the author nor particularly interested in the contents of said book other than knowing a lot about Taoist Magical Praxises but honestly absolute all timer memoir title

the comedy of errors of having no information to offer the public (despite quarter century old mass surveillance tech that gives live access to all devices) nor video footage (despite blankets of CCTV cameras) & arresting someone and saying everyone should relax before releasing them as unrelated

was informed of the Brown Shooting by a Brown student who was stranded across the river and learned i don't own a cellphone (incidentally i would not have received an update, i am a product of public schools [rim shot])

I was gonna list books i sold more than 12 copies of personally this year (which puts them over a distressing % of books published by the majors) but 1) it is actually hard to reconstruct and 2) it is a surprising number of titles by living authors

Eating a snack cake with the label "contains a bioengineered food ingredient" really drives home we live in a cyberpunk dystopia it just is unevenly distributed

opened photoshop for the first time in like 6 months for this lmao

in 2025 despite generally the best attempts of multiple people, i did not take my final bow and will continue to irritate people who are vaguely aware of knowing me and/or who i am

The interesting, sophisticated thing about games is not whether they can tell stories as well as books or movies (they can’t) or float shocking themes as well as fine art (honestly, who cares). It’s the manipulation of systems, the play of contingency, the brokenness of machines.

[Eyeing the Minecraft hoodie another 40 year old dad at this parent teacher meeting is wearing] hey man, you read penny arcade?

If it doesn't work with the old stuff it's not in the "works with the old stuff club" is all I'm saying.

i think the healthiest diagnostic i ever did was around 2004 realizing the Blue Party would rather the Red Party win than pass any legislation that benefits working people and, as a 17 year old, determined i would never vote for either national party. If it doesn't work: discard it.

y'know i cannot wait for the AI bubble to crash so i can take a train to NYC and hold an "it is ok to jump" sign in front of wall street

to really experience gamer lyfe again i'm refusing to buy new games till i 100% the random games on my old PS (WOOO)

Bro has a chest cavity just begging to be filled with eggs.

while i have your attention

Troika continuing to do the most to be the world’s only roleplaying game.

The entire pundit class has convinced people for so long that their “analysis” was somehow necessary and valuable when in reality it was just a con game to manufacture consent for bias-confirming “strategies” that only benefited the capitalist class and guaranteed pundits career security.

i'm glad Mamdani is likely to win but honestly the DNC should be, as an institution, Old Yellered as soon as humanly possible so people stop investing so much energy into a party whose primary successes are being incapable of learning from defeats or victories and avoiding popular decisions

Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists of the World Fantasy Awards!

Who wants to fill out a questionnaire about running a Troika megadungeon in-person play campaign? It would be a HUGE HELP if you took 5 minutes and gave us some opinions. And an even BIGGER help if you shared this to whatever UK folks you know. forms.gle/Dq6KSqXqGscM...

Every social media company: hey most of our users hate each other what if we gave them better ways to ratio each other in this crab barrel Users: could we just have a QoL improvements? Social Media: look we're competing with the shell of Twitter in a psyop space that's pretty well mined...

This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it. - Bester

so who serves the machine elves and who is feeling the lemurian metaconsciousness hyperobject?

oh hey hitting one of the number based followers counts that is fun with 6-1-9

Henry Ford should probably be one of the most reviled human beings of all time an enemy of all living things. i'd rather be a Luddite than a simp for a capitalist whose attacks on labor laid the ground for the ghoulish nightmare hellscape of the U$A

“The videos show how Meta has built an entire supply chain for dangerous, privacy violating content on the internet. It sells glasses that allow people to surreptitiously film others in public and operates a social network where inflammatory, outrageous content is rewarded and monetized…”

143k Rhode Islanders will not receive SNAP. A loss of $29 million a week to area supermarkets.

today answered for me "yes someone has livestreamed being a bystander to a shooting and closed with a full sign off" i remain blissfully unaware if anyone livestreaming during a mass casualty event has asked "chat is this real" before exiting the mortal coil

Do not groan and moan when I describe the cat as "sumptious". It was not I who made it like that.

me, about to go into grad school: sometimes i rerun the coffee to save money my friend who went to HVAC school: i own a house and car but also all of my body hurts all the time our friend working in a kitchen: check out what happened to my palm from shucking oysters all of us: smoke