spiritually feasting upon some unearthly reminiscence

"Could stand to be living in less interesting times, thanks" I think to myself but then remember all of the history I've studied and lads, it's all interesting times all the way down

new year new post

Just realized that Emperor Qin Shi Huang's "Terracotta Army" of clay soldiers he kept in a vault in like 200 BC make him the first Warhammer Guy. he got some disposable income and started painting minis. totally get it

it's less than zero degrees celsius out here in Cork right now, currently basically hugging a gas heater and nursing a hot chocolate

DoomEd, the original Doom mapping software running.

marlborough-blenheim-claridge hotels, atlantic city, new jersey, 1979

The Apartment is a Christmas movie and a New Year's Eve movie and a perfect movie, period

getting back to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, currently in the third sandbox section set within Sukhothai and it's kicking incredible amounts of ass, truly in love with this game

made the mistake of touching the Total War: Warhammer games via the Steam winter sale and thus have become infected with needing to revisit my collection of Old World black library books, or indeed finding more

me between Christmas and New Years

some people in my life are not prepared for how insufferable I'm about to become about Mothership

Update #900 from SBIRS GEO-5 (TOP SECRET) 1. Strange Wall of Black Mold 2. Omniscient Code

it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan.

Met my girlfriend's family today and found out her brother plays D&D3.5. Immediately asked if he'd seen the module that stats out Saddam Hussein.

finally finished Chapter 1 and got to Footfall in Owlcat's Rogue Trader crpg and I may now be well and truly addicted

Dad got me the Mothership deluxe set for Christmas, ended up running the whole of Another Bug Hunt for the family over the course of a few days. God dammit this game is good.

Thief: The Dark Project (1998)

most appalling beauty

getting back into playing the Rogue Trader CRPG and just got to the Navis Nobilite station in the opening chapter. Have always loved the navigator iconography in 40k and I adore how it's being rendered here

update apparently I'm perfectly fine and the effusion went down on its own!? a christmas miracle

should I run another session of Twilight: 2000 for my family over Christmas, i.e. should we have a nasty nuclear yuletide, y/n

yes I was maybe softly amongst the folks that thought Nolan's ODYSSEY looked kinda sauceless. Yes I am now utterly pumped for it based on the trailer. I contain multitudes.

Syd Mead's concept art for an Arctic Mobile Operation Base, issued by U.S. Steel, 1965.

this is how your emails find me btw

hmmm okay so why is some dark horrid diseased part of me thinking I wanna make Free Company a percentile game

I think the new trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey looks sick as fuck

Monday night movie: THE LAST VALLEY (1971)

as soon as Tuesday hits I am basically going screenless and so on in order to hang out with my family until probably basically New Years, it's going to be a boozy time, see y'all on the other side

the problem with finally running an actual ongoing Mage: The Awakening campaign is that I'm listening to a truly worrying amount of nu-metal

temporarily living back in my parent's place means that I'm back in the proximity of the Rogue Trader rulebook, a truly dangerous place to be for me

Nothing exists in itself.

cramming in a cardio appointment related to my mild pericardial effusion tomorrow right before Christmas, please pray for my poor heart

Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue drops tomorrow, all about Ed Emshwiller's series of four-armed Santa covers for Galaxy magazine! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

hmmm okay yeah so what if I ran a pretty hardcore OSR mega city-as-dungeon game of Errant inspired by Dark Souls, Gormenghast, and Mordheim 🤔

Garden of Earthly Delights

Temptation of St Anthony

you know how people slow down for christmas I may as well be stationary

catching up with the Fallout TV show, main takeaway as ever is that Walton Goggins is a not just national but international treasure

I bring further tidings of my family's homebrew cider crop from 2025: it's dangerously good. There's a reason I'm having it in a small glass.

Two days left on this Forged in the Dark sale bundle! bundleofholding.com/presents/For...

spent today doing a proper reread of @avaislam.bsky.social's Errant - I'd backed it back in the day, and have the physical book, but have never run it. Having read it I now have a dire and abiding need to bring it to the table, goddamn. Just gotta grab me one of my hex maps and go.

Got a sale happening for the end of the year. 25%-off everything, or get all 34 games and supplements for just $50. itch.io/s/172204/win...

Saturday night movie: IVANHOE (1952)

the eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless mountain lakes

Why do I always forget to post this until the middle of December? Unholy Land was my first self published adventure. An example of the Google Docs+public domain art style. --> www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1...

looking over all of my in-progress game design projects, most of which have sat dormant for many more months than they should have this year, by way of a year-end round-up

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