every single panel of jujutsu kaisen is so expressive and beautiful i wish i had started reading this earlier

finally bought pokemon AZ!! excited to see what everyone has been talking about

Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

slightly diminish a game: shadowjog

Motoko Kusanagi on the subject of vertical video and tiktok:

definitely a very personal take but i don’t read the relationship the love himmel showed frieren as romantic at all, it feels to me like a very deep platonic one

System both does and does not matter. Water is both necessary to life and dangerous. You are both a good and bad person. You can hold two things to be true at the same time. You can understand context and application.

We also have a Showcase Zero 2025 bundle live now on itch.io/b/3476/showc.... Get 8 incredible games from @kobanya.bsky.social @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social @andrewgillis.bsky.social @cutestpatoot.itch.io @yanahn.bsky.social and me at over 50% off!

finally submitted my graduation thesis! now i can... graduate?

We are kicking off the 2026 Playtest Zero season with our annual #ShowcaseZero event for 2025. We’ll have several gamemakers showcase works from last year and talk about their process. Watch it live this weekend at twitch.tv/ehronlime on 9 Jan 2026 6 pm PST/9 pm EST, 10 Jan 2026 10 am (GMT+8)!

i just really enjoy eating at 11pm somehow food feels more satisfying in the late of night

i hope eveyone has a very happy new year! despite and because of everything, things continue.

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

I'm doing a newsletter and the first issue is out now! It's more personal, including links to things that I found interesting, mini-essays not long enough for a full post and a dev log. it's named: "i hope it's not the end of the world" akisperspectives.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/i...

gacha machines are an endless source of fun and cute dice pouches

starting the morning off by crying over vocaloid songs youtu.be/uB_jQ8H2Yeg?...

I'm doing a newsletter and the first issue is out now! It's more personal, including links to things that I found interesting, mini-essays not long enough for a full post and a dev log. it's named: "i hope it's not the end of the world" akisperspectives.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/i...

i miss when i could look at social media and not have to confront the whole misery of the current moment - like i know it's important for people to talk about these issues but also like i can't deal with the lack of divisions between contexts - sometimes i can't handle all the pain mixed in

last night i got so engrossed in reading a book that i read from 11pm to 4am it was such a nice feeling to be so deep into it without worry (until i was very sure i should go to sleep instead of reading more)

there is something about setting a timer for 22minutes and saying 'i will do this for as long as this timer is going' that gets me to actually focus better why does it work

hmmm should i pick up nightreign now that its 25% off

i have a submittable version of my thesis now which feels weird almost like wow i’ve actually gotten here..

when i’m reading on an ereader, the ambient light changes how the page looks, just barely, but it’s enough to place the words in the environment that i’m in and that’s something i don’t get from a screen. the screen is always that colour, always that warmth, unchanging, inorganic

with computer parts availability getting worse maybe we're approaching the future where the computing a lot of us take for granted today becomes more and more inaccessible for wide swaths of people

i love random tables so much

Movie you've rewatched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode no Star (Wars or Trek), LOTR, Marvel, Disney Animated, or Pixar. only one comes to mind for me

i wish i had a group of friends to play multiplayer survival crafting games and the like with

how many hours will i spend in a library or cafe seated at a laptop thinking over my words?

one of the nice things about academic writing is how self-conscious it is about being part of a broader project. (the broader project being inaccessible or uninteresting to some is a different matter) but that sense of an active conversation, of grasping for meaning collectively, that's good.

i associate the scent of lawson coffee with the one study area in campus that i like to be in

there are no lotteria in west tokyo past nakano

it’s like, some things are just harder to draw than other things; ellipses are harder than straight lines, for me right now

person in front of me has a cap with the words ‘i watch too much’ embroidered on it. they haven’t taken their eyes off their phone screen held in a landscape orientation for the entire time i’ve been on this train

when i first opened oddfolk i immediately started a doc to write moves to get it table ready, there’s something about the incompleteness it presents that makes you want to add to it and also makes you feel like you can

i have so many social media accounts for the various contexts that i exist in but like, i feel like im only ever active on one or two at most at any given time

short thread of random stuff i enjoyed at game market autumn 2025! i tbh found less trpg stuff this time (and far less original systems)

my timeline is all paxu but here i am not missing out bc im on my way to game market autumn!!

“how did you get into ttrpgs” i saw them first on the web, thought cool but no one will do this with me. but then i started seeing it everywhere, it followed me into the streets, written on the signs and on the labels of cans. people muttering about it next time on the train. i had no choice

my hobby is watching food related videos at 1am when i’m very hungry (every night)

insightful reflection on the nature of the spaces we had and the space we have now online

been a while since i’ve had a media crit video essay engage me like this - it talks about a more ephemeral genre by linking thoughts and feelings about many different works across mediums and conveys the experience of relating to them and finding meaning in them youtu.be/yr4KAuqVglI?...

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

there are a whole host of other labels some of which were set to hide automatically (i don’t recall setting these), this is really annoying, there should have been a prompt to set these manually when the feature was added/ at least have them all be ‘warn’ by default

i just never really wanted a disco elysium two. personally would be more interested in what else the creators want to get up to (if that were to be a DE2 then sure why not, but as an audience member i never imagined there would or should be a second one)

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the second game i ran this weekend was Thieves of the Tome by @dairykillsme.bsky.social ! i love the concept so much and it delivers on exactly what it promises, the taking of the actual books and making spells from them is structured super well and the gm prep tools were exactly enough

over the weekend i facilitated Follow by ben robbins for the first time and it was a lot of fun! the format makes for great scenes with zero prep and i like how it works in many genres and modes

yes i am playing stellar sora

the more i think about it, i like the idea of physical books but they don't fit into my life right now for a bunch of reasons and that kind of makes me sad maybe i should make more room for physical books