And another bites the dust? The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Things Your Tabletop RPG Needs Those who have been reading along with my Actual Play of Dragonlance: Shadows of the Dragon Queen, and who are familiar with the adventure itself, may have noticed that I'm past the halfway point of the adventure. Which means that I, as the GM, need to start…

Linux Diaries Redux II: Got The Box I've reached my first setback, but it's potentially not as bad as some of the ones from my last project.

You want a good reason why it's a terrible idea to give your personal information to Discord and tie your IRL identity to your Discord account - here you go: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

It could be really bad for Discord if Californians contact the office of the Attorney General to report the potential violations of CCPA and CALOPPA citing the recent breach from a few months back where 1.5tb of user data and millions of IDs were leaked, but who can say for sure?

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 190: Childhood Refuge I take on a side quest for Torgal.

@austinwalker.bsky.social's Realis got s shout out in the latest issue of Tabletop Gaming magazine!

I was legit concerned that this was going to be another post about how D&D is the RPG equivalent of Clue or Monopoly, and how everyone who likes it is deluded or brain damaged or brainwashed, or that every recommend was for a flavor of PbtA or FitD, and I'm really, really glad that I'm wrong.

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 189: Now What? We take stock and try to prepare for the final fight.

Hot take: If your off-site backup is in the same area code as you, it's barely an off-site backup.

My sense of Minnesota today is that there’s less tear gas and the same amount of unlawful detention, destruction of families, loss of livelihood, people in hiding. There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.

Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 142 I'm, at long last, back, with the September of 1998 issue, and a handful of N64 games. Please support my Patreon: me a coffee at Ko-Fi: my Live-Streams on out my Let's Plays at Donation Links… To support Disaster Relief from the Turkish/Syrian Earthquake: To…

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 188: The Final Dungeon Appears The title is fairly self-explanatory.

Call your reps!

For any of these alternatives for Discord, like Matrix or Stoat, are anyone just running servers for this? Or am I going to have to shell out a couple grand at today's RAM prices to build another server?

Just what I needed today for my anxiety: Discord deciding to institute mandatory facial ID checks causing about 75% of the Discord Servers I follow to talk about mass exoduses in addition to cancelling subscriptions, all to different servers.

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 187: Attack & Dethrone God (1st Attempt) Time for a boss fight against Ultima.

Linux Diaries Redux: Roll-My-Own NAS A while back, I attempted to move my main computer over from Windows to a Windows/Linux Dual Boot setup. It didn't work out. Now it's time to try a different approach.

Hey, @crunchyroll.com, I don't think #TrigunStargaze is TV14 anymore.

Anime Review: A Mangka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace In the Fall 2025 Season, we got an example of the genre of anime that I'd describe as “metatexual works about making anime and manga”. That series, A Mangka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace, isn't as instructive or informative on how the industry…

The key phrase to remember "harmful to minors." It's been used to push for greater internet restrictions (age-verification, KOSA), VPN bans, book bans, attacks on librarians, healthcare defunding and, most recently, the push to repeal marriage equality.

For your consideration

Honestly, this is a good rule for any genre or era. Start with short fiction or novellas, and if there's an author you like, check to see if they wrote novels.

Tax cuts for the wealthy. Creating jobs since never.

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 186: God Is A Dick We learn about Ultima's involvement in the world's creation.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The DOJ redacted a photo of Mona Lisa in the Epstein files. Meanwhile, as we reported, there were several unredacted, sexually explicit photos of nude women or girls were present in the latest Epstein dump and the DOJ left those photos online until we reported specific links through their tipline.

Culdcept's back! Culdcept Begins, out July 16; very different artstyle

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 185: Storming the Castle Now we have to storm the castle.

Anime Review: Princess Principal Another Anime Review this week, with a look at the Steampunk series Princess Principal. Find out where Princess Principal is available for streaming on JustWatch: Princess Principal is available on Blu-Ray from (Affiliate Links): Amazon: Crunchyroll:

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 184: Gatehouse Next, we have to storm the gatehouse.

@legaleagle.tv Hey - I've got a question that I hope you might have an answer for. From what I understand, pretty much every law office I know has a license agreement with Lexis Nexis to view court dilings. Is it out of the ordinary that ICE has a service contract with them, or is that normal?

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 183: Behemoth Battle We have to get past a Behemoth.

Minor Tweaks I’d Make To Final Fantasy XIV’s Starting Job Lineup Lately, I've been putting some real thought into the selection of starting jobs in Final Fantasy XIV, what cities they're connected to, and what the flavor of those cities is. In particular, I think, were I able to do so, I'd make a…

Woke 2 has claimed its first victim ahead of schedule

Aqua knows she's up to no good 😓 Anime:【OSHI NO KO】Season 3

Dragonlance: Shadows of the Dragon Queen Part 16: Slippery When Wet This time, we love it when a plan comes together.

Seeing a headline about "Game stocks sliding over Google's AI creating 'games' from prompts" makes it very clear that the funds and stonkbros who are making these big trading calls don't actually play games for fun. They don't look at art for enjoyment. Their lives are empty and hollow.

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 182: Orb! I finish off the last of these marks and move forward with the story.

I'm not posting here, but it might be one of the most embarrassing things an "auteur" director has ever released. Aronofsky used a hideously unethical AI process to create a show which looks nothing like his work, and looks like it was made by amateurs with school play props. Astonishing.

Time for Texans to act like the Minnesotans they wish they were

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This video is a time machine. I’m ten years old watching this on my PlayStation over and over again because nothing will ever look or sound this good again.

25-minute video by Nukeledge walking through the wave of A.I. slop VGM “remixes” youtu.be/D1-7DPkNAh0 We’ll stay over here with real music created by real musicians. A.I. music doesn’t involve real skill or development. youtube.com/ocremix

Just to be clear: It is our express policy that we DO NOT USE AI TO WRITE THE BEAT. Any writer caught using it will be dismissed.

artists on bsky, don't be afraid to repost your art. there is no shame in it. if you feel shameful for it, that's either learned behavior or secret fake rules you made for yourself. repost it several times a day, for several days. then again a month later. people aren't gonna see it otherwise.

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