This is going to be a very long thread for my industry chums sharing a method for assessing the relative merits of exhibiting at any given convention. It’s really long. Let’s start somewhere away from the maths. There are a lot of intangible reasons to attend a convention as an exhibitor:

Eight Doctor Who plots from David Bowie's Let's Dance, for RPG and other purposes. Or is it more than eight? thedoorintime.blogspot.com/2026/04/eigh...

SPACE ALIEN: So that’s how warp drive works. Do you have any other questions about the universe? ME: Is there a god? ALIEN: A what? ME: A divine being who created the universe, humanity, etc. ALIEN: Oh, you mean Yakub! Yeah we’ve met. Weird dude but I guess you’d have to be. I mean look at you.

Aww.

Mark Evanier has had a large amount of original comics art stolen from his home; there's a list at this link. If you're involved in buying or selling art, please circulate it. www.newsfromme.com/2026/04/07/m...

I now hopefully have all the questions I need for the Conpulsion quiz apart from a possible backup round.

Guess I have ro finish that quiz prep afrer all.

🚨 PLEASE SHARE 🚨 A week ago, “Disaster Queers: Night at the Museum” launched 💜 Queer fantasy heist: chaotic found-family idiots, museum job goes VERY wrong, prehistoric murder-egg, magic + bad decisions. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GGX53JWS

Reminder: I have already promised someone use of my skull as a decoration on their dirtbike if it comes to it. Gotta prepare somehow, right?

The DIE RPG: Metadungeon crowdfunder is now. Back it here! Bring this amazing thing into existence! #ttrpg #indiettrpg

"I love you." "I know."

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?" So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Joel got a reply.

Happy Roger Corman centenary!

Must resist the temptation to edit this into the narration boxes in a page from The Crow.

When Dave Arneson purchased some wacky 20-sided dice in London, then later used them for his Blackmoor game, there's no way he even considered someone might be throwing one in space 50+ years later. And talking about the gaming style he co-created.

Masque Of The Red Death on the big screen for Roger Corman's centenary! And now I want to run Warhammer.

Happy Easter! Hey, you know who else had a J name who died and then was risen? (Jean Grey thread)

Q: What made you want to be a comics professional? A: The 1997 Toreador Clanbook for White Wolf's Vampire: the Masquerade

Become invulnerable to blunt "ok" texts by always reading them the way Freddie says it in "Under Pressure."

Daily bunny no.3278 encounters a vampurr

I'm running/playing The One Ring RPG for 24 hours straight in May Money goes to edinburgh food project If you donated and want to contribute an NPC or item, hit me up :) www.justgiving.com/page/joe-bla...

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

There is an inverse and proportional relationship between how much an episode of this show featured its ostensible "main character" (that crummy detective) and how good said episode is. Which is doubly unfortunate, because the mortals in a Vampire story should be as interesting as the Kindred.

Have now, I think, got four of the six @conpulsion.bsky.social Quiz rounds prepped. The three easy ones and one of the two I have to research. Leaving the other one of those and the one I have no idea for.

Tremere occult investigator: Self-proclaimed Biblical monster gods, probably quite powerful based on generation and age but if they're so great how come our clan founder managed to kill and eat one? Toreador events promoter: Wikipedia says it means "before the Flood"?

Maybe this is just me but...

Being hopeful but tense about Artemis II until they make it back.

Less than a week to go until DIE RPG: THE METADUNGEON launches, and we have our cover reveal. Behold what happens when an Edition War gets literal, as is DIE's wont. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/r...

If you'd like to follow along with the #Artemis II launch, NASA has a live blog here: www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... and you can watch the official broadcast on the NASA site here: plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi... or on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

April 1st. Tread carefully. Consider celebrating Halfway to Halloween as an alternative.

Studio A: Hey, we're blaming canning the Buffy revival on the script. Studio B: Hey, we're hiring the writers for the next Scream. Not that I care about Scream after 7, but happy to see Studio A look sus.

Ballad Hunters, the GUMSHOE game of folk songs come eerily to life in gritty 1813, is Kickstarting now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pel...

YES! HA HA HA… YES!

I like that P*yP*l has given me options to work around using a phone number I don't have any more to login which then, when done, take me back to asking to use the number again. Good work. Very well done.

My "insurance investigator tracks down 12 tons of KitKats" movie just got so much better.

And you can tell that money doesn’t matter in the future because he’s playing against a living computer, a psychic, and a guy wearing x-ray glasses. bsky.app/profile/andy...

@conpulsion.bsky.social Quiz answer sheets off to be printed! Now to come up with enough questions.

i don't think Weir is a bad person per se: pretty sure he's just got a bad case of Engineer Brain where all the problems in society are just people not following the clear instructions. I mean, having that problem can absolutely TURN you into a bad person if it's not dealt with (see: Adams, Scott)

I wonder if he's bothered by all those messages about cooperating and putting aside differences to help each other in stuff like The Martian or Project Hail Mary... oh.

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Ah yes, British Summer Time, I can tell by the hailstones.

The first post for our Analogue theme is up! @malcolmcraig.bsky.social explores depictions of armed American masculinity in a Cold War context across Tabletop Role-Playing Games like Delta Force: America strikes back!, Twilight: 2000, & The Price of Freedom: www.historicalgames.net/manly-men-wi...

Niles: It wasn‘t really your finest hour, was it? Fraiser: I thought it was a novel idea for treatment. How was I meant to recognise the great clown Pagliacci without makeup?

Me blocking someone

Reposting this because I revamped my site and the link changed. Added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I think is more interesting than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! rian-johnson.com/scripts

On the subject of the Olympics trying to boot trans people, and genetic differences aiding athletes, consider Michael Phelps who's so genetically unusual he sould be in the X-Men.

The Filmhouse is showing Roger Corman's Masque Of The Red Death on Easter Sunday. I donated to the reopening campaign and I feel like this is my reward.

The player who wouldn't show me his character sheet. This isn't the reason I no longer play with him but it was the first warning sign.

Fingers crossed it isn't the same guy at Hulu deciding if we get the X Files sequel.

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