Vaguepost observation about the Stranger Things finale... That scene where Holly and her friends push past Mike into the basement is, I think, my favorite moment in the entire series.

Morgan Stanley: 2026 is “The Year of Risk Reboot” as market focus shifts from macro anxieties to micro fundamentals. Policy backdrop is unusually supportive: fiscal stimulus, continued monetary easing, and deregulation form what analysts call a “policy triumvirate” rarely seen outside recessions.

Plur1bus is my favorite new show this year. If you're not already watching, you're really missing out. It's amazeballs.

Yeah, fucking no. My brief foray into video game design was not with a AAA company, but it still felt a little like this - and some of my tabletop experiences were similar as well. There's a reason I work for myself now, and why I'm largely unemployable these days except as a freelancer.

You can rarely tell whether a movie is going to be any good from a trailer. That's why you should treat trailers as a separate art form and appreciate them on their own merits, separate of movies. This is a very good trailer.

This is one of the most intriguing RPGs I've seen in years. Bravo, @xanderrific.bsky.social! I really hope this gets a full release, so I can pimp it far and wide.

Escape room gaming for the holiday.

You have *got* to be kidding me. The single best scene in all of Season 2 was left on the cutting room floor?!? I mean, it's understandable given the disastrous trainwreck they ran with for the season wrap, but still - what could have been... (Robot Revolution, Scene 43 - video's cued up)

Absolutely wild. Also wildly awesome.

Working on Stargate was a career highlight for me. It's one of the most easily gamified IPs out there (zat guns aside), and I was so proud to power a tabletop RPG for it with our Spycraft ruleset. With so many of the OG creatives in the mix, I'm really hopeful about this new show. Bring it on!

thehill.com/homenews/adm... Can't even keep the narrative consistent within the hour, and the base will still accept it as truth. Rome. Must. Fall.

YAAAAAAASSSSSSS!!!!!!

A good trailer gets you excited about the thing and maybe tells you just enough about it to spark that engine of wonder that'll drive you to release day. A *great* trailer does all that and forgives three years of waiting and endless weeks of teasing.

Gods, if I never work with Illustrator again, it will be too damn soon.

Another year, another spectacular light show from Magical Light Shows.

Instafollow! And "instabuy" should this version ever somehow find its way out as some form of freebie with a donate box. www.instagram.com/reel/DPM59BF...

Want a guaranteed SDCC badge? How much ya willin' to pony up for it? $500? A grand? Think higher. Much, *much* higher. 115455a.blackbaudhosting.com/115455a/Annu...

Fountain of Youth: They paid Stanley Tucci to walk 30 ft.

There are so many buttons I would push without consideration. One of them is the button that sacrifices 4 hours of every single day of my life in exchange for 12 hours of good, guaranteed sleep every day. Heart. Beat.

Every single bit of this day, and every contributor, sponsor, celebrant, and unintended benefactor of it, can immediately and forevermore fuck off and die. That is all.

Many will celebrate this, and rightly so. But... AI spending is the largest chunk of U.S. GDP right now (consumer spending fell to #2 this year). Enough companies back off AI and the economy craters. Big D Depression, with no fix in sight and hostile, unskilled criminals at the helm.

AB Con 2025's campaign will soon be heading into its Final 48. Let's give it a great big sendoff, shall we? www.kickstarter.com/projects/olu...

The Alters. I agree with Yahtzee, it's GOTY material. Can't recommend it highly enough. 11bitstudios.com/games/the-al... Five years ago, I felt the same about Tell Me Why. If you missed it, you did yourself a dissservice. www.tellmewhygame.com Don't sleep on The Alters. It's incredible.

Gunship and Lee Hardcastle. Still a match made in blood-soaked, neon-stained heaven. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUJ...

Greetings gamers! Our latest game Tabriz, from Spiel des Jahres winner Randy Flynn, is almost HALF OFF at Miniature Market TODAY ONLY. Wut? It's a highly immersive, hugely thematic, deluxified worker placement Euro that's great for the whole family. With multi-lingual Persian rules and components!

One of my favorite causes of the year launched their annual fundraising drive today. If I had the funds, I'd bankroll this effort outright. AB Con does more as a nascent grassroots show than many domestic regionals that have been around for decades, and they're only getting started. Take a look!

My dear friend Jesse Scoble co-wrote this here comic, which the team describes as The Thing meets Unforgiven, Deadwood meets Alien, and Tombstone meets The Last of Us. I'm sold! Are you? www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

This is theft, plain and simple, but unfortunately we live in America - where theft is perfectly fine unless you have the money to defend yourself in a court of "law." Green Ronin needs your help raising those funds. Spare a bit, share a bit. Even the smallest bit helps.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD18... Colman Domingo as the Host is inspired. Also, fun fact: This retool is essentially identical to an early oughts reality show pitch that made it all the way to a public announcement before - ahem - lawyers - got involved. Look it up. Actually happened. Good times.

I find this plausible. It's almost certainly better than whatever the hell will wind up on the actual show. www.instagram.com/p/DK6_dZmsF6...

Fun day for content I've worked on! Colosseum has launched on Gamefound. I edited the rules for this one. gamefound.com/en/projects/... World's Largest Dungeon has painted minis for the 2 bosses I created (the hag coven and Mahg’Gog, the Half-Fiend Kraken). www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...

Colosseum launches tomorrow! I handled the rulebook editing for this project, and can personally attest that it's a huge upgrade on all fronts. Whether you're a fan of the original or on the lookout for your next feature game, this one's well worth your attention! gamefound.com/en/projects/...

My mentor once told me that passive voice is like cholesterol. A little is a very good thing. Too much and your work strains and possibly fails. 1/2 - see first comment

Gods that is pretty. And pretty clever.

Nice. I'm a big fan of the first Atomic Heart (jumping-focused DLCs notwithstanding), so I'll be giving these two a shot!

New obsession lurking on the horizon!

One of my favorite things is turning something off. Show me a way to undo the work of some company claiming to "make my life easier" and I'm happy as a clam. Same thing is true of people, for that matter. My life improves each and every time I find a voice I just shouldn't hear anymore.

I’m a fiercely devoted Whovian. I routinely forgive the show’s many foibles. But Wish World… Somebody invent a TARDiS so we can go back and murder that episode in the crib. No spoilers, please. I’d like to preserve whatever faint enjoyment others might salvage from that rancid pile of garbage.

My dear friend Rodney Thompson / @scratchpadpub.bsky.social is running a KS campaign for his super cool cyberpunk RPG Neon City Outlaws, which evolves the 100AC system from Dusk City Outlaws and Spectaculars. It's well worth a look, and if it's up your alley, perhaps your hard-earned eddies.

WTAF. Every time I assume a bad outcome for anything this government touches, it somehow manages to get *worse* by the time we reach the action step.

WTAF

Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on: “We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Truf.

"The pitchforks will come for us if we don't address this. It's not a matter of if, but when."