That's the way it's gonna be, Clarice Starling/ We'll listen to Goodbye Horses, yeah yeah

Talking with some friends yesterday about the pure joy of watching goblins go to work causing havoc has become a free, rules light, one-page RPG. I hope you all enjoy "Oops...All Goblins!"

Dear *God*.

Shifting the default video game presentation to 3D first person or over the shoulder to allow dominance for the console market was a mistake, beautiful 2D environments were robbed for decades.

Garak reading the comics of Steve Ditko

Oh, dip

I think, still, after all this time, it's CARNIVALE. Twin Peaks got properly finished, I'd really REALLY like Carnivale to be completed too.

Among other things, the Earthsea books are treatises on the limitations of power. Not just that they teach that power is finite, they actively question by what metric we measure success, how we measure selfhood, what the purpose is of our life. Power fantasies inverted into wonder fantasies.

The World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game is going to get a new edition!

Do non-Australians know who Ned Kelly is, without looking it up?

You say Carmina and I say CarmIna You say Burina and I say Burana Carmina! CarmIna! Burina! Burana! Let's Carl the whole thing Orff.

No more potent sign of middle age than the pop songs of your college years being reinterpreted by a mellow jazz trio for a black tie affair.

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Aghast. Words fail me here.

Dear God.

I am now reliably informed that Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #1 IS available from a certain online digital service that was not able to get it to your hot little hands yesterday. So what’re you waiting for, hmm? @nicolascottart.bsky.social wants to know!

Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #1 drops today! I am legit excited to share this with folks. It’s a lot of fun, and I’m really hoping people will come along with @nicolascottart.bsky.social and I for the ride!

My Cousin Vinny: Ace Attorney Had to finally release this from my head

Years ago, @ghostthatwalks.bsky.social, @darcrider.bsky.social and I stayed up all night, speculating on what would have happened if, as apparently very nearly it did, George Lucas had stepped in to finish Apocalypse Now for an ailing Francis Ford Coppola.

this is one of the widest gulfs between popular sentiment and establishment policy i have ever seen in this country

Mindless Ones doing Disco Elysium is like a band you love covering a song you love from a different band. A double gem.

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live action catbus looking pretty sweet

I tell this story not infrequently, but my Soderbergh fan friends and I went to the brief theatrical release of 'Behind the Candelabra'. No-one else there but two old ladies sitting behind us. We are, perhaps, 15 minutes into the film when one of them cries out, scandalised "LIBERACE WAS GAY?!?!"

ICYMI (and TBF, I wouldn't be surprised, I could barely remember how the platform works), a spontaneous essay on the vivacity of James Gunn's Superman (2025). Bits on the comics of @kurtbusiek.bsky.social, how movies used to end, the theodicy, cowboys and the need to be alive.

Unbelievably, I'm not just a little back, I seem to be totally back on my bullshit: geekcommissar.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/s...

What was shaping up to be a work stress dream changed halfway through to successfully solving puzzles in @mattfraction.bsky.social's unreleased Batman run, so it seems after a long time, I am back on my bullshit.

This is what the game I'm making looks like.

I feel it says something that the most long in memory American ad for milk trades on slightly aggressive exclusivity, and the dominant Australian ad for milk explicitly states it transforms you into a sexual dynamo capable of cuckolding a horde of beer swilling rabble. What it says I'm not sure.

The two of them wrote musical set pieces for talent show performances alongside a third, Dickie Melman, who played the tuba. Melman also swore he'd be the best, but...y'know. Dickie eventually became an insurance actuary and died in 1983. That story isn't true, but can you imagine Dickie Melman?

Reasons I could not cut it as a headteacher: if a parent's reaction to getting a 'please don't wear masks that mean we can't identify you' text was to call me 'woke', would be a struggle not to pay someone to dress up as a gorilla and kidnap their kid.

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER premiered on this day 70 years ago in Des Moines, Iowa, to negative reviews. As a result, it was the only film directed by Charles Laughton, truly unique in every way, and an utter masterpiece. A grim, poetic, fairy tale, slathered in beauty, suffused in American Gothic...

Managed to separately wound my right hand in three places over the course of a single day: Jabbed some lemon tree thorns into the thumb; Burned the tip of my index finger; Dropped a bedframe onto my pinky, tearing chunks of skin off it in three places. Looking forward to a full day typing tomorrow

I hate to say it, in part because I love puppets as much as anyone, probably more, but puppets is a bridge too far for me. I think I'm out.

Okay, sure

average online discussion tbh

whennnnnn you lock up your ship to a buoy or slip that’s a mooring

The @drivethrurpg.com Christmas in July sale is still going! Big discounts on thousands of products including our stuff from Adamant Entertainment! Link: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

This was SO MUCH better than I expected.

Okay, let's settle a debate: Waffles vs. Crumpets

Suddenly struck by the impulse to parse Githyanki as "Yankee" and assume that Githzerai, contrary to popular portrayals, have ludicrously overblown southern accents.

I *HATED* 'JOKER' but I was fascinated by the drunk stockbrokers who wound him up on the subway, belting out Send In The Clowns. Who are these Wall Street guys in the '80s who confidently perform torch songs? What is *their* world? Assuming everyone in Gotham has at least a theatre minor just works.

annoying both medievalists and contemporary historians by insistently referring to 1905-1945 as the 40 Years War

First one I read? I can't say. Does Kingdom Come count? First one I bought? This:

What movie did you see way too young?

My article of faith for my Shepherd is that he was the coolest motherfucker in the galaxy EXCEPT he couldn't drive and couldn't dance. Emergent fiction.