It's also the warmth - while historically such events may have seen more precipitation fall as snow at higher elevations, warmer temps mean more falls as rain and goes directly into streams and rivers, while also melting lower elevation snow. Snow levels were up to 8,500ft yesterday. In December.

You will be visited by three spirits.

Ben’s lack of self awareness would be hilarious if he weren’t actively providing justification for lawmakers to use in service of passing bans that cause tangible harm upon Trans Youth.

Get your game published! Nice art, by the way. Hope someone makes a game about spaceships! ;)

Okay now that it is seemingly confirmed via datamine stuff and not just folks posting on Twitter: If/when Harry Potter stuff comes to Fortnite if you are still playing that game I Will Be Judging You. Fortnite is fun. I've enjoyed playing it over the years. An HP collab is a Hard Out. Don't do it

The journalist who got this scoop and reported it is a former U.S. Army infantry soldier and Iraq War vet

Yeah, betcha a lot of people don't know that the rightful ruler of Oz is forcibly transformed into a boy and sent away to keep her from the throne but she eventually turns back into a girl, regains her throne...and develops a romantic relationship with Dorothy. Let's change that and shake shit up!

Morticia and Gomez would be the most supportive, affirming parents to a trans kid. “You say you’re miserable? That you’ve been miserable for years?” “Darling, we’re so proud!” If you’re trans and your family rejects you, you’re an Addams now!

Trans Day of Remembrance, As a parent I choose to love my child or not. I choose Love. For anyone else, you choose to accept or not. But ask yourself? Does my non-acceptance, contribute to a dangerous culture of fear? I don’t think a belief is good if it can cause harm. Do better.

Now this tells you how poisonous the political right in the US has become. 😳

Epstein’s ticking time bomb for science: Years ago, before the name of Epstein had registered, I had lunch with a prominent woman physicist. She told me Epstein was funding exclusive physics conferences for favoured male physicists to which women like her were excluded.

This is the goal.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

The most corrupt administration in American history.

Geez, this would make me LESS inclined to go in there..l

God, a thousand times this. That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis. I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.

The cope from the doomers now seems to be "Schumer really wanted Thune to take the offer" and "Dems are so evil they're not using the shutdown to stop ICE." On point one, my general take on Schumer is "retire binch" and I do not hand it to him on most things.

I can’t help but read this and interpret it as “games shouldn’t have any trans storylines at all”. www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/ba...

One of the things I really need to write about is the fact that this current wave of fascism, but most especially its transphobic component, is the product of a tiny number of epistemic elites cooking their brains on social media and group chats.

I don't know if it's just me, but I've gotten the sense recently that transphobia a political tool is already played out. Not only is it not a winner, but it really feels like the right overplayed their hand with anti-trans hate and people generally seem sick of it, sick of bulling running on hate.

This picture is worth 1,000 words.

WOULD JAMES CARVILLE AND GAVIN NEWSOM LIKE TO COME FORWARD AND EAT SHIT

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

A broken bat double play with they tieing run at 3rd… If that doesn’t sum up the luck the Blue Jays had in the last two games, I don’t know what does.

I have to wonder if they’ll call this the best World Series ever because…damn…if it’s not, what was better?

Fuck.

Shit.

I dunno…I have a sinking feeling… In game 7s involving Canadian teams going back to 94 is I think 9 now? None of them have won.

My heart can’t take this…

An inch. AN INCH.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

I'd completely forgotten about this. Which is ironic since I'm actually writing again (FINALLY)

As snap benefits are terminated, remember: if you see someone shoplifting groceries, no you didn’t.

The same amount of time has passed between now and the premiere of Fellowship of the Ring…as between that movie and Star Wars.

Not to be that pedantic…and I suppose if anything has a right to be pedantic, it’s a dictionary… But isn’t English a descriptive language, not a prescriptive one? So if enough people use words in a certain way…that IS how it’s “allowed”? Like…we aren’t French. 😉

"But they can still buy it!" Not if they pass KOSA and the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act they can't! They'll be blocked out or charged on obscenity charges if they do! Call your reps, meet your library boards, and do it now! Before it gets worse!

And it’s REALLY REALLY good at it. It’s the game which made me fall in love with the Cortex Plus (now Prime) system.

I co-wrote the Leverage RPG specifically so you can do this stuff at a moment’s notice folks

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

“Asked what % of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward,” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice “told ProPublica: ‘I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.’” (Justice is now with The Heritage Foundation of Project 2025 infamy.) 10/8/25… 1/ www.propublica.org/article/educ...

Halloween candy prices are about to lay people OUT.

YES.

I think I have the bones of a K-Pop Demon Hunters RPG using the Cortex Prime system. Main problem is figuring out a way to simulate the song writing aspect, and integrating it into “musical scenes”.

Cool trivia question. In 2020, Onward set the record for the lowest weekly grossing #1 film at $71,000. What was the movie it beat? ET the Extra Terrestrial at $2.3 million. It hit number 1 in early December, 1982, 25 weeks after premiering.

Game designer friends outside the tabletop RPG scene please take the time to learn about Jennell. She did a lot in both the video and tabletop industry. 💜

For those who have asked about supporting Rob Wieland’s family after his passing, there’s a GoFundMe established. 💜 www.gofundme.com/f/family-of-...