Mood.

"It was a small, worm-like organism that had adopted a sedentary lifestyle and fed by filtering plankton from seawater." just like me fr

overheard in my apartment complex while I sat outside "there are two kinds of video games, 2d videogames and 3d video games. 2d games are the kinds you play in an arcade and 3d games are the kinds on your xbox"

i say we allow young conservatives to continue hitting themselves in the face with hammers

next step is reading iain m banks's novels and seeing how everything cool about marathon lore was already done in the culture series but way better

Hot take for leftists: The only progressive individuals worth ostracizing are the ones who are spreading negativity without putting in the work themselves. It'd be nice to make an interactive flowchart of things that one can do instead of performative purity testing fellow progressives.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Teleological thinking re: biology is a big driver in fascism, it seems. Supposedly neutral facts about our bodies are "meant to do" are load-bearing for fascist attacks on trans people and cis women.

2026 basically

Beginning to think my buddy's theory of political carcinization (all states naturally develop into 90s Russia) to have serious merit

for years Putin has demanded a multipolar global order unconstrained by liberal rules. Is he ready to live in one? new post

I feel about Pillars of Eternity and its sequels like I am looking at a magic eye painting and it never converges into something else. Other people see vivid 3 dimensional depth within and all I see is a flatness, a noisy accumulation of generic fantasy tropes, none of which are novel

I think mamoru oshii has depression

It is genuinely wild that Russia is ruining itself and becoming a satellite state all in service of a crackpot theory about historic destiny to rule Ukrainian farmland. Such is the nature of autocracy. Mass death and destruction for the sakes of the perverse obsessions of a few ruthless horrid men.

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

Dissociate and Dream of Dragons!!! Finally finished this and getting used to using a dip pen because you can see all the spots I keep smearing ink with my hand lol. Anyway it's fun, feeling the pen against the paper makes brain go brrrrr

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

"microtransactions in games started by cabal of pedophile elites for the purpose of indoctrinating kids into an economy" Ok. Well, we all knew it was evil somehow but I really didn't expect Epstein to be responsible for why video games are bad now. That's just not what I would've thought.

Morrowind is the only Elder Scrolls game I replay regularly. I last played it 6 months ago. It is several orders of magnitude better than Oblivion and Skyrim I don't think the systems designer of Starfield should be throwing stones in his glass house

I did get forced out of my home. I currently have shelter but it ain’t gonna last forever. Have received a lotta help but lemme tell ya I could always use more. So just bumping this, thanks.

It won't surprise any of you to find out who exactly joined the Republican pedophile army newrepublic.com/post/205719/...

The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories. #GeneWolfe

At my most generous I think ICE should be abolished and every agent should face criminal trial for their participation in this murderous occupation They deserve far worse but this is the minimum

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

This is 100% by design and I'm delighted whenever I hear it. So the most cursory look into local history for any spot in antebellum America and you will find a horrific hook for a monster, something so weird you can't help but dig further, or both!

Tyler O'Ryan Gramlin, 32, of Borden, IN is a Border Patrol Agent who has traveled from state to state committing extreme violence. On Jan 21, 2026 Gramlin emptied a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a prone protester at point-blank range in Minneapolis #MPLS #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

You love to see it. cybernews.com/security/dev...

depressing but not surprising

I'm not touching that ttrpg discourse, it's reductive ragebait masquerading as nuanced discussion, the most enraging kind of bait

Is there any animator out there who will deny this?

Wow this poster from 1941 was strangely prescient, as it's from 1941 and belongs to the commons feel free to have this, do with it what you want

if you abolish ice there will not be a wave of public violence. there will be ongoing domestic violence, the solution to which is not to continue paying them

It's happening! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

The Heroic Trio of course

Just released my newest game: "Zem!" It's an indirect-control puzzle game, loosely based on a 30-year-old series of ZZT games. 35 increasingly difficult stages, plus a level editor. Free download for Windows and macOS at @itch.io. #gamemaker #gamerelease #freegames #indiegames jdmgames.itch.io/zem

I say this once every few months but tapirs really are the most blessed creatures on this planet

Thinking about how the exceptional amount of time afforded to TTRPG combat is somehow an expression of our own era's military exceptionalism somehow. I published on D&D combat just last year in fact: www.rascal.news/combat-dnd-f...

Success/failure and life/death are often *not* the most interesting stakes in a given TTRPG session or campaign. How something is done and its consequences can be more interesting! Session Zeroes can help establish the "themes" of the game, which any player can double down upon in juicy ways.

The 21st century thus far is giving the fascists all the confirmation they need that they can kill as many people as they want and no one with the means to do so will lift a finger to stop them

An immersive game: Take a bath

HORSE Take turns describing a HORSE. When it is your turn, your HORSE must be more HORSE than the last one while sharing at least one trait with it. If it is not (players vote), take a letter from the word HORSE When you spell HORSE, the HORSE on your last turn will be your next rpg character

When I first encountered the OSR anti-incentives canard, I had assumed that was OSR folks realizing that the way dnd makes you more powerful through wanton violence and theft was limiting what games could be. Little did I know they meant everything except that

Reading some of the novels that inspired the rpg Traveller Space Viking is Garth Marenghi tier "For a moment, in the screen, Trask could see the face of Andray Dunnan. He blinked it away and reached for his cigarettes, and put one in his mouth wrong-end-to."

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade