they didn’t have chairs back then so odysseus had to carry a cuck oar

i saw that when that burger withdrew from my mind, allowed me the exquisite ugliness of returning to consciousness with the feeling of that burning patty still searing deep into my soft tummy matter it withdrew, murmuring ‘have it your way’ and added brightly ‘but then you already are, aren't you’

got a new pull quote for Derelict Star courtesy of Jonathan Blow. thank you so much for playing my game!

This is key to why most SFF readers start in childhood, and it can be a struggle to learn how to read SFF as an adult if you didn’t start teen you still knew how to read like a kid.

Naboo's economic system was built on a foundation of exploited colonial labor, slavery, and drug smuggling Nute Gunray did nothing wrong

Farmers vote Republican because they're people with money & property. So they vote like people with money & property. That's it. It's not rocket science.

Maine Senate election

I am out of money and I could use some help. It is humiliating to ask once again but I don’t have a ton of options. I spent almost the entire weekend sick and sleeping. Hoping the week won’t play out the same way. Good luck, all!! Good luck!!

indie game marketing is untenable right now, bro allegedly took a shot at the president and it got him 22 concurrents

I genuinely believe intelligence agencies benefit from conspiracy theories because those theories present them as more pervasive, all-powerful, and competent than history has ever shown them to be. Conspiracy theories make it seem like only state actors have agency, not you.

A friend of mine just returned from an OSR con and said "My impression of OSR from this con was that it’s intended to give a pretty rigid structure to a scenario, and to make any choice or deviation from the intended path fatal." based on three sessions played, all with different GMs

Ukrainians. The Ukrainian people. Ask a Ukrainian. Not only were we here during Holodomor, we are still here now, and have direct, relevant experience vis-a-vis the question "Did the Holodomor happen and was it the Bolshevik's fault". (yes and yes)

this is not scran

Nothing Queer

TTRPG about me First game: guessing at the rules of D&D without having access to them Latest game: Traveller (LBBs) Longest game: D&D Favorite game: Swords Without Master Favorite mechanics: MF0 Firebrands Favorite setting: Glorantha Favorite art: can't decide

Bi Gan's Resurrection was an excellent movie. I wonder if the giant hands in the silent film prologue were an allusion to Jiří Trnka's short film Ruka, certainly the first thing I thought of

this seems really interesting: comparing the imagination of "mythic frontiers" in American Western films and Hong Kong wuxia films cup.org/4ebtFmu

they're saying this about me

Replaying Mother 3 but not sure I can connect with the setting. A bunch of fascist pig thugs ruled by a narcissistic manchild take over a society which is too spiritually poisoned by love of money to offer any meaningful resistance. I mean nothing like that could ever happen in real life

Yup — this is @wobbupalooza.bsky.social & Evan Torner’s beat (I just follow along)

I have a little money in my account right now but it’ll be gone soon. Could still use some help. Hopefully someday soon I won’t. Wouldn’t that be nice…

This has been in my head for months now

Oh no wait actually it’s

made this poster years ago for mecha week at an anime club I used to run

love Char Aznable, what a great character

john waters at a No Kings rally in Provincetown (not my pic, Peter Toto, x)

v. good subtle belly button on Max #archive

the book of the short sun by gene wolfe

my bandcamp debut! Travis did fantastic work with these field recordings. If you like noise, musique concrète, and experimental music, have a listen. And keep an eye out for the anthology and album crowdfund dropping later this year!

I am excluding modern musicals and christmas music, so the black eyed peas "lets get [r-slur]" is at the top of the list

Esse é o futuro dos videogames com o DLSS 5

This example of play from the Traveller Book made me pause. No in-character roleplay at all, one doesn't even know what is said. But what I find most striking is that this is an example of social interactions being mechanized in a rulebook from 1982!

I'm doing daily scrandle and only two food items so far have made me say "what the fuck happened"

people dont want to hear this but cold war USA and USSR are two wings of the same civilization

I tried to give 28 years later a shot and it felt like I was watching a let’s play for a first party sony game from 2015. The writing, the directing, the art direction and violence, it all screamed middling AAA video game

...but in ten years, who knows?

Patlabor was a documentary

I remember following this column way back when and this one stuck in my brain ever since.

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