Today's the day! Swords Against - Beginner's Box (1979 Replica Edition) is a complete reproduction of a specific, incomplete, unplayable copy of an 1979 RPG starter set purchased at an estate sale, including some of the deceased owner's personal effects. hollandspiele.com/products/swo...

jesus christ the new vince staples is so good. don't always want to be a person, but music is good.

May finished

may, started late even though I made my sketch like three days in. But finally some progress.

every few days I wonder why I keep this account going, but hey, here's some garden pics. it's taken three years to figure out how to grow well in this miserable intense heat hell hole, but I'm finally getting enough veggies that it is actively impacting my grocery budget in a positive way. woo.

🌖 Amberspire is OUT NOW! 🌇 A dice driven science fantasy city builder. Grow your city atop a mausoleum moon, interact with strange weather and ecology, gain influence to make deals with powerful off-world factions, experience the history of a future city. PC, Mac, Steam Deck s.team/a/3350750

Amberspire is out TOMORROW, on Steam, for PC Mac and Steam Deck. It's a science fantasy city builder with increasingly abstract dice, esoteric and powerful factions, and an ecology atop a mausoleum moon.

I have been looking forward to Amberspire since it was announced and the fact that I can spend the night before reading a PHYSICAL MANUAL for it that is one hundred and forty six (!!!!!) glorious pages is just truly delightful. Can’t wait to make my weird city of weirdos!!!!!!!

this is so cool, it’s just so astonishingly my shit. gimme gimme

important archival work tbh

My garden seems happy, we’ve had more rain this last week than the entire last few months.

happy new earl and MIKE day to all who celebrate, mikelikesrap.bandcamp.com/album/pompei...

I really miss walking to my community garden plot in my beautiful neighborhood taking detailed photos of flowers.

balm for my tired body and mind, thank god for music

I play heavy board games so this should not be intimidating. AND YET. This is really not even that complicated as hex and counter goes but it’s such a different beast, with different aims and incentives. After 2x through the rules I realized I just needed to set it up and start moving things around!

yesterday i planted my garden, and today my quads hurt. I think three years in I am finally starting to understand the bizarre texas split season. A race from March to early June. Keep stuff alive through hell season, then in late August you get a garden again.

Is 44 too late to make a five year plan to pivot your career? Asking for a mildly desperate and somehow still burnt out “friend”.

first dragging, now ALSO a new horse lords?!!? god bless music horselords.bandcamp.com/album/demand...

cannot believe in this miserable year we are so lucky to get a new dragging an ox thru water record, bright beautiful glowing spot in the storm, whole.cataloged.earth/excerpt/

this post is mostly for @jessrock.bsky.social but I am still loving my charmera and am so thankful you posted about it, recent things.

january and february successfully woven on the tapestry diary before the end of each month, moving through mud but we get things done, some things

I somehow did not realize that jam, like preserved fruit, is a core system in Midnight Muscadines. What a delight ttrpgs are.

spent a lot of today trying to make sense of a tapestry I’ve been thinking about for many months. not sure I fully figured it out, but progress I think.

friday

spending my evening remembering what feels like a different life lived by a different human, getting very stoned, listening to stuff like this, then making my own versions with a tiny tape player, autoharp, motors from cellphones and stuff i made from sculpy erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/open

In other bw mental health news I have started a rewatch of White Collar which is a great sign that Im just desperate for anything familiar and comforting. Nothing like some guilty pleasure copaganda about a con man and art forger.

In an effort to fix my my very bad brain being permanently stuck in misery/anger mode after the holidays, I made a plan to start a tapestry diary. An exercise to mostly provide some structure and timelines to designing and weaving 12 small pieces this year, all on one warp. I was maybe halfway

Celebrated new years eve by finishing my Bluets re-read and then falling asleep completely sober at like 8:45. 2026 seems like it will be a rough year in many ways, lets take care of each other.

The Quiet Apartment: play The Quiet Year but the map is the layout of your apartment. The Frost Shepherds are your landlord.

today I turned 44, drank some jester king beer, got a nice shirt and a board game about time travel, played a game about being nice to dragons, and am watching sans soleil. life is still very weird and exhausting but it was a nice day and I made it through another year successfully

Sometimes all you’ve needed for weeks is to talk to your best friend for nearly five hours while sitting in your car in a Target parking lot to feel okay.

I have survived the holiday and it was mostly fine. Got some books I’m very excited about, mostly Unsettling Catan: Detached Design in Eurogames by J Rey Lee and Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems by Amabel Holland. Didn’t get a ton of games but got some very neat

The furnace broke. It's very cold, so we're having a sale on an appropriately chilly game!

I am reading a lot right now about the Russian Revolution and learning a game about the ensuing civil war and have played multiple games of a solo war game about the same war and it’s all made me really sad that so much of my education made me think history was uninteresting. Obviously I care more

YouTube does recaps now so I have verifiable proof that I’m a big @sbmakesstuff.bsky.social fan although tbh 100 seems like lightweight numbers given how much she put out this year, gotta get that number up next year. I blame my brief but heavy Planet Zoo obsession for distracting me.

ENDURANCE. I love this game for multiple reasons: its argument against the inevitability of history, its willingness to be strange, but most of all its dedication to fortitude. Everything about it is chilly. spacebiff.com/2023/03/23/e...

Because I’ve been bad at the self-promotion this year: Tomorrow is the last day of the Hollandays sale for Hollandspiele. They published my games Striking Flint and Heading Forward as well as many other games. This is your annual chance to get a discount on them. hollandspiele.com

And in other other news, my DOTA2 team has been looking so good in Wallachia. After a really rough last year it’s nice to see them finally coming together. Turns out when you take two of the most aggressive early game teams and semi combine them you uh, can win a lot once you gel a bit. Micke

In other news I found a used copy of this game for 10 bucks online and went ahead and got it. I care so little about wars in general but care about the Russian civil war more than most others. So found my first hexes and counters to try. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2998

I used to really love the holidays and since realizing I’m autistic it makes a lot of sense why, I slowly moved all my holidays to be solo ones and they were days I could be on my own and unmask in ways I never knew how to do and didn’t even understand I needed. Everyone was busy, I could respond in

oh no, I drank this last night and now I’m awake at 4 am steepster.com/teas/bitterl... my storage admittedly is not perfect but I don’t think this has aged particularly interestingly. Which is too bad as there’s quite a lot left. I remember I got this because I was scared of buying the

I was really tempted to get my first hexes and counters but financial wisdom prevailed so made my modest little order to support a publisher I love. I am very curious about Hartfield!! big recommend for Endurance and Heading Forward and This Guilty Land and Comet oh and Striking Flint! also

Q-Up is both a triumph and a nightmare of a video game. And I am pretty sure the latter is intended. I got to Novice w/ medic and it was at times miserable in exactly the way forcing yourself to climb ladder in multiplayer games is. Jack on Side Story called it Hell and they were exactly right.

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

a little electoralism as a treat tonight

It’s finally cooling down in Texas and now all I want to do is drink raw puer I’m so excited for this little cake I probably shouldn’t have spent money on but looooooooooook at that tea 😍

I got two vaccines today and it only took 2.5 hours at an in network pharmacy and three phone calls in which every human involved said oh yeah this is covered, but the computers were telling everyone that for some reason for me in particular it was going to cost 250 dollars out of pocket.

hello and welcome back to bw posts about dota 2 to no one the international was rough as a liquid fan. They won 2024 but didn’t even get past the group stage this year. Then they let sabrelight go, which makes sense to me. I liked him but it never seemed to gel fully. Then Insania retired.

I understand intellectually and on some sense affectively that the cruelty is the point, but jesus christ, the destruction of the office that enforces special ed laws is so brutal. The harm this will cause, the massive amount of work it will take to get things back to the current not good state...

a keffiyeh plus autism skeleton with automatic rifles feels very important to me as we near the the end of 2025