this is a fun thread. sharing because I really like SB's stuff. in large part because her LP's are all about exploring what is in front of her, testing systems and figuring out how they work. I'm not great at that sometimes, and she models being both very good at games and also at times

It’s easy to feel like you’re alone in the world but sometimes you get a tiktok on your fyp that is just footage of early babytron rapping but with screamo as the music and you’re like okay, these are also two things I love thank you tiktok

currently obsessing over how every page of the triangle agency is the best thing I’ve ever read, ttrpgs are so good

It would be cool to have a podcast about ttrpgs with the expressionist manifesto and all the related stuff going around but lol. I find it all so exciting to read and think with.

lol, lmao even

the entire time I've watched dota2 the only person I've met who knew what dota 2/ followed it was my therapist, and while I do miss her being my therapist, I kinda miss the check ins on what was happening in dota 2 more, since we just decided the first 10 minutes of session could be that if I wanted

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Getting back to clay has been very good for me and also it’s so expensive that it’s also a little stressful. But I’m sketching ideas and wanting to weave again and I have missed having ideas. Gonna figure out how to spend money I don’t have to keep doing it tho

I failed at going to a concert a bit ago because I just couldn’t muster the energy to deal with being a person in public, but now 7038634357 is coming to Austin. This record came out right before I tore my life apart and it means so much to me. 7-0-3.bandcamp.com/album/neo-se...

For 3.5 weeks I was in a different state house sitting and cat sitting for some friends. I’ve been back for two weeks and every single day miss being in a quiet place with no other humans and a cat who liked to lay on me at every opportunity.

Sol Lewitt, ‘All ifs ands or buts connected by green lines’ (1973)

NEW EARL SWEATSHIRT!!!!!!!!!! We love another reason to deal with the constant exhaustion of existence!!!!!

I am not okay with a record I listened to before attending college having a 25th anniversary merch ad on Instagram. :(

Calling all solo game players: “Psalms for the Undertow," my game about the last lighthouse custodian waiting for the end of the world, is up on my Itchio now and pay-what-you-want for a limited time 🌊

I put it away and was like surely I should take a break. And after a week and a half it is back on my table. Even rearranged my tea stuff to the left so I have more room 🤓

allowing myself a little joy at some electoral news far away from me, as a treat

I just post about what makes my brain feel okay here because no one reads this really but for the record all solidarity with people in the streets. There is no future without bodies in the streets. And cop cars on fire imo. Fuck ice and fascists and cops. Good talk.

since getting this I have played it six times physically and at least three more times digitally. It’s so good. Love to beat back the voidborn.

new 7038634357 is making it a little easier to exist tbh

Made a probably bad financial decision but a very good my brain is less unhappy decision and got this monster of a game. People are not kidding the set up is truly very long but I don’t mind it honestly. I remember seeing this going around board game YouTube and thinking it looked like it’d be a

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garden update Had a rough start but learned some lessons and resowed some things and after some fertilizer things have perked up. Already making plans for fall planting and next year.

This game is very big, physically but also metaphorically or something like that. I’m only two rounds in and the things it says about the working class and capitalist class via mechanisms are fascinating. There’s so much to think about. I don’t even know if I like the game at this point because it’s

I really need to find not annoying people who watch dota 2 because I still watch a lot of dota 2. Good talk Bluesky.

I had been figuring out a plan for library science as a way to maybe have a job again. Figuring out money and timing to get into school then maybe archival work. But as with everything even remotely related to human thriving it is under attack and being actively dismantled. Back to no future I guess

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okay sheer hellish miasma 2 is good, I was skeptical but it’s good and my brain could use the scrubbing it’s doing to it erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/sheer-...

Okay, I set it all up fresh for the easy scenario and started playing and think I mostly didn’t make too many mistakes. The player aids are fantastic and the design while it has a lot of moving parts is not actually that complicated. You just follow the steps in order for each thing and I ended up

There was a sale and I got this beast that I’ve been eyeing for many months. As I continue to dip my toe into war games I’ve focused on stuff that’s solo or particularly well suited to solo because I don’t have a table to play these with and to be honest I don’t think I’d want to try and teach them

So one of the largest and most complicated games in our challenge is this weird weird thing, Roads and Boats. From Splotter which is a publisher who make weird weird fiddly complicated things in general. Why my brother in law picked it is somewhat of a mystery. But he did. And now after many hours

Been having a bad time but also it’s fine everything is fine. Here’s some stuff.

I have started playing Citizen Sleeper 2. #CitizenSleeperArt #fanart

I finished Citizen Sleeper 2 this weekend and then immediately started a new playthrough of Citizen Sleeper. Good games.

citizen sleeper was easily one of the best video game experiences I've had, I remembered the second one existed but had no idea it was coming out so early this year. highly recommend them both. although now that I've started 2 I kind of want to replay the first again, but excitement is winning out

Nucleum is heavy and a weird theme about power and building things and nebulous references to barons. But the crunch was appealing. I played it once with a very very stripped down automa variant from BGG and enjoyed my time, there was a lot I liked. The action selection is FASCINATING.

I've been covering @catlinggun.bsky.social's Solo But Not Alone charity bundles since I started covering tabletop. It's become tradition, and one gladly followed. A heap of solo RPGs for $10 that supports mental health resources in a year when they will be sorely needed.

so much energy expended to continue expending energy

Two plays in two days of Black Forest, and this game is very fun, but is also a game that I have ZERO idea how I'm doing as I play. There's a very fun puzzle in those resource wheels, when to take goods, when to not, how to move things and spend things to stop them moving, etc. And while I do think

Also look at my loaves. Good loaves.

I played this twice today, S.E.T.I. and it’s very good and also the automa is so weird. The base game is a clever tight economy euro. You use credits and energy to do actions or play cards. There’s multiple ways of giving yourself intermediate small goals to achieve by playing out cards, and it’s

I rode along with my sister for some random errands and half price books had a wishlist game on the shelf, in shrink, for, get this, half price.

HAPPY REALIS DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it is snowing today in my part of texas, and in four days our high will be 60 degrees. happy tuesday.

everyone should be thankful there's not really a podcast anymore where i talk about ttrpgs because god I would talk so much about this I'm sure, it'd be overwhelming. can't wait to read it

Nova Roma is interesting. As a game it’s euro-y mini game point salad and I like those. Give me a big list of objectives and I’ll try to accomplish them happily. The main like, gimmick but without the negative connotations, is the action selection. There’s a grid in the center of the board,