I commissioned this (and many!) pieces from Dakota and I love working with him. Sometimes I have a very clear direction with lots of references and sometimes I have just a vibe, and at either extreme Dakota always pulls it off.

I will never stop talking about this: The lovely and profound "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" is from an NYT article about the author accidentally being CC'd on an email where his friends were making fun of him for renting goats.

don't sleep on how this also reads like mister Greg Raiff, CEO, Elevate Aviation Group also just ran his idea through chatGPT and hit send

Slightly diminish a book: Infinite Jest

Slightly diminish a book: Infinite Jest

confident in my ability to solve riddles, i command "from now on, neither of you two guards will lie." in unison they say "okay." i ask one of them if this is the correct door and he says yes. i stride through it. his spear passes cleanly through my skull, killing me instantly

confident in my ability to solve riddles, i command "from now on, neither of you two guards will lie." in unison they say "okay." i ask one of them if this is the correct door and he says yes. i stride through it. his spear passes cleanly through my skull, killing me instantly

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

Reposting with the full image because I kinda dislike the cropping bsky does with multiple images.

Holy dang folks, you surely love cities on dead gods! Thank you for the warm reception 💖

at the MI Democratic caucus in April, McMorrow stumped the Arab American caucus. They made her wait on the wall for multiple endorsed speakers. When she did speak the agenda with “Endorsed candidate US Senate Abdul El-Sayed” stayed up behind her. I respected the attempt but El-Sayed was electric

Map of Tu'narath, the City of Death - the Githyanki capital in the Astral Plane, built on the corpse of The One in the Void. Commissioned by @robertgreeve.bsky.social Schmincke Horadam watercolors on Fabriano Artistico paper.

Weird style thing: in 5e/5.5.e, Dungeons & Dragons still uses the acronym “NPC” but doesn't use “PC” anymore, instead opting for “the characters”. I still think there's a meaningful distinction between “the characters” (they're all characters!!!) and “the player characters”.

Done. Map of Tu'narath for the upcoming @robertgreeve.bsky.social Ravenloft themed supplement! Watercolor on 300 lbs watercolor cotton paper.

outlining the next article in this series (about all the various sources for BitD's lore other than the core rulebook) and it's actually managing to be significantly *more* homework than this entailed. i'm excited!

i really have to bring my A-game with strahdjammer to live up to all this art 😱

i really have to bring my A-game with strahdjammer to live up to all this art 😱

People compared the Lanterns trailer to True Detective S1 and it took me a minute to figure it out... It's going to be "What if True Detective actually WAS lovecraftian horror?" Parallax is the King in Yellow.

@thewillyboo.bsky.social i saw this and you were the first person i thought of. $2k to $4k for that bad boy www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadsho...

cannot stress enough how much this tweet is not only my guiding star for character writing but also the only thing that enables me to write conversations at all

“the pharaoh’s tomb is cursed! the necromancer’s ring is cursed! the witch’s grimoire is cursed!” that’s how you sound. everything is fucking cursed with you bro. i don’t care. i’m taking this skull.

CSS is DOOMed! I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. cssdoom.wtf Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Here's my “yes, and” for this great thread on magic items. The enspelled weapon is a good framework for DMs to understand how to design balanced magic items. But it cares more about game rules than story. It takes the magic out of magic: this item feels mass-produced in a factory.

trying to reupholster a chair and a top google result is an AI slopsite selling a “chair repair kit.” You can get “basic” or “advanced,” they are both $40, no idea what's in either kit ©2035. maybe it's from a future where AI slop became copyrightable

How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

The rules and rulesets you create don't have to answer to people who don't choose to use them. They have to answer to the people who do choose to use them.

Going through everyone else's made this feel so DIFFICULT.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Didn't realize the movie Toys was basically Ender's Game

The Dorsey-level tycoons are fully at war with workers, and they are beyond paranoid. The market raised the valuation of their company by 25% — ten *billion* dollars — for cutting those 4,000 people's jobs today. Jack Dorsey's personal net worth increased by about $750M as a result.

If you are making an #rpg book or a new game or similar, you might find yourself in need of spot art! A weapon, a vehicle, a treasure! I've got you covered -- all item spots are 150$ for the next week! 40% off, I miss doing these. #art #commissions #fantasy #scifi #digitalart #dnd

[monkey's paw curls]

my late night Ramadan hang was a liminal space the other night

she should have been allowed to kill one guy per season

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

As a Polish Muslim, the moon aligned so that pączki day falls on the first night of Ramadan, so of course I went to New Palace Bakery in Hamtramck to get some donuts for suhoor tomorrow

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said

BTW I have a blog now, I’m part of the blogosphere. So if you prefer, you can read this whole ramble in blogpost form, like it’s 2008: blog.olddog.games/posts/the-vi...

This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it. The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT. Let's talk about it.

This account stuck my comic through an ugly AI filter, removed my @ from the bottom and blocked me when I called them out.

Live NOW and I found some cool new shit so let's try the Mega Man X1-3 Cross Matrix Randomizer and see if I can handle this shit! Feels like the sort of unmitigated chaos we can enjoy for a stream or two, so lets try it! On Youtube at youtube.com/live/jdIeHPB... On Twitch at www.twitch.tv/Anoriand

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?

Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.

I’m playing Battleship (® Hasbro) while watching Battleship (2012) and it’s baffling how award-winning this cast is Alexander Skarsgård, Liam Neeson, Jesse Plemons!? Ramy Malek briefly, Rihanna, Hamish Linklater. No action for 33 minutes. There’s a world where this could have been Barbie

war profiteering: it’s not just for defense contractors anymore

“Counting or not counting pensions?” I ask, milliseconds before Louis DeJoy runs me over in an adorable Pixar mail truck