I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

we had some high winds a few weeks back, and this guy didn't make it.

Bursting Shell, C.R.W. Nevinson, 1915

really exemplary bus shelter graffiti here

really exemplary bus shelter graffiti here

who up arranging objects

Seems especially important right now to give these people $$ for dash cams

Hi everyone! I’m coming back to the ole’ Blsky to ask a huge favor. Last month, we almost lost our beloved little guy Fritz to a sudden onset of FIP, which is a rare and deadly cat disease. We’re running a GFM to help pay for his ongoing care and treatment! www.gofundme.com/f/a-fritzmas...

Heya gamedev folks! Do you know any Senior Animators that are looking for work? We are looking for one to help us out!

still thinking about the snafu of a job we tried to do in Blades in the Dark two days ago -- who's mad at us now? Most people.

Warmups from today. More StellaStar explorations

I just stumbled upon featherbase, a database of feather pictures from a bunch of bird species.🪶 So pretty! www.featherbase.info/zh/home

Point it at ED 209.

accidentally introduced a bug to the game where all the text got replaced with "you"

Lord Peter Wimsey hits the public domain in 2027, I predict a televisual return then!

Shout out to whoever did the captions for the sound file on the great-tailed grackle Wikipedia page

all of my posts are made from this device

There are so many reasons why - rise in puritanism and censorship among them - that the importance of sex, for love, for exploration, for laughs, for fucking boredom even, has become stuck in my noggin as a theme antithetical to controlling regimes. And that's what this game is about

the way i instantly recognized this video title youtu.be/JfZxOuc9Qwk?...

Speaking of Arthuriana, here are some Knights of the Round Table figures I drew up for Patreon some time back.

I must know

I'm a Cabaret apostle

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎 🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

my favorite movies I watched in 2025 were The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda), and Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie).

Happy Public Domain Day to Nancy Drew, Golden Bat and The Shadow!

The Star-Pattern: a Pitfall of GMing by @lamemage.com. There is no post perhaps ever that I have spent more time thinking about and being aware of while actually at the table playing the game (or prepping to imminently play). arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/48...

hey girl, did it hurt. when you clawed your way out of that carcass

I want to play in more tabletop games this year!! MORE

new year new game!! My friend @aimeehyndman.bsky.social and I just released our debut game through @beakandclawpress.bsky.social! Introducing Adventuring Party Builder, a collaborative tarot-based card game for building characters together in session zero of any high fantasy TTRPG campaign ⚔️

"We'll drink a cup of kindness yet For the sake of auld lang syne" Goodnight💫 📷Sergio Larrain ~ Chelsea Arts Ball 1958, New Years Eve.

Forgot that Strange Days ends with a Y2K party where a bunch of people come together to beat the absolute piss out of the cops. Happy New Year everyone.

Happy new year to you all, from me and the guy on the "musical leaf" Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical...

Part 229 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd Cat-Shaped Vessel from Peru, c.200-700 CE: this vessel is crafted in the shape of a wild cat with a bird perched atop its head

thinking about "are the fae open source?" again, possibly my favorite words uttered this year

14. Zan Vesker (Tactical Breach Wizards). It's such a flex every time to have your game's Tortured Grizzled Ex-SpecOps Army Man be a total basket case weenie. TBW is probably my favorite game I played this year

this year alone we sent out about $50k in royalties for triangle agency work ✌️if your games aren't making money for the people who made then why sell them at all

okay check this out, we have some truly obtuse kerning and a disturbingly cavalier attitude toward substances

met a nice cat

I'm going to call this a dispirited grad student Milhouse I'm live posting a walk, I guess, sorry

I'm going to call this a dispirited grad student Milhouse I'm live posting a walk, I guess, sorry

I really hate these ads

listening to some SFULTRA and christ the epithets "lonely old volcano" and "measuring worm" are such fucking delightful crushing bricks (aimed at Wyndham Lewis by various famous people)

classic guy

The 5 words every woman wants to hear

it's been too long without tabletop games, due to people's holiday schedules, and I am visibly unraveling

writing down the names of these birds before I forget. That's golden spotted ground dove on the ground, the brown and black medium ones are band tailed seed eaters, and the little ones are dark face ground tyrant. might add some more

One of the most underrated design skills in games is graphic design for things like decals and fake branding for posters/stickers/flyers/books/props/signs/displays. We take this stuff for granted and yet they are very much a world building detail that adds so much more life to environments.