30) I think we need to bring back shitty 90's design. Like make it a tribute to how far we've come. Just give me a shit game I can laugh about how bad it is at it's base stuff!

Ok sure, I did this back in July (bsky.app/profile/bria...) but it was fun and I'm sure I've got some new opinions. Also nobody has blocked me in ages! One like = one unhinged #ttrpg #rpg opinion (that I actually and sincerely believe in)

Burnout 3 is underrated as one of the very, very best games of all time because you can show Burnout 3 footage to people two decades later and their reaction will still be "hell yeah, this rules. I wanna play this right now."

Linda Davis was killed by ICE today. A Black woman, a beloved teacher, killed by ICE in Savannah, Georgia. Her name is Linda Davis and she was killed by our government.

This is 100% wrong.

Watch them do WHAT???

No other story on Ars Technica's site yesterday got more than 100 or so comments. The brief non-specific apology has garnered *1200* comments full of angry people that no one on Ars' staff seems interesting in addressing. People are cancelling subscriptions.

This might be a long shot but does anyone have a save file of Control (steam) that has Ash's lab unlocked? I unlocked it but now I can't get back in for some reason. It's acting like I haven't found the key cards and I don't want to restart the whole game 😭

Poll Analysis: Norstat 10th - 13th of February 2026 Holyrood seats projection: SNP ~ 64 Reform ~ 21 Labour ~ 18 Green ~ 11 Conservative ~ 10 Lib Dem ~ 5 Independence: Yes ~ 51% No ~ 49%

You're the author of the book. The people at the table are the authors of the experience they're having. And yes, they are still playing your game, even if they are doing it in some weird way you'd never consider. That's how EVERYTHING works, once you hand it over to the end user.

I was about to write a big thread about these two opposed views on RPGs, but Mrs Platypus said it in one post, so I'll just repost that. #ttrpg #rpg

This is a good video.

There was some fun bsky RPG discourse yesterday. I haven't seen people claim that houserules are bad wrong fun in ages! And if the most important role of an RPG text is to convince players that it is doing a thing, maybe it was actually the players who were doing the thing all along.

Random background characters from Brink: Book 7 which I'm working on right now (coming to @2000ad.bsky.social very soon). Book 6 is coming out in a collection at the end of the month.

They already had one

the goat. also, I cannot overstate how important the mixed race, working class Lister/Craig was to me as a kid

Trump is no friend of Scotland. He has threatened our neighbours, lied about our country, and armed war criminals. The US military shouldn't be allowed to use publicly owned infrastructure in Scotland, such as Prestwick Airport. It's time to kick them out.

US military has landed at Prestwick more than 550 times, almost every single day, since 1 April 2025. That is not the occasional stop-off, that is sustained military use of publicly-owned Scottish infrastructure. It’s time for Parliament to stand up to Trump. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

Asked to describe where the ‘tiny pockets of poverty’ in the UK might be found, Yusuf starts talking about tax funds being wasted on education in Wales. That kind of non-sequitur doesn’t sound very fiscally prudent to me - or intellectually cogent. Bullshitter.

It's no surprise that Farage, Badenoch and Starmer don't want to be in the same room as Zack Polanski. He'd wipe the floor with all of them.

Devastating thread...

2/12/2026 - Lindenwold, NJ ICE agents chase children who were waiting at a bus stop for an elementary school These are elementary school-age children running from adult federal agents attempting to kidnap them

Capitalism is a meritocracy you see

Yikes: guy who blogged about how an AI agent published a “hit piece” against him, says (human) reporters seem to have used an LLM to read (and misreport) his blog post theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Look at this cover!

It's not hyperbole to say that trans people are facing a human rights crisis in the UK, and it's been entirely cultivated by the worst people including a large chunk of the Labour Party

Spot on.

As I approach session 50 of FL, it is the longest campaign I’ve ran. Seeing characters unfold vs level up. Watching them make hard emotional choices vs picking feats. It’s amazing. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It’s difficult not to lose faith when so much of the system is rigged against support for Palestine in the UK, but god damn, this feels like a massive, vital win.

I feel I must point out that “trans people can just use the accessible toilets” does not consider the lack of provision for disabled people particularly in public facilities.

This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.

a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate' www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

My daughter is off on a school trip to Italy that she worked and saved so hard for. She goes to a Catholic school and the itinerary includes an audience with the Pope. She is bringing a set of dice to get them blessed.

I just received this pristine copy of the T&T Corgi book Naked Doom & Deathtrap Equaliser, which completes my set of the Corgi books!

I just received this pristine copy of the T&T Corgi book Naked Doom & Deathtrap Equaliser, which completes my set of the Corgi books!

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people. 1. JK Rowling 2. Maya Forstater 3. Helen Joyce 4. Graham Linehan 5. Kathleen Stock 6. Posie Parker 7. Wes Streeting 8. Rosie Duffield www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

The lack of hope and the horrific outcome of nuclear war is what gave Threads its power. It's the entire *point* if the show, made at a time when atomic fire was a real threat. Finding hope? That's a non-starter in the reality of the nuclear age. I'll watch Fallout for that kind of fantasy.

Sorted by racial and ethnic group while held at gunpoint

Israel committed war crimes "before the eyes" of Labour politicians. Labour's response was to provide them with training, weapons, intelligence and political support.

"Yeah, everyone just go ahead and delete TikTok now if you haven't already."

Hasbro must really be desperate if they're making a deal like this for a franchise created by an open bigot that arguably stopped being culturally relevant like a decade ago. F*cking super sized Loser move Hasbro.

Is it some sort of weird publicity stunt where early every year Hasbro does something to piss off their fans?

Haven't talked about it, but I've been thinking about this reality for MONTHS. That people who'd feel comfortable questioning your right to exist in their proximity are putting bounties on anyone who annoys or inconveniences them just because they can.

My pal and fellow Scottish developer Chris Brown recently put his solo-dev racing game AGX GP up on Steam and you should definitely give it a look if you like AAA Wipeout visuals with ridiculously-fast twitch arcade gameplay. store.steampowered.com/app/4250680/...

The neopets beta test document has been taken down by geekify. If anyone has a saved copy, please reach out to me.

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

I think it's interesting to hear the news talking about Mandelson sharing state financial secrets with Epstein with Epstein described only as "convicted child abuser" when what's relevant there is that he was a financier who had immense power to use that particular knowledge.

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/