Just discovered #Amazon has an "About You" section that lists what it's discerned about my consumer preferences. Amazon isn't quite sure if I own a car, but it is sure that I play games with "specialty #dice."

Just bought two badges and started two wishlists. I guess @coreyosullivan.com and I are going to #GenCon this summer!

#GameStop destroying #eBay with a leveraged buyout would negatively affect my game collecting hobby, so I sincerely hope eBay's directors and investors tell Ryan Cohen to fuck right off. www.semafor.com/article/05/0...

I'm not an #MTG player, so I'm very confused that #WOTC (and an artist) had to apologize for The One Ring looking too similar on two cards for the same game. Like, shouldn't they look like the same ring? There's only so many ways to draw a gold ring, folks! icv2.com/articles/new...

The local bar stopped having #boardgame days, so @coreyosullivan.com and I are trying game night at a cocktail club. Lower turnout, but I'm getting drunk faster than usual.

Calling the failure of WizardCon 2 #gameconvention "sudden" is total bullshit. It's been obvious for months it was in disarray. They never even got the event list working correctly on their website! Geek Native is just being completely dickless here, afraid to report bad news accurately.

Lou Zocchi, the founder of #Gamescience, wasn't much of a #TTRPG guy himself, but he made a huge contribution to our hobby by making everyone's #dice collection a little weirder. Some insufficient highlights from his long life in the dice business: icv2.com/articles/new...

Less than an hour until #CineMalPractice, a movie "awards" short inspired by #ItCameFromTheLateLateLateShow! Online and in person in Ann Arbor, Michigan! umich.zoom.us/j/9533026966...

I have a hobby (#rucking, if you must know) that requires a sturdy #backpack, so I'm used to Facebook showing me advertisements for backpacks. Still, I was a little surprised to learn there are TWO companies producing official #DnD backpacks.

All around the world, #wargamers are reading this headline and thinking "Well, I guess I need to start another army." www.sciencefocus.com/news/a-massi...

FLGS (which I haven't visited in years) in Livonia, Michigan has been #vaguebooking through some stuff lately. If I still shopped there, I'd be afraid to shop there.

Proud to be the 872nd backer 😎 on @BackerKit.com Crowdfunding for Castle Zagyg Galleries of the Arch Mage 2!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

Very Random Aside: Just confirmed that @rpggeek.com lists me as a TTRPG designer due to my one fanzine credit. Even worse, I have no fans there. My wife is an #RPGgeek member! Come on, @coreyosullivan.com, click that little heart already! rpggeek.com/rpgdesigner/...

Spent two weeks researching a strange question about gaming #miniatures, then found the answer was sitting unread in my gaming collection. The question: Why do so many gamers insist miniatures scales (like 25mm) are measured to the height of a characters eyes?

You know how the music jerks quiz women wearing band t-shirts about the band's songs? I should do that to dudes wearing #HellfireClub clothing. "So you like AD&D? Name three psionic defense modes!"

Took a detour into #modeltrain scales while researching gaming #miniatures, and now Reddit is showing me train-related posts. Turns out that train layout backstories can be just as goofy as #TTRPG setting lore. www.reddit.com/r/modeltrain...

Today's #TTRPG related purchase at the #Ypsilanti #fleamarket is positively ancestral: A $10 box of 1970s Britains #ToySoldiers I bought because I'm researching gaming #miniatures scales.

Huh.

Skimming old #wargaming magazines I bought for reference back in 2007, and found some vintage #pizza coupons stashed in one. Yeah, that tracks.

Don't you start now, too, Google.

Dove deep into #miniatures history this weekend, and reached two tentative conclusions: Anyone who tries to define "25mm scale" without mentioning Jack Scruby is a fraud. The various 25mm scales are probably just scale-creeped #HOscale train figures, anyway. More on this in the future.

Brainstorming #DnD nonsense, the phrase "signet of a disnobled house" popped into my head, leading me to think "Is that a real word? If not, it should be." It appears "disnoble" was barely a word, so seldom used that dictionaries ignore it. But it's a good #word for a D&D game, so I'll keep it.

I was too tired last night to do anything smart, so I searched the Web for odd-sized graph papers I might use for #TTRPG battle maps. Found some. This morning, Facebook ads are telling me @fmentzer.bsky.social is already on to it. That's #grognard life: All my friends have graph paper opinions!

(Macho Women With Guns: The game I only bought so I could prove to my friends it was real, but most of my friends always knew about it, because my friends in the 1990s were all weirdos.)

I probably already have miniatures that can double as "Melania: Devourer of Men," so I just need to figure out which #TTRPG could use her as a villain. Folks, I'm afraid the answer is... #MachoWomenWithGuns. (Because it's immature AND political, that's why!) www.avclub.com/gji-melania-...

I already see gamers threatening to boycott #DnD if WOTC produces a #HarryPotter #TTRPG, but that would be even less impactful to Hasbro's bottom line than the 2023 OGL "boycott." HP will bring in more then enough money to replace any quitters. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

I like to tease #PalladiumBooks, but as I've said before, they're an important part of both my personal #TTRPG history and #Detroit nerd history. They deserve the exhibit that @detroithistorical.bsky.social is giving them. www.detroithistorical.org/exhibitions/...

An anniversary notification from #eBay is basically a commemoration of the date I transitioned from "old AD&D player" to "old #TTRPG collector who needs all the accessories and the exact perfect #miniatures." Ooh, my orcs have shipped!

As a "real gamer," I never promise a game will be fun. I just promise players that "it will make sense eventually." theonion.com/explanation-...

I have a fun #dragon fact for you all. The word "reptile" did not appear anywhere in the AD&D Monster Manual's entry for "Dragon." Neither did related words like "lizard," "snake," or "serpent." The #ADnD Monster Manual was published in 1977.

My wife @coreyosullivan.com dragged me to a "creative reuse" store -- it's like a thrift store for craft supplies. Someone donated a dozen perfectly useable dice bags! Also, this is apparently where unwanted card games in Ann Arbor go to die.

Shout-out to my old college gaming club, UT-BASH, who instituted a hygiene policy back in 1991 *and* made enforcement a responsibility of elected club officers. If you ignore all the club presidents who got sent to prison, BASHers were a surprisingly civilized bunch!

Look, an entire thread of contrarian opinions I agree with! Bad people are bad for the hobby, and pushovers who think it's "rude" to call them out are also bad for the hobby. Grow some spines and get some standards, you cowards.

Consolidated all the small piles of uninventoried #TTRPGs in my home so I could update my collection on #RPGGeek. Some of this stuff goes all the way back to Gary Con 2015!

And yet, there were no marsupials in the #ADnD #MonsterManual. A huge mythological oversight by Gygax! theonion.com/australia-ad...

#ForFucksSake -- @usatoday.com does a human interest story on Black #MTG players, and the Facebook comments go "All Nerds Matter" on the story. AND USAToday's website is suggesting questions about Somalis and fraud? The #SystemicRacism has infected the #AI! www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Tim Kask was a curmudgeon and a Killer DM, and I'll miss him for both those things. #RIP #TimKask www.enworld.org/threads/tim-...

Followed a Reddit tip to find #DnD "Lore & Legends" discounted 90% at #Ollies. It will now sit on a shelf next to the other gaming art and history books I never remember to read. (It's clearly a coffee table book, but I don't have a coffee table.)

Hit up some game stores in Oakland County (Michigan) today for $40 of mismatched vintage #TTRPGs. If the #DaveArneson autograph on that #Blackmoor book is legit, it's probably worth more than the two dollars the comic book store charged me for it.

I love it when dumb people ask dumb questions AND limit who can reply to them. #TTRPG goes back to the 1990s, possibly originating in Japan. But hey, those guys are old now, so maybe you can take them in a fight. groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.a...

I know #DnD players are all about the treasure chests, but for much of human history, baskets and jars were the default for storing household possessions, including money. www.popsci.com/science/roma...

This article reminds me of an #ADnD game in 1987 where our party had to retrieve a book, bell, and candle to defeat an evil magic-user. I didn't get the cinematic reference because I was an uncultured 15-year-old. Also like this article, that's not "news." www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/12/dd-f...

Twenty years ago, I realized I could afford to focus on gaming or comic book collecting, but not both. I choose #TTRPGS because "at least those get me out of the house." I guess other people are realizing that's a good thing now? www.avclub.com/pax-unplugge...

If you're going to post @larryelmore.bsky.social art for easy Internet Points, you could at least link to the site where he can make money from it. Artists need to eat, you know. larryelmore.com/store/TSSF/t...

I don't spend much time on YouTube, but my TV (which knows I'm a gamer) recommended Professor Dungeon Master's year-old interview with @lukegygax.bsky.social about his father's house rules and DMing style. I have some thoughts. youtu.be/NBqdVDP6dDk...

Today, for the first time in years, Facebook showed me a #dating site ad. It was a badly targeted ad, because I'm not into anime, and I'm happily married. I don't need a Sailor Mistress. Now I'm going to tell a story about advertising, #DnD, and I why I haven't seen a dating ad in years.

Archaeologists providing new ideas for dungeon dressings: A #boardgame (that isn't a giant chessboard) built into the floor of an ancient ruin. phys.org/news/2025-11...

I don't know if artificial colors cause cancer, but #Cheetos that don't leave orange fingerprints in your rulebooks could be a real boon for the #ttrpg hobby. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Takes some real nerve to pretend those are the same #dice. No wonder this set ended up at #FiveBelow.

Back for Day 2 of U-Con #gameconvention and I brought @coreyosullivan.com with me. We're totally failing at taking #selfies with the U-Con quilt!