Here I am, minding my own business and trying to motivate myself through another day, and Oreo chooses violence. While I very rarely eat Oreos, I feel the desire to go buy some Hydrox cookies. Maybe they'll treat me better than this.

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Vincent Lignier archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

They closed El Paso airspace for a fucking party balloon? Hell, even Nena thought it'd take at least 99 of them to cause a military freakout. youtu.be/Fpu5a0Bl8eY?...

New Call of Cthulhu adventure plot just dropped

New RPG Review video is up. Today we're returning to the Dark Future™ with the Cyberpunk Edgerunners adventure The Jacket. Sadly, copyright reasons prevented me from having Jack & Dweebles lip-synch Shallow Gravy's hit single 'Jacket' during it. But know that I deeply wanted to youtu.be/0ypRSkw3zbs

Dear Audible I understand why you auto-play a preview once I finish a book. But could you choose 1 from my Wishlist, or the next in a series I'm on, instead of random bullshit that I can't turn off because my hands are full, & without warning or consent fucking Harry Potter starts playing in my ears

Post a banger that is not in English. Deutschland by Rammstein A song about deeply loving your country, though its terrible past also makes that difficult. It's also an incredible video. youtu.be/NeQM1c-XCDc

Friday Dark Confession: When I was 23 we were at a friend's apartment tripping balls. We found this huge 1980's wood coffee table with lower cabinets by the dumpster and carried it back to his place. Next day we realized it was not in-fact primo-awesome and had also infested his place with roaches.

This morning's Fridge Logic while half asleep: In Peacemaker S2, Nazi Peacemaker probably wouldn't use a Desert Eagle because those are Israeli guns. Maybe an Automag since Desert Eagles likely wouldn't exist in that Universe. I haven't seen or even thought about this show since it released.

I absolutely hate how much YouTube creators beep out regular words like, "Suicide," "Murder," "Rape" or a whole host of other words. Or they use newspeak terms like "unalive" or "[letter]-Word" for common, unoffensive words. I've never had YouTube flag any of my videos for using any of these words.

I have a big delivery coming today. I had to schedule a block between 8am-12pm where I would be home and available for it. It's 4:30. As I approach my 9th hour of waiting, hostage in my house, unable to leave to run errands, take a shower, or pretty much anything, I pass the time distilling my rage

20 years ago today my wife and I gave our wedding dance to Rammstein's Nebel. Still in love. Where does the time go?

Listening to Expeditionary Force #18 and Joe mentions he's playing Cyberpunk 2097, which was a nice little shoutout to Cyberpunk 2077's shoutout to Expeditionary Force by including Skippy. This is deep-layer geek shit right here. If you don't understand, that's fine. But the right people will.

Scrolling through the Traveller campaign 'Singularity' and noticed it's got Omicrons. My first thought was, "Hoo boy, Mike is gonna love this." Then I remembered Mike isn't real. But I at least get to learn why he hates Omicrons so much.

Not all Mimics look like a chest www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCce...

Remember kids, when moving heavy gold bars, don't forget your steel-toed Crocs (Gold depository at the New York federal reserve in 1959)

"I get so attached to my PC that I want the GM to remove Character Death from our game" OK... every time something happens to your character that'd normally kill your PC, they'll survive. BUT you have to watch the Melania movie. No phone, no distractions. You must watch it credits & all

I regret not making Amelia look like this in our Secrets of the Ancients campaign. That sweet little droid got a little bloodthirsty by the end.

Hey, babe. How'd your session of Impossible Landscapes go? It went... sideways Then Adrian left early and Agent Morgan shot Agent Martian right through the throat

I was trying to explain our Delta Green group to a buddy. Everyone is a RPG Designer, Podcaster, or YouTuber. Most of us full-time. And then there's Adrian. He's none of those. He's just a cool dude we play with. He's also hands-down the best player and smartest in the room The rest of us are morons

I have been laughing at this for a solid five minutes.

"OMG, they're ruining Star Trek! Like a cold dagger through my childhood. No one will ever accept this. Shame! Shame!" LeVar being called "The New Spock" isn't as weird his picture. Everyone has nice pictures and he's lookin Nic Cage-level deranged. Also, where in the hell is Worf?

One for my sci-fi peeps *thought you'd particularly appreciate it @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social

I joked this morning that Freezing Fog sounds like some D&D spell. Then some dusty drawer in my brain popped open with, "Actually it was an AD&D Witch spell called Solidify Air from Dragon #114, 1986." I can't remember what I ate last Tuesday, but I can recall D&D shit I haven't read in 25+ years

hey babe, what’s your sign?

Snowed in? Don't feel like working? Check out my review for 'Alone Against the Static', a solitary Call of Cthulhu adventure you can play all by yourself. youtu.be/v42g55-Vkew

I've seen things you geeks wouldn't believe

Fun little surprise today. Appears Jack purchased some ad-space in Interface Issue 5 (he never tells me anything). I hope he gets some customers from it. Thank you to @rtalsoriangames.bsky.social Smiles are in short supply this week and you brought one to my face.

There are two types of people in the world -People who get teary-eyed watching Johnny Cash's video for Hurt, no matter how many times they've seen it before, -And unfeeling monsters you should best avoid.

I dont like that the word "snub" has become the de facto term for "not a finalist" or "didn't win". Snub is about intentional insult. Sure, sometimes there is intent, but far more often there isn't. Calling every contestant that didn't make it to the Final 5 as a snub is cheap drama-farming

Two of the more toxic TTRPG fans are 1- The Grognard who belittles any edition, mechanic, or playstyle developed after they finished high school 2- The Newer is Best hipster who insists anything but the latest micro-genre indie game is outdated shit for dinosaurs They're 2 sides of the same asshole

I'll be joining Glass Cannon for a Call of Cthulhu game at their Dallas show on May 13th. www.glasscannonnetwork.com/tour

The Doom Scrolling the past few weeks has been especially grim. So take a brief moment to forget the despair and appreciate the queen.

Vermithrax Pejorative is the best movie dragon and has the best fucking name. As for the, "Ackchyually, Vermithrax Pejorative is a wyvern, due to her only having two legs," dinguses, get bent. She's a dragon. She's the best dragon.

When I was a kid, there was this 2-part episode of Wonder Woman where people would get trapped inside these metal pyramids, and it was the most horrifying fucking television in the entire goddamned universe (later dethroned by Punky Brewster of all things, but that's a story for another day)

I will now sing it this way for the rest of my life

I feel if a RPG's primary reward mechanic for advancement/improvement is based off one thing, then that RPG is primarily about doing that thing. Gold=XP - it's about amassing treasure Killing=XP - it's about combat Solving the Mystery=XP - it's about solving mysteries This is somehow controversial.

I spent years being extremely restrained with my use of Block on my channel. The last few months since my mom died it's been ramping up quite a lot as far as what point I Block and move on. I'll say my mental space has drastically improved as a result.

The Stranger Things finale should have had Mike and Co. leave the basement as Holly and her friends pull out Second Edition AD&D. The whole series ends with a rage-fueled edition war. Even better, they pull out Shadowrun.

"You can't do horror RPGs set in the modern day due to technology and modern weapons," tells me two things. 1: You haven't seen a horror movie in the last 25 years. 2: You have a debilitating lack of imagination.

Stranger Things Season 5 should have had at least one of the kids driving a crappy van with a sick fantasy art paintjob.

This is the secret to zen mastery

OK, Stranger Things S5, this Reaper Mini wasn't made until 1994. It didn't exist in 1989 and its use on your show ruined my immersion. There's like 5,000 other vintage minis you could have used instead. I didn't care about the Sorcerer anachronism, but this one twisted my knickers

This is true. And what happened to them about 45 seconds later is also true.

Got a little year-end present from Free League. While it didn't come with a note saying, "Fine, you win. It's no longer with the all black pages. Happy now?!" I feel it was implied.

YouTuber Pro Tip: Make a meaningless mistake like a throw-away mispronunciation in your videos. Even after 8 years and hundreds of thousands of views, weirdos will still comment to educate you as if they were the very first ones. It's eternal engagement from pedants.

I miss the 2021 Internet.

One of my video policies that I probably should mention more is that while Jack is frequently seen sporting a wide array of firearms, none of them are real. I consider it poor gun ownership to be swinging around a real firearm for a silly RPG skit. Those guns are all as fake as his accent

Last RPG Review of the year. Today we're delving into the world of Delta Green, a grim Lovecraftian horror game about conspiracies, investigation, trauma, isolation, and fear. youtu.be/PIv9PsUiwsg