What I read in the back half of 2025: fools-pyrite.com/posts/readin... honestly one of the strongest runs of books I've read since I started tracking them

Putting out a beta of my home game, The Drowned Isles! Blog about it: fools-pyrite.com/posts/drowne... And the game itself: drowned-isles.fools-pyrite.com

What I've been reading recently: fools-pyrite.com/posts/readin...

you can smile again, number six

New blog post: I read a lot of books and wrote down how I felt about em. A lot of sff that didn’t thrill me and a lot of queer/trans literature that did fools-pyrite.com/posts/readin...

programmer encounters linear algebra for the first time: (audible discomfort) strange. this vector.......... it's fixed-length and immutable. it's almost like some kind of........... tuple

Every once in a while I'll get to tell someone, and they'll suddenly understand what I mean, that PbtA doesn't begin and end with the fiction, it begins and ends with the conversation. "Fiction first" is an idea that came to PbtA later, from I don't really know where.

Whenever I hear someone dogmatically saying "the moves MUST begin and end with the fiction" I always want to crack open Apocalypse World and pull out pretty much any example from the book.

Wrote a blog post about playing my DIY rpg: fools-pyrite.com/posts/drowne... I hope to get a chance to scrape some rules together and play again before the spring, and maybe even post a version before the summer

oh hey it's me :) you should vote for me for debut blog

I wrote up how I felt about ICON after a ~30-session-campaign: fools-pyrite.com/posts/icon-f... (TL;DR: game well designed but I don't know if I vibe with the structure)

here's a computer take: it didn't actually take that much computing power to go to the moon

Wrote about some things I've read recently: fools-pyrite.com/posts/readin...

as bsky gains momentum two things become clear: 1. this will be the defacto post-Twitter, post-Tumblr, post-Cohost place for most of the people I follow 2. it's got enough people that any popular post's replies are truly obnoxious

New blog post! I played a session of ICON (fantasy RPG from one of the Lancer creators) and wrote down some thoughts. TL;DR: totally unremarkable FitD game stapled to an exciting tactics game fools-pyrite.com/posts/icon-f...

Hello! I'm new to BlueSky and don't understand it at all yet. I do have my latest blog post up to share: fools-pyrite.com/posts/drowne...