Having been on the "inside" before being welcomed back into agnosticism, its telling how many people that were saying "Cathoics want to pick and choose instread of submitting to Papal Authority" under Benedict have been more than willing to flaunt the Pope's authority under both Francis and Leo.

There are times when I see something that I'm almost 99% certain is AI generated, but because I know how many legitimate artists get accused of using AI because people don't like who they made the art for, I'm always hesitant to call it out. But it does make me not want to reshare or engage with it.

There was a time when I thought I was Conservative, and was trying to be a practicing Catholic. The increasing trend toward actively citing Ayn Rand and Objectivism as guiding principles told me that there was a big disconnect between what I understood of Catholcism and modern Conservatism.

RPG Adventure Design Tip. Keep the scenarios objectives clear. Players engage more when they understand the goal, even if they don’t know how to reach it. Make a quest board, have a document they can reference, just give them something to help keep the Players on track. #DnD #TTRPG

Everything from my childhood should perpetually be about 20 years ago. I can deal with 20, not 45.

If any other country is ever going to say,"well, they legitimized doing this" and come into another country to kidnap their leader and take him away to stand trial, this really seems like the opportune time. Not advocating, just noting.

Remember when a president dropping an F-bomb on a recording or near a hot mic was something noteworthy?

Thanks to a recent discussion, I want to run a Spelljammer campaign with Nagpa flying around Wildspace in fortresses kind of like the old dwarven fortress ships, using a big purple crystal lifejammer helm that turns people into husks, deploying large animated clockwork horror corpses to raid worlds.

I'm sad because I'm strating to feel a lot of nerd shaming from the left now. I'm not talking about "don't give money to this horrible monster of a person," I mean "if you like comics/established science fiction/fantasy property, you're a stunted adult that can't rise to the challenges of the day."

Every so often I think about how I've never seen that bladed yo-yo shield from Rygar satted up in any RPG.

For some reason I find it kind of amusing that the ActionVerse line that's the affordable kids line of Star Wars action figures is pretty much just the 90s Power of the Force style action figure.

New Kickstarter from Exalted Funeral that I hope you'll check out - I'm really excited to work on it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/exa...

This is going to be so cool!

The only downside to having chips and queso is that you have to heat the quaso up to an almost gaseous state so it sakes liquid long enough to eat all of the chips I want to eat.

Mattel was really great about getting me a refund for my damaged Mantenna. They were going to send me a new one, but they didn't have him in stock. Once they okayed the refund, I went ahead and glued Mantenna's leg and foot back on. He's not as flexible now, but I can still put him in a display.

@flyingfox369.bsky.social The latest cubicle display is live. I thought I'd do an homage to the upcoming Masters of the Universe movie this time around. Everyone is from the trailer (even if you had to squint to see some of them). #MotU #Masterverse

Back in the 3.5 days, we had a halfling druid in our party named Mern. Whenever Mern would try to navigate small spaces or look for a hiding place, Mern would call it a Mern Hole. The rest of us started calling halfling sized spaces Mern Holes. Its been 20 and that's still something I remember.

Okay, "characters from four IPs that I will disappoint when l show up for the date," here goes: 1. I agree with Dracula, Ororo 2. Rosie Cotton 3. Zatanna 4. Dr. Beverly Crusher

Poor Mantenna didn't didn't survive his trip through retail channels. His foot was lose in the box when I opened it, and his leg sheared off when I pulled him out of the plastic tray. Poor guy. If only Modulok had trained him how to properly remove limbs.

@flyingfox369.bsky.social I picked up a new Mekaneck figure, and I love how much neck extension they pack him with.

Just Constantly Doing the Worst Thing This is why, whenever I try to do something, to write something, to comment on something, since last January, I can't. Because the people who are the least affected by the evil of this administration and the modern conservative fascist movement can still make…

The Mutants & Masterminds 4e Kickstarter had a fantastic launch yesterday: fully funded and past its first stretch goal and well on its way to the second. The value of backing will just go up from here! I have my eye on the $100K goal and the Earth-Prime Gazetteer 👀

Okay, let's push this over the 100,000 so we get that Earth-Prime Gazetteer. I need that setting material!

I just realized that social media for me now is "I come out of my hole and if I see the shadow of facism, I have six more weeks of inability to work on creative things."

I'm sure that the continued escalation of blatant fascism inherit in arresting reporters for reporting on the facist actions of the administration will surely outrate a true opposition party's leaders to take definitive action. Yeah, I know, I'm not holding my breath.

I love Ready or Not and You're Next, and its Zazie Beetz, so I'm all in for this. That said, unless there are a lot more twists and turns, they really just laid out the plot in this trailer.

There was a G.I. Joe episode where Cobra took over all communications satellites and had their own channel they were broad casting, and specifically they showed that they changed the ending to King Kong to show him destroying all of the planes and just running rampant in New York.

The state of the world is such that I'm willing to risk Star Wars discourse instead of engage with reality. That said, I loved the update to the E-Wing in Ahsoka, and I wish this is the kind of thing we got with starship design instead of "70s prototypes of what we got in the OT."

I remember being in my 20s and hearing all of the rhetoric from Boomer conservatives about how Gen X was lazy and not driven enough to be responsible with any authority, and I remember this sense of dread about thinking I wasn't doing enough but not see what I could do.

I know it won't happen, but wouldn't it be hilarious if a president left the country for a summit and got arrested for war crimes? I mean, its okay to seize heads of state when they've committed crimes according to other countries, right? That's the precedent now, if I remember correctly.

In addition to being horrified at domestic policy, just being an American I feel like I need to apologize to every person I've ever been friends with outside of the country. The real American exceptionalism is how exceptional we are at letting our government spiral out of control.

I feel like it should be telling us something that Poland is talking about not appeasing a dangerous country's expansionist rhetoric.

I finally got to play my Githyanki Circle of Stars Druid in @brandesstoddard.bsky.social's game again. And I even used a Starry Form that wasn't The Archer!

Dungeons & Dragons 2026, How Did We Get Here (Part One?) It's been a long time since I posted here. The new year has me thinking about the state of D&D all the way back to 2014, because for whatever reason, 2026 feels like there are some important threads that lead back to 2014, but I will not go…

Why am I so sore this morning? Oh, yeah, the power went out at 2 AM and I've been sleeping in a steadily cooling house and I'm an old man. Mystery solved.

I swear if I hear anyone that supports this piece of shit president ever complain about participation trophies again, my head will explode.

Schumer isn't fiddling while Rome burns, he's complaining that the Republicans never gave him a fiddle so he could.

Provoke, provoke, provoke, oh, you didn't take the bait, well, we'll pretend like you did so we can do this horrifyingly illegal thing and act like we justified it. Its the exact same playbook. If you didn't care about Venezuala, you should have. It will be the pattern when it reaches your door.

Just to clarify, "we're going to keep murdering people until you quit calling it murder, and thank us for keeping you safe," isn't "almost fascist," it is absolutely fascist. Its not coming, its here, it just may not be on your block yet.

It would be the stupidest possible thing that could happen and completely in keeping with the trajectory of the world since 2016 if the next World War started because the President ordered an invasion of Greenland.

"Hey, its a new year, lets see if I can use social media to have fun and talk about pop culture and games and stuff I like again for a while." 2026: "Go ahead. Give it a try. See what happens."

If you're trolling your political enemies by "ironically" sounding like a Nazi with your official government agency account, there is no functional difference between you and a Nazi. "I'm for genocide and white supremacy, lol, just kidding, or am I."

I am in that very specific demographic that is old enough to get ads for cruises and also gets excited that the email is about something completely different when I see the word Viking.

Jared, what are you doing, reading the news, on a Sunday night, when you're already up too late?

So, wait. The DOJ is investigating someone over renovations, and its literally in the middle of the gold plated ballroom renovation of the White House? There are so many worse things going on, but its just, I mean . . . absolutely no shame at all.

After avoiding it for years I got Covid for the first time on Christmas. Do not recommend. I am very thankful that I've had boosters every year since the vaccines were released, because I know my experience was much less perilous than people that had to deal with the initial virus outbreak.

The only positive I can say about how 2026 has been developing so far is that it would at least be nice if someone that was the head of state for a country committing genocide was afraid to leave home because kidnapping leaders you accuse of a crime qualifies as legitimate foreign affairs.

Concept: Warlock with the Reaper patron that occasionally has to arrange Rube Goldberg deaths for people that escaped death as part of their pact.

Please, for your own mental health, do not watch the FX A Christmas Carol from 2019.

In case you need a comparison, the Emperor never comissioned a Palpatine Class warship.