It’s nifty you can honk the horn at Hauler. But only if you’re baller.

Personal peeve, but I also feel it undermines everything when a character offers “This is going to be fun!” when something horrible or extremely difficult is about to kick off. Not only is it hackneyed, it’s almost always in opposition to what the game/ story/ whatever is building.

Tired of being perceived as old? Send an entirely different person and have them introduce themselves as you.

If you see this, show the energy you bring to Bluesky.

Super-aggro security staff vs. really loud street preacher: Everyone loses.

I’ll back this statement. The egg ingredient of the mayonnaise makes it kind of French toasty when used for a grilled cheese, beyond the regular butter method.

One time I saw a TKO at a Waffle House and I'll bet the dude who got rocked wished he could teleport -away- from the WaHo.

You also never know -what- you will need to take from your time of expertise-building. Of my past five projects, -all- of them called back to lessons from previous work, each with a different takeaway. Learned it not knowing that I'd need it in the future, which you can't do when you auto-complete.

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

No shade to anyone making modern spooky music, but an 80's "period piece" gives you a huge swath of first-run music to draw from. And it's the first decade of musical dominance of the synthesizer, which can be the literal primary instrument of isolation and alienation.

what is with people's eyebrows lately

If I'm choosing from a list and using a d-pad or stick input, SWEET MOTHER OF DINGOES let "down" on the last option cycle to the top of the list and "up" from the top option cycle to the bottom.

There is an inverse and proportional relationship between how much an episode of this show featured its ostensible "main character" (that crummy detective) and how good said episode is. Which is doubly unfortunate, because the mortals in a Vampire story should be as interesting as the Kindred.

One of my favorite films for how music is used in it is GOODFELLAS, but COOLEY HIGH does it even better.

Probably collateral damage from living in a capitalist society all my life, but I just saw something labeled "chocolatey" and the first thought that entered my head was "I'll bet it doesn't meet a legal definition of chocolate."

NEW: The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating.

One time, in the hoary days of the internet, I saw a forum argument between a Danish guy and a Swedish guy about (presumably mythological) Thor and the Danish guy said (all-caps preserved) HE KILLS TROLLS YOU IGNORANT SWEDE and that has stuck with me for like 25 years.

Accidentally walked into OWL TERRITORY yesterday evening and I do not wish to make that mistake again.

Some amount of TTRPG writing is "creative writing." Some amount of TTRPG writing is "technical writing." The proportions vary by project, but TTRPG writers have to both convince players of the wonder of their worlds and also show how those worlds work.

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight." I made a "Yellow Wallpaper" piece back in 2017, but I re-read the story over the weekend and wanted to try again. Much happier with this version 🖤

No one working in game development gets paid to "play games all day" and even the people who are in the application all day are looking for places where the application breaks and how to reproduce that.

This 50 yr old woman spent 5 months in jail accused of a crime in a state she's never even been to, because Clearview AI misidentified her as the suspect. A judge signed off on it, cops went along with it, no process in place to even question the AI. www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...

Thinking about that one time we had an offsite while working on the WoD MMO and those who stayed at the office wrapped one colleague's workstation in tinfoil and pulled another's into the bathroom. A third had been wrapped in shrink-wrap and filled with packing peanuts.

Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)

Enjoy your Saturday night, my friends.

I saw the Vatican astronomer give a presentation once back when I was living in Atlanta and that was some of the most enthusiasm I had ever seen someone be about their vocation and its subject matter.

Wikipedia does what is essentially a full ban on AI content: www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

If you like Joy Division, you’ll love Versace.

Upsetting flatware continued

“With em dashes, Emily’s poem is a meditation. Without em dashes, her work becomes a book report summary.” annhandley.com/em-dash/ h/t Tess Needham

History will not, and should not, be kind to us.

I dunno, man, I'm not an economist or a finances guy, but maybe don't build infinite growth into your assumptions.

I know everything is awful right now, and will continue to be so in the immediate future, so that's as good a reason as any to remind you that our TTRPG is forever and always free. Gilded age grandeur! Existential horror! Factional skulduggery! Eminently cosplayable!

Note that it is unlikely they actually believe this, but it is their role to amplify the lie.

"Fraud" when you do it. "Emergent technology" when a company does it.

Drop a movie that traumatized you as a kid

In the suburbs where a lot of these shopping center sprawls exist, the parking lots are so huge and the stores so far apart that the parking lots are about 20 degrees hotter than the already-hellish summer heat in that season. So they'd be making customers more comfortable and generating energy.

So it has begun

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

Found an old CCP yearbook with one of the photos.

Saw a Sicilian pizza labeled “Detroit style” and I hope the rest of the day isn’t like this.

I feel like this, too, and every summer I experience at least one evening when I think, “I haven’t seen many fireflies this year; have we driven them to extinction?”

Hell, yes, tonight is game night.

Panic! at the Shit Show

More thoughts after a conversation from the other day, but most video games, for lack of a more-pleasant way to read their texts than on a screen while GAME happens around them, shunt their world curation off to the community, so it often ends up living in ad-deluged wikis.

southern death comfort

At a bar where White Zombie is playing.

One specific thing I like about Marathon is the “shell” that’s the vehicle for the runner’s consciousness. The body is just some fungible hot dog that you can have infinite amounts of. No change to gameplay proper from just being an exfil shooter dude, but frames stakes differently. Take risks!