Holy smokes, what a game.

I hope the Bears Zangief the Niners.

Some sort of Blair Witch situation seemingly happening in the neighborhood.

If the fine for illegal action is less than the revenue, the fee is just COGS.

cozy twilight imperium

Some very straightforward, enriching, and enjoyable resolution intentions for 2026: Read more; write more.

I love winter, and one aspect of the season that's often overlooked is the "scary ghost stories/ and tales of the glories/ of Christmases long, long ago." It's the seasonal setting for the Stone Tape, All Souls/ All Hallows, M.R. James' ghost stories, and the Rackham Christmas Carol illustrations.

The folks at the Wisconsin Games Alliance just posted the talk I gave at this year's M+DEV about making a living as a freelancer writer and game designer. Go watch! youtu.be/ikQ2p2R22HM?...

Making a pot of white bean chili to get rid of this dry-ass chicken breast I had lying around and maybe I should have seeded the jalapeños, my friends.

One thing I particularly like about the Vaesen TTRPG is the idea that your group "rediscovers" aspects of their headquarters as they improve it during play. It helps give narrative context to the idea that someone else had the place first and as you explore it, you find useful facilities.

Take me out tonight Take me anywhere I don't care, I don't care, I don't care

Scattered, smothered, covered, peppered, topped, chunked, and diced.

You will do better with people who are invested in their community than you will by trying court high-dollar individuals who are forever on the move seeking a slightly more favorable tax rate.

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I turned my face away and dreamed about you

One of my brothers had a kid named Tommy Earthman on his grade-three baseball team and they called him Tommy Salami Earthworm and I don’t know if that kid ever recovered.

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Merry Christmas from Jimmy the Gent.

One of my favorites. Credit: Tom Gauld

“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undetectable,” said Sherman Austin. Full story: lataco.com/ice-license-... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Surely because of all the horrors being imposed on the world by the usual malefactors, but this whole holiday season has seemed bleak and empty and hollow. Here’s to making next year better for more people and catapulting the villains into a burning ditch.

New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Literally bought a second chore coat after rewatching the episode of Downton Abbey where the gardener is unjustly accused of stealing a letter opener.

The holiday season always reminds me of the time I used to run music trivia at a bar in Atlanta and one of the teams was named Camryn Mannheim Steamroller.

Nechrubel's Canon in D

as as new year's resolution i promise not to start a podcast

anyway, when you're wondering why AI can't do the job of historians, think about this image. none of this future collection is accessible to any LLM now; perhaps five decades from now, perhaps, 1% of this might be machine-readable. perhaps.

Been playing Absolum couch co-op with the youngest. It's great!

It’s a metaphor.

Relegate the entire NFC East.

"You took my dreams from me when I first found you" "I kept them with me, babe, I put them with my own/ Can't make it all alone, I've built my dreams around you" Every time, man. EVERY TIME.

The story behind the greatest Christmas song of all time, Fairytale of New York, is being shown on BBC Four at 12.30am Saturday 20 December. Don’t miss it if you’ve not seen it before. A superb watch. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... #shanacgowan #fairytaleofnewyork

"Here's a pound of ground beef, sawdust, plastic shavings, and glue. Assemble a delicious steak from it." No, that sucks, and I don't want to do it.

I dunno, man, in my experience the actual, human-driven creative work of visualizing, finding references, concepting, researching, etc. is one of the best times to evangelize and excite the team, as opposed to just turning on the slop faucet and making a game about whatever's excreted.

Me when it's time for the nights to get shorter and the days to grow longer.

Can you sense the fear and the hatred Growing in the hearts of its population And youth, oh youth, are being seduced By the greedy hands of politics and half truths The beaten generation The beaten generation Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information

Did no one in the Anthony Joshua v. Jake Paul fight have a last name

Fomoria Quickstart is crawling out of the earth now, free to download! Includes core rules, an intro adventure and 8 pregen characters ready to be consumed by the Darkness. An epic folk horror TTRPG created by Tania Herrero, laid out and published by @nohr.se tania-herrero.itch.io/fomoria-quic...

I really, really want this to be a Heart album cover, like maybe Little Queen but given the Bark at the Moon theme album treatment.

It's your birthday, Duane.

Interestingly, “redistributing the wealth” would mean giving it back to the people whose labor created the value in the first place, from whom it was taken in exchange for literally nothing at all.

"[D]ebut albums from the likes of Xmal Deutschland and the Wolfgang Press did little to dispel the label’s reputation as a home for weirdo vampires."

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

In 1953, democratically elected Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mosaddegh’s government was overthrown by joint efforts of MI6 and the CIA after Mosaddegh nationalized the nation’s oil resources and declared that Iran’s oil belonged to Iran and not the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

This looks like a still from a show called THE SHITUATION ROOM.