I made a video from a cat’s POV where the owners have lied about it being sweet and instead you are trying to murder me

The nostalgia of fascism strikes again. “Neo-classical”, sure dude.

Do you hear the storm outside? That's not the storm...😱😱😱 Looking for a pick-up-and-run folk horror game for Halloween? Based on Romanichal folklore, play as two teams of ancient ancestors facing off as the veil between the worlds grows thin... pennyblake.itch.io/bitti-duudi

What if instead of playing Game 7, the Blue Jays and Mariners settled on a truce and agreed to send their best 26 guys to go beat the shit out of the Dodgers, for humanity’s sake?

Just beat FF 7: Rebirth. There are lots of critical thoughts. But I still have to hand it to Zack Fair, the man who is just too ditzy to die or become taken over by Jenova.

All it takes is one single TikTok and I’m hip deep in Une Vie à peindre yet again. God the masc harmony is just so damned good.

The Ground Itself by Everest Pipkin was introduced to me by a colleague in my PhD program and I never looked back.

Former profession, but… “More of a comment…”

This article from Sky News is a perfect illustration of how backlash against Indigenous languages works as part of what I call 'reactionary settler colonialism', as I outline in my article below. www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne...

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Now that the curse is broken, have an essay about time and baseball and unending games that I wrote this summer for @bwdr.bsky.social (Go Mariners!)

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we score a run? ESTRAGON: Yes. Let's. They do not score.

How can you NOT be romantic about baseball. Pure magic.

God I loved that game. The pain, the suffering, the absolute drag, the self inflicted punches to the face. The feeling of relief when it's finally over. The truest form of baseball.

So this playoff game was the first high stakes playoff with narrative drama for @misstori.bsky.social and @feydaley.bsky.social . Welcome to the suffering and the elation. Glad I could do it with you.

my rpg mild take for october is that I think horror games are the most easily ruined by players trying to be too genre savvy about it (ALL genres can be ruined by this, though). if your characters are too smart to go investigate the spooky shit going on, it's going to be a boring game. cut it out

I just had a big cathartic cry because @feydaley.bsky.social surprised me with exactly the pizza that I wanted the most, clearly I am very stable right now and not at all emotionally compromised in any way or fashion. (Thank you Fey, it was such a good pizza)

Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

If it helps, I think of blocking people as a form self-care as self-restraint. I block folks that I know I will dump energy into and literally go nowhere with. Blocking isn’t merely because the other person is just so scary or bad. It’s to keep me accountable to my own time.

It's amazing. This crop is, too. @staceywescott.bsky.social (If anyone needs alt-text on mobile, btw, feel free to edit mine down if you want. I'm at my actual keyboard today.)

one of the most important things to learn, if you're out there doing things: you don't get to talk about it. you don't get to brag about it, you don't get to tell your friends, you don't get drinks bought for you in the bar off the story. it's *always* shut the fuck up friday

It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do

It's amazing when a bunch of evil people do a bunch of evil shit for the entire runtime of a world building story, and then toward the end new even eviler people show up and start doing even eviler stuff and the og evil squad is like "hang on we love evil but let's not do EVIL-evil, Jesus Christ"

📚 Excited to share that the Chinese translation of my book "Conquering Peace" is out from Shanghai People’s Publishing House (上海人民出版社), with a new preface! Huge thanks to Zizhu Wang for the translation. Do read it and let me know if you spot any errors… I’ll be just as surprised as you are!

Running a poll to try and get data on what devices and formats people read TTRPGs in, so designers can make more informed choices. I intend to share the data once I've gotten enough responses, please spread this so we can cover more ground! forms.gle/V7WtvMpAUkJa...

i love you trans women. the world would be an unbearable place without you. you are loved by so many of us

Independent media is the only media we will have that will not be beholden to The State This means it will not have the same reach, influence, or attention as traditional models developed. This will like be both very good and extremely difficult to maintain.

In case it’s unclear—I’m really not liberal. Bigotry toward oppressed groups is not a legitimate discursive position. It may formally resemble one. But even if it gets institutional sign-off, it remains a properly intolerable thing. The discursive move is literally the trap that normalizes.

I've been hiding this for a long time, but here it is. The real first roleplaying game, created in 1970: Crypt. I've created an annotated manuscript of this lost treasure trollish-delver-games.itch.io/crypt

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

11th Hour Leitmotif all done. Geinoh Yamashirogumi meets disturbing spiritual. Woof.

So I’m doing leitmotif work, and since this is a game about fighting against colonizer time, I finally landed on what the Twelfth Hour, is going to involve. Is this a middle finger to GMT? Yes. Is there also a personal valence to this middle finger? Also yes. youtu.be/0Sl7WCYwvWA?...

All I’m saying is that there are proven health benefits to listening to the Wu-Tang Clan. #iykyk

Being a WGA member for the brief period when game writers were allowed in was weird. Guild leadership had no curiosity about how game writing worked in practice and often expressed open contempt for the medium, so it wasn't really surprising when they unceremoniously dropped us.

So while folks are away on an excursion to a plant store, I made myself some cereal. While happily going about breakfast and reading up on role playing games and waiting for a video to render, I end up chewing something that aggressively does not feel like cereal.

hey @spiritcitylofi.bsky.social i really like ur train

Until this week, it's been impossible to play the games of the 1993 Pioneer LaserActive without one of the vanishingly rare, disintegrating consoles. Here's the story of the guy who's been trying to fix that for years -- and all the hardware and software he had to build to make it possible.

At this point, I almost want to call it This Game of Silksong. But even that got released before I finished things lmaaoaoaoao

So. I’m going to make this plan public because I need to hold myself accountable to it. #ttrpg The plan for the never ending development hell that is This Game of Hours: 1 - Accessible Mobile Friendly Website for sourcebook, mechanics and easy look up. (Already under construction)

Turns out it’s a thing

My latest blog is out! It's mostly about TTRPGs as a transitional medium, but also there is focus on the way that literature has inspired TTRPGs and will continue to do so. goatsongrpg.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/t...

Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley

#TTRPGs Looking forward to this! I'm excited to see a take on Werewolf the Apocalypse that takes a more sensitive view on topics in the game line and I'm eager to see the new options that it adds.

same for artists. no artist is burnt out because their workload would be less with AI or their project managing software could be assisted by AI. we’re burnt out because our work is not respected enough. what we do is seen as disposable and replaceable, rather than valuable.

I recently became acquainted with "Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi" 童絵解万国噺, a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861. The retelling of the revolutionary era is quite something. Here, for instance, is John Adams wielding a sword in mortal combat with a gigantic serpent.

Fight for the Future has a petition set up that to urge Visa and Mastercard to stop censoring games, as well as urge lawmakers to step in against their overreach Petitions cannot materially do much, but theyre great for communicating raw numbers. Its worth the 60 seconds itll take to sign it.

Vampire: The Masquerade has a word for this. Diablerie.