Graham!

Norway is awesome. youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

Leonard Nimoy in 1979, on the eve of returning as Spock in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, was asked what he thought about the success of Star Wars despite its (perceived) lack of “social significance”. Nimoy, bless him, was having nothing to do with any “Star Trek vs Star Wars” bickering.

Ryan Tudhope! Charmaine Chan!

Is it time to incorporate Hypercard projects into one of my classes?

This is a really fun design space; I recommend checking it out:

You San survey all of my friend Lou's #ttrpg adventures and supplements in one place!

Let us put this week behind us...and talk about TTRPGs! Join me and the chat today at 8am CT LIVE www.youtube.com/live/rGgge4N...

"Diane, I just drove past the most incredible customized DeLorean."

the Labour party trying to paint a picture of why you shouldn't vote Green and it's "everyone will take drugs all the time and also engage in fundamentalist Islam" of course people voted for that, it's Dune. you've invented Dune!

Gorillaz "The Mountain" 8-minute short film is now online. Directed by Jamie Hewlett, Max Taylor & Tim McCourt at The Line studio. An homage to the golden era of 2D animation, produced with a hybrid analogue-digital workflow. >> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-02...

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

This change at Xbox didn’t happen because Xbox is dead, or failing, or because it’s ‘losing’ to PlayStation and Nintendo. I also don’t believe Asha Sharma was hired to ‘sunset’ the brand in any way (that one doesn’t make any sense to me at all!). Let’s talk about it: youtu.be/AXf66oSSwHU

Listen to @brianmbendis.bsky.social! 100% agree.

Hey.

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist

New Patreon post up: the giant LOTR figure set, batch 2 of 12: www.patreon.com/posts/151556...

Writing a video game is making one big thing work well and then finishing a million little things properly.

More Delta Green inspiration. #ttrpg

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

Good news! The Jason Fox High Stakes D20 is back in stock at store.foxtrot.com!

Jealous of gamers in Walker's Point, Milwaukee. What an awesome store!

"Aw, man, now The Economist is scoring on us?"

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

It's Saturday. You think I forgot? No way hombre. Hey #genghiscon, you up? www.youtube.com/live/fNrUos0...

Tony Gilroy on his approach if he were President of Lucasfilm “If I did that job, I would rather go down swinging. I’d rather go down in flames. As low-risk as my life is, my creative life is pretty high-risk, so I’d like to swing away. Safety has never been one of my navigational principles"

I love that Yochai put energy into these editions! More of this, and less white type on black backgrounds in $50 hardbacks.

Tony Gilroy is a national treasure. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

It seems like the majority of people are just looking at the headline and interpreting this as another "whoops! user data got leaked! our bad!" What was actually exposed was code used in Persona's software. Code showing that this company is doing A LOT MORE THAN CHECKING YOUR AGE.

This feels likely to be not great. We all knew Phil would be leaving at some point after the Activision|Blizzard|King merger, but Sarah Bond leaving is a surprise. More layoffs in 3...2...1...

Day of the Devs will be at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026! Our mission is to celebrate the creativity, diversity, and magic of games, and we're excited to bring that to life in SF. We'll be on the floor and there will be a FREE event at The Midway even if you aren't attending GDC! bit.ly/dotd-gdc

“I know Andrew is a good man who’s been treated terribly, but you remember when we learned a few minutes ago that England and the United States are two different countries?” said Senior Advisor Gerald Donovan

Roblox is not a good company on so many levels. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/f...

Motion picture formats, you say? #AspectRatio youtu.be/NLDida6fglw?...

"On Jan.13, the Santa Cruz city council voted to end their Flock contract, less than two years after it began."

“Would you buy furniture from a place called ‘Unpainted Huffines?’"

Be like Ryan Coogler Hire women DPs Win awards

I think I just found inspiration for a #DeltaGreen scenario. Fill this thing with handwritten notes, Polaroids, receipts, business cards and takeout menus, and hand it to players. What could go wrong in late-1980s LA? #ttrpg

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

Public Access is coming to Kickstarter in March! It helps us a lot if folks sign up for prelaunch. Please do and help spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

Two weeks

Happy Year of the Horse everyone.

#sammydavisjr meets #godzilla 🤯🤯🤯

Gang. GANG. LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS. STOP USING THEM.

A gaming con *and* Powell's Books? Hmmmm.

It’s time.

If you missed it on Friday, we're doing a game jam next month using the system that underpins our popular nazi evisceration simulator EAT THE REICH Make something just as big and just as bloody. Or something smaller and, dare we say it, restrained? rowanrookanddecard.com/havoc-engine...