My SIL was quoted in a newspaper story but they decided for some reason to change her last name to “Vole” Now there is a debate in the family chat about whether they should all follow suit

Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult apnews.com/article/fake...

Cracking game of Dragonbane tonight! Wraiths and bone golems when we were already on the ropes! Thanks @fenrisgames.com @dozy139.bsky.social @torenielsen.bsky.social @andyhemming.bsky.social @zos93.bsky.social for some lovely sword and sorcery!

Started first day of proper editing on this music video. First job was to go through the takes and cut out all the bits where passers-by ruined the shot by <gasp> walking through a public park. There's no respect for broke-ass indie filmmakers stealing shots anymore

US chicken is chlorinated because America has no animal welfare laws where poultry is concerned. It has to be chlorinated because Salmonella and e. coli run rife The EU banned that practice in 1997 and as such the UK has among the highest welfare and standards in the world. 1/2

me: how do you stay looking so young? dorian gray: *shifts uncomfortably* essential oils

President Zelenskyy on Maduro: What can I say here? If this can be done to dictators, like that, then the United States of America know what they should do next.

uh holy SHIT?

I’m enjoying the new season of Fallout. I’m a big fan of the games as well, love how visually faithful the show is. Checking the 💿🐴 about it really makes me think that media literacy is not in a great shape amongst the Very Online Gamers

Support the Indies like @fenrisgames.com - so much stuff in their, well his, shop. Has really challenged me to try harder.

I love reading about the rivalry between Jules Verne and HG Wells. Verne is all “Cavorite? A floating rock? How entirely preposterous, you unscientific Englishman! My spacemen will go to the moon via Big Fucking Gun”

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Pew pew! Happy New Year all!

I'm ready to go to bed but I might stay up for another hour just to make sure 2025 is actually over. Proper cyberpunk dystopia of a year, absolute shambles Not expecting much better in 2026 but with TTRPGs and friends we shall all prevail. Happy New Year!

NYE activity is watching the new Knives Out movie. Daniel Craig is enjoying himself so much in these movies, and I am so happy for him. Very enjoyable stuff

The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.

Got a wink and a grin from Alanis Morissette while I was sitting having coffee on Sunset Boulevard and she was driving past in a remarkably dirty Mercedes.

Music video shot! And even though I was sitting in a wheelchair most of the time, I am exhausted! Happy, though.

You can’t even lure children into your gingerbread house to eat them any more without being cooked in your own oven. I blame Hansel culture

I finished my Christmas Lego! Such a fun model to make.

Spending all day building Lego. I got the Sherlock Holmes set for Christmas and lemme tell you a LOT of my favourite things are combining there I also got a nice little Peter Parker's apartment set - so at some point I'll show pictures - PICTURES OF SPIDER-MAN!!!

Nadolig llawen i chi bawb!

Christmas Eve TV is The Blue Carbuncle (Jeremy Brett, of course) followed by the traditional Ghost Story For Christmas

Then, Mass Effect 3 Now, Dishonored (and by a very long way)

It was a heck of a year for games but honestly I gotta say Skyrim as it’s always installed on my Xbox and I’m a BGS fanboy since Morrowind Very very close second is Portal 2, which is an utter banger but has a narrower scope.

I forgot how unhinged I got during The Plague. Did a lot of business though

Clutch the other night was brilliant as always. The greatest American rock band, for my money, and probably the band I’ve seen live most often. Walking in the shining path of the great monster trucks!

Essential thread for understanding the general bleakness of being a professional artist

Update: I loved it

Birmingham’s alright

Going to Birmingham tonight to see Clutch, one of my fave bands. I’m being driven there, I’ll be with good friends, so obviously now is the perfect time to have an anxiety attack about it

So it looks like I'll be spending Sunday afternoon in a park, attached to a camera, being pushed around in a wheelchair. I'm making a music video, just for a friend, no money in it at all but I need to shoot SOMETHING just for myself this year, and there's not long left!

And of course @torenielsen.bsky.social was sorely missed - he'd have loved to fight those bony bastards, hopefully there will be more for him

Splendid game of Dragonbane tonight as we delved deeper into the dwarves ruins in search of a necromancer to kill. We found skelingtons-lots of them! And they keep coming back, the bony fucks Thx to @fenrisgames.com @k000.bsky.social @dozy139.bsky.social @zos93.bsky.social @andyhemming.bsky.social

Control, without a doubt. I don't like difficult games at all, and yet this one utterly compelled me to finish it despite it being way harder than I'd like. Replaying it, I was surprised by how late in the game you get flight, given that it's the best bit. Apart from yeeting photocopiers at mofos.

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

Has The Saga of the Exiles been made into a TTRPG yet? I’d have thought it would be a slam-dunk. Would also love to see it as a pricey tv miniseries

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Probably Dishonored Death of the Outsider, because even a very short Dishonored game is better than just about anything else out there

I send exactly one Xmas card by mail every year, to the brilliant author Paul DiFilippo in Providence. Just sent this year’s today, hope it gets there in time!

If you could have a cursed homunculus of your dead grandmother in your scrying mirror, as a debased and corrupted simulacrum of family love and indeed human existence, would you?

Goodnight.

I'd never seen it described like this before but it does make a hell of a lot of sense

There’s this core contradiction in RPG design where the medium is scrappy as hell, and requires little more than some scribbles and a dream, but the commercial products are pricey and tremendously polished. It’s easy to see, and upon seeing it, the first instinct is usually that Something Is Wrong.

I enjoyed the first episode a lot. I'll keep watching.

I'm cautiously looking forward to The War Between The Land And The Sea. Such a rubbish title though. I keep reading the abbreviation of it as TWATBLAST, which would be a quite unusual Dr Who spinoff (No I have not seen the Zygon soft porn movie, but I am aware of it)

This is simply wonderful

This thread absolutely takes the cake

Reading The House on the Borderland. Brilliant stuff - a story within a story within a story, with unreliable narrators the whole way down.