I have just been informed that Smack My Bitch Up by the Prodigy is now 28 years old and my day, and life, has crumbled to graveyard dust and shrouds

Speaking of Fallout New Vegas: I dunno whether Mr House will be alive in the new season, or just a replica; but I do know he’s the character in FNV that most aligns with the story they’re trying to tell, so it would be insane for the writers to not use him just bc it will make insane FNV fans angry

It took a little bit for it to click but I am currently loving The Outer Worlds 2. Quirky characters, excellent dialogue, lovely scenery and shooting things is fun.

An excellent explanation as to why this flyer is complete dogshit

me normally: fuck me, Europe. what a terminally cucked continent. we're all so fucked. no one recognises the basically lifethreatening systemic threats to our democracy that we are surrounded by. everyone's granny is a violent racist. it is all so shit me when an American even hints at agreeing:

Welcome to Hollywood

New Fallout trailer looks like the business, looking forward to this one a lot

Just read The Discovery of the Ghooric Zone by Richard Lupoff - a short story - and I'm rather blown away by it. I think I need to track some more of his work down. Lovecraft in Space! In 1977!

This is legit

All my Bonds, gone

This is true. But also, can you *imagine* playing D&D with Musk? Being his DM? My god. I know we're all a fairly mild-mannered bunch, but if he turned up at Owlbear, he'd end up in the Leam.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

For those who celebrate, it's 10th November, so happy Doctor Manhattan's Circulatory System Walking Through A Kitchen day.

Had an interesting chat with an old friend about difference between the 1920s and the 1890s - in a Cthulhu context. There is a big singularity in the form of the Great War, and one of the bigger effects is that after it, you're allowed to be mates with people of a different social class

Absolutely fascinating and very long thread about tear gas, for those who are interested in the development and propagation of weaponry and how military tech became a civilian product (in the US, not the UK, thank fuck)

Very useful for Keepers running Cthulhu Invictus!

I’m gonna get to play Gaslands tonight! Yay! But I’m bloody knackered and I’ve got a stomach ache and my brain is dumb. Less yay. There may be whisky involved though, so medium yay?

Some insanely cool minis being auctioned below by an insanely cool lady in aid of an insanely cool hound and his person

I know I'm late on this, but I see that @pookie-uk.bsky.social is an author on the current version of Horror on the Orient Express, and I am currently reading and enjoying one of his sections very much!

Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland. It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.

Welp, saw that Horror On The Orient Express is on sale at the moment and had a panic that it was going to go out of print, so I bought it. Also I watched Horror Express last night, so seemed apt. My group better bloody well agree to play it when we've finished Masks!

Just watched Horror Express with Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Telly Savalas. A film that is way, way better than it needed to be, and that punches massively above its rather small budget. Quite Lovecraftian as well, I think. Top notch. It's on iPlayer at the moment

Hard agree here. There’s absolutely no reason turkey should be dry, unless you are an utter buffoon

Played a gig tonight and I bloody loved it

Wake up everybody, the sequel to the delicious plums poem variants has dropped

There is almost nothing in Tolkien as pervasive as his love for the small and vulnerable, for the meek and the gentle. These are not the values of these thugs and they do not have any claim to them.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics is really getting on my tits today. Stupid bloody way to run a universe.

This is top tier ecclesiastical business. @william-in-nv.bsky.social I shall expect some commentary!

An excellent adventure in Roman Britannia tonight, thanks to @ottomancer.bsky.social and @andyhemming.bsky.social @k000.bsky.social @dozy139.bsky.social @clownf1st.bsky.social and of course our leader @fenrisgames.com We have a cult to deal with and we shall put them to the gladius!

If only I could paint minis...

I was trying to write something funny about this sort of thing just now but I failed because none of this is very funny, but then I found this skeet that is pretty fucking good given the circumstances, and puts it better than I can right now

OK, I need some advice from fellow eldritch scholars: What is the best way to get a complete collection of the fiction of Clark Ashton Smith? Is there an edition or editions in print?

Regarding the term ‘Lich’ to mean an undead wizard - did that come from the Clark Ashton Smith story ‘The Death of Malygris’?

Rereading a battered old paperback of Clark Ashton Smith short stories, because I am on a early 20th century pulp kick at the moment. They really are quite lovely, he’s an underrated writer. Battered old paperback is the best way to read them though, for sure.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral." I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

Well, apparently I have IBS. However, IBS doesn’t seem to be so much a syndrome as a constellation of unexplainable bowel annoyance, so I’ve got to spend a few months testing things out and selectively eliminating things from my diet. I imagine it will be tedious but probably worthwhile

Still a bit poorly so I’ve retired to bed with the latest 2000AD and the Judge Death Special Still fucking kills me that this guy’s first name is Sydney 2000ad.com/wp-content/u...

I have blocked the account that you opened In bluesky with which you were probably hoping to pwn me Forgive me it felt delicious so sweet and so cold

The final song on the new Cardiacs album, Pet Fezant, is irredeemably stuck in my head

SO much of the cultural and artistic nostalgia that society chases was just art made when people got paid to do it. Lavish movie posters made by human artists, video games made by people without sixteen different investment companies breathing down their neck, movies made by studios taking a chance.

Detroit Airport is the only airport I have been to where I felt actively unsafe while inside the security perimeter. You're not supposed to feel sketched out when you're airside. Felt like Coventry on a Saturday night This was over a quarter century ago though, may have improved since.

People need to be nice to @dankaszeta.bsky.social - the Captain's just trying to make sure you don't fucking blind yourself by putting piss in your eyes (or whatever the latest idiocy is) and don't get your hand burned to the point of non-functionality by grabbing a goddamn hot tear gas canister

Just found out that Harlan Ellison was a Doctor Who fan! unsurprising, really, but welcome news.

Very useful thread if you're making models, or, if you're like me, desperately want to make films using miniature sets and need some advice!

Fix it in post

The 21st Century is fucking mental, but here we are, and this seems pretty accurate tbh

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

Fun band practice tonight. Got a fairly solid grip on "The Model", "Human Fly", "Master of the Universe" and "Bela Lugosi's Dead" Also found a way to end our version of "Peter Gunn" because it'll go on and on for fucking ever if I don't stop it (I am the only adult in the group, apparently)

it's not FOR us