Idea: Cozy post-apoc game where you're driving and maintaining a truck delivering vital supplies to communities. Something like Pacific Drive with more detailed maintenance and repairs ALA Mechanic Simulator. Like PD there's no "enemy" per se, just the environment and post-apoc weirdness.

Loba (Death) concept

8 AM

IT HAS BEGUN!

Do not confuse power for strength. The so-called powerless may have more strength, more courage, and more honor than any autocrat. A true warrior sees to it that the despot will come to fear that strength, and their power will falter before it.

Dammit. He was a great artist

@pascalfarful.bsky.social ?

As bad as I am at self-promotion, I could use some help with this. Meeting Dominique was officially published in 2025 and it would give my ego a boost to see it even just nominated. www.amazon.com/Meeting-Domi...

FUCK CANCER!

Punk bunnies. @wazaga.bsky.social

A message for you all to carry through the year

End of Year Creativity Roundup www.patreon.com/posts/year-e...

Best comment I ever got for my The Martian fic was a thank you for pointing out that taking psych meds was no different than taking insulin or antibiotics, and making the reader feel better about their own medications.

Is it that difficult to conceive of someone with actual ideological commitments, who supports unions not for transactional reasons but because they genuinely believe in workers' power? nymag.com/intelligence...

"Those fucking trees were my friends. "

It's a crime we never got Muppet Hunt for Red October where the only humans are Connery and Tim Curry.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! (And Happy Thursday to those who don't) ;p

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.” - Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.

Camped out here on Two Things Can Be True Hill: 1. The romance genre has a history deeply entwined with white supremacy, ableism, and the most reductive kind of stereotypes. Like every genre. 2. Painting all romantasy readers as “zombies” is also a reductive stereotype, and misogynist to boot.

If you like your holidays with space pirates and long-overdue apologies, try "Solstice Gifts" by @sirtalen.bsky.social.

hello skyline it is time to post the song of the season ~it's beginning to look a lot like FISHMEN~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTH...

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Tis the season when I flog my Nebula-nominated 22 year-old short story about Santa Claus vs. the personification of entropy. Text: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi... Audio: escapepod.org/2007/12/25/e...

The first season of Buck Rogers was massive ball of cheese, and second season will go down as one of the worst retools in TV history, but it was a fun show when I was eight years old.

A podcast asked me to record a voice note about my prediction for 2026 and here it is.

The reason the EFF exists is because the Secret Service thought a mid-sized game publisher was making a "handbook for computer crime"/1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZli... 👀👀👀👀

A Christmas Advertisement Miracle...

JESUS CHRIST, NORWAY!

"You stopped Darkseid from stepping on my little sister's school. Just take the hotdog, man!" "No, no. I've got some change in my pocket, just give me a moment."

I am imagining someone cosplaying as the Iraqi side like Wehraboos do N@z1s, and insisting "It's not racist, bro! It's living history!"

Since genAI has completely fucked the market for home computers, I guarantee there'll be an article complaining that people are playing older and less resource-intensive games and how this is killing the AAA gaming industry

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate

That's not even enough to make the gravy.

#1 Warrior of the Lost World #2 Space Mutiny #3 Puma Man #4 Cave Dwellers #5 Santa Claus Conquers the Martians #6 Lost Continent #7 The Sword and the Dragon #8 Prince of Space #9 Santa Claus #10 At the Earth's Core

A couple people have already given me over $500, I can't thank them enough.

I am reminded of (probably apocryphal) story of a political candidate in the South in the early 1900's, putting up posters accusing his opponent of being a "Known Homo Sapiens"

I don't have enough words to express how stupid this is. AI Slop? Acceptable. But by god we aren't going to show compassion to immigrants during the holiest time of year....

(Gets notification that the Sunstone art book Kickstarter is live. Immediately supports it). Me: Hmm, I wonder if [LIKE MINDED FRIEND] will support this? (Literally 30 seconds later) Notification: [LIKE MINDED FRIEND] has supported Sunstone Art book.

"AI of dead family member" was LITERALLY THE PLOT of an episode of Max Headroom.

For me it was Steve Jackson (the American one) and Aaron Allston.

@megsyv.bsky.social 's Spidey is the best Spidey

Hurrah! My article on the Twilight 2000 RPG in the Journal of American Studies is now open access (OA), so anyone who wants to can have a read. OA is important to me, as I want my work on RPG history to go beyond the academy and reach the gaming public. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I truly hope that every single #modelrailroad and #train enthusiast under the age of 35 ends this specific type of gatekeeping foamer forever. I can't think ANYTHING that holds this hobby back more than some cantankerous busybody who tanks a blossoming interest in the hobby with dipshit nonsense.

You know your community has made good choices when your rabbi has a Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon sticker on her thermos.

Eat a burger in solidarity with your Trans friends.

people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad

Rebecca Cunningham, from "Tailspin". Doodle request from my fine patrons - patreon.com/collectedcur...