The bairn and I are ready for the 2026 Nerf battles to come! She asked me if I had the same blaster and I dug mine out too. A quick visit to the spare parts box and we're ready to rock! She's excited to have the same blaster as me and I can't lie, I like it too.

@worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social shifts into SciFi -- first with limited-series Flight of the Icaron (Lou Wilson GMing publicly for the first time) followed by their second longform campaign, SOLARI, run by @aabria.bsky.social. Big swings for the company, which recently moved to a permanent studio.

Made a thrifting score today! Two of the hardest to find flywheel blasters are the Nerf Styfe and Rayven/Rayvenfire. They're good blasters in stock form, and are at the centers of their respective modding cults. So when I found a Rayvenfire at Value Village for $7.99 today? Easy choice, got it! 1/2

Maximizing an SRD A short time back in 2025, I had a bit of an epiphany around generic tabletop RPGs. On that I think, extends into a lot of SRD documents as well. Namely that we’re using them wrong a lot of the time and as a result, we’re not getting the best out of them. So let’s dive into how…

*takes a long drag from his smoke* "Just another day in Wizard City..."

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What they don't tell you about #worldbuilding when you forget to add dates to anything and have to manufacture a timeline from clues: If the construction of a mosque in 12790 HE (holocene era) is the same year as 390 TE (Tanit Era), and the HE starts 11700 years before 2000 CE, in what...1/2

I got a few! - Space: Above and Beyond - Better off Ted - Millennium - Terra Nova - The Venture Bros

#WorldAnvil2025 was a trip, so let's recap! For anyone not tracking, @worldanvil.com holds three big annual events, Summer Camp in July, NovelEmber in November, and World Ember in December. They do prep the month prior, and then it's a word count challenge with prizes for good articles. 1/4

And with the passing of 1100hrs PST this morning, #WorldEmber2025 has come to an end. My #WIP science fiction setting saw significant expansion, and despite some UI/UX hurdles, it worked out with a solid 13599 words added! Time to make a lot of header images! 1/2 www.worldanvil.com/w/the-chroni...

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In 2025, the most read post on my blog Foluke's African Skies was the short essay I wrote in 2017 about one of the first institutions of higher learning on the continent. folukeafrica.com/timbuktu-sit...

I think my frustrations with World Anvil over the last few years can be summed up with two examples: For things like QGIS, there is a stable version and a less stable, cutting edge version. And the user gets to choose which version they use. World Anvil feels like the latter all the time. 1/4

I appreciate that the issues I was having with @worldanvil.com this summer have for the most part been resolved, BUT SWEET MERCIFUL FUCK, all I want to do is make a simple bulleted list without having to click or tap in code for each bullet. Or be able to find info easily without having it try...1/2

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Happy New Years everyone! Let's make this year a better one than last.

One of the things that punts me out of immersion for zombie apocalypse movies, especially ones placed years or decades after the fall of humanity, is seeing modern firearms. World ended by 1983? But everyone is packing heat from 202X with the latest optics and gear? Where the hell did that...1/2

Honestly? Blue Planet: Recontact is basically there right out of the box. Polaris could do it too. The generic side of the #TTRPG house would come in strong here.

I am so, so confused. I know the right doesn't actually know what "left" or "woke" is, but this is a hell of a take. Are all movies not made by rightwing media and/or evangelicals "woke" now? Is that where they are?

Kevin Costner's 1990s post-apocalypse movies don't get nearly the love they deserve, and I think it's because they both approach the idea of a post apocalypse differently than we're conditioned to accept. Waterworld and The Postman were both fine post-apocalypse movies. It's just that one was...1/3

For those unaware of #BasicFantasy, it's an #OSR #TTRPG that was developed from a mix of BECMI and other early #DnD. It's super easy to homebrew for, is free (pdf, odt) to incredibly affordable (print copy), and if you want a classic, #StrangerThings style D&D experience, it delivers. 1/2

What? Me downloading all the CC BY-SA 4.0 #BasicFantasy stuff from their site? Why yes, that is a thing that happened today. #TTRPG www.basicfantasy.org/downloads.html

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#WH40k Thought: Sometimes, just sometimes, Chaos Space Marines enjoy being the heroes and rescuing human worlds from Xenos threats. They never admit it. They never even blink when they receive orders like it's the Great Crusade in M30. And they never talk about it after.

Looking back on my media and cultural influences as a kid to young adult, I realized something. The "big cities" I was oriented towards culturally were Vancouver (the local big city), Los Angeles, Detroit, Hong Kong, London, and Tokyo. Which, honestly, really explains a lot.

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I legit miss Google+ so much.

Finally saw The Naked Gun (2025) and you know? It was good. Not great. Not perfect. Just a competent sequel to an older series that calmly updated the world and stuck to a formula that works while updating the references and avoiding most of the pitfalls. Solid "Sunday Afternoon Movie" material.

One of the challenges of working with a solarpunk setting is dealing with large scale needs in terms of material goods. Basically balancing the inherent anti-capitalism of solarpunk against the threads of capitalism inherent to scaled up industry. The added challenge is keeping it all plausible.

We got the wee bairn an Innioasis music player and a Soundcore Go portable speaker. We woke up to Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics today.

Behold... My unpainted army! I have some plans to get a few more duplicates because my brain demands some uniformity, but yeah! Merc fun incoming! #Battletech

Today's prescription is dice! Apparently someone noticed my dice woes, and unbeknownst to me, picked some up as a stocking stuffer. I'm not complaining though! Got another set of Chessex speckled dice, a Chessex d6 set, and more FATE dice! They all fit (barely!) in an old prescription bottle too!

Two of the most genre disruptive real-world inventions for #cyberpunk were wireless internet and the smartphone. A lot of the tech tropes and development arcs in the genre were based on speculation from a '80s computer standpoint, and were surprisingly solid. But the moment wifi and smart... 1/3

For those who celebrate, Happy Christmas! For everyone else, Happy Boxing Day Eve!

A few hours, a PC, and a new hard drive and this could be a premium emulation machine. And still play original games!

CW: Alcohol Happy Holidays everyone! It's been a while since I shared this recipe, and I think it's the first time here! So fire up some holiday cheer with Moose Milk, a Canadian Army winter staple! 750ml Spiced Rum 750ml Coffee Liqueur 750ml Irish Cream 4 litres Vanilla Ice Cream 1/3

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, reminded us "Just remember what ol' Tim does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Tiny Tim just looks that big ol' storm right square in the eye and he says, "Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it."

The difference between this gif and the grocery store today is nil.

Wait... People pronounce the "l" in almonds?

There's no feet in them, so it's all good. Except seawater usually eats leather so these were either in a super well sealed container or were treated with something so toxic that it preserved them.

Over 30 selfie thread. I’m forty-*exaggerated coughing* Wow! Look at the time! It's certainly not passing too quickly!

There are lots of ways to play a game in the cyberpunk genre, with the crew model being the most common and well known. But what if you want to try something different? Something with more of a theme? Well, time to dive into that, with Going Corporate!

Phantasy Star, and the original Phantasy Star series, never got the love or recognition it deserved.

Show me how your 2025 went.

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This is actually pretty interesting. The sample size is small but the length of the study is great! share.google/BvNM96h63Wxm...

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The Yuletide is the final and most powerful tide of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, swelling along the coasts in an effort to bring us all back to Father Dagon and Mother Hydra.

So much #CyberpunkRED these last few days! One thing that needs to be stressed for the Cyberpunk setting is that every megacorp is evil, but how they're evil is a different story. Take Militech and Biotechnica. Militech is "classic" evil. They deal arms, security services, and mercs. As long...1/8

"Thug life" I croak as I put on my glasses to drive at night.