My secret to Thanksgiving cooking is OMG

Will the Hawkshaw Crew (legally distinct, but similar to The Scooby Doo Gang) be able to unmask Turkey Thompkins this Thanksgiving?! That's entirely up to a bunch of 9 year olds and their ability to focus when Uncle Daniel makes them sit at a table for an additional two hours after dinner.

While everyone's at PAXU, I'll just be in my basement coloring and watching Scooby Doo

The creative pressure to try to run a rules lite RPG when the character sheets of my players look like this is a tremendous weight. Falcone alone apparently starts the game with 20 mongooses and a falcon

Scaretober movie month 2025 has ended! 13 were brand new to me Favorite: Sinners Least favorite: Severance Most surprising: Host One that I thought about the most afterwards: The Coffee Table

For spooky season I grabbed a bunch of DVDs from the library and headed to the woods! I may give some further thoughts on all of these movies after some time to digest them, but here's my first one-man movie fest! youtu.be/pP7KnVYBk3w?...

The Blaine Witch solo movie fest is on!

Adding this fun fact to my ice breaker repertoire: I am only 1 of 4 people that watched this 70s Christian film on Letterboxd. And the VHS that was on repeat as a kid. I have to keep those numbers low so it remains interesting. But this wasn't one of the big ones like "A Thief in the Night"

Tentative plans for this weekend: First Annual Blane Witch Fest. I'll be camping in the woods alone with a pile of horror DVDs to watch while eating fall snacks for a day and a half.

Making bookmarks because I lost the last ones I made is one of the only certainties in my life.

Can I play?

Also, I found out that the Grandpa in Ben 10 wears the same shirt as Dale from Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers. A guy at Disneyland once pointed it out and I had no idea what he was talking about. I've never felt so old.

We're headed to the mountains and my kids immediately clocked that I dressed as Dipper from Gravity falls. My wife doesn't watch the show and, for my own amusement, she can not find out.

Working on ideas for a twitch stream: Sponsored solo-playthroughs while watching movies. The stream ends the SECOND I start crying. Tier 1: Gentleman Broncos Tier 2: If anything Happens I Love You

Getting some training in with my new Haba games.

Back at it again with Propolis! youtube.com/shorts/7lBYs...

the financial barrier for a nearly irresistible bit at my work Christmas party is far lower than I expected.

Unboxing Knitting Circle from @flatoutgames.bsky.social ! Full transparency here, there's a point in this video where I regret having committed to the bit too hard. Anyway there's at least two more of these in the pipes. youtube.com/shorts/-Rc72...

Unbox Point Galaxy with me! @flatoutgames.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/H_PCX...

We're classing up the unboxing with 2 latex gloves and an infinite variety of utensils to open plastic. First up: Everdell Silverfrost youtube.com/shorts/tFO1D...

Much to the chagrin of my wife, I was preparing my audition for that DCCU canon Batman role last weekend. (I am wearing shorts in this picture) @jamesgunn.bsky.social

The gang going to a restaurant called "The Crab Net of Dr. Calamari" in Scooby Doo Mysteries Incorporated is phenomenal.

I quickly abandoned my ASMR ambitions. @weirdgiraffegames.com youtube.com/shorts/YWQZN...

A consumer grade camera with a disposable flash cube that also uses memory cards instead of film?!Scooby Doo Mysteries incorporated is on that next level retro futurism!

So glad to hear this is doing well at Gencon! Logic & Lore is a fantastic game from @weirdgiraffegames.com youtube.com/shorts/yh-3R...

🎲 I’d be really surprised if Logic & Lore lasts past Day 2 of #GenCon2025 — it’s almost sold out already! It’s claiming the BoardGameGeek ratings! 🧠✨ 👉 weirdgiraffegames.com/Logic73 #LogicAndLore #WeirdGiraffeGames #BoardGames #IndieGames #GenConHype #ToTheStarsAndBeyond

My sub $5 lunch break thrift store haul. I almost grabbed The Treasure of Sierra Madre, which I watched solely BECAUSE of the UHF reference, but ended up loving. But that disk was all messed up.

I participated in another Game Jam on Itch. Definitely needs a little polishing and play-testing, but this is a 2-player (with 1 player variant) RPG that has players interacting as a late-night Paranormal Radio Show host and a caller. plumpythimble.itch.io/cryptid-on-l...

AU where the board game content ecosystem is about scratch-off lottery tickets instead - The Scratch Tower - Shut Up & Scratch Off - No Coin Included - Plumpy Ticket - Actualottery - Pre-ordering tickets on Kickscratcher - Pax Unscratched, Gen Coin - Wil Wheaton doing scratch-offs with celebrities

In a test #twitch stream I challenged @panda8ngel.bsky.social to a game of Can't Stop. I was decimated shortly after this. So far I have three wins with my Mario hat and two with the X-wing helmet (before this loss). The quest for the lucky hat continues. youtube.com/shorts/TN8c1...

There's a One-Page RPG Jam going on over at Itch.io that I thought I'd participate in! So if you want to re-live the panic of rushing a project you forgot was due, you can get it free! plumpythimble.itch.io/professional... @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social

Finding dead simple RPGs for the kids/nieces to play while camping is becoming an expectation. I busted out Magizioology and it's a huge hit! storm-aurora.itch.io/magizoology

Almost 40 handmade POG packs later and I'm ready for the family reunion! youtube.com/shorts/w-rG7...

My wife is surprised that I know very little about one of my best friends'everyday life despite chatting with him almost daily for the past 15 years. To remedy that, we started a game of "By the General's Hand" where we write physical letters to each other as opposing generals of a fictional war!

Time to continue my tradition of hanging out pins on the 4th to people that didn't ask for them

Finished the resin slammers for the POG packs

In the process of prototyping a box that can hold playong cards and magnetic pegs. Then I'll have a magnetic version of this travel cribbage board I'm working on as the top.

While camping, I used the Merlin app to identify bird calls around me. I was then able to try to locate the specific birds, classify their type, trap them in small, ball-shaped cages, then make them fight bugs and grass types of animals.

It's been a good hot minute since my last TPK in The Masks of Nyarlathotep. I might need to brush out the ol source tomes and give these a try!

I visited 3 lakes this week, but only one of them managed to have 8 different flower blooms! A Gentle Rain from @incredibledream.bsky.social has been a camping staple for the last couple of years now. It's a solo or cooperative tile laying puzzle that's far more about the journey than the end game

Fumbling around for just the right amount of loose change: the game. (I love it)

You heard it here first, folks!

Giving the new camping cribbage board a whirl with a traditional rules botch.

Candy....land.... I. I thought I was a good father.

I'm in the home stretch with my family reunion POG blind packs. I'm using mylar bags to make the "packs" more exciting. I used Affinity designer for the cap design and logo. And I'm using resin and molds for the slammers.

I'm pretty confident in myself, but I did just change my whole outfit because I'm headed to ask questions at a traditionally more masculine place of business, and I got worried they'd make fun of my pink Goofy Movie shirt.

I know a bottle imp when I see one.

My 9 year old asked for something called a "Dragon's Eye II" from the How to Train Your Dragon show, which is apparently not for sale. So, this is the good-enough-to-open-and-finish-later version I whipped up on #tinkercad . Let's hope he's not hoping for screen accuracy #howtotrainyourdragon