Nearly everywhere, editorial design is disappearing. Magazines, newspapers, and publishing houses are shrinking. There are fewer and fewer typesetters every year. And yet, over in Elf Games Land, we have a hundred new people learning and fussing over baseline grids every year.

Surprising yet inevitable that real-life Westworld would start with Olaf

This is what Edna Mode took from us

Somehow, winter returned

Every time I put my baby down for a nap I look at his beautiful, peaceful face and remember that Seth Green's hacker character in the Italian Job is named Napster

It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Magic: the Gathering

Every word of this pitch is better than the last.

I was today years old when I learned that the Philadelphia Flyers have a coach specifically for fights and his name is Johnny Cannoli.

Sensing a shift in the AI conversation lately. Skeptics begrudgingly acknowledging that AI is doing some genuinely impressive/useful things. I feel like we all wanted AI to be fundamentally shitty (like NFTs/Crypto), but unfortunately it's shaping up to be one of those "it's the capitalism" problems

When a Mystcel says something so Sierraphobic that you gotta hit em with that Leisure Suit Larry stare.

Questions that haven’t aged well

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

Come watch tonight! Really excited to talk game design and life with Tony and Aaron. This whole series has been pretty soul-nourishing and I hope I can continue the trend.

also the USPS should do web-hosting and email services

Sometimes when you're writing game mechanics, an interesting dilemma emerges: The clearest way to describe the mechanics and the clearest way to describe what they represent from a thematic/fictional perspective are not the same. I don't have any good insight here! Just puzzling it over for myself.

Jokers banned for being OP…new meta is Aces

It is 2011. A game called Apocalypse World was just recently released. Far West promises to be in hands by the end of the year. It is 2026. A game called Apocalypse World was just recently crowdfunded. Far West promises to be in hands by the end of the year.

Game design pro-tip: Try creating a (probably simplified) version of your game that can be played without any special materials, just cards/dice/tokens/paper. It's a great way to distill your game to its essence and also useful for rapid-iteration playtesting!

Proud to be in this charity bundle. For the price of one (1) Escape from Dino Island you can get it and, uh, 1438 other games while showing solidarity with the people on the front line of the fight against our fascist gov't. Obviously give more if you can.

Someone who is good at encounter balance please help me budget this my party is dying

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

The punchline in this strip is Partners and Son rules and you should go there

This snow situation has really hammered home that part of what makes Philly remarkable is that it's a first-rate city while also being functionally a failed state.

perfect game

My good friend Audrey, known to many as LadyTabletop, is opening their layout commissions, and you would be wise to grab a slot! audreystolze.carrd.co

Designing a ccg-esque game and encountering a funny, interesting challenge: My base mechanics work, but they don’t provide enough levers to support as many unique little guys as I want. So either I make the guys more complex (yuck) or add a new mechanical widget. But what does a working game need?

Kiddo watched the first two Shrek movies this weekend and I’m convinced it’s a glaring omission from the 5e appendix N. It kinda explains everything?

5yo: Are you ready for… the F-word? *wife and I share a nervous look* Me: What’s the F-word? 5yo (bursting into song): Feliz Navidad!

Extremely minor gripe, but it’s wild that you can’t just pull up Binary Sunset/the Star Wars Force Theme except unofficially videos on YouTube

The premise of Over the Garden Wall is “What if Frog and Toad was Donnie Darko?”

Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.

Starting a new bit this year where I insist on pronouncing “Grinch” with the Jewish “ch”

The thing about AI imagery/video is it's really great at getting 85-90% of the way there. Perfect for your boss to instantly generate something that'll convince them it can do the thing with a bit of actual effort/creativity. The punchline, of course, is AI is immune to effort/creativity.

I went to the premiere of the final Twilight movie. It was mostly execs, etc. but they filled the balcony with fans who'd camped out all night. When the (spoilers) not-in-the-book battle broke out and, one by one, every major character died horribly, they screamed for literally 20 minutes straight.

Just a black queer woman standing in the middle of New York singing a song about how it’s a new day, a new dawn and then cutting the ribbon to start the parade. Could mean anything!

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade voted for Zohran

It's been 4 years since I moved out of NYC but today I beat the Google Maps walking ETA by 5 minutes so who's to say whether I'm still a New Yorker?

Chicago has had one 9/11 worth of people disappeared since the attacks began in September. Los Angeles has had two 9/11s since June.

Couldn't get this idea out of my head until I made it. I think it's kinda cursed but people on the discord liked it so here ya go

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Digital Art Before the AI Era Cubadust wallpapers in 2001

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

This is very true, and there are a lot of really good reasons why. I think a huge part is that, due to age and not being born in the U.S., he doesn't have the Obama-as-template fixation that so many on the left think is the default for a "good" speech. bsky.app/profile/jame...

i know what her ratings are but i genuinely do think she'll be president someday

The rare onion L theonion.com/de-blasio-we...

Saw someone wearing a shirt that said: YOU ARE ENO UGH and, like, first of all I am not Brian Eno but also so what if were???

I’m here at the dive bar and someone just did the most unhinged thing I’ve ever seen

A kid in the pizza place with me was like, “Do you know why they’re showing Christmas ads? Because people are getting excited.” And his mom responded, “No, it’s because of late capitalism.”