Many folks' final assessment of Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser---the closest thing to a multi-million-dollar larp experience we've ever gotten and one of Disney's highest-ever-rated attractions---came from a 4-hour complaint video about its game app, instantly accepted as sacred dogma.

Stockholm Kartell's discord server has a channel called, roughly translated, Desirable Lifestyles. Here are some posts, and some lifestyles to aspire to.

I just found out that Michael Shannon did a bunch of live performances of Neil Young's music some years back, and I can see how that could have prepared him to join the Superman franchise. Because Neil before Zod.

🩸 Vampire: The Masquerade: Dubai by Night Chapter 2 is now live! In chapter two our kindred urgently responded to a call for help they from a Nosferatu friend, before attending Elysium in Burj Khalifah and meeting with the Ashirra leader. 🔗 youtu.be/xwkgQKWyLZA

RIP to Udo Kier! What a cool actor, and he made to 81 too! He’s mind-controlling Soviet dinosaurs in heaven now 😢

Me normally: "Games are for everyone. It doesn't matter if you suck at them or if you play them at the lowest difficulty or whatever. The important thing is just having fun." PCGamer: "'I'm pretty good at videogames,' said (Elon) Musk." Me:

This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.

I used to share book recommendations on the other place but got out of the habit this year as engagement massively dropped off. Thinking about putting together my top 10 list for this year though, so as a test, like this, and for each like I'll recommend something great I read in the past 5 years

a perfect thread

Note that if it's happening in the Fediverse it is ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY happening here on Bsky.

Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with 2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.

Have I sailed as close as you are legally allowed to do to have a nose at the SS Montgomery? Of course. Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church. Here she is:

Games against Genocide Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 50 TTRPGs to discover for a $10+ donation to @doctorswithoutborders.org and their Palestinian relief efforts. Purchase the bundle here: tiltify.com/@jesthehuman...

Last weekend was Comic Con Stockholm (Winter edition) and I was on sight for certain reasons which will become apparent. I do not have the energy to go into immense detail but this 🧵will be my con coverage. Fair warning: Garbage phone camera pictures abound.

According to my study of foodtube comments, the difference between Eastern Europe and Northern Europe is "no, we came up with that" and "no, that was their fault". NE sample size is tiny, though, because most YouTube chefs have too much dignity for the unspeakable acts toward fish committed here.

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

For the first time in a decade, we had two RPG Film Clubs in one month! Our usual pace is more like four times a year. Anyway, this is the group where we attempt to watch any and all films and televisions series about role-playing games (and sometimes adjacent games).

kitteh

When nobody realizes the camera's there, we find out what the UNIT rank-and-file actually think of the Doctor

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Well, this has potential to be really awful.

I went to see Born with Teeth last night, immense, fanficcy fun. Now I want non-fic book recs about espionage in the elizabethan era, esp if it features Marlowe and focuses on anti-catholic secret service type business. Anyone? #BookSky (posting again due to lack of clarity first time!)

Means it's not raining.

I'd watch this show.

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Yes, I am interested in looking at your literature...

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

If snakes were wide

Although classified as carnivores, wolves may sometimes follow an omnivorous diet. They can eat meat, eggs and even fruit! This time of year, pumpkins are a special treat for our ambassador wolves.🎃 #wolffact

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Rob Wieland was the tabletop community's Man At Forbes who did a lot to promote us all in the public eye. His last post was on the Last Caravan Kickstarter, which he probably did not anticipate would be his last. May we all attain the level of kindness and geekery that Rob did.

I have checked all the links and they work again!

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

1 horror movie every day of October: 1-IMPETIGORE, Joko Anwar (2019)

Chigago badass

We’ve tried showing both halves of Jared Leto’s face and we’re all out of ideas

Beast of Gévaudan #art ✧ #beastofgevaudan ✧ #folklore ✧ #french

Earlier this week I heard an AI expert's assessment, which was "Hope you've got your pensions in your mattresses because when that bubble bursts, we're all fucked."

You know, László Krasznahorkai might be the first Nobel laureate in literature whose work is faster to read than just watching the movie.

Happy #WerewolfWedneaday! Here's some photos from my facepaint practice for the Harvest Super Moon earlier this week

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Further upside-downness has ensued.

That time of the semester where my students in the #TTRPG course @ucmerced.bsky.social do their presentations on a game, individual, or company involved in the creation/advocacy/support of #RPG (this @voiceofobrien.bsky.social gif is the vibe I need)

Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd

Manifestos are good for you.

The beast that awakens me every morning at 3am

We are go! #warhammerconference #gamestudies #nerdlings