Oh thank god I'm not alone.

L'shana tova. If you follow me for nerdy game design things and not dank leftwing takes, I have been writing again and posting to ye olde Hill Cantons blog. Links follow.

Equipped with my official Bremerton Community Theatre Sippy Cup, I am now entitled to drink wine in the performance hall. It's called the privileges of rank, peasants.

thank you to @sal.gay for editing and @roqueromero.bsky.social for the awesome cover. Thank you also to everyone who did reading and gave feedback including @ratkingrpg.bsky.social @naeolin.bsky.social @bradkerr.net @cairnrpg.com @linkskywalker.bsky.social and to my wonderful playtesters!

mario is a divisive figure in the bobomb community

I'm trying to buy a rubber ring right now, and the closest match I can find online only lists inner diameter. Not outer, not thickness. I dont even know if rubber hardness is a factor or not, but its never listed. I miss Radio Shack from 30 years ago.

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

It's strange having grown up in the region where pickleball originated. I never knew it was a local thing until everyone started talking about it as a new phenomenon.

Newsom is proof that if Trump was more clean cut and well spoken liberals wouldn’t have a problem with Trump

Someone find me a comparative analysis of the narratives of Metal Gear and Bionic Commando.

Lots of people ask me: "Leaf, your online presence seems so funny and talented. How are you so good at internet?" Easy.

"but pressing the apocalypse button would kill even more people than just trannies!!" damn. sounds like they shouldnt put the trannies in a situation where we have nothing to lose. that would be a dumb idea. lmao.

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

Giuli has written postcards, phone-banked, text-banked, knocked on doors, and volunteered for Democrats in every presidential cycle for 20 years. In the swingiest part of the biggest swing state. Newsom is so toxic he turns your most ardent foot soldiers into people who won't even show up to vote.

Gonna run an online game. Only thing the players know is that a face cam is mandatory. Game starts, they play themselves in a dungeon. The only items they have with them are things they can reach without standing up, and hold up to the camera.

Fun fact: you can just _say_ you're "Elf Friend." They have no way to check.

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'The convenience of passivity' is such an accurate way to phrase it.

My dumpster photos study is over, but I still get excited when I see a good dumpster.

Quick snap out of a train window.

My train was delayed by an hour, so I sat down in line at the station. Within 90 seconds, everyone within 3 line positions also sat down. I am a trend setter. 😏

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Always nice to see my work being a piece of someone else's puzzle

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I finished Final Fantasy 2, and moved on to 3. In a lot of ways it's a huge improvement over its predecessor, but it's also the first game to auto-retarget if an enemy dies. I already catch myself sleepwalking through random encounters, thoughtlessly auto-attacking.

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ACAB includes game designers

If you've just started following me since Blogs on Tape got going: hi, hello, how are ya. Here's some other stuff of mine to look at, now that Blogs on Tape is done: I publish Errant: www.killjester.com/errant I've got a blog: www.paperspencils.com I've got a stupid homepage: www.linkskywalker.com

And finally, the closing episode of season 6, destined to be the most recent post for a year or so until I get around to producing season 7: A Spectre (7+3 HD) is Haunting the Flaeness: Towards a Leftist OSR, by @humza.bsky.social blogsontape.paperspencils.com/2025/08/06/e...

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From @traversefantasy.itch.io, an absolutely killer assessment of the various ways we've tried to bookkeep without bookkeeping: blogsontape.paperspencils.com/2025/08/04/e...

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This toy was omnipresent in my childhood, yet somehow this is the first time I've ever encountered a name for it.

Some post what which I did: blogsontape.paperspencils.com/2025/08/01/e... Also, happy pride to my friends in British Columbia, which celebrates pride this weekend, and I like that. All summer long baby.

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Today I'm releasing The Eternal Empress, a short location-based adventure for the Appendix N. jam. #osr Special thanks to @explorersdesign.bsky.social and Gus L. for the great cover and map! weirdwonder.itch.io/empress

You know I can't let a season go by without further discussion of proceduralism! From Retired Adventurer: The Rhythm of Procedure blogsontape.paperspencils.com/2025/07/30/e...

Having the understanding to recognize, name, and respond to a Low Executive Function Day is helpful. Life changing. But these days still make me angry.

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