Books I've read in 2026 #08

"Mixtape isn't a game, it completely plays itself. Here's a video of me not touching ANY controls if you can believe it!"

Dua Lipa's book club interviews are always great but Claire Keegan holding a tiny dog for almost the whole interview lifts this one to unseen heights www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdRL...

Assistant Abi is the best underdog wrestler since Lulu Pencil, I'm calling it @evewrestling.bsky.social 🤼‍♀️

We're never gonna have a tabletop game on here huh? But regardless, that's a really awesome list of video games! Especially happy to see Citizen Sleeper 2 made the list! 🎉

When that couple you're friends with breaks up and you don't want to take sides

I should really try to push and sell my designs harder if 25% of the competition is just going "Hurr durr, ChatGPT what's a good idea for my game?"

Can't wait for this! 1000xRESIST was an amazing game and this looks like the closest a game has ever come to the kind of SF I most like to read.

Books I've read in 2026 #07

On Transgender Day of Visibility, shoutout to Trans professional wrestlers world wide. May the professional wrestling industry continue to make strides towards becoming a more welcoming place for you and your peers. #WrestleSky #transdayofvisibility

Books I've read in 2026 #06

Who's got two thumbs and now also a last-minute ticket to the sold-out Brussels show of the Claire Obscure Expedition 33 concert series? 👍😁👍

Still getting thr hang of cryptic crosswords

There's a small stack of single issue comics I've carried around with me since the 90s, not because they're valuable (they're not sleeved or anything) but because of how much they meant to me as a teenager. There's some Nocturnals, the second run of Mage. The rest is all Sam Kieth. RIP to a legend.

Oh my god, looks like we might get a new game announcement from Sunset Visitor (developers of 1000xRESIST)!!!

Finally managed to win with these two goobers

"times were ok i guess" -- charles dickens

#WrestleQueendom 8 absolutely fucking ruled. That was pretty much the perfect wrestling show.

Books I've read in 2026 #05

Now that’s a state of the nation play

I really got to start taking throat lozenges to wrestling shows…

Finally got to see SIX live! Great cast in London at the moment. I was especially impressed by the actress playing Katherine Howard and turns out it was understudy Mary Elliott’s professional debut! 🤯

The latest in London hotel room design. Not only is there no bathroom door but the toilet looks right out at the room door.

Getting into cryptic crosswords...

Books I've read in 2026 #04

I fear that maxing or mogging will become word of the year and I'll officially become an old man yelling at the clouds

I don't know what I did to short-circuit the algorithm but my social media feed has become almost exclusively posts about Olympic figure skaters consoling each other and being happy for each other and I'm totally fine with that.

Ryan Dancey, a more than 30-year veteran of the tabletop gaming industry, has lost his COO job at publisher AEG a day after saying AI could generate game ideas as good as his company’s titles Tiny Towns and Cubitos: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

I wonder if we’ll get another followup that this was “not his finest moment” kotaku.com/board-game-s...

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Finished 1000xResist and holy shit, favorite video game ever? Definitely one of my all-time favorite SF stories, regardless of the medium. Don't read up on it, just jump in and thank me once you've gathered the scattered pieces of your brain and heart. store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/...

Books I've read in 2026 #03

Meet us Saturday, January 31st from 11:30 to 2:30pm at Bellevue Park in Silverlake. Sign-up at the Luma link below. All levels of nerves and experience are welcome.

The dark underbelly of the board game hobby

I've seen some fun prototypes (not my own) become pretty bland games by chasing that µ.

Dang I feel old. Booked tickets to Cat Powers' 20-year anniversary tour of The Greatest 🥊🥊

Books I've read in 2026 #02 (audiobook)

Books I've read in 2026 #01

MAKE A PLAY X-RATED The Play That Goes In The Wrong Hole

Interesting times at World Wonder Ring Stardom! They're losing the wrestler most underappreciated by non-fans of Stardom and signed the wrestler most underappreciated by fans of Stardom. 🤼

Planned a London trip for March! 🥳

Reached half my reading goal for the year just in the nick of time 😅

Books I've read in 2025 #25 (audiobook)

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The best abstract strategy games are a meditation in forms of play. On a recent journey to Nepal, encounter their traditional decoration with flower vases of water. Reminded me of the game lacuna. @markgerrits.bsky.social There is a meditations of space and beauty.

This was a really fun sudoku sudokupad.app/2ir3nxyte9?s...

The devs of Escape Room Simulator 2 are clearly fans of good games

I can't believe this deckbuilder was made by a bunch of students, good stuff! store.steampowered.com/app/3860590/...