[CAREFULLY LEAVE NOTE SO I CAN CONTINUE WRITING THE NEXT DAY] [CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT NOTE MEANS, OR TRAIN OF THOUGHT I WAS ON BEFORE I STOPPED WRITING] (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

oh my god i take it back, grok is amazing

With Fighting Fantasy Set 1 nearly completely fulfilled, we're excited to share the five books planned for Set 2! Check out the pre-launch page, and sign up to receive important updates! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

FEATURE OF HABIT — Week 47! 11/19 — The Name of the Rose (1986) 11/20 — Hook (1991) 11/21 — Snake Eyes (1998) 11/22 — Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) 11/23 — Big Trouble in Little China (1986) 11/24 — A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 11/25 — Rope (1948)

losing my mind over youtube's suggested reply for this comment

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

"You gave me a bat head." (Not really . . . but I have an infuriating story about this one.)

good rpg writing is like a very delicate balance of train guy and theater kid

Hat tip to whoever coded "Kavanaugh Stop" in Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavanau...

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

PMSSbtPFaSfTSBV Day has gotten =so= commercial recently. I hope everyone can take a moment today and remember that Partially Muscled Skeleton Standing by the Perimeter Fence and Screaming for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing is the reason for the season.

[ME, WRITING] Ain't no indulgence like self-indulgence 'cause self-indulgence don't STOOOOOP . . .

Magik on a sketch cover that I painted with watercolor! I am donating this drawing to the Hero Initiative for their Giant Sized X-Men 100 Project ❌ #traditionalart

Honestly, I could think of =far= worse ways to make a new town different/interesting in a tabletop RPG . . .

"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."

I keep seeing references to the Steam Machine online today... …which is an annoying sequence of letters to keep skimming if one is named Steven Marsh.

Please, God, make me half as creative as my allergies are at making me miserable.

New "F*** / Marry / Kill" variant called "Cogito / Ergo / Sum"

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

Age yourself with gaming: "Who's up for a best-out-of-five all-expansions TALISMAN marathon?"

With November nearly half over, it's Week 46 on Feature of Habit! 11/12 — Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) 11/13 — Under Siege (1992) 11/14 — This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 11/15 — Murder by Death (1976) 11/16 — F/X2 (1991) 11/17 — GoodFellas (1990) 11/18 — The Night of the Hunter (1955)

It's wild how some heroes remain eternal (so far) and others become period pieces. Like, Sherlock Holmes "lived" for decades as a contemporary Batman-like hero—solving WWII crimes, etc.—before retreating into Victorian period-trappings… except reinventions where the twist is "Sherlock—BUT MODERN!"

I have come to believe this as well. The list is too strange. I don’t think a majority wanted to cave, but many more than the 8.

Hungover Egyptologist Just Gonna Call In Cursed Today

I will also add: I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

I always feel like there's money to be made here. "What do you think 'completely Muslim' means? 99%? I will bet you $100,000,000 that NYC will not be 99% Muslim in 3-4 years. You sound pretty confident; I'd hate to think you were just making stuff up. Should be an easy $100 million for you…"

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

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Any other tabletop RPG folks live in terror of the fact that "heroes" and "herpes" are literally one shifted character apart on the keyboard, and which doesn't trigger a spellcheck warning?

I feel like this is another "bandwidth of illuminated-manuscript oxcart"-type vector. Thoughts, @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social?

Week 45 on Feature of Habit! A self-indulgent duo at the start, & a "double date" with Nikki. 11/5 — Night Game (1989) 11/6 — Game Night (2018) 11/7 — Scream (1996) 11/8 — The New Mutants (2020) 11/9 — Josie and the Pussycats (2001) 11/10 — Scarface (1983) 11/11 — Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Loved the gazetteer. It was a huge influence on GURPS HOT SPOTS: THE SILK ROAD.

I might just be revealing my own ignorance/failure of imagination here but I’m struggling to think of use cases where fuckups don’t matter other than “just to mess around” that aren’t wildly socially destructive

Is SPACE JAM (1996) worth seeing if I'm mostly indifferent to basketball?

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

As I promised on the @stevejacksongames.bsky.social Daily Illuminator a few weeks ago, Nikki and I are teaming up to begin a six-part Hunt A Killer series this weekend: RENFAIRE REGICIDE! #HalloweenGaming

In a STARFINDER convention game, I played an overconfident smart-ass rat-person engineer w/ a Brooklyn accent I later realized channeled Rocket Raccoon: "I step over the charred corpse by the control panel, poking & investigating. 'That guy died 'cause HE was stupid. I'M not stupid.' [roll] A one."

This right here is an excellent use of social media

"A.i." is controlled by right wing billionaires who are channeling bullshit into your brains. Do not use it.

When four timelines collided in an alternate history, supers emerged – and it changed everything. This Earth may seem the same, but it is not the one you know. GURPS Infinite Worlds: Gotterdammerung is available now! bit.ly/gurpsiwgw23 #ttrpg #gurps #tabletopgames #stevejacksongames #playsjgames

As I wandered, traveller said: "In the dune's a shattered head. Legend mocks the envious: 'Here lies Ozymandias Mighty glare, works there, look upon and de-spair!'" Antique land, mound sand, trunkless legs there stand. All decayed, blown away — what else do I have to say? We didn't start the fire…

LAST DAYS! 32 science fiction movies! 32 insightful essays! "Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution." www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...

Feature of Habit wraps up Oct with a 3-day weekend theme. 10/28 — Dracula (1931) 10/29 — Halloween (1978) 10/30 — Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (1995) 10/31 — Midsommar (2019) 11/1 — DragonHeart (1996) 11/2 — Secret of Kells (2009) 11/3 — Poor Things (2023) 11/4 — The Apartment (1960)

so i guess i make videos now - here's one i just dropped in advance of my piece in Subversive Sci-Fi, funding on KS right now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho... next up: asking if netflix killed the disaster flick!

"It's a Good Life" continues to be the best representation of our current state of governance.

Trump Defends Demolition Of Yggdrasil, Ancient Tree Of Life https://theonion.com/trump-defends-demolition-of-yggdrasil-ancient-tree-of-life/

@theonion.com Quit be prophetic goddamn