Scraped myself on the microplane and made the exact noise the Dark Souls guy does when a skeleton ganks him.

Well, it happened again. Through the magic of separate listings under the band and label, I have purchased an album on Bandcamp that I already had. I thought, huh, I thought I had already purchased it, but no, Bandcamp said I had not. Alas. Should I do something different to avoid this? Shut up.

MUSIC NERDS: Very cool, new Angine de Poitrine record! ME: fuck yeah new Yambag.

Gulo Gulo is a fantastic game to play with your kids, and Jennifer working on it is delightful. Great to see this!

This time period is the time when I was least plugging in to music. There was at least one baby in my house during this time, for one. So while I don't know as much about this music, I'll learn about some fun stuff and it's a great time to read anyway.

I had to listen to it twice, but the Mariners feed of the Mariners/Yankees game tonight has a promo for upcoming tickets that says "then the Mariners are back for an 'Al' west showdown with the Astros", pronouncing it like the name Al, instead of A-L. Have to assume they're using a generated voice.

This shit is completely unacceptable, and you can just add it to the list of disqualifying stuff from Newsom.

Baseball is back (derogatory).

No budget? No problem! Free art from dead people for your games: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/public-dom... #ttrpg #boardgames #gamedesign #publicdomain #freeart #art

Fascinating information in this thread.

A delightful thing that I have backed into is just refusing Samsung's changes to their privacy notice. It seems to have disabled a bunch of their crap on this phone. They forlornly ask once a day, but no. I do not agree, Samsung. I will never agree.

I didn't have to go very far to find Einstürzende Neubauten on the list, so you know it's legit.

Oh my god. In On The Killtaker might be my favorite album, I cannot wait to listen to this.

The best part of subscribing to the Swanboy Patreon is that now I see the comic a day early, love it, get the comic the next day in my RSS feed, forget that I've already read it so I get fired up there's a new Swanboy, click through, and love it again. I get to leverage my own idiocy!

To The Teeth's FFO on this album are killing me: totheteeth.substack.com/p/to-the-tee... To The Teeth rules, by the way.

In the same way that you can order Girl Scouts cookies to be directly donated to charity, there should be a pledge level for the new Awaken Realms Labyrinth crowdfunding project where they just chuck your copy straight into the dump, saving everybody time and shipping costs.

People are gonna make games using LLMs, and they’re gonna be hollow. [5/6]

Got curious if people's copies of Fox in the Forest Deluxe have been posted here (I know of one pre-order which has arrived), and...uh, kinda forgot which site I was on.

Since other game designers are showing prototypes, here's an early prototype of Fox in the Forest. Just slips of paper that I printed out and slipped into sleeves. Earlier than this was just me writing on playing cards with a sharpie.

I hope AEG is ready to flip on their magical game design robot, because I will personally make sure every designer that I know sees this and realizes that AEG hates their guts and is actively trying to destroy game design as a discipline.

One of the truly delightful things about Bandcamp is that every now and again, when I buy an album on there, the band will send me a DM thanking me. It's my pleasure! Thanks for making great music!

New Action Cookbook Newsletter! Surprise! There's a new voice in your group chat this morning, and before you ask: no, you cannot turn it off. (Free post, but you should subscribe after reading it, IMO) www.actioncookbook.com/welcome-to-t...

Not only are they useless, as a view from nowhere tells me nothing, they're also really, really boring.

The Dice Tower funding campaign is a grotesque mess, and DT does not deserve any attention or funding. It's good that Sam is leaving, but it doesn't excuse all the other times DT has been bad. The hobby very much does not need them.

I know that it can be easy to think "they're not sending their best" but I think that's wrong. I think they really are. "Guy Who Backed Into Phrenology By Looking At Dogs" represents the top of their intellectual spectrum.

What stage of capitalism is "ads on fruit"?

I am not posting it through the Leder Games website, instead going to my personal network to look for candidates I know. We are looking for 1 possibly 2 graphic designers as I build our team for growth. This is not a remote position. Thanks! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A classic "imbecile's spring" day today - crisp enough with dudes wandering around in shorts for my most dogbrained part to think "huh, I guess spring is basically here". The true sign of spring, of course, is telling myself a non-descript fifth outfielder "might really be something".

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I wrote some thoughts on 2025 music. It's not a ranking, it's just some records that I loved this year in no particular order: fiverandomsongs.com/2025-year-in...

Just in case anybody out there is encountering the same problem as I am, my Lenovo laptop used to keep going to sleep on me while I was using it. After a lot of poking around, I figured out that the "Elliptic Labs Smart Sensor Platform" is responsible. It's supposed to sense if somebody is... [1/2]

I had a ton of fun in this conversation!

My random campaign generator just produced a couple bangers for names. (deleted and reposted because I forgot alt text)

Oh my God this list talks about Surgery, I am all in.

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

Three hands of I'm Out by Masato Uesugi tonight and it's a banger. I think it's going to hit the table frequently, it's so pleasant to play.

Listening to the latest Tortoise record for the first time, and got confused when what I thought was a gradual intro for a new track just turned out to be water slowly dripping off a pan onto a burner.

Well, tonight, apparently I'm going to try and go to sleep with Killdozer's cover of "Take the Money and Run" going in a loop in my head.

cryptography is a mathematical system for transforming problems which aren't key-management problems into key-management problems

When I'm feeling down at all during the holiday season, I head to One Simple Wish to donate something and it absolutely fixes things.

i was at a house party once with calvin johnson from beat happening and he went into the kitchen and just sorted out all the mixed recycling

holy father, i'm offering you a chance to skip this boring lunch. get day drunk with jane and i while we watch clips of the '05 world series on youtube

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

Fuck Everything, We're Doing Eight Cheeses

Time to do the second half of this project: the creation of a gazetteer PDF to go along with the map. Been working on the title page. ("Enthusiastic Man" is a randomly generated name which is just a random adjective and random noun.) (repost because I forgot the alt text last time)

being a tabletop designer means sometimes you find an Untitled Spreadsheet and inside is just the numbers 1 to 100 in order

If this game were happening in a movie, you'd be thinking "well, that's a bit much".

fortnite feels like the pearl america was built to gestate. memeified celebrities and licensed cartoons killing each other over and over in uncannily bloodless PG gunfights within freemium software subsidized by a child casino. a satire beyond the cruelest imagination did it not already exist