Given how many little "big animals on wheels" we've had from all over the world, I think the prehistoric equivalent of "Truck Kid" might be "Ox Kid." (Ukraine, Crete, Maharashtra, Anatolia)

I made a map of the food, drinks, and lodging near betweentwocons.com.
 View it on the website—or grab a newspaper-sized version in-person when you pick up @eeldip.bsky.social's mega-zine "The Grotto." See you there, nerds!

I brought story games to the childrens librarian idea exchange💞 shiny table treasures by: @noroadhome.itch.io @andrewgillis.bsky.social @seaexcursion.itch.io @lostwaysclub.itch.io @oracle-engine.itch.io @impinasweater.bsky.social

CHECK IT OUT! a deck-based travelogue ttrpg where you modify your LEGO vehicle depending the changing terrain. i can't believe this hasn't funded! www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

game where you pick a city street in a video game with doors you can't open and come up with what's behind them and the people who live and shop and work there

sorry bluesky, I almost forgot to tell you about today's foolish & fanciful game night at the Epochal Imp in Toronto! 😁 couldn't find the time this week to prep A Fool's Errand, but The Wolf King's Son and Rusalka are both on theme and very tricksy indeed... the next edition will be on April 15th!

got a tip that “social murder” is going to be the new “emotional labor” online (will be used by the extremely off-putting to describe nobody wanting to hang out with them)

2 new skirmish games available now, pay what you want. CHORD: ambient audio meets abstract strategy in this capture the flag played on piano keys. CYBERMETAL STREETS: low tech heavy metal 28mm melee compatible with Cybermetal 2012 RPG. Worldchampgameco.itch.io Zines for trade at Adepticon

Just updated my Toronto food rec zine for anyone coming to @breakoutcon.bsky.social this week! Say hi if you see me at the con and I'll give you a copy! stockpotpress.itch.io/breakout-bit...

Just updated my Toronto food rec zine for anyone coming to @breakoutcon.bsky.social this week! Say hi if you see me at the con and I'll give you a copy! stockpotpress.itch.io/breakout-bit...

i want every ttrpg designer to write at least one recipe (including the personal essay at the beginning. it's important. think about why it's important.)

When I was a kid I used to bring Wario over to this spot and pretend he lived here

re: "Parks are for families" - Chow makes it clear who is and isn't granted personhood in the eyes of the state. Dufferin Grove is a huge park that's continued to be used for all sorts of shit throughout this encampment's life. these policies boil down to the City not wanting homeless people visible

at least toby keith is dead this time

About today's public transit discourse: I believe that riding public transit is a spiritual good for increasing your empathy and practicing minding your own business. It also helps you internalize that most people mind their own business, e.g. no one is looking at you.

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

As I've been saying over and over on our book tour for The AI Con, the inevitability argument (including in the form of "AI is here to stay") is an attempt to steal our agency. We don't have to accept that and I encourage everyone to refuse it.

The way nobody can drive well anymore because of GPS — not just atrophied turn-by-turn navigation, but the way ppl no longer know the layouts of their town or the names of roads or what to do when the map doesn’t match the terrain — that’s what genAI is doing to communication skills and literacy

If all porn is made illegal, you can also make illegal the expression of any person you hate by defining them as obscene and pornographic. "Existing while visibly trans" will be argued to be pornographic. Women dressing insufficiently modestly will be argued to be pornographic.

the thing teenage boys need to hear more than anything else is that it is actually okay if they don't grow up to be men at all. they don't have to feel invested in the political interests of men as a class, bc they dont have to BE men. it's okay if they grow up to be women, or something else :)

Niamos! (Morlana Club Mix)

type of shit i’m on

baby solved the sokoban puzzle trapping him in his enclosure and made a beeline for the sprite cans

Anyone who has ever got delivery via bike should fight for safe lanes & infrastructure as a moral imperative. (Would love to see how many anti bike lane people also enjoy delivery)

Managed to get three steamy ‘ships going playing @diceexploder.com ‘s supervillain henchman Desperation Hack at indie game night tonight!

One bright side to being forced to live in an AI slop tornado is now I see my artistic mistakes as incredibly endearing. The human machine of my body made that weird line. My worst day of drawing is completely untouchably better than anything AI will ever produce until the heat death of the universe

Hey, so, @ehronlime.bsky.social's Ithaca in the Cards/What Should We Have Tomorrow double-shot hasn't hit its funding target yet, and dangit, that's practically criminal. There's only 5 days to go -- get on it, folks! (I'm particularly excited about Ithaca...) www.kickstarter.com/projects/ehr...

This should be the end of every discretionary trip to the States by Canadians & every other national.

breakout was great. i cosplayed as @possibleworlds.bsky.social (w/ @jasonbostwick.bsky.social and @snaxwell.bsky.social)

Amazing and restorative time seeing friends at Breakout, made some killer zine trades and played with some great people! Already taking notes for Breakout Bites 2026

They call it Breakout Con because it’s when I put away my winter boots and Break Out my Converse

Just put together a little zine with my Toronto food recommendations and a map of my favourite bookstores. If you're going to @breakoutcon.bsky.social this weekend say hi and I'll give you a copy! stockpotpress.itch.io/breakout-bit...

Just put together a little zine with my Toronto food recommendations and a map of my favourite bookstores. If you're going to @breakoutcon.bsky.social this weekend say hi and I'll give you a copy! stockpotpress.itch.io/breakout-bit...

Dream episode, RTFM weighs in on New York Fries vs the city hall chip trucks …

One of the most important things about EP Thompson's work that is not often noted is that he chronicles the absolute annihilation of English and Welsh working class and peasant culture. Literally nothing survived the industrial revolution - everything left is a partial Victorian revival.

THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF SAUNA. NO HIGHLY STEAMED DUDE IS COMMEMORATED HERE. Enter my sauna dungeon, created for @idlecartulary.itch.io's Zungeon Jam. It's pay what you want (including free). I'll add some art once I'm not dogsitting. erinking.itch.io/sauna

Furthest North: Reykjavik, Iceland Furthest South: Buenos Aires, Argentina Furthest East: Moscow, Russia Furthest West: Tofino, Canada

You are a game designer. You have so many ideas, and so few of them are published. Perhaps none of them are. Your WIP folder is full of genius, and you know it, but you cannot bring yourself to release it in an imperfect state. This is for you. Presenting THE 1E MANIFESTO.

i live in new jersey and i haven't seen any drones but I've certainly heard some - from my wife!! thats right my wife's drone music project continues. she loves to create extended musical tapestries of synthesized tones and sampled harmoniums and i love to listen to them. good luck and god bless

I'm into the second week of Critique Navidad, my series of reviews where I review whatever game or module is offered, one per day, for the month of December. Here's the games I've reviewed this week, what I reviewed last week, and a teaser for what's coming! 1/🧵

*john darnielle voice* mercy for the blowjob brothers

I recently did a courtesy call with an indie developer. They wanted to talk to me because their game's target audience is ... uh, me. 25-40-year-old women, many of whom are moms. They wanted to know: what did I need to pick up a game? What would bar me from playing? Here are some answers 🧵(1/?):

You gotta make art that sucks in order to make art that fucks

I’ve said it before, and I will say it the fuck again: Grasping Nettles is, for my money, THE best worldbuilding game. Solo, with friends, standalone or for a campaign - it hits every beat, on the beat, every time. No wasted movements. No frippery. Grasping Nettles gets it done.

This hits so hard. I see this on main street in my own city, where there are so many cool shops that open, hang on for a couple years, close, new shop opens, repeat. There are prime spaces sitting empty because it's better for the landlord to write off the loss than make the rent affordable.

UNOWN COOL S

If they’re going to accuse road safety folk of waging a war on the car, let’s actually talk about who’s operating in good faith & who isn’t. And some history. If they accuse cyclists and pedestrians of waging war, a war they should get. My column this wknd. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

This is, without hyperbole, one of the best written comics of the 21st century.