"i want the game to be random/simulated/emergent but only ever produce the kind of outcomes i want to see"

If you're at PAX East this weekend, be sure to check out Pandemonium Books and Games at Booth 12109 to pick up a copy of Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition and many other cool indie games, courtesy of @ipr.bsky.social!

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

means of production as a service

The Naked Gun's jokes missed much more often than they hit but I feel like baseball if you swing enough even a .300 is fantastic. the jazz scene especially really felt like a bold commitment to try something that might not work and stick with it, and as a result it got a deep belly laugh of surprise

this is an enjoyable and robust examination of both an individual work and the way genre and medium reduplicate the influences and processes that birth them

"the wheel turns" becomes "continuity persists"

if you aren't paying attention to party of one, you really ought to be — jeff has been setting up an absolutely stacked lineup of guests this season and this announcement is only scratching the surface

yskandr aghavn, played by matt berry

5 Days! 5 Days!!!

brain freeze!!! 🥶🧊🧊 #friendsatthetable #secretsamol finally finished my secret samol 2025 gift for angstandcaffeine!! sorry for the wait 😅 here's a little animation of veile and elena being silly (with a shocking twist??!) you can also see it on youtube! youtu.be/U3extGmu1f0

is it good or bad when you are orbiting a thesis for years and cannot set it aside. when you keep finding more and more evidence for it and the need to create a work to harness it builds by the day by the hour by the year

veggietales version of kotor 2 starts on asparagus station

returning to sianne ngai for the homestuck book and realizing yes we do indeed now live in the the age of gimmickmaxxing

cry every day laugh every day

Bc wtf do you mean we get 4 seasons in 48 hours on top of a METEOR STRIKE???

in the adaptation of A Memory Called Empire, I think you could do a lot with layering one actor's performance over another for the purposes of both the imago and the repetition of poetry. how the self is the re-performance that persists

this is what I wrote about the same trend a couple years ago while reviewing Metaphor

even as someone who is really interested in anticomedy i've never been able to watch one of the oscar specials. it's like touching a hot iron

you can shop at five or six landlords, or just one

and we mother them again

Whew! Good thing I only had to walk a mile in your shoes. Can you imagine living in these? Yikes! 😬

Here's a little peek at what I'm working on right now: Poems, all written by a fictional poet from within the setting, about the various districts of the city of Eutopea. A bit of civic art. They're meant to draw the reader in to the setting details that follow them in the game text.

"a chill wind blows / fragile leaves dangle / are they in their autumn colours?"

reposting some Friends at the Table fanart from last year, character profiles for the Perpetua Western Party, done up to look like an old jewel case manual. i really need to get back to listening and do the other party lol #fatt #friendsatthetable #Perpetua

six months ago we started occasionally getting chickpeas that were pungent and mushy straight out of the can. it's increased from occasional to ⅓ to now 2 out of 3 cans like this! i hate giving up on one of my favorite reliable, cheap-delicious-nutritious safe foods, but i also can't keep doing this

i have about 30 houses bookmarked for us to look at and each one has something that made me do a sharp intake of breath when i saw it. please come through

one pet peeve i do wish would change in the world — the way people use "last" or "old" to mean "most recent", "prior", or "previous", etc. obviously calling someone "old" has a rudeness element to it, but "last" has the extra ambiguity of "wait is that the final one?"

AU where Marielda and America's playground have swapped technological breakthrough-heists. victorian children performing a railway heist and getaway. samothes invents Hot Air Balloons and the six hijack one

They announced my stretch goal for Blades '68! Let's get to $390,000 so I can write about The Inaugural Crowfoot Wargaming Convention of '68 (which split of from the Charterhall Conference On Historical and Strategic Wargames that started two years before). www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

for all it matters from a bluesky gamer account like me: no war in iran. this attack is horrific and all decent people of the world must oppose it with no hesitation or equivocation about iran's government or nuclear programs. that's irrelevant to the pointless depravity of this bloodshed

i am reaching the end of the Railway Board storyline in fl and am really impressed by a big difficult choice clearly signposted. as we say, "in this and all things look to love"

i'm giving up crystal healing for lent

perpetua 33 is the greatest brontë adelvys episode yet released. and when the snow melts, episode 34 may come and even top it

made a mushroom broth with udon and some crispy air-fried gochujang tofu. great soups are in your future and can be made in your home

"It is a virtue to tell others about the Pokémon you love"!

Princéton: Bluff City Vacations is a Pokémon/Friends at the Table fangame that starts small and then cascades out into more and more and more! Oh man, is that Triple Triad? Why is the Triple Triad here better than the one in FFXIV?

i am so thankful to live in a world that also contains cheese

oh it's raichu like. "rai"-chu, like rai like thunder

🤕 + ⌚

a friend reached out about starting Toilers of the Sea & i asked them to send me their copy's ToC — which both left out at least one of the jokes *and* also included an entire extra book of Guernsey history and geography before the plot begins on christmas day with The History of a Bad Reputation!

Now when you’re grilling, you want to see a strong Molière reaction like we have right here [a slab of beef hits the heat and immediately recites lines from Tartuffe]

christmas nerds ("frosty nerds"). it's far and away the best nerds compilation because only seasonal nerds have the best flavor (white punch), and halloween is orange+grape (meh) + punch, while frosty nerds are watermelon+cherry + punch. i hate to say it but i love the taste of white nerds

gotta say, I love Lord of Typhon and dislike Lil' Monsta. extra minion is great, but it's better with The Least Demon Mobility than it is with The Most Untraceable Demon Mobility

To take it one step further, CLR James extrapolates that these original characters are types of people humanity could not actually become until we saw them reflected to us in fiction. One could not have become Mewtwo (archetypal) until the year of our lord 1998

Herman Melville argued that truly original characters are as rare as Hamlet or Don Quixote, and of course he created another in Captain Ahab. I believe had he lived long enough to see it, he would have admired and respected Mewtwo

*hamlet has always been a kind of woman voice* mewtwo has always been a kind of woman

there is no sign of land