ever since Morocco got knocked out I have been rooting for Spain btw. my entire logic is "I went there once and had a real great time!" but there's worse reasons to pick a team to root for lmao

when I see bunnies and birds and butterflies in my garden all at once

I am going to go see The Odyssey tomorrow night :)

it's gotta be bots, because both times this has happened now, the referrer is just "google" and nothing has been claimed or bought or even downloaded from a previous purchase

A conversation on discord yesterday has made me think harder about the various iterations and formats of "an RPG's text" and who has what and what are they using it for. The full text? Character-specific or otherwise individual material? Setting material? Rules quick-ref? GM-facing secrets?

Me getting ready for the next Great Books discourse

Ranking Austen love interests completely objectively and correctly and with no room for argument so don’t try it, from worst to best: Edmund Bertram Frederick Wentworth George Knightley Fitzwilliam Darcy Edward Ferrars/Henry Tilney (so close as to be interchangeable) COLONEL BRANDON

I am technically aware of the possibility of just eating popcorn as a snack without watching a movie, but then I make the popcorn and think “oh… but what if I put on a movie with this…”

Ice cream truck drives by while I’m watering the garden and a couple kids from nearby houses run out to get treats. Another neighbor comes out to walk his dog, I say hi and pet the dog for a bit. At this point in the opening scene setup I’m pretty sure the aliens should attack riiiight abouuut now

#NowReading Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

because multiple discord conversations have lead me to bringing it up, if you're on the brainwave of "expensive deluxe TTRPG products" today, you should go look at the original 2016 KS page for Invisible Sun (that giant cube from Monte Cook) and see the pledge tiers, with 10-years-later glasses on

I posted this when Hulk Hogan died but it's probably fair to re-up for all the other racist old losers making their way to the grave tbh

Greg keeps saying he can't wait for the Odyssey movie to be out so people stop starting stupid arguments over it, which is reasonable, but I still see people starting stupid arguments about the Barbie movie which was three years ago this week, so idk how that's gonna go for him

Reading British books from the mid-century makes me feel insane and also feel the giant gaping holes in my education. What do you fucking mean *soap* was rationed until *1950*

My mom transplanted some really trimmed back rose bushes early in the spring this year and said they probably wouldn’t bloom until next year. WHAT DO I FIND TODAY but the tiniest most perfect pink roses you could ever hope to see

#NowReading The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

I am excited about the games I am making right now and I am excited about the big stack of books I'm gonna read next and I am excited about the pizza I am about to have for dinner amen

I have a really goofy habit, when I can't decide what to name something in a game, I'll go find a font I like for the game and just use the name of the font for the name of the thing. Sometimes it is a placeholder and sometimes it is... not

Getting my usual latte iced instead of hot during the heat wave really forces me to confront the resemblance of my post-work writing time to after-school milk and cookies

And if playing as Toys in a rules-light TTRPG sounds like fun to you, check out the FREE playtest edition here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

whatever amount of time you were going to spend today reading discourse about The Hobbit would be better spent listening to The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins by Leonard Nimoy on repeat youtu.be/QuQbus0xfhk

A number of people are upset that it's the last week of the World Cup, but don't be sad, there's a whole game system that provides more compelling human stories through the world's game! Grab the For the Badge Ashcan-Demo, and let me know your thoughts! sociable-turtle-games.itch.io/for-the-badg...

Saw an article going around about a guy getting evicted for hoarding because he owns 10,000 books and that's the kind of number that I am just incapable of visualizing, so of course I very reasonably decided to... count all the books in my own house. To get an idea, at least

Last night at the play there was an audience of about 35-40 people total and nearly every adult man was making a big show about having been dragged there by a wife or girlfriend, fellas is it gay to see Hamlet

vacation final tally: 1 beach 1 museum 2 plays 3 playtests 4 books finished (and a 5th started) AIN'T BAD

every time I Hamletpost I have to re-share the time Tom Hiddleston asked Owen Wilson if he'd ever played Hamlet (they should let Owen Wilson play Hamlet)

are the shades of Graycliff to be thus polluted (me, A Poor™️, walking around in jeans)

It’s beautiful to see a take on Hamlet I haven’t seen before (Claudius really wanted to fuck Polonius)(its intermission)

There is literally nothing an iphone loves more than overheating and turning its screen off at the exact moment you are relying on it for navigation 😅

Today is my last day off before going back to work tomorrow but I am determined that it will be a good one (ie, I will not check my email tonight and start worrying about things prematurely, there is absolutely nothing they could’ve done that couldn’t wait until tomorrow morning)

really kind of fate to give us a little appetizer, an amuse-bouche, for some of the larger ghouls dying

Board game day success: we played Chicago Express, Harmonies, AHOY, Dungeon Fighter, Great Western Trail, and Castle Panic

Peanut butter cookies for board game day today!

Very funny bit of misaimed junk mail to arrive when I was just touting the frugality of going to the free public beach and the free public performance. Lemme get right on that yacht life

I think I was outside too much today, my skin is NOT happy (and not in a sunburn way, I'm very careful about that, but in a "I'm allergic to everything" way)

You can just go to Shakespeare in the Park if you want to. Walk right down the hill and plop your blanket on the grass in front of the stage. All the cool kids want to do this

Sometimes I forget that the Great Lakes do not exist just to curse me in winter and there’s like a real-ass freshwater beach 20 minutes from my house

#NowReading The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

Figuring out what to wear to go look for lake birds today and begrudgingly accepting that I have exactly two modes of dress: "American Girl doll" and "Animal Crossing starter character"

I had a lovely time getting to meet Jon at CMU and the rest of the Reacting to the Past crew tonight! I got to test The Blue Way and loved it as I imagined I would! You should check it out!

guess where I am

if the finals end up being France-Argentina, I will be rooting for a team called "metlife stadium burning down mysteriously" sorry

just finished this and it was crazy good btw if you love to be SAD and OCEAN

game design is when you open up a document you haven't touched in a while like "oooh what's in here?" and it's just this

I have a lot of trepidation about hacking other games compared to making my own systems because people have a lot of very strong opinions about right and wrong ways to do it. I have a couple PbtA games in various stages of draftedness and I'm always like "ugh are people gonna tell me I did it wrong"

I’m still so mad that they made all those budget cuts at NOAA and now our weather forecasts are all useless, and I don’t even have to deal with extreme weather the way many regions do; I just need to know if it’s gonna rain or not tonight and this has somehow BECOME unknowable in the last 2 years

Terribly sad to have to miss this but if any of my local people are here they should check it out! Game looks extremely fucking cool and it’s a real nice game store (they just moved to a fancy new location with lots of play space!)

I’ve told the story before about seeing Guernica - the huge original Guernica - in Spain and basically collapsing into a sobbing wreck in front of it, and the security guard reassuring me that it happens basically every single day

I was complaining to Greg about several things I want to do requiring Effort on my part (compared to... doing nothing) and he was like "ah yes, but they are the type of thing that afterwards you will be re-energized to enjoy life" and it's like fuuuuuck I forgot I have to recharge my zest for life

NFL teams I routinely forget exist and have to be reminded "who?": Tennessee Titans (I actually don't know how I forget them tbh, they just seem unreal) Houston Texans ("Texans" obviously refers to the Cowboys in casual conversation) LA Chargers AND Rams (why have two teams with the same colors)