I don't think you get to go after the reporting when you're the one withholding relevant information so you can get the last word in weeks after the investigation is published.

I always find it funny when people dismiss the notion that antichrist was initially a specific reference to emperor Nero because he had been dead for a few years when Revelations was penned, but like, that's the point. The idea of him coming back from the dead is kinda key to being Christ but anti.

All this scrutiny on the Neopets ttrpg is really making me reconsider my ClubPenguin ttrpg crowdfunding scam plans

After the Rascal podcast follow up on the Yazeba's B&B situation, I've seen a couple of posts from people complaining that Rascal didn't reach out to them for their POV and the thing is that from what I saw, their info largely corroborated Rascal's claims; they just didn't like the framing.

Two obvious observations. 1. AI art isn't you creating art. It's commissioning a model without properly compensating the artists that model scraped from. 2. If you want to make art that bad, you can. I believe in you. You just want to defend a bad habit and are getting sanctimonious about it.

They just need to claim it's performance art and then all is forgiven.

Seeing that class satisfaction post on the PF2e subreddit (ignoring it's major methodological flaw of not asking if people have actually played the classes they review), and it really does highlight how so many of the most opinionated voices on the game are kinda bad at it. The other thing it

Fallout Season 2 ended really well, but one thing I hope they improve on in future seasons is making the wasteland feel like a place that's populated by normal people with culture and community and not just wacky wastelanders. Like so much of the show's ideological conflict is based around this

Be willing to discuss the artifice of the game as you run and play it. Immersion is fun, but you'd be surprised what you can do when you embrace more transparent styles.

You can tell neither Ireland nor Australia have done any sort of studies on this subject, or talked to teenagers, or even considered the negative impact this will have for teens whose support systems are outside their family home. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

Twitter really does just eventually make every rich guy Elon Musk, huh?

What My Grandpa Did To My Nose Is Worse Than You Think

This genre of post is a much needed ray of light right now.

Change a letter, ruin a film: Bonglegs

Confirmed GoFundMe for Alex Pretti, the 37 year old American executed by ICE. ( via @keithedwards.bsky.social ) www.gofundme.com/f/alex-prett...

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

Slightly diminish a game: Needler

Really enjoying Dimension 20's new Gladlands season. It's maybe a bit saccharine, but it's nice to see them thoughtfully engage with the game systems and consciously tell a very different story to their tpyical D&D ones.

Our entire regulatory framework has proved to be no more than a painted balsa wood front. The AG here confirms it is illegal to generate CSAM. We also gave CnaM the power to act on any material which was not illegal, but was offensive. Turns out they don’t wanna. www.rte.ie/news/2026/01...

I wish I could feel some vindication in not really liking Jay before this, but really, it's just saddening and exhausting. I hope this leads to some relief and redress for the people Jay, Possum Creek and Steve Jackson Games hurt.

It's really not that hard (and in fact creatively enriching) to move on from the "unpeople who it is inherently necessary and heroic to kill" model of RPG adversaries.

It kinda sucks that GRRM has to constantly reiterate what is in fact the norm regarding the completion of book series because nerds are so damn consummerist and anti-human.

Just watched Sentimental Value. Probably 2025's best movie by a pretty wide margin

The New Year's Warhammer preview in a nutshell: You vs the girl she tells you not to worry about

As far as I'm concerned, when deployed as a standalone cliche as it normally is, "System doesn't matter" is a masturbatory statement.

I think this is also true in TTRPGs. I've observed a pretty marked difference in players that learned Pathfinder 2e from reading the rulebook vs those who just use Pathbuilder and Archives of Nethys. I imagine it's the same with D&D with D&D Beyond and Youtube.

Just back from seeing 28 years later: the bone temple. It's okay but not anywhere as good as the first, though I think it'll get a more universally positive reception. The cult plotline is way too black and white and I don't think that's nearly as interesting as the social dynamics in the previous

The An Taisce website has plenty of suggestions on what to include in the email, but if you find it overwhelming I will legit help you write an email. Just reply here if you want help or DM me if we're mutuals #Spéirgorm

I see a lot of discussion and condemnation of the ff7 remake games as pointless, over produced insults to the original game, and it's kinda funny that the remakes are about grappling with exactly this. To the point where I literally don't think there's a reason to play the remakes

Slightly diminish a game. Dragon Errand

Someone should let him know. Maybe that'll stop him doing all the fascism.

First mini painted this year. A Salamanders Saturnine Dreadnought.

Buncha people who aren't involved in Trench Crusade KS or the discord or anything have all decided the game is in shambles because some dipshit youtuber says so. You are not immune to misinformation.

this is 6 blocks from the site George Floyd's murder

I think Clair Obscur's postgame really falls into the "optimizing the fun out of the game" trap.

It really was such a shame that KotE was so orientalist and racist because the core premise of having a probable pathway out of your cursed existence being to commit fully to an inhuman and inhumane philosophy is great personal horror and a great inversion of vtm's premise of trying to hold onto

Just rolled credits on Clair Obscur and while I'll keep it vague, I think the game takes a very clear side on which of its two endings it thinks is right, and I don't think either represent a healthy way of dealing with grief.

The American people have to put a stop to this because your military and government certainly won't

There is no justification for this, no matter what you think of Maduro or whatever, this is an illegal act of unprovoked war against a sovereign nation by a fascist power. End of discussion.

Resurrecting this cause I had a cool idea. Make the Magnus Archives a Carved from Brindlewood style game and have the collaborative statement building happen after the investigation and do it in a similar way to how you solve mysteries in those games, i.e. putting the clues together to come up with

So, I've come to really enjoy Fallout Season 2 with the last 2 episodes after finding the first kinda rough, but one thing I certainly hope they improve on is making the different locations feel less isolated and remote. Something I really liked in New Vegas was the caravans, patrols and wandering

So I've gotten to Act 3 of Clair Obscur and I mean this as a compliment to the game, but also maybe an insult to the playerbase and the discourse around it, but this is a perfectly normal JRPG.

youtu.be/lX44CAz-JhU?... Bit of a no-brainer probably, but The Wolf by Siamés (or maybe any of their animated music videos).

I did it last year and I'm doing it again. Here's a thread of the miniatures I painted over the course of 2025. The vast majority this year was Trench Crusade and expanding my 30k salamanders army for the new edition. I experimented with a lot of different techniques and painted some of my (1/13)

I feel like a lot of ttrpg discourse would chill out if people started more conversations by talking about specific games and expanding out rather than making sweeping generalisations the people can easily poke holes in.

The incentives thing gets to the reason why a lot of OSR discussion points annoy me, and that reason is pretentiousness. Everything about the OSR can be explained using pretty orthodox analyses of game design, player psychology, etc., but for some reason a lot of figures in that space seem to be

The incentives in storygames OSR people complain about are just the game showing where the game is. It's like how in OSR, dungeons themselves are the incentives.