What's your favourite build up / drop in a non EDM song? youtu.be/9ZNkPA_zUd4?...

Cartoon of a chocolate bar stubbing its toe. Caption reads, "Careless Wispa".

This is a half formed thought but we need to remain aware of the fact that the culture of "left vs right" ignores "up vs down". Especially because it feels like a lot of people conflate "left" with "lower left" and "right" with "upper right". It muddies the water and makes actual engagement hard.

We've officially entered slow cooker season. Nothing like coming home to a house that smells like stew!

Well that's pleasing. Wordle 1,575 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 79/99 Luck 78/99

It's a common myth that if you touch an Xbox controller in the wild, the console won't sync with it any more. As you can see, this poor little guy has sustained damage which might have been avoided if someone had picked it up sooner and taken it to a Shelter.

Somehow I had forgotten all about this song, and its GLORIOUSLY WEIRD music video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvSj...

...I mean, you'd play it, right?

Played some Dystopian Wars this week! It's been nice to get back into the swing of painting an army and playing games. It's been too long!

If you're an indie creator, I expect the price of your ttrpgs, zines and comics to be higher than what I'd pay a bigger publisher for something similar. This will never stop me buying your cool stuff. Charge proper prices for your hard work!

89 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️

My personal rules to make Wordle fun: * You must aim for a unique first word, that no one else playing that puzzle has used. (I've only managed it a handful of times!) * All guesses must be valid options based on the letter info you have. Anyone else got their own house rules?

as i understand it facebook is now a website for when you want to read the first half of a reddit post

Lovely ttrpg folks, can you help me research a thing? I'm looking for ttrpgs that have offered free playable prologues / quickstarts / previews / demos. I'm not after *complete free rulesets* - specifically, games which have a full version, but did a downloadable "try this out" type thing. Thanks!

oh go on then

ADHD is crazy. I just spotted Balatro on my phone and realised I'd entirely forgotten about its existence. A month ago I was playing it every chance I had. A few days ago I literally remember thinking "it's weird I don't have any games on my phone any more". I'd just... Blanked it. Completely.

I still regularly play two of these, maybe three 😅

The main result of Thunderbolts changing its name is that it's brought to light how many people get asterisk and Asterix mixed up.

Hang on... Greg Davies is *way* bigger than Huge Davies. This doesn't add up at all.

Ed Balls 🎉🎉🎉

I still don't know whether Cleave does agg.

I'm having some real fun* with @linkedin.com at the minute. Here's a message I've sent to their customer service team. Wonder if I'll get a reply? *it has not been fun

If you're not listening to @beefanddairy.bsky.social, here's a handy primer on what you've been missing. Beef out. www.avclub.com/podcast-cano...

Our lovely mate Bas is fundraising for Drake Music Scotland, which helps people with disabilities find opportunities to make music. He's doing it by climbing a silly number of stairs. Chuck a few quid his way so he can afford new hamstrings. www.justgiving.com/page/stairst...

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money! I wish I'd engaged more with modern music when I was a teenager, but I was stuck in the 60s until I discovered the alt / metal / indie scene in my 20s. Retrospectively still a pretty cool first album, though, I suppose!

To the person who treated themselves to a Five Guys deliveroo on the Sunday before payday: I'm so sorry it arrived at our house instead. We tried to let someone know, but there doesn't seem to be a way. I hope you got your burger and shake in the end. P.S. Next time, please skip the jalapeños 👍👍

BonziBuddy's downfall came when people realised that it was mainly designed to track their data and show them adverts. That was pretty much enough to get it labelled as a "scourge of the Internet". Seems mad with today's context. We've become so complacent.

So Squid Game's creator must feel like he's the guy from 15 Million Merits, right? Makes a scathing, heartfelt takedown of capitalism and everyone's like "wooo, yeah, that's totally franchisable, let's make a load of sequels and spinoffs!"

I'm delighted my SF story ‘Sublime Ablation’ will appear in @aanpress.bsky.social's Our Dust Earth anthology / mini TTRPG! Loved the chance to write about death, robots & the passion of an executioner in the strange haze of a desert at the end of the world. Kickstarter's at 60%! Do take a peek 🖤

When you forget a vital element of the coffee run, but don't realise until the person you got a coffee for has already taken it to a meeting, there's only one sensible thing to do.

This is a fantastic piece that applies across the analogue game design spectrum. I'm gonna start using this term immediately!

It's really important to do good deeds in your community. Like, today it was really cold, so this morning I did a good deed and scraped the ice off every police car I could find. They all just say "pol" now.

Our smart light bulb refuses to connect to the WiFi. This is not the future I was expecting.

My main objective in Wordle these days is to do a unique starting word. Today is a good day.

First film I saw in the cinema, because I was obsessed with the cartoon.

I'm late to the party, but, uh... Andor's a bit good, isn't it?

This is one of the best trailers I've seen in a while. Palpable tension, genuinely unsettling. I hope the film lives up to it. youtu.be/mcvLKldPM08?...

Yikes.

I'm heading to Sofia in Bulgaria for the weekend! Any tips for cool nerdy things to check out?

Just saw a post on reddit asking about the most menacing characters in film. The top three answers are Anton Chigurh, Hans Landa and the penguin from The Wrong Trousers. I mean they're not wrong.

We had a great playtesting session tonight. We've been running a new group, starting from scratch, and this was the sixth session - everyone knows what they're doing, and the feedback is getting more useful every week. Love this bit of the job. It always leaves me buzzing.

Picked V for Vendetta off the shelf, as I've not read it in a few years. I was expecting a few "oof, yep" moments, but I thought I'd at least get to the first panel before one happened

It's so lovely having a feed that's just... Posts by the people I've chosen to follow. I hadn't realised how much I'd missed it.

Sophie and I are off to Sofia this weekend. First time in Bulgaria! Any top tips for things to do?

Can't quite believe how many discounts I've managed to stack up in Terraforming Mars.

Pessimist: the glass is half empty. Optometrist: does the glass look more full with 1, or 2? And 3, or 4? One more time, 3 or 4?

Lily just decided to add a hidden traitor mechanic to a casual game of balloon keepy-up. Just saying, she's definitely our daughter.

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Tabletop game designer: Ugh, yeah, neither of them are wrong, are they? That rule needs to be less ambiguous.