“…walking the path of the hater means knowing more about something than the people who profess to like it.”

This is a huge victory that should be broadcast nationwide in all the major outlets. Big big big deal. I have been following this. Make them pay

This is officially the nerdiest joke I've ever made

A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF! Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!

"Democrats are cowards" doesn't make as much sense these days as "Democrats are craven." They need to be primaried.

Chuck Schumer, reading Peanuts: "Oh, but I'm sure THIS time she'll let him kick the football"

The Democratic surrender caucus. A bunch of weak-kneed electeds propped up by corporate cash. If you are represented by any of these Senators, call their office now. Senate switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

Metatopia Day 2! Got Paranoia: Highly Treasonous Troubleshooter Simulator to the table. This is my version of the classic RPG Paranoia, re-imagined as a one-shot play-to-lose story game.

Metatopia Day 1 report! Played a promising solarpunk RPG, then an interesting historical co-op deckbuilder. Gave feedback for both. 🧵

I'm all set up in my Metatopia hotel room, watching football and slicing prototypes. It's been a rough day (more on that in a moment), but I wanted to tell you what I'm bringing. 🧵

FYI I’m especially keen these days to talk to: - folks who were at the D&D Live events 2017-19 - AP creators pre-2010(ish) - AP creators who do/have done charity events - any game designer or AP creator with Shakespearean or pre-1800 projects (existing or any stage of development)

“Work through the daytime, spend my nights and weekends Perfecting my warrior robot race Building them one laser gun at a time I will do my best to teach them About life and what it's worth I just hope that I can keep them from destroying the Earth” youtu.be/_oV1_WBaycE?...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Totally unrelated, but I hope Ivee got their ferret!

Meanwhile, in Jersey City, Solomon (the progressive candidate) has advanced to a runoff, likely against McGreevey (the big-money candidate).

pointing at a game and saying "this is not a game" means you're saying it shouldnt be thought of as a game, it shouldnt be compared to other games, and it shouldnt be respected like a game. it's a tool of dismissal and erasure

Captain Torture

These clear-eyed obituaries are vitally important, especially for folks who were too young or not around for the second Iraq war. It was ridiculously obvious from the jump that Iraq had no WMDs, but the White House pushed the myth anyway, and the media, of course, amplified it without questions.

Dick Cheney was proud to have normalized state-sponsored torture. That, and the dead of Iraq in an unjust war, constitute his entire legacy. “That’s not funny” is a meme-y cliche but I don’t care about the friend he shot or our jokes about it. Cheney is Kissinger level. He made the world worse.

My next few weeks are going to be JAM PACKED. First off: I am at Metatopia this weekend. I have 3 games on the schedule, but I'll (hopefully) be bringing 3 smaller games to break out and test whenever I'm available.

Yesterday's NHRL Prime Time was a banger! In case you missed it: www.youtube.com/live/fm0wJkCM...

i'm an rpg character looking for special plants. it's weird because they only grow one at a time and far far away from one another. how the heck do they survive as a species? i guess that's what makes them special

they must end this game before the daylight savings clock adjustment. nobody knows what will happen if baseball gets into the time shift. we could get stuck in the time wormhole forever

I just got back from an intense 14-hour work day, think I’ll wind down with a soothing game of baseball

give us 20 innings this time. make this a root canal. i'll be watching. fuck god and fuck you

It’s been an intense day

My final pitch. Only a few hours left!

I did not know this! Always appreciate this kind of info. Now I don't feel as bad about how he got his hand blown off.

I love this old rule, and its implications! There's a Harold Lloyd silent movie called Speedy from the late '20s where he plays a hardcore Yankee fan working as a soda jerk.

my favorite grapevine tidbit lately has got to be "we do some procedural generation and then tell the executives that we put AI in the game, so they can put NOW AI-ENHANCED on it, and then they leave us alone"

Some really fascinating numbers here, and how they compare to Gen Con earlier this year... 🧵

My first of two reminders on this, I promise: Ferret Frenzy, the light push-your-luck card game I co-designed about the best pets in the world, is only up on Kickstarter for the next few days. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha...

Past inning 15 increasingly strange rules should be introduced. At inning 18 The Mastiff is introduced.

Time to send a hostage negotiator into the ballpark.

drake turning off the game as it gets to 18

I have an idea for baseball where everyone has a knife

Blaseball never died, it just absorbed itself into baseball's body, and this 17-inning game is its way of bursting out of baseball's chest

For reference, the one-day cricket match that England and New Zealand played on Saturday ran 7 hours 40 minutes (including the 40-minute innings break "halftime")—a reasonable and expected duration for one-day cricket rules. Jays-Dodgers is about to enter hour 7 now.

“I think I spent just an afternoon on it.” An annual repost as the World Series opens: From 2008, writer Paul Lukas (Uni Watch) interviews retired graphic designer Jerry Dior (1932-2015) about his creation of the MLB logo in 1968. ⚾️ Full article: espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=lukas/081105

If anything's going to make Leo go full Bacon Pope, it's the rest of the world needling him for being a White Sox fan

For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin. Here's the video of it running.

I am so mad the CFL is getting rid of this

In this QT are a couple of powerful essays that are rattling my cage about "cozy" games, a genre I previously found inoffensive and nondescript. It reminds me of colonial Euro board games that imagine colonization as brave explorers mapping undiscovered land. Which is a pretty severe whitewash.

I've said this before, but one thing I enjoy about college football: the option to watch the SkyCast. Just floating above the players heads, no sportscasters, just the crowd and the stadium announcer. It's such a great way to watch the game.

i have posted before that i think you are an artist before you ever make a painting or song or book. i understand it is a unique perspective and that is okay, but i am thinking on it again after seeing post from buckaroo @scalzi.com specifically how it relates to my perspective on grief and death

NHRL has a recurring YouTube series, Inside NHRL, where we cover all the things we do between events. I work remotely, so I'm never featured on it. UNTIL TODAY www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVk8...

my hot take is that the fantasy that’s being catered to with videos like the one going around is of participation in a seamless, infinite, directed loop where the player and computer are constantly updating each other. which is where I think a lot of the satisfaction in systemic video games is. 🧵