I just found out about the existence of this book: www.amazon.com/Democracy-Ne... Never before have I thought about changing my no-tolerance policy on book burnings...

I finished reading Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence yesterday and it instantly became one of my favorite books of all time. Sometimes the classics are classics for a reason. I've never seen the Scorsese film based on it, so I'll have to check that out soon.

It is a profound failure of the world we have built that any man should be a trillionaire. But especially so that said man is fucking Elon Musk.

Season 2 of The Franchise Doctors starts today! This season is all about the Texas Chainsaw franchise! Come check out our episode on the OG film. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

I watched a few episodes of Reacher and then read a few chapters of Edith Wharton's classic The Age of Innocence. What can I say? I contain multitudes.

The first true wave of fully AI generated shows and movies is about to land and I just want to remind everyone that if you watch any of it, you are a loser with the worst taste imaginable. You like corny soulless garbage. You lack personality and substance and your friends all secretly hate you.

The chuds are so mad that the new God of War game has a female protagonist. Sony Santa Monica had a genuinely impressive reveal for that game and these idiots are trying so hard to sell the lie that it looked boring and bad. The grifters are so predictable.

I'm glad that Magic has gone the route of Fortnite with all its crossovers because it has completely broken the cycle of me getting back into the game every few years. I'm glad it works for other people, but it is decidedly not for me.

My fellow nerds, it's okay to be critical of things and still enjoy them. I am enjoying Dungeon Crawler Carl, but it's so weird how you can't say anything critical about it without summoning a phalanx of people who fervently proclaim that it as flawless and that actually I must just be stupid.

Mina The Hollower feels like the first true GOTY candidate to release this year. There’s been plenty of good fun games but Mina feels special.

I finished the second Dungeon Crawler Carl book... I am not as in love with this series as most and I find it annoying how criticizing it in any way is meant with this weird fervent defense that it is perfect in every way even though I think there's some weird sexism stuff that should be discussed.

I'm not saying this just to be contrarian or provocative, but I've tried to get back into basketball this last year and the WNBA is a much better sports product than the NBA currently. It's more physical, there's less flopping, and there's actual mid-range shooting.

Just caught up on Double or Nothing. That Takeshita/Okada match was amazing. Felt like we got the NJPW version of Okada for the first time in quite awhile.

I’ve played a fair amount of Blackjack this week after the convention hours wrapped up. The way people play this game is wild.

I'm not sure how fruitful Licensing Expo will be for Wicked Loom, but I am learning some things, and I think once we have some completed projects out in the world there might be more to gain at this convention.

In Vegas this costs 22 dollars…

I was hoping to make another post on Substack before leaving for licensing expo but I got too busy. I will have a post about board game licensed from video games, and how I think we could make them so much better.

I have arrived in Vegas. I hate it here. I'm going to get a steak and then sit in my hotel room and read. I'm looking forward to Licensing Expo starting tomorrow though.

I have a very hard time sleeping before a flight. I'm heading to my first Licensing Expo in the morning. Very curious to see how it goes.

Rhonda Rousey is a transphobe and I am not a fan, but Gina Carano getting tapped out in 17 seconds is so funny.

There's this style of Youtube video in the video game space that boils down to "A reviewer rated this game differently than I would have... What's really happening here?" Insinuating there's some cosmic phenomenon going on rather than just a difference of opinion. I hate it. I hate it so much.

I started a new business today! Posted about it on my substack: npcaaron.substack.com/p/trying-a-n...

The Devil Wears Prada 2 crushed Angel Studios' shitty perversion of George Orwell's Animal Farm at the box office this weekend. Put another point on the board for the devil!

Today's substack article is about why it's so difficult to design a simple game, and how I've been dealing with that in one of my own projects. npcaaron.substack.com/p/the-diffic...

The two major American wrestling promotions have been letting me down lately, so I am playing the solo RPG 5-Star Match and creating my own federation within the game. I'm documenting it on my substack: npcaaron.substack.com/p/contenders...

Since I'm not using social media for much beyond promoting podcasts, but I like writing my thoughts down and sharing them... I'm starting a substack! I'll be writing about tabletop games, music, movies, creativity, politics and more.

I can't believe I'm saying this but... The Faces of Death remake is my favorite movie of the year so far?

We finished the first season of The Franchise Doctors! Hear us pitch our fix for Robocop! Next season will start in a few weeks and will be The Texas Chainsaw Massacre! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I remember when Audioslave came out a lot of people hated on them for basically not being either Rage Against the Machine or Soundgarden but that was wrong because Audioslave ruled.

New episode of The Franchise Doctors is out now! This is the penultimate episode of our first season and we are talking about the pilot episode of Robocop: Prime Directives, an actually good television show from 2001 that nobody seems to have watched!

You might have thought we were ready to wrap up our Robocop season with the 2014 remake, but we have a new episode about the pilot for the 1994 television series! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

It's Robocop 3 time! By far the most racially insensitive in the franchise! Let's talk about it! We could really use five star reviews if you have a moment! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

If this Jason Schrier quote holds water, I imagine that Sony folks think that by scaling back PC releases, people like myself will be forced to buy a Playstation. And I think that's some real dumb executive level nonsense, because the truth is that those people will just stop playing their games.

The second episode of my new podcast The Franchise Doctors is up! We're talking Robocop 2 and it's B-plot about a tween crime kingpin's rise to power. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Announcing my new podcast called The Franchise Doctors! We diagnose an ailing media franchise by dissecting each entry and then in our season finale we pitch how we would fix it! Our first season is about Robocop! We are available on all podcast platforms: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Hey everyone! I'm going to take 2026 off of Social Media! I will keep messenger installed but I won't have Blue Sky, Facebook, or anything else installed on my phone and the only posts I'll be making here are to let you know about things I made. If you need a way to contact me, comment below!

Entering my manga era. This was a good time!

Bowen Yang leaving SNL is a big loss for them. Oof. I'll be curious to see what he does next though.

If any publisher friends I know have a license or concept they'd like a game for, I have the availability to work on something. I have a proven track record in developing around licenses (Disney Villainous, Godzilla: Tokyo Clash, Marvel Battleworld, Funkoverse, Star War Rivals, etc.)

Assuming that every video game is a "Gun Game" or a "Sword Game", if you could only play one or the other, which would you choose?

I tried Brandon Sanderson to see what all the fuss is about and it wasn’t for me. Got about 150 pages into The Final Empire and decided I’m good on that. People told me the prose was simple but I wasn’t prepared for just how plain it would be. Also some questionable gender/race stuff…

Streaming tonight. Trying to clear out my backlog on Steam. twitch.tv/npc_aaron

I cancelled Disney+ and Hulu. I had already cancelled Paramount Plus when Colbert was dropped. I highly recommend doing the same. Come on MAGA, keep saving me money!

The leadership of the Tabletop Game Designers Association was disappointed to see the publisher CGE touting Codenames: Back to Hogwarts, a new Harry Potter-themed version of Codenames.

I’m feeling strangely disenchanted with board games recently. I don’t know that I have the language to fully explain why and I’m hoping that it’s temporary. It does make it easy to compartmentalize my job and have a healthy relationship with my work though.

Hey you all, QueenChanleen is a dear friend of mine and fellow Filipino content creator. She's one of the sweetest people in the world and recently she had to have a heart and lung transplant. If you could please donate or share her Gofundme it would mean a lot. www.gofundme.com/f/help-queen...

I had to leave OrcaCon a bit earlier than intended because I had a sudden onset of flu-like symptoms. Those symptoms have rapidly worsened. So if you hung out with me and you start to not feel well, get hydrated and take it easy. My apologies for possibly incubating a pathogen.

A lot of people up in arms about AI still posting their Spotify Wrappeds this year. Huh... weird.

My son wants us to play WoW and there’s those new anniversary servers so…