Continuing with my Ghibli watch through, it’s Pom Poko time!

Finally deleted the tiktok app. Already feel lighter.

I’ve never played this game. I’ve never read it. I’ve played a bunch of Blades in the Dark though… Blades ‘68 is my favorite game. I just know it will be.

I just want to be super clear. Fuck ICE. Fuck these wannabe gestapo mother fuckers. I wish them the worst.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

“Why didn’t they teach media literacy in school?!?” They did. It was called English Lit and History. You just didn’t pay attention in school.

Tonight’s movie in my chronological watch through of the Studio Ghibli catalogue is Ocean Waves! Fun fact, this is the only Ghibli movie without an English dub!

Y’all keep giving awards shows too much authority. They gave the Critic’s Choice Best Foreign Language Film Award during a fucking red carpet interview segment and didn’t give the director a chance to give a speech. A reminder that all awards shows are bullshit.

Tonight’s movie was a continuation of my chronological watch of Studio Ghibli and it was Porco Rosso. Loved it! It says a lot about Ghibli that a movie I loved might be my least favorite so far. Either that or Totoro. I really enjoyed both, but both are the weaker movies so far for me.

Happy birthday to the one and only, Hayao Miyazaki.

As a long-time Slaad enjoyer, I love seeing Chaos Frogs in any bestiary. Give me more frogs! All of the frogs!!!

Only need one more seat filled to get this one going! Get in there!

People talk a lot about how certain things in ttrpgs are hard. And that’s because it’s a lot of skills. You’re going to be bad at most of them for a while. Practice! Do it more! If I picked up a paint brush, anything I made would look terrible. If I practiced, I’d improve!

Up next in my chronological Studio Ghibli watch through is Only Yesterday!

Time to watch my favorite bad movie, Spring Break Shark Attack.

Up next on my chronological Studio Ghibli watch is Kiki’s Delivery Service!

www.reuters.com/business/ene... So the banana republic is back? Just blatantly doing shady shit.

So people are apparently upset that their Stranger Things ship didn’t happen and I need to be super clear here… shipping children, even fictional children, is fucking repulsive. I don’t care that the actors are adults, the characters are children and shipping them is fucking repulsive. Get a life.

It’s wild that I’m almost 40 and literally my entire life we’ve been invading people for oil. Literally my entire life.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

So the US imperial machine has always done coup d'état, this one is in Venezuela is just especially out in the open and obvious. Wild.

Want to make a movie that people think is good? Have the actors shout a lot. Having a super sloppy script with pacing issues will be irrelevant if you be the actors shout over one another. Everyone on Letterboxd will give it 5 stars.

So I just finished watching Anora and… I don’t get it. It’s a 2/5 on it’s best day and that’s due entirely Mikey Madison’s acting. This is not a good movie. Sean Baker continues to really disappoint.

You can really tell in the rpg community who likes talking about games because they genuinely like games and who likes talking about games because they genuinely like attention.

Absolutely agreed here, and I want to add, these Chalamet movies were third in the Box Office each year. So he’s the king of third place. The fact that a genre film like Sinners made as much as it did is WAY MORE impressive.

My top five movies of 2025. 1. Train Dreams (almost broke into my top 4 of all time) 2. Sinners 3. Wake Up Dead Man 4. Bring Her Back 5. Weapons (considering how much I hated Barbarian, this is surprising) HM: Superman, One Battle After Another, Warfare, The Naked Gun, Song Sung Blue.

Happy New Year! If you are digging into a daily dungeon writing project this year, let me remind you about the Dungeon Design Course. Follow along with the guide step by step with examples, prompts, worksheets, and links to other resources. dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games

The more I watch physical media, the more I see how terrible the major streamers quality is. Movies on Netflix, etc, look so much worse than a Bluray. Like, it’s not even close. Even DVDs upscaled on my ps5 look better. I do not believe these streamers when they say they’re streaming in 4k.

Oh you mean the part where someone's game preferences are laundered with academic language to become a moral imperative and presented in a needlessly polemic and condescending accusation? That part is my favorite.

What an absolutely dogshit year.

What’s wild is how bad the show has been for 8 years. It should have been one season.

Change the tables to side tables and a coffee table! Also, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Titansgrave is the best actual play of all time.

My friend and I were chatting and I really miss the show Tabletop. That show was so great. I might rewatch my favorite episodes. Also… Titansgrave was the best formatted actual play… I’m really sad it’s never coming back and didn’t get a second season.

Urban Shadows Second Edition is so remarkably mediocre. And I think I’m being generous. I do not trust that Masks 2e will be any better.

“You can’t say anything anymore! No one can say anything anymore without the woke mob cancelling them. Comedy is canceled.” That’s why the top 3 standup specials Netflix right now are Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, and Tom Segura, right?

I’m going to start demanding that tabletop game masters provide a New Game Plus where it’s the exact same campaign again, but I get to keep all of my gear and upgrades from the last time.

I saw Dustin Diamond in a Party City when I was 16 years old. I got excited and yelled “Oh man I love you!” and he told me to go fuck myself and stormed out of the Party City.

Alright… Movie number three in my chronological watch of the entirety of Studio Ghibli is one I’ve seen before… 1988’s Grave of the Fireflies. I have my tissues ready.

Goddamn it… I just put my Gatorade zero packet into my ramen and the ramen flavoring packet into my water. Fuck.

Continuing with my complete Studio Ghibli chronological release watch journey, it’s Castle in the Sky time!!!

My mom wanted to see Song Sung Blue, the biopic about the Milwaukee Neil Diamond cover band… so we went to a morning showing today and that movie is so much better than it has any right to be.

I say all the time that you can just tell stories. If you don’t want to play the game part of games, you don’t need to spend money on books and dice and miniatures. You can just tell stories. It’s free!

Alright, I realized I’ve seen very few Studio Ghibli movies, so I’m starting a complete watch of everything they’ve made in release order, starting with Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Girl no

The Cairn Second Edition Box Set is one of my favorite rpg products of the year, so I’m obviously hyped for whatever Yochai makes from now until eternity.

Today’s movie is The Banshees of Inisherin! As a Martin McDonagh fanboy, it’s shocking I have never seen this one.

The OSR makes it so hard to like the OSR.

No. Actually, I don't trust me, either. What incentives in a ttrpg can do is funnel people towards decisions they wouldn't otherwise make. Making those decisions is why I like using rules of a game. I can freeform better than most. Spent a lot of time doing improv in front of audiences. 1/3