How I'm walking out of 2025

Tired, easily angered and aching. Yep, good day to be alive.

"One has Sigourney Weaver, the other has Kurt Russell. Easy to mix those two up." #retailconversations

Can we get a one day game at the end of this to make up some time? #Ashes

BERK! FEED ME!

Some players have spent more time appearing in commercials than batting. #Ashes

There is a cat on my lap and life is good. #cats

It has been a day of contrasts. 1: Got told we were the friendliest (game?) store that customer had been in. 2: Got Whammed at the last minute while I was at the chemist.

Att @straczynski.bsky.social, I'm sorry, but if I had to see this then so do you. #Babylon5 (I'd love to know what Peter Jurasik thinks if he ever sees it)

Just talked to a customer who's a lifetime member of the Royal Green Jackets. Delightful man. #Sharpe

OBSERVE THE TRADITION, OR DESERVE THE CAMEL CLUTCH

How I'm turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party.

me waiting for santa

"We get Hubert to lick it, he's got the powers." "He's got the touch?" #quotesfromgamenight

"Do I get Advantage for fighting on the bed?" "Only if you do it in a sexy way." #quotesfromgamenight

"The ghoul came from underground." "Underground, overground, Wombling free..." #quotesfromgamenight

"If I could figure out a way to have 2 actions, I would." "Level up quickly?" #quotesfromgamenight

"Ghasts look like that." "I dont like that it has a tongue like that!" "And ghouls look like that." "I don't like it had an arm in its mouth like that!" #quotesfromgamenight

"I shall wait patiently until I'm healed or I have to roll a Death Save." #quotesfromgamenight

"Why do they have a bedroom down here?" "Kink?" #quotesfromgamenight

"That's what we do - we know games and we save Christmas." #quotesfromretail

As if I needed another reason to hate #Monopoly... Ow. (I was getting something off a high shelf, and a Monopoly tipped into the empty space followed by on my head)

If I hear you loudly mention you have a stack of pirated D&D books when you pass that shelf in the store, it will take me some willpower not to yell "GUARDS, SIEZE THEM!"

Still on a bit of a high from the bouting Tuesday night at sword. Nice variety - small sword, lightsaber, rapier and rapier and dagger. Lightsaber is an excuse to go all twirly, while it was good to see my dagger reflexes haven't dulled too much.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: playing with combat safe lightsabers is so much damn fun.

if you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation

"How else would she know what to run away from?" "Better than my thought, which was her eyes are that sharp from perving." #quotesfromgamenight

*rolls Perception check* "Oooh, 24! Liandra is unusually focused on lumps tonight." "That's cause Quintillius still has his shirt on." #quotesfromgamenight

"Sorry - had a half second of did you say hinky or kinky?" #quotesfromgamenight

"I'm grappled pretty often." "There's no need to brag..." #quotesfromgamenight

"Surely it doesn't count as a kink if everyone has it?" #quotesfromgamenight

"I have no Rages left and THIS MAKES ME ANGRY!" #quotesfromgamenight

"You can hear his shirt from a mile away, it's loud." "And irritatingly, he's still wearing it." #quotesfromgamenight

Yes, you pay 1-2 Euros at home for a deck of cards and we're charging $10 Australian. No need to be quite so intense about it, even if you did apologise as you left.

Glory to you, and your gingerbread... #StarTrek #Klingon

Seeing Weird Al performing 'Killing in the Name' seems either a call to revolution or a sign of the apocalypse. (To be clear, its a great version, it's more seeing Al angry is utterly terifying)

So, looking at Lost Settlers costume ideas, and while the modern kilt is out, if I'm reading things correctly, the Great Kilt is still a possibility. And that, dear reader, is when I had a burst of joy so loud that BRIAN BLESSED himself would have thought it a bit over the top.

You will be visited by three spirits.

FYI @talkingbottom.bsky.social

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Is anyone taking bets on how long Barnaby will last in One Nation? #Auspol

Exhausted, slept badly, have a splitting headache and suffering from the heat.

I can't stress enough how ridiculously happy this makes me. It's an absurd joke, but the sort of thing that #LowerDecks was made for. youtu.be/9oBdLUEayGI?...

Woo, Lost Settlers ticket purchased! Now, onto character research and inspiration! #AusLarp

Lot of discussion of blood tonight, and everytime I hear that word my brain goes "I'll get it!" #quotesfromgamenight

"You can be weird in character and out." #quotesfromgamenight

Talking with a customer this week about the Riddle of Steel #RPG, and I'm sad I didn't get a chance to mention my wedding vows.

MUPPET KNIVES OUT! Well, kind of. Either way, *Kermit flail* youtu.be/gJxzhUAGBDw?...

Warms the heart to see the #Sharpe YouTube channel embrace the memes. Naturally, I clicked the order to like, that's my style sir. :) youtu.be/AzFsRKQlB4o?...

I just found there's a Lee Ho Fook restaurant in Sydney... Alas, Beef Chow Mein isn't on the menu. #WarrenZevon #Werewolves