pancake brunch healed +100% psychic damage

An RPG where you play a ranger's animal companion. And the ranger is played by the GM as this vaguely benevolent (?) but inscrutable higher power that gives you tasks and treats but also keeps leading you into danger. It's a game about religion, of course.

@notquitereal.bsky.social so there I was, brain-humming a bit of score in my head to pass the time at work, as one does, and for the life of me I could not recall what videogame that bit of music was from, until it hit me that it was the Perpetua intro and I had slotted it in as "videogame score"

Tom Clancy's If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

@darrenmooney.bsky.social‬ the dentist theory is catching on

Dating as a chromed-up street samurai

Never forget today, when, on this day in 1988, Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day.

Reading an otherwise excellent book that has the hero "firing" his bow. Takes me out of the moment enough that I'm here posting instead of reading.

It's eye-opening to check out reviews for games you've played a lot. Seeing reviewers miss what seem to be fundamental things about a game makes you question just how much attention they paid or what was lost from play to text/podcast.

Would be funny if one could track if the availability of chatGTP has led to fewer "I have an idea for a novel, how about you write it and we split the money"-type cranks bothering writers.

had a pizzeria next door for a bit, and when we ordered they'd deliver (such as it was) and charge us just half price for the pizza which was great, but then always had me caught in a mental loop of trying to calculate a proper tip for that situation

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Sometime recently I saw a conversation scroll on past that was like, "what's the difference between moves in PbtA and skills in other rpgs?" I can't speak to PbtA in general, of course, but in Apocalypse World, moves aren't skills, they're actions. You know how in a D&D-like game...

My bad, I misread what was happening here. While a writer doesn't have say in illustrations and might not know it was gonna have AI slop attached, I do get it shows kinda poor judgement to use it as a resume lead it once it's happened.

I invented a full history for a mop that made a single appearance in Star Wars: The Old Republic and added so many unnecessary details to the codex entry it needed its own Wookieepedia page

@darrenmooney.bsky.social hey, have you written about the (seeming?) decline of the mixed genre OST album? The '90s had a bunch of all-timers: Blade, Judgment Night, Spawn, Hackers, Strange Days.EDM, Metal, Pop all fused into a cohesive listening experience. Does that still exist with recent movies?

there must be a version of the Andor EDM beach/wedding song overlaid with Nemik's manifesto out there in the SW galaxy there must

Not sure if this is describing the Retvrn fuckers or a villain group in a superhero setting, but: the Broman Empire.

Started reading Fair Rebel by Steph Swainston. It begins with the image of a musician's funeral pyre made up of hundreds of musical instruments. Immediately hooked.

wikipedia should have a category for worst takes, to enshrine them for eternity & conveniently refer back to them

@pathofnight.bsky.social love your show! any other (old or new) WoD podcasts that you would recommend? particularly into vamp and mage stuff, but anything goes. thanks for the great show!

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one of the best things about winter is seeing the little kids with their voluminous winter hats that make their heads look even more disproportionately big just hats with legs

Oh no I found a playlist with 169 clips from Justified

Movie idea: The Long Con it's about the trials and tribulations of an unusally tall prison inmate.

Watching gameplay clips of Jedi Survivor is so aurally satisfying. The saber-copter matrix time distortion sounds are incredibly well designed.

as the Stones sung, love is just a dead kissinger away

Poet-themed franchise restaurant chain, first one's called William Butler Eats.