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A pop punk band from the next town over got hyper-locally famous for their song "Junji Ito Pinball Machine" back in high school, but I can't find the mp3s anywhere on my backups. Gonna have to look in my old bedroom closet for my old PC tower next time I'm at my parents.

Just finished Fallout season 2 and once again wanting to run that kind of world as an RPG. erinking.itch.io/after-the-bomb

Oh no, I can't believe the Neopets RPG is bad.

Missing my good ol' Olympics DM friends from the halcyon days of Twitter right now!

One of the year's most interesting games involves forum arguments over the existence of a Junji Ito-themed pinball cabinet.

Oh, this is fun! I may have to join in with the next Missive.

Here's a quick video about JUNJI ITO PINBALL #junjiitopinball youtu.be/CgJ_vUtP-Qo?...

good lord, I love how the most unhinged thing I've ever posted On Here gets the most likes. anyway, I am pure of heart and only make beautiful things like this monarch butterfly cardigan (just finished it this week!)

@cardsagainsthumanity.com any insight on this? I understand one of the rare Junji Ito pinball machines may have existed in the Chicago area circa 2000-2010.. is it possible one of your writers played it/remembers where it was set up?

junji ito pinball dude

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

My phone won't let me delete this.

I've been spending too much time today trying to track down any info I can of this Junji Ito pinball machine - through stuff like the VGHF digital library and such - and didn't find anything until I checked a midwest zine library. Can't find anything on this machine either, but it's so close.

one like this but it says "my other ride is a junji ito pinball machine"

bumper stick that says: Sorry about my driving. I'm thinking about the JUNJI ITO PINBALL MACHINE!

Toronto! I'm starting up a thing! It's not a giant space, but my studio is big enough to start gathering around some games. If you wanna join us, lmk!

In a now annual traditional I'm running another mass participation game throughout February starting NOW. Come join JUNJI ITO PINBALL. Play in the forum pages of the itchio page and create lore in real time alfredvalley.itch.io/junji-ito-pi...

ICYMI, the latest Missive went out yesterday!

My #ZineMonth project for Mothership RPG is live! Get out the scissors and glue, cuz you're making a map to escape this portal tech twisted nightmare: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/5...

Great stuff from MeatCastle about the current landscape of TTRPG critique, especially the part about being able to speak to our own preferences as players and writers.

This game is great! I'm about 200 puzzles in right now and keeping at it.

The latest Missive is HERE! I discuss my unhappiness with the state of #TTRPG reviews/critique, drop a relic-laden Cairn freebie, dive into some ZiMo campaigns and recent blog posts, and more cool stuff. Give it a read and grab the freebie NOW: meatcastle.substack.com/p/talking-ab...

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The latest Missive is HERE! I discuss my unhappiness with the state of #TTRPG reviews/critique, drop a relic-laden Cairn freebie, dive into some ZiMo campaigns and recent blog posts, and more cool stuff. Give it a read and grab the freebie NOW: meatcastle.substack.com/p/talking-ab...

I've just released ROVKALL, a monospaced font you can use in your personal and commercial projects. I originally made this for Thousand Empty Light (where you'll find it being used for sub-headings) alfredvalley.itch.io/rovkall

The next Missive drops tomorrow! I talk about the state of TTRPG reviews, rundown some blog posts, highlight a few Zine Month campaigns, drop a FREEBIE with five relics for use with Cairn (and other fantasy systems), and MORE COOL STUFF! Get it in your inbox for free: meatcastle.substack.com

If you ordered a physical copy of Annual #3, your order most likely went out of the warehouse today! The print run is in, looking great, and packages are going out. Thank you so much to everyone for the support! If you'd like a copy, you can grab one HERE: shop.meatcastlegameware.com/products/mea...

This one's really special! There's a lot of cool concepts and mechanics happening here - unlike anything I've experienced for Mothership in the past.

I am, unsurprising to anyone who knows me well, very excited for this. MST3K (in all its various forms) is an all-timer for more. Excited to see these (and great to see Minnesota creators and a Minnesota productio making some bank right now)!

the fisherman’s wife

It is officially live! If you want to pickup my gothic horror micro-setting and have it in your hand now is the chance. #ttrpg #zimo2026 www.kickstarter.com/projects/von...

saw your mom at the grocery store

Finished Strange Horticulture (after owning it for years and never playing it). I really enjoyed it! A very calm little puzzle/mystery game of parsing documents and artifacts and identifying plants with some cool story implications as it goes along. Pretty short too (that's a plus, for me)!

The dweeb guy in this replying to someone asking him "how does that boot taste?" in his non-apology resignation statement with "it tastes like freedom" is a tremendous moment in loser history.

Our charity stream with @giantbomb.bsky.social starts NOW! Help us raise money for VEAP and KICK ICE OUT!! www.twitch.tv/minnmaxshow

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

Here's my experience as a TTRPG creator in Minneapolis right now, 10 new relics for Cloud Empress, plus a new way to support my work (and all new Patreon). worldsbywatt.substack.com/p/minneapoli...

As of tomorrow, Cairn Press is live! Bring me your modules, your supplements, your hacks - as long as they are Cairn adjacent, I'll take consider it! More soon. cairnpress.ink

Tell my wonderful wife and cool cats happy birthday or ELSE!

MAKE THE COMPUTER GOOD AGAIN - GET SHIRT OF THIS AT DASHARE.ZONE - dashare.zone ADMIN

Five jobs I've had: - Barista - Local Newspaper Editor - Insurance Salesman - Starbucks Manager - Copywriter

Life got upended for the last 3-4 days so I may be a tad late on the Missive but I am sticking to the monthly thing! Everything but the Freebie is in the chamber and ready to go - just need to get this Treetop Lair written and laid out!

A new player is entering the fray this week for my office Cairn campaign which means I've added another new ancestry bonus over on the blog - THE MANCAT: meatcastlegameware.com/blog/2026/1/...

When will we learn what the liquid was?

TIME WARP @lukegearing.bsky.social joins me on Ansible Uplink to review Adventure 08: Prison Planet, for Classic Traveller

I've got a few things in this. I hope this will be a bundle a lot of people pick up!