This sign will be very rude for the next two steps.

This is what your investigator is rolling Library Use to paw through with the eagerness of an eldritch, unknowable puppy.

I called my son to breakfast, "come git yer short stack!", as the guy who hurls George Clooney into the street and says, "and stay outta the Wools-worths!", and an impression has never been so wasted on an eight year-old.

I fought Gladius with dual Inseparable Swords. Sometimes a Souls game decides you've earned a little easy mode. #nightreign

That VATS sound effect in Fallout season 2! Chef’s kiss. They’ve done so well making the world feel right in general, and that might even be enough, but they’re also good about presenting 100% on-the-nose elements you recognize from the games. It works on me every time.

The best way to wrap your head around the “it’s all a distraction thing” is Nemik’s 40 atrocities speech from Andor. It’s not “just a distraction”, it’s that each atrocity distracts from all the other atrocities.

Here's the rest of my first pile of painted #KingdomDeath minis! I painted the Cockroach Queen and Sprinter Armor from Gambler's Chest, Longclaw Lenore, and the Archer from Echoes of Death 3. #miniaturepainting

I painted the Paladin for #KingdomDeath! She is obscenely hot and violent and I want to paint another one of these. #miniaturepainting

"Arrrrgh, spend all yer sarghvival, or DIE," says the #KingdomDeath Swashbuckler, who is played by Dark Sally Phillips. #miniaturepainting

I've played Kingdom Death since the original Kickstarter, but was too afraid of the minis to paint anything. I finally got out of my own way and got a few done. I'm still figuring it out, these are just OK. Still, pretty fun to work on! #KingdomDeath #miniaturepainting

Sometimes I like to walk through the house like the Bushwhackers approaching the ring in 1991.

Looks like the original has been swept away by the sands of time.

If you can find it, "Small Prophets" is great. It isn't another Detectorists, it's a different thing -- even a bit spooky -- but it's captivating and artful TV. Lauren Patel is wonderful. I liked Quigley, Kaye, and Crook before, but *goddamn* they're good. And that Palin fella is still the best.

My animation workflow and sense for layered motion was once substantially updated by reading Daniel Fotheringham's quadruped blog -- then I lost it. @brendancaseyart.bsky.social linked it again and I'm psyched to see the lost trove! danielfotheringham.com/quad-blog-be...

I'm re-reading this wonderful weird novelization of a long-ass SCP. Our perception of reality is limited to what our brains can retain, and you'll never notice the horrible thing sitting next to you because you constantly forget it's there. "From Beyond", evolved and sozzled on class W mnestics.

I applied for a job at Blizzard in March 2025, and they only sent me their deep regrets for my inadequacy just now. My god. How many interviews did the successful candidate have to sit through? This is like a generational rejection.

I was an animator on the project that fed into Storm Lancers, but did most of the rigging too. I delivered this shortly before I resigned and don't know whether it ever got animated, but what an appealing little critter! Here's my rig test. #3danimation #techart

Just turnin'! I did this for a canceled game that was recycled for Storm Lancers. Basic boring root rotation test here, but what a cool character. I forgot how awesome the Harvesters are. The concept and character artists were *so* good.

I'm feeling Way Back Machine while looking for a file on an old (2021?) drive. Here's a placeholder mook Wes modeled and I animated for prototype gameplay. #3danimation

I feel like all seabirds in games should be encountered struggling to get down a fat echinoderm. We checked on this legend of a bird on the way out, and he and the star were both gone. We can only presume a successful meal.

I'm working a couple contracts now, rigging and animation. It isn't much money, but it's *so nice* to be doing something useful again. I'm shattered after a busy week and I'd take this over and over before the past year's wandering. May we all get to do what we love again. #gamedeveloper

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Just watched the CP2077 5th anniversary trailer and am slightly annoyed that this shot of FICTIONAL PEOPLE FROM A VIDEO GAME brought a tear to my eye. They've got my number. #cyberpunk

Nobody enjoyed my review! Wtf

My wife gifted me some wireless earbuds. For some reason it amazes me that, when my phone is charging in my room, the Bluetooth signal ends *exactly* at the center line of my desk, down the hall. If I lean to the right, I lose signal. It seems an invisible cloud should be fuzzier than that.

“Baby, I swear, this has *never* happened before.” Fist and Tooth attack by Avalanche, who I presumed just punched the monster’s head off? Dude. That was a charmed showdown. I put the game down for a week because I didn’t want to fight a level 2 Butcher, and he basically fell over. #KingdomDeath

Mysterio attacked Rhino the Butcher Level 2 with the Counterweight Axe, and stripped Forbidden Light and Hew off the deck with perfect hits. This was after Rhino missed Squirrel Girl with five Double Hacks. Bad luck, Alexei. #KingdomDeath

This is a beautifully-written stand against the darkness. "With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, it is so ORDERED" I'm torn between imagining Revolutionary fancy dress or power armor. Yes, yes, he wrote the wrong month, but he got the year right and that's better than most of us.

I promise to batch export all your animations, OR clean your airbrush, the day Donald Trump dies. Just let me know which.

That Feeling When you export the baked .FBX over the Maya scene file, and you notice *before* you close it and can resave and recover. I could probably win a minor fight in a parking lot right now.

A fun thing about #KingdomDeath is how nothing matters, it's fine. The mother of the lion cub shows up, canonically enraged. You crit her on the right hit location card, and get a Lion Testes resource. It doesn't matter, it's fine.

#Fallout Norm just made his Fast Talk roll!

For sale: Nazi coat, gently worn (Size small)

This should be an unlikely line of dialogue to stick with me so long that it's become part of our family language, but Lis is flying back from SF and was careful to report the moment Klamath was to the east.

Waiting to get my hair cut, awkwardly trying not to stare at Rory Scovel who is getting his hair cut mere feet away. White knuckles. Inventing reasons to look across the room at an imaginary clock so I can glimpse him on the way. His haircut finished, I dare to make eye contact. 0% Rory Scovel.

DADS

Hey #miniaturepainting Usians, where are you getting your weasel brushes these days? Rosemary and Co won't play.

My wife has kindly offered to drive the kid to speech therapy, because it's foggy and full of monsters. I've consigned 2/3 of the family to monsters, and hope to be able to live with this. It's possible there aren't monsters and I'm just a timid driver. Open mind.

In #KingdomDeath, an Abomination came to take names and cut off faces! A super-group of Thor, Mysterio, Kraven, and the sensational Squirrel Girl faced him down and beat his ass. Deathblow was a perfect hit Mighty Strike bone dart, so +2 STR! — versus the Breastplate, +2 TGH. Bleh. Success anyway.

It’s Dark NYC III! This time the Brotherhood hunted the eeevil Miss Marvel for three years. This run is going well, either because I didn’t Innovate til I had more weapons, or because the card text is microscopic and I used Toughness 6 from the prologue lion. Ugh. Reading is hard in #KingdomDeath

@johnsheffield.bsky.social So how has it worked for you?

Wait -- I like all three of these things! www.instagram.com/reels/DTTVsO...

I need to shoot some reference. Where is my camera pole? The adjustable thing you put a phone on. Has a screw in. wtf is that called?

"the world's richest man is a nazi junkie who can run a child porn machine because he's friends with the pedophile president who's also sending his gestapo to murder people in the streets" we're living in a garth ennis comic

#KingdomDeath again this evening. It started off strong with three successive turns of crits by my fisty guy. Then from turns 6 to 18, I did not score a single hit. Not failed to wound, did not hit! Only Black Widow remained, defiant til the end, at which time the mayor of NYC ate her head. Boo.

I will admit to a limited palate, but I’ve watched and enjoyed this whole season of competitive cooking for a finale of intestine salad plus fried blood, versus wobbly tofu globs. ACK It’s so goblin. “Today’s grub’s squirmy guts, topped wif a splodge of oily bloodyuck! One per customer.”

I dusted off #KingdomDeath for some solo gaming fun. It’s been awhile since I last played, so in year 1 I did not make bone darts before hunting a white lion, ran straight into Ground Fighting, and TPK. Welcome back, survivor!

Putting protesters down as paid agitators and "radical far left lunatics" sounds like minimizing the threat to political power, but to everyone not hiding in a closet, it seems more like they don't know things.