On that note, Night's Black Agents desperately needs either a second edition or a supplement to bring its current events up to date. 2027 will be its 15th anniversary. <hint hint>

"You Are The Generation Who Bought More Shoes And You Get What Deserve" (Johnny Boy)

Here's a Millennial Youtuber's attempt to understand the psychology of the mysterious and elusive Generation-X. If the "past is a foreign country" ("they do things differently there"), this treats Gen-Xers as immigrants who have only partially acculturated to the present.

This is because Amazon doesn't need or even want book sections, which might publish unfavorable reviews that would otherwise dissuade impulse purchases of bad titles. (Bezos already has the bot-ridden Goodreads to pump out fan "reviews".)

Pelgrane Press seeks Customer and Platform Relationship Manager

In a few weeks, I'll crowdfund the 20th Anniversary Edition of Play Unsafe, my book about improvisation, story and roleplay. Go here and follow the Kickstarter. (And please repost this, it really helps!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra... #kickstarter #ttrpg

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Archaeology (the World) Latin American Novels (Contemporary) Physics (the Fundamentals) Psychology (Abnormal) Shakespeare (the Plays)

PSA (better late than never): With new restrictions on posting/commenting, English-language LiveJournal accounts need to backup their posts ASAP. ru-news.livejournal.com/80899.html

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The Crazification Factor strikes again! (h/t @johnrogers.bsky.social)

genAI made me believe in the human soul because it showed me what "art" created without it would look like.

Having to prep for a new hearing in order to keep my dad housed instead of focusing on work, so I gotta rattle my cup to keep *me* housed at the same time: ko-fi.com/O4O8CAE3

Finished is better than terrible #oldknees

Join us for an AMA with Kenneth Hite on January 23rd, 2026 at 3PM EST. Bring questions about game design, history, horror, and the strange corners of RPGs. #TTRPG #AMA #GameDesign bit.ly/49PtidM

Incredible coda to a hilarious saga of unexpected twists and turns (featuring Vienna, but not that Vienna).

"Coitus (G hoith 13-147 & 163, Q pukta 12-75, 13-147)"

Tom Baker is 92 today

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

BLAKE'S SEVEN TAKE 2

Would love to speak to any regular international GDC attendees who are skipping this year's show (or were going to attend and have now cancelled) due to the current political climate. DMs here or [email protected], thank you!

Block instantly.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

**Every time** Apple pushes a software update, it breaks some functionality I rely on. At a certain point, it will be easier to find a replacement for their products instead of fixing whatever they've broken.

We all know Simone is messing with us, but from a kid’s perspective when it comes to toys, yeah, the Eagle beats the Enterprise hands down. Gerry Anderson had an unmatched genius for that.

If you see this, skeet an archer.

Atlas Games is proving that old library equipment doesn't have to end up in a landfill.

Ig Nobel Prize–winner Erich von Däniken dies at 90.… Or was he secretly abducted by ancient astronauts after completing his mission to spread his theories about paleocontact and extraterrestrial visitation?

New Crazification Factor* results just dropped—"Votes in support of Trump's Policies by Appellate Judges in 2025", via the NYT. * From @johnrogers.bsky.social

"While AI slop was a nominee in the American Dialect Society’s 2024 Word of the Year vote, in 2025 slop could stand on its own, with the AI context often implicitly understood. Slop was also recognized as a productive combining form to describe anything of little value generated in mass quantities."

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

Discord Enshittification Countdown for 2026 What's a good a way to download/archive my posts from this platform?

Pelgrane are looking for play testers for my upcoming Halfling-detectives-solve-murders-and-eat-cake roleplaying game, THE MERRYSHIRE DETECTIVE CLUB. There's a sample scenario, THE CASE OF THE GREAT RING, in the playtest packet, so all you need is a few players... pelgranepress.com/2026/01/07/c...

A cover mock-up I made for the complete Suppressed Transmission essays by Kenneth Hite. #GraphicDesignIsMyPassion

(This is one of those days when the majority of my posts are not appearing on the public-facing Internet.)

The challenge for 2026 is how to make paranoia fun again, like it was with Thomas Pynchon, the Illuminatus! trilogy, and the Church of the Subgenius. We need societal vaccination against taking conspiracy theory too seriously.

This is the way to deliver a controversial finale that everyone will remember.

With the sad shuttering of YSDC, I'm contemplating turning some of my old posts/conversations into entries on my long-neglected blog. And the rate at which social media is enshittifying itself, I probably need a back-up plan.

my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Work in progress. I'm slightly obsessed with turn-of-the-(19th)century theatre/pantomime/circus playbills at the moment, so I'm re-creating posters and ads for more recent productions (and products) in that style. #graphics #movies #davidlynch #victorian

If you are visiting here from X because the CSAM thing was a bridge too far, welcome. I'd encourage you to carefully consider whether the things you heard about Bluesky on X are true or whether they were lies spread by the guy who owns X who controls what posts you see on his site.

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

Why is Bluesky search busted *again*?

#FilmSky #MovieSky 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬 : Steve Buscemi

Stood behind Wallace Shawn as we both waited for the uptown number 1. Not as short as you might think.

100% human-crafted Juvenalian satire, running on high-end organic neural tech, powered by all-natural renewable hate.

At this point, Lord of the Rings should be rebooted wholesale as cyberpunk dystopian SF. This Sauron 2.0 or iSauron or whatever is a “military-grade home security system for tech elites [and] raised $18 million from executives behind Flock Safety and Palantir”.

Nonsense genAI glurge imported from Facebook is not the way for Bluesky. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid031jBsDjs3sqLFrQuQRad71NNP3tqmJxEs4XgRtD5ETr9eMt3KVNyGorEinbLkNiLjl&id=100087484522702

Not a TTRPG but a TTRPG supplement: Thieves' World (Chaosium, 1981). The original adapted Robert Lynn Asprin's fantasy shared world series to AD&D, Chivalry & Sorcery, RuneQuest, Tunnels & Trolls, et al. A new one could cover 5e, BRP, DCC, FATE, FITD, OSE, YZE, etc., etc. thanks to open licensing.

At what stages do media evolve from a "series" to a "franchise" then to a "universe"?