Went and got acupuncture today for a nerve injury presenting like carpel tunnel. Fingers been numb for a month and a half. the switch from numb to pain is remarkable. Can feel where the injury is.

Connections Online 2026 After Action Report The video archives are collected into a YouTube playlist, in the order of the presentations - over 20 professional development sessions for wargaming practitioners www.youtube.com/play...

NASAGA 2026 The 2026 conference of the North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA) will take place in Rochester, New York on 14-17 October. This year’s conference theme is “Sustaining Human Connection through Play in the Digital Age.” As our lives rely more and more on digital tools,…

I am curious if I’ll make it to 1000 citations before I leave the academy. I’m just 3 away But only have a month.

Been fumbling around with trying to untangle my thoughts on #wargaming and #emergencymanagement. Nothing crazy, I think; however, i'm sure some ideas are not as fully developed as a full on publication. That'd be next. nicklalone.com/posts/wargam...

Why the fuck would someone shoot at a plane used to put out forest fires??? I hate people. www.northernnewsnow.com/2026/05/16/p...

The flexible rules engine that powers Over the Edge derived from work I had done earlier trying to develop a generic system for one-shots, so it's easy to adapt to other settings. I was adapting it to other settings years before Over the Edge released. #ttrpg

In all the years I’ve watched Hockey, I’ve never seen this level of delay over technicalities.

This is the second time I’ve heard early Korn at a grocery store. Am I that old?

I went looking for a tent to go with our new car we bought...to go camping in. And now i'm being inundated with camping stuff. Like this thing... www.amazon.com/Kelty-Spill-...

Nine cartridges, a Sears rebrand, and clever sprite tricks that pushed a new console to its limits. The Atari VCS launch titles were modest, but their fingerprints are everywhere. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcws... #AtariVCS #Atari2600 #RetroGaming #VideoGameHistory

Want to work more on this today as I think there's some fun in #game design, #ttrpg design, and especially #wargame design that is sitting in here. Want to combine this with point-based dungeon crawls.

Release - Blackalicious Cicatriz ESP - Mars Volta Over the Electric Grapevine - Primus Dead Flag Blues - Godspeed You! Black Emperor Kinetic Harvest - Module The Bird Peterson Holiday Spectacular Limelight - Rush Come on up to the house - Tom Waits Ole Evil Eye - ICP Asklepios - Mars Volta

I wanted to get something down that's been mulling around in my head in that I feel like there's some ingredients in place to actually shift some of the ways we play. The models of play have been so consistent and unchanging for decades. So, i'm unsure if i'm seeing what I want or something that is

Dracula: Dark Reign announced for Game Boy Color http://gonintendo.com/contents/60320-dracula-dark-reign-announced-for-game-boy-color #gameboy

Films you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney or Ghibli.

Saw a Sword World #ttrpg history on Youtube posted over on @gamingalexandria.bsky.social's discord. It's such an interesting system but so little about it really makes it into the normal spaces. youtube.com/watch?v=xvvMLq1dNts

Got to recommend some of @melissainau.bsky.social's work to a student moving a paper prototype to a digital prototype. They wanted to understand why understanding was higher for the tabletop than digital. It'll become part of the work the incoming students read from previous masters students.

I keep coming back to this #ttrpg post about, “The Dungeon Turn” or when dungeon exploration was done with turns rather than their formlessness now. The #OSR seems to have left it behind also for meat grinding. More regulation may offer more space. therpggazette.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/a...

action/platformer speedruns: yea we have to do 100 frame perfect tricks to clip through all these sections and it's all skill based and precise practice and speed old jrpg speedruns: WE HAVE TO TORTURE THE GAME BY RIPPING ITS SOUL OUT AND REPLACING IT WITH DR MARIO TO FORCE IT TO DO OUR BIDDING

Anyone got office chair recommendations?

TTRPG about me FIrst game: D&D 2e Last game: Star Wars d6 Longest game: D&D 2e Favorite game: BESM 2nd edition or His Majesty the Worm, depends on the discussion. Favorite mechanics: "Fellowship Mechanics" in the original One Ring Favorite art: Original Everway’s Collectible Cards

Gundam TCG event today. Went and dug out the ole @krystman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy android: Netrunner playmats

King's Field (1994) is an action RPG by FromSoftware for the Sony PlayStation in Japan. An ancient sanctuary has become infested with evil, and the King has tasked your father to cleanse it. Now it is up to you to take up your sword when your father goes missing within... (a launch dungeon thread)

Finally setting down some thoughts on #emergencymanagement and #wargames. Wanted to outline the various barriers EM has over the typical topics wargaming approaches. Or basically i'm just going to advertise John Curry's work, I guess.

Have a couple papers at #chi2026. Crossed the 10 paper line which is neat as my advisor has 0 and didn’t think it was possible. Still haven’t been to the conference, though. Had meant to go to Hawaii but COVID, then Japan but got busy. Then decided to leave academia and won’t ever go. Weird

One of my last MS students won runner up in a research competition today. Super proud of her!

I think about the Marvelous Land of Oz sometimes, especially the Interpreter Scene between Pumpkinhead and the Scarecrow. oz.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mar... No real reason i'm thinking about this scene.

I have found myself thinking about the intersection of #wargames and #ttrpgs again. Specifically, i've been thinking about the use of the caller role in early #dnd as a way to streamline play and help ease the anxiety of folks too shy or too anxious to speak or act publicly. This device is...

I keep wanting to write a paper about unintended consequences being usurped and branded by tech firms but I’d have to read a bunch of Merton...again. Still, giving it its old fidelity of ignorance, error, immediate interest, basic values, and self-defeating prophecy again would be nice.

Found myself pulling out modes of existence from Latour again. Need to finish part 2. So dense! As I get ready to leave academia, theres a slow realization I no longer have to dumb down theory for technologists. No more reviews saying I need a “native speaker” to edit my heavy theory sections.

Design ideas are hydras and each head is another design idea and also another hydra. - Greg

It is, once again, pierogi making day. Only 11 dozen this time! Prolly actually 12 but there are sticky fingers about.

4.7.3 Are the "sciences" cold? Rigorous? Inhumane? Objective? Boring? Apolitical? Modern? These unattainable qualities have simply been attributed to them by their enemies who thereby hoped to stigmatize them (Interlude VI).

I was walking around a toy store the other day and saw a crossover I did not expect but also was ok with. Wonder if we’ll ever get Dick Tracy x Fraggle Rock

A 3,200 year-old painted scene of a lion and a gazelle playing a board game, probably senet. From an ancient Egyptian illustrated papyrus showing animals taking on human roles in comic situations where they act against their natural instincts. 📷 British Museum #Archaeology

Will spend today reading textbooks and editing marketing materials. It has been a while! Greg will help me out by judging the books before I even have them.

At 5am, I got bamboozled by a Gundam TCG spoiler. Stupid April 1.

This week’s chapter of One Piece gonna see soooo, so many memes.

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.

I think @krystman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy convinced me to get into the Gundam TCG.

When I bought this amazingly themed #ttrpg, Kristen demanded we tell her mom that it was a game. It is very convincingly branded as a retirement home brochure!

Past couple years I’ve been involved with game dev that starts in peace studies focusing on the Balkans. Simultaneously, I’ve been developing #wargames that aren’t focused on war, but logistics. It’s been interesting to face the past that forms the basis of modern games in multiple perspectives.

I'm going to be shocked when Dungeon Crawler Carl does more for Jai alai than Tron did. Time to dig out our parents' old xisteras and start tossing the ball around.

For whatever reason, I find myself constantly going back to The World’s Easiest Roleplaying Game, TWERPS. I know Itch mostly replicates the game in a bag #ttrpg era, but man, spinners of games in a bag is such a feel. Only Button Shy #boardgame displays do it now but they’re rare.

Picked up a copy of Sorcerer’s Cave to continue my obsessing over a new #ttrpg inspired dungeon #gamedesign. My brain keeps flashing these features, these parts, but it’s not fully connected. There’s an idea in there somewhere… So we keep fretting.

Here I am, writing up UML diagrams again. Why can't I quit you...

RIP Jurgen Habermas - one of the five major social theorists of the past 60 years. Much to learn from his work. Many gaps, some errors, but he was so rigorous that he inspired some of the best simultaneously dissenting and generative thought of any postwar academic.

Traveling on Monday will certainly be...interesting.