Hello #battletech Bluesky! Just started production on season 1 of Periphery Wargaming, where I (coffeelock) will be showcasing an emergent map campaign using Alpha Strike. The house rules for the map campaign are available for free download on my Patreon! www.patreon.com/cw/Periphery...

Also, I have finally perfected my brown butter chocolate chip cookies after some experimentation and combining elements from 2 different recipes to get the right barely crisp edges and perfect chewy texture. 😁

My friend is running Curse of Strahd starting in a month or so and we're talking characters and I am forming the shape of a Barovian Gloom Stalker named Dragomir Voltanescu, shaped by a life of barely evading horrible death into a quick draw "kill it before it gets to hit me" hand crossbow user.

If I ever own a restaurant I'm going to make one of the menu items a lobster roll called "The Lobstrosity" and if the server hears anyone say "Did-A-Chick" or "Dad-A-Chum" then they will be instructed to offer them free dessert. This incredibly niche joke brought to you by the Dark Tower.

With today's news that the third Talisman book is going to be called "Other Worlds Than These" I now have a mission statement for the reading year: Finish my 2nd journey to the Tower along with the Kingslingers podcast and then burn through a bunch of books including Talismans 1 and 2 before 3 hits.

Perhaps as a consequence of my earlier post about listening to music that isn't in English the algorithm has decided I am an Emo Latino and is giving me videos of a mashup of Linkin Park and Daddy Yankee's Gasolina and... Maybe I am an Emo Latino cause I need more of this please. 🙌🤘

Do...do other people just never listen to music that's in languages other than English? Like entire categories of music are just...not a thing to them because they don't understand the lyrics? The LYRICS? You could just look up an English translation if you care that much.

On the finges of the YELLOW ZONE in the Tabletop Wargaming/Mini Painting community. I have no idea what the yellow means but here I am.

Here go I, a fool, unto the Battletech Tactical Operations rulebook. Pray for me, lest my voyage continue into the Strategic Operations rulebook, or - god save us all - the Interstellar Operations Rulebook.

I will make me scroll away from or click out of a video immediately when the video creator starts the video with some sort of guilt tripping "if you actually care about x thing you'll watch this video to the end." Even if I care about x thing I'm not watching guilt trips on principle.

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

Ok I really really enjoyed the Muppet Show revival and I really hope they do more episodes! 😁

Tonight in my group's Shadowrun 30 Nights campaign: Street gangs coalescing under a pyromaniac called Little Smoke attacked our PCs at a construction site. In the ensuing fight, Malibu (my pc) split his dice pool between 2 pistols and dropped two gangsters on either side of him in one turn.

The older I get the more I think learning to like things, whether music, new hobbies, people even, requires active and intentional effort. A lot of people sort of just let new experiences pass over them and if they don't feel a strong emotional response they conclude something isnt for them.

I'm very sick so maybe this isn't as funny as I think it is but I changed my discord entrance sound, then asked Kelsey to help me test something by tagging me in chat. As soon as she wrote my name I joined the voice chat accompanied by "SAY HIS NAME AND HE APPEARS" from Joe Hendry's theme song.

My local coffee joint is getting very kinky.

I *will* start crying within milliseconds of starting to hear Sam's speech to Frodo in The Two Towers. It's proven fact.

This was actually the first of the #AvantisAngels I painted, but it wasn't the coolest, so I saved it until now. #mercenaries #battletech #alphastrike #miniaturepainting #painting #tabletopgaming #wargaming

I think the most in-character annotation I have ever seen in a book is this one where the book's owner wrote "Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel" before the first line of The Vampire Lestat.

Me: has a ton of Horus Heresy Thousand Sons partially painted. My brain: "I only want to paint Battletech. Or nothing." I would definitely love to have control over my own motivation.

Add a word and ruin a band: Citric Acid Bath

But for real, Netrunner was my first major card game and I got into it long before I ever played Magic, and in fact only got into Magic to play with some friends who played a while back. My opinion may be the minority but having played both I vastly, vastly prefer Netrunner (and will teach it!)

Again, open offer. @ me and I will make time to teach you Netrunner.

Based solely on the trailer for The Bride I can personally guarantee you the movie absolutely should have been named "Body and Clyde" and I will take no questions.

It was a son of a bitch to get set up and working but playing Mechwarrior 5 on a twin joystick setup is one of the coolest things I've done since I got the sticks. Surprisingly quick to get used to as well! My friend and I have picked up our old Mercs campaign to play until the new DLC in 3050.

Warhammer of the Eridani Light Horse #BattleTech #miniatures

Apropos of just having rewatched/finished, my personal ranking of the Stranger Things seasons from worst to best: 3 (overall a bit silly and too indulgent compared to the rest of the show) 2 1 5 4 (had the strongest emotional moments, great use of horror. The Empire Strikes back of the show imo)

Absolutely loved the Stranger Things finale. I have no idea what the haters are talking about. Very happy from start to finish. 😊 good show, ended well. A rarity these days.

I don't need a dlc pack that lets me dress up Leon Kennedy as Homer Simpson, I do not need Rainbow Dash to try to smuggle herself through my security checkpoint and I do not need to log into my rpg story game and find a new quest to help time traveling Soap McTavish return to Afghanistan with magic.

I lay down to sleep and instantly my brain decides to simply play over and over again the word "Labubu" in tne voice of Werner Herzog.

I have 1 system fan of many in my pc case which, if it spins up too high, gets insanely noisy. The fan itself works, its just annoyingly loud. So I finally decided to download a fan controller app and diagnose which one it was. The app automatically deprioritized the noisy fan with no temp impact 👏😌

I'm going through my old L5R LCG stuff and organizing it and...how do I have 12 Honor dials? I think 2 came in a starter box and there is absolutely no way I bought 6 starter boxes when this game came out? Confused lol.

Legitimately wondering if Chris Pratt stored all of his sincerity in his stomach fat because when he lost that he also seems to have become a robot pretending to be a person.

Last time on our Shadowrun group's 30 Nights campaign, Malibu the streetwise smuggler (me) and Patch the pacifist medic-to-the-mob tracked a lead on a portable generator to an abandoned subway. A gang of violent thieves had found it first and things looked dicey, until the doc threw the flashbang.

Npcs you may meet if you sit at my D&D table: The priestess Layla and the weird, chain smoking bard called Erik who won't leave her alone. A water-breathing Paladin sworn to protect the fisherman of a coastal town (the townsfolk call them the Holy Diver) My old Tiefling Bard Vaughn Haelan.

I've only played the intro but I can already tell Ghost of Yotei is EXTREMELY my kinda shit.

I occupy a strange place as someone who with exceptions generally does not like anime but who is fascinated by Japanese food, art, and history because my dad used to show us his collection of slide projector photos from when he lived there for a few years in the 80s when I was a little kid.

Black 'Mechs for the Black Widow! Plus a couple more takes on the color.

#Ad There's a new article up on the Warhammer Community site showcasing minis from Kill Team: Shadowhunt. There's a whole host of Murderwing and Celestian Insidiants, including these, my Raptors! Check them out! www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl... #WarhammerCommunity #KTShadowhunt #AdWIP

My favorite useless shibboleth I will never have any reason to use is to casually drop a reference to the "House of Leaves audiobook" into a conversation.

Lo and behold my musing this morning on old FFG LCGs inspired a look through my closet and I've pulled out my either complete or almost complete collection of Android: Netrunner (plus a few sets of the fan made continuation of the game) and my much less than complete Legend of the Five Rings LCG.

If you've never tuned into Force Majure, do yourself a favor and change that. Absolutely fantastic stuff from great people. 👏👏👏

I don't want to play Magic the Fortnite, I want to play LCGs from that got discontinued almost a decade ago because FFG got investor torpedoed but which I still have boxes of in my closet but no one to play with!

Been reading a ton of Legend of the Five Rings 5e rules lately and in the hypothetical game I am constructing in my head for this niche rpg system I really, really think I would just pick another member of the party and make a clan appropriate yojimbo(bodyguard) to their character.

I was bamboozled yesterday at guitar. Been working on the intro part of Thunderstruck which is at 133bpm. I told my teacher I could play it at 100 and he held the metronome and asked me to show him how it was going. It was tough but I did it. He turned the metronome around and had set it to 130bpm.

I wish I could mentally put my other creative hobbies into the same mental box as cooking. I love cooking. I like making foods I've never made or tinkering with dishes I have made 1000 times. I don't punish myself mentally for not cooking every day or pushing myself to cook technically complex stuff

Finished up this whimsical little delivery Urbie, inspired by @eldoniousrex.bsky.social 's art! Pay your bills, fucko! #nerdlings #paintingminiatures #battletech

I feel like saying "I have played Foxhole" is sort of exactly the same energy as Joe Exotic going "I have tried drugs." And yes I have played Foxhole.

I miss the brief period after the announcement that Austin Butler was playing Feyd Rautha in Dune Part 2 where everybody was doing impressions of Elvis talking about Muad'Dib and spice and shit. That was a good time. We should bring that back. Elvis + Dune is inherently funny.

Damn, I have so many 30k Thousand Sons to paint but I really do feel so tempted ny the Red Corsairs reveals.