Joe Auerbach

This is irrelevant to how good that joke was, but Yaddle speaks in normal unbroken english syntax. And that makes the way Yoda talks seem even more stupid.

I'm enjoying His & Hers. The framing device is really good. Literally two sleuths either one of which COULD be the killer. I don't really suspect either of them at this point, but the situation itself is novel enough.

Libertarians making fun of maga as if they didn't drag them over the finish line is some revisionist history.

For sure, but the 90s is as far back as I remember with any reliability. Before that I was mostly into cartoons and Lego. (Unlike now when I'm into .... Oh. Right.)

I distinctly remember knowing that those dumb blonde jokes were stupid even in the 90s.

Just .... Being so comfortable with your misogyny that you'll just say that shit right to someone's face is mind blowing.

Holy shit. Good thing that's an acquaintance and not a friend. It'll be easier to never talk to them again.

Done and done

The Steel Ghost. It's a (much longer) sequel to a novella I wrote for my wife. There's links in the bio if you're interested. (But I'm also happy to send you an ebook. Writing isn't a thing I make money on, it's just a hobby)

I had to think about this a lot in my most recent book. The main character is a ghost and clothes have no souls. She spends basically the whole book naked and goes through phases of feeling different ways about it.

I would be doubly happy with that person teaching my kids.

Punch Nazis, kids.

Seriously,the number of fascist assholes getting their worlds rocked by teens lately is amazing.

“I’m going to punch you”

OKAY

Tagging @symphonyhorror.bsky.social because I think y'all have had some lately.

Somehow we accidentally ended up celebrating Valentine's Day. It was lovely.

Was the best part ordering huge amounts of Chili's cheese sticks from doordash?

No.

But it was close.

It's such an amazing movie.

Wut.

Yes, please.

Hey, for the record, if you are one of those people with the bumper sticker telling me to tell my cat you said hi, I just want you to know I said hi and he didn't seem to notice.

He'd probably be much more affectionate if you were here in person.

This is just tech Bros making money off of disabled people without actually giving disabled people the stuff they need

This keeps coming up in disability circles and I'm sure that if I were disabled this is a thing that I would have known almost intuitively.

I'm sure you know this, but in case anybody doesn't, it's largely because these companies can get investors to give them money for sexy sounding techno shit.

Hobgoblins work the same way for mid-tier play and they are pretty horrifying.

The D&D version of them almost completely dismantled one of my parties. The draw steel version is pretty similar.

I honestly don't know if anybody but me is watching these things but for those of you who who who run games....

The ability to go back and watch your own prep is super valuable.

Also, I just play the campaign diary before each game for my players so they remember where we were. Super useful.

If I'm being really honest I think he would win. Which is a little scary but it makes some sense..

All he'd have to do is trot out that lying about how the Democratic party left him behind and he's a traditional values guy. And next thing you know he'd have Fox News behind him.

I think he probably stands a better chance as a Republican.

I was right. After removing the higher hanging fruit and all the umm's and repetitive nonsense, I came in at 45 minutes.

That means basically 35 to 40% of what I filmed was useful.

Believe it or not, those are pretty good numbers.

And of course I forgot the map.

Will I upload a version with the map later? Probably, but only because I feel guilty.

YouTube video by Joe Auerbach Prepping Draw Steel: undead edition

Newest prep video for Draw Steel

Still level 1. We prep some cool undead shit and those of you who are not my players can learn the fate of poor Aldo Kessler early.

Plus take a look at my sanity rules. Also, we design a fun organic adventure from scratch. Neat.

I have removed so many umm's from this video that I've memorized what the waveform of my saying umm looks like.

I've also got a very good idea what my keyboard's waveform looks like. Lots of attack, swift decay.

Don't even eat goblin table cake