a strange fool

the dinosaur head is really making progress. he's a little scamp!

a truly damp gooch day in London but i'm too happy to care

waaaa the embassy approved my visa! i'm getting marrrrried. also the embassy guy was a Man of Taste (liked Riven) :D

You ever eat an apple in the bath? It's like double crispy

first part of my visa adventure is done! the medical staff were all lovely and i hoooooooope the application goes well. i want to get married please <3

I know that Discovery and Strange New Worlds and Picard and Section 31 were all garbage but I have high hopes for Star Trek Academy

"No problem! Let me know if you want me to write you a reply that seems less under duress?"

Crossword #2 Horseplay by astrangefool

Another terrible #crossword for you to 'enjoy'. This one is about horses and their culinary applications.

2026 has the potential to be an even better year for detective games than last year, which had at least 46 releases! I made a thread here for upcoming games I am aware of. If I have played the Demo or Playtested it, I will describe the games a bit, as well as when they state their release dates.

100 incredible game ideas hammered out live on stream. now just to make them #horrorjam

twitch.tv/astrangefool - GOING JAM CRAZY at 2100

HORRORJAM 2025 A game jam from 2025-09-30 to 2025-10-31 hosted by Extar & astrangefool. IT'S BACK! The spooooookiest game jam of the year... HORRORJAM!

It occurs to me that I haven't mentioned the game jam I'm hosting on here :D oops. HORRORJAM IS BACK! itch.io/jam/horrorja...

i'm not watching Jared Leto in a movie no matter how good the soundtrack is

Haha, I have the opposite thing when someone curious comes to my itch page and I'm like "Oh no... not that one. That one blows" :D

would the episode have been more successful if it had been set on a bendy bus?

opening up Deathloop again like an empty cupboard: "I know there's a game in here somewhere..."

I drank every time someone said 'Poppy' while I watched Doctor Who and now I'm dead... and now I'm Colin Baker

Hope everyone has done the 50 years of required reading for Doctor Who this week!

mission impossible is an hour of recap and an hour and a half a movie i walked out of

Love you honey!

Cinnamon Rolls

dolly parton's cinnamon bread in roll form is too powerful

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I made a spooky Call of Cthulhu themed dice tower for Carl's birthday and it turned out really good!

Fabulous work

I really hope Civilization 7 steps out in a new direction and launches feeling both consistent and complete... and the has years of DLC bolted on that completely fucks it up.

And I didn't buy the battle passes because I... would sooner throw my money into a hole. Come on.

I'm sure this is all very fun and clever and competitive against human players, but against the AI on Deity I just find myself trying to mitigate the joyless convolutions the DLC adds so I can actually get back to the fun city planning stuff.

All of these additions are extremely boardgame-y. You can totally imagine them as little decks of cards. They also fuck up the tempo of the game, which in turn makes forward planning more tedious.