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when you see the discourse of the day unfolding but you can't figure out the source so it's like dark matter that can only be observed by its effect on its surroundings

Wargamers not bothering to paint their models, a tale as old as time

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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My Second Summerlab Game: This Means War If you look at the games I've made over the years, there a few things that are true for all of them: no built-in violence no dice deciding outcomes the players control what's true in the world Sur...

"What if I made a game that did the opposite of all the things I normally do???"

That's me, working on THIS MEANS WAR for the last few months.

Well, except the GMless part. Still GMless. Though maybe a very different kind of GMless…

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This book invented roleplaying. It taught me everything I know plus a large number of things I have forgotten. You want to read it. Or you could read Keith Johnstone’s book, which has some of the same stuff plus a bunch of frankly mad shit about being possessed by the spirits dwelling in masks.

Went to see LOTR: The Two Towers in the cinema and whenever Grima Wormtongue was on screen I couldn’t stop tittering as I thought about this tweet

coworker just dropped "chili is goated when winter slop if the vibe" and i don't think i've ever read a more innocent online-poisoned sentence

What happened between 2003 and 2010? Responding to The Golden Age of Indie RPGs | Graham Walmsley Get more from Graham Walmsley on Patreon

I really liked The Golden Age of Indie RPGs video, but it gave me thoughts, which I wanted to write about.

Here's a post about what happened between 2003 and 2010 and why I think that's important.

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Meme of the guys on the couch. They’re bored at “and to Tiny Tim,” and cheering at “who did NOT die,”

Every single time I hear Americans mention Bari Weiss, I think “ah yes, Barry White’s daughter”. That’s my valuable contribution to the discourse.

PANEL 1: MATTIE, falling through the air. MATTIE: Ok the giant bird that grabbed me* has now dropped me. MATTIE: One hundred percent, i am in trouble…unless. TEXT BOX: * See last week's comic, Lubchanskyheads! PANEL 2: MATTIE sticks a finger up in the air. MATTIE: Yes…Of course! MATTIE: My breathing exercises. PANEL 3: MATTIE inhales deep. MATTIE (VO): In…two three four…. MATTIE (VO): Out…two three four… PANEL 4: Wide shot again of MATTIE falling, the ground is very close. MATTIE: Yes. I feel so much better about it.

ok i DO feel better | patreon.com/lubchansky

I love the patter that Thomas and I have, such a pleasure to be back on his show to discuss 2025 in RPGs

amazing photo on spanish wikipedia's chinchilla article

[[two men are singing outside, caroling]] left man: Jingle bells! right man: Jingle bells! both: Jingle them halfway! left man: Oh what fun-- right man: What's wrong? [[right man looks concerned]] right man: Listen, man. I've been thinking. I know this is crazy, but hear me out. right man: What if we -- this is gonna sound stupid-- right man: What if we jingled right man: ALL the way? [[LATER]] [[both men are now nesltled among many large bags labeled with dollar signs]] right man: Wooooo {{header: oh what fun at WONDERMARK.COM}} {{alt-text: The future is written by the ones who follow the craziest ideas.}}

Sometimes you just gotta zig when everyone else thinks you'll zag.

Wondermark #779; The Breakthrough

Imagine Scooby Doo saying "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori". It would be terrible. In fact, I don't think that Scooby Doo should read any war poems out loud. He can respect the fallen in other ways.

“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw

BREAKING: John Cena has retired from professional wrestling after learning, to his disgust, that the sport was rigged

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

As a rising old, my observation is that most people mellow a bit with age. That doesn't turn assholes into nice people, just less aggressive assholes. But some of people enter a permanently enraged state

Amazingly excited to see Lovecraftesque on Quinns Quest!

We will have copies for sale at #Dragonmeet2025 this Saturday and I'll put a link below to the Backerkit Christmas Holiday Sale which has a Lovecraftesque bundle in it!

#boxisthefuture #ttrpg #rpg #cosmichorror

This is a fascinating & kind of terrifying piece, the way it rules out various reasons for collapse you might guess (famine, climate) to leave the impression these people just decided to slaughter each other

Oh you want to argue with me? Good luck buddy the most you’ll get out of that is winning an argument against an idiot

Oh go on then. All five together (which really highlights my inconsistencies…)

For every carefree, "Don't stress, things always work themselves out!" person there is at least one extremely anxious, detail-oriented, forward-thinking loved one or coworker who has spent years behind the scenes making sure things work out

A bloody melee with merciless stabbing, impalements, and eye-gouging. Flashback to “Earlier:” A king announces that his soldiers are to withdraw, for he has received a written apology from the enemy via messenger bird. The parchment is unfurled to disappointment however. What appeared to say “I’m sorry” is revealed to say “I’m sorry you feel that way”.

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

A cow wearing a t-shirt with the word "SICKOWS" on it looks through a window at 4 crudely made tools and says "MOO... HA HA HA... MOO!!"

Obvious solution to the But Bond Died problem: what if Bond is now also Tron from the computer and now he's played by beloved beloved character actor Jared Leto

the generalised problem factory taking opps research seriously

I expand on a rant about the unseriousness of serious politics backofmind.substack.com/p/the-genera...