Brian "Dr." White

Jealousss!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who writes CLICK in big bold letters in my presentation notes

Ah yes, Osaka Ben. Good old Osaka Benjamin.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with his hands in the air and his mouth open . Alt: Steve Carell in The Office claps and mouths "Wow" with a delighted look on his face

You're truly an inspiration to us all

I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there

This is so important

Out-of-touch rich person: Hey man, I'm just like you, I put my pants on one leg at a time.

Me, sitting on my bed and sliding both my legs into my pants: fuckin amateur

This material limit also produced a lot of novel/fun solutions to the need to have randomizers in early Japanese TRPGs. I personally love Tokyo NOVA's use of a tarot deck.

A manga-style black and white illkustration of two guys and two gals around a table, with a smug looking dungeon master, looking like some sort of nerdy yakuza boss, in prince nez glasses looming over them in the background, arms folded.

Two adventurers, one with long dark hair and the other wearing a headscarf, examine an unfolded map of a structure and grounds.

A cloaked gal in white gloves, the same one with the straight dark hair and headband, holds up an oversized D6 with closed eyes and a finger and thumb to her forehead, as if trying to psionically influence the roll.

A lovely double spread of sketchy illustrations of adventuring gear, from lanterns, to keyrings, boxes, spikes, quivers, boots, and shirts

Preparing for an adventure, Japanese D&D Rules Cyclopedia, style!

The three-volume bunkobon localization and release in 1994 of the Cyclopedia was a turning point for D&D in Japan, shedding the western-style form factor and artwork of previous releases.

Melisandre from Game of Thrones holds a torch and says “the night is dark and full of terrors”

TFW it’s 4:30 PM local time

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Do 道 The Way

The way I read this in the early '00s Mountain Dew ad campaign tagline voice. "Do the way. Do the Dew!"

Oh no, it's me

Today marks the 60th anniversary of Gamera, Friend to All Children!

BOAAAAT STUCCCKKKK

Nothing is new, and we have always been here. #WomenInGames #History #TTRPGS #BoardGames #GamesForEducation

'Seven Samurai' (1954) dir: Akira Kurosawa a thoughtful figure saying two or three samurai won't suffice.

tfw u need seven samurai

brb locking all the doors in my house from inside except for one to save any environmental artists from having to decide what furniture goes in them

Everyone in Philly thinks their local is best, and they're all right, because a crucial factor of a cheesesteak place is whether you can stagger there hungover at 11 AM on a Thursday

But I’m a priest,
I’m Pope Leo…
What the hell am I doing here?
I don’t belong here.

I don’t belong here.

Love to have my workload substantially increased by having to deal with litigating LLM-generated test answers

Beautiful eye brown cows are walking toward the camera and are the deck with evergreens and beautiful summer flowers. The cow in front has the most beautiful nose you’ve ever seen and has her face pointed shyly down. Behind her is a long row of similarly beautifully dressed cows.

Two young adults, a girl and a boy made a parade of decorated cows through a traditional street with old-fashioned Swiss buildings. Everyone is smiling and delighted, except for the boy. The cows are lovely and their noses need to be petted.

A white valley with a country road with a parade of cows walking toward the camera. The cows have Tal or Nate towers of flowers and evergreens on their heads and they’re walking in a row. They are brown with white faces. On the left walking near them is a man with a black blazer and pants and a white shirt and a hat. He has a pink flower in his lapel.

These cows are walking down a country street with a Swiss chalet style cabin on the left. The cows have truly ridiculous Christmas tree. Tal flower arrangements on their heads that are laughably huge. They also seem to have massive bells underneath them almost the size of their heads. These cows also have noses that need to be booped.

I had to find out how cute this was. Turns out: incredibly cute and I needed to know this. I put some time into these alt-tags

I hate winter so much

Working at a UC makes me want to make a game about wizard professors doing their best while fighting horrors beyond the means of understanding...on a budget of 80 gold coins.

"Spell components have risen dramatically since the 65 trade wars this realm started...and what of apprentice housing?!"

Oooh, excellent retrospective and introduction to CL Moore!

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

Hurrah! My article on the Twilight 2000 RPG in the Journal of American Studies is now open access (OA), so anyone who wants to can have a read. OA is important to me, as I want my work on RPG history to go beyond the academy and reach the gaming public.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Beer essentials: The craft beer boom in Japan shows no sign of running dry Tomoko Sonoda was a college student during the 'Dry Wars,' the years immediately following the 1987 release of the game-changing light lager Asahi Super Dry. She and her classmates held tasting partie...

Just learned that Aoki Tatsuo passed away recently. He was the proprietor of Popeye in Ryogoku and one of the godfathers of craft beer in Japan. I got to speak to him for my 2016 article in the Japan Times. Rest in pints, as it were. www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2016/06...

yep it's a Malort advent calendar alright

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

This was also my experience of Italy on my family vacation. It was so consistently true that it veered into the uncanny