Ryan Costello

Growing up in the 80s, when you turned on your afternoon cartoons, you never knew if you were going to get a formulaic and forgettable fun way to spend 30 minutes or haunting imagery that stays with you for the rest of your life.

Typo of the day: Workshippers.
"Do you see the way Tim in accounting looked at Bobby the secretary?"
"You're such a workshipper.

Monster Core 2 here just in time to do the mash.

(Hellacool glowing energy balls not part of the cover art but a reflection of my lights)

I'm a Guest of Honour at Keycon 42 in Winnipeg from May 15-17.

I'll be chairing a bunch of panels, the topics of which haven't been settled yet. What would subjects would you like to hear me talk about?
keycon.org/42/guests/

I only make Papa Roach references as a last resort.

Cut my hand washing my new blender.

Put another way, the first recipe I used my new blender on: Cream of potato leek soup.

The second recipe I used my new blender on: Me.

I still struggle with what makes good Patreon content. Something like this feels interesting to me, but is it $2 a month interesting?

Pointed out a big bird in the sky to everyone in the car before realizing it was a plane

Now I know how the people of Metropolis feel.

Probably my biggest design gaff in the G.I. JOE CRB is the stats for the S.H.A.R.C. They are so unjustifiably off, which is especially bad for such a popular and useful vehicle.

I've wanted to fix them in an official capacity for a while. For now, I'll have to settle for an unofficial fix.

And if you have the time, brew up a few new ones.

Protron? Why not call it Energon powder?

Follow for more life hacks.

If I wasn't in an ongoing Pathfinder campaign again, I would definitely grab Pathfinder Quest to fill that void.

Even with that void currently filled, Pathfinder Quest has my attention.

No no, that's a yellow spotted lawyer.

Do zoologists realize that when they name an animal something like yellow-spotted warbler instead of eagle or condor, they basically kill any chance it shows up in a fantasy setting or a superhero gets named after it?

I never did. I violated the game show host/contestant relationship.

I had no idea Zo! had a tragic backstory.

Strange revelation while writing this one: I've never owned anything Street Fighter. I don't own any of the Joes, or any other Street Fighter toy. I've never owned a copy of any of the games. No t-shirts, not even parody t-shirts. The only money I spent on this brand was renting Turbo in my teens.

Fantasy is subjective, but arachnophobia is to whom it may concern.

Would it kill them to smile?

You learn so much about your kids when you roleplay with them.

For example, ends up my daughter has a talent for interrogation.

The only thing I like more than talking with Jason is screaming with Jason!

Oh that's cool.

It is in retrospec.

I don't read nearly as much as I'd like to, and part of that is that my mind tends to wander when I read most novels. For whatever reason, I could read Pathfinder novels. I may have read more Pathfinder novels than non-Pathfinder novels in the last thirty years, so I am excited that they're back.

I've been covering Pathfinder for so long, and away from covering Pathfinder for so long, that I've actually gotten nostalgic for it.
And nothing motivates me like nostalgia!

This is the first message I've ever written on a smart phone with predictive text off. The predictions and autocorrects were getting so bad, I couldn't deal with it anymore.

Tech's gradual decline continues.

Informal pole for my TTRPG friends:

Box Set vs Boxed Set

Which term do you prefer and why?

Stone Cold Steve Austin's dialogue bubble in this Entertainment Earth ad for their latest Funko Pops sums up my reaction to seeing him with the cast of Kpop Demon Hunters.

I did not! @donatoclassic.bsky.social, is this what we played at PaizoCon that time?