@natewarren.bsky.social
Broadcast node for Breakup Gaming Society, a podcast about solo life told via tabletop play. I talk board games, TTRPGs, and curate my favorite Golden Era/underground hip hop tracks because why the fuck not.
"One creativity sandwich, hold the deranged, coming up."
07.03.2026 15:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Splendid, Matt. I had no idea this was one of the things you got up to.
07.03.2026 15:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Got together with Human Intelligence co-founder Kira Cleveland and Kenny of Shelf Stable. Talked AI, curation, and trusting your human senses, memory, and objects of fascination on the tabletop.
06.03.2026 15:28 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Stellar work, sir, speaking in paragraphs and all that. Appreciate your making the time!
06.03.2026 15:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For my Chicago people who love supporting indie game designers: The Indie Boardgame Showcase is stopping at Big Star in Wrigleyville on Sunday, March 8.
15 designers will be demoing their work!
Use my code (BREAKUP) and get 50% off your ticket at the Quirk Events website. 👇
#chicago #boardgames
Detail of masked ninja from character sheet of NINJA BORG RPG, with stat areas on his shoulder and forehead for Hubris points and Kill Count.
Sam Altman and Marc Andreessen can frolic in my pickle water.
The world they’re imagining sucks.
Instead come with me to Budokan in 1978, where two ninjas have to hop out of a time machine and slaughter Cheap Trick.
I played @ninjaborg.com with the creators and recorded it. Link's down there 👇
Maybe we add a move where you can clock a boss with an oversized H. Like Sesame Street, but way more instructive.
25.02.2026 18:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A ninja in silhouette decapitates a foe with a sweeping strike on the cover of the NINJA BORG roleplaying game.
Can campy, violent ninjas from an indie RPG help protect small creator rights against AI? It's certainly worth a roll of the d12.
Salute to @rugosekohn.com and @liberludorum.com, makers of @ninjaborg.com and the first tabletop creators to certify their work as Human Intelligence®.
More info 👇
The little thrills: Caroming through early '90s hip hop stuff on YouTube Music and stumbling across the origin of that mean, punchy vocal sample from Death in Vegas' "Dirt"
It's Shanté.
A picture of a blue-and-yellow game box (Rucksack) and two game booklets: Tiny Tome 2 and Book of Wandering.
Giving away some cool indie tabletop stuff I acquired from @grumpyspidergames.bsky.social, @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social, @long-tail-games.bsky.social and Ada Press.
Ep. 110 has game descriptions and how to enter. 👇
I'm listening to "Heatwave (JiggyJoe Remix)" by Skeewiff &
Pedigree Cuts. This beat is like medicine to me. What do you have on tonight?
A ninja in a semi-crouch follows through on bloody decapitation strike vs. a hapless opponent on the cover of the NINJA BORG roleplaying game book.
Talked to @liberludorum.com and @rugosekohn.com about their freewheelin' NINJA BORG #ttrpg and then to @mattthr.bsky.social about the Golden Age of Fantasy Flight Games — and how his path into that Ameritrash paradise differed from mine.
Link to the audio's down there 👇
Rock on, Grumpy Spiders and everybody in that roundup, keep making great stuff, I see you.
28.01.2026 16:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0C'est ma plaisir.
22.01.2026 21:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tan player tokens from the board game, SETI Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. They are disc-shaped with a depression in each and a small pointed cone in the well of each depression.
Step 1: The box lands in the driveway. Feel the heft of that box. Holy moly, it’s a two-hander! Curl it every morning, for three to four days. Three sets of 10.
I finally got in my first solo play of SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
#boardgames #seti #soloboardgames
Episode link 👇
THIS KICKS ASS
09.01.2026 15:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Closeup of typewritten military letter from 1967. Central text identifies Ensign WARREN and surrounding snippets convey a deeply unsatisfactory performance report for the ensign in question, who was assigned to be an electronics officer aboard a destroyer.
Found a two-page letter from 1967. A destroyer commander deemed my Dad a complete fuckup. Audio's below 👇
06.01.2026 03:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If the ringtone is the "Amen, Brother" drum break, it's me.
01.01.2026 18:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
B/W photo of jazz genius Rahsaan Roland Kirk playing three saxophones at once.
I held on for the whole ride, wondering if God took Kirk's vision away at age two so he could show you what sunlight on the trees looks like in a valley where a clamorous parade of the dispossessed honks and wails its suffering and joy like the culminating scene in some magical realist folk opera.
01.01.2026 18:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0As a guy still nursing back from a hematoma sustained on Nov. 6, can relate.
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