Daniel Clark

Yes, I can set the audio and written languages differently.

I'm glad I got warned that there was a spoiler in the Operation Hail Mary trailer, because I'm finally reading the book and there's been like three major revelations that have delighted me and I'd have been so cranky if they'd been spoiled.

Starting Clair Obscur and had to do battle with the mad impulse to play the game in French.

I think it's because children and animals are both entrusted to our care. They're fundamentally innocent, incapable of sin, in a way that an adult is not.

The local minis club here in central mass has just wrapped up a campaign of "Renegades" played largely with 40k minis and wrapped in a 40k narrative shell. They also play quite a lot of Kill Team, which has the advantage of being an official GW game and likely easier to find players for.

No, lean in: it's the glimpse of hope that makes it all worthwhile! The dandelion blooming in the junkyard. The reason that the evil nihilistic wasteland raiders are wrong!

10:30 AM Tuesday Secrets of the Tabletop Games Industry, 10:30 AM Wednesday Play with the Designers

If you are coming to GDC next week, come find me! #GDC2026

It's a war the way Jews are white: when it's convenient for the fascists, but not at other times.

I support any initiative that creates more of your selfies.

It's the best thing about America. We should try it sometime.

Grampa Clark was a Navy Seabee during the war, and then something in the line of a geological engineer? Is that a thing? And the Grump was a high school English teacher, who apparently decided late in life that "it's all in Moby Dick."

I haven't yet read Moby Dick.

Try Series 2 or Series 4, IMO. Or if you're okay with just skipping to the "modern" stuff, jump right to Series 20, which has some of my very favorite tasks.

Does ACAB include Navajo Nation Police and Lighthorsemen?

Collections: Against the State – A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest This week, continuing in the vein of some of our previous strategy and military theory primers, I wanted to off a basic 101-level survey of the strategic theory behind efforts, in a sense, directed…

I always appreciate @bretdevereaux.bsky.social, but this piece felt especially welcome: acoup.blog/2026/02/13/c...

I think we should all follow his example. Not necessarily changing your career (but maybe!), but putting some light in a world that's pretty dark and scary at times. Help a stranger. Make art. Be yourself.

And enjoy Bluegrass "Africa."

This seems to have been a good change for him. We lost touch after we stopped working together, but last I knew he was a music director at a church, married, raising a beautiful kid, making music, and putting light into the world.

And if nothing else, he's given us Bluegrass "Africa."

YouTube video by Paul Winchester Africa - Bluegrass Cover

After that fucking guy got elected the first time, a buddy of mine announced that the world was dark and scary and he needed to change his career and put some light in it. He went from game design to music.

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Now is the time for those who want democracy to rise up and topple their hateful, corrupt, dangerous, autocratic rulers. Iran could also do that, I suppose.

This take ignores the human cost, in terms of Iranian and other lives, of course. But the fascistic logic doesn't consider those lives as worth anything.

It's tempting to call this an enormous fuck-up by right-wing fascists, but I think it's the opposite: they saw that Iran might change. They can't have that. They need an enemy that is scary but impotent to make their fascism work. These attacks ensure that they have an enemy for another generation.

I mean obviously I was stupid and optimistic (and I remain Not An Expert on these things). But it seems to me that there's nothing more likely to harden regime support in an unstable time than a big external enemy, which we've just handed to Iran's leaders.

Twenty years ago, I was going around saying things like "we're about twenty years away from a democratic Iran if we just engage with them peacefully and let them do their thing." Boy did things not turn out that way.

The radio this morning was talking about the rise of mass media and its role in Amelia Earhart's fame, and I wonder if we're seeing the fall of mass media.

I think anyone making more than 10,000 a year is in want of a wife.

I grew up with a family appreciation for (White, Anglo) Folk music, of which Country music is a descendant. Lots of country is terrible, but when it's good it's good.

If you don't like Ring of Fire, Hurt, or Jolene then there's no hope; the entire genre is dead to you.

Announcing The Lord of the Rings™: Circle of Conflict™ The destiny of The One Ring, and the fate of Middle-earth itself balances upon the decisions you make in The Lord of the Rings: Circle of Conflict, a new strategic dice game set in the rich world crea...

New game I sourced and developed was just announced!

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Look, I'm a simple man and I don't want much. I just want everything to be better, and I don't want to have to do any work for that to happen.

I carried a book with me everywhere I went.

... I still do that, actually.

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SHUT UP THIS IS A THING
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I call 'em "links" when I'm writing technoir murder mysteries that you should probably publish.