Mark Wallace

of course you're right and I know all this, so I'm not sure why I had that take earlier. First thought not always best thought, I guess. 🙃

Could this stem from the genre being inherently based in quantification and succeed/fail metrics / dice rolls? Sex + contests will inevitably lead to violence, yes? To win, there must be a loser.

recalled today that I am Flew Into Kai Tak years old.

A plaque that says, in French, "The Irish writer James Joyce stayed in this hotel in October 1922. He started writing his novel Finnegan's Wake." That's a big fucking bed to lie in, I tell you.

I am staying next door, so I guess I'd better start writing some kind of weird-ass novel.

Not to mention report cards of games

I Love Lucy

Hospitals. Prisons. Space exploration.

Lighting my vote on fire for Severance

around 25? But I'm an Old.

Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs | CNN Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the United States have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone.

Look, if you can't make a modern-fantastic ttRPG adventure (or B movie) from federal agents finding radioactive wasps nests in waste repositories—but all the wasps have already left—then you just aren't trying hard enough.
www.cnn.com/2025/07/30/u...

Also, this place is air conditioned, so it's an excellent museum to visit if you happen to find yourself in Rome in the summer.

Dawn of the Day

#MildHorror

Ancient Roman busts arrayed alongside a huge black iron steam boiler with contraptions along the top that echo the rank of disembodied heads.

A headless statue from ancient Rome standing in front of the ductwork of a 75yo steam boiler.

Busts and a headless statue from ancient Rome beside a huge black iron boiler, as well as it's control panel.

An ancient Roman sarcophagus with a wavy vertical motif in front of huge vertical black iron boiler pipes.

The Centrale Montemartini is a museum of Roman antiquities set in a nearly 100yo former steam power plant. One of the most striking juxtapositions of imagery I've seen in a while. Very cool.

Not exactly little, from the looks of things!

The way they know who lived where in ancient Pompeii was basically from election-season lawn signs

www.pompeionline.net/en/archaeolo...

OddFolk by hugeboar A modular game of compounding consequences.

Sharing this again, b/c I think it's so rad

maxwellander.itch.io/oddfolk

Where did you find that?

a good read

@hagenilda.bsky.social

these are great

How will you get around the payment-processor issues that are inspiring this in the first place?

This is amazing

OSTRICH PILLOW OSTRICH PILLOW offers a micro environment in which to take a comfortable power nap in the office, travelling or wherever you want.

best Kickstarter evar

www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...

Love it

I'd join and then never get around to making anything for this jam (like I do with every jam), for sure!

DLNT is Hiring California-Based Disneyland Resort Reporters - WDWNT Disneyland News Today is hiring Disneyland Resort Reporters. Come work with us!

okay, this is an amazing job for someone. Spend 3 days a week at Disneyland doing theme park journalism. The mind boggles.
wdwnt.com/2025/07/dlnt...

One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor When One Can Ride

Do you have any examples from published games that you can point to that are the thing you're trying to identify?

I don't know the official term for it, but I feel like you're talking about some kind of synthesis key, some small thing that unlocks the integration. (Alternately, a lens that brings things into focus.) Problem is, it might be different for different people, right?