Jed McClure

I need finish cooking dinner, but now you have me thinking about a version of the grail quest where the pc must defeat foes like The Ginger Knight, The Scary Knight, or The Posh Knight...

Grandpa Emerson from the Lost Boys (1987) in his bathrobe, holding a bottle of Hires root beer, a package of Double Stuf Oreos, and a taxidermied beaver.

Me and my morning coffee: same energy.

I think they know what they can do with it, and are hoping no one notices until it's normalized.
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1. First #ttrpg you ever played - Holmes Basic D&D

2. First you ever ran - same

3. Played the most - OD&D

4. Run the most - Call of Cthulhu

5 Favourite - Call of Cthulhu 7e

6. Most recently played - Alien EE

7. Most recently run - Delta Green

Extra: game that got me back into the hobby: D&D4E

However, that does save the effort of them being airbrushed out of the photographs later when they fall out of favor...

Genuinely surprising. I had assumed filling the VIP bleachers would be a given with the craven suckup GOP. I imagine Stalin would have sent no-shows to a gulag.

So Elon Musk is launching a robocab after investing in brain chips and also has a goal of going to Mars.

Are we sure that he didn't suffer some sort of trauma OCD in 1990 and imprinted at a showing of "Total Recall"?

Both are justified through some vague economic or strategic rational, but really come from their nostalgic need to have the visceral experience of managing underlings. It's just for the right, it's a longing for a whole class of American factory workers to boss around.

I suspect the right's focus on bringing back manufacturing jobs to the U.S. comes from the same impulse as the RTO (Return To Office) company initiatives...

Richard Dean Anderson and John de Lancie in a steam-powered automobile in a promotional image from the 1995 TV show Legend

Bring back one cancelled TV show.

This. This, right here. This is the comic that broke my brain, and made me realize how much world building was possible with the medium. I vividly recall randomly picking up THB by Paul Pope, and being blown away.

I find the story of Oliver Cromwell gives me hope in these trying times. Specifically the part where despite dying in office, he was exhumed by Parliament, hanged, decapitated, and his head impaled on a pike.
Remember, it's never too late...

YouTube video by New Castle After Dark New Castle After Dark presents The Stone Tape

If you like that, check out another Nigel Kneale's teleplay: The Stone Tape.
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"The Expanse" by Mikhail Vinogradov (1963)

Maybe that is all the Koala is doing on Lower Decks... Gently helping random people look plorth* and see the stars at the center of the universe.

*Plorth is a direction in the upper dimensions that we can't access in merely three dimensions.

Very much this. I realized I cannot play a board game unless I have a detailed backstory for my meeple. Why is my guy wanting to trade wheat for lumber? It's all part of a complex revenge plot due to being framed for murder 7 years ago...

A photo of a facsimile copy of the The King In Yellow in a glass case next to a card that reads: The King in Yellow ANONYMOUS New York: Samuel French, 1930. Mentioned by Robert Chambers in four of the short stories in the eponymous collection. The King in Yellow is a forbidden play, a decadent theater piece that cannot be enacted, or even read, without inducing madness in the reader. It is the second act (of two that causes insanity. The first is described as banal and innocent, but even the sight of the initial page of the second act is sufficient to draw the victim into the depths of madness."

On Friday I visited the Grolier Club in Manhattan to view the exhibit of Imaginary Books. It was extremely cool, and worth checking out if you are in the area. (It's free and will be up until February 15th) #thekinginyellow #booksky

My feed recently is a bit more like:

"Well, we can do you doom and humor without the news, and we can do you doom and news without the humor, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you humor and news without the doom. Doom is compulsory."

When you cut, you cut deep.

I hope there will be stretch goals involving in-universe merchandise. A "Mystery Machine Supporter" coffee mug or tote bag would be delightfully meta...

Very excited to have just read on @juliansimpson.bsky.social 's sub stack developmenthell.substack.com that there is a KS in the future for more Lovecraft Investigations.

Guillermo del Torro

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After I learned about this, I began doubting whether Buffalo is real.
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John Locke's Method of Organizing Common Place Books John Locke's unique method of indexing his common place books.

I have been going down the twin rabbit holes of the idea of Commonplace Books, and ways to customize the Obsidian app. The criticism of John Locke's method quoted at the end of this article points to people already seeing the need for tags in the 17th century.
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That appears to be an excellent piece. ;) One question: your explanation of English Prime reminds me of the Ruler of the universe in *The Restaurant at the End of the Universe*. Might Douglas Adams have in fact been riffing on D. David Bourland Jr.? Thanks.

"By the gods, she's over 9000!"

Spending a snowy morning drinking coffee and reading a pretty fascinating history of the notebook. (Thanks to @jenkatwrites.bsky.social's recommendation.) Also there are donuts.

The Copycats of Ulthar?

50% chance for a medicine skill roll for a Doctor in normal practice probably qualifies as malpractice. That same 50% for medicine, if it is in the backseat of a Packard, while being pursued by tentacle things from the underground ruined city of Ig, is actually quite high.