Seth Skorkowsky

Joan Jett is simply pure awesomeness.

It's a song I understand more and more with age

Somewhere there has got to be a phone video of my face when he said that. I'm pretty sure I blurted out, "No fucking way!" or the like. It was so surreal. We then geeked out about how much we love that song

At a 2019 GenCon Writer's panel we were asked what one song always inspires your creativity and puts you in the zone. I knew my answer at once, fully confident no one would share my song. The late Anton Strout answered just before me with "Trip Like I Do" by The Crystal Method and my jaw dropped

"What are four albums that would serve as an Introduction to your tastes?"
No clue why these four, but they were the ones that seemed most appropriate today

Two things I've never seen:
1 - The 'RPGs Are Too Expensive' gripe being about personal/disposable income and economics, instead of 'evil price-gouging RPG publishers destroying the hobby'
2 - RPG Publishers that also don't have bills like housing to pay for.

Audio Book production is expensive. Very expensive. For many, it's a completely separate company than the book publisher, sorta like film rights. So it's like saying "I bought the book, so I should get the movie DVD, too."
Audible has many books where you buy the ebook you get an Audible discount.

I've encountered the RPG price gripe dozens of times.
It's never once been, "Man, times are tough and I just don't have the disposable income like I used to." It's, "These fucking greedy ass RPG publishers are ripping us off for books that should the the same dollar amount they were 35 years ago!!"

Same

"I took 3 semesters in mosaic design and art theory courses, putting myself in student debt just for this session, Steve!"

There is a 54% chance that at some point in the future I'll stumble across a Reddit thread or the like where some dude is blathering, "SlyFlourish tells GMs they should hand-craft giant mosaics for their players. I barely have time to prep, let alone dedicate 400 hours to intricately inlay tiles!"

I think you're just flexing that you came in 3rd, while I got laughed off stage. Local talent shows are brutal

Every book that Free League publishes is the most beautiful RPG book that has ever been published. While I might criticize aspects of the games, I can never ever criticize their production quality.

It was just a couple years ago that I finally got rid of my (poorly) photocopied copy of Mechwarrior I printed back in highschool

"TTRPGs are just so expensive now"
According to the MSRPs printed on my AD&D 2e books - PHB-$20, DMG-$18, MM-$30. That's $68 in 1990 money. Inflation puts that at $170ish in 2025.
We now have full-color books. Most RPGs come with PDFs. And all for the same price or less.
Stop yelling at clouds.

Haven't checked it out. Sorry

No clue. It popped up in my Facebook feed from some Retro SciFi page

You know what I haven't done in a while?
Made goofy Traveller adventure covers out of old sci-fi pictures.

It's weird. Normally, videos that performed well in the past will have little surges, while ones that bombed simply sink to the bottom forever. Looking through the analytics, it appears like YouTube randomly decided to start pushing it one day.

YouTube video by Seth Skorkowsky Relay Campaigns: Running a Game with Multiple GMs - Running RPGs

I have no idea what caused it, but after 5 years, this total underperformer of a video started gaining traction this week. YouTube is weird.
Anyway, here's my video on how to run a giant, narrative campaign with multiple GMs without anyone being spoiled about the plot. youtu.be/jKkGv_HblpM

Its been 3 years!

Kinda hard to make out in the pics.
One dome has a 20-inch scope with eyepiece to look through.
The second dome is a 24-inch with this monster camera setup that is pumped with coolant lines to cut down on heat noise (which i didn't know was a thing until they explained it).

I live way too close to major cities to get to one easily. But we've spent the last 9 days in the middle of nowhere Appalachia with this one about 10km away. Really bummed it was cloudy on their one night they were open to the public.

And 20-inch scope. He donated it all. They cut his observatory building into 10-ft wide sections and moved it several miles to the new site, then the dome as 1 piece. Took 3 years to move it all.
Dude literally had an entire observatory in his back yard.

What's crazy is the first dome with the 20-inch telescope was in a rich dude's back yard. He donated it to the observatory, and they moved it up to where the other dome was located.

The stars were right, but unfortunately, the clouds had other plans.
I totally squealed with joy as the dome rotated and the doors opened.

It's mesmerizing in its vileness, isn't it?

Picture of a metal sign that reads, "PUBLIC FLESHLIGHT" Beneath it, hangs a fleshlight by a short rope.

The physical representation of most "RPG Horror Stories" and "Clever Player Outsmarts Bad GM" stories you find online.