Art Martinez-Tebbel

@amtebbel.bsky.social

You might know me from Friends at the Table, you might know me from real life, you might not know me at all but weird that you ended up here.

I love how at the beginning of the new Spider-Man Spider-Man is clearly in a Spider-Man video game. He gets an alert on an amorphous crime app and he stops a gun fight on a midtown rooftop and then immediately there’s a runaway tank in New York City. New York City: the city of tanks.

My daughter recently watched her first TV show. We decided to go with a celebrated show centered on a family of talking animals produced in a country with a controversial history of British rule. That’s right she’s been watching Irish children’s television sensation Puffin Rock! She loves it.

Dungeons and Dragons is not the right framework to play Star Wars. It probably is the right framework for WoW. But it just doesn’t seem like I lived through the OGL era for this to be where the hobby goes.

I just feel like if I were a famous athlete and I was making LLCs to hide my shady potentially illegal business dealings I wouldn’t put my initials and jersey number in the names of all those LLCs.

A thing about kids is they will often latch on to random songs and one my daughter is on right now is “Why We Build the Wall” from Hadestown so she just goes around yelling “we build the wall to keep us free” and if you don’t know the show it’s like we have a little far right natalist baby.

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