Today I wrote 50+ pages, maybe 1 of which might get used, and you know what? I’m actually pretty okay with that. It is genuinely lovely getting to work on stuff you like. It takes a whole lot of pressure off your shoulders.

Thanks to @iheartfargo.bsky.social this book has been glued to my brain for the last 2 months. Damages to date, 10-15 pages on setting, 15 pages of hack notes plus a huge Xls. Working on Twilight : 2,100, NYC climate dystopia.

It’s not that I didn’t understand how horrible basic facts of life in the US are. You can’t help but understand that if you’re at all aware. But damn if explaining it to folks who aren’t from there and haven’t spent much time there doesn’t crystallize things.

With PAXU this weekend, I once again come to you with a desperate plea: Just go to whatever pizza place is nearest to you. You do not need to go to Cheesesteak Vegas. You do not need to wait in line outside at Angelos. Any pizza place will serve you a perfectly serviceable cheesesteak. I beg you.

I’m used to kids being some of toughest shits you’ll ever run into. Mean, sharp, not to be fucked with in groups. Not scary (well sometimes), but they don’t play around. So when I told three teenagers in a Stockholm theatre “Yo shut the FUCK up” tonight, I was not expecting them to look like this.

Things I need to buy: Table TV Desk chair Desk Computer case Computer fans/cooling system Things I have money to buy: I don’t know an ice cream cone?

How have we not yet gotten a Swedish game called Juleskum? It’s perfect. It’s right there and it’s perfect.

There are days I wake up worried that I’m too much of an art nerd, too hoity-toity in my preferences, for my chosen field. But then I have coffee and remember I’m a New Yorker and no, it is the children who are wrong. Time to keep plugging away at raising the bar.

Of course this dope ass book sale is happening a few days AFTER I leave New York

Pigeon what’re you doing here this isn’t New York go home

Landed in Sweden. New apartment is lovely, as is the new neighborhood. However, no logical place to set up my PC. The home planning begins!

I may finally be “ready” to move. Practically. Mentally who knows. Whoever is next to me on the plane is in for a WILD ride.

I’m sorry, Toronto. This is insanely rough. As a Mets fan, you have my sympathy.

You reach a point in packing and repacking where you look at every single object you own with disdain, and multiple times throughout my life this moment has occurred just past the point of realistically setting up a donation. It feels like a damn trap.

Disassembling a PC and packing the parts for travel is really fun because even when you think you’ve done everything right you have NO idea what may have broken until you arrive and set it back up

Note to self: the next time I’m moving for any reason, remember that it is better to ship early and live without things than ship “on time” and encounter issues. I suppose also a note to anyone else considering relocation.

One of the under-discussed problems with adapting TTRPGs into other media that really isn’t shared by anything else is the issue of “how do you adapt something that’s meant to be countless different things for different people into one thing without pissing off more people than you make happy?”

Couldn’t remember if I’d taken my sleep meds so elected not to risk knocking myself out for a full day by accidentally taking them twice. Fun fact: I had indeed not taken them. Now to be awake all night.

"I don’t think there’s a cryptid or monster more sexy or seductive as vampires can be." Ryan Coogler explains how he settled on vampires as the bad guys for Sinners (and what monsters didn't make the cut): reactormag.com/werewolves-v...

Werewolves or Vampires? How Ryan Coogler Chose the “Monster” for Sinners - Reactor

Which shapeshifter is the best for Sinners?

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Going through the archive ahead of moving to Stockholm. How did I acquire all these RPGs. Why. This will cost so much to ship.

Got to meet this dude tonight so that was cool

Can’t stop laughing at the range of products I’m being recommended.

Put it on LinkedIn so I may as well put it here. I’m leaving Asmodee but for an awesome reason (still extremely sad, though): I’m moving to Sweden to work on @worldofdarkness.bsky.social!! To all my American friends, I’m sorry I’ll see you less. To my European friends, I’ll see you more!!

RIP Robert Redford

Not a secret opinion by any means (in some way it is the core of my persona), but GODdamn we need to work on media literacy of folks in nerd media. For a long time it was purely the signs/signifiers/grammar of media, but I’m getting to the point where I’m convinced folks just don’t watch/read/play.

Something I think doesn’t get talked about enough is how a generation raised on Roblox, where the core value proposition is “whatever you want but it sucks and is slop,” is infinitely prepped for fully procgen slop AI games. That’s what they know, and buyers generally want what they know.

The energy I want to put into the world is “The Sims’ manual having a recommended reading list full of academic texts”

Paul W.S. Anderson's Event Horizon isn't a perfect movie, but it's pretty great, in spite of what you might have heard! Let's reconsider the sci fi horror film that was pitched as "The Shining in space"! reactormag.com/event-horizo...

Event Horizon: Bring All Your Bad Memories to the Blood Orgy - Reactor

Box-office bomb? Yes. But is this movie a pretty good sci fi horror movie? Also yes.

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today at the park we saw wild turkeys and some dude behind us was like “bro look at those owls” so what I’m saying is don’t ever let anyone make you feel stupid. you can visually identify a turkey