Nick LS Whelan
@linkskywalker.bsky.social
Susie Derkins lives in my pocket. She's got a lot of complaints, but refuses to move out.
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Iji is so fucking good. The fact that we got such a fully realized indie game before the indie game market existed doesn't get enough appreciation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=33mx...
Iji trailer - Remar Games
YouTube video by Remar Games
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"Our service may cost more, but supporting local business is more ethical, and keeps money circulating within your community!" says the local business owner with AI Art advertisements in their window.
Forward the Foundation is so affecting. A story about saying goodbye to loved ones as age and death looms near—written by a man who knew he was moments away from death himself—written to be a prequel to a story he'd written 40 years earlier— the poignancy goes beyond any skill at craft
A bit about how even some of the best advice for adventure design can fall apart when it becomes dogma: alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/2026/07/jaqu...
"Jaquays Your Dungeon" - Another OSR Maxim
Be Cautious of Maxims As I've written before , the "OSR" loved its maxims, short phrases that try to describe shared principles and act as a...
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In 2013, for the first time in my life, I had enough money that I could be a little frivolous. Yesterday, I finally got all the little cardboard tokens of the Ogre Kickstarter Edition punched out and settled in their cubbies.
this cover of The Killing Machine by Jack Vance is adorable
Elves, dwarfs, orcs, trolls, et al. are commedia dell'arte characters for racism
ENNIES voting ends today. And sure - *you've* already cast your vote for Designing Dungeons as Best Online Content. But have you gotten a friend to vote? A lover? vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/in...
People who allow the words "outdated design" to pass their lips aren't saying anything worth listening to. There's a lot of stuff in old games I don't like, stuff that didn't work, but that particular term always seems to come from people unwilling to engage with old games seriously.
Organizing my library, Parable of the Sower sticks in my hands. It breaks my heart that we lost Octavia E. Butler so young.
I used to enjoy sharing and discussing my blog posts on r/rpg. They were regularly top post of the day, so it seemed the average r/rpg poster enjoyed it. Then the mods told me to leave, so I did. It's a bad place to hang, so I don't hang there. There's plenty of better spaces for real conversation
PVincent (Table Cat Games)@tablecatgames.com · 3w agoIt's a fairly interesting post. www.reddit.com/r/rpg/commen...
Does anyone happen to know of an audiobook recording of Frankenstein that definitely uses the 1818 edition of the text? I've reviewed well over a dozen now without any clear answer. Every product description is ambiguous about it, which I assume means they performed the 1831 edition.
As a general rule, I prefer the first edition covers of most books. But goddamn, the Penguin Classics cover for A Confederacy of Dunces understands the character of that book so well.
So stoked for this. I don't think I've ever met anyone who is as passionately interested in what makes games tick and how to make them good as Jay. Even though she and I have very different ideas of fun, I trust her in crafting a good time.
jay Dragon is sleepy@jdragsky.bsky.social · 3w agoSEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...
SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...
Seven-Part Pact
A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.
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being opposed to kink is inherently tied to assimilationism and always has been
The only truly credible RPG awards is the Rammies, evidenced by the fact I never won one despite being Ram's pal.
millenials freak out when you tell them clowns are sexy now
summer is really exciting for me because first i get to celebrate the gays, and then i get to celebrate my boy gaius julius right afterword
Star Fox remake - mechanically SO faithful. My muscle memory carried me through my first run easily. - why is the voice acting understated? Evil space monkeys should be cartoon characters!! Overall, Im quite happy with it. God willing, this game will get the sequel that 64 should have had.