The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.

Get excited.

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The American National Anthem (smoke weed everyday) YouTube video by Baked Goods

A joyous holiday to you and yours

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LORE - A Lord of the Rings Adventure Game Retroclone "I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a ...

Every year, I reread the LotR trilogy. This last year's reread amped me up and I started keying Middle-earth 12 miles at a time

Concurrently, without meaning to, I wrote a game to run the hexcrawl

I call it Lore - a Lord of the Rings Adventure Game retroclone

Here's what I think is fun about it🧵

Also, if you have a BA in English but you wind up writing partisan propaganda that is based in the past, that does not make you a "historian"

We historians actually spend a good bit of time actually learning how to do this stuff, and it saves us from making these kinds of whoppers in our work.

Maus Haus: House-Rules for Elementary Schoolers As promised, a follow-up post on my house-rules for playing Mausritter with my elementary-age children, derived from negotiating with my ki...

Our Haus rules for playing Mausritter with young kids: derived via negotiation with my elementary schoolers, at great cost. dreamshrike.blogspot.com/2026/04/maus...

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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The Play Reports Blue Prince is a Depth Crawl

Added a post for the Map Blogwagon by @prismaticwasteland.com. This one's all about DEPTH CRAWLS, specifically looking at @soulmuppet.co.uk's The Stygian Library and @blueprincegame.bsky.social!

#blog #ttrpg #rpg #crawls #blogwagon

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What Makes a Honeybee Queen? A few fellow bloggers and I held a Work in Progress show-and-tell last weekend, and I was excited to talk through some of the development work that I had com...

Another design journal post about Honeybees - very excited for the direction that the pathos of the game is going! As a bonus, I included an oracle table for the next NPC you need to run a castle in your fantasy TTRPG

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Bandwagon: The Map is Not the Territory But It is the Topic — Prismatic Wasteland Announcing a new blog bandwagon! This time you have 80 days in which to write something on your blog about maps and/or to annotate/remix/expand a map drawn by the esteemed Amanda Lee Franck!

This is my contribution to the maps bandwagon. If you are or would like to be a blogger, you still have a couple of weeks to jump on the bandwagon! Everything you need to know is here: www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/bandwag...

Coural Done: Well, this one’s self-explanatory. If you don’t have your coural done, you shouldn’t be at the gaming table. Don’t waste our time.

An AI slop image showing the '12 steps to masterful game directing", including 'Connectiarg' and 'Porkon Cows'

People over on Facebook/YouTube/elsewhere on bluesky/reality have been mocking this, but these are all totally genuine and highly advanced GMing techniques pioneered in obscure corners of indie rpg design in the early 2000s.

Let's go through them one by one and learn together.

Dafoe’s agent: “A new script arrived for you, it’s called Werwulf”
Dafoe: “I’ll take the part”
Agent: “But don’t you even want to know how the title is spelled?”
Dafoe: “No”

I'm going to throw up, this is such a clean approach

Quick Stakes For Tense Situations Quickly create and adjudicate tense situations.

Remember SKILL CHALLENGES? They're back! In blog form!

Check out my latest post where I lay out an easy and fun way to handle a complex, tense situation. It works in every TTRPG ever made up until this point and all future TTRPGs (disclaimer: this is a lie)

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Fullstack Refereeing A framework for thinking about refereeing as Backend, Frontend, and Runtime, so you can diagnose play problems instead of solving the wrong ones.

Resurrected an old draft of mine to prove that I'm still blogging about ttrpgs.

I tried my best to explain it, so you don't have to be a software sicko like me!

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Here's a scan of the Bullwinkle and Rocky Roleplaying Party Game rulebook. Sorry it's not OCR. drive.google.com/file/d/11p2u...

toilet a at 1:30's fundamentals were a mess and it got exposed. not sure why anyone's surprised. you can't have footwork like that and expect to win in this league

The healing power of a 6th gen console beach level

jimi hendrix lowkey always going crazy on the guitar

i know mac OSX isn't everyone's cup of tea but my windows 11 work laptop has started having the problem of explorer crashing or making itself non-responsive multiple times a day and in terms of productivity it's the equivalent of getting punched in the stomach

From Tolkien Letter 153: "I don't think Tom needs philosophizing about, and is not improved by it. But many have found him an odd or indeed discordant ingredient."

Haha, yeah. I agree!

Spotted salamander in tender loving hands

Spotted salamander walking to safety in wet leaf litter

5 awesome humans in reflective vests looking for amphibians in danger of getting g squished by cars at night in the rain

Yet another spotted salamander in the northeast kingdom of Vermont

Salamander Crossing Guard duty was a success 🫡

It is now present.

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Huh I wonder what changed between 2025 and 2025

i love when i log into something and it tells me some shit like Notification Hub is now Alert Village

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

Reminds me of reading about the Haitian revolution - French leaders in Europe were too racist to understand that enslaved people could politically articulate themselves so they couldn’t make sense of the facts at play

Thanks! It was a fun little brain wave yesterday