ICYMI, this week's newsletter interviews 18th-centuryist, Actual Play scholar & TTRPG megabrain @friede.bsky.social. It's full of good stuff: on microcelebrity, the Mercer Effect, authenticity & anachronism in historical games, & the world's greatest break-up novel.
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Cat spines are wild
This Wimbledon men’s final might be an all-timer. I bet my father-in-law a Kitkat that Alcaraz will win. The stakes couldn’t be higher
This isn’t a parody, it’s real, and it’s perfect
I just described my idea for a macaron experiment to @tomsenior.bsky.social and he said it left him feeling 'unsettled in my soul'.
No peanut butter and bacon jam macarons for him, then.
Whenever I stub my toe I will be yelling “JESUS THE CHRIST” going forwards
Lovely day revisiting Glastonbury town in the blazing sunshine. Xenomorphs, crystals, churches, friendly pub dogs, and cults. All on one street.
Couldn’t sleep so I upgraded the arcade stick
No thank you, I enjoy not being murdered
How many red flags can you fit into one paragraph of a job description
The best thing about baths is that you get to become soup for a bit.
I was feeling glum today, but then Dad called and now I get to pilot an EVA! I’m sure everything will be great from here on out
Don’t tell maniacs they’re amazing
Watching Blade Runner again. The nerd-god Tyrell tells Roy that in his short life burns so very, very brightly. 20 mins later, Roy is prancing around an abandoned building in his underpants. A film student nods sagely and whispers “yesss, THIS is character development”.
And so my Alan Partridge life continued
We’ve got wood pigeons too, of course. In the old flat I was watching a film with Ems and I said ‘wow they’ve actually got the bird sounds right for England’ and Ems said ‘Tom, the window’s open’
A small Saturday morning ritual: sitting in the garden with the Merlin app on to see which birds are hanging out here today
When Uncle Ben says ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ I don’t think he was imagining someone becoming a sticky acrobat.
I don’t know why, but Ryan Gosling characters die the moment they realise the film isn’t about them.
Fully asleep, upside down, balls out, Charlie Brown missed the football again pose
When you get a cat you think you’re inviting an elegant, graceful apex predator to share your home
However, in reality, you look into the front room while cooking and see something like this
Scavengers Reign is perfect sci-fi. Exquisite animation originally exclusive to HBO and now buried in the Netflix archive. Watching again and enjoying the horror Fantasia of it
The auto-taxi idea is actually a liberating prospect, as silly as it seems at the moment. Ideally we’d have a better public transport network of course, but that’s another story.
I’m interested in the last post because my eyesight is too poor to legally even learn to drive (lifelong 3rd nerve palsy double vision).
It is hugely limiting to rely on public transport in this country, in terms of reach and expense, especially for employment.
Some interesting business sense-checks on Tesla’s convulsions and the EV market in the last few years podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
In which myself and @tomsenior.bsky.social *really* love Old Skies, and then talk about point and click adventures we've loved for ages.
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We will never know.
A thumbnail on Disney+ advertising Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. The image prominently features Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt and Yoda. Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader lock blades in a small silhouette beneath clumsily cropped headshots of Chewie, Jabba, and Yoda.
I used to approve marketing thumbnails and now can’t stop loud questions popping in to my head as I browse Disney+ (and all other sites)
“Why have you prioritised Bigfoot, Slug Monster and Cabbage Goblin over the life and death clash between the most important characters in all of Star Wars?”