the queen that's dead with two white horses

A boss from an RPG that you got on Japanese import for your PS2. It's called The Monarch and one of its attacks is just a scream.

Well well well. The JFK Files have confirmed what I’ve long suspected: a bird flew into him

action scene in a visual novel

I can't say I'd blame Gatwa for stepping away from the show, the man has a career to focus on and all of this uncertainty coming from Disney's end would frustrate anyone. At the end of the day Doctor Who is a job and if you don't know when you're next working that's a problem.

Administering electric shocks to people in the adjacent room and hesitating when the screams get too loud. Thankfully there's an authority figure here reassuring me that it's ok to continue

Disco Elysium blowing up the way it did should be evidence that there’s no predicting the games market. Imagine trying to tell a money guy that game of the year was gonna be an Estonian visual novel by communists where you can pet the mailbox and say “I want to make fuck with you”

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

An overlooked aspect of classic TTRPGs are the "Fuck you" rules. Rules that only exist as petty punishments for the GM to use when players displease them, and were obviously created out of "Oh, that's 'Not in the rules?' Well now it is!"

Imagine doing icebreakers as an intern and one of them comes out with "I'm the future prince of Lichtenstein"

Rewatched The Batman earlier and while I still enjoyed it a lot I do think it's a weird omission that seemingly everyone in Gotham is horribly corrupt and easily blackmailed, except the media who will happily report on and expose all of this on the news seemingly without bias

CITATION FUCKING NEEDED

Finding out that @crom-ink.bsky.social makes tokens for MtG has made my wallet ache longingly.

I mean come on, look at these beauties. I got myself a single treasure token but you better believe I'm completing the set when I can afford it!

Go see for yourself -

crom.ink/shop/mtg-tok...

One time I went to a CV improving... talk? at the job centre (mandatory to stay on jobseeker's allowance) and the man giving the talk told a story about how a guy who got stabbed before his appointment to have a CV talk still showed up instead of going to the hospital.

If Chappell Roan had been around in 2011 some enterprising gaming youtuber would've made a killing on a Starfox themed Hot to Go parody about doing a barrell roll

It’s Fine, Leave It Alone is a very underrated development plan that unfortunately does not get anyone promoted

art artist

There's taking inspiration and then there's daring the Geiger estate to sue you

Every time I see this it makes me *so happy* and then immediately *livid* that it doesn't exist

Conclave is a fun time but the third act does feel like they compressed a HBO miniseries worth of episode cliffhangers into 40 minutes of movie

I really hope Umar's portrayal as just the worst wine obsessed mother-in-law sticks in her future appearances

will never not be funny to me that the Zelda Timeline has a loser’s bracket

I think a bit of the "AI is democratizing art" argument is trying to avoid the ugly truth that to get good at anything you have to do a lot of it. I grew up "knowing" I was a good writer, but I really wasn't until about 700k words, and it took reading hours of scripts to really have a voice

Storeys - A Solo Horror TTRPG A solo horror journalling TTRPG set in an apartment block. Move in. Unveil the rot. Save yourself.

Ok folks we're down to the last 48 hours of our horror TTRPG "Storeys" Kickstarter, we've only got one more stretch goal to hit, can we reach it in time?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/don...

Old newspaper article titled "Was most grotesque animal. Stegosaur, who lived in Utah ages ago, is a freak of nature" and there is a drawing of a perfectly normal and valid stegosaurus

This is so rude. He's just a little guy

I forget 95% of what I say on the mic so I had forgotten I said this. Listen today!

Another rejection from a job I know I'm qualified for. Increasingly convinced I will be stuck in this job until I quit or I collapse.

A lot of COVID blurs together, but the full year of patronising "as we get back to going outside, we're doing our part" advertising is as vivid a memory as ever

Title graphic reads: The Hearth Magazine

Okay. *deep breath* Here we go.

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