James Hoare

To those who pay attention to such things this is grim as fuck, actually.

The playful, prolific use of hyperlinks in online journalism (eg Slate, Pitchfork) didn’t anticipate link-rot. Now so many articles are pock-marked with cryptic allusions that some long-dead link once explained. Weird how quickly a new style comes to feel more archaic than the traditional format

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

I think “nice to e-meet you” had died out but I just searched my emails and I got one in… 2023. Wow.

From the Shadowrun community on Reddit: I uploaded 17 years of Shadowrun mailing list archives (1992–2009) to the Internet Archive Explore this post and more from the Shadowrun community

Cancel your meetings, Chummers, your day is about to become deeply unproductive.

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#shadowrun

Everything is better in Space, especially Reptilians and Ninjas. Old roll-up illustration, also used in KOSMOSAURS ttrpg.

Here's a draft manuscript of the Magic: The Gathering roleplaying game from 1996, and I've giving it away as a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, with permission from the authors. Not sure how much to ask for. Vanishingly rare. $1,872 raised so far. #mtg #ttrpg

I’ve never know a city to be on fire as much as Glasgow.

Had a lovely time with Legion of the Necromancer, what feels like a very specific tribute to the initial three #FightingFantasy #gamebooks with all the brutal randomness and goofy goblin-fighting-a-shark type encounters that entails.

They’re generally very good - they seemed to have the same authors as the game content sticking firmly to their turf

Nigel Findley is such a talented enigma. It's such a shame he passed away before fandom could coalesce around him.

Excellent bookshop find today. I’m obsessed with the corner of #Shadowrun that Carl Sergent and Marc Gascoigne carved out for themselves. There is almost certainly a long Secret Passages article in it.

Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game IDW, publishers of the Godzilla comics, are creating the official Godzilla tabletop roleplaying game! Fight Kaiju and save the day!

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Has anyone come across an InDesign template for an old school xerox punk zine?

In the Corbyn years that would have merited a triumphalist tweet and arch aside about the mainstream media not covering it. Genuine nostalgia.

Which fictional characters do you think were having the nastiest sex off-screen?

Purest, undiluted Bluesky

Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game IDW, publishers of the Godzilla comics, are creating the official Godzilla tabletop roleplaying game! Fight Kaiju and save the day!

If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ve co-designed the official Godzilla RPG alongside @markalatham.bsky.social and the legendary Jervis Johnson.

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I’m so envious of your efficiency

So excited to dig into this @floaker.bsky.social 👻

Do we have the final numbers on whether decapitating a repressive regime but letting the remnants have at it in a brutal civil war made Libya a better place to live?

The talking down of Super League aside, yes, please - hook it to my veins

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

Tatjana Wood has apparently passed away at age 99. Her father was Jewish so during WW2 her parents sent her to the Netherlands, then NY. She studied as a dressmaker, met/married Wallace Wood and began assisting him, then pivoted to becoming one of the best colorists in comics.

I would love it if Starmer is now engaged in meaningful succession planning with key stakeholders to avoid a messy leadership race post-locals.

(This is definitely wishful thinking)

(The ‘us’ in that scenario is the left)

Although I would caution people against too instinctively dismissing “left split” as fearmongering. Not all constituencies have such large left bloc voter base and cleave in such interesting ways. What we got away with in G&D might kill us elsewhere.

As a Labour member I’m DELIGHTED the Greens won, hopefully the message gets through to the leadership now. And more varied left voices is healthy.