Innocent, Mystic, Professor, Sailor, and Weasel.
Innocent, Mystic, Professor, Sailor, and Weasel.
The food is weird in a couple ways! I visited a tiny ancestral Scottish village in the mountains a quarter century ago. And there was a Chinese restaurant.
I was on an elevator at a con and Prozy D got on. With a dog.
D.B. Cooper?
What an honor and a fun time to be part of the 15th Anniversary of Labyrinth Games & Puzzles in DC yesterday!
@labyrinthdc.bsky.social
I like the blue on the left, but the right has better readability IMO. So, right.
I took the same photo! LOL
There is no list in Ba Sing Se. ๐
Origins Game Fair is kooky soon!
misterjoel.squarespace.com/conventions
#originsgamefair
Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us,when we let it slip away,when it is ripped from our hands,we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.
Disagree as we might, I am hopeful that those of you who know me will vouch for my credibility in the days to come. I stand this morning with a difficult message. I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss.
Mon Mothma's speech.
"Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not sufficient, and what it really needs is more you. And it does, actually; it does. Go look outside. You can't tell me that we are done making the world."
"You have to get back on the horse. Somehow, and I don't know how this kind of thing starts, we have started to lionize horseback-not-getting-on: these casual, a priori assertions of inevitable failure, which is nothing more than a gauze draped over your own pulsing terror.
In surfing about I stumbled upon this screed from Penny Arcade's Tycho and it seems somehow more relevant than 13 years ago.
#pennyarcade
Someday, I will learn to unwrap the hotel soap BEFORE I get my hands wet. But not this day. #unpub
#unpub.bsky.social
did I do that right
Who's going to be at #UnPub and likes sports games, or maybe even has made one? I could really use your feedback and possibly a co-designer... ๐คบ
Hey, remember how a few white male billionaires decided they knew better than the experts how to build and run a submarine? Anyway let's check on the economy...
Suppose I might as well mention that I updated my website (finally)!
misterjoel.com
People seem to like our catalog, so we're looking into sharing it digitally. In the meantime, I wanted to show you its pages and the creators they feature.
First up is @junkfoodgames.bsky.social, who also laid out the catalog. Check out these awesome zines...
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A worthy read.
archive.ph/6WHLP
This guy runs down THIRTY indie RPGs and a lesson from trying each!
youtu.be/_ZNpZPS4StE?...
Every time I check bluesky the vibe and crowd are different. It's evolving I guess?
Anyway I make tabletop games. #promosky
Like the Cruciform resurrections in Hyperion -- eventually, copying errors erase all uniqueness from the subject.
Henry Rollins
chart of 27 rows
"Game design! That must be so easy and fun!"
This is what they mean by hot Frosty right?