Dave
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They set a slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair.
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· Nov 14
With SANDBAGGERS now on Amazon Prime, I present The Cut-Glass Index, a ranking of the series' posh accents. We begin at #10: Jeff Ross. Cartoonish American accent, vital as a foil, but a deep blow to the character. A golden retriever gallumping through the hedge rows amid the beagles. Score: 0/10Jef
"Grenade" is in the name, guys.
Physics of a direct hit from an RPG type projectile
February 7, 2026 at 5:28 AM
"Grenade" is in the name, guys.
RPG scenario design will not improve until the products start looking like board game manuals.
February 6, 2026 at 6:08 PM
RPG scenario design will not improve until the products start looking like board game manuals.
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Your periodic reminder that the expression about "a few bad apples" does not mean that the rest are fine, it means that the rot spreads from the bad ones and corrupts the whole barrel
February 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Your periodic reminder that the expression about "a few bad apples" does not mean that the rest are fine, it means that the rot spreads from the bad ones and corrupts the whole barrel
Seeing folks in /r/rpg using the acronym "TTRPG" always gets my eye twitching.
February 6, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Seeing folks in /r/rpg using the acronym "TTRPG" always gets my eye twitching.
Does this fucking movie take place during RIP?!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFuE...
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WAR MACHINE | Official Trailer | Netflix
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February 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Does this fucking movie take place during RIP?!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFuE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFuE...
I can overlook the bait of MASTER & COMMANDER when I see my beloved THE TASTE OF THINGS.
What do Peter Weir's MASTER & COMMANDER, Kasi Lemmons' TALK TO ME, Roman Coppola's CQ, and Amy Heckerling's I COULD NEVER BE YOUR WOMAN have in common? They're all on my list of the 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century (so far). The full list is here: time.com/collections/...
The 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century
From 'Idlewild' and 'Bright Star' to 'The Magic Flute' and more, these are TIME's most underappreciated movies of the 21st Century
time.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I can overlook the bait of MASTER & COMMANDER when I see my beloved THE TASTE OF THINGS.
RPG designers need to put some distance between themselves and CRPG design theory. If the dungeon is deadly, if you're facing a powerful demon you shouldn't poke, if the monsters don't plan to fight fair, there's a GM responsible for all those things, not code. They could have done differently.
February 4, 2026 at 12:49 PM
RPG designers need to put some distance between themselves and CRPG design theory. If the dungeon is deadly, if you're facing a powerful demon you shouldn't poke, if the monsters don't plan to fight fair, there's a GM responsible for all those things, not code. They could have done differently.
I have enough trouble getting my group to even consider using horses to travel faster.
The king: "This matter is most urgent. If you do not arrive at the edge of the kingdom in time, all might be lost."
My players: "Who do we see first in the 'Fellowship crossing the mountains' montage?"
The king: "This matter is most urgent. If you do not arrive at the edge of the kingdom in time, all might be lost."
My players: "Who do we see first in the 'Fellowship crossing the mountains' montage?"
When GMing, make your world feel more authentic by putting animals in it. In a battle, it's not just warriors that are dying—it's horses. Afterwards, crows and dogs are there to feed on the carrion—maybe even carrion crawlers.
Animals live with us in every capacity. Enrich your world with them.
Animals live with us in every capacity. Enrich your world with them.
January 29, 2026 at 10:48 PM
I have enough trouble getting my group to even consider using horses to travel faster.
The king: "This matter is most urgent. If you do not arrive at the edge of the kingdom in time, all might be lost."
My players: "Who do we see first in the 'Fellowship crossing the mountains' montage?"
The king: "This matter is most urgent. If you do not arrive at the edge of the kingdom in time, all might be lost."
My players: "Who do we see first in the 'Fellowship crossing the mountains' montage?"
Great acclaim awaits the RPG scenario designer who realizes that their product should be written to resemble the notes GMs make when prepping it.
January 28, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Great acclaim awaits the RPG scenario designer who realizes that their product should be written to resemble the notes GMs make when prepping it.
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why'd they make resign and resign have opposite meanings
January 27, 2026 at 11:53 PM
why'd they make resign and resign have opposite meanings
Isn't there a fancy word for a collection of loose, but related papers gathered and held in what are essentially separated book covers? Not a folder, exactly, but like a book with proper covers and pages in between that's not bound? I thought "palimpsest" was the word, but I'm wrong. Anyone?
January 21, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Isn't there a fancy word for a collection of loose, but related papers gathered and held in what are essentially separated book covers? Not a folder, exactly, but like a book with proper covers and pages in between that's not bound? I thought "palimpsest" was the word, but I'm wrong. Anyone?
When Session Zero is just handing your players a pad of graph paper.
What I'm going to play after Impossible Landscapes wraps sometime next month: Mythic Bastionland (I will be happy)
What I really want to play: A megadungeon like Stonehell set on some hex in the Yeomanry in Greyhawk, and I can't stop reading stupid megadungeons but I need to up my players by 4 and
What I really want to play: A megadungeon like Stonehell set on some hex in the Yeomanry in Greyhawk, and I can't stop reading stupid megadungeons but I need to up my players by 4 and
January 21, 2026 at 4:27 AM
When Session Zero is just handing your players a pad of graph paper.
It's no accident that the best writer of film criticism also produces the best video countdowns. In both mediums, he understands that it is through attention to form and syntax that ideas and emotions land with the reader or viewer.
January 20, 2026 at 10:42 PM
It's no accident that the best writer of film criticism also produces the best video countdowns. In both mediums, he understands that it is through attention to form and syntax that ideas and emotions land with the reader or viewer.
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It has not, because it hasn’t outgrossed AVATAR or AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER.
January 19, 2026 at 2:02 PM
It has not, because it hasn’t outgrossed AVATAR or AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER.
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People noticing that calling Will a sorceror when that didn't come until 3rd edition weren't being mere pedants but noticing a deeper truth
what do you mean the stranger things documentary shows them writing the script on a computer with 3 chat gpt tabs open
January 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
People noticing that calling Will a sorceror when that didn't come until 3rd edition weren't being mere pedants but noticing a deeper truth
"[Shakespeare In Love] belongs firmly to the Wellesian tradition, using the tools of popular entertainment to sneak in profundity and beauty. Hamnet, on the other hand, is Olivier through and through: beautiful, respectable, and terminally dull."
HAMNET’s problem is not the many things it changes about Shakespeare’s life, but how it steps in a series of traps Shakespeare knew to avoid.
slate.com/culture/2026...
slate.com/culture/2026...
This Awards Season’s Villain Isn’t This Year’s Shakespeare in Love. It’s Something Worse.
Comparing Hamnet to Shakespeare in Love is an insult to Shakespeare in Love.
slate.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
"[Shakespeare In Love] belongs firmly to the Wellesian tradition, using the tools of popular entertainment to sneak in profundity and beauty. Hamnet, on the other hand, is Olivier through and through: beautiful, respectable, and terminally dull."
With the Golden Globes concluded, I can now delete this app from my phone until the Oscars. See you all tomorrow from my laptop and a browser, the only way anyone should ever access this website.
January 12, 2026 at 4:25 AM
With the Golden Globes concluded, I can now delete this app from my phone until the Oscars. See you all tomorrow from my laptop and a browser, the only way anyone should ever access this website.
Wim Wenders opens a new document titled, "Perfect DSAs."
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin on Saturday announced an initiative to install more public bathrooms across the city.
January 11, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Wim Wenders opens a new document titled, "Perfect DSAs."
This episode of Off Menu featuring Joy Crookes was my favorite podcast of 2025. Staggering charm, just effortlessly and comfortably herself. She will forever be the coolest person in whatever room she's in. If you need an hour of warm, sparkling delight, this is it.
Joy Crookes: Burp dancing and buttery soft lycra | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
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January 11, 2026 at 8:24 PM
This episode of Off Menu featuring Joy Crookes was my favorite podcast of 2025. Staggering charm, just effortlessly and comfortably herself. She will forever be the coolest person in whatever room she's in. If you need an hour of warm, sparkling delight, this is it.
I feel very ambivalent about having once worn the tab. Maybe that'd be different if I knew more guys like this who wear it now.
🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )
January 10, 2026 at 11:55 PM
I feel very ambivalent about having once worn the tab. Maybe that'd be different if I knew more guys like this who wear it now.
Showing this clip to his buddy in the SUV before they get out and eat shit on an icy sidewalk,.
January 10, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Showing this clip to his buddy in the SUV before they get out and eat shit on an icy sidewalk,.
If you watch the story, you learn that the zap intensity can range from 1 to 100. If your perineum is sensitive enough to detect 100 different levels of stimulation, I salute you.
For those with a male perineum, there’s MOR, a device that can gently zap the area to either delay or intensify ejaculation.
January 5, 2026 at 11:32 PM
If you watch the story, you learn that the zap intensity can range from 1 to 100. If your perineum is sensitive enough to detect 100 different levels of stimulation, I salute you.
Before social media, all we had to waste time was White Wolf's World of Darkness MUD. Has anyone ever memorialized it somewhere? Only @lordbusinessman.bsky.social seems like he would be enough of a degenerate to remember it.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Before social media, all we had to waste time was White Wolf's World of Darkness MUD. Has anyone ever memorialized it somewhere? Only @lordbusinessman.bsky.social seems like he would be enough of a degenerate to remember it.
The author of the great North of Reality blog launched a new project. Great to see such a playful, cock-eyed imagination return with fresh words.
The bicephalous jackalope leads a complex and short existence due to only one of its heads being materially real. Though it may at first seem cumbersome, this grants it an evolutionary advantage over its better known cousin, the common jackalope, as the...
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AN ENDANGERED SPECIES
The bicephalous jackalope leads a complex and short existence due to only one of its heads being materially real. Though it may at first seem cumbersome, this grants it an evolutionary advantage over ...
www.greaterrealityarea.net
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
The author of the great North of Reality blog launched a new project. Great to see such a playful, cock-eyed imagination return with fresh words.