Gil Hova
@gil.hova.net
He/him. JC/NYC.
Informal Ferret Games, robot fight facilitator at NHRL, weird/noisy music, ferret fan. Still not a negotiable Final Fantasy currency.
All my links: https://gil.hova.net
Informal Ferret Games, robot fight facilitator at NHRL, weird/noisy music, ferret fan. Still not a negotiable Final Fantasy currency.
All my links: https://gil.hova.net
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Gil Hova
@gil.hova.net
· Nov 17
BREAKING: I'm starting up a new line of games that I'll be putting out on @thegamecrafter.bsky.social. Some will be reprints of older Formal Ferret Games, some of these will be expansions to existing games, and some are going to be brand new.
Of course, I'm calling it Informal Ferret Games.
Of course, I'm calling it Informal Ferret Games.
ICYMI
My birthday is on Thursday! To celebrate, I'm choosing that day to officially make Bad Medicine available on @thegamecrafter.bsky.social, as the first Informal Ferret Games release.
I'll also have one other nongaming surprise to show you all!
I'll also have one other nongaming surprise to show you all!
January 13, 2026 at 4:06 PM
ICYMI
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Anyone who learned how to draw as an adult have any suggestions for things that helped y'all learn?
January 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Anyone who learned how to draw as an adult have any suggestions for things that helped y'all learn?
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I read a comment by a publisher defending the theme of manifest destiny as this board game is a great tool for discussion. Here are my issues with that... (thread👇)
January 12, 2026 at 2:49 AM
I read a comment by a publisher defending the theme of manifest destiny as this board game is a great tool for discussion. Here are my issues with that... (thread👇)
I gotta say, I usually dislike NFL announcers, but I'm finding myself switching on Nantz-Romo's commentary more than I expected. They're actually quite good, much better than other announcing pairs.
January 11, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I gotta say, I usually dislike NFL announcers, but I'm finding myself switching on Nantz-Romo's commentary more than I expected. They're actually quite good, much better than other announcing pairs.
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JK Rowling: hello children
Poe: oh hi joanne
Poe: do you have something to
Rowling: I have sssomething to sssay
Poe: is it about
Rowling: iran ssseemss to be unusssually full of gryffindorsss
Poe: oh hi joanne
Poe: do you have something to
Rowling: I have sssomething to sssay
Poe: is it about
Rowling: iran ssseemss to be unusssually full of gryffindorsss
January 11, 2026 at 7:03 PM
JK Rowling: hello children
Poe: oh hi joanne
Poe: do you have something to
Rowling: I have sssomething to sssay
Poe: is it about
Rowling: iran ssseemss to be unusssually full of gryffindorsss
Poe: oh hi joanne
Poe: do you have something to
Rowling: I have sssomething to sssay
Poe: is it about
Rowling: iran ssseemss to be unusssually full of gryffindorsss
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Very well said. And of course, this is a complete reversal of how legacy journalists used to approach their job.
As the saying goes, instead of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, these days they're more inclined to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.
As the saying goes, instead of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, these days they're more inclined to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.
There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >
January 11, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Very well said. And of course, this is a complete reversal of how legacy journalists used to approach their job.
As the saying goes, instead of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, these days they're more inclined to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.
As the saying goes, instead of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, these days they're more inclined to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.
Wait, has Peacock been reading my posts?
Peacock may soon be able to allow fans to mute announcers during broadcasts.
awfulannouncing.com/peacock/enha...
awfulannouncing.com/peacock/enha...
Peacock adding enhancements that may allow fans to mute announcers, control crowd noise
Peacock is introducing a series of new Dolby products that may allow fans to control audio levels for announcers and crowd noise.
awfulannouncing.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Wait, has Peacock been reading my posts?
"One side murdered a woman in broad daylight. The other has condemned that murder. Both sides are culpable. I have the moral awareness of a scrambled egg."
In case there’s any doubt about what TCW means here, his subsequent retweet of David French makes it clear
January 11, 2026 at 2:51 PM
"One side murdered a woman in broad daylight. The other has condemned that murder. Both sides are culpable. I have the moral awareness of a scrambled egg."
My birthday is on Thursday! To celebrate, I'm choosing that day to officially make Bad Medicine available on @thegamecrafter.bsky.social, as the first Informal Ferret Games release.
I'll also have one other nongaming surprise to show you all!
I'll also have one other nongaming surprise to show you all!
January 11, 2026 at 2:27 PM
My birthday is on Thursday! To celebrate, I'm choosing that day to officially make Bad Medicine available on @thegamecrafter.bsky.social, as the first Informal Ferret Games release.
I'll also have one other nongaming surprise to show you all!
I'll also have one other nongaming surprise to show you all!
I can't emphasize enough how much better a sports broadcast is without most announcers. Hearing the crowd go several levels beyond berzerk is so much better when there isn't a bored-sounding Al Michaels droning in a flat voice, "and... he's in... touchdown" 5 seconds after it happens.
Big-time nerd alert - I just figured out a way to watch sports broadcasts without hearing the announcers! It takes some audio geekery and involved tools, but it's like a ZILLION times better to watch football (or any other sport) this way.
January 11, 2026 at 3:57 AM
I can't emphasize enough how much better a sports broadcast is without most announcers. Hearing the crowd go several levels beyond berzerk is so much better when there isn't a bored-sounding Al Michaels droning in a flat voice, "and... he's in... touchdown" 5 seconds after it happens.
Big-time nerd alert - I just figured out a way to watch sports broadcasts without hearing the announcers! It takes some audio geekery and involved tools, but it's like a ZILLION times better to watch football (or any other sport) this way.
January 11, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Big-time nerd alert - I just figured out a way to watch sports broadcasts without hearing the announcers! It takes some audio geekery and involved tools, but it's like a ZILLION times better to watch football (or any other sport) this way.
Reposted by Gil Hova
Help us identify @finjareloaded.bsky.social's literary crush!
Ha! Let's see... it was a British crime novel, and he was the son or nephew of someone. He gambled with US dollars, but cheated other players by glueing dollars of different values together (yes, I always liked men with impeccable moral character) and then was kidnapped or disappeared, and there
January 10, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Help us identify @finjareloaded.bsky.social's literary crush!
Reposted by Gil Hova
2025 was LOADED with quality games, so here are a couple of indies I adored you may not have played! 🎮
January 10, 2026 at 1:29 PM
2025 was LOADED with quality games, so here are a couple of indies I adored you may not have played! 🎮
Psst, free TMBG album of rarities just dropped tmbgshop.com/collections/...
Cast Your Pod to the Wind download
This remarkable compilation of twenty-three TMBG rarities includes standout tracks I’m Your Boyfriend Now, We Live in a Dump, Brain Problem Situation, Employee of the Month, and I Hear A New World w/ ...
tmbgshop.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Psst, free TMBG album of rarities just dropped tmbgshop.com/collections/...
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There are no rules, they don’t actually care about respect, decorum, bipartisanship or debate, and only pretend to do so to browbeat you into submission. Nothing is going to change until more people realise that and respond accordingly; including to the media and politicians who have failed them.
January 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
There are no rules, they don’t actually care about respect, decorum, bipartisanship or debate, and only pretend to do so to browbeat you into submission. Nothing is going to change until more people realise that and respond accordingly; including to the media and politicians who have failed them.
Reposted by Gil Hova
‘We’ll Take It From Here, Boys,’ Says Kash Patel To Confused Minneapolis Mail Carrier
January 9, 2026 at 8:54 PM
‘We’ll Take It From Here, Boys,’ Says Kash Patel To Confused Minneapolis Mail Carrier
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"For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty." - Zohran Mamdani
Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."
January 9, 2026 at 4:34 PM
"For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty." - Zohran Mamdani
Good quote ziggurat here
The trains in Italy never ran on time during Mussolini's rule. That was pure propaganda people just accepted as fact and I have no idea why.
THIS. It's one of fascism's own myths about itself: that it is coherent, efficient, etc. No. History shows us that fascist regimes are contradictory, chaotic, etc. Fascism is not a coherent ideology but a ragbag of scraps held together with aesthetics. Fascist governments are gangs of cranks.
January 9, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Good quote ziggurat here
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Game designer Steve Dee @tinstargames.bsky.social unexpectedly passed last week. His last public post is a touching meditation on solidarity.
"The smallest things can still be incredibly powerful...You matter, and if you show up, you can change your fate, or someone else’s. And that is everything.”
"The smallest things can still be incredibly powerful...You matter, and if you show up, you can change your fate, or someone else’s. And that is everything.”
Steve Dee, game designer and community builder, has passed away
He leaves behind a legacy of creating better worlds.
www.rascal.news
January 8, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Game designer Steve Dee @tinstargames.bsky.social unexpectedly passed last week. His last public post is a touching meditation on solidarity.
"The smallest things can still be incredibly powerful...You matter, and if you show up, you can change your fate, or someone else’s. And that is everything.”
"The smallest things can still be incredibly powerful...You matter, and if you show up, you can change your fate, or someone else’s. And that is everything.”
Reposted by Gil Hova
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
I just finished reading Jason Pargin's _I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom_, and I have THOUGHTS.
Bluesky has no spoiler feature, so go read it over on my Mastodon account instead: mastodon.world/@gilhova/115...
Bluesky has no spoiler feature, so go read it over on my Mastodon account instead: mastodon.world/@gilhova/115...
Gil Hova (@[email protected])
Content warning: SPOILERS for the novel _I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom_
mastodon.world
January 8, 2026 at 5:04 AM
I just finished reading Jason Pargin's _I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom_, and I have THOUGHTS.
Bluesky has no spoiler feature, so go read it over on my Mastodon account instead: mastodon.world/@gilhova/115...
Bluesky has no spoiler feature, so go read it over on my Mastodon account instead: mastodon.world/@gilhova/115...
The D next to Schumer’s name stands for “Diet Republican”
This photo of @schumer.senate.gov joking around with Marco Rubio makes me sick to my stomach. Rubio and the rest of Trump's lawless, venal, evil gang are destroying America and Americans. There is nothing to smile about with these people. Schumer is so unfit for this moment. Just fucking go.
Hours ago:
January 7, 2026 at 10:49 PM
The D next to Schumer’s name stands for “Diet Republican”
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in these moments, in my view, it is a political and spiritual DUTY for my outrage and anger to be as fresh as if I'd never heard how they shot Fred Hampton in his bed. As fresh as if I didn't know Bobby Hutton was surrendering when they shot him. 1/2
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
in these moments, in my view, it is a political and spiritual DUTY for my outrage and anger to be as fresh as if I'd never heard how they shot Fred Hampton in his bed. As fresh as if I didn't know Bobby Hutton was surrendering when they shot him. 1/2
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“Acquire”. The US will “acquire” Greenland, not invade and annex it. And it did not kidnap Maduro. It “captured” or “siezed” him. The language of news reporting is something we all need to watch so carefully at the moment, and call it out when it peddles mendacious euphemisms.
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
“Acquire”. The US will “acquire” Greenland, not invade and annex it. And it did not kidnap Maduro. It “captured” or “siezed” him. The language of news reporting is something we all need to watch so carefully at the moment, and call it out when it peddles mendacious euphemisms.