Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
Different Alan Scott than the Green Lantern one, but we are both gay.
Were I ever actually to get off my but and post stuff, I'd be posting about Tabletop, Comics, Mixology, Current Events, and Retail Management.
Sacramento, California, USA.
Were I ever actually to get off my but and post stuff, I'd be posting about Tabletop, Comics, Mixology, Current Events, and Retail Management.
Sacramento, California, USA.
I would not want to learn magic from John Constantine, no matter how good at magic he is. I would not want to fuck John Constantine no matter how good a lover he is. I would not want to ever meet John Constantine, because I do not want to die or explode or get sucked into hell.
You get 1 teacher to teach you magic
There's one correct answer.
There's one correct answer.
December 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I would not want to learn magic from John Constantine, no matter how good at magic he is. I would not want to fuck John Constantine no matter how good a lover he is. I would not want to ever meet John Constantine, because I do not want to die or explode or get sucked into hell.
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Bigotry is not a working class value, and it's awfully condescending to assume that it is.
December 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Bigotry is not a working class value, and it's awfully condescending to assume that it is.
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Tinker Swift, Taylor Swift, Soldier Swift, Spy Swift
December 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Tinker Swift, Taylor Swift, Soldier Swift, Spy Swift
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the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
Really refuse to let the worst people have ownership of techno-optimism
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
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Anyway, affordability is a problem (build more houses) and we need to bring down costs (build more houses) but I don't think that effort (building more houses) is aided by deceptive comparisons that imply no real increase in living standards since 1843, a thing which is obviously, laughably untrue.
October 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Anyway, affordability is a problem (build more houses) and we need to bring down costs (build more houses) but I don't think that effort (building more houses) is aided by deceptive comparisons that imply no real increase in living standards since 1843, a thing which is obviously, laughably untrue.
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I think a fair bit of RPG discourse mistakes "most players don't care about RPG theory" (true) with "most players don't care about the things that theory is about" (false).
It is fair to say that I have known very few players who actually care about stance theory in the abstract.
It is fair to say that I have known very few players who actually care about stance theory in the abstract.
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I think a fair bit of RPG discourse mistakes "most players don't care about RPG theory" (true) with "most players don't care about the things that theory is about" (false).
It is fair to say that I have known very few players who actually care about stance theory in the abstract.
It is fair to say that I have known very few players who actually care about stance theory in the abstract.
This is why we need to start talking about this shit now, and not wait until after we vote them out. Dem leadership with blinders on talking about "kitchen table issues" when actual folks at actual kitchen tables are talking about tribunals.
Like I think we will have widespread support for “that was very bad” but I think we are going to have a lot of difficulty arriving at “and these are the solutions”
December 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is why we need to start talking about this shit now, and not wait until after we vote them out. Dem leadership with blinders on talking about "kitchen table issues" when actual folks at actual kitchen tables are talking about tribunals.
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is "being a huge fucking bitchass loser" considered culturally normal gavin because I gotta be real it's not looking good for you out there
December 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM
is "being a huge fucking bitchass loser" considered culturally normal gavin because I gotta be real it's not looking good for you out there
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new york democrats shouldn't be let anywhere near power. the ideal democratic leader is a guy who won by 2 percent and actually thinks of the GOP, rather than other Democrats, as the enemy.
December 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
new york democrats shouldn't be let anywhere near power. the ideal democratic leader is a guy who won by 2 percent and actually thinks of the GOP, rather than other Democrats, as the enemy.
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A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.
May 29, 2024 at 10:55 PM
A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.
A good analysis of a good movie
Don’t read this if you haven’t watched the new Knives Out movie but I wrote about how the series only works because Blanc doesn’t treat the mysteries like a game but is always protecting the most vulnerable individual in the case
open.substack.com/pub/somethin...
open.substack.com/pub/somethin...
Benoit Blanc’s road to Damascus
There’s several tensions at work in the new Knives Out movie, Wake Up Dead Man — religious belief vs nonbelief / atheism, innocence vs guilt, love vs hate, what a community looks like, what is the tru...
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
A good analysis of a good movie
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Me: I'm gonna try one of them primordial fruits. Fruits what existed before humans bred new fake ones into existence
Me, two minutes later: okay I now understand why humans bred new fruits
Me, two minutes later: okay I now understand why humans bred new fruits
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Me: I'm gonna try one of them primordial fruits. Fruits what existed before humans bred new fake ones into existence
Me, two minutes later: okay I now understand why humans bred new fruits
Me, two minutes later: okay I now understand why humans bred new fruits
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The best way to understand the current regime is that we're effectively being governed by an unofficial, extra-constitutional junta mostly dominated by Miller, in which Trump himself is a marginal and disengaged figurehead making few if any substantive decisions.
it is the worst of all worlds. a "unitary *presidency*" insulated from judicial or congressional power and a weak president unable to do the job of governing
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The best way to understand the current regime is that we're effectively being governed by an unofficial, extra-constitutional junta mostly dominated by Miller, in which Trump himself is a marginal and disengaged figurehead making few if any substantive decisions.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
I'm sure most of my gamer peeps know that the Wizard/Sorcerer distinction didn't show up in D&D until 2001. But that's nothing compared to how the anachronistic Stihl model is blowing up in Chainsaw social media circles.
That said, damn is this season of Stranger Things cool as hell.
That said, damn is this season of Stranger Things cool as hell.
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I'm sure most of my gamer peeps know that the Wizard/Sorcerer distinction didn't show up in D&D until 2001. But that's nothing compared to how the anachronistic Stihl model is blowing up in Chainsaw social media circles.
That said, damn is this season of Stranger Things cool as hell.
That said, damn is this season of Stranger Things cool as hell.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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DOORDASH: imagine a $12 sandwich
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
DOORDASH: imagine a $12 sandwich
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
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See, when I'm facilitating #ttrpgs, I'm there to be entertained by the antics of the OTHER players.
I AM THE AUDIENCE, not the performer; yeah, I'll do my bit parts, and set design, and stage management and lighting.
But your PCs are the STARS OF THE SHOW, so make with the roles/rolls and SHINE!
I AM THE AUDIENCE, not the performer; yeah, I'll do my bit parts, and set design, and stage management and lighting.
But your PCs are the STARS OF THE SHOW, so make with the roles/rolls and SHINE!
Too many people wants the GM to provide the fun while they don’t do a damn thing to help anyone. Fuck that. Everyone has the responsibility to help everyone at the table have fun
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
See, when I'm facilitating #ttrpgs, I'm there to be entertained by the antics of the OTHER players.
I AM THE AUDIENCE, not the performer; yeah, I'll do my bit parts, and set design, and stage management and lighting.
But your PCs are the STARS OF THE SHOW, so make with the roles/rolls and SHINE!
I AM THE AUDIENCE, not the performer; yeah, I'll do my bit parts, and set design, and stage management and lighting.
But your PCs are the STARS OF THE SHOW, so make with the roles/rolls and SHINE!
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any time Discord or Windows or whatever has a "An update is ready for you :)" button i sit there with my mouse hovering over it knowing that it's like russian roulette where one chamber has a live bullet and the other 5 chambers will explode the gun in my hands
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
any time Discord or Windows or whatever has a "An update is ready for you :)" button i sit there with my mouse hovering over it knowing that it's like russian roulette where one chamber has a live bullet and the other 5 chambers will explode the gun in my hands
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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There's a lot to criticize in 4E, from how classes and races were split up to bad MMs to having a boring armor system (again), but that's not usually what people complained about. They parroted dumb complaints with little direct knowledge, and for it they should be pursued by hounds across the moor.
having played 4e, it ain't really all that, especially the early monster manuals. The internal drama at WotC really hamstrung what could have been an okay game.
13th Age was better.
13th Age was better.
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
There's a lot to criticize in 4E, from how classes and races were split up to bad MMs to having a boring armor system (again), but that's not usually what people complained about. They parroted dumb complaints with little direct knowledge, and for it they should be pursued by hounds across the moor.
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stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
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notice how the depiction of the hacker in media got commodified by the tech industry when hackers stopped dressing like aliens going to the gay nightclub and started dressing like mark zuckerberg in a hoodie
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
notice how the depiction of the hacker in media got commodified by the tech industry when hackers stopped dressing like aliens going to the gay nightclub and started dressing like mark zuckerberg in a hoodie
Make the villain be an American politician and cast the actor who played Biff in Back to the Future II.
I see we've entered the making-movies-for-the-strongman phase of democratic decline.
‘Rush Hour 4’ in the Works at Paramount at Trump’s Request
"Rush Hour 4" in the works at Paramount after prodding from president Trump.
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Make the villain be an American politician and cast the actor who played Biff in Back to the Future II.