Ben Mabbott
@bmabbott.bsky.social
Nerd, politics, gaming, baseball, mostly lurking.
The Nights into Dreams store demo disc is our most holy relic.
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The Nights into Dreams store demo disc is our most holy relic.
Survive one mission in Brimstone using this one weird trick!
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Survive one mission in Brimstone using this one weird trick!
Vassal is the best option: vassalengine.org
That may be the 'not great' site you're referring to as it is a little clunky, but it works, and there's a Discord for it to get help or connect with people for games.
That may be the 'not great' site you're referring to as it is a little clunky, but it works, and there's a Discord for it to get help or connect with people for games.
Vassal
Vassal is an open-source game engine for building and playing online adaptations of board games and card games.
vassalengine.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Vassal is the best option: vassalengine.org
That may be the 'not great' site you're referring to as it is a little clunky, but it works, and there's a Discord for it to get help or connect with people for games.
That may be the 'not great' site you're referring to as it is a little clunky, but it works, and there's a Discord for it to get help or connect with people for games.
I don't understand why these woke weirdos don't want to date me, famously stable and all around cool guy Patrick Bateman!
December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I don't understand why these woke weirdos don't want to date me, famously stable and all around cool guy Patrick Bateman!
It would. Setting aside ::gestures everywhere:: all of this, she's got the makings of a good writer. She comes up with interesting prose that is fun to read. But man, then she smothers it with a bunch of extraneous pretension. She clearly needs someone to tell her to pump the breaks now and then.
December 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It would. Setting aside ::gestures everywhere:: all of this, she's got the makings of a good writer. She comes up with interesting prose that is fun to read. But man, then she smothers it with a bunch of extraneous pretension. She clearly needs someone to tell her to pump the breaks now and then.
Bill Murray can play Usenet.
December 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Bill Murray can play Usenet.
Trump's approval is at 36, what's Jeffries supposed to do, *not* try to ride those coattails?
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Trump's approval is at 36, what's Jeffries supposed to do, *not* try to ride those coattails?
Inevitably I land on 'this seems problematic, but what would a better option look like?' and I have no idea, so I keep doing the acknowledgements.
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Inevitably I land on 'this seems problematic, but what would a better option look like?' and I have no idea, so I keep doing the acknowledgements.
But we're not giving the land back, so who's feelings are these acknowledgements designed to assuage? It feels self serving and hypocritical. But then I remember that I didn't sign the deed to my house over to a native person today, so I'm just as full of shit on this as any other white American.
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
But we're not giving the land back, so who's feelings are these acknowledgements designed to assuage? It feels self serving and hypocritical. But then I remember that I didn't sign the deed to my house over to a native person today, so I'm just as full of shit on this as any other white American.
I never know how to feel about these. Our ancestors committed a genocide, acknowledgement is obviously the least we can do, but it feels especially performative because it's highlighting the land part, which is the one part we could actually undo if we chose to.
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I never know how to feel about these. Our ancestors committed a genocide, acknowledgement is obviously the least we can do, but it feels especially performative because it's highlighting the land part, which is the one part we could actually undo if we chose to.
It might land differently if it felt like these types had any internal conflict in their feelings on the subject. That shouldn't be hard, it's a tricky issue!
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
It might land differently if it felt like these types had any internal conflict in their feelings on the subject. That shouldn't be hard, it's a tricky issue!
"When the fall is all there is, it matters."
- Hans Gruber
- Hans Gruber
December 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
"When the fall is all there is, it matters."
- Hans Gruber
- Hans Gruber
Look, some of us want to use the toilet in one room and then wash our hands in three different sinks in an entirely different room, and we're done being hemmed in by your rules.
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Look, some of us want to use the toilet in one room and then wash our hands in three different sinks in an entirely different room, and we're done being hemmed in by your rules.
It's Mac & Cheese. Of *course* you'd try it. Any one of us would stuff it into our mouth holes like a squirrel storing nuts for winter. They can make it any flavor they want. They are as gods and we are powerless against them.
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It's Mac & Cheese. Of *course* you'd try it. Any one of us would stuff it into our mouth holes like a squirrel storing nuts for winter. They can make it any flavor they want. They are as gods and we are powerless against them.
That thing's gotta be, like, 20 license points.
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
That thing's gotta be, like, 20 license points.
Even as I was watching it and realizing all they were doing was throwing out nostalgia bait, I couldn't help but have a good time going along for the ride. It was a Jedi Mind Trick and I was one of the weak minded it worked on 🤷♂️
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Even as I was watching it and realizing all they were doing was throwing out nostalgia bait, I couldn't help but have a good time going along for the ride. It was a Jedi Mind Trick and I was one of the weak minded it worked on 🤷♂️
I'm sorry, but Force Awakens has a special place in my heart. I know it's a bad rehash of Ep 4, but it was *fun*. I missed the OT in theaters, and the prequels are certainly better as movies, but (other than the pod race) they're too busy being a Greek tragedy to be fun.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I'm sorry, but Force Awakens has a special place in my heart. I know it's a bad rehash of Ep 4, but it was *fun*. I missed the OT in theaters, and the prequels are certainly better as movies, but (other than the pod race) they're too busy being a Greek tragedy to be fun.
Yes, but that was before all of our bike lanes and donut shops were shelled in the war.
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Yes, but that was before all of our bike lanes and donut shops were shelled in the war.
Using a photo of Kevin Spacy(!) from a movie that clearly comes down on the side of 'this is a child and a relationship with her is wrong' was a hell of a choice.
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Using a photo of Kevin Spacy(!) from a movie that clearly comes down on the side of 'this is a child and a relationship with her is wrong' was a hell of a choice.
You can win the Presidency without people thinking you're cool, but if you could pick just one thing to go your way in an election, and it wasn't that, you are absolutely out of your mind.
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
You can win the Presidency without people thinking you're cool, but if you could pick just one thing to go your way in an election, and it wasn't that, you are absolutely out of your mind.
Yeah, it's pretty desolate out that way, but there's some very nice scenery!
November 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Yeah, it's pretty desolate out that way, but there's some very nice scenery!
Even worse though, the most likely outcome is that when presented with the facts their position wouldn't change at all. They have cognitive dissonance superpowers. And they aren't motivated by a hatred of the Left's policies, they are motivated by a hatred of the Left.
November 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Even worse though, the most likely outcome is that when presented with the facts their position wouldn't change at all. They have cognitive dissonance superpowers. And they aren't motivated by a hatred of the Left's policies, they are motivated by a hatred of the Left.
A lot of people buy into this because they see people on the news saying things like 'keep the government out of my Medicare!' and think if only they can educate that person they can flip them. They don't understand that it's far more likely that they'd stop supporting Medicare.
November 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A lot of people buy into this because they see people on the news saying things like 'keep the government out of my Medicare!' and think if only they can educate that person they can flip them. They don't understand that it's far more likely that they'd stop supporting Medicare.