Nevin Flanagan
@nevin.playsmith.net
Reader, gamer, designer, programmer, teacher.
Especially when you have pale skin, blue eyes, and softly wavy blonde hair.
December 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Especially when you have pale skin, blue eyes, and softly wavy blonde hair.
Garfunkel & Oates say that’s part of the point!
December 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Garfunkel & Oates say that’s part of the point!
I was just reflecting an hour or two ago that a few poems and songs seem to have seized the online zeitgeist so that we are mapping all sorts of things to them, including each other.
This is just to tell you, Hallelujah, and more recently The Second Coming.
This is just to tell you, Hallelujah, and more recently The Second Coming.
December 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I was just reflecting an hour or two ago that a few poems and songs seem to have seized the online zeitgeist so that we are mapping all sorts of things to them, including each other.
This is just to tell you, Hallelujah, and more recently The Second Coming.
This is just to tell you, Hallelujah, and more recently The Second Coming.
Feels extra topical.
December 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Feels extra topical.
Which includes you. 🎨
December 21, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Which includes you. 🎨
I think I still have it on VHS.
December 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I think I still have it on VHS.
I feel like the contractors and demo teams carrying out the work need to be sued into oblivion. While obviously the real problem is the people commissioning the work, if these actions are illegal, the people taking the jobs should be balking at accepting, and currently they seem to assume it’s fine.
December 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I feel like the contractors and demo teams carrying out the work need to be sued into oblivion. While obviously the real problem is the people commissioning the work, if these actions are illegal, the people taking the jobs should be balking at accepting, and currently they seem to assume it’s fine.
Rocks of Ages for me.
December 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Rocks of Ages for me.
I saw excerpts only during my first master’s. That was enough. It was so far from even the Overton window of the time. D.W. Griffith had to make one of the grandest film projects ever conceived just to try and say “look, I can also make non-racist movies!”
December 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I saw excerpts only during my first master’s. That was enough. It was so far from even the Overton window of the time. D.W. Griffith had to make one of the grandest film projects ever conceived just to try and say “look, I can also make non-racist movies!”
You can’t express an idea without expressing it. They always seem to be saying that if you dice-roll a few options, one of them will make you go “That’s it! That’s what I meant to say!”
December 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
You can’t express an idea without expressing it. They always seem to be saying that if you dice-roll a few options, one of them will make you go “That’s it! That’s what I meant to say!”
Just how rude a beast we talking here?
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Just how rude a beast we talking here?
And I do recall now that “latke” means “little oily.”
The potato pancakes I made at my summer job in high school were much larger, but they were at least carefully cooked. And we didn’t claim they were latkes.
The potato pancakes I made at my summer job in high school were much larger, but they were at least carefully cooked. And we didn’t claim they were latkes.
December 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
And I do recall now that “latke” means “little oily.”
The potato pancakes I made at my summer job in high school were much larger, but they were at least carefully cooked. And we didn’t claim they were latkes.
The potato pancakes I made at my summer job in high school were much larger, but they were at least carefully cooked. And we didn’t claim they were latkes.
I beg your pardon. I was too distracted by looking around to see whether there was some idiocy like scallops wrapped in bacon to bring the custom to top of mind. I have been fortunate to have Jewish friends involve me in various celebrations but it has been a while.
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I beg your pardon. I was too distracted by looking around to see whether there was some idiocy like scallops wrapped in bacon to bring the custom to top of mind. I have been fortunate to have Jewish friends involve me in various celebrations but it has been a while.
I guess I’m flabbergasted that they might get even that much right.
December 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I guess I’m flabbergasted that they might get even that much right.
It looks very fried.
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It looks very fried.
One point I will admit I haven’t looked into but am made curious about is what more scholarly English-language collections of Japanese stories had been collected or published by that time.
December 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
One point I will admit I haven’t looked into but am made curious about is what more scholarly English-language collections of Japanese stories had been collected or published by that time.
Well, one of the great English language collections of Japanese folkie was done by an Irish expatriate who settled permanently in Japan.
December 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Well, one of the great English language collections of Japanese folkie was done by an Irish expatriate who settled permanently in Japan.
Also, there is separating her from her art, and then there is separating her from her media empire money machine, which is much harder.
Whether HP deserves to be regarded apart from her actions or not, one can’t support it without feeding her platform.
Whether HP deserves to be regarded apart from her actions or not, one can’t support it without feeding her platform.
December 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Also, there is separating her from her art, and then there is separating her from her media empire money machine, which is much harder.
Whether HP deserves to be regarded apart from her actions or not, one can’t support it without feeding her platform.
Whether HP deserves to be regarded apart from her actions or not, one can’t support it without feeding her platform.
I remember thinking at a fairly early point in the discussion about AI “writing” that the sort of person who thinks AI can produce good stories (or “stories,” really) imagines that a book is “a novel series of sentences.”
December 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I remember thinking at a fairly early point in the discussion about AI “writing” that the sort of person who thinks AI can produce good stories (or “stories,” really) imagines that a book is “a novel series of sentences.”
There are a surprising number of people who seem to believe that anyone who understood the doctrine would eagerly convert, so the only explanation must be that we don’t know yet.
“The Bible says otherwise.”
“Oh, does it really? I must be wrong then.”
…said no-one ever.
“The Bible says otherwise.”
“Oh, does it really? I must be wrong then.”
…said no-one ever.
December 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
There are a surprising number of people who seem to believe that anyone who understood the doctrine would eagerly convert, so the only explanation must be that we don’t know yet.
“The Bible says otherwise.”
“Oh, does it really? I must be wrong then.”
…said no-one ever.
“The Bible says otherwise.”
“Oh, does it really? I must be wrong then.”
…said no-one ever.
Going through early issues of Dragon for a class recently, plenty of articles and letters talked about all kinds of different game styles, all the way back in the 70s. Even EGG wrote articles about the importance of developing a unique identity and not just “roll-playing.”
December 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Going through early issues of Dragon for a class recently, plenty of articles and letters talked about all kinds of different game styles, all the way back in the 70s. Even EGG wrote articles about the importance of developing a unique identity and not just “roll-playing.”