Ah yes, a “paywall”. Or what we used to call “buying a magazine”.

Humanity has conquered the oceans, space, and particles, but what have we managed to come up with to store our used-but-not-dirty-yet clothes at home? A chair. That’s the best we could do. We put clothes on a chair.

A couple months ago I finished watching (for the first time!) the original Star Trek series. It was great! A mix of charming, profound, cheesy, and cool. Plus, a weird mix of progressive/woke and outdated/cringe stuff. Overall, I love that “old sci-fi” feeling! Next: the Motion Picture!

We are very sad that Manzano, one of the few good local bakeries, has now closed 😞 (not 100% sure but apparently from the owners retiring, not from financial trouble)

Happy birthday, Ziggy, you handsome alien.

We missed it but a couple months ago was the 10th anniversary of #UE5’s Sequencer tool! Next June will be the anniversary of when it came out of the alpha preview you had to explicitly enable. Maybe we’ll do a little celebration for the occasion?

TTRPGs ran/played in 2025:

• Call of Cthulhu
• Delta Green
• RuneQuest
• Dragonbane
• Pendragon
• Warhammer
• Spire
• D&D
• BRP
• Questworlds
• GURPS
• 13th Age
• Traveller
• Weird Heroes of Public Access
• Ronin

Just in time for the end of the year, I finished playing through this video game classic I had never played before. With help from the young kid, where “help” means yelling “WATCH OUT! CLICKERS! RELOAD! THROW A MOLOTOV!”

During this holiday season, remember the old saying: “being fat sucks, but getting fat is awesome”

By the way, in last night’s RuneQuest game, one PC killed Harvar Ironfist in a Heroquest while another PC acting as Yelmalio was judging him for his crimes. Next: civil war in the Far Place! Woohoo!