Brian Schoner
@bschoner.bsky.social
Software geek by day, freelance writer by night, bass guitarist on the weekends, voice actor whenever time permits, and gamer ALL THE DAMN TIME. Cohost of the https://bsky.app/profile/ascentofboardgames.bsky.social podcast. He/him.
Just came across this in a @robwords.bsky.social video on the history of the NATO phonetic alphabet (shut up, I'm a nerd), and it may be my favorite new milspeak for "STFU": "You are therefore requested to reconsider the desirability of pressing your point at this time."
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Just came across this in a @robwords.bsky.social video on the history of the NATO phonetic alphabet (shut up, I'm a nerd), and it may be my favorite new milspeak for "STFU": "You are therefore requested to reconsider the desirability of pressing your point at this time."
This is a great interview! I have no idea what I expected from the creator(s, as it turned out) of Oglaf, but they seem just about exactly right. (For those who aren't familiar with it, the Oglaf webcomic is very very NSFW, but the interview is pretty clean.)
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is a great interview! I have no idea what I expected from the creator(s, as it turned out) of Oglaf, but they seem just about exactly right. (For those who aren't familiar with it, the Oglaf webcomic is very very NSFW, but the interview is pretty clean.)
How is it even conceivable that @ossoff.bsky.social and other Democratic senators are considering surrendering on a Republican-caused government shutdown after the most successful Democratic elections in decades? This would be a staggering betrayal of what the Democratic Party should stand for.
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
How is it even conceivable that @ossoff.bsky.social and other Democratic senators are considering surrendering on a Republican-caused government shutdown after the most successful Democratic elections in decades? This would be a staggering betrayal of what the Democratic Party should stand for.
This would make a great Parsely game…
There were quite a lot of text adventures in the 80s. Some were fantasy. Some were mystery. Some were horror. Some were science fiction. But others, well... (Source.)
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This would make a great Parsely game…
Did women ruin the workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Did women ruin the workplace?
Is this where I say that I want to watch all of these shows? (Except maybe Sprout Quest, but that's a me problem.)
In lieu of yet another objectively correct opinion on the "Rule of Cool," I present you a thread of the kind of tv show each of my games would be if I was given the budget to make tv shows instead of ttrpgs.
I run games like a writers' room, I write them to help you run them like tv shows. 1/14
I run games like a writers' room, I write them to help you run them like tv shows. 1/14
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Is this where I say that I want to watch all of these shows? (Except maybe Sprout Quest, but that's a me problem.)
Reposted by Brian Schoner
We conclude - for now - our discussion on video games that have been turned into board games. Plus, we uncover the solution to a mystery that has been haunting us for far too long! (A month. It's been a month.)
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-75...
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-75...
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
We conclude - for now - our discussion on video games that have been turned into board games. Plus, we uncover the solution to a mystery that has been haunting us for far too long! (A month. It's been a month.)
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-75...
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-75...
Looking at the site, there doesn't seem to be any information on exactly how/where to apply - or I have failed yet another Spot check. Maybe @thirdfloorwars.bsky.social or @amiewebster.bsky.social will have better luck...
Just getting home from work, huh? Or waking up from that really great post-lunch nap? What a perfect time to make sure you or your favorite show have submitted for the actual play grants!
The deadline is roughly seven hours away -- make some time after dinner to make sure you get it in!
The deadline is roughly seven hours away -- make some time after dinner to make sure you get it in!
October 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Looking at the site, there doesn't seem to be any information on exactly how/where to apply - or I have failed yet another Spot check. Maybe @thirdfloorwars.bsky.social or @amiewebster.bsky.social will have better luck...
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
Knickers
Knickers
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
100 Gland
100 Gland
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
Twig
Twig
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
Knickers
Knickers
Post a perfect album from 1989, a pretty damn fine music year.
October 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Post a perfect album from 1989, a pretty damn fine music year.
Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam,Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam,Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
Craig is really good at this - I'd be in one of the open seats if I was available!
I am running Liminal Horror and Cthulhu Dark on November 9th and 23rd. It will be streamed with an amazing table. I have a seat open for each. Feel like having too much fun playing an RPG? Shoot me a PM.
a screen that says " shall we play a game " next move
ALT: a screen that says " shall we play a game " next move
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Craig is really good at this - I'd be in one of the open seats if I was available!
This is...pretty great. Watch the whole thing.
This Rollercoaster Tycoon video is an actual work of emotionally-gripping mad genius
Defying Gravity | Synchronized Roller Coasters (Wicked)
YouTube video by Tube Cody
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
This is...pretty great. Watch the whole thing.
"The man said he didn't have the right form."
"What man?"
"The man from the pedo detector van."
"What man?"
"The man from the pedo detector van."
October 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
"The man said he didn't have the right form."
"What man?"
"The man from the pedo detector van."
"What man?"
"The man from the pedo detector van."
DO WANT
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
DO WANT
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
October 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
More of @spazzster.bsky.social 's "An Elegy in Crimson" podcast, which is basically @timhutchings.bsky.social 's Thousand-Year-Old Vampire played out in the form of an interview. But this one has me in it! krademachir.podbean.com/e/an-elegy-i...
October 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
More of @spazzster.bsky.social 's "An Elegy in Crimson" podcast, which is basically @timhutchings.bsky.social 's Thousand-Year-Old Vampire played out in the form of an interview. But this one has me in it! krademachir.podbean.com/e/an-elegy-i...
Halloween haiku:
Twelve-foot skeletons
Guard the yards and watch the streets
Plastic talismans
Twelve-foot skeletons
Guard the yards and watch the streets
Plastic talismans
Halloween Season Poetry:
a haiku
Eldritch standing stones
Melted shades of primal gods
Blood-splashed once more
(Like, share, quote post with your own. We can make this a thing. 😜😱 )
a haiku
Eldritch standing stones
Melted shades of primal gods
Blood-splashed once more
(Like, share, quote post with your own. We can make this a thing. 😜😱 )
October 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Halloween haiku:
Twelve-foot skeletons
Guard the yards and watch the streets
Plastic talismans
Twelve-foot skeletons
Guard the yards and watch the streets
Plastic talismans
Reposted by Brian Schoner
Episode 75 is here, as we start examining computer games that were turned into board games...with varying degrees of success.
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-75...
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-75...
October 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Episode 75 is here, as we start examining computer games that were turned into board games...with varying degrees of success.
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-75...
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-75...
This is a fascinating interview about a wonderful game. It's deep, and some might find it a little full of itself, but I'm so glad that a game that can generate this kind of discussion exists. Go play Slay the Princess, if you haven't.
Just read through this massive interview about Slay the Princess and got floored multiple times through the whole thing. By god. int-magazine.com/interview/sl...
Slay the Princess’s Tony Howard-Arias and Abby Howard: “I mean, that she loves you. She loves you unconditionally”
int-magazine.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is a fascinating interview about a wonderful game. It's deep, and some might find it a little full of itself, but I'm so glad that a game that can generate this kind of discussion exists. Go play Slay the Princess, if you haven't.
What's your sign?
September 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
What's your sign?
It's an older era of horror, but Fury of Dracula remains one of my favorites. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18...
September 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It's an older era of horror, but Fury of Dracula remains one of my favorites. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18...
Of potential interest to @paigeleitman.bsky.social
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Of potential interest to @paigeleitman.bsky.social
This sounds great! If I wasn't helping to run a real-world puzzle hunt tomorrow (playDASH.org), I would be all over this in real time; hopefully I can avoid hints and spoilers to solve it after the fact!
September 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This sounds great! If I wasn't helping to run a real-world puzzle hunt tomorrow (playDASH.org), I would be all over this in real time; hopefully I can avoid hints and spoilers to solve it after the fact!
Slightly diminish a book...
We Have Always Lived in the Condo
We Have Always Lived in the Condo
Slightly diminish a book...
Fool's-Goldfinger
Fool's-Goldfinger
Slightly diminish a book...
Loose Change Island
Loose Change Island
September 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Slightly diminish a book...
We Have Always Lived in the Condo
We Have Always Lived in the Condo