Nookacabra
@meganook.bsky.social
Tool using higher primate.
Bipedal Charismatic Fauna.
Wrong opinions about games.
JSBX. Afghan Whigs. Florence + the Machine. Olivia Rodrigo. Spiritualized. The Go! Team. Taylor Swift. Tom Waits.
V:tM. Vaesen. D&D. BitD. Gumshoe. Mork Borg.
Bipedal Charismatic Fauna.
Wrong opinions about games.
JSBX. Afghan Whigs. Florence + the Machine. Olivia Rodrigo. Spiritualized. The Go! Team. Taylor Swift. Tom Waits.
V:tM. Vaesen. D&D. BitD. Gumshoe. Mork Borg.
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How about we kick off this week with a proper Valentine's Day sale?
We're teaming up with DriveThruRPG to launch a dual sale going on between our own webstore and their sites!
50% off all Cyberpunk RED digital titles on our own webstore!
talsorianstore.com/collections/...
We're teaming up with DriveThruRPG to launch a dual sale going on between our own webstore and their sites!
50% off all Cyberpunk RED digital titles on our own webstore!
talsorianstore.com/collections/...
February 9, 2026 at 11:09 PM
How about we kick off this week with a proper Valentine's Day sale?
We're teaming up with DriveThruRPG to launch a dual sale going on between our own webstore and their sites!
50% off all Cyberpunk RED digital titles on our own webstore!
talsorianstore.com/collections/...
We're teaming up with DriveThruRPG to launch a dual sale going on between our own webstore and their sites!
50% off all Cyberpunk RED digital titles on our own webstore!
talsorianstore.com/collections/...
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Saw a post saying that STEM kids should stick to STEM.
No. That focus on hard science and math at the expense of culture and art is part of how we got here.
No. That focus on hard science and math at the expense of culture and art is part of how we got here.
February 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Saw a post saying that STEM kids should stick to STEM.
No. That focus on hard science and math at the expense of culture and art is part of how we got here.
No. That focus on hard science and math at the expense of culture and art is part of how we got here.
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There are monsters under the bed in this grail page from Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Chosen by Lee Tyler in episode 321
February 9, 2026 at 8:46 AM
There are monsters under the bed in this grail page from Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Chosen by Lee Tyler in episode 321
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Sitting down to make an Official Neopets TRPG, taking out a copy of D&D5E and staring at it thoughtfully for 16 hours before crossing out "Gelatinous Cube" and writing "Blopple" next to it, I make 100 billion neopoints and get a card that says I can now legally duplicate items
February 6, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Sitting down to make an Official Neopets TRPG, taking out a copy of D&D5E and staring at it thoughtfully for 16 hours before crossing out "Gelatinous Cube" and writing "Blopple" next to it, I make 100 billion neopoints and get a card that says I can now legally duplicate items
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Today I found out about the existence of Taylor More Swiftly, a ska punk supergroup that only covers Taylor Swift songs. "The new Oizone" some people (me) are saying.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpiH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpiH...
Taylor More Swiftly - You Belong With Me [Cover]
YouTube video by Taylor More Swiftly
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Today I found out about the existence of Taylor More Swiftly, a ska punk supergroup that only covers Taylor Swift songs. "The new Oizone" some people (me) are saying.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpiH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpiH...
Ok, Wonder Man was pretty good.
I especially liked that it didn't actually have a super fight in it at all
I especially liked that it didn't actually have a super fight in it at all
February 7, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Ok, Wonder Man was pretty good.
I especially liked that it didn't actually have a super fight in it at all
I especially liked that it didn't actually have a super fight in it at all
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If you're located in US, EU or UK then it's possible that you could be experiencing issues on Owlbear Rodeo.
This is due to Cloudflare maintenance happening at major datacenters in those regions.
We'll update again once the maintenance is completed. Sorry for the inconvience ya'll!!
This is due to Cloudflare maintenance happening at major datacenters in those regions.
We'll update again once the maintenance is completed. Sorry for the inconvience ya'll!!
February 5, 2026 at 1:11 AM
If you're located in US, EU or UK then it's possible that you could be experiencing issues on Owlbear Rodeo.
This is due to Cloudflare maintenance happening at major datacenters in those regions.
We'll update again once the maintenance is completed. Sorry for the inconvience ya'll!!
This is due to Cloudflare maintenance happening at major datacenters in those regions.
We'll update again once the maintenance is completed. Sorry for the inconvience ya'll!!
I totally misread this as brown sauce fanfic, and for a brief moment I felt joy that it was wholesome and healthy.
Then I saw my error
Then I saw my error
I'm always surprised how healthy the HP fanfic output still is. Lots of it is queer, and AUs/reimagined endings rule, so I feel like there's a lot of trying to retain ownership of a little bit of a thing they loved, but I just fundamentally don't get it. But at least it's not money going to JKR
Harry Potter fan in 2026: yes the author is a Nazi with ties to Jeffrey Epstein but I don't see any of that when I buy my annual wand at the Wizarding World in Florida
February 4, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I totally misread this as brown sauce fanfic, and for a brief moment I felt joy that it was wholesome and healthy.
Then I saw my error
Then I saw my error
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brb gotta put an inappropriate amount of ketchup on something
![A half portrait of Lace Harding showing just her eyes. Text reads "[culinary crimes intensify]."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4rrmclhelvlwlnz33obwi77o/bafkreicqmw6aux6ppvqyvz43gemp5bskxdwj7qoqdw4an64eba54ory3rm@jpeg)
February 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
brb gotta put an inappropriate amount of ketchup on something
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I have recently learned the term "labelscar." It's a concept I've known for years, but I didn't know the name for it. It describes the faint impression left on a building after signage is removed, often reminding us of who the former occupant was.
February 4, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I have recently learned the term "labelscar." It's a concept I've known for years, but I didn't know the name for it. It describes the faint impression left on a building after signage is removed, often reminding us of who the former occupant was.
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This is also the reason Vampire has Humanity, Werewolf has Hauglosk/ Harano, and Hunter has Despair. The game acknowledges that you are likely to do Bad Things, but the more you indulge Bad Things, especially to further your own ends, the more likely you are to lose the character to monstrosity.
February 3, 2026 at 8:44 PM
This is also the reason Vampire has Humanity, Werewolf has Hauglosk/ Harano, and Hunter has Despair. The game acknowledges that you are likely to do Bad Things, but the more you indulge Bad Things, especially to further your own ends, the more likely you are to lose the character to monstrosity.
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Gaiman is already suing one of his accusers. If he had any actionable claims against "There is No Safe Word", he would have sued New York Magazine and Lila Shapiro. The fact that he is instead pointing readers to some random substack article tells us all we need to know.
I find the entire genre of "tens of thousands of words minutely refuting every point of an abuse clam" intrinsically unpersuasive. If any of the evidence were actually damning they'd just highlight that instead of doing a tedious Gish Gallop.
I haven't read that massive Substack thing that Gaiman linked to in his whinge, and nor am I going to. If you need tens of thousands of words of rant and innuendo to embed your "shocking evidence" in, you don't have shocking evidence, you have a conspiracy manifesto.
February 3, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Gaiman is already suing one of his accusers. If he had any actionable claims against "There is No Safe Word", he would have sued New York Magazine and Lila Shapiro. The fact that he is instead pointing readers to some random substack article tells us all we need to know.
There's a whole thread above this post, but this is the whole thread condensed into a blog post, so I guess read that
ALSO, burying the lede here but I have a blog now (!) and you can read this whole thread there if you prefer: blog.olddog.games/posts/the-vi...
The visual design of Blades ’68 - The Old Dog Blog
This post was originally written as a Bluesky thread, hence the staccato, 300-character-paragraph format. In celebration of the imminent Blades ‘68 campaign, I thought I’d talk a bit about its...
blog.olddog.games
February 3, 2026 at 10:48 AM
There's a whole thread above this post, but this is the whole thread condensed into a blog post, so I guess read that
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I'll just add, as someone who's been doing investigative reporting for decades, all publications doing real journalism (i.e., not a sockpuppet or Some Guy on the Internet)--they have MANY layers of editorial & legal review. Every major investigation I've done has had EVERY WORD checked many times.
I find the entire genre of "tens of thousands of words minutely refuting every point of an abuse clam" intrinsically unpersuasive. If any of the evidence were actually damning they'd just highlight that instead of doing a tedious Gish Gallop.
I haven't read that massive Substack thing that Gaiman linked to in his whinge, and nor am I going to. If you need tens of thousands of words of rant and innuendo to embed your "shocking evidence" in, you don't have shocking evidence, you have a conspiracy manifesto.
February 3, 2026 at 4:47 AM
I'll just add, as someone who's been doing investigative reporting for decades, all publications doing real journalism (i.e., not a sockpuppet or Some Guy on the Internet)--they have MANY layers of editorial & legal review. Every major investigation I've done has had EVERY WORD checked many times.
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Re: Gaiman - El Sandifer’s short thread here is precise and right. Nothing more need be said, really.
Past that, to my mind there's very little refutation to be done here. Even if you disbelieve the more salacious details, you've still got a long term pattern of Gaiman adding a BDSM dynamic with poor to nonexistent safety measures to relationships that already have massive power imbalances.
February 2, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Re: Gaiman - El Sandifer’s short thread here is precise and right. Nothing more need be said, really.
Fuck me if this isn't aimed at late 90s Nook
February 2, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Fuck me if this isn't aimed at late 90s Nook
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i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
xikipedia.org
February 1, 2026 at 11:43 PM
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
xikipedia.org
Had a general health check up at the GPs today.
Apparently I've grown.
I was 1.89m last time, and 1.91m this time.
That would make me 6'3"
Apparently I've grown.
I was 1.89m last time, and 1.91m this time.
That would make me 6'3"
February 2, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Had a general health check up at the GPs today.
Apparently I've grown.
I was 1.89m last time, and 1.91m this time.
That would make me 6'3"
Apparently I've grown.
I was 1.89m last time, and 1.91m this time.
That would make me 6'3"
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Watched 'Havoc' on Netflix tonight.
It's not the best film in the world, not close, but it has some fun moments.
It's an attempt at a John Wick movie with a more complex plot.
And a criminal waste of Olyphant.
I enjoyed the nightclub fight, even if it included multiple shark jumps
It's not the best film in the world, not close, but it has some fun moments.
It's an attempt at a John Wick movie with a more complex plot.
And a criminal waste of Olyphant.
I enjoyed the nightclub fight, even if it included multiple shark jumps
January 31, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Watched 'Havoc' on Netflix tonight.
It's not the best film in the world, not close, but it has some fun moments.
It's an attempt at a John Wick movie with a more complex plot.
And a criminal waste of Olyphant.
I enjoyed the nightclub fight, even if it included multiple shark jumps
It's not the best film in the world, not close, but it has some fun moments.
It's an attempt at a John Wick movie with a more complex plot.
And a criminal waste of Olyphant.
I enjoyed the nightclub fight, even if it included multiple shark jumps
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Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
January 31, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
Five modules I took at university..
Ok, six
Gothic Narratives
The Novel and the Disoriented Self
Literature and Transgression
Amoral Traditions in Literature
The Aesthetics of Awkwardness
Eclipsing the Thinkable: Requiem to Real in Contemporary Fiction
Ok, six
Gothic Narratives
The Novel and the Disoriented Self
Literature and Transgression
Amoral Traditions in Literature
The Aesthetics of Awkwardness
Eclipsing the Thinkable: Requiem to Real in Contemporary Fiction
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five modules you took at university.
Document or Lampost?
The semiotics of the birdbath
Stalin: the Swing Years
Otters: What are they up to?
Esperanto for the hard of thinking
Document or Lampost?
The semiotics of the birdbath
Stalin: the Swing Years
Otters: What are they up to?
Esperanto for the hard of thinking
When I was an undergrad, classes weren't this simple, & I didn't go to many because I had reeeeal bad depression & didn't know it, but:
Economics for Historians
Introduction to Icelandic
Woodrow Wilson & the First World War
The Vikings in Europe
History of Political Thought (Ancient) (also Modern)
Economics for Historians
Introduction to Icelandic
Woodrow Wilson & the First World War
The Vikings in Europe
History of Political Thought (Ancient) (also Modern)
January 30, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Five modules I took at university..
Ok, six
Gothic Narratives
The Novel and the Disoriented Self
Literature and Transgression
Amoral Traditions in Literature
The Aesthetics of Awkwardness
Eclipsing the Thinkable: Requiem to Real in Contemporary Fiction
Ok, six
Gothic Narratives
The Novel and the Disoriented Self
Literature and Transgression
Amoral Traditions in Literature
The Aesthetics of Awkwardness
Eclipsing the Thinkable: Requiem to Real in Contemporary Fiction
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Well here’s a milestone in the mainstreaming of the form — Variety covering GMing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JtU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JtU...
Brennan Lee Mulligan & Matt Mercer | GMs
YouTube video by Variety
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Well here’s a milestone in the mainstreaming of the form — Variety covering GMing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JtU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JtU...
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A Dungeon Game is here and it's free! (It's been both of those things for ages tbh)
Explore subterranean depths, face dragons, and discover what lurks beneath. It's classic dungeon crawling with modern design (i.e. it's good).
https://loottheroom.itch.io/a-dungeon-game
Explore subterranean depths, face dragons, and discover what lurks beneath. It's classic dungeon crawling with modern design (i.e. it's good).
https://loottheroom.itch.io/a-dungeon-game
a dungeon game by Chris Bissette
the second edition of a dragon game
loottheroom.itch.io
January 30, 2026 at 4:04 AM
A Dungeon Game is here and it's free! (It's been both of those things for ages tbh)
Explore subterranean depths, face dragons, and discover what lurks beneath. It's classic dungeon crawling with modern design (i.e. it's good).
https://loottheroom.itch.io/a-dungeon-game
Explore subterranean depths, face dragons, and discover what lurks beneath. It's classic dungeon crawling with modern design (i.e. it's good).
https://loottheroom.itch.io/a-dungeon-game
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