I was thinking that the post-Maduro comments sounded like someone who thought Age of Empires was how real war worked. “We took out their town hall/command center, why aren’t they removed from the game”

He sleeps without concern

As far as RPGs go, I read:
For @modiphius.bsky.social's Conan, Conan the Barbarian/Thief/Mercenary
Outgunned + Action Flicks I
Lancer
Plus parts of the 2024 Dungeons & Dragons supplements.

Starting 2026 off with @rtalsoriangames.bsky.social' Cyberpunk RED.
#booksky

2/2 "fame" is not evenly temporally distributed; some people are hot out of the gate, some build over time, some get hot years or even decades after their debut. Every writer you meet, "famous" or not, will remember how you treated them, their friends, and why. Treat everyone as having value.

It’s also much more eloquent than my knee-jerk response of “skill issue. give me your dice”

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.

It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
No thing beside remains.

I know I have over a grand just into FFG’s 40K RPGs. Sunk cost won’t stop me with new rpgs

one of my favourite quotes stopped me dead in my tracks when i first heard it. Kazuo Ishiguro said in his Nobel acceptance speech:

"But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another:
This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”