I can't imagine Mark playing a character.

Been thinking a lot about old White Wolf/Onyx Path games and how they do world building and it’s honestly a pretty fascinating pattern that happens across their long lived gamelines.

As a thought experiment I have slowly begun to patchwork together Vampire the Masquerade’s two versions and Vampire the Requiem and it’s been a fun exercise.

Recession indicator: the new VNV Nation single is good.

FATAL FURY: CotW ｜HOKUTOMARUThis might be the best glowup a character has gotten in ages.

Had an absurdly stressful work day and then someone hit and run the family car and tore the front bumper mostly off.

Dave Allen died. Up there with Peter Hook for bass players that were essential to the sound of their bands.

It is deeply strange to be teaching Things Fall Apart, one of the seminal anti-colonial novels, while poking from time to time at Monster Hunter Wilds, a game that can be (uncharitably) read as contacting uncontacted civilizations so I can tell them about how cool guns and logistic chains are.

I said this in Sven's plurk but I'm so tired of slow games becoming fast and fast games becoming slow.

A lot of my friends elsewhere are losing their minds for the Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut but as someone who has beaten that game to death I am struggling to think what more needs to be added to it.