Brian

Writing and occasionally podcasting. I like fiction, performing at live lit events, and tabletop role-playing games.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

I have to admit I didn't understand the extent of the heinous behavior by federal agents in Chicago til reading it all laid out like this by @JVLast. Its a real crisis.

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

https://t.co/qxmKMzBzH3

[Jimmy @doritoznegroz]

El verdadero milagro de Jesús fue tener 12 amigos a sus 33 años y juntarlos a todos para cenar.

[Brian @steamboat77]

Awesome new sci-fi supplement based on the Barbarians of Lemuria rpg, I strongly recommend. Just a ton of good stuff!

You need the Everywhen rpg core rules, currently discounted, to use Space Pulp.

Available here:

https://t.co/EDrS8y1qQJ

[tapir worf @tapir_worf]

we need different terms for conservatives depending on where they think it all went wrong:
- wokeness (2014)
- women’s suffrage (1920)
- cotton gin (1794)
- printing press (1440)
- battle of hastings (1066)
- latinate citizenship (338 bc)

what did i miss?

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.

[Breck Yunits @breckyunits]

@DylanoA4 In the land of the distracted, the phoneless man is king.

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

And that's also the main reason why Chileans are incomprehensible: So isolated from all other Spanish speakers!

[Grant Howitt @gshowitt]

Wushu: What if we just gave players what they wanted?

Dogs in the Vineyard: Disastrous consequences are fun and maybe a bit sexy

Unknown Armies: Magic is disgusting and dangerous and the only thing that really matters

Exalted: Beautiful. Intoxicating. I am never playing this

[Damien Echols @damienechols]

The Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled in our favor - further D.N.A. testing is to be allowed.
Hopefully this will allow us to solve this case once and for all.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us for the past 31 years. I’ll keep you posted as things move forward.

[TheNoyEstate.Com @thenoyestate]

SWARMER - The game.

Streetdogs, Noy fans, roleplay romantics... it's coming.

[Prismatic Wasteland @PrismaticWastes]

A sleight of hand has occurred with respect to the legacy of Jennell Jaquays, one of TTRPG’s most important early figures. Anne at DIY & Dragons definitively lays out the case why you should keep “JaquaySing” your dungeons in Xandering is Slandering https://t.co/cQhTjVxWSl

[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

Yes, the Civil War was fought because of slavery, as explained in this clip from a viral video of a 2015 lecture by retired US Army brigadier general Ty Seidule, the former head of the US Military Academy History Department. Yes, he received death threats 4 telling the truth. 1/

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

I've been watching the show Alone and noticing that I constantly wince watching the contestants (survival experts stranded in a harsh wilderness) kill animals or even cut down trees. I wince because modern society keeps me so well insulated from how the sausage that is my comfortable life is made.

For the people on Alone, there's a gravity to every meal—a mix of gratitude, sadness, responsibility. When an animal they killed rots before they eat it, they feel a profound sense of guilt. By insulating us from unpleasantness, society also insulates us from guilt, accountability, and gratitude.

There's an irony to it. If things ever get apocalyptic, the very people who will be wincing the hardest seeing the realities of life up close will be those who felt the least guilt about it back when things were good.

[Joshy McCroo - His Majesty the Worm Out Now! @riseupcomus]

This is, of course, my problem with D&D-like spells.

When you know a fireball is always 5' x 5' squares, magic becomes a math equation and not a spell.

Spells should have limits like "the circumference of a graveyard" or "as far as this bowshot" or "for a year and a day."

[ReadThinkTweet @ReadThinkTweet2]

@MedlinWrites @JHWeissmann @yeselson Want vibrant cities? Convert offices into residential. Ppl move in to live and business patronage and transit use return. The times of suburban commuters giving “life” to single function DTs are over. Make DT residential, safe, and suburbanites will come to spend on weekends.

[Grant Howitt @gshowitt]

D&D campaign where every PC is a cleric working for a dungeon-delving insurance company. You and your associates are sent into deathtraps with a bag full of Resurrection scrolls to retrieve adventurers who had paid for the deluxe TPK Package

[Brian @steamboat77]

“We have Metallica at home” is exactly what my mom would have said before handing me a Walkman with The Carpenters on it and a banana for a snack. #Metallica #ChileanMom

[pulgpulg @JemimaPulgar]

@Locati0ns Basta de popularizar a Chile, nos van a terminando invadiendo

[Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama]

My closest encounter with the mafia is I went to a starkly empty pizza place in Rhode Island once, they seemed utterly confused that I wanted a pizza, it took 45 minutes to make, they gave it to me for free, and it was the best pizza I’d ever had.

[c a i t l i n @hello__caitlin]

@KaraBTweets About 10 years ago I bought some salmon from QFC and it had little worms in it - and I remember texting my dad to ask him how many worms were ok in salmon and he was like “uh….ideally zero worms”