Benjamin Gray

Gunpointing is a noir/neo-noir game built around dramatic gunplay. Characters are created with feats that have both pros and cons. Actions are resolved by playing cards from a hand, allowing players to plan for success and failure. It's free!!! benjamingray.itch.io/gunpointing

"Metroidvania" is weird to me. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was inspired by Metroid. Why are they not just called Metroid-likes? Metroid-esques. Metroidoids. Like, imagine if Roguelikes were called "Rogue(first game inspired by Rogue)likes"

I didn't hate the word "content" until my day job used it to describe a compliance training powerpoint

I'm proud of my friend!!!

My favorite memory of this show is showing it to my non-anime Dad, who quietly considered it and seemed to enjoy it. And then he said, "Oh, so he's the ghost in the shell"

Discord does a lot of shit that's bad. Just baffling decisions. But the October notification sound is a great sound effect. Chef's kiss sound design.

Hey, is there a company with comparable quality to MeUndies? Because they sent me Harry Potter boxers today and I am cancelling that shit forever

Today, @jawska.bsky.social, @robertturk.bsky.social, and I discuss longevity in RPG design and publishing. #rpg #ttrpg nerdburgergames.com/rpg-rd-episo...

gonna relisten to the entire Dorkspawn Dragon Age run and cry into a bottle of wine Thinking about the myriad of corporate tragedies that led to this, I bitterly think back to David Gaider's beautiful dedication in The Stolen Throne. I'm so, so sorry to everyone at the BioWare team affected.

Love me chicken tender Love me chicken true

My friend, you are in luck. My speech is at 3:15:00, and then the spiciness starts around 4:10:00ish (you can see Casey, Don, and Pat try to explain why they didn’t support the police budget increase and it only gets better from there)

I'm pretty embarrassed to admit this, but I didn't realize until TODAY that @oneshotrpg.bsky.social is Traach the kobold on Hello From the Magic Tavern

My new fear is that the "Hollywood makes Internet fiction" age will result in a real Goncharav movie

The other day I was thinking about how difficult Alice is Missing would be for a podcast and GMM is doing it live just to make me look bad

"It's so hard to tell satire from reality now!" No, you were just wrong about this one thing and that's okay.

Nah, when it first came out I admit I was curious and ignorant and put in a couple of prompts. It didn't hold my interest, though, and it didn't take me long to realize it was sinister

So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

This is very 40-Year-Old territory, but I was today years old when I found out the "Weena Mercator as the hopping woman" gag on Freakazoid was entirely made up. I assumed it was a real actor and role from an obscure movie that the writers thought sounded funny.

About a day before he blew up, Alex texted me that he HATED Biddy Blas lol

I agree that Ted Lasso season 4 wasn't great. I also think blaming that on Tracey Ullman is insane

I can't catch up on my own podcast, so I'm catching up on my friends'! Jesus, they work so hard on this. I also love how Kendo says "drawing on elements from 80s sci-fi, action, and horror films...and anime." Not as if they're ashamed of anime, but like they're daring you to shame them.

"occasionally" I repeat, rumbling like a thunderstorm, as my steel clawed hand tears rivulets through my walnut desk's lacquered surface

If you say we have to vote for non-trans-supportive Dems to stop Republicans… 1. Would you say that if they supported literacy tests at the polls to "cut down on illegals voting"? 2. Would you say the same thing if they said they support bans on abortions until the woman has 9 months of therapy?

If an employer owns anything I do off the clock, then that should also include crimes