Robin D. Laws

Robin D. Laws

@robindlaws.bsky.social

Writer, game designer, podcaster. Winner of the Diana Jones Award, 8 Gold and 5 Silver ENnies. Translated into 11 languages.

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One of the most important things a scenario writer learns from playtest is which entirely throwaway details players obsessively latch onto and spend a ton of time and thought on.

For a minute there I thought that reindeer are the only deer who see ultraviolet but further fact-checking revealed they are only the most studied UV-sensing deer. So there goes that podcast segment.

Some of these are just straight up demons

Mondo Mascots@mondomascots.bsky.social

Psyche Delhi-san, the mascot for the shopping district in hip and alternative Koenji, Tokyo, is a mysterious psychedelic creature with glowing eyes and a protruding tongue.

I also watched this movie on a plane but didn’t think to turn it into a startup

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Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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this is anti wood gnome propaganda

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

Scammers have convinced some Norwegians to buy gold and leave it in a forest only for it to be subsequently stolen, according to a warning from the country's banking lobby. Read more: bloom.bg/4yCPSRb 📷: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

Arrow Video's stunning new 4K Excalibur disc gorgeously renders every gloriously unmotivated weird colored light bouncing off a piece of gleaming armor plate. A must if you dig physical media and Boorman's mythic blockbuster.

Arrow Video's stunning new 4K Excalibur disc gorgeously renders every gloriously unmotivated weird colored light bouncing off a piece of gleaming armor plate. A must if you dig physical media and Boorman's mythic blockbuster.

After steeping myself in all things Yellow King, what struck me on this rewatch was how deeply its mythic time beyond time references Symbolism and the Pre-Raphaelites, right down to its 1890s title font.

Whether you’re a Belle Époque art student, soldier in the weird Continental War, ex-revolutionary building a new democracy or just an ordinary person in our perfectly normal not at all reality shattered world, the Bundle of Holding has all the King in Yellow you need

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If by expressionless you mean condemned to eternal banana torment, sure

Mondo Mascots@mondomascots.bsky.social

BIG-kun and Dipper-chan, a pair of expressionless bears in banana costumes, are mascots for BIG Dipper pachinko parlors.

The Android TV menu can’t stop notifying me that the Discover tab is going away soon, the clear implication being that we users murdered it with our indifference

Today’s unseasonably warm weather shows who dresses according to the weather (shorts, T-shirts) and who dresses by the calendar (fur hats, checked jackets, gloves)

And when he fired up his game about his hopes and dreams, he saw that it was about him telling a chatbot to make a game about his life. That’s when Nikita realized he’d made his request in… The Twilight Zone