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@Nat1Advice no they won’t

Millennials are the last generation to be defined by physical media. Think about that. Gen Z and Alpha will have a hard time passing their art down to their children, and explaining why their art meant something.

So I’ve been thinking about the problem of ownership. Mainly, how much of this “stuff” matters. In my house, I have a big collection of video games, music, books, and movies. Various physical formats—some of them obscure. If I die, I know all this stuff gets liquidated. The only exception, I’m sure, will be the vinyl—because this is something I listen to with my child every day and it’s her library as much as it’s mine. The LaserDisc movies, though? It will be the first to go. Same with my collection of sci-fi novels. I’ve tried to get other people into this stuff. No dice. Not a single care about these things I very much care about. And I suppose, big picture, they don’t matter. It’s just stuff. But it’s also stuff that very much touched my life.

Someone designed a Commodore 64 laptop. At 8lbs, it is incredibly impractical. Nevertheless, still cool. https://youtu.be/H5QQ0ECfwyE

New #dnd / #rpg post from GROGNARDIA:Pulp Fantasy Library: Azathothhttp://grognardia.blogspot.com/2025/12/pulp-fantasy-library-azathoth.html

Any semi firm starch is a hummus delivery system.

Owning 12,000 physical games sounds good until you realize IT TAKES PHYSICAL SPACE.I get it. I own about 500 physical games. 10 consoles. An arcade cabinet.My shelves look cool. No argument there.But thank God most of my library is digital. Steam, GOG, EGS, Amazon, itch.io. Thousands of games that do not require shelves, boxes, or square footage. They exist as bits. That is the point.And yes, I am that guy. I own 10,000s of games. Digital storage is the only reason this does not qualify as hoarding.https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-guy-has-12000-video-games-in-just-one-room/

@kboyd Yeah, that sucks.

People are celebrating the “hip hop-ification” of country music. They’re treating it like a victory lap. The last holdout has fallen. Total cultural dominance achieved.I think it’s the opposite. This feels less like a triumph and more like a death knell.Country music started as Black music. The banjo came from enslaved Africans. DeFord Bailey was a star of early country radio, until he wasn’t welcome anymore. The culture slowly expelled the people who built it, then rewrote the origin story.Hip hop stayed relevant because it resisted that process. When white artists crossed the line, they got called out. Gatekeeping was not a bug. It was the immune system.Kid Rock was the warning shot. He started in hip hop, then pivoted to country. He’s trash, but even he knew there were limits. He cosplayed. He didn’t try to erase the lineage.The next wave will not be that restrained. Especially when the original line between country and blues was racial segregation pretending to be taste.When rich white artists make country that sounds like hip hop, strip out the history, and call it innovation, that’s when hip hop actually dies.Rock already went that way. We know how this ends.

@yon@sakurajima.moe so a fairy does not snatch your soul: bless you.

New #dnd / #rpg post from TTRPG Fanatics:Pendragon RPG Celebrates 40th Anniversary With Magnum Opus Editionhttps://ttrpgfans.com/pendragon-rpg-core-rulebook-magnum-opus-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pendragon-rpg-core-rulebook-magnum-opus-edition

If you’re into KRPGs, this is a huge deal.Astonishia Story—the legendary 1994 DOS classic that helped define Korean RPGs—is getting a full remake. It looks stunning, a true revival of one of Korea’s all-time great games, and it’s set to release on December 18.But there’s one big catch: it’s not coming to Steam.In fact, you can’t buy it outside South Korea at all. The only way to get it is through the Korean PURPLE store or as a physical copy from a local retailer.I’ll be in South Korea this March… might just have to hunt down a copy myself.https://youtu.be/kStSx9YWG7A

And now my friend is worried that this flat bd driver who told her he was from the insurance company might just be a dude who has the means to steal an Amazon truck and saw her post on Facebook. I told her she has no duty to protect Amazon’s property and they are ALL trespassing since she didn’t invite any of them. Let him take the truck. She’s not responsible. (Putting that law degree to work.)

The question mark ending but it's just the question mark ending#monsterdon #EndingsOfMonsterdon #QuestionMarkEndingsOfMonsterdon #JustTheQuestionMarkEndingOfMonsterdon

@jadebees So. Much. Bland. Talking. @_@ #Monsterdon

Thanks for all the fun commentary everyone. See you next week#monsterdon

Asking because I'm TALKING at OrcaConRPGs as Natural Disaster Prep Tools is at 4pm on Saturday Jan. 10, 2026!

There’s this stereotype that only the US, UK, and Japan were making good video games during the 80s and 90s. Truth is, a whole lot of countries had killer titles that are obscure to this day. Partially, this is due to platforms that were popular elsewhere. But mostly, this was due to language. France had its own micro-computer platforms like the Oric. L’Aigle d’Or (1984) is a good example of this. Atari 8-bit was popular in Poland. This is because Jack Tramiel was Polish Jew (survived the Holocaust) who was able to sell a good many Atari hardware while Poland was still Communist. Robbo (1989) is a good example. South Korea is interesting because they rejected Japanese consoles entirely. As a result, the game development scene privileged DOS over Nintendo. Games like Astonishia Story (1994) look like JRPGs for the SNES. But be rest assured, they’re actually KRPGs for DOS. https://aus.social/@rastilin/115721142967488601

#Monsterdon #TheSheCreature