Dean Ray Johnson ⚪

I used to rewrite board game rulebooks as a hobby. I was getting good at it, but something still felt wrong about it. Then I took grad school classes in technical writing. And then I started to hate all rulebooks. And I had to write 90 pages and a new rulebook about it. Latest draft on my site.

Dressmaker: I need someone who knows what they're doing to explain how to make a dress with floral-print fabric that doesn't look awful. How to sew the patterns together with patterns that don't match up across the seams and somehow it looks okay.

Someone on the @desertbus.org stream just asked "Is Toad the Biddy Blas of the Mario universe?" Cursed.

a message from the future

Hippy Holyween!

By Taiyō Matsumoto

In 1934, we added a gender-neutral pronoun for a single third person. ‘Thon’ was short for “that one.” It didn’t catch on.

when the CIA attempted to recruit me, they said I could suck any cock on earth. Any I desire. I turned down their offer because i am not Gay

AU where Felicia regularly mingled with burnouts

very excited for the upcoming plethora of "I main Agnes Tachyon, and I VOTE" bumper stickers

I've seen the Umamusume subreddit while browsing /r/popular before, so I had to see if they're talking about this. Apparently the vibe among horsewaifu fans is "American horsegirl is sad that none of her overseas friends came to her barbecue."

ITS A BORG WIPE LOL

I like to think this headline was targeted at truck drivers in general so that I don't feel like it's targeting me specifically. The sheets wore out long ago but I'm pretty sure my comforter at home still has a tag that reads "COLLEGE '09".

If El-Sayed had gone “I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m not actually Muslim I’m fine with deporting them please vote for me” he would just look weak and convince no one. Anti-trans Dems are falling into the same trap.

When it's Scrib Doon Saturday

I have no idea if the Beetlejuice cartoon holds up. I suspect there's some problematic stuff in there. But as a kid, it felt like the most subversive thing on TV that I was allowed to watch, and I'll always respect it for that.

Unfortunately, I messed up the sequence for the card back in the render. You may enjoy it in it's full glory here.

Seeing a lot of people call Biddy Blas a Glup Shitto, but he's only a blorbo right now. He has to show up in a second piece of media with the expectation that you already know who he is. THEN he's a Glup Shitto.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Tiedrich is the queen of "facial expressions as punchlines" and it is mad that she's been going at it for so long.

I'm sincerely shocked at how much I'm enjoying Dressmaker. I've never had any interest in fashion. But now I'm suffering from an IKEA effect where I keep rebuilding the dresses I'm working on, even if they meet requirements already, because I want them to be GOOD. Some of my favorite builds:

And to make it worse, it's THIS GOVERNMENT that will be running the recovery efforts. Please don't wish death on civilians.

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

I played LoL for a couple years when it first came out. There's a moment halfway through the campaign story that made me go "I can't believe that you dared to reference that." It was a good time.

Dressmaker is a masterpiece.

The Phantom Tollbooth — Chuck Jones (producer & co-director), 1970

Whenever AI bros claim that they're gonna sell the AI-created product they've created, I remember this scene from Get Shorty. "So that's all there is to it?" "Yeah!" "Then what the fuck do I need you for?"

New bones for @eizebasa.baby !

Daily birds 78 - Firehawks

#Etchtober Day 3: "It's October 3rd." Happy Mean Girls Day!

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Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

Oh hey I'm the guy who made these and I regret to inform you they got worse

We're big fans of local Saint Paul band Alligator Orchestra. After hearing songs they wrote about Root, we commissioned them to record a Kart theme song. They came back with "Don't Look Down!", two minutes of raucous pop-punk that's perfect for Kart's reckless downhill races.

Howard V. Brown did a lot of great 1930s pulp sci-fi magazine covers. Nevertheless, his June 1924 cover to "Scientific American" might be my favorite work of his, despite not actually being science fiction. I love the nonchalant surrealism.

(jumping up and down in one spot with my eyes closed and my arms out in a t-pose)

i was tempted to check out pax ren recently, did some research on the rules, and some random reddit comment set me towards phil eklund's essay in the back of Neanderthal and i have sworn off of sierra madre/ion game design ever since lol

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Do you ever get an idea so horrible you have to see it through to completion?

..........how dare you

I must have been living in Texas for too long because "That pack of sluts love beans" fucking broke me

I completely understand why this would bother the technical writing expert (who I would never deign to correct), but I completely understand someone trying to write "My husband's and my" and getting angry at the asymmetry of it.

Lots of comments about The Game, but could we do any worse than that? Or something in the same ballpark? I'm gonna design a game called "A Thing I Can't Describe" and see what happens when you try to search for help with a thing I can't describe.

Gorgeous flowers collected in a glass vase, plus what appear to be some glaceed cherries. And butterflies. By Carstiaen Luyckx, on his day.