Rich Fleider

Remi Dekker, son of resistance fighter Freddie Oversteegen has this to say about our minis! 😍 I am blown away! Also pic of when we met up recently, he got a special painted one by John Morris. (KS on now www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad...)

More #wargaming with my besties. ##SpreadtheLard #Nerdlings The atmospherically lit game is Devilry Afoot featuring Black Adder characters

Scary

A reminder for those at the back.

I got to know Rich when Ritual and Rogue made mission packs for Quake 2 and I got to work with him directly at Ritual for a few years. He was a guy who cared genuinely about passing down his knowledge to others and helping devs in their careers. His influence is immeasurable and he will be missed!

So now that we have all seen our social media feeds improve when they aren’t being infested with Russian bots (and who is upset by this action), what are we going to do when they eventually rebuild their bot farms? Are we all going to just accept it when things go back to being crappy again?

How I arrived on Blue Sky

On another “we can put a man on the moon but…” note, why can’t we design a smoke detector that doesn’t literally deafen you in the process of replacing the batteries?

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor

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New doctor measures my weight and it’s a little high Me: “I’ve never been too concerned with my weight. It’s only a number” New doctor measures my height and records 6’4” instead of my normal 6’5” Me: “You sonovabitch, I’ll kill you!”

Why is street parking at a meter still such a harrowing experience? Why do we have to be so worried about going over the maximum time limit you can set? Can we not develop a meter that senses how long you are parked and just charges you for that exact amount of time, no matter how long?

The whole videogame industry (and indeed a large portion of our economy in general) feels like an early ‘90s house flipping scheme. Investors putting in the bare minimum, shorting quality wherever they can, relying on miracles from the people doing the hard work, and demanding immediate profits

"That story is being told in a documentary called Halcyon Daze: The Final Voyages of Disney’s Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, and while it’s already played a few film festivals and won a few awards, it’s about to kick off a series of summer screenings at the San Diego Comic-Con 2026." 👀

It's kind of fascinating seeing the "are LLMs conscious?" thing periodically pop up, because for most of human history (and honestly even now), we treated *everything* as being conscious. Animals, mountains, weather, vague philosophical concepts...

And now all scored. As anticipated, making things that look like the Star Carr pendant is waaaaay harder than it looks. And I’m using a steel scalpel into relatively soft clay.

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

I’d have to go with the Fab Four of the eldritch horror gang. Cthulhu on bongos, shub on bass, hastur on vocals and Nylarthotep on bending reality and all we perceive into unimaginable horror.

Eldritch suff, all from @fenrisgames.com #Nerdlings #FindFolkFriday

I’ve managed to not only teach my young son that not everything in the world is made for his tastes, the world would be super boring if it was all tailored to him, even FOR him. We all need to be occasionally challenged by things we don’t like or we don’t grow

These designs were a real treat to develop and @fenrisgames.com did an amazing job with these sculpts. It’s a wild experience seeing something you quickly sketched on paper get fully realized in a physical form.

One of my Toxic Traits is that I sometimes think I could hold my own on a show like Game Changers or Who’s Line is it Anyway. I’m a pretty spontaneously funny guy but the level of improv skill on display there is almost impossible to achieve

After a long hiatus, our group reconvened to play more Pulp Cthulhu today. The lesson learned: Flying Polyps are kind of pushovers, assuming you successfully sneak up on them and open up with a 3” trench mortar, fully auto Lewis LMG, a .450 elephant rifle, and a dozen .303 Lee-Enfields

I wonder if people who have aphantasia (the inability to visualize mental images) are more likely to be generative AI users. A common reason for using it seems to be as a method of visualizing something they have in their head, and most users seem to be happy with flawed “close enough” AI renders

A body language masterclass in two panels