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Anguish flâneur, game designer, professional writer. Bylines: NYTimes Mag, Salon, LARB, Rumpus, GQ, more. Games: markwallace.itch.io News: inlooking.substack.com Once wrote a book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262513227/the-second-life-herald/

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Do I watch Upstream Color, Color Out of Space, or Fast Color tonight?

06.03.2026 04:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤌 just kind of wish it was dimwit halls is all

04.03.2026 16:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

exACTly.

03.03.2026 07:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

DRIFTING SCIENTIFIC BASE HELL YES

03.03.2026 06:48 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0

Can I revise my game about being robots wearing humans like mobile frames in time to bring it to Breakout Con? The world wants to know. Or maybe it's just me.

01.03.2026 04:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hooray!

26.02.2026 15:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I feel you

26.02.2026 03:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I've been enjoying the Haunted City podcast lately, a Blades in the Dark AP.

26.02.2026 03:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Book reviewers sell review copies all the time. No one really cares, as long as it's after the release date. Is it the most generous and honorable thing you can do? Maybe not. But very few people see it as a major ethical lapse, ime.

26.02.2026 03:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The question is not, Who will be at Breakout Con? The question is, Will I be the only person at Breakout Con with no idea what I'm doing there at all?

26.02.2026 03:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am making a game about this

19.02.2026 03:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

❤️ Redwall, the best

16.02.2026 22:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
jenny boully – Essay Press

www.essaypress.org/jenny-boully/

16.02.2026 20:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands!

12.02.2026 19:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here's a good look at how much the biggest TTRPG publishers are (likely) doing in revenue.

12.02.2026 08:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GARBAGE IN / GARBAGE OUT by Mark Wallace Find and hack the Datacache before time runs out

You've seen right through me, Thomas!

markwallace.itch.io/garbage-in-g...

10.02.2026 05:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I teach a class like this on To the Lighthouse, and every time it kills me and everyone else that it's only 6 weeks long.

10.02.2026 04:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

hahaha I have heard all about the Magic but not about the queer is all.

10.02.2026 03:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My OVER/UNDER hack of Lasers & Feelings (it's called Garbage In / Garbage Out) is in there!

10.02.2026 03:30 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Amber Glenn is cool, but it's true, these two data points are treated differently by the media in a really... interesting way.

10.02.2026 03:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

post a banger that isn't in English

youtu.be/ye1dgqDANWg?...

10.02.2026 03:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Either way, there's nothing very male about boy kibble, trust me. Unless you identify as he/deranged.

10.02.2026 03:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
No lights-
The floor is littered with beams, plaster, ash.
The western pile of rubble
will open one eye, and then another and another,
deep beneath the ground
the water
the chamber
awaits its victims.

No lights- The floor is littered with beams, plaster, ash. The western pile of rubble will open one eye, and then another and another, deep beneath the ground the water the chamber awaits its victims.

I've been playing around with creating a poem cycle describing a dungeon, constructed as centos using text from old adventure modules and sourcebooks. Here's one of the poems I'm happiest with so far.

09.02.2026 23:34 👍 55 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 2

Somewhere in this bundle I have a game. But that's not why you should buy it.

09.02.2026 14:59 👍 15 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0

fantastic story

08.02.2026 21:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social

08.02.2026 17:10 👍 364 🔁 145 💬 19 📌 23

Waiting for Amber Glenn to skate before I take a walk because apparently she plays Magic and even though I don't I am just a big dork that way.

08.02.2026 20:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

looking forward to this one

08.02.2026 01:18 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Super-fun evening intro'ing 3 RPG virgins & 2 RPG veterans to Mausritter. Treasure map lost to squabbling Dedratz, war hero paraded around on vagabond's shoulders, TicTac the cat driven off by a flaming arrow & a tiny beehive stuck in his ear, village guardmouse survived, and everyone got home safe.

07.02.2026 07:46 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OVER/UNDER fanfic. Outstanding.

07.02.2026 06:54 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0