WAIT THIS IS ALSO THE GUY WHO DID THE MUSIC SCAR PUTS ON FOR SUPER FAST BUILD MODE

I got my family some books for Christmas, and decided to wrap them in origami present boxes. It kinda spiraled from a small project to a three day hyperfixation burnout, but it’s done!

The boxes are 10⅔ inches in all dimensions (~0.7 cubic feet), and are made from 4 foot by 4 foot squares of paper. The bows are made from squares the same size, and the fasteners from 16 inch by 16 inch squares.

Remember:

Hot-Swapping DM’s is always faster than reloading.

FACT: People make resin die.

FACT: Some craftsmen, NOT ALL OF THEM, some craftsmen are just people in their basement putting resin into moulds and selling those babies online with the care and precision of a whiskey licked blacksmith in the wild west.

FACT: It's not unlikely for a lot of those dice to be incorrectly filled, uneven or Weighted.

FACT: If I was to buy a whole bunch of these die with many of them being weighted, some of them would be weighted to low numbers and some to high.

FACT: It is reasonable and likely for me to gravitate towards the die that give me High Numbers and go "oh these are my special dice" "oh this one is blessed by the goddess" and to remove low rolling dice from my line up.

FACT: This is not a phenomenon that occurs as often with metal die.

FACT: If I was a player who staunchly defended my metal dice while everyone else at the table used resin or fanmade dice, if I was a player who stood by my dice through thick or thin, refusing to switch dice out from my roster, if I was a player who had Publicly claimed my loyalty to metal dice on many occasions, I would statistically roll worse.

FACT: Brian Murphy does not have just as good a chance as rolling as any of you.

The sound design on Dropout is great and I love how they reuse sounds like how the Dirty Laundry anticipation buildup jingle sometimes appears on Dimension 20, but also the most recent episode of Game Changer used the public domain instrumental Maniamaster by Lupus Nocte, which incidentally is the same instrumental that Charlie Slimecicle chose for Jort Storm. So now I can’t watch Game Changer s6e7 “Beat the Buzzer” without singing Jort Storm to myself.

It gets better. The "não" in "não é" comes from Old Galician Portuguese “non” which comes from Latin “nōn”, from Old Latin “noenum”, from Porto-Indo-European “*ne”.

P.I.E. “*ne” also descended into the Old Latin “ne” (not) and then the Latin suffix “-ne”, which is added to a word in a phrase to make it a question.

“Kawaii desu ne?” Could be translated into Latin as “Dulcis sumne?”

The same Horse People word split off and incorporated itself into languages used in both Modern Japan, and Ancient Rome. And parallel evolved into something that is phonetically and functionally almost identical in both.

the japanese “-ne?” particle and the british slang term “innit” serve the same function

pov you're with the bad kids at detention 🏫

(one day we'll have a full group, trust!!)

taken at eccc 2025

They finally got her there! 🥺💖💞

bishop takes queen

Is- Is Riz shorter than Kipperlily?

This past week I had the honor of walking the runway at the 10th Anniversary Her Universe Fashion Show at San Diego Comic Con. To celebrate the history of the show, former winners of the competition (myself included) were given the opportunity to create a new look to wear on the runway. I knew I wanted to design something that was filled to the brim with joy. Immediately and without question, the wild and wonderful game show Game Changer was the first thing that came to mind. My partner introduced me to the show this spring, at a time in our lives when what we needed was unadulterated joy, laughter, kindness, and love. And boy, does this show deliver in spades. There are so many reasons why I love this show, from the extraordinary on-screen talent who always shocks, surprises, and delights me with their wit and quick thinking, to the sincerity with which the cast truly cares about each other. But more than anything, what I love about the show (and all of Dropout's shows) is the outstanding art department. It is rare to see a company put so much faith in artists and their weird wonderful sensibilities, and the way the sets and props are integrated and highlighted in the show is a thrill. Some of my favorite episodes (Beat the Buzzer, Escape the Greenroom) involve elaborate design work that makes my heart full and my imagination soar. As an interdisciplinary weirdo myself, to see such celebration of art in all its forms is a triumph. I wanted to pay homage to the incredible aesthetic of the show with this design. The pants feature the iconic loop-de-loop set pieces, which I individually patterned and sewed together with metallic lamé fabric interfaced within an inch of its life. The top references the colorful podium arches, also hand-drafted metallic lamé fabric featuring a hidden interior corset. I had a blast 3D rendering the buzzer ring in Fusion360 and 3D printing the components (there’s a hidden LED panel built into the base that I harvested from a tap light). And the scoreboard sunglasses were drafted in Illustrator and laser cut! Oh, and there’s a hidden loop-de-loop on my golden shrug. You know, for immunity. Thanks to everyone at Game Changer and Dropout for bringing so much joy to the world at a time when we need it most. You fill so many people’s hearts with light and laughter. I had an incredible time at the show reconnecting with old friends and making new ones, and meeting so many fellow Game Changer fans as a result! Thanks forever to Ashley Eckstein for founding the Her Universe Fashion Show, and for putting geek couture on the map!