I launched a thing! Also, rambling.
Hello loyal newsletter readers!
In my last missive I mentioned I was preparing some crowdfunding projects, and yesterday I launched Crucible on Kickstarter. Maybe you signed up to hear when it launched, maybe not, but I’m telling you regardless. If you like the idea of a solo roguelike worldbuilding dungeoncrawler, there it is.
In other news, I am still running Beacon (and still mixing up the rules with Lancer sometimes). Let me tell you that rescue missions are absolutely trivial when the PCs have a Speed 8 multi-teleporting shadowdancer on their side, good grief.
I’ve also discovered that Excel recently added the ability to parse regular expressions in their formulas! This is very exciting if you like spreadsheets like I like spreadsheets, and probably completely irrelevant otherwise. That said, if you’re reading this you’re probably on at least some part of my sicko wavelength so I figure at least some of you just said “It can??” and resolved to experiment later.
Finally, I’m going to end with something of a call to action. You may or may not know that right now payment processors — Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Paypal — have been on a tear about suppressing sexy and/or queer content. They have also been absolutely battered by phone calls over the past few days, and that needs to continue. I don’t make sexy or queer content, or engage with it really, but so long as it’s not doing anyone any harm it needs to exist, so please also call up a payment processor today and tell them (politely) to knock it off. yellat.money has all the information you need.
Also, if you’re in the UK, you should write to your MP — writetothem.com — and point out that 1) the Online Safety Act is a disaster and 2) repealing it is one of the most popular vote-getting decisions you can make. This is especially important if your MP is a Labour backbencher, since those are the ones who are going to need to revolt in order to make Starmer back down.
Politics! I wish it would stop.
Chris