What are we playing this weekend?

To have lived long enough to witness the rise, fall, and return of chain wallets…

I turned 37 earlier this month and I don’t generally feel “old,” but the other day I saw a kid explaining how chain wallets work to his friend, and I aged another 30 years.

show me your pet and what they're named after:

This was a really good piece (and a fitting read immediately after talking to my daughter at bedtime about bullies in her class).

writers: repost a random piece you’re proud of a couple weeks after the 2016 election, trying to figure out how to make sense of the world, i wrote this piece about wearing my now-favorite sweatshirt in public for the first time (it is also very much not about the sweatshirt per se)

“Had?” I still have mine 😂 Another kid on the playground brought it to school and that was how I half-learned about the Big Twist in this game.

Writers: Repost a random piece you’re proud of I spoke to Geoff Crookes, Creative Director of Soulframe, at last year’s Tennocon about the refreshing approach behind Digital Extremes’ new game: “a healing optimism.”

… I think I broke Marvel Snap again

For new followers, I’m Chris de Hoog, and I write: - Final Fantasy Union’s Substack newsletters, the Wark Digest and Kupo Chronicle - video & tabletop game reviews & editorials (and more) at CGMagazine - novels, someday! - and other miscellany, including two Lost In Cult books