Wednesday, November 19, 2025

New video game Humble Bundle includes Bridge Constructor x Portal

Starts at five games for $5.

New GI Joe figure by Super7 up for preorder, including a character I've never heard of

I love their commitment to making, not just versions of characters that never received a figure, but characters that never received a figure. The new batch includes a glow-in-the-dark irradiated Snake-Eyes, cold weather Scarlett with a Geiger counter, and Mara, a genetically modified Cobra Eel test subject.


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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

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— Matt Thrower (@mattthr.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
(I didn't see the mural mentioned on the restaurant's social media pages. High-res of this, and an additional mural.)

Some impressive articulation for the Monsterarts Godzilla




Various versions up for preorder

Impressive repaint of a Famke Janssen as Jean Grey Toybiz figure

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

"The 25 Best Hallmark Christmas Movies, Ranked"

The #2 on the list includes Jonathan Frakes and Robert Picardo in the cast. Here's a totally different list posted in response--it includes a Hannukah-themed movie about two attractive people who "realize that they are actually competing delicatessen owners." Also:


New addition to Hallmark’s holiday calendar: A special built around its in-person Hallmark Experience event featuring several Hallmark vets, musical performances—and Lacey Chabert announcing her 2026 CTC movie.

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— Joe Adalian (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM

Free Warhammer 40K TTRPG focusing on servants

Zedeck Siew:

I keep trying to write fan TTRPGs for 40K.

The first was Paper Route, also set on a giant flying cathedral of a spaceship. I never finished it. It was called “Paper Route” because the ship was cargo hauler, transporting a planet’s worth of office paper. There were orks with origami guns, and paper-wasp tyranids, and eldar scooped up alongside a whole forest.

Where my mind was at with Paper Route was: “40K should be funny.”

The second 40K TTRPG thing I made was for Kieron Gillen / Rowan Rook & Decard’s DIE RPG. It was an adventure called “POWERSWORD PURGATORY”—a bunch of 30-year-olds, former regulars at ye-olde-FLGS, get Jumanji-ed into POWERSWORD (ie: not-Warhammer 40K) for one last hurrah.

With “POWERSWORD” I was trying to work through how I felt about the fandom, and 40K’s place in culture now. Its drift from Thatcher-era DIY nihilism to corporate-IP neatness; its earnest embrace of “xenophobia is justified actually” power fantasies.

CHAPTER SERF is my third attempt. And my strongest, maybe?

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last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM


Using a stamp instead of applying decals to miniatures








The webstore (free 3D printable mini file if you sign up for the newsletter).

Monday, November 17, 2025

I wasn't going to read it, because haven't we heard more than enough about these people, but then I saw it described as having an M. Night Shyamalan-style twist at the end, and...

It certainly does. When you're done reading.


Some related thoughts:

the item here on "f.o.b. voice" sort of gets at the same dynamic. the big LLMs are very good at producing glib, knowing, smooth prose in the same way that "the magazine industry" was very good at producing glib, knowing, smooth prose. but if there was demand for such prose we'd still have magazines

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— Max Read (@maxread.info) November 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM




(She's a former CNN White House correspondent)





Jewish space lasers are a deal-killer for me. Hard pass.

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Rep from Maryland



Vanity Fair going for the daily double, I see.

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— Joe Adalian (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The author's other articles





SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...

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— Apoorva Mandavilli (@apoorvanyt.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM






I just realized the thing that set back social democracy in America a hundred years was Hunter Biden not inviting media elites on his cocaine benders and sharing his hookers and I will spend the next 48 hours staring at the wall.

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— Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM






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Showing off the poseability of the Marvel Legends Six-Armed Dark Avenger Spider-Man



Available for preorder at the BBTS.

How to pose for candid photos

@gallucks say ty to my Gen Z cousin #photographytips #howtopose #influencers ♬ Berghain - ROSALÍA & Björk & Yves Tumor

Sunday, November 16, 2025

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This young Wolves fan is very upset that Jonas Valanciunas made the 2nd free throw to deny fans a free chicken sandwich

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) November 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM

Now Jamal Murray hits the second FT after missing the first and our fan is still hot 😂

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM


How to paint stubble on a miniature

@gallowaypaints4 A quick video discussing what a filter is and how to use it effectively. Also a video on how to paint stubble. #warhammer #warhammercommunity #warhammer40k #tutorials #artist ♬ Ambient-style emotional piano - MoppySound


(For white skin, lots of extremely watered down gray coats.)

Saturday, November 15, 2025

"34 hospitalized, 2 in critical condition after" an ammonia leak in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn Express

@abcnews

Hundreds of people were evacuated and dozens hospitalized after a chemical spill outside Oklahoma City. Authorities say a tanker truck carrying 25,000 pounds of ammonia was leaking while parked outside a Holiday Inn, potentially due to a mechanical failure or faulty seal.

♬ original sound - ABC News


"Around 500 people were evacuated to the Pioneer Event Center at Southwestern Oklahoma State University." 

[One person who lived near the hotel], spent the night in a parking lot with her boyfriend crammed into their 2013 Ford Mustang with their three dogs — a Husky, a Pit bull and a Shar-Pei-mix, and their cat in a carrier on her lap.

She said she was pulling chicken out of the oven Wednesday night when a firefighter in full gear knocked on the door and told her she needed to evacuate. The smell was overwhelming by the time she and her boyfriend got leashes on their three dogs and loaded their pets into their car.

(This is the first week that Tiktok has become better at surfacing interesting stories than my X/Bluesky feeds) 

New book Humble Bundle featuring Inspector Maigret novels

One novel for $1, Eighteen for $18:
a bundle of all 18 of Simenon’s Maigret novels that have been republished thus far, to read along with PBS’s currently running Maigret series! 

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@andreaelizondoo Empaniz Hada 🧚🤣🤣 #genderreveal #genderrevealfail ♬ Jet2 Advert - ✈️A7-BBH | MAN 🇬🇧


GDT playing with Frankenstein puppets



Friday, November 14, 2025

"Paramount has tapped John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein to write and direct a new Trek movie that is said to be unconnected from anything previously done"

HR:

The duo is known for balancing comedic chops with high concepts and action, such as their beloved hit Game Night and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which Paramount released. They recently wrapped the Apple feature Mayday, which stars Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh



Hot Toys Badlands Predator up for preorder

With or without Elle Fanning.


New Humble Bundle features VR games

Including "Drunkn Bar Fight" and "The Ultimate VR Fitness Obstacle Course." Steam scores displayed. Also, this mont's Humble Choice Bundle features Warhammer III (cancel membership any time).

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Excited to see my first story for @knowablemag.bsky.social out today! 🐳 knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

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— Gennaro Tomma (@gennarotomma.bsky.social) November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
(Today, drones like this are deployed to gather snot all over the world, and not just from sperm whales: They’re also collecting this scientifically valuable mucus from other species, such as blue whales and dolphins. “I would say drones have changed my life,”)



Fun account dedicated to the absurdity of college uniform reveals







Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Damaged box BT-1 (evil astromech from the Doctor Aphra comics) is $11 off

at EE.

Micro Galaxy Squadron Anakin's Jedi Interceptor and bonus blindboxed vehicle for $8.99 right now

at Amazon. Slave 1 is $17.99. (Both deals are limited quantities)

Just added to my wishlist, Bob Ross's painting for MTV




Bidding is up to $120,555.

Two new video game Humble Bundles

The typical bundle is "vibrant indie titles" including obscure indie property G.I.Joe: Wrath of Cobra (a side-scroller). There's also a build your own Capcom bundle, where the number of games you buy increases the disocunt (starts at 75% off one game).

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Chanel coat's logos are revealed when it gets wet





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