This looks awesome. I’m also a big fan of J McColloughs stuff. I bought stargrave first but sadly, couldn’t convince anyone to play it St the time. Picked up frostfrave later and have managed to get four games of it, my group are all old school warhammer nerds, and while they don’t like GW so much, they’d eperfectly happy to keep playing 3rd edition 40k and some 5th end fantasy and stick with that.

Urban strike as well! I think it was urban strike that turned into a kind of top down shooter when you assaulted an enemy base about halfway into the game. 10 year old me could never get past that part.

is it called “Seáns Bar” by any chance? 😁

a friend invited me to play a boardgame online, called Kingdomino. I really loved it, and since money is tight, I made my own copy of the tiles for in-person play.

They aren’t perfect by any means and it took a fucking age to do them, but it’s a playable version I can bust out with friends and family.

Minimalism is a conspiracy by Big Small to see you more Less.

there’s some really great mini documentaries on YouTube above the Soviet internet of the 1960s, which would have taken over as the central planning committee and managed the supply and demand automatically. When you look at what it was supposed to be, and why it failed (a lot of people worked very hard to make sure it wouldn’t succeed) it’s really interesting stuff.

here’s one I watched recently enough about it; [https://youtu.be/cLOD5f-q0as?si=D8mVJiK603HPdgKY](Asianometry - Why the Soviet Internet Failed)

While Denys can often provide good coverage on Ukraine, I suggest avoiding him, as at the outbreak of the situation in Gaza and Israel, he shared many videos of Palestinian kids and women running from artillery under the captions like “watch how the roaches scatter”.

They make those for runners, a kind of neoprene sleeve that holds your phone on your arm either outside or inside so you can use it while you run. They’re fairly easy to find.

As for pulling it off, you just have to wear it and not give a shit. that’s the secret to pulling it off.

Bobb fingers is also one half of the Irish musical comedy duo Rubberbandits. they’ve done some TV stuff and their music and wit is great.

All fantastic suggestions, thanks for sharing! Some of these I know and love but a few are new to me so Im definitely putting them on the reading list.

Totally agree! I did the Leo “pointing at screen with beer” meme when I realised the connection, because I watched the films about two or three years apart.

Have you seen their latest outing, Something in the Dirt? It’s a solid film as well, very usual and hooked me right away.

I use DDG pretty exclusively. I’ve never had issues with it, I set it as default and didn’t think about it after that