Scrabble Session Report: The Co-op Aspect of Matches with The Moms
With the right folks, Scrabble is a quasi co-op game about mental spelunking AND a duel. The Moms is the right folks.
Final Girl: A Knock at the Door (Ava Earns Her Stripes)
Final Girl: A Knock at the Door’s three-killer problem starts to get broken down, one swing of the bat at a time.
Final Girl: A Knock at the Door’s First Turn is a Brutal Reunion With This System
By turn four, the trio of killers from Final Girl: A Knock at the Door have gone through the house like a thresher. Ava has to up her game.
Track of the Week Extended Remix: Tim’s Whole List of Hip Hop Suggestions
More reccos from Episode 112’s Track of the Week guest (Tim Sismey) with cuts from Prefuse 73, Company Flow, Grand Agent and more.
SETI Board Game: Anatomy of a Turn (Turn One, Round 3)
I walk you through one turn vs. SETI’s automa (on easiest setting) during this solo session of the game.
Three Boom-Bap Big-Crew Bangers You Might Not Have Heard Yet
A perfect three-song blend is the actual center of the universe. Everything else is bother and waste. Thanks for the set, lads.
NINJA BORG RPG Session: Kill Cheap Trick Live at Budokan
ACTUAL PLAY of NINJA BORG with game creators Walton Wood and Rugose Kohn. Mission: Get in a time machine. Get Applebee’s. Kill Cheap Trick.
How to Win My L’il Pile of Indie Tabletop Games
How to win some indie games I bought from The Seahorse and The Hummingbird, Grumpy Spider Games, Long Tail Games and Ada Press.
Crate Digging: February 2026 (YouTube Music Edition)
Slayer, Mountain, a kid with a banjo playing Coltrane, Cherry Wainer & Don Storer, The Pirates and The Cramps: Late winter dead hours on YouTube surface life-sustaining finds.
Classic Hip Hop Sample Chasing: Death in Vegas Back to Roxanne Shanté
Random solo listening finally reveals to me where that mean vocal sample from Death in Vegas’ “Dirt” came from. It was Shanté.
NINJA BORG TTRPG: The Game that Says “Yes” to Hysterical Killing
I needed an explanation as to why there were 32 shuriken types available in NINJA BORG character. IT’S BECAUSE NINJAS
Our Fantasy Flight Games Golden Era: A Personal Retrospective
The Fantasy Flight Games catalog from 2011 defined our Saturday nights — and closest friend group — for years. A look back at the many FFG titles we bought and played from 2011-2016.
This Three-Song Run from The Herbaliser’s 2006 FabricLive Set is Why I Get Up Every Morning
A perfect three-song blend is the actual center of the universe. Everything else is bother and waste. Thanks for the set, lads.
Crate Digging: January 2026
Pyrotechnics is now on Board Game Arena, plus seven other tabletop things you should know about.
How to Learn Complex Board Games When You’re Depressed (SETI First Play Report)
I got my first play of SETI in. Which I liked. What preceded it was the same ugly grind as last year.
Mic Test: A 1967 Letter About My Dad from a Frustrated Commander
Brief mic workout: A USN destroyer commander in 1967 has very detailed notes about why my Pops was a fuckup.
Classic Hip Hop Sample Chasing: Original Flavor Back to Roland Kirk
Let’s follow a plucked-string figure from Original Flavor’s “Can I Get Open?” back to the well of genius inside Roland Kirk’s many horns.
Dwelling Solo RPG Session 6: The Triple Dungeon Feature
We only had a couple key bumps left by the time we got to RiNo and went down the steps into the party at the garden-level condo. I guess you can’t sell it at markup if you call it a basement.
Ryuutama TTRPG: A Song to Chase Away Our December Gloom
Fuck this century, I’m going to be a bard and sing songs and have adventures in the country. Let’s talk the Ryuutama TTRPG with Walt.
Crate Digging: December 2025 (Stocking Stuffer Remix)
A UK buddy slams one of my favorite Guru lines on a tee, plus capsules on new indie games from people in my network.