Tuesday, February 24, 2026

The Culture: What Has Mr. Wargaming Been Doing?

Boot Hill, Demonlord and a sologame called Kal-Arath.



"Where can you find these things?"

  • Boot Hill is at DriveThruRPG in digital and POD formats. Get the package deal if you're buying at all.
  • Demonlord is at this site (OOP; gonna have to make your own parts)
  • Kal-Arath is at Itch.io and POD omnibus copies are at Lulu (They have a Substack feed.)

Monday, February 23, 2026

The Culture: The Gab Is Back

Daddy Warpig, flying solo, has brought back the Gab. On weekends again now. Below is the one streamed on the 14th.

Which you can get by clicking on the image below.

Sunday, February 22, 2026

The Culture: The Tribal Chief's Triumphant Return!

A week ago today.

And here are those details.

More when the campaign launches.

Saturday, February 21, 2026

The Culture: The Daevites Coming Soon To The Clubhouse

At the Clubhouse next week, for Paid Subscribers only.

The Daevites, from the SCP Wiki, adapted for AD&D1e.

There will be a full Monster Manual style entry, and then information for their use as playable characters.

You'll want to be there and paid up for it.

Friday, February 20, 2026

The Culture: Yarvin's Future Is Now Inevitable, Sort Of

Dude gets it. Lots of these bundles of sticks deserve their job losses; they deserve worse and less.

AAA believes they are entitled to your time, attention, and money. Games Journos--those subhumans--are the goblins running defense for them.

They deserve their failures. They deserve their backruptcies. They deserve their job loses, their career setbacks, their enventually--and, now, inevitable--blackballing.

I support AI for one primary reason: that is the technology that guarantees the destruction and deletion of these hacks, and their eventual discovery near tall river-spanning bridges everywhere.

As for Vidya, so for all media.

That is worth the price of YouTube being filled with a Googleplex of AI-generated fanfilms; you'll find something worth watching out of that- not so as things are now.

The books? The comics? The music? Games? All the same: you WILL find something worthwhile- you won't if the Death Cultists and Mammon Mobsters retain control of the media.

Yarvin's going to get his world of endless absolutist city-states with No Say and Free Exist; it will just exist in pop culture, not in political reality.

Thursday, February 19, 2026

The Business: The Hellmouth Fears The Terminator

Last week ByteDance released Seedance 2.0. You can tell how good it really is by the reactions.

That reaction? Telling. Hollywood knows.

You've got people saying "This is crap!"

One: No, it's not. Well over 80% of people watching these things will not notice that this is AI-generated; they will, at most, think of this as a SFX showcase to drum up software sales and business contracts.

Two: This is as bad as it will be. It only gets better from here, and the rumors of v3.0 on Chinese social media state that single-prompts go to 10 minutes at a time in length. Nine of those is a 90 minute movie, which remains the ideal length that exhibitors want for maximum revenue potential

Three: They will not be able to regulate or lawfare the threat away; this is a global issue, so the rules are actually defined by the party that cares least about IP law- and that means Russia, China, Southeast Asia, and the Stans between them. China, in particular, wipes its ass with US and European IP law. They already have no problem with hosting content that violates it; they will be glad to host and stream AI-generated content that does so.

As we are already seeing with prose/comics (an AI-generated LN already won awards) and Tabletop, we shall see with Vidya and film/TV: total disruption of the existing market and social State of Play. Go ahead, go to YouTube; there's a flood of AI-generate Star Wars fanfilm shorts, which will only get longer and better over the next few years, which itslef is a follow-on from (very formulatic) Human Fuck Yeah audiobook channels (increasingly with accompanying illustrations).

"But no one-"

They are already finding audiences and making mad bank, starting with niches where conventions are already so rigid that they might as well be a Madlib template (i.e. ChickSmut of all sorts, LitRPG, etc.) and the workflow already exists to automate the entire process once you tool up the (virtual) factory.

As it is with books, comics, music, and art so it is now coming to video and and software which means Vidya is next.

By 2030 no one will notice the difference, and Normies TODAY already do not care. They say they do; their Revealed Preferences show that they don't.

This is why Hollywood freaked out. They see it and know they can't stop it.

You can adapt or you can get crushed by it.

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

The Business: Slowly They Will Be Forced To Admit The Truth

Lots of blather, but ultimately pointless.

I keep telling them. They keep not listening, and then get surprised when the very thing I said would happen did.

Network Effects guarantee that WOTC remains on top in perpetuity. FFS, people. This was known in 1999 when WOTC took over. Those Effects only got stronger over the last 26 years. Only D&D Matters. Only WOTC Matters. Everyone else is irrelevant.

Yes, including Your Darling.

The only viable alternative is The Clubhouse because the Clubhouse doesn't even try to compete on the same terms.

Lots of people still confuse their basement with the wider hobby sector, which is why they continue to be 100% Wrong About EVERYTHING.