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Tie-dye t-shirt: Emily the Strange
The tee is 100% pre-shrunk cotton and tie-dyed, meaning the shirt might vary. Truffle Shuffle describes its exclusive as a boxy fit, and the shop shelf lists S to 4XL for sizes.
Matthew Lillard’s Find Familiar Spirits ships Rogue whiskey to the UK
We’ve had a whiskey edition called Quest’s End: Paladin, and it sold out (twice), and now there’s Quest’s End: Rogue on the way. The new range goes on sale on February 29th.
Sony confuses customers by claiming to offer “appropriate value” for deleting digital libraries
Sony customers are worried they’re about to lose shows from their Funimation digital libraries when the anime streaming service merges with Crunchyroll, not helped by Sony’s vague plan of giving “an appropriate value” for their erased digital copies.
Audio EXP Podcast: #231 – RPG Publishers Reassemble!
Otters in cannons? Lara Croft on covers? All this and some weird and terribly geeky shopping finds to share on the week, a highly anticipated RPG finally hits the electronic shelves. Are you a weird wizard or are Wizards being weird?
This Godzilla resin lamp will light your room with radioactive kaiju vibes
This colour-changing Godzilla resin lamp on Etsy is by far the coolest thing I’ve seen today, so how could I *NOT* share it? (Thanks to Girdinator for making me aware of this incredible find!)
Rascal: Alternative and roguelike TTRPG news
Rascal is a worker-owned, reader-supported outlet built by a trio of industry journalists passionate about bringing you the stories that matter – from labour rights to indie game launches.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Terry Maranda
Each month, Geek Native’s patrons vote in the RPG Publisher Spotlight for an indie creator, curator or community cornerstone to write up, and for February, Terry Maranda won.
What would happen if we sacrificed a year of entertainment budgets to solve all our problems? I asked an AI
I read yesterday that The Joker’s total movie budget was a humble $200million, and it got me pondering. If you’d like to discover where that pondering went, bear with me as I have a bit of a pointless ramble and devil’s advocate with myself below – with added ChatGPT. Preamble over, this ponder initially caused […]
LEGO reveals D&D Gelatinous Cube minifig eating minifig
The ooze teased by LEGO seems to have a skeleton inside it, consumed by the horror, plus a printed shield with a Beholder sign, a key, weapons and gold coins.
