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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 3h
The PbtA "moves" or whatever one calls them are micro-contracts with built-in fictional positioning, which means no one has to sit around and pre-negotiate "the stakes" of a particular scene or sequence of play. In theory, it resides in the common-sense interpretation of the move text.
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 2h
Moves push as much "Good practices" about outcomes into a mechanic with specific events/inputs into play. You don't have to try to remember it every time. The mechanic is remembering it for you. It's like airline pilots, doctors and checklists. Systematize it and it happens regularly.
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 2h
When you get the answer to "Where am I most vulnerable?" it instantly throws tension on the situation. If you -didn't- know, now you have a new thing to worry about. If you -did- know, you already can do some math in your head about it. It's a threat upon you as much as an opportunity.
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 3h
See @bankuei.bsky.social from 2008 (!) "For something to happen, it has to be both mechanically possible and make sense within the fiction for the group. ... [Fictional positioning] is where everything stands in relation to each other in the fiction." bankuei.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/f...
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Fictional Positioning 101
The last few months, a lot of folks have been talking about Fictional Positioning. It’s not really a new idea, though, it’s probably one a lot of folks take for granted. It’s also…
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 3h
This is, pretty much the main thing I yell about being the best part of the Moves mechanic. As a player, you have an idea of the range of success/failure. As a GM, you don't have to try to gauge each time, and worry if you've widened/narrowed the scope too much. It removes cognitive burden.
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Authenticity Trip | 200-Proof Games @200proofgames.bsky.social · 3h
This is the skeleton key to every mid PBTA game and session - people look at the moves and think they’re equivalent to, like, initiative mechanics or something. Like an optional add-on for flavor. No, man, they’re the *whole deal.* Ignore them and everything falls alll the way apart
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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 28/09/2026
You catch that big video essay last night?
coworkers deviously luring you over to the water cooler
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Oftentimes Jack 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 18h
💔 My little daughter, Kinda, is growing up, but her body isn't. Malnutrition is stealing her childhood. She urgently needs nutritious food and vitamins, but we simply can't afford them. We're trying to raise $200 for her food and vitamins. gofund.me/4d998a9f7
Fundraising appeal for Rania and her four children from Gaza after their home was destroyed, showing a girl with a cast, a girl holding a cat, a boy in a tent, and a child using an inhaler, framed by pink flowers and a QR code.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I talked to the librarian at a tiny upstate NY library where the flyer for drop-in event where she'll help you remove the AI features of your phone has gone viral www.businessinsider.com/library-bye-...
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you like Mass Effect? Once More into the Void is basically the rules light, Mass Effect style RPG that plays in 1-3 sessions. The physical copies are $20 and whatever doesn't sell is going to be pulped bc it's too expensive to send them back up into Canada for storage.
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Thursday Garreau @keftiu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the OSR and PbtA scenes have some real common ground and i'm glad that some of the petty tribalism around both has died out. we get better games when folks take from multiple movements for their designs, imo!
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Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 26/09/2026
Once again asking everyone that makes podcasts to not host them on Spotify, and everyone to not use Spotify at all
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Authenticity Trip | 200-Proof Games @200proofgames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is exactly what just happened to the resident evil movie
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🐚 @bel-by-the-sea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it's time to go home #BigWalk
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Authenticity Trip | 200-Proof Games @200proofgames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seven Speed Angel
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
(2/2) Your typical monthly title is around 22 pages per issue, with an average of something like five panels per page, and even assuming the lead only appears in two-thirds of those panels, I can tell just by looking at them that nobody is drawing this character 75 times a month.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One of the big reasons superhero OCs often feel inauthentic when the artist tries to draw them comic book style is because so much of comic book superhero design is dictated by the constraints of the medium. (1/2)
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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It really does shift your perspective of American society when you accept the fact that the resistance to desegregation never ended and there is a lot of cultural capital invested in never acknowledging that fact.
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will jobst @willjobst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
don't be shy gen con go ahead. don't be shy pax unplugged go ahead. don't be shy origins go ahead. don't be shy gamehole go ahead. don't be shy gary con go ahead. don't be shy page go ahead. don't be shy breakout go ahead. don't be shy dragon con go ahead.
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will jobst @willjobst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
make games or else
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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More and more I've started thinking about beauty less as a goal of art and more as a constraint.
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K Grace @lietkynes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I don't always skeet about my blocklist when I put work into the blocklist. But this time I am. Wanna see fewer transphobes? WITHOUT the risk of accidentally blocking a good apple? I've got the list for you:
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Black Guy Does Sociology @blackmanbeyond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wish we could muster up 1/10th of the energy people had for Jimmy Kimmel's shitty show
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TV’s Kevin Lanigan @tvskevinlanigan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I went in “analytical style” on the new Cheekface album, and make a bold declaration that my favorite band is the new face of an old genre tvskevin.substack.com/p/cheekface-...
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you are big tent for the bigots more than the people they're targeting, that's just the same old klan tent. "We have a place for you as long as you know your place" is not progress, actually.
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thi k how much work it takes to drive away people from the polls at this point. But honestly y'all didn't move after they tried to J6 you, got angry at "do something", no one makes people give up on voting harder than Dems playing centrism with genocidal devils.
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"I can abuse you any which way I want and order you to do things" that's a historical practice that's the opposite of liberation.
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"You have to vote for your own disenfranchisement & oppression" actually does make both of the parties the same, actually.
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You can't throw parts of your voter base to the wolves, tell us it's a winning strategy, then when you lose, blame the people you threw away for as the reason you lost. You chose that strategy, you've seen it not work for others, but you went ahead anyway.
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Adam Bell @adambell.games · 23/09/2026
Save the date: The Locked Room Murder Mystery Game is coming to kickstarter on October 20th! Follow along so you don't miss it: www.kickstarter.com/projects/adamebell/the-locked-room-murder-mystery-game
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Authenticity Trip | 200-Proof Games @200proofgames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The last two panels of this comic will do more than live in my mind rent-free, I will do all of their maintenance without needing to be asked. I will bring them room service. They will stay in the penthouse. I will do everything in my power to make them comfortable, happy, and loved.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Like, this isn't an UNWILLINGNESS to develop media literacy; it's what media literacy LOOKS LIKE when one of the basic skills for understanding the media you most frequently engage with is correctly distinguishing the bits that actually have something to say amid a sea of vacuous algorithm-chasing.
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Rise Up Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Beholders are part of the D&D IP but these other totally original floating orb monsters are yours to freely use, bay-bee
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Beholders are intellectual property, eh?
No matter what you call them , Beholders are vile servants of the coastal wizards.  But worry not. They have monstrous cousins that can be u...
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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22/09/2026
One of the things I love most about teaching freshman seminars in sociology is that I get to witness so many lightbulb moments in class--moments where students connect the dots and suddenly see new meaning in things that they've recognized but maybe not fully understood about the social world.
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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
america is complete shit with root rot, but i am never ever going to let anyone from europe point to us as some kind of uniquely racist, war-crazed, entity. girl, the colony may have become the teacher, but we learned from the very best.
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Authenticity Trip | 200-Proof Games @200proofgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I enjoyed the first game somewhat, so was curious about the second. Watched the trailer, and the entire thing is, without exaggeration, talking about how cool it is to have slaves. Every sentence is about creating servants that do everything you want without complaint or question.
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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think that they are really smart tbh they knew exactly what type of person he is and they rallied around him anyway because they like his conservative views and policies. Just like they loved Bill Clinton’s conservative policies. Libs are brilliant at pretending not to be conservatives.
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is 100% what I mean when I say when the Dems take power, what they do is put all the money and building into the systems and tools the GOP will use to repress us further. The guy shooting at you, and the guy who keeps passing him more ammo - neither one is your friend!
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Authenticity Trip | 200-Proof Games @200proofgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As someone who's 29 and only really started getting into rpgs round 2017, I always appreciate these perspectives because it is so hard to imagine what the old days were actually like. It's easy to project modern discourse models into the past, but resemblance isn't the same thing as identity.
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning! Over at Vulture I wrote about the ending of Resident Evil, which is pretty divisive but I think it holds up to scrutiny www.vulture.com/article/resi...
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Resident Evil’s Ending Is the Right Kind of Cruel
In his first franchise outing, writer-director Zach Cregger eschews obvious sequel hooks for something more devious.
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Authenticity Trip | 200-Proof Games @200proofgames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good opportunity for me to mention that the major arcana are fuckin overrated and the minors are where the actual juice is. The major arcana are the bourgeois class of the tarot, extracting their cultural capital from the everyday labor of the minor arcana. I WILL die on this hill
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Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 21/09/2026
I am bringing this back: TTRPG adventure heads, please recommend me a superhero TTRPG adventure that would make me excited to bring it to my table. Do not recommend me a superhero RPG system. I've read most of them. I'm looking for adventures. Do not recommend I read MASKS.
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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trans rights ARE human rights. If you are so mean-spirited that you’re willing to accept that any group of already marginalized people is somehow deserving of even greater oppression, then I’m disappointed in you. It’s so damn easy to let people live with all the same rights you have.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In other words, taking her back to a place where she’ll have more influences telling her that a woman’s place is in the home, as if that will keep her safe. The implication of this, of course, being that women should settle for a degree of submission in hopes that it will stave off violence.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is some tradwife bullshit. “I’m taking my daughter back to Northern Ireland, known for its lack of misogyny and its definitely-not-restrictive gender roles.” www.socialchangeinitiative.com/the-future-o...
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What Northern Ireland Can Learn from Iceland on Gender Equality | Social Change Initiative
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There are good men, but there is no good masculinity, because masculinity is defined against, over, and above femininity. There’s nothing there to *be* good. It is solely fear of being feminine.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The “good men” whom the author is fantasizing about, who she pictures protecting her daughter, will only “protect” subordinates, women who will tend to and serve them. They won’t stand shoulder-to-shoulder with female equals.
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