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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Got to the part in Townfall where Terry O'Quinn does a Silent Hill Die Hard, just running around annihilating bitches with a shotgun. An unexpectedly delightful change of pace

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

INSIDE THE WRITER'S STUDIO: a short selection from the comments i left on the first draft of my old attempted novel

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

gonna have to fully blag this pathfinder session lads

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Walking home at night through the fog after spending the evening playing Silent Hill with Sam. Good thing I have no traumas or mental conditions. The monsters are all just giving me high fives

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

finally getting around to playing Shadow of the Erdtree. pretty good so far. it is insane that you have to beat one of the hardest optional bosses in the main game to access it. wild confidence in the market

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't know a specific word for when it's a single story/event, but a specific focus on a narrow area like that is generally called a "pet doctrine".

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

third attempt, baby. get cillit banged you mouldy bint

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

folks, i can report that this movie I'd never heard of until a couple of hours ago is absolutely jaw-dropping. watch it at your earliest convenience

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ah, good, they've made firefox look different. that's what i wanted. and rather than match my computer's non-distracting, low-key dark grey colour theme, they've successfully guessed that i want this one app to be *intensely* purple.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the original idea was for her to be a toxic mage but the rules for toxic mages in SR5 are "you get access to two really shit spells and you have to be evil and stupid and live in a toxic waste dump". so now she's a sort of metagenic lizard/poison-dart-frog girl. which is better.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

how did she get that way, you ask? it's simple. it was an accident. the simple accident of a well-meaning maniac.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

introduced my new shadowrun character Nox tonight. she is a very professional, skilled combat specialist and asset to the team. also if she misses one of her daily injections she starts sweating and exhaling extremely lethal poisons that paralyze and kill anyone nearby. on top of that, she's French

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saw the new Resident Evil. Great fun. My favourite bit is where the guy checked the hospital map, plotted a route through the maternity ward, and the entire cinema made an "oh, no" noise in unison

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

one of the first things I did on learning that you can dial numbers on Townfall's phones was try to call Live And Kicking

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 24/09/2026

It's really refreshing seeing shitey normal working class life depicted like this in a game, and a Silent Hill game no less. Pebble-dashed council flats, three-bar fires, Post Office counters, concrete shopping precincts. This must be how posh people felt playing Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

A Post Office (well, 'Post Service') counter.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

he is just comicsy-as-fuck, though. it feels so hard to try and do a "real" version of him played by an actual human. he's a very silly original concept who's been shaped into something good over the years. it's hard to introduce him as a serious guy in the first instance. His name is *Doctor Doom*.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

really I don't have any expectations for Doomsday, high or low. I am there primarily because I want to see a good adaptation of Dr. Doom. I don't know that it'll be one, I don't even know that a good film version is possible. but Doom is the best Marvel villain and deserves his shot.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

couldn't resist reading the Doomsday leak. it does sound ridiculous in places but any summary of a Marvel plot sounds ridiculous, i'm not worried about what it sounds like outside of its medium. I *am* quite surprised that it sounds like they're sticking pretty close to the comics in one aspect.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The other nice surprise about Townfall is that Terry O'Quinn is in it. I had no idea beforehand and was trying to place the voice (thought it might be Tobin Bell for a second) and then the opening credits played and it's John Locke :)

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On the whole S1 is fair-to-good, S2 is better, and then S3 is where the show hits the top of its game and it stays strong until the end. Alec Baldwin is consistently the best thing in it though.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It definitely gets better than eps 1 and 2. Takes it a little bit to find the comic voices underneath the caricatures, especially for Tracy and Jenna imo. I dunno about skipping the first season, there's a lot of good stuff in there. It hits more of a stride over the next few episodes.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

as always i'm just pleased that there's new Silent Hill and it's not bad. it may never be groundbreaking again, but this "active and competent" era is a damn sight better than the "mediocre, then dead" one.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"hey zoe. how's things, considering recent happenings?" "you mean the current situation? not great." "ah. that's understandable in light of everything that's going on." "yep. i've hidden my back door key in the fishmonger's, due to the crisis." "what else can you do in such trying times"

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ultimately the atmosphere's good but SH lives or dies on the story, so too early to tell. the mystery's engaging so far but there is a bit of "hey, will one of you fuckers please say *something* specific about what happened in one of the 5000 letters, emails and voicemails you're leaving each other"

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(you do figure out pretty quickly that it's a lightly-repainted Critical Path Indicator, but it's *just* cryptic enough that it works. It'll point you in a direction but you still have to pay attention, use and understand your map. you do feel like you're involved, not just following markers.)

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The little mini-TV you get in place of the radio is nice. It makes enemy tracking a bit more involved, is used in puzzles and as a cool diegetic way of delivering story and direction. also i had one of those little TVs so it gets further points from me.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And in particular it is a coastal Scottish village, which the main character is returning to. so the second I saw the outline of the town rooftops through the fog I was like "oh my god, it's Silent Hill: Local Hero"

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

St. Amelia is just a really loving recreation of a UK town in 1996. We were both constantly going "oh, shit, one of *those*, remember those?" i mean, to the point that occasionally it's like "man, I wish this monster would piss off so I could go and admire that period-accurate cash machine"

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

so far it's not doing anything groundbreaking mechanically, it's a pretty straightforward first-person hidey-horror with very resource-limited combat options. but it's fantastically presented and the attention to detail in the town goes a long, long way to making the slightly rote stealth enjoyable

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Played through the first couple of hours of Silent Hill Townfall with Sam this evening and I'm pleased to say that we both had A Good Time with it

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

me: wow, geordi, you sure are some blind ghost with clothes geordi:

a picture of geordi laforge with the netflix subtitle "Are you saying I'm some blind ghost with clothes?"

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finished the RE3 remake tonight with Sam. I hated it when it first came out but every time I revisit it I come a little further around to it. It's not a good version of the original, but once you get past that it's a fun, pacy little action movie. It's short but that means it never loses momentum.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Was it perfect? No. But if I recall correctly, last time I regularly posted there, they had banned *most* of the worst slurs.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the only social media site in history to achieve good moderation cost ten dollars to join, ten more every time you got banned, and you could be banned for posting an emoji people were tired of

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I hope this is within the moderation policy of the site to say.

Dadamn. That answer could use some work!

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

breaking: you have pulled out of opening for Ed Sheeran

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

finished up the third arc of my Pathfinder campaign this evening with a Mad Max fight atop multiple moving vehicles versus an opposing party based on the Jackass crew. Lovely stupid chaos. Chris Pontius got run over by a war rig.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

most people don't have to try not to be a lizard. most people are automatically not a lizard. however thanks to shadowrun's "whoops, DNA just does random shit for no reason now" approach to genetics, this lady is not automatically not a lizard and has to make an effort about it.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

new shadowrun character week. this time: catty French elven street samurai who is poisonous to the touch whether she wants to be or not, and is trying very hard not to be a lizard

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Zoe's grief is represented by a hydra, because grief can take many forms. And one of those forms is a hydra

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I like that Zoe's ultimate foe is unresolved grief over a tragic childhood trauma and Mio's is basically just that she's kinda bitchy. And then you fight Dark Mio and she's a giant sexy robot who's way cooler than Mio and kicks ass.

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Finished Split Fiction with Sam. kind of impressive that the characters are so annoying and the dialogue so bad that they manage to make the brilliant gameplay feel like a chore at points. it's arguably the best co-op platformer ever made and Zoe and Mio spend the whole thing begging you to hate it

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 10/09/2026

Goddammit I’m never going to not think of this now www.tumblr.com/dungeonmaste...

Tumblr post from user dungeonmastersconsortium: dungeonmasterscons...

Saw a comment that Elizabeth Holmes looks like a mouse wished to be able to commit wire fraud and now I can't unsee it

With a still of Elizabeth Holmes from the documentary

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it gives me 80s riot grrrl vibes and now I'm just disappointed that it's not Metroid Riot with an angry teenage Samus having to fight off space pirates between distributing zines and playing drums in a band called Motherbrain

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm surprised it hasn't been talked about much in the lead-up to this one! It's been a long while since I played it but as I recall it was actually Notably Good

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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"I was attacked by unknown assailants and sustained grave injuries. Getting back to the surface won't be easy." Yeah! You lost your power-ups again, love. Every game. This is just Metroid Dread 2 and that's OK. you don't need to be embarrassed about it.

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