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Andy H

@curubethion.bsky.social
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Game designer and writer; building stories is what fascinates me Proud member of the ✈️✈️✈️ Galactic Trendsetters ✈️✈️✈️ puzzle team He/him Games at curubethion.itch.io | Blog at ludicrusgaming.blogspot.com

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Sam D @sam.diceexploder.com · 9h
Megan is correct! If you're in Chicago go check out my short film playing at the Chicago Horror Film Fest this weekend - I will be busy moving into my new apartment instead of being there :( but you can hang out with Megan instead :)
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JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 13h
BANDCAMP FRIDAY We just announced more shows, which means our fall tour is OVER A MONTH LONG 🫨 Help us afford to get on the road by SUPPORTING ON BANDCAMP! Vinyl, CD, and Cassettes AS WELL AS DIGITAL! Www.jerband.bandcamp.com
picture of JER playing guitar live, and their locks are flying up Bandcamp Friday graphic featuring jer in the center, in front of text above their head and to the right reading Bandcamp Friday. To their left is the jer tag logo, and to the to the right is text that says "death of the heart. Third pressing. Cassette tapes. Compact disc. Digital downloads. Below them is the vinyl to the left, cassette to the right, and cd at the bottom center. Bottom left says "100% made by humans. No Al bullshit" and to the right says jerband.bandcamp.com
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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 17h
As a game thinker, personally, I'm not interested in distinguishing games clearly from other kinds of behaviors and activities. I'm interested in finding and learning from the games that are hiding, unidentified, unrecognized, unacknowledged in the other things we do.
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Andy H @curubethion.bsky.social · 16h
Got a social media reminder from 10 years ago that reminded me I came up with the -[EE| emoticon for my Doctor Who posts and actually that's still very charming
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Andy H @curubethion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Get in on this! Raccoon Sky Pirates is a blast, very easy to teach, very silly, also very fresh mechanics
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Andy H @curubethion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It rules it rules it rules
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Andy H @curubethion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You ever just give your players five minutes of space and they create the most killer character moments? I'm running a game for ROCKSTARS
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Andy H @curubethion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today's psychic damage was learning that American Dad is airing its 22nd season and has 3 more greenlit I perish
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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A lot of ‘90s stuff needs to stay way the hell back in the ‘90s, but imo the ‘90s were correct that clear colored plastic is Fun and Cool.
transparently shelled video game systems of a diversity of colorsimac ad with five differently colored shells
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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why didn't these kinds of moves— Pick 3, pick 2, pick 1 Pick 2, pick 1, pick none Exceptional success, success, compromise — become "how PbtA works"? Like I say, I think it's obvious why, but choosing one move to be "how PbtA works" at all was the first mistake.
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Kevin Petker - Combat Philosopher - ☝️✌️🖐️ @kevinpetker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks! Yeah, almost all the #PbtA complaints I hear about seem to stem from this disconnect with understanding what the MC's role is in most games. Master of CEREMONIES, aka the Host, The One that Facilitates; not the Master of the Game or the Foe of Players.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i wish baseball teams could resolve their differences without resorting to baseball
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Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 29/09/2026
this post popped up in my memories and I felt compelled to cook on something
On this day, six years ago on Facebook
Jeff Stormer

"If your Superman does not feel like he could genuinely, convincingly deliver the Hard Times promo, he is not a Superman I am interested in."
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JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who is cool and hot and brave and awesome enough to get the DEATH OF THE HEART FLAG Goated wall decore 🙂‍↕️ or put it on a flag pole idk Www.Skatunenetwork.com
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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fucking hell YES. It Wants Souls looks soooo good printed!
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Hexed Electron is flinging raccoons into a haunted house @hecticelectron.com · 29/09/2026
Raccoon Sky Pirates launches in under 3 days! Back on Day 1 to get the haunted house map. The basement alone has a vampire crypt, the Pumpkin Patch of Souls, the Angel of Death's studio apt. & a shark tank. Imagine raccoons running all over that stuff. Sign up at www.kickstarter.com/projects/hec...
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Coming soon: Raccoon Sky Pirates Classic
A raucous game of chaos and trash. Play raccoons raiding the suburbs in a janky flying ship forever on the verge of exploding.
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Andy H @curubethion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Having one of those moments of "wow I maybe shouldn't have recommended this book I haven't read in a decade without a caveat because apparently there was a lot of crap that just did not register with my past self" Ugh
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Kevin Petker - Combat Philosopher - ☝️✌️🖐️ @kevinpetker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's okay to hit "rewind" on occasion and have a do-over; yes consequences are part of (most) games, but "having fun" (in all its permutations) is usually a bigger part. It's not cheating to say, "That/we kind of sucked, can we try it again?" Ask yourself "Why am I playing this?" to figure it out.
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I saw a group of people I knew who loved Call of Cthulhu but basically only got to play once or twice a year, constantly bemoaning not getting to play... Turn into playing Arkham Horror players 2-3 times a week.
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Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Marketing in a nutshell is the discipline of aligning product with consumer, to scale An S-tier strategic marketer has honed their clarity of vision to the point where honestly the only thing standing between them and game design is some learnable skills You're already starting on third base IMO
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HEART+ | STAR✷KISS (they/them) @heartplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨Episode 2 of my show, STAR KISS RADIO is OUT NOW!!! This week's show is dedicated to travel, body movement, dissonance, and curiosity through sounds of dub techno, footwork, indie electronica, and underground hip-hop. Give it a listen below! www.mixcloud.com/STARKISSRADI...
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Star✷Kiss Radio 002 - Transience
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Button @boombutton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lmao turns out that when you build a system in which instructions, inputs, outputs, and "reasoning" are indistinguishable it's piss easy to trick it into thinking your input is instructions and/or reasoning
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a bad idea but future speculative bad ideas are good ways to get investor funding rather than real world deadlines/ROI timelines to meet.
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Doug Savage @savagechickens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Xenomorph Dentist. www.patreon.com/savagechicke...
Xenomorph Dentist: Say "Ah".
Xenomorph Patient: Ah!
Xenomorph Dentist: Say "Ah" again.
Xenomorph Patient's inner set of teeth sticks out: Ah!
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Clark Valentine @clarkvalentine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Humans are responsible for the automated systems they build and initiate. Every time. - Says me, a guy who builds automated systems for a living
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Chris Perry @perridot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OH!WARE, my first commercial release, IS OUT NOW! Your ancestors whisper guidance. The Gods all watch. They want you to check it out and give it a review 🙏♥️ store.steampowered.com/app/4121430/...
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Sam Tung @stung.art · 23/09/2026
YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS: ESCAPE FROM DINO ISLAND IS BETTER THAN DUNGEONS & DRAGONS 5E #ttrpg
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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 22/09/2026
this is a real pin from a real company designed by a real person and I own it
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Strike Gently - Horse Pin
1.25 inchesHard enamel with gold platingDeluxe clasp backingShipped with love from our warehouse in LA.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026
a capitalist is entitled to his return on investment. it is like water to him. if he does not get it, he ceases to be a capitalist. it’s not greed, not entirely. it’s an existential fear.
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Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I finally wrote a Zuko comic! Out early next year, art by @peterwartman.com, colour by Adele Matera.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026
“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.
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Churro @risaamor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Once again
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Josh Boykin @wallstormer.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
It's Game Devs of Color Expo this week! Gonna talk a bit about my work with @gdocexpo.com on stream, then play some Baby Steps maybe? :)
Selfie of Josh
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Party of One Podcast @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You have around 18 hours to email a voice memo to partyofonepodcast@gmail.com telling us what Po1 means to you, giving a message for 500 episodes, or telling us your favorite moment from the fictitious TTRPG campaign turned rock opera movie "The Singularity Cycle, Phase I. The Blade of the Exarchs."
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Andy H @curubethion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's kinda funny that rain on your wedding day is ALSO Byronic
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater
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Andy H @curubethion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sometimes session prep means opening the Slugblaster book to the monster section, seeing the metasaur, and going "guess we're doing dinosaurs today" (It ruled)
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yeah every time I've been hearing "post 9/11 we were a unified nation" I remember terrible shit like this. Then people wonder why we bristle at "I work for the DoD and I'm up to win awards in RPGs" and responses to the bristling being ominous "we have long memories" threats. 🥴
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Josh the Ar-TEEST @heroesofcrash.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My historically accurate version of the Odyssey did not dominate the box office as I hoped.
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Super Mario Odyssey: Mario and Cappy's Catch
ALT: Super Mario Odyssey: Mario and Cappy's Catch
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Andy H @curubethion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Typo of the day: Mon Moshma
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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AI companies sold C suites and lazy assholes on the idea that they invented magic beans but now that the magic isn't happening they're telling everyone they're actually deadly beans and only they have the antidote for the deadly beans.
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Andy H @curubethion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I wish I'd held on to my Warhammer 3E box set. It was a tough time and I had to sell off a bunch of stuff that was too hard to move, but man.....
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Andy H @curubethion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
yeah astrology is so silly like imagine thinking your personality can be assigned to one of twelve boxes anyway im a vorthos and that's why my only deck is ladies looking left
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Jaydot dice: @jaydotdice.com · 14/09/2026
"I'm just gonna go talk to my spouse about it, this doesn't need to be a post somewhere."
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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Da Underfunded Ouroboros @trufflehog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
On the verge of an IPO where they really really really want a sky high valuation to cash out as multi-billionaires, the Anthropic co-founders sits down with the FT to tell them how the Mystery Machine is so great it'll cause more GDP than God. So, you know, why not buy some stock?
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/09/2026
i want to apologize again to everyone who may have heeded my advice, did not get wrongfully terminated from their job, and as such did not score a once in a lifetime lawsuit payout. i will spend the day in reflection be better in the future about not discouraging my followers from getting that bag
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Hayley G - Good Society 2E on Kickstarter now! @storybrewersroleplaying.com · 09/09/2026
🎩🍰Call for tea and biscuits as Good Society 2nd edition is live upon the Kickstarter! 🍰🎩 We're back with more romance, scandal, and drama than ever. Come visit upon us and take a look at this Jane Austen rpg 💌 www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...
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Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG – 2nd Edition
Navigate the pitfalls of romance, reputation, manners, and marriage in the sumptuous new edition of this award-winning regency rpg.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
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