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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

My last name is Arthur, and a friend was lobbying hard for one of our kids to be 'Pendragon'.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I have to give it to Rush, but New Pornographers and Metric are not far behind.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Check out San Fermin, an indie rock band with a saxophone, a trumpet, and one or more violins depending on the album.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Otherside Picnic is a Japanese novel series about two lesbians exploring a dangerous alternate reality. It is much more focused on the horror stuff than romance as far as I've read though.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Someone should be able to store their spells in their shadow, or their reflection. Not sure who though.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

There are also graphic novel adaptations of the first 6 books out. So far there's been one per year so the whole series will take awhile if they keep going.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

There's a great series of episodes on the podcast Going Rogue where the host does a ton of research and digs into all the changes across versions. Her conclusion is that every version had major problems.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We watch the 1987 broadcast of Muppet Family Christmas every year (on YouTube with full commercials), definitely enhances the experience.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I remember people being mad that Traehern felt more like the main character than the PC. But that's really a symptom of the strategy they doubled down on: a silent generic protagonist can't decide to form an international alliance and give a big speech about it.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Several x-stories are about 'cures' for mutants. Are there actual medical treatments that completely block a gene from being expressed at all, or do we only deal with individual expressions / the effects of genes? (Hope that makes sense, I'm not sure if I'm using the right terms)

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

If you want to hear more about the canceled Gambit and Magneto solo movies, the fantastic podcast @goingroguepod.bsky.social read and discussed both of the leaked scripts as patreon bonus episodes.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Maybe not 'greatest' but worth discussing: The Suicide Squad (2021) led to DC movies being overhauled and James Gunn being put mostly in charge of the whole thing. Superman (2025) was solid, there are a lot of movies queued up, and Marvel is floundering so the eventual impact may be large.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I learned to drive in one of those; my grandpa had one and we had a minivan so it was slightly better. Horrible back window that you could barely see out of, otherwise it was weird looking but mostly fine.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This is a cool idea. I would say the ship looks like a red-brick academic building with class and lab space. It stays in each plane for a few months, so the researchers just teach classes / give teaching space to whoever lives there. POV is their grad student or possibly the ship's librarian.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Lupita reads it aloud on Netflix's Bookmarks. No behind the scenes commentary or anything, just her reading the book, but she has a beautiful voice.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

You would probably like Wayne Family Adventures. It's very good and all about Batman having feelings and trying to raise his kids.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

True, but Peter isn't Miles' dad so it's not quite as close of a parallel.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

It happens in Batman stuff when Bruce's kids try to decide who, if anyone, should get the name+costume after he dies. Damien has a similar vibe to Rumi even, with the 'am I inherently unworthy because of who my other parent is' kind of plot. That's the only one I can think of though.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

There's a graphic novel adaptation by Mike Mignola of the 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' movie adaptation of Dracula.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Is Dance Apocalyptic too literal?

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I would love to hear more about this, or some brand recommends if you like what you're using. I've been trying to repair some warped prints with just greenstuff and sanding, and it hasn't been working for me.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Now I really want to see a cover of Taskmaster saying "Nick Fury is a Jerk!" in the classic Kitty Pryde pose

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

A list could be cool. Either 'spend the XP to pick one of these, otherwise gm picks' or a list that's like 'for each XP you spend, pick one of these options'.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The task resolution system itself is great; interesting choices and sounds fun to watch. Something about 'sacrifice XP to choose how it happens' bothers me though. It feels like 'if you enjoy narrating or have a fun idea, then do that, otherwise take XP'.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I'm in Los Angeles. LA County is massive - bigger than Delaware. The City of Los Angeles is much smaller but still big and weirdly shaped (surrounds Santa Monica and several other cities). So if I said "the city" I would be trying to differentiate between the two.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

www.the-isb.com/2024/08/11/t... by @theisb.bsky.social hasn't been linked yet and is well worth a read. You're mostly getting non-fiction but there's a lot of good fiction about people playing games, so I'll also suggest DIE by Kieran Gillen and Dungeon Club by Molly Knox Ostertag.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I have copies of this, his Guide to Fantasy, and Alien Life of Wayne Barlowe. Highly recommend the other two if you don't have them yet.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

This is part of why I like painting stuff (minis, etc) when I'm not up to making something from scratch. You still make choices about colors and stuff, but there's no blank paper to stare at.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

My older kid has a stuffed seahorse which was named "sea whore" for about 3 years. We managed to mostly keep a straight face about it.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

In the same vein they made 4 pretty good Batman games and then said "but what if we stopped putting Batman in them" and made Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I suspect a lot of the backlash is jerks saying "I would prefer no romance ever to the possibility that two dudes might kiss" in the same way that many other good things have been ruined by conservatives.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Definitely agree. It's very weird to me that comics have gone this way, because 'who should Peter Parker date' (or Kitty Pryde, Wolverine, etc) were major points of debate in comics for decades.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Jet Set Radio: a game about roller-blading graffiti artists dodging the cops while listening to pirate radio. Sadly, I don't think you can buy it right now, but I played through it multiple times back in the Dreamcast era.

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Jet Set Radio

"Tag, Grind and Trick to the Beat!" —Tagline Jet Set Radio, (ジェットセットラジオ, Jetto Setto Rajio?) known as Jet Grind Radio in NTSC areas initially, is a video game developed by Smilebit and published by ...

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp is also riffing on this; it's too complex for a 2 year old, but I read it with my 6 year old recently, and we enjoyed it.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

My 3 year old recommends Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Winnie The Pooh (2011), and Pooh's Hephalump Movie. When my other kid was that age, they watched the Brandi / Whitney Houston version of Cinderella many times.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Done. There are so many aid requests on here that I'm pretty overwhelmed by them, but the matching thing feels like a good way to prioritize.

Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This matches my experience with UCLA health. I asked a question about an existing condition at a physical and they double billed me. They said it was both a diagnostic and preventative visit, and therefore it was two visits. They'll take any excuse to get more money out of you.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Progress on Jane Doe (Neko Figurines). Lots of work left still but the base colors are coming together.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Guild Wars 2 was great at these. My favorite example: Orr is a continent that sunk and then was raised up again. A mix of huge weathered ruins and giant coral, everything there is undead (including all of the animals). It just feels weird and dangerous, especially when you first get there.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Trying to get better at recording progress on my "art projects". Two figures in the early stages of being painted/assembled: "Persephone, to War" by Witchsong Miniatures and Jane Doe by Neko Figurines. Printed (FDM) by me.

WIP of painting a statue. The model is "Persephone, to War" by Witchsong Miniatures.

WIP of painting some figures. The models are "Persephone, to War" by Witchsong Miniatures and Jane Doe (from Zenless Zone Zero) by Neko Figurines.

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Ken A @darkportent.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

There's a fun bit in the booklet that comes with The Discworld Map; the artist says he presented his first draft to Terry Pratchett, and then Pratchett patiently explained to him why his geography made no sense ("Do you know what a rain shadow is?") and asked him to fix it.