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He/Him / Occasional #TTRPG GM / I wanted to escape the angels and the damned – alone . . . as though by an oversight

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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
An important aspect of tech literacy is that automation is not AI/LLM. Those are different things. Automation involves skill as well and isn’t just a prompt that goes out and plagiarizes code/media.
I know "finally anyone can do it" is not a new marketing tactic, but one serious shift that needs to happen after the bubble pops is to re-empower people and encourage them to just learn new skills instead of surrendering them to automation.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived on bluesky
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I really dislike reviews that refuse to see the artistry in 3d animation. If you don’t like it, fine, but artists don’t deserve disrespect because of a chosen medium.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Update: the bike lane median is gone for a good stretch now.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stantec workers are currently tearing out the bike lanes at the behest of Doug Ford at Stirling and Bloor. No protest. No fuss. Cc @thewaroncars.bsky.social @spezbaby.bsky.social @arsduo.bsky.social #toronto
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Here's my #LastFourWatched on this late #LetterboxdFriday #Filmsky
Supergirl, what’s up Doc, Camp Miasma, and Coyote vs Acme
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just started Galactic Patrol and yep the psionics are foundational. In fact, psionics are more foundational than computers which don’t exist in machine form in the book. Navigation is all handled by analog mechanisms like the one in Forbidden Planet
A spaceship crew stands around a sphere representing a volume of space with measurements written along its curvature.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Meant to attach this photon of the fasa sourcebook:
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’m back on my Vorkosigan bullshit. I finished Memory, a personally emotionally affecting story about the series protagonist blowing up his life and losing his career with one knowing mistake. Watching him pick up the pieces and figure out who he is now is as exciting as his lost space adventures
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
MEMORY
A VORKOSIGAN ADVENTURE
READ BY GROVER GARDNER
UNABRIDGED
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Morals and quality of work aren’t related, but being mean to bad people and denigrating their work is good and fine and might even discourage people from continuing to support them. It’s fine to be petty imo
Post from someone I’m not tagging:

 What happens a lot on social media is when someone (Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman now Ed
 Brubaker) has allegations thrown at them people tend to leap out the woodwork saying
 "their work was never good."
 That helps no one as it's irrelevant. What matters is their actions and what they did.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I think this is a pretty stupid thing to say
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s regretful that discourse around all art post-2022 is going to include speculation about genai, but trying to restrict that speculation to a legal standard is ludicrous
Saying it for maybe the 50th time: Do not accuse someone of using Al unless you have
ABSOLUTELY AIRTIGHT proof, because if not, you're just adding to the paranoia and causing stress for hard-working artists.
And yes, going onto social media and going
'Hrrm, I've no proof, but...' is an accusation.
1/3
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I have a fondness for the forgotten John Ford explanation of Klingons using genengineering to make soldiers perfectly adapted to ruling subject species. Probably for the best that strange new worlds doesn’t care to explain things one way or another.
An illustration of three klingons from the Fasa rog sourcebook written by John Ford. It depicts the imperial race with forehead ridges snd the romulan and human fusions respectively
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Today on the looong train ride from Toronto to NYC, I finally finished Weaveworld by Clive Barker. I beautiful, sexy, horrifying fantasy novel about surviving a genocide and preserving the magic of one’s culture. It reminds me a lot of his movie Nightbreed as well as his more towering work Imajica.
Clive Barker’s Weaveworld
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Post a picture of yourself with sunglasses. Keeping this account pseudonymous to protect the innocent
A person with an identity obscuring flowery mask, circular blue glasses and a beige fedora.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Reading Weaveworld

"I dreamed something..." Cal said.
"What was that?"


"I dreamed that this was real and the other wasn't."

Lemuel's smile faded. "I wish what you dreamed were true, he said.

"But the Kingdom's all too real. It's just that a thing that grows too certain

of itself becomes a kind of lie. That's what you dreamed. That the other
place is a place of lies."
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Job interviewers want to know if I am available for weird shifts and I'm just like "please plug me back into the matrix for the love of god"
Cipher looking dubiously at his interviewer in the matrix. I'm not gonna be anyone important, like an actor.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The art is good, but sparse. I especially like the druid, which could not be easily mistaken for a post-tsr druid.
Druid guy with a wooden shield and a sickle weapon.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My copy of Osric and 3 adventures came in. It looks good!
Photo of a book depicting a dragon looking at a party of adventurers.

Book title reads:
OSRIC 3.0
PLAYER GUIDE
STUART MARSHALL & MATT FINCH
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it”
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Haven’t finished a book in a while though I’ve started several and reread others, but I finished Amongst Our Weapons after a long hiatus 80% of the way through. Decent book, although I prefer my wizards to make less healthy life choices
Cover of Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovich
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Relatable
Who were they all? Quentin had heard rumors about dog-and-pony shows like this before, gray-market cattle calls, work for hire, but he'd never seen one himself. He definitely never thought he'd go to one, not in a million years. He never thought it would come to that. Stuff like this was for people on the fringes of the magical world, people scrabbling to get in, or who'd lost their footing somehow and slipped out of the bright warm center of things, all the way out to the cold margins of the real world. All the way out to a strip mall in Hackensack in the rain. Things like this weren't for people like him.
Except now they were. It had come to that. He was one of them, these were his people. Six months ago he'd been a king in a magic land, another world, but that was all over. He'd been kicked out of Fillory, and he'd been kicked around a fair bit since then, and now he was just another striver, trying to scramble back in, up the slippery slope, back toward the light and the warmth.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
An extremely cursed post that is made worse by the knowledge that it would look a lot like the isekai/portal fantasy story Tolkien wrote called The Lost Road, where a modern guy reads a book and wishes he knew what Numenor were like and ends up there shortly before it sinks into the ocean.
Quote tweet of "samsorensen.bsky.social‬
imagine if tabletop RPGs had caught on a century earlier, in the 1870s instead of 1970s. we debate the Moscow School vs. the Tunisia School of designs. we have a decades-old subgenre called "verdylikes." some pith-helmeted Victorian makes a stat array using phrenology. there are modernist RPGs"

Ettin.itch.io quote tweets this saying "[whispering to self] Lord of the Rings LitRPG"
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I'm going to guess that it's the fault of the Heritage Foundation:
"It seems to me that a good place to start would be a feminist movement against the pill, & for... returning the consequentiality to sex."

Conservatives have to lead the way in restoring sex to its true purpose, & ending recreational sex & senseless use of birth control pills.

3:00 PM · May 27, 2023
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hahahaha, my butlerian jihad credentials are unimpeachable
They guy running the big anti-anti-ai list has me on it
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
An example monster reaction table:
Table: Monster 
Reaction Roll 2d6 	Result
2 or less 	Attacks
3–5 	Hostile, may attack
6–8 	Uncertain, confused
9–11 	Indifferent, may negotiate
12 or more 	Eager, friendly
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"25A medicalization" is a truly cursed turn of phrase.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Some clarification on no green screens in PHM
Christopher Miller
@chrizmillr
Some clarification here: "no green screen" doesn't mean "no VEX".
There were, in fact, thousands of VFX shots in the film (2018!)
Green screen is sometimes used in lieu of building sets or figuring out locations/lighting in advance, which can be noticeable if not done carefully, and is something we didn't want to do. We built the entire interior of the Hail Mary ship - but within the ship, there were still wire and puppeteer removals and ceiling replacements, etc. When Ryan is outside on the hull of the ship, we shot him in front of a black background for space and a shifting hue background when he was up against the aurora of a planet which allowed for truer interactive light on him than a green screen would. The wide space exteriors and spaceship shots were entirely digital and beautifully done by ILM. Rocky was a seamless blend of puppetry and animation from Framestore. And other great work from many more. It really does take a village and we had the best of the best on our side.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Played what I thought was my last computer game: Dune 2000
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Here are my #LastFourWatched
Four movies: Nadja, Excalibur, Hundreds of Beavers, and Captain America (the one from the 90s)
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I really hope they hurry and pull horizon worlds out of the oculus quest and give us back our old virtual spaces. I miss my stupid cyberpunk apartment I used to escape to during the pandemic
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I have an obscure text that does try to depict aliens conquered in klingon space: the Star Fleet Universe Role-Playing Game
A two page spread showing an assortment of aliens the klingons have conquered. An image of a softcover book called Prime Directive: the Star fleet universe role-playing game. The art shows federation crews shooting phasers at a flying alien.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
My four favorite Star Trek captains
Sisko, his hands folded as he contemplates action on the USS Defiant. Captain KirkJaneway during the Year of HellCarol Freeman, Captain of the Ceritos
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Okay tuvix is a funny example, but the best example of Lower Decks poking at previous Trek's moral choices was this incredible mural:
A mural showing from left to right, the enterprise leaving as hands outstretch toward it, followed by increasingly deranged depictions of civil conflict, followed by heroic athletic figures.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"Let's look up how Janeway dealt with Tuvix!"
Three panels. The first has a transporter blended character saying, "I love being alive", the second has Captain Freeman saying "Well, I'm sure that Janeway had a solution to this." The third shows her with a historical database on her PADD while she exclaims "SHE STRAIGHT UP MURDERED HIM!!!"
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Imo, the only good game based portal fantasy is DIE by Gillen and Hans. cdn.imagecomics.com/assets/i/fea...
Comic teaser with text: 

IN 1991, SIX TEENAGERS SAT DOWN TO PLAY A ROLE-PLAYING GAME.


(A boy holds a d20 walk talking to his friends and says) “I made this just for us.
This is fantasy for grown-ups.
Let's play.”


THEY DISAPPEARED WITHOUT EXPLANATION
THERE WERE NO CLUES. THEY HAD VANISHED.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
It’s frustrating because this inability to write doesn’t come from the genre. If you go back far enough, there’s a better portal fantasy manga genre with works like Twelve Kingdoms and Escalflowne. I don’t know why the genre has been such a haven for slop. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
A girl in a school dress holds what looks like a straight chinese sword with a red tassel on the hilt.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
That is a damn neolithic behelit.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Tonight, I finished Ethan of Athos, another Vorkosigan adventure minus any Vorkosigan characters. Instead, the protagonist is a gay obstetrician from a planet devoid of women. He’s in search of ovarian tissue cultures so he can create the next generation of sons. Really good pulpy feminist sci-fi
Book cover showing mercenary Ellie Quinn protecting the title character.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Bought myself the dolmenwood players guide as a citizenship day present. Man am I happy I don’t have to deal with immigration paperwork for the foreseeable future
A two page spread describing fairy magic with art showing mischievous pixies
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Some animal part of my mind just marvels at seeing this evil old monster just sitting there vomiting bile and stupidity while the rich and powerful people he's bullying don't rush the stage to
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I finished Barrayar, a sword and planet novel about the mother of the protagonist of the rest of the series. This was a fantastic sequel to the star trek-like Shards of Honor and it's rife with intrigue, sexist in-laws, and cloak and dagger heroics.
Lois McMaster Bujold's Barrayar: a Vorkosigan Adventure
Art: A rough hand and a smooth one grasp a canesword together.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Taking inspiration from @arsduo.bsky.social, I’m starting a thread for 2026 novels. I ended 2025 by re-reading A Hunger Like Fire, and in 2026, I’ve started Miles Errant, a 3 book combination in the Vorkosigan Saga by Lous McMaster Bujold
A big paperback book called Miles Errant. It shows a uniformed man sitting at a holographic display of a diagram while a young androgynous person and a hulking furry alien lady stands over him.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I also really enjoy the Cardenas class, which I was sorely tempted to buy before Master Replicas lost the license
A four nacelled starship
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I was a little late on Pluribus, but last week’s episode was so good. Also, like Carol, i also like to spend time just gushing over New Mexico landscapes. These are from yesterday’s drive
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Consider that both of these characters have been poorly served by inept “let me tell you about my traumas as though i am in endless therapy” writing.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
wint @dril
Following
maybe sometimes both sides... are good and bad at the same time??? im sorry if im doing this wrong. it is difficult to write
3:15 PM - 20 Oct 2014
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I know mocking this is hardly uncommon (haha) nowadays, but Jesus Christ, magic cards look like ass now.
A cruel tutor magic card, but it's just a zoomed in cartoon face with text haphazardly overlaid in a fairly banal typeface.
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
four books to get to know me
The intentionally disappointing and demoralizing Dune MessiahThe fellowship of the ring. Childhood fairytales awkwardly give way to the mood of the world warsLast Call by Tim Powers: Modern occultism is the aesthetic for a story about shifting identities and fathers instrumentalizing their sonsThe vampire lestat, a sexy book about being profoundly discontented with what you believe to be true
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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
“Superman, welcome to The War on Cars” Has anyone done this bit yet? @thewaroncars.bsky.social
Superman smashing a green car while its former occupants run in terror
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