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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look pressing all the other keys sucks just as much as pressing enter

Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New undercurrent to this movie

Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every day I log on and get to practice not being mad

A quote from a discussion board: "Every PbtA game I've read about seems needlessly narrow in scope, and I prefer stuff with more leeway. If there isn't a perfectly tuned PbtA for your idea, you'll need to make it yourself."

Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

it's easy to figure out... just start at square S and roll a d10 repeatedly until you discover how to work it!

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nov 15, 1999, The Union Democrat

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

paging @nextdoorsv.bsky.social for more unhinged Nextdoor takes. yeah, silicon valley, famously so cheap

A Nextdoor post that reads: With prop 13, locally grown food from central valley, central coast, that can be bought directly from the farmers, low utility usage because we don't need to run our heater and AC 24X7 like in 99% of other parts of the country, if you have your house paid off and are locked in on low property tax, our so called "expensive" Silicon Valley is probably one of the cheapest place in the country to live.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I dunno but I do know it has the most advanced gamer wifi ever

Well several of the greatest

And this has nothing to do with encounters or morale but 1st edition Gamma World may have the greatest RPG diagram of all time

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Metamorphosis Alpha (1976) has a table for NPCs that you can recruit and I guess there's a separate morale check elsewhere...

They had this figured out in 1977

The operation of starships in interstellar commerce requires an understanding of
the economics which govern trade between the stars. Prices and returns on effort

and investment are controlled by the supply and demand which exists in the com-
mercial system.

STARSHIP PURCHASE

Bank financing is available to qualified individuals for the purchase of commer-
cial starships. After a down payment of 20% of the cash price of the starship is made,

the shipyard will begin construction of a specific vessel. Upon completion, the vessel
is delivered to the buyer, with the bank paying off the purchase price to the shipyard.
Because the bank now holds title to the ship, the price must be paid off in a series of
monthly payments to it. Standard terms involve the payment of 1/240th of the cash
price each month for 480 months. In effect, interest and bank financing cost a simple
120% of the final cost of the ship, and the total financed price equals 220% of the
cash purchase price. The loan is paid off over a period of 40 years.

Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Contemporaneously we had a similar table in the 1977 Traveller Book 3

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The intro to the classic Traveller Facsimile edition gives sales number for Traveller in the early days

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Straight from 1987 to my hands... It's surprising that Marc Miller published an adventure for Traveller in a fan zine. I mean, he had lots of places to publish adventures!

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Is soccer like boxing can we just get this called by the judges?

Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I maintain that of all the gags in Peanuts, this is the greatest

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Ok wikipedia editors we need you to turn the horny on Haaland's bio down a couple notches

Text from Wikipedia:

Erling Braut Haaland (born 21 July 2000) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City and the Norway national team. Regarded as one of the best players in the world and the greatest Norwegian player of all time, he is known for his speed, strength, positioning, and finishing inside the box.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

SWORDS AGAINST has arrived and I have been warned

The back of SWORDS AGAINST

Some material may be disturbing. FOR MATURE AUDIENCES content warnings available at www.hollandspiele.com

AGES 18+
NOT FOR SMALL CHILDREN

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It has arrived in print. Wild that Classic Traveller still has legs.

Adventure 14: Travel Hazards for Classic Traveller by Mongoose Publishing

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My second attempt and failure to fix this poor old thing because I got the wrong size belt AGAIN. But I finally found a part number for the belt and have ordered yet another one so third time has got to be the charm.

The internals of a Panasonic SL-CH9 CD player.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

If this was truly a curse, Rocket Robin Hood

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Post a cartoon you remember that (you think) no one else remembers

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My copy has been discarded twice 😂

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Kids: he's an elf Arnold: HE'S NOT AN ELF!

Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A Sunnyvale house with a similar trajectory!

A table of property taxes for a Sunnyvale CA home that went up 2,382% in 2023.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It should be on the keyboard like God himself intended

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

They chose a worse title for the third movie

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Happy Star Wars that could have been Day

An early preview of the third Star wars movie in Tribute magazine, which at the time was titled Revenge of the Jedi

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Star Trek Adventures codifies it really well!

The Star Trek Adventures Attribute/Discipline Combos matrix that gives examples of when to use each combination.

Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

3 - Spirit of the Century. I think this might be the first pulp style game I played and it's the precursor to FATE. I'd make a few mechanical changes today but I loved running this game a lot and I think it's a great combo of rules+setting.

Cover image of the role-playing game Spirit of the Century with a biplane piloted by a gorilla and two people hanging onto the wings.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

(I should not have done this in the middle of the day 😅) 1 - Lords of Creation. 1983. Was it multi-genre or a whole separate genre of parallel world hopping? A game that I have many fond memories of but not necessarily a mechanically great game.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Target truly has cards for every occasion

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We decided to prune the lemon tree today and yeah it was maybe a little overdue

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Everything old is new again In the words of the Smiths, stop me if you've heard this one before