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metaregress @metaregress.com · 08/11/2025

the crashout of haruhi suzumiya

Heard that the moths swarming through Sydney could be kept out of my home better if I left an outside light on to tempt them, so I've been turning the porch light on overnight. That may have goaded nearby moths into nesting where I'd sprayed long-lasting roach killer and getting annihilated. Whoops

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Nina Modaffari @ninamodaffari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

absolutely no hatred towards teen fantasy but I heard someone once call titles that are like 'a crown of blank and blank' stories as 'A kraft of mac and cheese' and I cannot stop thinking about it

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 29/09/2026

TTRPG followers: Anyone got a back cover of an RPG book they really liked? We're talking backs specifically, not those boring "ooh look at me I have the title of the game" front covers

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 29/09/2026

TTRPG followers: Anyone got a back cover of an RPG book they really liked? We're talking backs specifically, not those boring "ooh look at me I have the title of the game" front covers

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 29/09/2026

My local mall has these two shops right next to each other. I'm going to become the Joker

A big Halloween store display. It has a giant inflatable purple hand with an eye on it, a black horse, a spoopy clown, all kinds of stuff. This is Australia by the way. Once when I was younger a single child came trick or treating on Halloween and my mum told him to fuck off.

A Christmas pop-up store with a giant inflatable Santa that can only fit here because the upper floor is a mezzanine. It is a hundred percent September.

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 28/09/2026

Preparing to demo Wetrunner at PAX and trying to decide which sample characters to include. All fourteen is probably too many

Fate character sheet for Bazza, a scientist who wears a floral-print lab coat and board shorts and carries a little robot. He has a scifi sheet with slightly janky Coolvetica headers and a lot of unnecessary background text around his portrait.

Character sheet for Maka, who is like if Tifa got cybernetic arms and a 90s palette swap. Her sheet is laid out similarly to Bazza but has more of an 80s action hero theme with a brush font and pink-purple gradients.

Character sheet for Markus, an Aussie guy with a vest, shorts, Akubra hat, and a lot of chest hair. His sheet looks like a stylized desktop with computer windows and a task bar behind him.

Character sheet for Markus, a dark-skinned woman with a purple dress, scales, teal hair, and a big floppy hat. Her sheet is designed to look a bit like a spread from a magazine, with a barcode behind her and fancier fonts.

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 28/09/2026

How do these fucking moths keep entering my house. Get outta here. If this fucking guy flies into me again I'm getting out the spray

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 27/09/2026

Tech used to be about helping people, but not any more. We've solved that. All we need to do is wait for superintelligence and we'll be getting sucked off on Mars in no time. In the meantime we're solving the last urgent issue: how to get people to stop hitting me with hammers

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 27/09/2026

Been struggling with this a little while writing the next Hard Wired Island. Second Gig is further in the future, so how many rich perverts should it have? I focused a lot of the new corpo stuff on a parody of the gen-AI fad, but it turns out that's just rich perverts again

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/09/2026

"The central lesson of this cycle is not that Charlie Brown should stop trusting Lucy. It is that Charlie Brown must do a better job explaining why trusting Lucy remains the responsible choice." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party

“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 26/09/2026

My folks used my sister's old bedroom as storage, so today I'm clearing and sorting all the crap they left in here. It's been left unattended for a while

An old paper ad for the 2006 Family Guy video game. Grab your joystick and get ready to unleash your inner Peter! It's too hot for TV!

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 25/09/2026

Been trying ADHD medication the last few days to see what that does. What it does is I write more in a day than I usually do in a week. Jesus Christ

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 25/09/2026

Turning a minor character in Hard Wired Island into a major one in Second Gig, 3.5 edition (2020 art by @cryodraws.bsky.social, 2025 art by @boaillustration.bsky.social)

A music poster from the Hard Wired Island core book. The poster is advertising a chiptune band called Fizzy Drone and features art of the band's only permanent member, Xue Lao. Xue is a cheerful gal with asymmetrical black hair, a pink beanie, headphones, and a cyan shirt. The right side of her face is cybernetic. Her right eye is pink and probably also cybernetic.

Xue Lao again. Her face is normal now, but both her eyes are glowing electronic pink and she has RCA cables plugged into her neck. Her arms are pink cyberware. She's wearing the beanie, sweatpants, and a tied shirt, so you can see that her lower torso is entirely cybernetic. It's blue and translucent, like an old console. Xue is doing a goofy pose, making peace signs with her hands and smiling with her tongue playfully sticking out of her mouth, so presumably she is happy with the new body situation.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 22/09/2026

Excited to put even ruder versions of this disclaimer on future projects

[in a very retro Windows style]

Androids Yes,
AI No

Second Gig will not use any gen-AI slip because I'm not a fucking hack.

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 22/09/2026

Went to see a specialist who prescribed me ADHD medication for various reasons. Let's see what that does

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 22/09/2026

What if they called it "lumch"

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

reading swan boy outside the US is constantly trying to guess what's real and what's branson. Carrabas: I think real. Philadelphia: invented for Swan Boy. Shriners in their tiny cars: incredibly, real

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Cowbo Bebo at his Computo @dochaus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

RIP to Tilly Norwood, who was accidentally uploaded into a Quake 3 Arena match and gibbed by a rocket launcher instead of the SFM machinima she was supposed to appear in. She is survived by her closest kin, Gal Gadot.

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 20/09/2026

Going on an adventure today, throwing caution to the wind and living life freely — the only way to truly live (the bus missed a turn and had to find a roundabout)

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 20/09/2026

I got a customisable GM screen from DTRPG a while back but it's starting to split and fall apart after years of use. I could use one for when I run Wetrunner at PAX Aus but I'm looking into other options

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 19/09/2026

Having a fun Balatro run with a build that basically bumbles its way to victory

Vampire, Midas Mask, Pareidolia, Eternal Crafty Joker (okay this one sucks), and Brainstorm

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 19/09/2026

Imagining the complex, far-reaching changes that would be wrought in your typical D&D world if an early wizard invented a spell that hurts your balls

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

with the new expansion, i had to finally formalize this presenting the first roleplaying game to use Hearts of Iron 4 as a resolution system to properly model fascist dysfunction it is not cooperative or competitive, but a secret third thing docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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True Imperial Japan Experience

True Imperial Japan Experience A Hearts of Iron 4 Game This is a counteroperative roleplaying game. The resolution system is a game of multiplayer Hearts of Iron 4 and a number of discord chats. Requi...

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ceej @ceej.online · 18/09/2026

The concept of Logical Charity is simple: lives = dollars. And because the best way to make money is to already be rich, it’s actually more logical for those of us with good brains to get all the money. This saves FutureDollars which are more logical than NowLives. We also (logically) need jet skis

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 17/09/2026

Pulled up an email from earlier this month and just noticed I'd told someone my Second Gig freelance rates were 100x less than what they actually are

Anime girl reading a book and making a "oh holy shit what" shock face

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 17/09/2026

HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT: Unbelievable. A machine which moves backwards through time, openly defying the very foundations of the universe. And you have yet more wonders to show me? ME WITH THE TV REMOTE: This is "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure"

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 17/09/2026

Writing Second Gig so that people in the setting talk about "going to Mars" like tech weirdos in our timeline talk about AI. It's mostly been in terms of the grift though. Do you think I should add the Harry Potter fanfic and the sex cult stuff

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 16/09/2026

Winding down for the day with some non-Hard Wired Island work (trying to decide what the most racist primate is beside humans)

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 16/09/2026

Giving the evil tome at the heart of my campaign the Book of Vile Darkness warning sticker

Cover of the 3rd Edition Book of Vile Darkness, which looks like an evil tome but also has a sticker saying "WARNING! Content is intended for mature audiences only."

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 16/09/2026

Sold my mum's giant Buddha statue and got a much better one

A Haruhi Suzumiya Nendoroid on a yellow puzzle piece base

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 15/09/2026

Listening to 4'33" at a concert hall and letting off a massive fart at 4'31"

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 15/09/2026

Announcing my new patented service where I review your replies before you post them. Building on a joke by pretending to correct it? I gently hold your wrist and shake my head. Replying to negative reviews of your work? Hold wrist, shake head. Most of the job is holding and shaking to be honest

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 15/09/2026

Wetrunner fans hoping for news on the print edition will be making this face soon

A grinning girl with blue twintails tied with spiked bands, red eyes with black sclera, and shark teeth

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