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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The YouTube algorithm recommended me a video without a title from a channel that also somehow manages to hide its channel name in the thumbnail. There's about 20 videos here with no titles. Most of them are minute-long slightly distorted music over grainy footage. Did I stumble across a new ARG?

Screenshot of a YouTube video thumbnail, depicting a cabin in the deep woods at night with dimly lit windows. There's no video or channel title displayed somehow.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Someone on Reddit posted a collection of unproduced DC movie scripts and I cannot overstate how *abysmally bad* the 1999 "New Gods" script by Kirk "The Croods" DeMicco is. This is what Darkseid has instead of his goal being seeking out the Anti-Life Equation.

"DARKSEID" standing before a blood red twister-like spiral of LAVA. This twister is the OMEGA SWIRL. The planet's core energy which ruses into the center of this doomed room."

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Claremont-era X-Men. I don't remember exactly which issue was my first one, but the earliest one I distinctly *remember* reading was issue 150; "I, Magneto!"

The cover of Uncanny X-Men #150: "X-Men vs. Magneto!" Scott is trying to blast Magneto, who is blocking the optic beam with a magnetic field. Between them, Storm cries as she cradles the body of Kitty, who is injured and possibly dead.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I love timeline synergy that only I and a few other people would find funny.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

If I may add one more: "Don't Make Me Think!" by Steve Krug is a great book about usability and interface design. It's about web and (now) mobile design, but the ideas in there can apply to anything you make that someone else needs to use.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.

The cover of De Las Soul's 1989 album, "3 Feet High and Rising"

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Guys will just look at this and go "hell yeah".

14 Oz strip steak with fried and baked beans

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Man why did my computer save the photo at postage stamp size?

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

These arrived last week from @ndpdesign.com Now to sit down and read these and not design anything!

Two zines by Nathan D. Paoletta: "RPG Design Zine: A How-To Zine About Tabletop Roleplaying Game Design" and "RPG Design Zine - Tools & Techniques: Another How-To Zine About Tabletop Roleplaying Game Design".

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Seriously it's the mental equivalent of the "Here's what happens when all your medical conditions try to get through the door at once" gag from The Simpsons. Every critical thought you have tries to run to the front of your brain at once.

A screenshot of a doctor on The Simpsons trying to push a bunch of plush germs through a door, where they all get stuck while the doctor makes Three Stooges noises.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

If you see this, post Jack Kirby art.

A page from The New Gods #6, of Orion and Lightray riding a bomb in a potential suicide attack against their enemies.

"As if in answer to its attacker, the wooden ship blasts open! And something inside rushes out into the calamitous night --- singing and shining and sleek and deadly!!! What Lightray has "imprinted" on the "Life Cube" is now fully "grown!!" And it carries on its glistening warhead the ling -- the dead -- and the fiery trumpets of the Source!!!

Lightray: "IF WE MUST DIE! LET NEW GENESIS LIVE!!"
Orion: "IF WE GO TO THE SOURCE -- YOU DEMONS GO WITH US!!!"

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

You can't tell me you don't want to see a live-action little kid in a Wolverine costume saying "Golly gumbuckets!"

Panel from X-Men Annual #10 from September, 1986, written by Chris Claremont and drawn by Art Adams. The de-aged X-Men are about to meet Mojo, but what's most important here is lil' Wolverine saying "Golly GUMbuckets!"

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I'm not going to talk too much about the basic mechanics apart from saying it's based mainly around getting worker cards to generate resources and meeples, then spending said resources and meeples to build structures, complete parts of the canal, and fight barbarians.

A game of Legacy of You in progress. The top row is villager cards you can buy and barbarians that need to be fought. The top half of the board is the sections of the river that need to be tamed and structures can be built. The bottom half is your village, where your worker placement happens. Below the board are cards that are generating resources every turn and the player's stock of meeples and resources.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I particularly love this book: a small 32 page not-Planescape type setting that can be used in most dungeon fantasy games, just slightly larger than a deck of cards. Also it's based around a living city that absorbs other cities in the multiverse into itself, which is EXTREMELY my jam.

A deck of playing cards for scale with one of the digests.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I found these while cleaning my apartment; I actually forgot this whole format existed. I really love compact design, it's a shame this small digest format kind of died out after the early heights of Dungeon World.

Three small digest-sized expansions for Dungeon World: The Planarch Codex by J Walton, a DW player options book, and a book of monsters.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Started working on my movie backlog tonight with Godzilla Minus One, and holy SHIT what a phenomenal movie. I never thought I'd be *this* scared, or even brought almost to tears, by a Godzilla movie but goddamn.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Gettin' the itch to run Torg Eternity again.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Today's first slate of Games on Demand offers for #paxeast! We're running indie #ttrpg games every hour on the hour until 10pm, from magical princesses to steampunk crime to squid games to space horror! Come check us out in the Tabletop area and learn a new #rpg!

Games being offered until 1 pm: Fight Card, Last Train to Bremen, 1400 Lofi High Fantasy, Dread, Death match Island, Microscope, The Deep Forest, When all you have is a gun, everything is [verb]able, Ballad Hunters, Kobolds Atey Baby!, Good Suit, Warped FM, For the Honor, Oops, All. Draculas!

More Rpgs! Thieves of the Time, Legend Has It, Dungeon World, Blades in the Dark, Ex Astris Scientia, Mystery Flesh Pit National Park, Troika!, Offworlders, Old Gods of Appalachia, Tattered Capes, Transit: the Spaceship Rpg, Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, Pirate Borg, Dating.sim, Our God is Dead.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Holy crap I can't believe this finally arrived after five years and two companies. I'd written this off ages ago. And in what is a fun analogy for the company that first made it, the provided insert doesn't actually hold all the stuff that comes in the main box. Good job all around guys!

A shipping box containing the Street Masters board game and a few crowdfunding extras, finally arriving after about five years and a whole lot of bullshit and lies.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Sorry, Paizo, but I already made the objectively best alignment chart a while ago.

A five-by-five grid; one axis is "Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael (comics), Raphael (cartoon)". The other axis is "Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars, Sailor Venus, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mercury".

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Man I really hope that someone makes NPC relationship trackers that work like those initiative cards designed to hang off the top of a GM's screen.

"Dungeons and Dragons competitor Paizo revealed in a Twitch stream of February 8 that it would introduce a numerical scale to represent how much a recurring NPC loves (or hates) your character."

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Tired: the Irish Unification of 2024 Wired:

From the Car Wars Compendium: "2025: Autodueling becomes the most popular TV sport, edging out combat football and private wars. Eight more autoduel arenas open in North America. The American Autoduel Association (AADA) is formed."

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Well that could have gone better. (Bonus points for losing both my headlights at night just before the exit spawned.) #pacificdrive

The damage readout of my car after doing a longer-than-I-expected run in Pacific Drive. Total car health at 20% after starting at full.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Caves of Qud is an amazing game because you can get lost in some flower fields and just randomly stumble across an artist's workspace in the middle of nowhere.

A small artists' workspace in Caves of Qud, with an easel and painting, some bookcases, a few cushions, and a bedroll.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Okay I don't know how well this'd actually work for a #ttrpg setting but man I'd be willing to give it a shot.

A tumblr post from drakeanddice:
Haunted by a fantasy world where "adventurer" is handled in the same way as "assassin" in John Wick. An ifykyk secondary economy running on gold coins where everyone knows each other but no one acknowledges the elephant in the room because we have manners about our weird-ass line of deadly desperate dangerous work.

Rolling into town, looking immaculate. Checking into the Inn. Not an inn, or the coaching house, or the traveler's hostel. The Inn. The one that takes my ridiculous oversized coin and says that my room is ready, and will I need to visit the Smith today? Perhaps a meeting with the Vintner? Shall I send up the Gourmand?

"Good afternoon, Master Whicke," the Smith says, putting aside the barrel scraper he's been working on to flip a switch beside the forge. Racks of tenpenny nails and trowels and hammers fold back to reveal the glittering points and edges of a score of swords and axes and spearpoints lit with the flicker of finely-tuned enchantments. "Shall we tour what's new?"

"What sort of occasion are we hosting, Master Whicke?" The Vintner asks, pocketing the coin with a sigh. "A funeral," you say.

"Ah, well perhaps something light to start, then," she says selecting a straight-walled flask that glitters with contained starlight, proof against the touch of the undead. " And something for remembrance," she plucks a small crock of something evil-smelling and phosphorescent. "And then something to really bring down the house." She gingerly selects a double ampoule of energetic looking jellies.

The Gourmand carefully runs his knife through the salted flank of a cockatrice with a pursing of the lips. "So many neglect trail rations, Master Whicke, and it is their shame. Paired with goldenwheat pancakes and carrion honey, a mouthful of cockatrice--properly seasoned of course--will keep the mummy rot at bay, even post-exposure. I have been given to indicate by the Management that your current escapade may make such information useful to you. I will of course wrap your purchases exceedingly carefully. Rot will be your constant companion in the Black Pyramid."

There's something here.

#indie ttrpg#ttrpg stuff#ttrpg#ttrpg design

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Slowly going through His Majesty The Worm and man the section on playable kin is VERY good. It's giving just enough detail to get the sense of not just the races but also the world. Plus it has playable elemental orcs so that's automatically a full letter grade in my book.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Attention: I have created the objectively best #ttrpg alignment chart possible. It can be slotted into any game and will heighten it immensely. Simply check off the box that matches your character's personality as a combination of Sailor Scout and Ninja Turtle. You're welcome.

A choice grid where the horizontal axis is Ninja Turtle (Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael (comics) and Raphael (cartoon). The horizontal axis is the Sailor Scouts: Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Finally watched Late Night with the Devil. Damn, what a good movie. I really appreciate how it spends a good amount of time laying a groundwork for what comes later in the movie. I admit I'm a sucker for a good "cursed media" story, but this one really grabbed me and held me for the duration.

The poster for Late Night with the Devil, showing David Dastmalchian's character Jack Delroy giving a monologue to the audience and he's perfectly fine.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Collection re-acquired! Now to start ripping some music.

Beloved Recording's complete "Ska: The Third Wave" collection: volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 ("Punk It Up!"), 5 ("Swing It!"), and the unnumbered "Cover it up!" collection of cover songs.

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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

I made this ages ago for the Sentinels discord, you seem like a person of taste who'd appreciate it.

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