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@fylgja80.bsky.social
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TTRPG enthusiast working a job I am WILDLY overqualified for.

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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Finally getting around to reading (well, listening to the audiobook) of Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo" after watching something like five different movies based on the book. I put it off because I was afraid that it would be overly wordy, but it's surprisingly focused in its wordiness.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Lawmakers are (for the most part) not doctors. Doctors are (for the most part) not lawyers. There is NO WAY that lawmakers can craft a law that bans abortion except in the case of medical emergency that will not cause doctors to hesitate to give medically necessary abortions. Argue in comments.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Let me sum up what driving through rural Oregon is like: Ye gads, this state is absolutely beautiful! (Drives into a rural town in Central Oregon) Ye gads, this place is a run-down shit hole. (Talks to anyone who lives in those rural towns) Wow! These people REALLY hate Portland.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just re-read Tanith Lee's book "Electric Forest." Amazingly well-crafted book. But it sort of does revolve around a rather manipulative/abusive relationship. So perhaps not for everyone. But that's a lot of her work. She never shied away from uncomfortable topics.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I had a strange dream last night where aliens landed and told us that The Book of Revelations wasn't a bunch of prophecies but rather warnings. i.e. If you guys do *these things* we're gonna come rapture your asses. By that they meant "Cull the Children of the Beast."
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Got voluntold to run a campaign using the new Dungeon Crawler Carl TTRPG rules. I think the writer of DCC is a total hack and find the writing very pedestrian. BUT, I like the people I game with, so... I'll be running a Dungeon Crawler Carl campaign. We'll see if any of them make it to level 3
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Actual conversation I had: Me: Yeah, grew up in Chicago. Them: There's a lot of murders in Chicago. Me: The violent crime rate in Chicago is lower than the national average. T: But there's a lot of murders. M: There's a lot of people... T: But there's a lot of murders... M: Not per capita
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've recently come to the realization that the reason far-right people shit on Chicago and Portland is that both cities have a history of being run by left-of-center people, and they can't have anyone thinking left policies are successful, so they trash these cities.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The good news is that fascist governments always implode. The bad news is that it typically takes 10-20 years or so for that to happen and there's a *BIT* of an adjustment period going back to reality. Buckle up.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've been re-reading the books that Tanith Lee wrote, and just gotta say- they are simultaneously a bunch of mind-blowing WTF? that makes you question reality, littered with a mine-field of "Yeah- that bit should have come with a trigger warning." Electric Forest, Don't Bite The Sun are safe, tho..
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My son's garage band is playing tonight. Their first gig in Seattle. He wrote the songs, and arranged them. This isn't Jazz. He was a rock drummer first, and still loves punk, grunge, rock music. The band has no name yet. They only have 5 songs and been together for a month. Give it a listen.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm scared. Yeah- Kotek is rather "meh" (except for the whole *keeping the National Guard from being deployed to Portland*) But so much of Oregon actually *wants* a Governor who will do things to hurt Portland, because... reasons. They view keeping the Nat Guard out of Portland as a bad thing...
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I voted for what I thought would be the best for ALL Americans. You voted for what you thought would hurt Americans that weren't you and yours. Don't you FUCKING DARE to call yourself American, you selfish prick.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Kind of sad watching the American Experiment unravel in real time.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
When I sit down to draw up a dungeon, I don't just throw up some rooms and traps/encounters. (Except when I totally do.) I tell myself a story. WHY is this trap here? WHY is this monster here? WHY does this thing exist? HOW does this tie into everything else going on in the campaign?
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I'm am REALLY BAD about just sort of having general concepts of a DnD session and just sort of making things up on the fly as the session progresses. But it seems to work out, so...
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Why?
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
For those unclear, it's really quite simple. I don't want masked men with guns walking around in my neighborhood. I really DON'T think that's too much to ask. Now release the Epstein files.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Want to be a DM? Stop watching videos on how to be a DM. Just DO IT. Read the rules, understand them (mostly) and then just DO IT. Jump into the deep end, drown less, understand that "NO" is a complete sentence. And if it isn't for you.. that's OK. Don't do it because you feel you have to.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Had a lovely night playing DnD with friends. An impromptu session. I grabbed a thing I wrote 20-ish years ago out of storage and ran it, adjusting on the fly. It was basic, but people got hooked. Now they want to see what happens next and I have no idea. Well, I have SOME idea. We'll see.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Possibly the hottest defendant EVER is about to be put on trial for MAYBE killing a person who has DEFINITELY caused the deaths of thousands of people. I have doctor friends that are jealous that I was playing pickleball that day with someone with amazing eyebrows. P.S. Everyone hates that company
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Why do I have this sinking sensation that the Democratic Party won't look and Mamdani's win and think "Maybe we SHOULD court the voters on the left" rather than doubling down on their current tack of "We should be MORE like Republicans, but fly rainbow flags! THAT will surely win the next election!"
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I'm opposed to term limits for Congress. I AM however, very keen on AGE limits for Congress. (And the POTUS. And the SCOTUS.) What's that? You're 65? Sorry... Can't be POTUS or on the SCOTUS. Or a member of Congress. Them's the rules.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Sooo... DnD related. After getting the shrubberies (which were actually Leshies) in order to pacify the invading horde the party noticed a small hill that wasn't there before. On to the next thing they'd agree to do for the Horde. They noticed the hill following them. (The hill is a dragon, btw)
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Local Fox News: 3 arrests in Portland related to ICE protests. Actual arrests: Woman from South Dakota. Man from Kelso, WA. (Arrest related to assault that happened in September.) Man near disturbance jumped into river and tried to swim away. Charges not disclosed. BURY THOSE LEDES, FOX!!!
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I apologize for my previous post where I incorrectly stated that someone in a dinosaur costume was terrorizing ICE in Portland. It was actually someone in a FROG costume. And they pepper sprayed him.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
My DnD group decided to engage with an invading horde with diplomacy. This horde wanted a shrubbery. The party got TWO shrubberies. The shrubberies are Leshies being protected by a now VERY angry (and sleepy) forest dragon. I.... sort of like where this is going.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I'm sitting here just trying to enjoy the last few days of on-again-off-again sunshine in Portland. Meanwhile there's an on-again-off-again deployment of National Guard to deal with some dude in a dinosaur suit, who is supposedly a massive threat to national security.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Given the current environment, I see NO reason WHATSOEVER to even ATTEMPT to get sober.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
So to those out there who claim that Charlie Kirk just wanted to have conversations.... Got any clips of him talking to Muslims?
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Charlie Kirk did NOT reach out and having conversations with people. He wrapped himself in a veneer of plausible deniability and called it civility. He didn't want conversation. He wanted to convert people to his side. The side where they gave him money. Didn't deserve to die, though.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
When people quoted Mr. Rogers after he died, nobody had to add context.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Honestly surprised that @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social is still around after acquiring the rights to Dark Conspiracy, considering the last three companies that had anything to do with that IP almost immediately went bankrupt... Still looking forward to the release, though... Love that system.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
OK. Now that the shooter is in custody, let's get back to the main burning issue in America today. When are the Republicans going to stop protecting pedophiles and release the damn Epstein-Trump files?
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I was JUST finishing up writing a DnD adventure where the party was tasked with helping an NPC who had assassinated someone escape the long arm of the law. (Even playtested it twice, to glowing reviews!) Probably not a good idea to release it now...
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I'm in the final stretch of watching "Weapons" Maybe I'm old. I just don't get it. I've seen Outer Limits episodes that packed more "WTF?" into the first five minutes of the episode that this entire movie had. And then proceeded to stick the landing, unlike this movie.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Anyone else noticing that when J.D. Vance is on camera behind Trump, he's always looking around like he's thinking "What the F*&#?" in response to everything Trump says? Also, Just Dance wears more eyeliner than my goth girlfriend. Just pointing that out.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
(Re)learning an old system that has been updated twice since I last played it. Had four people drop out of the campaign in the first month. Still have three people left though who are very ride or die and are very interested in learning the system. Should be a fun campaign.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
My daily routine: Wake up, try to avoid the news, can't help myself, read up on what new embarrassing thing the dipshit-in-chief did while I was sleeping. Go to work, write out notes for my upcoming TTRPG sessions. Go home, curl up in a ball and go to sleep.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I was talking with a friend who asked me why we don't make a YouTube channel on how I get groups together to play TTRPGs, how I vet players, how I prep, yadda yadda. Almost did it, but I got too busy actually playing TTRPGs. Sorry :(
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
If Mamdani doesn't make a bunch of campaign posters that say "Don't mess with The Zohran" he's sleeping...
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
When discussing my political ideologies, I never lead off with "I'm an anarchist" because people will immediately assume I want chaos. I just want things that most people want, like worker protections, strong unions (except cops.) Cops don't get unions. In fact, they shouldn't even have guns.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Person is just *slightly* to the left of your typical conservative European politician ends up the dark horse candidate for mayor of New York. Political establishment freaks the fuck out. Bill Clinton's "Third Way" of abandoning the left to chase the middle fucked America.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
My vote for most punk artists of all time: Johnny Cash (obviously) Elvis Presley (the early years) John Mellencamp (if you don't know, just look at the lyrics of his most famous songs)
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Mamdani's campaign slogan should be "Don't Mess With the Zohran."
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Eggs are still $8/dozen where I live. But at least those eight trans athletes are out of the NCAA, right?
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
So I've been under a rock for a moment. WTF, guys? ICE is now the third largest military in the world, SCOTUS is all "jus solis? Never heard of it" And evidently it's now the 250th birthday of 'Murca? (Did I miss something in math/history class?)
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
And then 1924: "If you're from western or eastern Europe, welcome in! If not... there's a quota. No Asians." Seeing a pattern here? It wasn't until 19 fucking 40 that people born in the US who had Asian parents were *officially* automatically given citizenship.
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
More US Citizenship through the ages: 1898- "FINE. We'll allow children of Asian parents to be citizens if they're born on US soil. (Conditions apply) But if you're Asian and born anywhere else, you can't be a citizen."
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Just some guy @fylgja80.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
US Immigration through the years, part whatever: 1870- "Ok guys, stop with the trying to deport former slaves. Anyone of African ancestry can become citizens. Women can only become citizens if they're married and their husband becomes a citizen. No Asians."
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