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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 1h

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 3h

Feed me or no flying tonight.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 4h

The Man Who Fell To Earth For Tax Purposes The Day The Earth Stood Still For Tax Purposes The Earth Dies Screaming For Tax Purposes

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 12h

They look like someone added raccoon DNA to cats.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A haunted house where every room is dark but they have a light switch that only turns on the lights in the previous room you were in. The light switch, of course, is on the far wall from the door into the room.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? (Former) US Census worker: I took an oath never to reveal anything I saw during that period. (Truth: the census is in the Constitution, and census workers cannot reveal anything they learn, even in a court of law, to protect collection of data.)

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Nine Princes Frozen in Amber Silencing the Guns of Avalon The Traffic Sign of the Unicorn The Losing Hand of Oberon The Night Court of Chaos

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Frankenstein used British bodies for Adam

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Lake Indiana has entered the chat.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The She-Creature of Destruction (Trivia point: Creature of Destruction (1967) was the color remake of the B&W movie The She Creature (1956).)

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bad luck brigade, ready to roll.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Will they have individual personalities, or a group mind?

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Same applies to anyone who owns / rides horses.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The reveal of the Invisible Monster in the eponymous episode of Jonny Quest. I ran out of the room. In my defense, I was maybe 8 or 9. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq_t...

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Jonny Quest Invisible Monster scene 1

YouTube video by Lynn Vanna cartoon clips

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The second best chase sequence set in San Francisco. (First is Bullitt, of course: nothing else comes close.)

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My friend's black cat Sid (Obsidian, aka The Obsidian Menace) likes to find the darkest places to sit. She once showed me a picture of the dark interior of the drum of her washing machine, where all you could see was two yellow eyes looking back at you.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I spotted this one in the wild and just about busted out laughing.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A "like" for including Erick's Amber Diceless RPG. (I should mention that I was one of his playtesters, and still play it and adjacent games on a semi-regular basis.)

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Flying a starship and fomenting a rebellion against an oppressive Federation. (And wearing black leather and being totally snarky: yes, I'm looking at you Kerr Avon.)

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feminine a band name The Righteous Sisters

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Of course, I also have to mention the Amber Diceless RPG, since I was one of Erick's second set of playtesters (page 244 of the original book.) I still attend the Detroit area Amber game convention he helped start more than a couple of decades ago.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Champions 4th -- I ran the first Champions games at GenCon back in 1982, where I statted out the X-Men. I was also one of the fervent players who always played the Official Champions Tournament, especially making the Sunday afternoon final before an audience on several occasions.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Brunner's Traveler in Black series of short stories are a quite divergent (and quite excellent) take on fantasy.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to the otter limits."

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I prefer pasteurized milk, please.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In actual play, the Amber Diceless RPG relied considerably on roleplaying as opposed to just comparing stats to determine success. Even if the stats were compared, roleplaying was encouraged to fill out the encounter, like describing how a character employed a sword attack.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What was the saying? "Four yards and a cloud of dust."?

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For a moment, I was wondering why someone was being considered for an Oscar for putting on a helmet.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I bought my copy at Vons in W Lafayette before the movie opened. (I bought a lot of books at Vons.) I bought it mainly for this line in the prologue: "They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes."

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You did order the yellow interior.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Share a television show that raised you:

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Its actually spelled "A͟s͟h͟t͟o͟n͟-͟u͟n͟d͟e͟r͟-͟L͟y͟n͟e͟"͟'͟d

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dachshunds need badger enrichment. Problem solved.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Cover art for Beatles' White Album

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: Credence Cheesecake Revival

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Make a band edible: Chicago Style Pizza

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mom helping with arm training day.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Spoken by the superb John Colicos.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Show me you don't trust computers.

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am seeing parallels to John Brunner's "Shockwave Rider", where the proto-hacker protagonist is a product of a high-tech, high-pressure school designed to produce soldiers for the "brain race", the successor to the world-wide "arms race".

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Early Adventures of Acquisitions Expert Vala Mal Doran

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Terry O'Brien @hoosierdragon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm "line up to get your polio vaccine" old.

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