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There's used to be a type of movie called "Thriller". Now any type of film with a bit of tension, unease or disturbance is classified as horror. What happened to Thriller? That was a perfectly fine category.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 06/10/2026

Okay. Yeah, it sucks, but sounds about right for today.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 06/10/2026

FOR ONE!? I've paid that for FOUR?!

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did you know I wrote a fantasy novel that's perfect for the Long Halloween Season? It's got ghosts, demons, and witches. There's a skeleton on the cover! Pick it up now and you can have it read by the 31st. (Or just reshare this post to help get the word out plz.) mybook.to/ornamentalwo...

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 01/10/2026

Correct. When I talk about “bad game design” I am backdoor questioning people’s creative/social priorities. But if I did that directly it would come off as mean. 😆

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 01/10/2026

I love how exhausted and bored Poe seems when he says that line. You know there were multiple takes and the editor went with that one.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 30/09/2026

THIS WHOLE THREAD. But also, a contributing factor is people thinking that nothing consequential can happen without a roll and reaching for "Act Under Fine" when nothing else fit. When really all that should have happened is the MC makes a move even if it's a bad outcome and consequential.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 24/09/2026

Yes, but books on knitting aren’t also the needles and yarn. RPGs are the needle and yarn.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 24/09/2026

Yes! This is precisely my take on "comedy" in general. The best comedy takes its absurd premise and addresses it earnestly and with deadly seriousness. That's why it's funny!

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cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

right! in my experience, you don't get to experience that high of *good art* until you buy in enough to take the game seriously and not treat it as silly funtime muck-about where nothing really matters and you can just make it up.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 24/09/2026

This. Except, for me, you can replace "power gamer" and "rules lawyers" with "creative vulnerability", "authentic expression" and "difficult and meaningful subject matter." (Of which I think cavegirl is selling herself short on in this thread. Have you seen Dungeon Bitches or The Yellow Curtain)?

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 24/09/2026

Paint-by-number kits are cool but that isn't painting. If you want to learn to paint some basic educational stuff will get you started but then you got to roll up your sleeves AND PAINT. Too many RPGs are trying to be paint-by-number kits and not enough great tools for already skilled artists.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 24/09/2026

I think we're also overly obsessed with making it so simple "anyone can do it." I believe "anyone can do it" but I don't believe "anyone can do it without effort, curiosity, attention and dedication to learning" like any other art form.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Let's do this right here: Time recording in your TTRPG play: Do you do it / have you done it to any significant extent? I mean everything from "We mark days on an in-world calendar of events" to "Someone notes down what happens during our dungeon crawls (mostly in order)" and beyond. Tell me!

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 12/09/2026

In my Stars Without Number game I track days and weeks because that impacts both the faction system and the starship maintenance cycle.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 12/09/2026

Does… does it come in elegant black?

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 07/09/2026

I got the chance to play “Nighthawks” this weekend and I loved it. I continue to marvel at how some of my fellow role-players are ever reaching for stranger characters, I just want to play a divorced man in a diner looking for answers in classic literature.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 07/09/2026

I was last child standing for the first time while playing “The Extraordinarily Horrible Children of Raven’s Hollow” (a game I made). Still lost to the angry mob.

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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't really want "revolutionary" genre fiction. That feels like asking for "an Ayn Rand for the left."

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 01/09/2026

It will never cease to amaze me the way people talk about consumer culture like it’s a natural phenomenon. To me, it’s indistinguishable from bio-essentiallist rhetoric. Like, sure, people’s consumer habits have certain trends because of cultural indoctrination. BUT WE COULD WORK TO CHANGE THAT.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 30/08/2026

Quite honestly this. I’ve always thought a lot of the criticism came from reading the flat contextless entries in the monster manual which I never loved either. But adventures in context clearly have actual harm being done by its villains.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 29/08/2026

The Art Theater in Long Beach is showing all of Twin Peaks one episode at a time every Sunday at 11am for however long that takes.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 29/08/2026

grounded subject matter, character centric, choices and procedures determine the outcome.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 29/08/2026

Three people disassociate to varying degree.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 27/08/2026

Burke was one of the last vestiges of the non-supernatural version of the show. He was a modern day Count of Monte Cristo and without his revenge motive and machinations he didn’t transition well conceptually to the ghosts and vampires stuff except as a kind of skeptic P.I. character.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 27/08/2026

900. Dark Shadows Episode 345 - Death #7! Burke Devlin, airplane crash. Two in one week!

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 25/08/2026

904. Dark Shadows Episode 341 - Death #6, Dr. Woodard by lethal injection!

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JC (they/them) @sentienthominid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I would love to make a business claiming to sell indie movies only, call it Indie Films Evolved, but sell everything not labeled Disney. My excuse "Its all *basically indie* because Disney is just so garsh darn big." That'll keep the marks....err customers in line

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Man it is WILD to me that people are so mad about a single writer laying out why they think a thing is bad on a website they own! Where did people who read games writing get this sense of fairness they demand from everyone, this notion that all things must be treated as good, no yums be yucked

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 20/08/2026

This. I state a lot of my opinions as hard statements because I believe in the authenticity of my conviction. Not because I’m trying to tell you what to do.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 19/08/2026

Love Songs of the Void Goddess.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 19/08/2026

I call "Tides of Numenera" Choose-Your-Own-Wikipedia for a reason.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 15/08/2026

Drove home from LFG Con for the 10pm screening of remaster of Manhunter at the Art Theater.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 14/08/2026

15 minutes into Mork Borg and I was killed trying to hunt a boar to feed a giant snake.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 14/08/2026

“Somebody once said that religion was deemed by the commoners as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. The only thing I believe is that my name is Jonathan Preest. And tonight, I'm gonna kill a man.”

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 13/08/2026

A Cure For Wellness. I saw it opening week because I knew it would bomb and be out of theaters in a heartbeat because it was made for exactly one person: me in particular.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 12/08/2026

The gods aren’t there as a characters per se but I know that I certainly felt their presence throughout the film.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 11/08/2026

944! Back at it…. In color!

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cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The problem is that we see discussion of game design as a medium shut down by this trivial observation. When people want to discuss game-structures and are shut down by somebody pointing out that play-events can be anything, the result is that we ignore game-structures as a topic.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 04/08/2026

Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 04/08/2026

I think I still have my character somewhere.

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Jesse Burneko @jburneko.itch.io · 04/08/2026

In the screening I went to, someone was audibly SOBBING during this same moment.

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