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@jessfrom.online
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jess. award-winning TTRPG designer as @jumpgategames.itch.io. jewish lesbian. marxist. scifi author, stories in @clarkesworldmagazine.com. she/her ☭

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jess @jessfrom.online · 5h
sorry for spamming, but love to see a game with "e" numbers
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jess @jessfrom.online · 5h
got my first one-hit KO (very satisfying, the unique animation for it is very funny) and then beat this boss by...just a bit on turn 2 lol
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jess @jessfrom.online · 6h
just beat pilot 4 on the tutorial run and......this game RULES
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jess @jessfrom.online · 04/10/2026
just hit top 1% (well, 1.1%) of guildrun players globally,
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jess @jessfrom.online · 28/09/2026
i'm learning so much
Connection with Moog Inc.

Moog Music is often confused with Moog Inc., partly because they were both founded at approximately the same time by cousins. In April 1950 Bill Moog (cousin of Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer) applied for a patent for the electrohydraulic servo valve (later called a "Moog Valve"), a device to control hydraulic pressure for fine control of actuators. The US patent 2625136 was issued in January 1953.[3] The company he founded subsequently became Moog Inc., now a major international defense and aerospace manufacturer.
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jess @jessfrom.online · 27/09/2026
a bit of a self-own, but i don’t think i’ve ever felt quite as represented as a cEDH player as i do by the “Rule 0 Hater” player archetype in this @greensuitgirl.bsky.social video
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jess @jessfrom.online · 24/09/2026
 “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
― William Gibson, Count Zero
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jess @jessfrom.online · 23/09/2026
i've honestly not seen *that* much anime, but a few of these left very obvious marks my9animes.com/en
kill la kill, ghost in the shell, madoka, kiznaiver, soul eater, ghost in the shell stand alone complex, inugami-san to nekoyama-san, planetes, nichijou
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jess @jessfrom.online · 21/09/2026
4 streak on Guildrun's Red Rift mode. officially in the top 2k of players.
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jess @jessfrom.online · 02/09/2026
me when i'm GMing a Mothership campaign
Picture of a book saying: "3. This is dangerous. There will be rules. There will be medical support. There will be ways to step out if you have to. But--you can get hurt. You can die. That is not hype. That is the truth."
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jess @jessfrom.online · 01/09/2026
put a text-formatting example in the Galactic & Going Rogue team discord & i'm happy with the example text
CASSIAN ANDOR: dontatme.com | @keefgirgo.bsky.social on Bluesky
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jess @jessfrom.online · 22/08/2026
i swear to god, satah and i do not watch the movies together & i had not seen their notes
"Absolutely classic 80s John Carpenter movie-ass synth line at the beginning. Fantastic bass tone. Roland TB-303?"
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jess @jessfrom.online · 22/08/2026
taking movie notes for @thisshouldbeaga.me is serious business
A bullet with the words "Chekov's buppy"
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jess @jessfrom.online · 08/08/2026
ever since marathon added a runner damage stat to postgame, i've been collecting screenshots of my best, and damn i've had a few hot ones this season
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jess @jessfrom.online · 31/07/2026
what @shoebill.moe's incredibly kind words here aren't talking up is how drop-dead gorgeous HIS art for the upcoming book is. it's been UNBELIEVABLY cool to see these characters come to life in such beautiful detail. see see more of it on the Kickstarter here! 🔗 www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...
a woman in robes meditating as two people look on a woman pointing a blaster at an upset man
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jess @jessfrom.online · 16/07/2026
went to a cEDH tournament last weekend & managed to solve a combo puzzle hosted by eldrazi.gg and apparently a photographer there grabbed these photos of me focusing very intensely on the puzzle lol
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jess @jessfrom.online · 04/07/2026
sac fly to deep left, got the RBI!
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jess @jessfrom.online · 02/07/2026
okay, the quoted thread here is describing a phenomenon stupid enough to finally bring my stephenson timeline thread over to bluesky
a subreddit pummeling a hedge fund into the ground is yet more proof that we got the stephenson cyberpunk future instead of the gibson cyberpunk future
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jess @jessfrom.online · 30/06/2026
absolutely incredible advice for solo games. embrace cringe. be free. everything is more fun that way.
You are both the player and the game master. Ask yourself questions out loud. Talk in character voice, and pretend to flip the switches in your cockpit.
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jess @jessfrom.online · 27/06/2026
the process of making a game generates so many weird little artifacts
a printed page of a ttrpg with a little hole cut out of a seemingly random place, and a cardboard template with the same size hole cut out of it
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jess @jessfrom.online · 17/06/2026
cross-platform compatibility getting wild
a “Marathon” logo on a gas pump screen
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jess @jessfrom.online · 16/06/2026
finally, you can listen to the episode that makes this post at all comprehensible
a bluesky post from me where i say "out of context spoilers for the episode of this should be a game we just recorded" and the images are of Mewtwo and a baby with baby toys
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jess @jessfrom.online · 14/06/2026
made up for it with a walk-off double tho
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jess @jessfrom.online · 14/06/2026
also got absolutely beaned and now have a massive bruise
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jess @jessfrom.online · 13/06/2026
god it was good to be in the gear again
me in catcher’s gear at a baseball game
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jess @jessfrom.online · 30/05/2026
this is not at all a knock on chester bennington. all signs are he took the gig extremely seriously. to his credit! which only makes it stranger that they gave the person most recognizable as a real life actual celebrity and not a character the role of..."white power skinhead." what.
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jess @jessfrom.online · 28/05/2026
just in time for the end of the ranked season, snagged the silver ranked reward tier
marathon season 1 silver 1 rank up screen
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jess @jessfrom.online · 15/05/2026
okay so this screenshot is actually from my notes on Gravity (2013) but i forgot to post about that Patreon post on Bluesky so i am sharing this screenshot now as evidence for why you DEFINITELY want to back the @thisshouldbeaga.me Patreon you want to soooo bad
Jesus on the dash. Catholicism time.
Awoo
”Pray for my soul”
- CATHOLOCISM TIME
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jess @jessfrom.online · 14/05/2026
the prose does such a beautiful job of setting up this sense of community & camaraderie between the people of Ridge City, and the ways that the very genreful hoverbikers play into that
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jess @jessfrom.online · 25/04/2026
no zoom transcript, that's the not the actresses name & in fact would have a very DIFFERENT vibe for an episode of @thisshouldbeaga.me
Zoom transcript with my name and the text "Heavenly Blunt"
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jess @jessfrom.online · 18/04/2026
out of context spoilers for the episode of @thisshouldbeaga.me we just recorded
mewtwo baby rattle and baby
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jess @jessfrom.online · 29/03/2026
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jess @jessfrom.online · 29/03/2026
we've got satirical ̶c̶o̶d̶e̶x̶ ̶e̶n̶t̶r̶i̶e̶s̶ ̶lore, we've got swappable utility gear, we've got evil factions you're working for, we've got it all
REPULSION ROUNDS: NC eggheads noticed a key
inefficiency: sometimes their bullets didn’t kill people.
To ensure soldiers don’t waste company time on
suboptimal, nonlethal weapons fire, scientists shoved
nanorepulsion gel into NC standard-issue ammo.
These repulsion rounds tear the target’s nanobonds
from the inside out.REPLETED URANIUM ROUNDS: Given the vast mineral
stockpile of the New Committee’s corporate mining
monopoly, NC Command figured: why settle for
depleted uranium rounds, when you could use the
good stuff? So they shoved all the U-235 back in, and
were pleasantly surprised to discover that the
radiation of these enriched uranium rounds gave the
bullets nanodisrupting properties.
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jess @jessfrom.online · 29/03/2026
enjoying #Marathon? then you might like PLANET FIST, my satirical scifi skirmish storytelling TTRPG 🎲 about nanoclone soldiers who can get blown to bits mid-combat & reprinted next round! infinite respawns, sidegrade weapon swapping, scifi black comedy & more! 🔗: jumpgategames.itch.io/planetfist
the words PLANET FIST with a bullpup rifle superimposed. in the corner it says "COMPATIBLE WITH FIST" with "KIND OF" written at an angle overtop the corner of it.
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jess @jessfrom.online · 28/03/2026
this is 10% percent luck 20% percent skill 15% concentrated power of will 5% percent pleasure 50% pain and a 100% reason to
a phone reminder to Remember the drain
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jess @jessfrom.online · 14/03/2026
satah sent me this very funny screenshot of their notifications from me & yknow. does pretty accurately sum up my personal experience of marathon.
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jess @jessfrom.online · 14/03/2026
the general sea change in (even some progressive liberal) public opinion on the Washington Post after the Bezos acquisition has me feeling very validated when it comes to this image i made like half a decade ago and got a lot of hate for on twitter lmao
manray meme where he's holding up an ID labeled telesur and granma saying "this is "state media." patrick replies "yup." manray replies "and you believe that being funded and run by the state biases their output" and patrick replies "yup" and manray points to the new york times, washington post, and wall street journal, saying "so media is biased in the interest of those who fund and operate it" and patrick says "that makes sense to me" and manray says "then private media is biased towards the class interests of rich bourgeoisie shareholders" to which patrick replies "democracy dies in darkness."
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jess @jessfrom.online · 14/03/2026
please survive this ante please survive this ante please survive this ante
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jess @jessfrom.online · 13/03/2026
that said i've been becoming a half-decent vindicta
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jess @jessfrom.online · 13/03/2026
this deadlock opponent is maybe the most lopsided i've ever seen
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jess @jessfrom.online · 05/03/2026
new deadlock support just dropped
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jess @jessfrom.online · 04/03/2026
runners up Avacyn & Nissa—almost literally same reasons (goth) angelgirl then canon lesbian who was also an all-star in my casual Rosheen deck
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jess @jessfrom.online · 04/03/2026
mine is a tie between also-Elspeth (angelgirl, adore the art on Archangel Elspeth which was also an Arena all-star for me) and Chandra (canon lesbian, Hope's Beacon has great art & an all-star in my casual Rosheen deck, one of my favorite commander decks of all time)
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jess @jessfrom.online · 23/02/2026
oh and i made a new fucked-up son. not my finest work but i was so excited about the idea of making a modal attack trigger. manual firebending for colorless, and 'attacks each turn if able' is an interesting effect for making sure opponents have ways of removing your powerful sticker cards.
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jess @jessfrom.online · 23/02/2026
i don't have a photo of the stickered card but my other all-star was Orc Sureshot but it cost {2/W}{B} and the triggered ability gave a creature an opponent controls -1/-3 instead of -1/-1 also, normal-ass Mentor of the Meek
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jess @jessfrom.online · 23/02/2026
i’ve now won 4 of 7 tamcubes jsyk tonight's win brought to you primarily by Rise from the Grave but with Overload {W} so i could return all creatures in all graveyards to the field for exactly {W} played orzhov control until i drew into this...but i did win round 3 2-0 without playing RftG once!
 Rise from the Grave {4}{B}

Sorcery

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Except a sticker has added Overload {W} to the bottom
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jess @jessfrom.online · 17/02/2026
you also get all these other amazing games—which would usually total up to $55 worth of TTRPGs! pick up a copy of it while you still can. also makes a great late Valentine's Day gift!

    Chiron's Doom: You're on the latest expedition into a weird alien structure that tore apart all your predecessors.
    I Have the High Ground: A pre-duel warmup of melodramatic threats, slashing wit, cape flourishing, and smouldering tension.
    Insatiable Cravings: The Monster's Admirer is making a meal for the Monster, as the Monster decides whether to make a meal of the Admirer.
    Million Dollar Soulmate: A millionaire looking for love has found – well, someone – who brings out either the best or the worst in both parties, and you don't know which until the endgame.
    A Modern Prometheus: A scientist uses dark forces to animate a creature; you both play to see which of you is a monster.
    Retired: The Ordinary Life of a Former Supervillain: After a couple of decades of mayhem and robbery, you just want to live your ordinary life. Why won't the world leave you alone?!
    Stealing Your Heart: You are two young people in the Regency period looking for love. Or is one of you, in fact, a Scoundrel?
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jess @jessfrom.online · 05/02/2026
absurd turn 3 from this cEDH game the other day with my Tannuk, Steadfast Second brew. not clear from the makeshift copy tokens but: i have 3 coveted jewels & 3 formidable speakers (got the original off of a cursed mirror.)
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jess @jessfrom.online · 30/01/2026
still from Angel (1999) that i feel like has a lot of legs as a reaction image on here
a woman saying to Angel "I'm a self-flagellating hypocrite slut. What was your question?"
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jess @jessfrom.online · 27/01/2026
hi folks! i'm looking for full-time remote work in game design! my specialty is tabletop games (i've both self-published and contributed to award-winning & bestselling TTRPGs) but i've also written for jam-winning video games! is your company hiring? get in touch & i can send my portfolio!
the covers for my games going rogue 2e, PLANET FIST, and I Have the High Ground, as well as games i contributed to freelance, like Orbital Blues, Astroprisma, and Triangle Agency, as well as my contact information and Jumpgate Games logo
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