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Paolino Caputo @magnolienne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love to do lots of work and barely make any money

Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I cant tell if people who hate-read Dumbing of Age genuinely care about infidelity that much, or if they just mention it in every breath because their egos depend so desperately on having a high horse to sit on

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Toward the end of the video you say "there's other anime like Berserk or [gears?] That I think are better..." I cant figure out what that second anime is.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

oh yo, that's rad. thanks for saying so!

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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It should be illegal for restaurants to offer a medley of steamed frozen mixed vegetables (diced carrots, peas, and corn) as their vegetable of the day. I didn't order a Kid Cuisine, thanks

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Further improvement: you can move during the rummage animation, but recovering the item fails AND 1d3 random items from your inventory go flying to scatter around the environment, and will need to be recovered. Somebody get me a phone that can call 2004.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Use the standard MGS inventory from 1 & 2, but only the X most recent items you've used are immediately available. Everything else is "stowed," and if you select it, Snake has a ~6 second rummaging animation, during which you can't move and your camo index goes down.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

replaying MGS3 recently, thinking about the backpack management it introduced—which i like in concept, but the execution falls flat for me. The menuing in that game gets tedious, and for the most part I find that when items are out of sight, they're out of mind. Got me thinking about an alternative

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I feel like Im only mentally healthy when I have some long-form artwork I can spend a little time with every day, and the gaps between one good one and the next are dangerous

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I feel you! I had a group that had played on Wednesday evenings since maybe 2015 or 2016, and we retired the slot late last year. Took me 6 months to stop referring to it as "dnd night" when organizing my week.

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Andrew Barker @barkerrant.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Am I still allowed to say “a wise guy, eyyy?” despite having no ‘20s organized crime heritage?

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Mircalla @inplacesdeep.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Guy who has been blogging about pre-2000 versions of D&D for over a decade: I like D&D Someone who found it from a TTRPG feed: Um, don't you hate having to ask Jeremy Crawford for rules clarifications???

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Cheddar, who knows very well he's not supposed to be in my office, is trying to start an illicit podcast.

An orange cat on my desk, eyes peeking out at me over my microphone.

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

also - as I have said before and will say again - the problem with AI isn't that there's zero positive, helpful uses to which it can be put; it's that none of them, whether singly or collectively, comes remotely close to justifying the dystopian shitshow that goes into making and selling the tech

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I did not expect the Phoenix Wright series to end with arguing a woman into eternal torment beyond the grave. What a ride this trilogy has been.

Dhalia Hawthorne's anguished ghost being driven out of the body she's been posessing

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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think about this at least a dozen times a day.

people end up unable to see depiction as anything other than endorsement when their entire cultural diet is escapist fun and reassurance. they see something make them uncomfortable and can only assume people are watching horrible shit as vicarious pleasure and are horrified.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Checked on the Flock cameras in my area. There's only 3 spots covered nearby: the parking lots of all 3 hardware stores. Yanno, the spots where one might find guys looking for day labor jobs.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Damn, where are all the cops today...?

Screenshot from ace attorney 3: trials and tribulations. Shows an empty police department on the morning of January 6

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We've accepted an education system that is anti-enrichment at every level. One which prioritizes shallow student metrics and obedience over learning. When adults wax poetic about the importance of struggle, it SHOULD ring hollow to someone in the trenches of keeping their GPA up.

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Kill the puritan in your heart that pipes up with its shrill little voice every time you see something that you find off putting. Ppl publicly sneering at sex in art – including porn & kink – may as well just carry water for Mastercard, PayPal, and the conservative animus rn. I don't respect it

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

First ever pirated MP3s are turning 30 years old this week!

$Compress Da Audio 1996! " Da Original CD Rape Method! " Compress 'da Audio Presents A List of ALL the CD's That were Released Song Label - Group Name - Album Name - Released- Ripped Until it Sleeps - Metallica - Load - 08/10/96 - NetFraCk Bulls on Parade - Rage Against M. - Evil Empire - 08/12/96 - Rayden Black Hole Sun - SoundGarden - SuperUnknown - 08/12/96 - Xbubba Just a Girl - No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom - 08/13/96 - \\olfman Down - 311 - 311 - 08/12/96 - Rayden Amish Paradise - Weird Al Yank.- Bad Hair Day - 08/12/96 - Rayden Zero - Smashing Pumpki. -Mellon Collie &- 08/14/96 - DeadPool Ready To Go- Republica - Republica - 08/14/96 - Rayden Freedom - Rage Against M.- EvilEmpire- 08/14/96 -\\olfman More Human than H. - White Zombie- Astro Creep 2000 -08/14/96 - Rayden SpoonMan- SoundGarden -SuperUnknown - 08/14/96 -\\olfman Jeremy - PearlJam -Ten - 08/14/96 - DeadPool Gump - Weird Al Yank.- Bad Hair Day - 08/15/96 -Deadpool Mr. Vain - Culture Beat - Serenity- 08/16/96 - Cryuff Burden in my hand -SoundGarden- Down on the Up. - 08/16/96 - Spankey Pepper - Buthole Surfers - Electarryland- 08/16/96 - ]{NOT Saddam A Go-GO- GWAR -This Toilet Eart.-08/16/96 - ]{NOT Fantasy -Mariah Carey - Daydream -08/16/96 - ]{NOT Mission Impossible - L.Mullen Adam C.- Mission Imp. ST.- 08/17/96- ]{NOT 1979 - Smashing Pumpki.- Mellon Colie &- 08/17/96 - Deadpool Sweet Dreams - Marilyn Manson -Smells Like Chil.-08/17/96 - ^opiate Hurt - Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral - 08/18/96 - ^opiate More to Come soon more the group that will bring it all..... Compress 'da Audio$

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Knight of the White Orchid by artist Victor Adame

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Snake, watch out! A poisonous graham!"

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Graham, watch out! A poisonous snake!"

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I got it as a standalone executable myself. At the time I was poor enough that I wasn't able to eat, and was probably going to be homeless soon. Someone on /tg/ mentioned the game to me, and it gave me something to love for a little while. I'll always be grateful to it for that.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Iji is so fucking good. The fact that we got such a fully realized indie game before the indie game market existed doesn't get enough appreciation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=33mx...

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Iji trailer - Remar Games

YouTube video by Remar Games

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"Surprise" is a good way to put it. I usually end up bloviating about how the human-processed intertextuality of all elements of the world allow a completely unique degree of lateral thinking to address problems, lmao.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I used the argument just last week to talk about combat in general actually. I want to work towards making it take up as little space as possible---because video games do it better.for me.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I find this form of argument fascinating. "x is done better by video games, so why do you want rpgs to focus on it?" Yet the range of things I've heard in place of X is so broad as to encapsulate everything a game can be.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

That ship is gonna run so efficiently with two Geordis on it.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"Our service may cost more, but supporting local business is more ethical, and keeps money circulating within your community!" says the local business owner with AI Art advertisements in their window.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Forward the Foundation is so affecting. A story about saying goodbye to loved ones as age and death looms near—written by a man who knew he was moments away from death himself—written to be a prequel to a story he'd written 40 years earlier— the poignancy goes beyond any skill at craft

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Gus L. @ratkingrpg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A bit about how even some of the best advice for adventure design can fall apart when it becomes dogma: alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/2026/07/jaqu...

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"Jaquays Your Dungeon" - Another OSR Maxim

Be Cautious of Maxims As I've written before , the "OSR" loved its maxims, short phrases that try to describe shared principles and act as a...

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In 2013, for the first time in my life, I had enough money that I could be a little frivolous. Yesterday, I finally got all the little cardboard tokens of the Ogre Kickstarter Edition punched out and settled in their cubbies.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

this cover of The Killing Machine by Jack Vance is adorable

A shiny metal centipede with a huge head emerges from a crevasse on a barren red world. A light shines from its head, engulfing a lizard creature with a huge eye who looks aghast

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Not my kinda game so I can't speak on it—though if I recall correctly, @morriebird.bsky.social started with 3, then played the series in reverse, and ended up enjoying Witcher 1 the most. "I don't think this works," or "I'm glad they stopped doing this" makes sense of course.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I was thinking of video games, actually. But it happens in TTRPGs all the time too for sure.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Elves, dwarfs, orcs, trolls, et al. are commedia dell'arte characters for racism

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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

ENNIES voting ends today. And sure - *you've* already cast your vote for Designing Dungeons as Best Online Content. But have you gotten a friend to vote? A lover? vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/in...

Designing Dungeons Course: Nominated for Best Online Content

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Scenarios like that are where the criticism comes from the most honest place--yet it betrays the critic's lack of self knowledge. Eager to blame the game for their own inability to access the fun it offers.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

People who allow the words "outdated design" to pass their lips aren't saying anything worth listening to. There's a lot of stuff in old games I don't like, stuff that didn't work, but that particular term always seems to come from people unwilling to engage with old games seriously.

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morriebird @morriebird.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

She should have it.

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Nick LS Whelan @linkskywalker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Organizing my library, Parable of the Sower sticks in my hands. It breaks my heart that we lost Octavia E. Butler so young.

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