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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i dislike the whole project but his paintings have always overwhelmingly struck me as NAIVE in a way that he doesnt seem to intend-- he's treating the illo as lowbrow and authorless and making a joke of putting it into Fine Art, but all i can see is man this fucker had no grasp of drawing at all lol

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's really fun to make things. Even if it's just to make fun of the Helldivers 2 community losing its shit over trivial bullshit (tanks with casements instead of turrets).

Satirical helldivers 2 comparison between an automaton shredder tank and a helldiver maelstrom tank.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On your turn: play a card; trigger one of your cards in play; or skip to reset. Reset cards are better than skipping, but a limited and variable resource. Balance win conditions, removal, defence and resets.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#AlternativeMana Cards increase your Risk score as a cost If your Risk ever reaches 7 then you lose the game. Play a Reset card to set your Risk to zero. Some cards are stronger when your opponent's Risk is higher. You can't ever increase your opponent's Risk. Assemble combos on board to win.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Grace Curtis - Idolfire Two young women questing for the same thing from opposite ends of the continent. Failspartans, history, class privilege and country ambition. Always a fan of good fantasy novels that know what they're about and get it done without resorting to a trilogy.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm hearing this a lot and I'm reassured I wasn't the only one who didn't like the ending. If I'm being charitable, it might have worked for a different cut of the film.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No, that's me being mean for the sake of being clever. It's a perfectly fine book, it just loses its momentum.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mike Carey - Outlaw Planet Wronged woman with a magic gun learns what makes the world tick. It was like a TV series. In that a strong premise and powerful start kept me reading through an increasingly flabby middle until I finished it out of obligation.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's really good. The tomoe belly button is a masterstroke.

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Unreal Sonia @unrealsonia.com · 23/09/2026

Should... someone tell them?

A green poster with a picture of a toy horse with a bow. Caption reads "Club Lloyd's. The gift horse of bank accounts."

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Joel the NoisyNinja @noisyninjac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I really need to remember to post more often 😅. Been playing This is Not a Test 2nd edition. This is my raider crew. #miniatures #miniaturepainting #wargaming #minipainting #wargames

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm so tired of RPGs that aren't about anything.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

KJ Parker - Pulling the Wings Off Angels Petty criminal gets caught up with a plan to kidnap an angel and blackmail god. But is everything as it seems? Yes.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh my god there really is. I think Torschlusspanik might just work just fine for "running out of time for an ending" Thank you!

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Or the relief when it becomes clear that a book will be complete in itself without a sequel.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I wonder if there's a German word for the trepidation you feel when coming near the end of a book and it feels like it might be deferring the ending to a sequel.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh wowza those are striking. Who are the two babies at the front? I don't recognise them.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How nuclear power is sold to us: Don't worry it's totally safe, the risks are overstated and your safety is paramount. How AI is sold: Yo boyo this it's gonna destroy the fuckin' WORLD so fuckin' hardcore you wanna get on board this train asap. Fundamentally unserious industry.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Is it good? Does it scratch that Blame! itch?

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I really appreciate that the rift isn't copy and pasted between panels.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's also really cool that by my count she's written 10 novels that get shelved in the scifi section - but this is the first one to actually feature spaceships and planets and lasers. I do like an author with their own ideas about genre.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Claire North - Slow Gods One of my very favourite authors doing what feels like an Iain M Banks tribute. There's an evil empire that's uncomfortably similar to our own, friendly AI drones, planetary evacuation from a supernova and a firefight in a museum. It's good. It's very very good.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Have you played Tametsi at all? It's like minesweeper meets nonograms and the ways it plays with the grids are great fun. I particularly like the uneven grid puzzles. store.steampowered.com/app/709920/T...

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Tametsi on Steam

Tametsi is a difficult logic game played on a set of tiles, in which you must use the clues provided to discover and mark hidden mines.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

KJ Parker - Prosper's Demon Exorcist runs into a difficult demon. Amoral protagonist with a cunning plan they don't share with the reader. Interesting pseudo-historical profession details. Classic Parker. But mini-sized and with a punchy ending.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Robert Jackson Bennett - Vigilance American dystopia where mass shootings are deliberately engineered and commercialised TV events. Abrupt and predictable. I guess it's hard to be subtle on this sort of topic because reality has a habit of being even dumber.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think that's the first time I've DNF'd a book because of the author's dialogue tics.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Never mind, I've remembered that google exist. I've not heard that term before. I'd never thought of Sam that way, but you're absolutely right.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Nail on the head. I've been disappointed with every other Serious Sam game I've played, but regularly go back to first and second encounter. I'm curious what you mean by memo-heavy level design though.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I've said this before but - Bioshock Infinite was the first game I remember where I didn't just dislike the story, but found it actively offensive.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Joe Abercrombie - The Devils A Dirty Dozen of heretical misfits protect the Empress of Troy from assassinations on a travelogue of alt Papal Europe. Plays it very straight - I kept expecting twists that never came - maybe overlong for something so straightforward. Still good.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Sorry, I went down a real rabbit hole there and was just amazed how much there was to find.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Misinterpreted which part of the drawing is the upper arm... it keeps going!

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It also did such a bad read on the leftmost udder cannon that it's not connected properly even on the final render.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The more I look the worse it gets. Blacklined the muzzle flare on the udder cannons because it didn't realise they were fx. "Corrected" the cow's face and made it look like a cereal mascot. And the bodge job on the pilot...

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Love a book where everyone's happily paired off and we've reached the destination and the corner of my ereader says "71% complete".

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Bioshock Infinite was the first time I remember not just disliking a story, but finding it actively offensive.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Fuck yeah! Author the fuck out of your creative passions!

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

All I'm saying is that if you're drawing anthropomorphic manifestations of the seven deadly sins and your lust is a sexy lady? Then your gluttony should be a hamburger.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And of course they use the font Morpheus.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Ooh, those plants really kick it up a notch. I'm starting to see your vision.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Honestly I didn't like the pimps and hos humour either. But at least it felt sincere.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I remember even at the time the drastic shift from "pimps and hos" to that flavour of feminism felt very zeal of the convert. I'm not going to claim I knew where he was headed (I figured he just got a girlfriend...) but it definitely felt... offputtingly disingenuous.

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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Today is the last day of my Summer Sabbatical and I can at last upload the first fully completed fruits of my unsupervised game design escapades! severalseals.itch.io/drake-barcod... & severalseals.itch.io/foleynauts

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Drake Barcode: Morse Inspector by SeveralSeals

The moderately educational interactive escapades of a dashing detective in a dotty city

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I'm almost entirely on Linux now, but there's one or two things I still need to boot into WIndows for. So, under windows, the mute button on my headset will mute my mic, but can't unmute it. Turns out there's, like, five different places to control that in Windows, and they're not all in sync.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

KJ parker - Making History A group of scholars is asked to fabricate an ancient civilisation. Of course there's only one story that follows from that premise, but a KJ Parker book that's not about a war is a rare treat.

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