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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interesting how TTRPG language often mixes film/TV with videogame terms. "Scenes" and "NPCs", specifically.

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spooky name to confuse my last name pronunciation even more

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 16/09/2025

games in general now, not even just aaa games, are way too concerned with the player getting stuck or upset or whatever. why give a shit. The Player is not gonna put the game down as soon as they hit any friction, most of them won't even stop when the game actively makes their life worse

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"ttrpg take"? nah you gotta buy it first

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh hey I can post this now. Made as a gift, 3d printed file from CA3D, painted by me, with a custom lit helmet and stand.

Painted 3d printed statue of Isaac Clarke from Dead Space

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh hey I can post this now. Made as a gift, 3d printed file from CA3D, painted by me, with a custom lit helmet and stand.

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reminder that if a drawing design isn't working after a week or more no matter what, to PIVOT PIVOT PIVOT, don't ask how I know

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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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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Working on a GM-less TTRPG, and as a result it's feeling very "board game-y", which isn't a bad thing and probably unavoidable. Lot of GM-less stuff is collaborative, has to be, but I'm trying to make the game still feel like there's an antagonist you're playing against.

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

TTRPGs are still in desperate need for mechanics/design that acknowledges there's (usually) more than one player in a party.

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jesus, straight up nuked Halo Studios huh?

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Playing Thief for the first time and the direction of a weapon swing changing depending on which side of the enemy you're looking at blew my mind. I am desperate for better melee combat in modern first person RPGs.

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 02/03/2025

made a blog post out of some old thoughts about rarity in games (and how the coolest shit in games is the shit that hardly ever happens) www.joewintergreen.com/design-thoug...

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Was a little disappointed hearing the RE movie is a bit disconnected from the games, but it's basically doing what RE7 did; a reboot-esque thing, now for the films. I don't want a film centered around the RE characters, leave that to the games, but a cameo would be fun like how RE7 handled theirs.

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Willing Subject

A dark room, lit by a single shaft of light from above. A man laying flat on a stone floor, next to him is a sorceress on her knees, dagger up in the air, an instant before she plummets the blade into his chest. The man stares at the viewer with a content expression. Next to the man's hand is a tipped over goblet.

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Tibo @heytibo.com · 16/09/2026

On a cloudy day, if you look in the opposite direction from the sun, you might see a rainbow. 🌈 #godotengine #gamedev #wildcosmos

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not having a fun time doing RPG layout, think I need to have more opinions about it beyond "most games look like tax forms". Finally ordered a copy of Mork Borg.

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reacher is funny because dudes that are like 4 feet tall will try to fight him, and then he'll kill them in an improvised Saw trap.

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Happy with the headway I've made into Godot so far, finished up a prop replica for someone yesterday, and now I'm going over my Galactic/Going Rogue Hack. Reading it with fresh eyes, I don't think there's anything to really change, just added some very flavorful diegetic RP mechanics.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 16/09/2026

Cowardice. Any game with time, or inventory or money or ANY kind of limit, players will complain and mod it to remove all of that. And they're wrong *every single time*.

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thinking about the fake fan that complained the mod's voice actor was "bad" because they were speaking in a monotone voice, you know, to match the original male voice.

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Matías Bergara @matiasbergara.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ABSOLUTE KATANA debuts in Absolue Cassandra Cain: The Shadow's Hand #1 today! It's crazy I got to design her and make my contribution to the Abs Universe. color by @spicercolor.bsky.social , written by Che Grayson

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm still so happy to see DTF St. Louis doing so well, been a fan of Conrad's work for years but it's always been cut short and cancelled by networks that didn't "get it".

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So I wrote my first shader ever, made in Godot; replicating the parallax 3layer windows from CS2. Still have some things to adjust/add, but honestly didn't expect to be able to write something like this so soon.

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It is a little weird to me that Wolverine can die in his own videogame, because it sounds like a pretty fun game design problem to work around, the idea your main guy can't die but can get all his muscles blasted off that eventually regenerate.

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 12/09/2026

also, can't stress enough that shit like wolverine having not an iota of respect for its audience has absolutely fuck all to do with "fidelity", stop throwing artists under the bus just because their type of art happens to coincidentally please you the least. blame the person who fucks up

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trying to make the habit of using my dslr more often.

Photo of leaves, with a blurry background

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

oh huh the thumbnail crops off the words here are the words see the joke is that elizabeth holmes mouse ate nathan's cheese and is lying about it in a way that is unnerving

It is a cartoon mouse, like Jerry from Tom and Jerry, shaped like a wedge of cheese presumably because it has eaten a wedge of cheese. The mouse has Elizabeth Holmes' face. The mouse is saying "Why would I deceive you? There's no reason for me to do that."

Nathan Fielder, looking into a fridge where the mouse has eaten a cheese, says skeptically "Okay. Alright."

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 10/09/2026

oh wolverine has that egregious shit huh. what a good time to read my blog

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I feel like that boss baby meme watching Lanterns, like oh wow the relationship between sinestro and hal is just like dooku and qui-gon, oh wow and then the guardians are like the council-just shoot me

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hideo Kojima says that Sony was going to cancel PHYSINT according to a notice in mid-June. Kojima teamed up with Xbox after searching for a new partner for 3 months

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Kirby Open World"? Oh you mean Kirby Air Ride's City Trial Mode?

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every game texture artist needs a can of this imo

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dillon snook @dillonsnook.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

i’m a sucker for asymmetric horror games

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Being able to just 3d print whatever is so cool. Full scale skull, the model itself having been a photoscan of a "proper" replica skull. Not perfect, teeth are fused, but it's still a fun display piece.

Life size 3d printed skull sitting on a messy-ish workbench.

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Made Ameebo in Star Wars Zero Company, only the most hardcore Star War heads will know.

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm an official D&D/MTG illustrator working on a game that's p much a love letter to everything I like about RPGs. and more: it's pay-what-you-like. get OMIOS URES for free if you want, I don't care. spread the word, play the game once with your group and I guarantee they will want a campaign. :)

page of OMIOS URES. digital painting over graphite sketch of a chameleon hunter with a hand cannon. his prehensile tail is holding a torch behind him, and various items are strapped to his body. a bandolier with potions, a large bag with a bear trap sticking out, a fairy in a cage hanging from a rod. waterskin, pocket watch, sleeping bag, retro aviator-like goggles on his forehead. he walks hunched, as if sneaking about, and his delicate gait - exactly like a chameleon's - is a visual play, resembling the tippy toe walk of a cartoonish hunter

text says:

ITEMS ITEMS ITEMS

The following pages cover a number of ordinary (and extraordinary) miscellania favored by adventurers.

When employing an item’s Skill Check for a NPC, replace the skill with the NPC’s Body, Mind or Magic. An NPC trying to break out of manacles uses Body instead of Physique.

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Installed a mod for Zero Company that makes the Squad size six, sorry I like the story/etc but I got bored of XCOM combat half way through the first Firaxis XCOM, so I'm just sort of going through the motions.

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Now learning about videogame shaders, which means learning things words like "swizzle" and "tangent space" and "4x4 matrix"

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A bit sick of meaningless choices in videogames, an obvious magician's choice would feel more honest and clever.

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oblivion's DLC is cool, especially the "house" ones like the Wizard Tower or Pirate Ship. But Fallout 3's The Pitt really shines for me, real scummy scenario with two competing factions, feels like New Vegas pre-New Vegas honestly, except instead of a chip you literally "Steal Baby".

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There were a lot of shots from the Mando movie that took me out, but this one that looked like a Bioware RPG conversation was one of the worst offenders

Screencap from the mandalorian and grogu movie. Dialogue shot, camera over mando's shoulder staring at a very CGI muscular Jabba the Hutt, making it look like a videogame RPG conversation.

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wake up babe, synopsis for OTTO NUMBER 9: a new adventure for OMIOS URES just dropped. As always, I'm having a lot of fun with the layout/illustration juxtapositions. Coming soon!

Page spread with a black and white illustration of a cablecart travelling up a wayline to an enormous tower with a bulbous rooftop in an enormous cavern. Text reads:

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER...

Welcome to Bugram Agar. The brightest star in the underground sky. One night here costs about as much as the average worker earns in a year, and this will soon be a night to remember.

A microcosm within a microcosm, Bugram Agar is the Karamouski crown jewel for game and opulence. The Hotel hosts the Opal Casino, thermal pools heated by fiends in captivity, a grand auditorium entertaining exclusive concerts and plays, a pleasure dungeon and, perhaps most importantly,

Utmost privacy.

The building perches alone on a reserved cliffside, away from all the buzz, low-lives and unexpected smells of the big city. A gilded cablecart, privately operated, fetches the richest of the rich to and from the nearest district of Portnova, way above the underground clouds, up into luxury nirvana. Please take your sick philter, enjoy the complimentary aphrodisiac and avoid looking down at the 300 meter tall fall.

Tonight, a great tragedy is set to take place. For the first time in centuries, a mythical, near-indestructible defense automaton named Otto Number 9 will be seen by the public eye, and more: it will be the centerpiece of Bugram Agar’s bi-annual, highly-anticipated Grand Auction.

But no one could predict the Machine would awaken from its thousand-year slumber.

It is now up to the Party to put a stop to Otto’s carnage, or simply make it out alive, all the while three tonnes of rogue metal rampage the carpeted halls of Bugram Agar.

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Martin Du-booooo-que @martindubu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Anyone design a Dread hack with Blackjack rules? Having to rebuild the the tower is always a bit of a drag, even though the visual ramshackle tower is literally the point of dread. Not sure how this would work yet, but players able to wage position/effect, counting cards, etc could be fun.

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