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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 12h

This is some next-level ass-covering

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 14h

Why yes, I am eating entire jalapeno slices just to feel something. Why do you ask?

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 23h

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

09 Oct was X (2022). While the core of the movie is a typical slasher, there are several things about it that make it stand out. Stylish cinematography and editing for one, and a variety of troubling questions about generational friction and sex for another. 4/5 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(2022...

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X (2022 film) - Wikipedia

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#23 is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) - touching on the regular franchise themes but with additional clarity, highlighting how we're tearing down everything humanity has worked hard to build, and Fiennes' performance with Maiden was a stupendous spectacle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Year...

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - Wikipedia

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hah, what a fantastic way of putting it!

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Very much an Occam's razor thing, this. It's not "pushing" people to lose social skills but it was absolutely developed by nerds (like me) as a way of socialising without needing to deploy social skills.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just watched X and I must say I'm very disappointed that Jenny Ortega had "Sunday" written on her pants when it should surely be "Wednesday"

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah I mean it works fine as entertainment, which is the point. And, arguably, as a social game too. It's just to nerds like us that it looks weird :) I think it's very telling that the one time they had a game player on, they got voted off fairly early.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As entertainment, yes. But as a game, very much not. In fact to me it's the other way round - allowing them to keep recruitung spoils the premise of the game as a win/lose affair.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes, they can just keep recruiting. I know the target can say "no" but given the potential that there number will always be three, it hugely devalues the importance of catching a traitor in the vote

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As a gamer, I continue to find the rules of The Traitors annoying enough that it feels irritating to watch. If the traitors can just recruit someone every time they lose a member, what's the point of voting any of them off?

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Jesus have you not seen what happens in that movie?!

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

JFC. The implications for copyrighted software are vast but the implications for malware delivery are possibly even vast-er.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Iliad, Moytura, Cascadero are all absolutely fresh fantastic games from Bitewing that are not (AFAIK) reprints. They have some others like Spectral & Bebop that are solid. I know those KS games are based on video game titles but they're still novel as tabletop adaptations.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It certainly didn't pull punches, and I'll say that it's the best film in that franchise by a good way, too.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't quite know what's gone on here but I'd "saved" that post and the block means the saved post is now just vanished? Never entirely understood the BS meta-block thing. Feels like one of those features that's great until it isn't.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh god, this movie is mostly rubbish but the final scenes are so utterly horrible that it's inscribed on my memory forever.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bitewing is doing some phenomenal stuff at the moment. It's up there with CMYK, Leder and (presumably) Buried Giant in terms of releasing consistently interesting stuff while other publishers are mostly falling back on tried, tested and rather boring formulas in the face of economic uncertainty

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 09/10/2026

@everyone I have a Kickstarter launching next Tuesday. October 13. It's for a #boardgame I've been cooking for 3 years called PONDUS and the hunt for the Orbs of Power. Domino Magic Combat and Adventure for 1-4p. Human made art illustrated by me.

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Coming soon: PONDUS: An Analog Wizard Game

You're a wandering wizard on the hunt for the orbs of power in this tile-flipping battle royale adventure game.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What if I want to embrace my professional decline and sit around in my pants all day eating fried egg sandwiches and writing poetry?

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#24 is The Exorcist (1973) - It's aged, but remains a case study in just how sinister you can make a film with great lighting, great sound, and pea soup. Remains shocking because of the awful indignities it inflicts on a child & its various symbolisms of puberty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exo...

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The Exorcist - Wikipedia

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Sanakism @sanakism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But if we excluded from polite and professional society everybody who posted misogynist or other bigoted opinions online we'd... hmm... actually probably be a lot better off as a society and lose nothing of any real value.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well that's a bit disappointing after that trailer but still, hardly the first bad film with a great trailer.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There's an old saw about how having a hammer makes everything look like nails which, if applied to the AI industry, would have them advocating hammers for heart surgery. Just total brain rot.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Until I got to the last line I thought this was satire. Jesus Christ.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

After running for several years, I still mostly hate running. What I mostly hate is running up hills so it's to my considerable consternation that I live somewhere really hilly 😡

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Max Stranger Things Run

ALT: Max Stranger Things Run

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man. A beholder in the very first room. I bet Gygax designed this.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Back in 1985 there was an offical AD&D "soundtrack" called First Quest. It came with an adventure for high-level characters on the LP/tape insert and the idea was you could use the music as a soundtrack for the adventure. Both were terrible. www.retroist.com/p/dungeons-a...

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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: First Quest – The Music

Dungeons & Dragons on Vinyl (and cassette)

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ah great, my least favourite word to find in a bug report

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ah. The season of mists and mellow not being able to see out of your car windows in the morning has finally arrived.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also, why do people only eat whole potatoes in Wiltshire? Because they've got no Devizes for Chippenham.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There's an apocryphal tale of an American who stopped for directions in a local garage who said he was lost as all the local place names were the same. He'd driven through Chippenham, Chipping Sodbury, and then three tiny villages called Loose Chippings.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thanks - I already have one. It's just ... untidy :D

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Looks like this hinge thing still works - I don't know if that's any help. It won't just pop back on.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's not apple but I imagine the mechanism is the same. Thanks. It's weird, it looks like it should just pop back on, but it ... doesn't

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Any ideas on how to fix this? I've tried gluing the key back on but it just isn't stable and I'm not sure why - I feel I'm missing some understanding of how these keyboards are built/work?

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Seems like a reasonable metaphor for working with linux

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#25 is Dawn of the Dead (2004) - The remake has lost any kind of metaphorical take on consumerism. But hot damn it proves a great launch pad for mindless action horror, with ultra violent thrill rides bookending some bleak, slower burning chills. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_of...

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Dawn of the Dead (2004 film) - Wikipedia

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't know who Ben Farthing is but I salute his total commitment to descriptive book names: you know exactly what you're getting going into one of these :)

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I distinctly remember seeing this in eXistenZ

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lots of economic games that don't necessarily involve stock owning tho

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