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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The below is burned into my brain and it's about as appealing a pitch as if video games involved getting shot with an actual gun.

"The year is 2030. It's a rainy Saturday afternoon. You've just finished mining 30 obsidian ore playing Crypto Crush Saga, a match-3 mobile game.
You open up The Elder Chains Online and feel a rush of excitement. Your school buddy has spent years becoming a Master Blacksmith, and he has agreed to turn 10 obsidian into an Obsidian Battlestaff, a HUGE upgrade over the Mithril Mace you’ve been wielding for the last months.
It’ll take him an hour or so. In the meantime, you log into Clash of Guilds, and use the remaining obsidian to upgrade your town hall to the next level.
That should keep your village safe for now.
You wish you could fast forward time to tonight. Your Guild has plans to go for a deep run into the wilderness in Old School Rune Chains, and your prospects of a successful run (and great loot) have never been better.
All guild members have been spending the past 2 weeks grinding for better weapons, and you’ve agreed (through a vote) to use the Guild treasury to buy everyone a new full set of Red Dragonhide Armor.
Tonight’s objective is to kill the level 128 Frost Giant hiding in the Cave of Sorrow. He has a 5% chance of dropping an Immaculate Orb of Brilliance, of which there are currently only 4 in existence.
The Orb can be used as a power source in an upcoming space exploration game, and should give your guild a great advantage in reaching distant galaxies first. A 5% drop rate is low, but you’re feeling optimistic.
In the distance, you hear a faint 'BloCkChAIn doEsNT bRiNg AnYtHiNg nEW tO gAmES'. You shrug, and join your friends in the Discord voice channel.

Life is good."

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't understand why those American leftists who abstained should feel the need to apologise for not providing votes the Democrats did not want and claimed they did not need.

"At least publicly, Schumer has no worries about his party’s dwindling fortunes among working-class white voters. “For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin."

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Engaging with the engagement bait: 4 games I'm looking forward to the most

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Josh Ruben's Season 8 Gamechanger experience.

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There's this fun little gazetteer written in the 1970s chronicling the adventures of a D&D group, but it has this section where the party plants a magic beanstalk and then the resulting escapades are OFFSCREENED. I have been seething about this ever since I read it.

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Bloodless Quants are just descendants of the LessWrong guys who would try and frame humanities people calling out their dumb misanthropic shit as a "mean jocks bullying the shy nerds" conflict.

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A character didn't need to be one of the designated protagonists to get a good fight in!

Fight between Imai Cosmo and Akoya Seishu from Kengan Ashura

Sekibayashi Jun vs Muteba Ginzega from Kengan Ashura

Gozo Murobuchi vs Wakatsuki Takeshi from Kengan Ashura

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm sorry, but this is a straight up insane take. People have gotta learn to just be OK with calling things boring.

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

When I was 11 and first getting into RPGs I basically adopted a worldview that anybody who looked like this has Nothing of Value to offer and isn't worth listening to. This has served me pretty well over the past quarter century.

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Going to do a Steam Summer Sale recommendations thread. Haven't done one of these in a while!

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

There's a lot of really interesting exploration to be done as to why horror thrives in the indie film scene and other genres don't, what we get instead is this, the genre equivalent of Gen X hoseposting

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Me put into a Danganronpa scenario: There is nothing you can do to turn me into a killer! We will unite to escape this killing game together. We will never succumb to despair! Me five minutes after meeting this horrible little shit: Hands fully around his throat in full view of everyone.

Yuri Kagarin, the Ultimate Astronaut from Super Danganronpa Another 2.

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

"Branson Reese engaging in blatant fanservice"

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Me and the lads coming to get that wallet.

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I've been dealing with people like this for years, people who think D&D sucks now because you can play tieflings or whatever is not particularly exciting or novel. Also what fucking version of TOEE is this demented crone playing.

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Brain completely blanked out on the cheesy prompt, but this was a good one.

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

#my9games Thrilled to see two entries on this list that only came out in the last year. When some years hit for me they really hit.

My 9 current favourite games: Fallout: New Vegas, Disco Elysium, Undertale, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Pyre, 80 Days, Final Fantasy 9 and Look Outside

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Hey, the thing is you are not actually confronting any of this guilt you supposedly feel in a serious fashion if you engage in thinking like "every US taxpayer is actually as complicit in the actions of the US military as active service members are"

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

POV: You just activated my trap card (provoked me into posting Star Control 2 bits)

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

There's some mfer on here whose special interest is aardwolves and I'm not seeing it!!

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Started playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Finding out the mascot of Goomba University is a Goomba.

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I appreciate that you are stupid and lazy, the thing is I'm not.

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

You've probably couldn't quote a single line from most of the technically competent poetry you've come across, but I bet most of you remember this:

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The author of this piece needs to trick you into thinking "is it cool if I call you in a couple minute" "yes/no but how about half an hour?" is an immense burden because otherwise the entire argument falls apart.

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

There's no need to be so pointed about it!

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I've yet to see a person satisfyingly explain to me why, if old school D&D was meant to be about lowly ne'er-do-wells who avoid fights at all cost, the game used this as the cover

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

RP if you're one of the 51.3% who aren't fucking cowards

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

There's a certain element of people falling into this trap when discussing pornographic art as if the low hanging fruit is some enthusiast's toxic yuri mechsploitation fic and not the couple dozen AI generated slop titles that show up on Steam's New and Trending list daily.

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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I do appreciate this sentiment but I do think there's something a bit off where games like Horses get banned for sexual content but stuff like this, literally the first thing to pop up when I click into the Steam search bar, is apparently fine?