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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m curious how you make use of it in your project, what problems it solves for you, and what things it makes easier over, say, a bespoke PlayerProgression object that one might “manually” wire up in code.

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I would be delighted to know more about your implementation there. I was about to roll my own system…

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

His appearance on @seanmcarroll.bsky.social’s mindscape is similarly interesting! preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021...

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169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency – Sean Carroll

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Ok so we’re just ignoring the dire need for a historically accurate Robin Hood: Men In Tights?

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Crit Squad - A Podcast, Once @critsquad.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We have recorded a catch-up episode! @lindsayzana.bsky.social, @austinrusk.bsky.social, @mrstonebender.bsky.social, and Eric chat about the show, how it's been TEN YEARS SINCE IT STARTED!?, and what we're all up to now. It is in the feeds, but also here: sites.libsyn.com/398273/2026-...

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Crit Squad: 2026 Cast Reunion Chat!

Friends, it's been a while! We thought we'd check in, share what we've been up to, and consider what the future might bring.  Come by the Discord: ! Lindsay's Latest! Biscuit Wolf Games! &nb...

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

First time I saw Giacometti was at the Louisiana museum in Denmark, on a trip to visit my aunt. Every time I get to see one, I go back to that.

A series of Giacometti sculptures at the Louisiana museum in Denmark

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Maybe the Animal clock only resets on a long rest (or equivalent ludonarrative event)

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It could be like @gshowitt.bsky.social ‘s honey heist but with Daggerheart level complexity of growth. And some unique elements to set it apart. Someone else do this I have too much to do already 😂

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If your animal clock fills, you can no longer change back to human. Maybe you gain some animal abilities but lose some major human abilities.

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

But roll with Human, the clock doesn’t advance, and you get some sort of effect bonus on your next roll.

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Oh man, I was thinking of this all flighty and fanciful, but what if the game was on a clock. When you become an animal, when you do one of you signature animal abilities, roll dice. Maybe like in Daggerheart. If you roll with “animal” a clock ticks up and you’re further toward getting stuck.

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

You misspelled “kidnapped and extrajudicially imprisoned due to an abject failure of American governance and due process” Easy mistake to make. I before E, that sorta thing. I get it.

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Forbes @forbes.com · 22/05/2026

Abrego Garcia was erroneously deported to El Salvador last year due to a clerical error.

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Judge Drops Indictment Against Mistakenly Deported Man Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Abrego Garcia was erroneously deported to El Salvador last year due to a clerical error.

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Excellent work. I love the vaguely… organic-metal vibe of the animal companion there.

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I just made a pirate in Windrose with that exact mustache, named Meany O’Shea. Avast, ye Matey!!

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I’ve been running 3 stitched together modules: starts with @thedicesociety.bsky.social’s “You Meet in an Ambush”, leads into “Road To Broadhurst” (the ‘conventure’) and moves to Dark Heart of the Wood It’s worked out nicely. If you like, I’ll write up the changes I made to make it work. Lmk?

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

That is a gorgeous instrument. In my 25 years of guitar noodling, I’ve played a handful of PRS axes. Wonderful sound, comfortable neck, always beautiful guitar. Nice pick!

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

If my general YouTube and podcast consumption isn’t a major anomaly among likeminded folks… we’ve all collectively, and without fanfare, given up on “.gif” being pronounced with a hard ‘G’, huh?

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I find it helpful to shout it in the shower with music playing really loudly.

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I legit thought this was about actually visiting an emergency medical establishment. And Lo, did it come to pass. Please forgive my improbable quantum influence.

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The rolls themselves have a redeeming quality as the World’s Best Hotdog bun, so they’ve got that going for them.

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Hiring for a thing on Indeed, and the NUMBER of applicants that appear to have fed our job requirements to an LLM to get a bespoke resume is… fuck, expected, I guess? But no, Tucker, you did not write audio plugins while employed at a healthcare conglomerate.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Do both a CinemaSins and CinemaWins version! (Sure that’s twice as much work for questionable gain. I’m just the idea person.)

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

What's your experience, in aggregate, of New Guitars™? I've always experimented, but the last... 5 years? I enjoy time with A New Guitar, but at the end of the day, I snap back to the same 3 I've had for a while: a versatile Les Paul copy, a hella-nice Martin acoustic, and a weird Fender bass.

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

PARASITES WITH MORALS! Who could be mad at them, really?

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

"... And also they got rid of that really cool DMZ mode which is neither here nor there but I can't talk about this game without being sad about that and NO BO7 ENDGAME IS NOT THE SAME, NICE TRY." Anyway, g'night! Go Call your Duties. Or Raid your Arcs. Or read some of a book. Or pet your dog.

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Initially, "Call of Duty" as a title was a moderately clever allusion to an idealized soldier's reason for enduring the hardship of combat in a Just War™ Now, it's "A Certain Kind of Multiplayer Military Shooter with a Battle Royale Mode. And Every Other Year There are Zombies Involved Somehow..."

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

((yes that's an oversimplification, I'm not Doing Journalism here)). But now, it's more of a... Place You Go. Like Fortnite. Or Overwatch. Or what Halo really WANTED to be for a bit, probably (Hey, maybe Marathon will bring it back!). Point: It's a type of gameplay, not a narrative message.

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Ninite Snack Thought: "Call of Duty", as a game title, is dramaturgically unrecognizable now compared to its inception. The first game, a WWII action shooter with a HEAVY focus on the bespoke single-player campaign? Well, hell yeah, those dudes felt the call of duty, to (blah blah defeat the nazis)

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

“I need the whistle to call them off!!”, said the elf through gritted teeth. “Let them hear your screams.” said The Seer. 🧝‍♂️💨🪟💥

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I have not yet finished Wonder Man, but I am REALLY enjoying the unofficial official trilogy of Trevor Slattery.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

When people say “I hate writing but I love having written,” they are not saying “I love that some completed text exists.” They are saying “I love getting to the end of the process and realizing that all the work was worth it, that this sentence really pops, that I nailed it.”

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I had that with dashboard confessional songs for years. I just started tuning my acoustics to C# and now I can juuuuuuuust about pull it off. 😂

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

And I helped!! (Seriously these are all awesome. Either because of, in addition to, or in spite of my involvement. Depending on your perspective in the moment.)

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

If they continue to speed run the beat sheet they seem to be checking stuff off of, then maybe we’ll get that lovely bunker ending soon enough to prevent death counts in the tens of millions.

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Biscuit Wolf Games @biscuitwolfgames.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

If you're cold, they're cold— invite them inside 🥺 We just dropped The Arrakszhai, our entry to the Draw Steel Jam of the Timescape #2 in collaboration with @mrstonebender.bsky.social! It's free, so check it out now.

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The Arrakszhai: A Draw Steel Ancestry by Biscuit Wolf Games

A Parasitic Option For Draw Steel Heroes

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Unless anyone has any cool ideas about staging a car chase.

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Stonebender | With some stuff after the name. @mrstonebender.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I’ve been watching The Rip on Netflix this evening and it feels like a movie adapted from a play that doesn’t exist. I’m enjoying imagining what staging that play would be like.

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