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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I canceled my D+ account after Secret Invasion. It was the last straw and just such a shitty show that I was done with it. I’ll maybe pick it back up for Andor s2, otherwise I haven’t felt the need to watch any of it lately. I’m tired of shitty writing.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Just need to set it on fire to make the picture complete

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The spiciness makes me feel alive again, if just for a moment or two.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

It’s ok for maybe solving tech support kind of issues sometimes, as long as somebody sees your question in a timely manner, otherwise large servers are useless. Our small gaming group uses it for our online ttrpg stuff for group calls and posting game-related content, it’s good for that at least.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I did that before with somebody trying to buy drugs. I just kept telling them to show at the usual spot. They didn’t seem to catch on, but I came clean after a few weeks of that. That was over a decade ago and never heard anything else after that.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

With Bran, he’d just be the shittiest player of “the game of thrones” that they talked about all throughout. He’ll have no sense of how to negotiate, manipulate, charm, or persuade people to do anything for him. He’ll get unseated in a coup because he won’t have any allies of worth to help him.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Price point was the big bottleneck, along with no support for porn, and the weirdly creepy promo video they made of the guy watching old home 3d videos of his apparently dead kids. I actually still want one bc I can see some potential uses for it at my job, but $3k is too rich for me.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

With Bronn as his Master of Coin. They’re gonna be bankrupt as shit within a few years because he’s definitely skimming money off the top for gambling and getting prostitutes. I like his character, but he was the absolute worst pick for that position. And Bran has no empathy for people anymore.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Same, I was frightfully shy all throughout school, probably even a little into college. I’m still not super talkative, even my kids talk more than I do, but I have my moments and can actually make people laugh on occasion.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Before Internet You had to get porn from shady places or order it by post & hope it arrived in discrete packaging. Or you watched the naughty PPV squiggles on your tv. Post Internet It’s literally everywhere & every possible fictional/non-fictional character you can think of has porn made for them.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

It’s just like the books vs audiobooks thing. Tons of people defending audiobooks, but never a post attacking them. According to one person, they occur on other social media platforms, which would make sense why I’m never seeing them on here. The yellow paint thing is just whatever.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Oh, it’s basically just like Primer, except with more explosions, shooting, international travel, shadowy governmental organizations, weird-ass conspiracies, time loops, Russians, Kenneth Branagh, and well… ok, so it’s nothing like Primer, other than kind of having a unique time travel system.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

When I first saw them in the theaters, they were bad and I didn’t care for them, but they’ve since been redeemed. They’re not perfect by any means and I think they suffer from some significant issues, but they’re adequate for having expanded on a few stray lines from the OT. They did their own thing

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

And holy shit, it's by Alfred Valley, writer of Thousand Empty Light. Fucking legend.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Doctor Who really has multiple personality and delusional disorders, he just periodically lets personalities die off based on whatever is happening in the current delusion. It's all just one guy going absolutely insane.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Curious how people in the #solorpg community record their sessions? Do you forgo recording anything altogether? Or if you do record it, do you keep a journal, a summary, an audio/video record? I'm just curious what other people do or what methods are out there?

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I think it's interesting that he's jumping right into the cinematic universe with all the cameos that are in the trailer. It kind of contrasts with the MCU model where they started from one hero and slowly built up each character. I'll be curious to see how it goes, but DC tends to not be as good.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I would say more like an Action RPG. Link is silent for the most part, allowing the player to inject themselves into the story somewhat as "the hero". It's true it's not a "traditional RPG", it's not turn-based and there's no leveling, but it does have RPG elements here and there.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

There's trade-offs between formats, but one isn't necessarily superior to the other, you're still just experiencing the same story for the most part (barring changes between formats). So it doesn't matter if audiobooks aren't 'reading' or 'listening', you still got the STORY as intended.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I feel like the whole book v audiobook argument is missing the point sometimes. What you're getting from a fiction book, audiobook, comic book, movie, or whatever of a Work, is the STORY. That's the experience you're getting, regardless of how you get it. It doesn't matter the format it comes in.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Oh my god, you are so right, just like always!

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I wouldn't say I'm necessarily exhausted by political news, I'm exhausted by a party of traitors getting off scott free from all the horrible shit they've done in the past 10+ years and getting rewarded for it with another 4 years to further waste taxpayer money and line their own pockets.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Or when he grabs his junk and he's like, "It's Nosfernuttin' time!"

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I’m listening to this as an audiobook, so no love for me.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I don't know that it's really apples to apples to compare Mario with Zelda, they're really in different categories. If you compared it with Mario RPG, that might be more apt, but they usually target different groups. Mario games are mostly family friendly casual games, whereas Zelda is an epic RPG.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

That’s me eating my oat cereal with oat milk and eating oat bread.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I don't know that he ever totally rescinded his views of scientific racism, they may have softened a bit, but he didn't really take them back. There was a reddit thread/comment that goes into more detail than I can here: www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/...

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Ehhh, HP Lovecraft probably aligns with their views quite a bit I'm sure. I enjoy his works, but he had some really problematic views that were unfortunately par for the course during that time period. I can see why right-wingers would like his stuff though.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

My Dad didn't stop smoking after his heart attacks (he had multiple). Even after he had a mini-stroke and the doctor told him to stop. All the way up until the last set of strokes that really did him in, he kept craving cigarettes. It's such a disgusting habit, I hope my kids never touch it.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Have a large format Canon Pixma printer that crapped out on me a few years ago, still pissed about it. It's apparently something on the motherboard that's not working, otherwise everything else works right, it just won't print when you tell it to. I need to throw it out, but I use it as a scanner.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

People go out of their way to be outraged about things if you deviate at all from accepted ideology. I get cutting off obvious right-wingers, there's no arguing in good faith with them, but there's this idea that people are just horrible for having uninformed opinions. Maybe try to educate first?

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I don't really like the all-or-nothing nature of most battles in TTRPGs, it's either All Enemies Defeated or a TPK, rarely is it anything else where a villain gets away, the party is captured, or a battle is just a feint while something happens elsewhere. I just wish there was a bit more variety.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Skibidi toilet before there was Skibidi toilet

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

That sounds so stressful.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The bigger problem Dems had this election was they didn't get the numbers that Biden got in 2020. Trump barely got +1m than last time, he didn't get a huge bump in support, just the same people as last time. Dem voters are unreliable and couldn't be bothered to vote when their country needed them.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I started really getting into audiobooks when I did an office cleaning business for a few years. Just so perfect for mindless labor like that to listen along with. I equate audiobooks with oral storytelling, it's part of an ancient tradition, it's a purer form of storytelling than reading books.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Saw it over the weekend with my kids. It's a Sonic movie, I think it represents the games as well as they can (I was never a big fan). There's running, explosions, quips, Robotnik being pathetic/evil, and the power of friendship. The only thing it needs is more guitar solos to make it complete.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

My gaming group tends to just want to stay with D&D/OSR fantasy, so we rarely end up branching out. I grew up with all the RQ rulebooks in the house from my Dad and remember looking through them as a kid, but the only thing I really remembered was the ducks.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

In ancient times, prostitution was considered to be a holy duty, they were known as priestesses and worked out of temples in Mesopotamia. They actually held more power than other women in society. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_...

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Sacred prostitution - Wikipedia

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

He was too good for us. Someone really should’ve manned up and sucked his cock to try to get him to run again. Rest in Power.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Ahh yes, the true hallmark of a great director, one who just says, "Whatever, good enough."

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Older brother to John Carter of Mars

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

“Listen. Strange imps lying in court distributing crowns based on the best stories is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical democratic ceremony.”

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

It was crazy all the viewing parties and death pools that people had going on leading up to the finale. Then nothing. Not even, “What’d you think about that last GoT episode?” Our whole office just pretended like it never happened after the last episode and never talked about it again.

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Paddirn @paddirn.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Just the last season by itself guaranteed that the show would become irrelevant as soon as it ended, virtually overnight. As soon as people get personal like that when I’m expressing an opinion though, that’s an instant block. Attacking/defending ideas is one thing, no need to get personal.

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