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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 59m

You'd think there'd be a market for games about playing ornamental statuary that has water pouring out of its mouth when it gets rained on. Like Gargoyle Simulator or something. Who wouldn't buy that. Once every 600 years a git shows up and tries to shoot you up with a rifle, and a maniac […]

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 7h

On the Beach isn't a very jolly film for 11am on a sunny Thursday morning. Despite the opening title font choice.

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Dr H @drh.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 22h

More angles of the Dredge boat diorama. The water was formed from shapes of polystyrene foam covered with tissue/PVA. This was filled, smoothed and sculpted with plaster. That was then painted in blues. Some areas were then filled in with clear(ish) hot glue […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Front view of the Dredge boat diorama. Low angle.

Left side view of the Dredge boat diorama. medium angle.

Rear view of the Dredge boat diorama. High angle.

Right side view of the Dredge boat diorama. Close up of the water and row of "teeth".

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I can no longer tell the difference between typeface blurbs and a character precis "Denz ParaType Denz is a highly distinctive text sans serif, inheriting all the quirks of the Rublenaya typeface. It embraces the aesthetic of imperfection — like an ugly sweater or a strange pair of sneakers — […]

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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

"No matter how compelling or beautiful they may be, words appeal in the main to the linear, thinking mind that thinks in words." – Dōgen Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@vortiwife Too kitsch? I could drip some blood orf-it

Bloodsuckers written in Borrok typeface but with the "OO" crammed together and elongated to make teeth

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

"The Eel does not attack" will be my megadungeon mantra.

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Scanner Grunge and Grainy Threshold are quite good character names. Originally I was thinking they were quite Cyberpunk, but the more I look at them typed out the more I think of Wilfred Brambell.

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Here is a picture from 1901 in London, the cab drivers are completely lost because they have never bought a chaosium product.

A foggy picture of two cabs in London in 1901

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

[UK Media Neckties] Seriously you all thought this when you saw him on. #ukpolneckties

Picture from the news of an old man

| Peter Kyle served as business secretary during Sir Keir Starmer's
premiership but has since lost his necktie privileges

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

One of the thing about the real world is it makes its own props. #bloodsuckergenteel

The cover of the Barchester Chronicle, from 1994 discussing "Savage Beasts Roaming Dorset. Two wild animals on the loose" and showing a picture of a train

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Call for papers for book chapters in Reimagining Scholarly Communication: Frameworks and Trajectories reimaginingsc.hcommons.org

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Reimagining Scholarly Communication

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

"So look there's this bloke with a box" "A bloke?" "Well some of the time. Anyway.... Look imagine that the.. geezer can change faces and fit all of time and space into his box" "Ah. Shadow Theatre" "Exactly"

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Must not.. buy hologram of King Henry VIII Helmet in charity shop... do not ... need... *twitch*

The Helmet of King Henry Vill, 1987
An unlimited 32 x 43 cm glass plate two colour (yellow and blue)
achromatic and single colour reflection hologram and an 8 * 10-inch
film reflection hologram.

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

One of the earliest forms of annoying LLMs was "wall prompting" which was carried out by phantoms trying to ask how to install font management software in Windows 3.1. Interestingly this is where the expression "ghost in the machine" comes from. Microsoft later […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Writing on the wall messages from Borley Rectory "Please get help"

Borley Rectory was the allegedly the most haunted place in the UK until that role was taken over by Nandos

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Random Lovecraft @greatoldbot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Had any of the Old Ones shifted north ahead of the creeping ice cap?

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Early RPG Maps betrayed bad scenario design, which at the time was called "roading" as it was 1753. This is from the famous Carlisle series of scenarios, which involved fighting lots of people roughly the same height as you. TSR improved them immensely by removing […] [Original post on dice.camp]

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Low Frequency Ovipositor @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

"Quantum is an area within AI" is something I have just heard The Chancellor Of The Exchequer Of The United Kingdom say on the radio news

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@RogerBW I keep hearing "What is the place you have brought me to Roger" now in Alexei Sayle's voice.

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Charnock is lost in a world of imaginary dress making. #computergames

A screen shot from Dress Maker showing a sewing machine

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: social.lol/@db/117313366685749740 "The AI industrial complex does not do consent. You will use it. You cannot look away, it will be stuffed down your throat and if you say “no” they’ll cut out your tongue … Call me a radical but I’ve chosen not to kowtow to billionaires."

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

www.etsy.com/shop/PetrovskyGargoyles Well, that's most of the look for my Dr Who pitch sorted.

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

There's notices in the game shop window, saying things like "precon meeting, ten swaps, £10" and some art. I have no idea what they mean. It might as well be "Terry Lingers and his suitcase of dead jazz singers demands plenty"

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Claudia Martin's photobook "Abandoned Islands" is like playing Valheim as a flip-book.

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Marcus J. Österberg @marcusosterberg.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

”In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection. Use of personal data “in the context of AI” should automatically be […]

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

[UK politics and neckties.] The tie wouldn't even be photographed with him. It doesn't bode well.

Andy Burnham the head of a weird historical colony of France, without a visible tie.
Headling is "Burnham hails Greenland deal ahead of expected first Trump meeting"

HIs face suggests he is dying inside.

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I wonder is using 80s lyrics for special psychic talents like "Stop and check you out" for interpersonal psychometry too arch...

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

"I'm a form of out zinc. I contain Heavy pellets - the fruit of the dust sprayed cherry. Crimson sunsets and dawns they retain. Now they doze in me, berry on berry. Stray souls of the bark clad Republic of Spa. Gather in aprons as welcome arrivals. Filled with dagger-like carrots, or beet to […]

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Barchester 2ed Bloodsucker Merch continues with the upbeat charm of the kitsch Club Brimstone (now has a late license for Wednesday Night too) @vortiwife

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Proposal for a kickstarter to create a V&V collection of superheroes and villains based on the names of potatoes, possibly with matched funding from the Irish potato marketing board? #stupidfundingapproaches

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I had never noticed that Alan Roman's "The Potato Book" has stat blocks for all the potatoes. I wonder if normal people secretly want to write RPG supplements about potatoes as a matter of course, but worry they'll get their papers revoked.

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

True stories of the week Person I've not seen in months turns up at door "Do you have any rolls of overhead projector paper stuff like from the 90s" Me. "Hello, and why do you think I would have that to hand?" Them. "Because you are you." Me. "I was just asking, I'll go and get it"

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

There will be a fee of £20.00 to cover the cost of ingredients. The five weeks will include: • Rocky Roads • Fifteens • Flapjacks • Brownies • White Chocolate Blondies The club will be led by a team of AS Level students studying Nutrition and Food Science This doesn't seem to include anything I […]

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Apropos of a private conversation, I apologise to the gaming community for my inveterate and invertebrate blobbering. It's part of my stepped recovery, from taglessly provoking people. @Taskerland

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

“Visually, the series should feel cinematic, distinctive, and ambitious, capable of competing for audience attention in a highly competitive global market. We encourage innovative approaches to production, world-building, visual effects, and storytelling that maximise the scale and emotional […]

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Børge @forteller.tutoteket.no.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

For the first time in my life I'm actually interested in a printer! I still don't need one, so I can't imagine buying it, but if you need a printer, then this open source, DRM-free, repairable printer should be on the top of your list […]

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

My feelings about Creative Cloud currently

An adobe from Heroes of Might and Magic (and an old version too)

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@Taskerland further to your TNG issue with scale and people. Moonbase Alpha in Space 1999 is two and half miles across and ten levels deep. For 300 ish people.

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@UnlikelyLass Just checking on your question, they do mention the FTL drives - although in "not really applicable to Moonbase" detailing. Something called a Queller Drive which can't be used near gravity pools like planets (so you need to extra-solar system to engage it) and another Anti-Gravity […]

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

The world is boxed in with ghosts, rain and that feeling that the hole in the cucumber slice on the floor was made by more than slugs this morning.

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Black mouse. ‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century, BL, Stowe 17, fol. 129v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Mediebear. Book of hours, Picardy ca. 1460. Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 200, fol. 146r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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