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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Shake-fuckin-speare Kinda simple.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A good Newcastle lad. God Bless and Godspeed.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Call of Cthulhusenatio writes itself. @chaosium.bsky.social get on it.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As long as you are not bringing a keg to a job interview, I figure you are golden and even then, depends on the gig.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The movie ROPE came out on this day in 1948, and newspapers really struggled with how to explain that the main characters were, you know,

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So as my mind does, just by random chance I have come up with a hopefully unsettling game to run for my table this Halloween. I am thinking may use Kids on Bikes.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Red Markets showed me that a game could make what is the most tedious and pointless part of adventuring, equipment management, into the entire point of the game and be brilliant at it.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why am I only now being reminded that Marlon Waynes was violently murdered in the OG D&D movie? RIP Snails.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Real Talk. The presence of advertisements in a video game I paid money to purchase is a Rubicon that if crossed can get me to quit video games. I get that we have been creeping towards this sort of shit for a while, but yeah, that's a hard line.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So yeah. I think I have been more than fair to my FLGS to get a book in for me. About a month now with me asking again and again for them to order it. Either they have it today, have ordered it and have a real date when they expect it, or honestly, I'm looking elsewhere.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Its wild to be teaching young people and watch the speed at which things exit the zeitgeist. Were are talking about how vengeance and how it is reflected in our society and media. I mention John Wick as an example and get blank stares. The first film was 12 years ago. When they were 5.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dear Bots, When a copy/paste e-begging account likes or reposts something I post in less than 5 seconds, I am never going to be fooled. I will just be filled with fucking rage.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So yeah, If businesses are using AI to both write and read internal emails, the real lesson is that those emails dont matter and possibly never mattered.

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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Real talk: An AI thumbnail makes me actively not watch a video, no matter the topic and how it might interest me. Its a tip of the iceberg thing. It's a cut corner that's immediately visible.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So real talk, I am doing my best to support my LGS. To make them my purchasing priority for new RPG releases. But. They need to get the books in if I am going to by them. I should not feel like the bad guy asking for WEEKS when a release will be available. Take my money.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have a joke about D&D, but everyone insists it would work better about anything else.

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Dan Larson @danlarson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Writers/Musicians/Artists told you from Day 1 that this was theft. Straight up. Always has been.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah but 20yr old me was kinda a dumbass comparatively so honestly, why give a fuck what he would think?

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Gonna just have to restrain myself with some of these kickstarters and hope that the products get a general release down the road.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"It's not a purity test. But if you don't fall in line, you are evil."

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played/run and expose your gaming habits (Or don't. I'm not a cop. (Or am I...)). DnD Daggerheart Eat the Reich Call of Cthulhu

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And the Costco Hot Dog is the final soldier in the field.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When my students tell me they will be absent or will have to leave class early due to a sporting obligation, I make clear to them my simple rule. "That's fine. But you have to win." Seems reasonable to me.

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GamerMomLuna ✨🌙 @gamermomluna.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This. This gets me.

Kindness is my go-to, but fuck off is my wingman.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So as a teacher of students who are under 18, for some time now, 9/11 has been not just something that happened in real time for me, but a historical event which my students have a very different perspective of, and that helps ground my feelings.

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“To the wicked, all things are wicked; but to the just, all things are just and right... How delightful to think that a justified person can do no wrong!” — from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Already following. Looking forward to seeing more.

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Prof Murder @profmurder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Kinda glad to be a 51 yr old geek and therefore have no formative attachments to Harry Potter.

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