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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

MOVIE CONCEPT: Sleezy/craptastic portrayal of a hacker recruited into a murky scenerio involving high stakes theft, doublecrosses, and violent skullduggery. Twist: the character is doing the hacking from an virtual MMO he's been trapped in the entire time. TITLE: Swordfish Art Online […]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The next fantasy heartbreaker RPG I write is going to be essentially just Daggerheart but, like, 5-10x better along every metric. Working title options: A) Swordliver B) Glaiveguts C) Khopeshbrain #NotionalGames #TTRPG #Humor #OfASort

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

ME: [Watching Thundarr] DAUGHTER: "Those are some goofy looking snake creatures." ME: "Well, you know. It was the early 1980s. We didn't really know what snake creatures looked like at the time. We just had to make our best guess." DAUGHTER: "I guess they had […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Three lizard-man sort of creatures jump off the top of a box car at Thundarr the Barbarian.

The caption indicates it is Season 1, Episode 2 : Harvest of Doom

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

How a place deep in my heart secretly expects things are about to go down every time the sky gets dark cause a hurricane or Nor'easter is approaching our city. youtu.be/S09mEDCqSx4 #InclementWeather #MadokaMagica

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Giallogist (n.) - A researcher who studies the structure and composition of the terrain at locations where Italian thriller films have been shot. #NotionalJargon #Humor #Giallo #Geology

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

LotR: Return of the King [Arwen receiving a vision of having a future child with Aragorn] ME: I didn't remember this was in the movie. So this is where she "sees her unborn children in his eyes"? WIFE: Actually it's where she sees her unborn children in his *Isengard* […]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Extrapolating: Blind test - The person receiving the test doesn't know which is the treatment and which is the control. Double blind - The person administering the test doesn't know which is which either. Triple blind - Not even the person who designed the study knows which subjects got which […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Everyone knows that in robotics many tasks are easy, but seemingly simple tasks, such as cleaning a room or doing the dishes are hard. Well I have solved every room cleaning task. First the entire room is fed into an industrial shredding machine, the valuable metals are recovered by melting the […]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Seeing this, my RPG-idea-scavenging brain immediately started churning through possible scenarios where the player characters get entangled with a cargo of illegal measuring sticks or run afoul the criminal networks that obtain and distribute them. youtube.com/shorts/5PEa8somntw […]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Putting this here as a reference for myself, but other folks might find it of interest. Based on a vague memory, @diyanddragons.bsky.social was able to track down a couple early era Old School Renaissance blog posts about secondary benefits a spellcaster might receive for simply having a spell […]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Laverne & Shirley spinoff in the mode of a Korean horror/thriller series, where Lenny and Squiggy dress in faceless uniforms and force the show's other regulars to participate in a series of deadly competitions for a cash prize. TITLE: Squig Games #NotionalFiction

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

OVERDREW: Realistic fiction comic about a bank teller and events leading to her choice to break up with her boyfriend, Drew. OVERDRAWN: An author's commentary and advice based on on the making and publication of Overdrew. #NotionalFiction

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Game scheduling might not have worked out, but had some great conversation instead. Hopefully next week, if the heavens are in proper alignment and the world is at rest, we can return once more to Caverns of Thracia. #DungeonCrawlClassics #ACDC #TTRPGS

Black and white image of Angus Young holding a guitar, gesturing dramatically and yelling or singing emphatically. His head had been crudely edited to include elf or goblin-like ears.

To the left the title has been edited. It previously said:
"AC⚡️DC Back In Black"

It now says:
"DCC⚡️ Back In Thrax"

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Found this beautiful Katydid near work the other day. iNaturalist identifies it as moat likely a Greater Anglewing. It was on the large side for any katydid I'd seen in the past. #Insect #Insecta #Orthoptera #Katydid

A large, green, somewhat leaf-shaped insect wirh long legs clinging to a window that partly reflects it.

The same insect as in the previous picture, seen from a different angle.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

[USPol. Here's hoping Jason's mode of presentation is an effective way to counteract the administration's "flooding the zone" tactics.] youtube.com/shorts/DgbwNkG8cQw #USPol #JasonSalmon #Humor

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

"The fiddlers were only woken by the chill air of morning. They were still lying on the same spot, but instead of thick cushions they were sitting on bleached horses’ skulls, and instead of the silver cups over which they had nodded off, they held long, hollow horses’ bones in their hands." […]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

As made blatantly obvious by the tense body posture and wild look in her eye: Cassie is clearly a cat with deep-seated trust issues. #Caturday #Cats

A cat comfortably lying on her back on a sofa with three limbs splayed in the air and one forepaw tucked casually against her chest, looking calmly at the camera.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Ye Olde Comics If I understand correctly, the comics on this site contain only characters whose IP is no longer under copyright. However, the images have been remastered and the site claims ownership of the remastered images. comicbooks.com/read #Comics

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

What would have happened if they'd remained a non-profit? If they had informed the world about the actual nature of the technology? But, there were too many excited conversations with phrases like "world changing sums of money" and "singularity" -- the commitment to the "public good" went out […]

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girl with Shinigami eyes @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In the 1930s, Charlotte Beradt collected accounts of dreams from Germans under Nazi rule. In the 60s, she published her analysis of those accounts as "The Third Reich of Dreams". These are mostly dreams of defeat, of being surveilled and terrorized, of being too afraid to protest. 💙📚 #bookreview

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The Third Reich of Dreams

The Third Reich of Dreams The Nightmares of a Nation by Charlotte Beradt translated by Damion Searls Princeton University Press 1966, re...

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Youtube algorithm knows my interests pretty well now. So i get regular suggestions for beautiful indie video games that I don't think I'd actually enjoy playing much. Case in point: ReyPunk Which appears to be a mid-century modern/space age (think Jetsons) styled tactical beat-em-up […]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You (2026) This short series was released simultaneously as both 12 "mini-episodes" and recut into 5 slightly longer episodes. The general premise: Middle-aged, earnest but work-burdened businessman views his brief parasocial […] [Original post on dice.camp]

A tall man in a business suit and a shorter woman with red hair wearing a black leather jacket and short skirt sit together smoking and looking off in different directions. In the foreground between them is a box for collecting cigarettes.

The title "Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You" is also in the lower foreground.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Analogy that just came to me about AI companies destructively scanning old books: Because of their non-slop nature, pre-LLM texts are the "low background steel" of the current era. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-backgroun… #LLM #AI #AISlop

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Low-background steel - Wikipedia

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

I've downloaded an archive of my Mastodon content and want to read and search specific posts in the archive (presumably offline). Is anyone willing and able to recommend a Windows compatible app that makes this easily possible? I've found a few that seem to display the raw JSON files, but my […]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Really loved the mix of animation styles in this psychedelic monster freakout. Puts me in mind of a style of acid splashed illustration I associate with Dungeon Crawl Classics and more bizarro styles of OSR-adjacent RPG adventures. #BalmingTiger #Psychedelic #Monsters youtu.be/XyQ45IQqtCY

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

I seem to remember some debate in RPG circles about the actual nature and historicity of leather armor (e.g. what people perceive as "studded leather" was probably actually images of brigandine). But this video gave a kind of neat example of actual historical leather armor that seems to have […]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Real time response to a parking situation today: [to the tune of 'Desperado' by the Eagles] ME: "Silverado... " WIFE: "Please don't back over our Prius." ME: "I hope that you see us... " WIFE: " ...in time not to crash." #FamilyConversations

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

DAUGHTER: "Why are there two cups in the bathroom?" ME: "Well, one cup is just for putting water into and the other is only for pouring water out of. So don't pour water from the put cup or put water in the pouring cup." WIFE: "Also one cup always lies and the other always tells the truth." […]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

"If I have cried harder than others, it has been on the shoulders of giants." #NotionalQuotes #DubiousAphorisms

Classical painting of a giant seen from behind, partly obscured by the horizon, with a community in the foreground.
Sometimes titled "The Colossus" and attributed Francisco de Goya.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

[Very Short Story: Uncle Teddy] When Uncle Teddy (who wasn't really my uncle) died, I was eight years old. Uncle Teddy was a reclusive man who lived deep in the hollows of North Carolina. My first memory of him was standing on the hill at the end of his driveway, waving a white handkerchief […]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Dream: Wandering around a hotel/dorm/medical facility of some kind trying to find my room assignment. Not a completely run down place, but worn around the edges. Crowded with amiable younger dudes I was too busy to talk with. Heard I could pick up work as a secretary to reputedly cantankerous […]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

For some reason a disproportionate number of folks online seem to get upset the movie Lucy (2014) is a bit absurd and leans hard into the ten-percent-of-the-brain myth. But, dude... #Humor

Meme based on the "Distracted Boyfriend" template.

The male figure is labeled: "Nerds looking for a reason to be outraged".

The female figure walking away that he's looking at is labeled: "Lucy"

The female figure with an outraged expression that he's looking away from is labeled: "Limitless"

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

Story idea: Fanfic community drama where a one member writes a revised myth: Theseus frees the Minotaur from the Labyrinth and the two beign a torrid relationship. A frienemy of the first author does an obvious parody of the this retelling, with Theseus instead in a kinky sub/dom relationship […]

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aro @arobeans.sakurajima.moe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Hungry, hungry birds. ... Page 38 Update. Latest: thenecromancersspawn.cfw.me/comics Read from the start: thenecromancersspawn.cfw.me #Comics #MastoArt #FediArt #WebComic

A giant brown and red bird catches a fish by in a river.

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Trying to find discussion about character-specific mouth shape tropes in manga/anime, and stumbled across this. Not exactly what I was looking for, but I love the sentence: "Like the majestic flounder, some characters have features that drift to the side of their […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Screenshot of the TV Tropes page on "Cheeky Mouth".

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

@flophousepodcast In Episode #425 - The Matrix: Revolution, Elliott mentioned the Terry Bisson story "They're Made Out Of Meat". In case you haven't seen it, I just wanted to point out a (very) short film based on the story starring, among others, Tom Noonan. I really love how it showcases both […]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Love for 'Caverns of Thracia' : Cause a minotaur brandishing an epsilon axe on the cover really sets a great tone just starting out. ϵ🪓

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

Stephen King and John Feinstein's first collaboration. A bleak, dystopian novel about young men who've entered a contest, administered by the PGA (Paramilitary Golfers' Association), to play round after round of golf, without rest, for days on end. Participants are shot if they go three strokes […]

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Yolk - Amber Stuck in my head since hearing it a few days ago. The tone of this song strongly reminds me of something else I can't quite remember. I don't think Creep by Radiohead. But maybe something else or a mix of things. youtu.be/QH9Evbg9wts #Music #MastodonJukebox

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

I've been finding "Always a Catch!" a passable but relentlessly middling anime series with regard to humor, emotion, action, and artistic style. But I had to laugh at this line. Cause this secondary character is the most prudent, discrete young woman in the show […] [Original post on dice.camp]

A blonde young woman wearing a frilly dress stands in a field with her hands clasped over her chest holding a dandelion. She looks perhaps thoughtful.

The caption indicates her saying:

"Because I'm a wanton woman trying to marry Prince Renato's brother."

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

If there's not already a Razzies equivalent takedown of the Tony Awards, then I nominate any such future sendup be called The Finger-Elbow Awards. #TonyAwards #Humor

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Peter Kisner ≈ @ptr-k.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Random memories of weird movies on TV from decades past: Someone elsewhere recently mentioned the H.R. Pufnstuf TV show. Until recenrly I somehow never knew it was a series. But, as a kid in the 1980s, I watched the movie on TV one Saturday afternoon. Almost nothing about it stuck in my memory […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

“Ugh, it’s bucketing down out there; I’ll be stoked by the time i get to the train station.” “Take the fairy road.” “Yeah nah, I heard what they do to trespassing humans” “I’ll write you a pass” “YOU will? And why would the fair folk pay attention to you?” “I repair the Queen’s pinball […]

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