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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It was definitely one world by night in the 90s, but sometimes these things disband and then restart.

Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Mind's Eye Theater was the imprint for the official live action rules from White Wolf. I think the fan organization you're thinking of was called One World by Night.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I object. They're not on my shelf. They're PDFs on my Google Drive.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They do not. They both allow filtering for transgender in general, and Zencare has a separate category non-binary but you can't get more specific than that.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Now I need to go find out if Zencare or the Psychology Today database even let you filter for transfem therapists.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I loved my Vampire cards but didn't know anyone else who played. I was young and couldn't travel on my own to find organized play. So mostly I stuck to Magic. I suspect that did in most of the CCGs of that era.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And usually, in order to stay competitive, you need to keep buying new cards. People are only going to do that for a limited number of games, and only if they can find a community to play with.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

CCGs are a tough business model because in order to play, both players need to have their own collections to build decks from (in theory at least: I remember loaning and borrowing decks a lot because people would want to play a game only one of us collected).

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A person who needs a computer program to help him read a book that used to be popular with teenagers is employed as a professional writer. Just letting that sink in for a minute.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Friends are lower than I'd expect but they lumped all 3 denominations of Quaker together. FGC on its own would do better, but it's smaller than FUM so I get it.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

An interesting list. Can't quibble with the top 3 in that order. Ranking the next 6 mainline denominations is mostly just a matter of hair splitting. I would have put the UMC lower and the ELCA higher due to historical record, but that's just me.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So soon your 5e game can resemble a GURPS game from the 90s. "I wanted to just run Forgotten Realms but Joe really wanted to play V:tM so he's playing a Gangrel, and Sarah's a Jedi for some reason, and Steve wants to play Batman, but he always wants to play Batman."

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

But they'll keep doing IP tie-ins because they tend to sell well. And they've got 3rd party companies working on bringing things like Traveler and Vampire: the Masquerade to 5e.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I doubt it will be successful enough to change the overall trajectory. It's pretty clear they want to be all things to all people and this is their attempt to recapture some of the grimdark "every session a tpk" corner of the OSR world.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Pretty sure the lights went out because Billy there took a hammer to the generator.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Far from their only problematic release, but certainly one of the most infamous.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I don't think every art form is consumed in that way equally. In film, people certainly follow their favorite actors and directors, but only the most strident cinephiles are going to seek out the work of a favorite costume designer or cinematographer.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

WoD is several different interconnected games. Choose the one that interests you most and pick up the core book.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I read the original article. It's a very sweet story. Also, they acknowledged their feelings for each other after watching an enemies-to-lovers romcom together, which is probably a bit too metatextual to include in the inevitable romcom about them.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Nothing I hate more than being tricked into using my imagination in a game about making up my own character to go on fantasy adventures.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The “should of” is a cringeworthy nice touch.

Screenshot of an X.com post by Brad (@BradddrofliT) showing a black graphic with white text reading, “It should of been English so we could understand,” followed by, “The Epstein files are in English and yall don’t seem to understand those either,” with a nail-polish emoji at the bottom.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/01/2026

“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.

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RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet

WASHINGTON—In an address touting the practice as a completely drug-free method to relieve the common affliction, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demonstrated Thursday how ...

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Oh no Batman, it's the Vicar!

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I'm always astounded by people who complain that a game they play in private with their friends has been ruined by some new material. There is nothing stopping them from continuing to run campaigns about defending the good people of Whitetown from the Evil Gay Orcs.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This is the best pitch the Democrats have right now. Next week, I expect fundraising emails titled "it's not what it looks like" and "please, baby, we can change!"

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Step 5: blame progressives for not voting for you and reflect on how you can further alienate them in order to attract more of the (again, mostly fictional) anti Trump Republicans.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Step 3: when polls continue to show progressives are not sure they will vote for you, insist it doesn't matter because the votes of the largely fictional anti Trump Republicans will make up for any progressives who stay home.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Step 2: insist that progressives will vote for you anyway, even though polls show a sizable number are considering not voting for you.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The strategy: Step 1: Distance yourself from any position important to progressives in order to appeal to the largely fictional anti-trump republican.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

From Cuomo in New York to Newsom in California, it's nice to see Democrats have taken a hard look at the losses in 2024 and decided to double down on the strategy that got them here.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I love that his name is John Brown Stan. If there's one thing I associate with John Brown, it's avoiding taking positions that might be divisive.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

If you still think the people affected by the deportations are only some anonymous "illegals," this is your reminder that they are our neighbors, colleagues, and friends.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I worked at Rhode Island Hospital where Doctor Alawieh works, for 6 years. I don't know her personally, but I recognize her photo and I know one of the other doctors quoted in the article. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

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Brown Medicine doctor deported despite federal court order. What we know.

A court order that would have delayed the deportation of Dr. Rasha Alawieh was issued while her plane was on the tarmac, but it took off anyway.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

So this popped up on recommended jobs on Indeed yesterday:

Screen shot form Indeed reading "position title: local facility chaplain - full time
Department: Veritas Management group
Location: onsite located in the following ICE Servicing Processing Centers, In Batavia, NY, Miami FL, Los Fresnos, TX, El Paso TX, Florence AZ

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C-SPAN @c-span.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): "Seven times my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate...Representing our Commonwealth has been the honor of a lifetime. I will not seek this honor an eighth time. My current term in the Senate will be my last." youtu.be/dIsl-vXuNwM

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Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Announces Retirement

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Whichever you pick, you're guaranteed to immediately think of a bakers's dozen or so great ideas for running each of the other two.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

It doesn't help that I'm using the mini keyboard I bought for my work tablet.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Insight for today: if you've been touch typing long enough, typing with just your non-dominant hand feels a little like freestyling sonnets in Piglatin.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

But I would like to see Democrats do more to acknowledge that free trade hasn't been good for everyone and provide alternate solutions that aren't grounded in xenophobia and isolationism.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I know that all of this is not going to fly as a winning argument in the current climate and Trump placing blanket tariffs on everything isn't going to fix the problem because the damage has been done.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

And of course people who crossed the border anyway couldn't always demand better wages or treatment because they had no legal protection.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This depressed wages on both sides of the border because Mexican workers couldn't leave and American manufacturing workers had the threat of outsourcing preventing them from demanding better pay.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

NAFTA created a system of free trade for the owners but not for labor. Owners could outsource to Mexico where labor was cheaper, but Mexicans couldn't respond by moving north in search of better wages, at least not legally and in enough numbers to matter.

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Ben Luoma @revlucky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Here's a political reality that I haven't heard many people reflect on. Trump's xenophobia appeals to people left behind by the free trade economy, but free trade left people behind partly because it didn't relax immigration policy.

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