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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I went to a few Mitzvahs as a kid and unless the family is super conservative/orthodox it's really just a slightly-larger-than-average birthday party. You get aunts flown in from parts of the country you didn't know existed.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I post only the best of the best here on bluesky dot app

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*Dodges the draft with such perfect timing I parry it, forcing the recruiter to go to war in my place*

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

First off: cool outfit. Second off: phenomenal cosmic power. Third off: I get to use my naturally wily and mischevious ways in a way that's narratively sanctioned. So that's neat.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Honestly I think I'd make a great Genie

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I should get back into that 'writing' shit again. Been a minute.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Obsidian putting out consistent 7-9/10 games but constantly getting put down because they're also the studio that made 2 of the greatest games of all time and haven't pulled off the hat trick feels like a specific kind of purgatory.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Whatever we might feel about Little Bunny Foo-Foo's actions, surely we can all agree being turned into a goon violates the Cruel and Unusual Punishments clause.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

At least Esau got a mess of pottage for selling his birthright. Judas sold his savior and got 30 bucks. These studios will sell their souls for nothing.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Seeing Level 5 jump so hard on the AI train is a huge bummer. I grew up adoring the Layton games and I dropped hundreds of hours into Fantasy Life. I can't help but get a little depressed seeing so many studios embracing the slop machine.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The phrase 'Thirsty-Thursday merger' randomly passed through my mind and I have a sudden overwhelming compulsion to do everything in my power to prevent it.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Not to mention that the employee is also entitled to arbitration if they want it. Usually it comes down to the shop steward and management yelling it out in front of a neutral arbitrator who decides if the disciplinary action or termination stands.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Some workplaces have exceptions; at my last job you get summary dismissal for gross negligence (I.E., doing something that could get someone killed). But generally, if someone's acting up, you're required to give them a chance to fix themselves after disciplinary action before you can fire them

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I used to be shop steward at my old job, so I can elucidate a little. It depends on the union contract, but usually if someone's past probation and they haven't received any disciplinary action within a certain period, you're can't fire someone for cause.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One of the cool things about being a legacy systems guy is that you get to be 'The Young Guy' in your office way longer than other fields. The average COBOL programmer is 103 years old and got his start making punch cards at IBM.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The glass pane jokes really got me. This is really fantastic work.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

All I'm saying is that, if you're looking for a deity with which to experience hypostatic union and the oneness of the cosmos with, my office hours are always open.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

You never see Mystery Cults anymore. You don't see people wearing scary masks while they dunk you in a bath of milk to symbolize the sanctification of Hermes Thrice-Blessed. Cults these days are all just 'uhhh actually Jesus said you have to share your wives with me'.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Any American solider who dies in this war is *not* making it through the gates of Valhalla unless they go down fragging their officers.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Not being able to pay your army feels like a problem that shouldn't be happening post like, 1870. Our troops are going to become bandits and pirates. What are we even doing here.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Whenever I see someone write 'females' to mean 'women' I mentally pronounce it like 'tamales'. That's my version of 'Wömen. Men of Wö.'

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Anyways, Lucy Lethbridge has a great book called Servants that covers domestic work in the UK during and after the period, but I'd be interested in reading analyses examining domestic servitude in the minds of the literary class.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Characters will opine about how isolated and alone they are for entire pages just to offhandedly mention servants making their food and cleaning their rooms. It feels fundamentally alien to me in a way that all the other bigotries of the period don't.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Obviously, reading Victorian-era fiction, you're going to see a lot of things that have aged poorly, but I still always find myself shocked at how domestic servants are simultaneously omnipresent and invisible. They're treated more like furniture than people, it's rather bone-chilling.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

OK but like. Imagine: giant peasant girl with a big-ass rake plowing several acres all in a single day. Giant sculptor girl who makes what are, to her, little statuettes that loom over most of the people in the city square.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

damn i wonder who said that they sound really smart and hot

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Clown Train (honk honk!) @goattrain.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

a choker that stops someone from being a god sounds like it's the fetish of at least eight people I know

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Funniest part of the English Civil War gotta be the guys who called themselves 'Fifth Monarchists' while generally being ambivalent about the whole 'monarchy' thing.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Seems like a bad sign for the social health of our society that 2/3rds of all emails and 1/2 of all phone calls I recieve are trying to rob me blind.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Anyways; I like Wilson's translation for what it sets out to accomplish (Dactylic Hexameter := Iambic Pentameter, word-to-word and line-to-line translation). She's an expert in her field as has more of a right than anyone to opine on historical content; But thank God she's not directing movies.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

As the only (half-)Greek person in my social circle it's been weird to be treated as the Rosetta Stone on how people are supposed to react. Both the Wilson translation (it's fine; it achieves what it sets out to do) and the Nolan film (basically the platonic ideal of 'Wot if Odyssey blockbuster')

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I think one of the biggest things video games have lied to me about is the relative difficulty of crouch-walking. Apparently every stealth game character has knees made of steel.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I tend to prefer twelve acolytes over nine days. Causes some logistical issues since some of them will have to go on the same day, but 12 and 9 being 108 just lends a real sense of gravitas to the whole thing that I think makes it worth it.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

'He's a little gay but he has a job and doesn't stink' apparently puts you on the top 20th percentile of men.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I realized the bar had gone to Hell when my being bi was no longer an automatic turn-down for cishet women.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If Kirchick wants me to take him seriously he needs to stop eating all those bees.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Just got back from the Odyssey. Must say I rather enjoyed it, which I hadn't expected going in. I wasn't expecting such a great performance from Matt Damon.

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

been getting really into mtg lately. stay tuned for more

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RomanProphet @romanprophet.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My dad and I ended up watching 300 Spartans, the Richard Egan joint from 1962, which feels like a peak Father's Day movie.

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