tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 2hThe pluck, the attack, the circle-wending wind. Newer find, but instantly sunk into. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3rb...youtube.comTomeka Reid Quartet - Old New (Official Audio)YouTube video by Cuneiform Records 000
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 3h"You Keep Me Hanging On" is a better song overall, but I like how this one just clicks on the same funereal frequency as Mozart's Maurerische Trauermusik (as opposed to the Requiem - that's a divine lamentation right there). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qob2...youtube.coma) Eleanor Rigby b) ELDSYouTube video by Vanilla Fudge - Topic 100
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 4hI really love it when later-era Bowie went paranoid & frenetic as hell. Dude really knew how to make the brain-chemicals feel good feeling bad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mqs...youtube.comLaw (Earthlings on Fire)YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic 100
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 4hSometimes you have to pretend that you can see God so it hurts less that you can't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu4Y...youtube.comWoundYouTube video by The Smashing Pumpkins - Topic 100
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 4hMy Forever Love. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY7S...youtube.comMen At Work - Overkill (Official Video)YouTube video by MenAtWorkVEVO 100
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 4hLatest City Pop obsession. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciXZ...youtube.comRefrainYouTube video by Yurie Kokubu - Topic 100
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 4hBeen awhile since something like this, why the hell not? 170
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 5hSign, signifier, & shove it up your ass I'm baring my soul here. 010
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 5hThis is equally why "trans people are just like cis people" falls kinda flat. What you call someone isn't nothing, but a "name" & "pronouns" are proximal tokens that can be assigned values, including a binary change cost (does the speaker have to recalibrate their heuristic), contradictorily empty. 110
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 5hLike, there's a world of difference between "getting my name & pronouns right" & "knowing what to call me." These are different ways of thinking. Sometimes I do not want you to be intentional bc I want to see you be yourself bc I'm very well aware that a lot of people are just wearing their skins. 110
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 5hMaybe I am not much of a hillbilly but I am too much of a hillbilly. 110
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 5hAssurances of validity from queer spaces with any amount of money are more unnerving than calming imo. A common byproduct of intentionality is artifice -- did you feed the emotive engine any fuel -- which makes this a pretty pointless thing to say, but still. Respect is dirt, earth, mud -- not gold. 120
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 8hCriterion's Halloween collection's kinda weak this year imo. 010
Reposted by tom bombadykeIsobel Bess @echosequence.space · 14/10/2026if you want to listen to my music or read my poems or play my videogames or read my theory or criticism you can find a bunch of all that stuff at my web site which is called echo sequence dot spaceechosequence.spaceEcho SequenceIsobel Bess is an experimental musician, poet, multimedia artist, sound engineer, comedian, aspiring juggler, film programmer, and non-practicing archaeologist. 261
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Didn't even get an interview for a minimum wage+$1 library job that only required a HS diploma. 120
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The "bad psych appt" -> "new psych appt rescheduled bc psych's website is bad" October plotline is sucking the life out of me, alright. Just fix the bitch (I'm the bitch) or fridge 'r already. 020
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Soliciting the universe for a lucky break or the brutal destruction of an enemy. Mama needs just one win this month before the tolerance breaks get pushed off 'til Thanksgiving & we accept the rot. 120
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I keep having panic attacks about this, yes! Life, either too long or too short. 010
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026If my whole legacy in this life is that more people redistribute their money & attention towards a wider swathe of games & game designers, I think that's pretty successful tbh. Now, I don't think I'm succeeding even slightly but unless I die immediately after I hit "Reply," I've got a little longer. 010
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Older wargames having very similar rulebook layouts, even between companies, is one of those things that could easily be adopted for the sake of having people learning rulesets quicker (& therefore learning more of them, playing more & different games). 110
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Onto layout, despite not actually finishing the rules (ha ha, it'll be fine, you know). Most of this will probably get a few more editing passes, since I haven't edited any of the writing & haven't even removed my [filler terms]. 110
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I realized at a moving away party for one of my friends in 3rd grade that I wasn't his best friend, just a friend, which led me to realize that *I* had best friends but wasn't *anyone else's* best friend. I knew I was odd before then, but that really fed it from there on out. 010
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I haven't played a Civ game in over a year, whoops. 000
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It would also make sense to have a negative diplomatic modifier for Civs that are way ahead on the civics tree (especially in the Renaissance/Exploration era), which is basically something they flatten out in Civ7 re: the big three early 20th C. ideologies. 100
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Then again, the Civ games don't have a concept of levy vs. mercenary vs. national conscript vs. professional volunteer when it comes to military units & don't have any cap on military production related to empire-wide population, so, y'know, room to grow. 100
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Seems like a future Civ/tech distribution method would be to research a technology & have its unlockables appear Turn-1 (on research completion) in only your most tech-productive cities, then to the next tier down the following turn, & so on, & so on. 100
Reposted by tom bombadykeLilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026missed National Coming Out Day. but came across this screenshot of the mass email i sent 12 years ago! 197113061759
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Using a contemporary pop-country tune in a candy commercial to attract populist fascists should be grounds for planetary exile. 010
Reposted by tom bombadykeGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12/10/2026On this Indigenous People's Day, join me in helping the Sogorea Te Land Trust buy back colonized land and return it to the stewardship of America's native peoples. sogoreate-landtrust.orgsogoreate-landtrust.orgHomepage - The Sogorea Te Land Trust 0132109
Reposted by tom bombadykeDezi @dezi.quest · 11/10/2026this is a 10/10 character sheet holy shit 3278252578
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I think (opinion only!) the problem is that comics criticism really isn't nor was supported on any real institutional level, so good critical vocabulary specific to the field is underdeveloped. Doesn't help (sorry!), but you certainly raise an interesting question! 010
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Job applied for, rats amended, eyes starting to burn a bit. Time to rest & blink a lot. 020
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026(Well, I mean, going from a job that was paying $55k+/yr to applying for something in the $15-20/hr range is somewhat worrying, I guess, but does social mobility even exist anymore?) 010
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026(My wife works full-time & does an amazing job supporting our household. Don't worry about me! Just grumping to grump!) 110
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Just applied to a part-time job that probably won't cover my monthly expenses. Truly, a land of opportunity. 120
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The only one that comes to mind is also used for videogames, which is "serious" - not truly medium-specific although specific to the perceived majority audience (kids) & typically deployed when there isn't a prestigious academic infrastructure tied to the management of its social & hard capital. 110
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I hate this world so much. I can't tell if the president is just a brainless scumbag who is pointlessly selling out an ally we've already directly funded & armed or if there's a personal deal for Trump beyond the oil bits. RU is currently facing major shortages, so it's obviously dogshit either-or. 000
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Your friend that likes to write wargames is a couple toes over the edge of the ledge right about now fyi. 110
Reposted by tom bombadykeDaria LeFevre @hodagsoup.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I designed a tabletop tower defense wargame! It plays kinda like Age Of Empires or Advanced Wars 🙂 You can grab this playtest edition for free here: huskinbee37.itch.io/towers-of-ta... Any feedback or play reports are greatly appreciated!huskinbee37.itch.ioTowers of Taloon by HuskinBee37A tower defense wargame for dice hoarders. 195
Reposted by tom bombadykeLake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 09/10/2026Current* conditions near Chicago, IL: 13910
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You're too kind! I should have a playtest version up on itch... uhh... soon(?). 110
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My understanding is that AoS was supposed to be GW trying something new & it took them about six years (aka two editions) to decide that new things aren't a part of the GW corporate ethos. Cursed City looked cool as hell, though. I loved that gravedigger dude. 010
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Thank you! I found that a huge number of old chit & hex wargames from the late 60s-early 80s are up online in their entirety (very cool), so this'll be a retroclone attempt at making a Frankenstein version of one of those games... just with rats, bc rats are fun. 210
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Don't get too excited -- you're gonna hate the gameplay! XD 030
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Still very much working on this, but I thought this draft of the cover went hard & that everyone else should enjoy the fruits of said labor. 263
tom bombadyke @ruadhnaomh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Fwiw, I think the original system of grand alliances & "eh, fuck it, play with whatever you want" was an honest-to-goodness genius move for a company that wants to use their main fantasy system as a vehicle for $200 paintable sculptures. Halfway to a genius gamedev decision too, if they'd kept it. 110
