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where the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

went on a level 1 dungeon delve with a new party i met at the pub and im about to lose my fucking mind. the sexy panel 1 elf keeps stumbling into treasure chests and pressing on every loose tile imaginable. they don't have that shit here man. we're clearing out rats from the church basement

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's not universally true, but my rule of thumb for roleplaying is that if you're playing a character long term and you can't imagine a happy ending for them, that's a red flag for your own mental health.

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Crushed @silenttakedown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

yeah sure whatever, let lara croft cook potato stew on her phone for 2m0s of damage resistance who gives a shit anymore

a screenshot from the upcoming remake of Tomb Raider 1. lara croft is looking at her phone in the middle of an ancient ruin, and it's showing her a generic crafting menu, and a png of saucepan of stew that apparently her phone lets her cook for "Damage resistance" if she has 6 potatoes

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

hey what's up with the lipsticks in zero company. why can you only make your mouth look like the paint job on a Volkswagen

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

GUIDE TO WEAPONS IN ZERO COMPANY: >Blaster Pistol. Favored by scoundrels and nerf-herders. Shoots warm piss, from a dick. Deals one-sixteenth points of a damage point and deletes a random file from your hard drive

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Something I genuinely love about Succession is that every storyline Tom has in an episode basically comes back to Shiv, but he has no weight in her storylines whatsoever. It adds an interesting layer to their whole dynamic as characters.

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

@mumblesbot.bsky.social I need an expert witness to confirm or deny the following sentence

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

As someone who is writing a column about art and resistance — when it comes to the expression and practice of politics — I do not think art is anything more than a tool for discussion. Seeing a movie, playing a game, buying a commercial product — these things are not praxis

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I don't believe the world is going to end in the next five years, but if it did I guarantee you two things: that Mr Beast is going to try to become the king of humanity, and that he's going to be eaten by a seventeen year old who calls himself the Apocarizztic Bullionaire or something

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I've only played an hour and a half of it, not nearly enough to unpack it, but Big Walk's getting something right that I haven't seen anyone get quite this right before.

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My pizza hot take is that I've never, ever known a place to get the crust right and fuck up the rest

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Fascinated by the idea that some alternate universe doppelganger is telling ChatGPT to make a Ghibli meme of me saying "happy birthday" for the fuckass group chat, as opposed to this blessed timeline, where I'm hand-bashing inscrutable in-jokes for a Discord server of five people

A fake magazine ad: "Dirt, Bugs, Nothing at All: You choose the toppings, the pipe takes care of the rest. PIPED IN QUAIL PASTE. For that piped-in quail taste."

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It's hard for me to remember that joy is not selfish. Joy spreads. Seeing someone's joy reminds you what all this is for.

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My co-op partner and I have been playing the zombie spinoff of Sniper Elite, which is, no bullshit, called Zombie Army 4: Dead War. A review describes it as being "like a game you'd find in a Dave and Busters" and that is perfectly accurate

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 16/06/2026

Okay I'm gonna try some next fest demos and report back of my adventures here

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 07/06/2026

Gonna be jumping in here in an hour! Come watch!

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Goodman Games @goodmangames.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It's hard to think about the early days of the most popular TTRPG without remembering one of most iconic designers Jennell Jaquays. Not only did she create epic campaigns, but she also was an amazing artist whose work invoked players' sense of adventure. Read More: goodman-games.com/goodman-art-...

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Anton @antonhand.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

7 hours into First Light. Fuck it. James Bond should just be a game series now.

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Dungeon Crawl Classics equipment chapter is three pages long, so as a money sink, we're using the 2nd Edition D&D Castle Guide to construct a fortress complex. This is what peak leisure looks like

Top-down floorplan including rooms like "Cyclops and Watchman bunkhouse" and "Secure Armory"

Rulebook text: "Now that all of the major factors that will go into determining the ease with which the castle can be built have been defined, it's time to calculate the total Production Modifier for the castle. To do this. simply multiply all of the PMs that have been generated so far together. It is recommended that you round off your figure to two decimal places when you have completed the calculation."

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

There's about a million things to blame for this, but I think the dominance of "cinematic" prestige campaigns that are both prohibitively expensive to make and not very much fun to play did a number on the genre.

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I feel a tension sometimes between my negative outlook on things, which is pretty reality-based, and the equal reality that quite a lot of the ways we've been handling being depressed on the internet are pointlessly self-reinforcing

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

People of Earth Check This Out

An alien holds up a skateboard and says "people of earth check out this sick trick"

The alien is now riding the skateboard, balancing on something which is censored out in order to comply with platform terms of service, saying "in case you're curious, yes, this is my dick, and not a similar looking but unrelated alien appendage."

as he continues to glide on the skateboard he says "my kind traveled thousands of years to show you this."

A tear in his eyes he says "countless generations born and died on our ship over eons, all for this moment in time.
Was it worth it?
I think so."

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 08/04/2026

Do you guys remember when I wrote this post, and multiple people responded to it, saying they found it valuable and wanted to use it in their teaching methods? @sethdmichaels.bsky.social I think you were one of them. www.leahreich.com/maybe-stop-b...

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Maybe Stop Being a Dick

About 15 years ago, I worked for a tiny little startup in the connected car space. The startup manufactured a little device that you could plug into your car's OBD2 port and use to connect to your pho...

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The President of the USA declaring that "a whole civilisation will die tonight" is not something that arrives out of a vacuum. It is precipitated by the widespread international failure to hold USA, Israel, and their allies including the UK, accountable for their actions for many decades

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

That is another conversation entirely. And yes, largely I enjoy going through that specific era is because of how experimental things are. But that has nothing to do with nostalgia. And I certainly don't agree with "everything being so sterile". Just have to dig deeper to find things you like.

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the5lacker.bsky.social @the5lacker.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Character I'm running in a Stars without Number game had "Good Question" under his Home Planet section on his sheet, because I didn't have an answer at the time. That spiraled out into a character essentially dedicated to never giving a straight answer about his own backstory, until very recently.

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

An RP technique that's been popular in tabletop, and kind of neglected in CRPGs, is giving players options to pick that are specific but unexplained instead of generic. Like instead of "Origin: Mean Streets" it's "a city watchman gave you a scar once," and you decide why (then or later)

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

based on those Glassdoor reviews, shit would have been straight The Lighthouse

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I've never actually watched Nine Inch Nails stuff before and my feeling, as a taxpaying adult, is that it's the artistic equivalent of pulling 115% into a parking space. You were headed somewhere promising with this, but now you're just short an engine block

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

You know, I'm a fan of the OSR—not because it's better than other ways of playing RPGs, but because it offers unique insights into them that apply to every genre—and I frankly wish more OSR players realized they could talk about these games without coming off like the fucking Eltingville Club

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Like do you want your starter adventure to be poking around a gray dwarf ruin looking at cobwebs and dodging dart traps or do you want to fight THESE fucking guys. COME ON.

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Been in a great Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign the last few years. It's a retroclone of the Basic D&D set, but acknowledges that the game's period-accurate tone was like 50% kickass, 30% funny on accident, and 20% funny on purpose. DCC doubles down on every category equally. (look at this shit)

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I don't think art can only be evaluated by what its worst fans like about it. But it feels worth arguing that fascists are not, meaninfully, "missing the point" of 40k. 1/3

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Gonna give Fallout: London a shot

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I once joked that when I died, the last thought to run through my head would be the "pænis cupCAKE" soundclip from GMod shitposts. At the time I made that joke, fifteen years ago, it was very unlikely to be true. Except I've thought about it unbidden, at least once, every year since. Stay tuned?

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Not to get too mean girl about it but this is exactly what I, someone who hates Doug Walker, thinks a Doug Walker plush face should look like. I see it and think "this is a portrait that captures his soul"

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I know I'm late to the party, but this is the interview equivalent of Agent 47 assassinating somebody and them not even noticing.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

draft dump

Drafts
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this post isn't any good either. to the drafts folder with you
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file this one under N.G.P. ... Not a Good Post!
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p.u. – this post stinks to high heaven!
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this post is just plain not good enough to publish, and that's that
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this post is no good. forget the draft folder – stick this one in the garbage can!
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oh, what's the use
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this is a TERRIBLE post! no one will like it!
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dang it

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

PEEP SHOW x FALLOUT: E1: Mark provokes a centurion by correcting him about Roman history and, to spare himself, pretends to be an undercover frumentarius. He is saved when an undercover frumentarius kills the centurion, a deserter.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

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Goodman Games @goodmangames.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

DCC Demo Con, our FREE online con for new players, has begun! There are still some spots left for demo games throughout the weekend! Register now to learn Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG by playing with experienced game masters this weekend (February 6-8). #DCCRPG tabletop.events/conventions/...

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The aesthetic of 3D-era Fallout is probably a design masterpiece, and is objectively a home run from a brand standpoint, but I'm kinda cold on it. It makes the pre-bomb era feel like one big Halloween costume.

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Rutskarn @rutskarn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

If I was cast as the Riddler in anything I would thereafter respond to all interview question with a dogshit impression of the Riddler. Grinch fingers, spinning chair, "wwWOULDn't YOU like to know?"

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