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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 14h

nothin' seems to penetrate your heart

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh man Vernian Process that takes me back

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well of Souls was probably my #2 pick

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Ghostbusters cartoon--specifically where the Houdini-like stage magician tied himself in a glass cage on stage and then some underwater monster appeared in the cage

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yup. I like a lot of Control but generally not its too-common combat. Except for that scene, where its suddenly fun.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Many years ago my unemployed friend was talking about folk trying to get money from him and he said "You can't get blood from a stone" and his roommate thought this was the most hilarious phrase ever, we are talking head on elbow body shaking from laughter. I thought he was being sarcastic but nope!

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He had more positive interactions with his wife and kid in the book, but the most obvious would be that he took control briefly near the end when the Overlook had possessed him and told Danny to run away.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I thought it was King as an alcoholic father, which is why he prefers the book version where he is redeemable.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My favourite film of all time. It was the first film I watched that really made me realize what you can do with a film, that shots are intentional, that themes can be ambiguous or require thinking about the work.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

on a similar note when I first saw Taxi Driver realizing that the "you talking to me?" speech that had been offered up as this bad-ass speech my entire life was him practising in a mirror

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have never heard this song, I did not know there was Discourse about this song until I loaded up bsky. But also to be clear, I have zero cultural cachet. I simply don't listen to the radio. It's super easy.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The one who makes the group bond. In the first session of the last campaign I ran, one character just started nicknaming these people he had ended up with. It really helped inter-party dynamics emerge more quickly.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Love the setting, loved exploring, wish there was not as much combat. Its fine but not exceptional, and certainly not as good as the exploration.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Control would have been a significantly better game with 1/3 the fights.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fantasy is JK Rowling, unfortunately King remains the King of horror.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Same, ran it at cons and it flowed beautifully. Home game I ran struggled a bit in the higher tiers, where descriptions of abilities were sometimes ambiguous. That said, I ended up playing in a superhero game with the rules and it worked great for that.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

burning wheel is still up there but right now I'm loving Delta Green (and this is a brag but my homebrew pulpy system kicks ass)

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

looks like they tried painting bobby hill

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Dienw Neb @bareroot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hal's comments were very helpful. I do recommend him in his book doctor/editor capacity.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's called film "footage" because camera operators initially held the cameras with their feet. That changed after a film shoot in 1931, when an operator got a foot cramp and was forced to hold the camera in his hands. The "footage" he got that day was extraordinary. That man's name? Hans Cameraman.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

proof we do indeed live in a fallen world

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

good news, no jury in the world's gonna convict her

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

what if ed sheeran channels all his emotions about feeling sad and betrayed by making more songs. not so funny now is it

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"How to Unload Your Jeep Specifically"

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mulholland Drive (2001)

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How was camp miasma? Its pretty soon on my list.

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Jae Koyanagi @jaekoyanagi.com · 19/09/2026

If you're into Lovecraftian horror, THE BODDICKER LETTERS by @aaronccross.bsky.social is a wonderfully unsettling epistolary novella set in the mythos in the 1920s. Finished it last night and will be ordering myself a print copy

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

there is no antimemetics division. writing is scattershot, characters don't feel particularly fleshed out, but the concept is enough that the book has stuck with me for a few years now sometimes minmaxed books that put all their points into one thing end up feeling more memorable

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We just got a new independent bookstore here in my home city. Ordered Mieville's The Rouse and the bookstore owner found and texted me a podcast interview with him! Just top-notch customer service

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Reminded of the time, many years ago, I interviewed for a job. HR couldn't decide between me and one other applicant, so...they hired an outside consultant. Could've flipped a coin and saved that money, just saying.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i really like the baby jack black episode

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

oh no we're down to something positive and Order of the Stick hit me up with any good webcomics. Narbonic and Starslip Crisis are long-time favourites if that helps. Gag a day with actual story arcs.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I enjoyed Darths and Droids more than actual Star Wars. Their Rogue One--a film I have never seen!--was delightful. The players' personalities explaining Weird Star Wars Shit--Jar Jar was the younger sister of a player, the minmaxer took Mute for R2D2 so he could get more gadgets, etc.

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