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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An incomplete and inadequate list of games that made me. Alpha Centauri stands in for Civilization, but where is Master of Magic or Master of Orion 2? Should it be Dune 2 instead of Warcraft? Maybe Zork or Pooyan, Mail Order Monsters or Wizardry? Ask me next week, I'd have a different chart.

Three by three grid of computer games: Ultima IV, Pool of Radiance, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Warcraft II, Diablo II, X-com, Final Fantasy IV, Dynasty Warriors IV, City of Heroes

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Like, Sue Storm wishes she could be that daring.

Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman, in a costume with bare shoulders and thigs (but long gloves and socks), and a boob window in the shape of a number four.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I hint at great things to come, but am really just setting you up for disappointment.

Cover of Dungeon Module T1 The Village of Hommlet by Gary Gygax.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

He's stayed very evil but has also become a lot of fun. Here he is during the Krakoa era.

Comic panels where Mr. Sinister insults Kate Pryde's costume choices, and Emma Frost agrees.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Colossus showing what happens when Nice is pushed to its limits

Page from X-Men 211. Colossus takes a lot of damage from Riptide before breaking that marauder's neck. He then tells Harpoon, "Make peace with your gods little man- - you are next!"

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I feel her exit looks something like this.

Page from Secret Wars II #5. Boomboom reunites with the Beyonder, then blows him up with a timebomb.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Mangler ever get a figure?

Panel from a GI Joe comic depicting Mangler, provisional Joe who does not survive the experience. Firing rifle and pistol saying "a nineteen year old American with a machine gun"

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Brings to mind this tweet.

December 28, 2018 tweet by Club Crozier
at RoisinRadio
Ben Affleck should not be in period pieces, his face looks like it knows what phones are.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Me and the boys on a summer night ride

Keith Parkinson's painting depicting the death knight Lord Soth charging with skeletal warriors.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

He's right and more of us should stand up against this madness.

Section of map containing St James St, St Cloud St, and several more with this pattern.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

New Galaxy book from @planetx.bsky.social has arrived at my library!

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Bubba usually sleeps on the back of our couch, or the highest point of a cat tree. Sometimes he sleeps in front of a vent. And sometimes, the I fits I sits principle kicks in and he occupies my wife's lunch box.

Orange cat sits snugly in a carhart lunch bag.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Without stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.

Han Solo stands next to Jabba in the hangar scene, Star Wars IV: A New Hope

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

6 is up there, rebels, evil emperor, scheming subordinate. Final Fantasy 14, where a cut scene reveals alt-Darth Vader.

Cutscene from Final Fantasy 14 depicting Gaius van Baelsar and henchmen, all dressed in some impressively evil armor.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Post an image from a game you played as a teenager: Ah, Titan. Move around the board, recruiting monsters to recruit bigger monsters. Transport to a hex map for battle. Get wiped out in round 3 and watch everyone else have fun for 3-5 hours.

Numerous counters depicting monsters from 1980's Titan.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Wrong answer because we support only one Red Tornado.

The original Red Tornado, red union suit under green shorts, yellow tanktop, green cape, and steel pot. Red Tornado certainly does not resemble Ma Hunkel.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Looks like this Far Side comic.

Far Side cartoon, sign says "Midvale School for the Gifted", student is pushing on a door clearly marked Pull.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Oh yeah, 2e was the first edition I put serious time into (if you don't count Pool of Radiance), but I'm a second generation gamer and was reading my dad's book almost as soon as I could read. Damn good art, enough to put it on my flesh.

Tattoo of the demon statue and thieves from the cover of the original AD&D Players Handbook. Original art by David Trampier.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

And puppy kobolds (Sometimes you just can't improve on Tramp and Sutherland)

Black and white art of a D&D party engaging a pack of kobolds. Art by David C. Sutherland III from AD&D, kobolds have an earlier more puppy look than their lizard man later days.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This is how Raiders of the Lost Ark looked, and I certainly didn't understand anything I was doing and I spent hours on this. ('79 kid here)

Atari 2600 Raiders of the Lost Ark screenshot, the graphics may never have been good but we had fun.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Age verification? When I was a kid, this was our reddit.

Login screen for Prodigy, a service with forums and other features.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Not only does @titancraft.com allow my players to design whatever they want for their #drawsteel characters (my pictures really don't do them justice), they have great customer service. They email me out of the blue to let me know my order was delayed, printing error. 1/4

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Keeping in line with the toyline, where everyone was a bodybuilding god. Cartoon too. If he gets a tan when he transforms, then we're doing okay

Action figure of Prince Adam, looking every bit as buff and ripped as He-Man.

Cell from Masters of The Universe cartoon, Adam very well built

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Two packages waiting. After a trip to the Netherlands, my Draw Steel books from @hellomcdm.bsky.social are here. And also, the first of my players' minis made on @titancraft.com

Limited edition versions of the Draw Steel RPG Heroes and Monsters books

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

3/4 of cats. Bubba up top in his frequent morning spot, Sweetie Belle has become a regular in the basket, but it's unusual for Hunter to hang in the house.

Cat tree, orange cat on highest bed, tabby in middle house, tortie in basket.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I feel this so hard. Bruce was abandoned by previous owners and living around the neighborhood. Much of his first year with us, heavy rain still sent him looking for cover.

Black cat lays over puzzle boards. One ear is bent.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A movie from where you're from. About 40 miles away.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My house was Switzerland in the console wars, with both a Genesis and a SNES. Each had a lot of really strong titles. We did good in buying and rentals. More details in the alt text. These 4 manage to rise above a lot of great memories.

Pirates Gold box art. Never owned but a great rental that I played the hell out of. Got the remake years later on PC, just didn't have the same charm.

Phantasy Star 3 box art. Great RPG with a real branch- your first character's story ends with a choice of marriages, producing one of two characters. Then their story ends with a choice of marriages, so there are 4 different characters for act 3, each with a different story.

Toejam and Earl box art. Great co-op exploration game. You'd find presents and have to test them out to get goodies.

Dune 2 box art. The birth of the real time strategy. Besides getting me to read Dune and watch the Lynch movie, would lead to Command & Conquer and Warcraft.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Oh, I've got one of those!

Black cat, motionless except for the head shaking back and forth creating a blur with stretched eyes

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Imagining a word where Samurai Swords (Shogun, Ikusa) had the enduring popularity of Axis & Allies. A revised edition with new units. Samurai Swords East and Samurai Swords West, that could be combined into a larger game. A miniatures line. Games on individual battles like Sekigahara.

Box art of Shogun, part of Milton Bradley's Gamemaster series, along with many of the pieces.

Ikusa, remake of Shogun/Samurai Swords, showing the box, the board with a map of Japan, the colored armies.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I mean, I probably would do a melee build but that's just because I want to have Weapon Focus: Traffic Light like the big guy.

Cover of the Starfinder core rules. One prominent character swings a pole with three red lights emitting.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Yes, yes, players should try out new options and but just fit to Tolkien standards, but also (Images of Warhammer 40k because they fit and I can't just reach into my brain for the picture from a Dragon article, which was probably still the 40k universe)

Ad for Space Dwarf miniatures for Warhammer 40k from the late 80s early 90s

Color painting of a dwarf with axe and submachine gun fighting orcish hordes

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

"course there's some things I can't duplicate like Thor's control o' the weather out Deadpool's annoyingness."

Two panels from Avengers 223. Taskmaster is explaining his powers to Hawkeye, that he can duplicate moves but not super powers like the Hulk's strength of Thor's weather control.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I love working at a library.

picture of a text conversation
1st: Got to impress a kid with my Goosebumps knowledge
2nd: like that in Minnesota it's marketed as "Grey Duckbumps"?
1st" Is that true lol

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

If you see this, post an X character you love and a character you...tolerate

My girl Magik, Illyana Rasputin, captured some of my brain space with one issue of New Mutants in the 80s.

Kid Omega, Quentin Quire, whose lot in life seems to be grudgingly tolerated.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Age verification? Here's the first computer my family owned.

Picture of an Atari 800 home computer from the early 1980s.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Cousin presented. This is Bruce who adopted us. My wife was home sick today and when I got home, "this cat has been on me for 9 hours." Hour 10 commencing.

Black cat with a folded ear sits on a blanket.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Sweetie Belle's committed to the philosophy of "I fits I sits"

Tortie cat standing in a box too small for her.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I think he's got some inclination toward it though.

Two panels from an X-Men comic. Iceman in human form, unshaven, has just finished writing a term paper. He's hungry, but since the dining hall won't open for an hour, he turns to his last beer. He uses his powers to chill the beer.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Or there's this time he took on a bunch of no-name jobbers. Such a sad showing, later writers almost never brought these guys back.

Page from Secret Wars, Spider-Man absolutely clowning the X-Men in a fight. Remember, the answer to "Can X Beat Y?" is "Who's writing and what do they want?"

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

My introduction to White Rabbit invovled a team-up of Spider-Man and Frog-Man. So lot of affection for the character, even as I remember this when she's working as an enforcer/middle manager for Tombstone these days.

Cover of Marvel Team-up 131, featuring Spider-Man teaming up with Frog-Man against the White Rabbit.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Early edition kobolds were like scaly puppy dogmen. Then they became explicitly lil' dragon spawn.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Post your favorite X-Men character. Besides having a great name, Scott Summers has always been "the X-Men" for me. Even when the team growing up was Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Storm, Colossus, Rogue, and Rachel, in my head it was "also Cyclops"

Page from an X-Men comic, Cyclops is charged with a task by Magneto and Professor X. He asks "does it need doing?" Then when told yes, responds "then it will be done."

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Sears toy ad from 1986. Running numbers through an inflation catalog, I see why we got some of the scientists and little monsters from the Inhumanoids line, but never any of the big monsters (and I've got to figure that price point killed the line).

Ad for toys in 1986. Inhumanoids are priced at 5.49 for scientists, 6.99 for the smaller monsters, and 21.99 for the boss monsters. GI Joe figures are 2.99, vehicles ranging from 12.99-22.99, with the Terror Drome at 59.99.

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

What's a poster you had up in your room growing up? The Enemy Mine post was left over from the previous owners, a movie I had never seen or even heard of, and yet we left it up. MUSCLES were the pokemon of the day, predating a lot of tiny plastic collectible toylines.

Poster showing off all the toys from the MUSCLE toy line, tiny plastic figures

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Scott H @scotticus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Brennan Lee Mulligan summing up the content of my soul in 8 words

Brennan Lee Muligan quoting Erika Ishii, "Evan doesn't think he's good unless he's useful" from a larger bit about making choices for character flaws, but that wasn't a choice.

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