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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games

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(he/him) TTRPG designer, music obsessive, tragically a sports fan. Check out my stuff - sociable-turtle-games.carrd.co

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
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oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 11h
This was our experience driving around Ireland!! Nerve wracking!
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Go sis go!!!
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
from WIDOW'S BAY, patricia finding out she's been wearing a freaky evil forest spirit headdress instead of the tiara she had been hypnotized into thinking she was, yelling at rosemary "You had your qualms?! Why didn't you say anything?!" and rosemary telling her "You told me to be supportive!"
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Plus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just a reminder that AI is not only bad, but bad at most creative tasks people want to use it for These are unrequested "suggestions" meta kept trying to force on me yesterday when building ads Good vs Good: The Ultimate TTRPG Showdown is sending me I said "good" 1x Anyway, back ttrpg.link/kcc
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Shout out to pdimagearchive.org/galleries/all and @exeunt.press for the resource!!
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So I'm working on a game (a LARP mayhaps?) in which you use music as radio transmissions across space to define alien civilizations, and was sprucing up the document with fonts and thought, I'll look through public domain work for a cover maybe And found THIS! Public domain art rules!!
A NASA illustration from the 1970s, depicting an array of satellites in a ring with speaker shaped antennae pointed for broadcasting in the forefront. It's sick.
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Crucible of Aether ➡️ Physical copy is live! @crucibleofaether.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The physical copy of our #ttrpg Crucible of Aether is now live! Check it out on Drivethru: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... If you're a Kickstarter backer don't worry, we're getting yours shipped directly to you!
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Crucible of Aether | Living Metal Games | Living Metal Games | DriveThruRPG
The Empire is in the throes of an industrial revolution fueled by ancient technologies of a long-forgotten people - and it is about to collapse . The land teeters on the verge of a succession crisis, ...
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Go check out @nnoa.bsky.social 's article on procedural generation and storytelling, I think it's pretty dang cool
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Me! I'll be playtesting my Mothership hack inspired by The Bear!
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A lot of these conversations have to do with how rigid and important people think genres and definitions of them are; perhaps unsurprisingly I tend to find them more useful as descriptors than full categorizations, not sweating absolutes too much
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There's a reason Dread is iconic! I was even inspired to use Crokinole as a base ruleset for one of my games
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Debate bros have been removed from societal acceptability, only polite disagreement men from now on
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As usual I appreciate Jen's thoughts here, even if I think I pretty much disagree with her argument/perspective regarding genre fiction/games; check it out and make up your own mind, while joining me in being excited to try out her games at Metatopia (if you can get a seat 👀)!
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My question is how do you personally (because universal, always true definitions are a myth) define "literary" versus "genre" fiction? Can you have a literary sci fi (romance, mystery, fantasy, western, thriller) novel?
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jen, you say "...I don’t have to take it that seriously. It’s formulaic, easy, unchallenging entertainment. That is what most genre fiction IS FOR. If I want high quality prose and challenging ideas and books that push back on me, that’s what literary fiction does."
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The entire system is rotten and it was built that way. We not only deserve, but need a new one.
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A lot of psychic damage on the timeline. My heart goes out to those hurting and survivors; you deserve so much better, specifically from those who look like me.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:
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noa @nnoa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New blog post! How did I come up with the different types of cards in a Situations deck? noa.land/situations-d...
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Situations design diary 2: Situations Cards
In this blog post, I will go over the process of designing the different types of cards in my game Situations's deck. For those unfamiliar, Situations is a card game where players build up a shared "s...
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
- Yard Act - You're Gonna Need a Little Music - Alabama Shakes - I Must Be Dreaming - Denzel Curry - ii - Robyn - Sexistential And we still have October and November to come!
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
- Fcukers - Ö - Noah Kahan - The Great Divide - Vince Staples - Cry Baby - Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love - Hekt - Forever - Johnny Blue Skies - Mutiny After Midnight - JPEGMAFIA - EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Out of curiosity I thought I'd list and see how many great records we've had released this year, & hoo boy! In no particular order: - Ratboys - Singin' to an empty chair - idk - Even The Devil Smiles - Courtney Barnett - Creature of Habit - Snail Mail - Ricochet - Slayyyter - WORST GIRL IN AMERICA
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very curious to see how the sandbox nature of the City plays different than the main scroll, but the game has been a joy and so rewarding, and I've loved getting to play consistently with friends a campaign again, with such a lovingly made experience
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The game intelligently seeds callbacks and themes throughout in a way that leads players to have wildly creative ideas and then feel rewarded when they can enmesh future traditions with them; the use of masks as protection while traveling and a cultural signifier has been huge for us.
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In a climactic scene in the Kingdom of Towers my character confronted Rye who had continually been investigating, introducing, & toying with objects of the Umbra, which affected the younger individuals (other PCs) in our charge. The conflict ended with Rye dead & me trapped inside a cursed lance.
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Last night my home group finally reached the City of Winter, what a journey! What I expected was a tragic meditation on displacement and cultural loss, and instead we were a toxic, loose affiliation of individuals whose proximity to corruption became their undoing.
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jen stop buying big jar candles
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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rather than your standard press release, I talk a little bit about what drew me into making Mousetrap, about what feels both Shakespearean and dramatic about Firebrands-style games, about metagames. I hope you'll check it out!
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The lady of the house showed me how to use this rectangular brick!
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I TOLD you all you weren't ready; playing this was one of the most interesting, challenging, and genuinely funny experiences I've ever had playing tabletop. If you're up to it, Mousetrap will reward you in spades.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths in states with abortion bans is nearly double that in states where abortion is legal.” That stat should shame every anti abortionist in the world.
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's a concept of "Dead Labor", in which the effort put into creating something is ignored, and its mechanistic outputs are treated as a result of the object. No, the espresso machine didn't invent espresso, someone built that, and also, someone has to maintain it.
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks Alex! I was thinking of Cool and Lonely courage for sure! And oops, old habits die hard I guess 😅
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
TTRPG Twitter, what are some of your favorite games which use a standard poker deck for some kind of interpretation or guidance? I'm interested in games that have a list of meanings for each card, as well as ones that generalize, say, per suit.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Andreas and Caspar talking to Gert in big head mode in Pentiment
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The first part was so, so enlightening as to the foundations of the most influential indie RPG out there, can't wait to watch this later
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I saw a take that was like "everyone seems to have forgotten that for most of her career, she's made albums with great individual songs that were otherwise fine, she just went on a heater for a while and we've now returned to her default" which as a hater I can't confirm but makes sense
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anything that isn't on camera is purely functional, and the operation requires so many talented people being good at their job(s) to make it happen. I knew it wasn't easy, but it's another thing to see that effort happening in front of you, in real time!
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
While on our trip to the UK, my wife and I were lucky enough to attend the filming of the newest episode of #Taskmaster ! It was so much fun and was a huge lesson in how much *work* it takes to create an hour of TV that seems effortless
Screenshot of the set of Taskmaster, with an arrow pointing to the top left box. I promise my wife and I were sitting there. I've been waiting since May to be able to talk about it!!
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He IS a pillar of the BMG community!
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mcc @dryad.technology · 24/09/2026
TLDR * "AI will kill us all" messaging in the press will last *exactly* as long as it benefits the tech companies, then stop * You will *not* be killed by a skynet super-AI * You are somewhat likely to be killed by AI-related global warming * You are very, very likely to be killed by an AI taxi
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Matt | Krasiph 🔜 HOPE DIES LAST @krasiph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This game is sick. Learn Hebrew to send prayers towards the heavens, and then have demons and angels debate how your prayer can be interpreted!? This is such an amazing spotlight on language, culture, religion, and faith. I can't wait to play it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/koh...
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Worlds To Come
The Hebrew roleplaying game
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Colin/CoMoo 🔜 Metatopia - Sociable Turtle Games @sociable-turtle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's been amazing to see Gene's design journey, from the seed of what would become Bonsai Dairy to now Color Jam! Go support him!
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