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@sparcus87.bsky.social
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62% Geek, 29% Nerd, 7% Dork, 2% Scottish. Middle school math teacher by choice. Gamer dad. Baby DM. Occasionally funny.

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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 18h
What's the morality scaling of guilt-tripping a player into not bailing on D&D by feigning ignorance about him wanting to watch the Yankees playoff game instead of playing? 😇😈
Screenshot of a text that reads "Looking forward to tomorrow, got new minis painted, custom enemies, fun stuff! I would say you guys are really coming to the climax of the first arc and things can really change based on the next session or two.

Aim for 4:00, play video games to appease [my son], have pizza, then delve back into the dungeon.

I know we just played two weeks ago but here's the recap from then"

The text has a heart reaction.

Below the text are two attached screenshots of last session's recap
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J @meltingskywards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
october #promosky 🍂🎃🌙 I'm J. I'm a librarian in a reading slump. I post about whatever feels right and delete it when it feels wrong. • books: romantasy, fantasy, history • music: metalcore, musicals • art/craft: crochet, cross stitch, drawing, pottery • games: storyrich, rpg, point & click
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Sof ✐ᝰ @sofialmallo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Peachtober day 01: Oak #peachtober #peachtober2026
Watercolor illustration of a gameboy color showing professor oak and the three starters from pokemon generation 1Sketch of a gameboy color showing professor oak and the three starters from pokemon generation 1Closeup of a watercolor illustration of a gameboy color showing professor oak and the three starters from pokemon generation 1
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
October? More like Bachtober. Gonna go for Baroque. Time to fugue around and find out.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel bad for all the people that existed before video games.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have a type.
Four pack of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Blackberry Lemonade drinks and bottle is Jack Daniel's Tennessee Blackberry whiskey
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My druid just had his first conversation with this armor after getting it gifted to him by a local druid circle the party assisted. He doesn't know what the armor wants or where it's from, just that it speaks to him in Draconic and has not had a wearer capable of understanding it in a long time.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What the hell?! I just opened PoGo for the first time in about five hours and apparently the new in-game auto-catcher found three shiny Pokémon! (Nothing new and all terrible IVs, but a nice surprise!)
Cropped screenshot from Pokémon Go showing recently caught Pokémon. The top three are all shiny: Yungoos, Teddiursa, and Mareep.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy Bi Visibility day, my friends! And I'm still proud of this post...
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm grading quizzes and in one problem students needed to find and correct an error in a solved equation. One student's answer said "the person who did the error didn't right the equation wright." It's almost impressive to mess up homophones that badly twice in the same sentence.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A Lord of the Rings quote, but it starts with "Dude". "Dude, I have no memory of this place."
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no memeory
Alt: no memeory
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Let's get drunk off these cocktail shrimp.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I played LoZ: Twilight Princess back when it was released. I beat it, enjoyed it, but then basically forgot everything about it. I decided that I want to replay it before the OoT remake gets released and I'm now a few hours into the game. It really is a pretty looking game and I'm liking it again!
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Here are all of the props I 3D-printed, primed, and painted for tonight's D&D session as my players explore a dungeon that can lead them into the Underdark in pursuit of the disguised drow Lady Swilda Borthin. I'm proud of the results of my first big painting job!
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have good news.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yes, I understand the irony of streaming Rage Against the Machine on Spotify interrupted with ads for Amazon, PayPal, and GEICO.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's again that time of year in which local businesses post lawn signs that remind me never to frequent their establishments. The signs typically contain words such as "vote" and "Republican".
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The amount of times I misread "Polish" as "Polish"...
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Don't Cunkshame me.
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Philomena Cunk in a Suit
Alt: Philomena Cunk in a Suit
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🎶 Wake Me Up When September Ends And Also October For That Matter Because I Want To Play The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time On The Nintendo Switch 2 🎶
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Cheap Ass Gamer @cheapassgamer.com · 12/09/2026
Pre-Order: Zelda Switch 2 Console via Nintendo Store. ow.ly/sWbe50ZL0OV
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Update: It actually went through and I got one! 🥳🎉 Hopefully it doesn't bounce back and get cancelled on me!
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Nintendo really getting my hopes up like this... That bright red button did not say "Pre-purchase" before. It was grayed out. I wasn't surprised when "something went wrong", but still...
Screenshot of the Nintendo online shop to buy the Zelda themed Switch 2. The Pre-purchase button is red indicating it should work but tapping it gives a "Something went wrong. Please try again." error.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Cheese. That is all. Thank you for your time.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
[being tortured] TORTURER: You can be water-boarded, or you can listen to that Macy Grey song from the first Spider-Man movie on repeat. ME: Get the hose.
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星空★lone @hoshizoralone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
[metroid] ravenous scribbles
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
QTP with a gif of a powerful woman!
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Dandadan Dan Da Dan
Alt: Momo Ayase from Dandadan
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
While the face is a little rough, overall I'm pretty happy with how my first miniature painting job came out. I picked the slightly-bent mini as a test in case I royally botched it, but I think it's passable. He's painted in the colors of the Queensguard so I could possibly use him in my campaign.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I came up with this idea and poster, then hung it up in my classroom today. This is the mindset I've decided I want to do my best to install into all of my students. You must care first. The rest is impossible if you don't care. You must care to try, try to think, think to learn.
A poster with an orange and blue border that says "Today I Will... Care, Try, Think, Learn"
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The map says I speak correctly. mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
Dialect map of the contiguous US saying I talk most like someone from Connecticut
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I just saw some dude in a truck throw banana peel out a window and then as I drove further down the road I saw another banana peel on the road. Does this guy realize how dangerous that is?!
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Donkey Kong Mario Kart 64
Alt: Donkey Kong Mario Kart 64
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Sam 🐦 @samplaysgames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#promosky Hi I'm Sam. I have cerebral palsy and play games by tapping buttons with my mouth. I Love to post what I'm currently playing & Boss fights. Huge fan of Soulsborne Rpgs-Jrpgs Stealth Simulator Adventure The ones where you cry at the end. Well, Most things.🙃 🩵 & 🔄 appreciated.
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4
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Spooky Amy 🦇 @amythehobbitplays.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Some people say that firefighters deserve more money, but apparently, a poll was taken and they all fell through a hole in the floor.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Last night my D&D friends and I didn't play D&D. Instead we ate frozen pizza, drank (hard) Mountain Dew, and played Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Halo 3 like it was 2008. It was awesome.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
dun dun dun dididun dun
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Some people may say I went a little overboard on the 80% off Critical Role minis sale from WizKids a few weeks ago. Those people would be wrong.
A cardboard box full of packages of unpainted TTRPG minis.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Now we can change the HOMES mnemonic to something with an A. Like SHAME.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
After over twenty years and multiple failed attempts... I have successfully read The Lord of the Rings! Such a wonderful story. Book Six Chapter VI Many Partings was so beautiful and made me tear up several times! Maybe I'll read the appendices some day... or even The Silmarillion!
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Elijah Wood: It's Done - Lord of the Rings
Alt: Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins: It's Done - Lord of the Rings
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
After well over 500 hours from four and change solo playthroughs in Baldur's Gate 3, I've finally started a serious multiplayer game with two friends. Man, I love this game. I'm playing a wizened frost wizard Githyanki. She's gonna be an ice queen!
BG3 Screenshot of a mature female Githyanki with pale skin, blue accents, white and blue hair, and blue eyes with black sclera.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Not to get too political, but the saddest thing about those vomit-inducingly cloying letters is her choice to copy his insane habit of random capitalization of non-proper nouns.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Still riding the high from guessing a correct answer in the bonus round of true crime-themed pub trivia last night. I mean, we didn't get points because we would have lost 3 if I were wrong, but I guessed that it was Sza Sza Gabor who was pulled over in her Rolls Royce and slapped a cop in 1989.
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Eva Gabor: Thank You Daaahling
Alt: Zsa Zsa Gabor: Thank You Daaahling
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
An article title reading "James Bond writer tempted to set next 007 movie in surprise location"The WB water tower from Animaniacs
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
KITTY!
Full art of two star Mew card from Pokémon TCGP Deluxe Pack EX
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ugh, don't you just hate when someone makes some tiny fact about themselves their entire personality? Like, yes, we get it; you're the last of a sacred bloodline descended from the chosen dragonkin of the west, blah blah blah. Well I can burp the alphabet, so there, Kareneth the VII.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What’s your favorite Bible verse? Wrong answers only.
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Mission For God Talking
Alt: Mission For God Talking
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is the perfect opportunity to be a teachable moment on the dangers of using GenAI mindlessly. Both for the students and whichever admins okayed this monstrosity.
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Post a meme made by you
Meme of a mother yelling at her child in a car. She is saying "Why can't you just be shiny?" The child's face is covered by a picture of the sheep Pokémon Wooloo in a Christmas costume and is saying "Woooooo!"
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm starting to get addicted to Barony. And I don't know if I like the game or hate it. On one hand it is entirely unforgiving and on the other...it is entirely unforgiving. I'm currently playing with assistance turned on and, if I beat that, maybe I'll try it unaided. I think I'm having fun?
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sparcus 🎮 @sparcus87.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
| ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| PLAY LOST IN PLAY |____________| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | | |
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