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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 11h

My daughter started watching Minecraft youtube content and it's amazing how a single ordinary sentence can just mean nothing to me. "I tracked ALL the MOST ILLEGAL mob babies. 0.00001%!"

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 12h

It is genuinely better than it seems like it should be. That's not the same thing as saying it's good.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

They were the only two lads around that'd proper gripe about Arsenal with us

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The System Mastery boys as John Constantine and Manchester Black.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I will but first I need to know Swan Boy's opinion on the genre I call "Electronica I listened to while playing too much Podracer. Sasha, BT, Hybrid, Underworld, you know the stuff. You listen to it while playing too much Podracer and drinking a shot of rum with an off-brand Squeez-It poured over."

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If Lake Ontario becomes Lake America one nice thing is that the mnemonic switches from HOMES to SHAME.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

He didn't push Zweihander so I think he might not, that's one of the warning signs.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Lol you plebs are "talking" about "improving" the thing you "enjoy?" Ho ho ho, not while I have a meme for that!

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So we really enjoyed Spectaculars, and then I think our listener base (and maybe some specifically at Polygon) did too, to the point where we kinda helped sell it out entirely? Anyway, it's gearing up for a reprint campaign, and I would say you should get on it: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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Spectaculars/Dusk City Outlaws Second Printing

Get notified when Spectaculars/Dusk City Outlaws Second Printing launches on BackerKit!

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

AP is like porn in that I always pretend my DM is my stepmom.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We don't even pick the things to say no to, that falls to the network head and I can assure you he will have already clicked "No AI ads" a while ago. My guess is that the hosting service caved and most likely just removed that as an option.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It would star Ryan Reynolds and you know it.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you wanna play in a Marvel setting you should really buy a Marvel RPG, that branding is important.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Lovely! No idea which Scarborough but I'm thrilled with any of them!

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you had told me six months ago the primary purpose of that Harry Potter show was to ruin my opinion of actors I liked who are specifically named Nick, I probably would have believed you because shit also sucked at that point.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Civil War Brigadier General Polyamorous Findom Breathplay

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I was somewhat disappointed that this card isn't called Bilbo Baggins, Burglar from The Hobbit.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It is 2032: A live action remake of a Disney animated movie is released in theaters. It is 2033: The animated movie the live action movie was based on is released in theaters.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Is there already a Doreen Green and Emma Frost team up called Diamonds and Squirrels? Can I write it if there isn't?

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

My favorite corollary to that is "If there's one famous alien, any more of those you meet will be related and will have similar sounding names." You liked the wonderful Rodian Greedo? Well here's his uncle, Beedo! (I'm kidding, that's his cousin. His uncle is Avaro)

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Oh wait did we kill FATE? I have hair trigger anxiety about causing material harm to new writers so I got the yipes right away. Phew.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I know I got a bad memory but I am reasonably sure I liked this game quite a bit.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Honestly what I always wonder about uncreative types like him is what happens to him if he's right? What if cool, creative people suddenly adopted AI? Then he'd be in the dust again because he has no ideas. His only win state is if AI stays shitty and popular with exclusively shitty people.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

More output from that AI-Cardgage creep Whitman. Hey man, what's "creative exhaust?" That makes it sound like the AIs are being fed like food scraps or some shit. No, you irrelevant dinosaur. They're being fed everyone's active whole fucking lunch.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Up and Comer: A mouldering old grifter still riding the recognition coattails of having once been in the same building as Gary Gygax back at a company that died 27 years ago.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Dang, I got all self inflated for nothing. Lol though. That's a big lol on being mean to D&D, which is of course always morally correct.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Oh nice, must have been someone I angered with my opinions then. That's preferable.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Like I'm a huge nerd about my sciences so I know I'd be excited to explain what scandium is to people, but it wouldn't be a fun critical game event. Personally, I'd replace it with a roll of the greatest hits of elements, and add an optional sidebar that gives you the whole table if you're the type.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Man I want to love this so bad but it's way feast or famine. Like right away even rolling 3D10 you're looking a mix of "Dissipates harmlessly immediately," "yet another boring soft metal" and "kills everyone in the room in milliseconds, and like not in a fun way with stat rolls."

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I wonder who that was, it was blocked before I logged on. Probably got a woke podcasters list or some shit.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Guys calm down, the orc said "Meat's back on the men, you boys"and he is admonishing his squad to get swole as fuck.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

System Mastery Live: We'll be covering Marvel Heroic RPG (that's the Margaret Weis Productions Cortex one), and James will be there just like everyone enjoys so much. It's the only Marvel RPG we haven't covered yet, as far as I'm aware. www.gencon.com/events/308718

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Gen Con | Gen Con Indy 2026

The Best Four Days in Gaming

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Commander: Edition Wars: This is an MTG Commander tournament. However, it's going to be using modified Planechase rules, AND your deck must thematically represent some RPG, any RPG. Prizes for winning and for thematic representation! www.gencon.com/events/308705

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Gen Con | Gen Con Indy 2026

The Best Four Days in Gaming

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Quantum Dallas: As far as I can tell, this is the only game of SPI's Dallas being run at the show. Only we're running three tables at once and each table is a different alternate universe of Dallas and YES you can cross dimensions and form multiversal Ewing alliances! www.gencon.com/events/308723

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Gen Con | Gen Con Indy 2026

The Best Four Days in Gaming

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Hey so I know the vast majority of you are not going to GenCon, but for the slim minority that are, we're gonna be there, and I'm gonna tell you some events we're doing, with links. We put a ton of work into these, and it shows, because of how dumb and goddamn crazy they are.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I uhhh... you haven't heard of what we do, I imagine.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Sadly no. As a CEO he's genetically bred to be okay with hollowing out the thing he likes and walking away richer.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

He thinks there's a crazy high percentage of overall players that use the online tools. His days for this is presumably some mix of survey research and ... tracking people who use the online tools.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Telling my DM I have the premium Paladin battlepass so after I kill 15 more half-orcs my character will unlock the Peppa Pig (TM) "Daddy Pigadin" skin complete with radial impact laughing fall damage and custom voice pack.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Imagine a live service game with the same release speed as modern D&D, oh you don't have to because Square Enix made that Avengers game.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

They do say his name in the movie. It's not much but by the official rules I made up it's a column shift.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Crispical hint, Betweenza the Alf!

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Especially enjoying watching the dingalings at the 4Pillar thing make an AI do a little shuck and jive dance equivocation "the truth is never black and white" routine around Nazis like Barker and sexpests like all the ones you would expect. That's gonna go over great for them long term, I bet.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Oh hey finally, someone made their online RPG identity all about endlessly celebrating the same list of grey-bearded 1970s white dudes! I was wondering when that would keep happening forever.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Please note the game is also at least partially written by Richard Hatch, who these days most people probably remember from Survivor.

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System Mastery @systemmastery.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Based on a never produced sci fi TV show that was to be starred in and written by Richard Hatch from the original Battlestar Galactica.

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