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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My son has been playing Kleptocats and this morning one of his cats brought him this: (cc @timoflegend.bsky.social)

Purple Tentacle sits perched on a railing.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think this one? If there were others with similar designs it could easily have been one of them though.

A gray shirt featuring the letters t, t, g in three circles, with the words “telltale games” printed underneath.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Oh thank goodness, I’ve been needing one of these

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

You need one of these (unfortunately out of print)

A clock that goes up to 13, by omitting the number 4.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Going through cupboards and unearthed this bottle of Coke that I was saving to drink later after they announced they were changing the taste…in 1985.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Cueing up a few movies (they don’t italicize much on these though):

A stack of DVDs: Out of Africa, Heart of Dragon, Quantum of Solace, Out of Sight, The Book of Eli, The Meaning of Life, The Wolf of Wall Street, The War of the Roses, The Wizard of Oz.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Apparently this is just a coincidence and that is not @timoflegend.bsky.social.

Screenshot of a Bluesky feed. A Double Fine post about their new lighthouse game, “Keeper,” appears just below a repost of a TikTok video entitled “Fun facts from a lighthouse.” The video features a weathered man with a big white beard who resembles Tim Schafer, but who is allegedly an unrelated lighthouse keeper from Norway named Paal.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I just can't ever see this and not hear Christopher Lloyd.

A file size indicator reading one point twenty-one gigabytes.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Garage sale find for today. Games have gotten more impressive, but none have exceeded the fun level of this cartridge.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I’ll be out protesting tomorrow. If you see this sign, say hello! #NoKings

A cartoon depicting an orange with Donald Trump’s hairstyle, bloodshot eyes, and a huge mouth, messily devouring an American flag.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

For those in the SF Bay Area, I'm going to be at Silver Sprocket in the city next Tuesday night, asking noted comics author (and Telltale designer) Andy Hartzell about his new graphic novel, "Monday"!

A flyer for a book launch party. The book is called Monday, the author is called Andy Hartzell, and the event is Tuesday, January 14th, from 7-9 p.m. The venue is Silver Sprocket in San Francisco. No address is given, but you can probably Google that. It's somewhere in the Mission district.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Saw this post and remembered I own the CD, so I fired up PlexAmp to listen and there it was, but, inexplicably with this cover from an album by a Spanish band called Metal Storm that I’d never heard of before I did the image search:

An album cover showing five young men dressed in black, posing in the middle of a road and looking dangerous. Very metal.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

I don’t think I’ve ever needed to shorten a pumpkin stem before. I started with a serrated kitchen knife, but this was absolutely the tool for the job.

A large pumpkin with its stem cut in half, posed with a rather wicked-looking saw tool meant for cutting limbs off of trees.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Siri somehow upping the ante this morning. I have no idea how she arranged this:

A crossword puzzle, clearly on paper in a physical book. The answer in the lower left corner of the grid is “corpses.”

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Okay I’m still limping around but at least I’m off the crutches, so I went ahead and attached the band to the stool. The snap does not make this easy, it’s designed to be single-use! I had to use two forks of different sizes to pop it off my wrist, and a pair of vise grips to close it again.

A yellow and black hospital band reading “fall risk” dangles from the crossbar of a kitchen stool.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Siri freaking me out a little right now with her suggestions

A “Siri Suggestion” phone notification reads, “Corpse in the chimney”

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

So this evening I foolishly fell off a stool while adjusting the Halloween lights and hurt my ankle, and I went to the ER for an x-ray, and right away they put this band on my wrist. Like, just to rub it in I guess?

Bright yellow wrist band reads, “FALL RISK” in bold capital letters.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Oh right, because that worked really well for Twitter. (Headline from NYT)

Election Live Updates: Trump Calls for Efficiency Commission Pitched by Elon Musk
Donald J. Trump proposed the commission and said Mr. Musk would lead it, conducting a sweeping audit of the federal government and recommending "drastic reforms" for cutting waste.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

It occurs to me that the 3-Cylinder Haiku Poematic, a piece I made about twenty years ago, is a lot more timely this year than it was then. More details at the Schwenck Wing, here: phrenopolis.com/art/technolo...

A typewriter, augmented and half covered by various engine parts, tubes, lenses, canisters, and machinery, which appears to be writing a poem by itself.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

The Morrison Game Factory arrived on my doorstep today! It's billed as a cross between escape rooms, interactive fiction, and immersive theater, so, basically designed specifically for me.

A hand holding a boxed copy of "The Morrison Game Factory," still in it's shiny shrink wrap.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

At #dayofthedevs yesterday there was a conversational rhythm game that used this method:

Demo screen of a video game featuring two birds talking to each other. Each bird has a word balloon filled with pictures rather than with words. Both balloons clearly indicate that what is being said is that the bird has enjoyed talking with the other bird.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

I keep seeing posts with people’s boxed copies of Return to Monkey Island from @limitedrungames.bsky.social so that’s what I expected to find in the package, but it was Sam & Max!

A boxed copy of Sam and Max Beyond Time and Space.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

I am pleased to report that this tastes good.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Does anyone else find this seal of quality mildly disturbing?

Heads of two cartoon bakers, cheek to cheek, with a doughnut superimposed over them in the center, giving the overall impression that their heads are fused and they share an enormous, unblinking, doughnut-shaped eye.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

This is from a second set of cards that was sharing the original box. It’s America, condensed into loaf shape! And yes, the cheese in question is “process-type American Cheese,” what else would it be?

A recipe card for tuna cheese macaroni loaf. There is a picture of the loaf, which looks like a large sponge that has been used for a long time without cleaning it.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I’ve heard these spoken of in hushed tones over the years, but never seen one in real life. Tomato juice jello actually sounds fine to me, until you get to the end of the recipe where it says “serve with mayonnaise.” I’m truly surprised they didn’t include the mayo in the photo. #OurRichHeritage

A recipe card for Tomato Aspic. The photograph shows an opaque red molded gelatin, resting on salad greens, and decorated with sliced cucumbers and olives that make it look like a video game alien.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Uh... I think I either broke this or I found a secret codeword.

Status display from a game, reading "100.02% of miles of street named," and, "2340 streets found."

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Step one: sharpen lollipop sticks in pencil sharpener to make them extra deadly. #ChildrensFavorites

Photo from a recipe for homemade lollipops. The lollipops are translucent, so it is easy to see that the ends of the sticks inside the pops are extremely sharp.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Astonishingly, today’s garage sale freebie find was another box of these - nearly identical, except this new one includes sections N-X, which were missing from the original.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Aha! I think I've got it now! (This is the logo from the front of our booth at PAX last year. Total bonus that it arrived today, on the one-year anniversary of the release of #ReturnToMonkeyIsland, not to mention #TalkLikeAPirateDay!)

The letters are now in proper order, and they spell out "Return to Monkey Island."

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Oh, no, I think maybe these were supposed to go to @joningold.bsky.social 's house instead.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

This is a great description of my childhood friend Skelly Bamford, but I don't think it's the answer. Also I haven't unwrapped all the letters yet.

Several letters are arranged on the floor to spell out "lank mod."

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Hm. These just got delivered. Some kind of jigsaw puzzle maybe? (Shoe included for scale.)

A bunch of packages in odd shapes, wrapped up in tape and packing material so you can't tell what they are. They are arranged in a vague rectangle but clearly they don't really fit together like that.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

For all I know this dish might be perfectly tasty, but when I look at the photo I can’t not imagine it served in a creepy vampire castle owned by Vincent Price.

An off-white fleshy cylinder sits partially submerged in a pot of pale brown liquid with capers. Atop the cylinder are reddish fleshy strips arranged to look like crude stitches, interspersed with what appear to be the eyeballs of two hapless creatures. It definitely looks like a prop from a horror movie where some of the castle guests are missing at dinner.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

And this is the somewhat cringey text on the back of the “Our Rich Heritage” card.

Our Rich Heritage.
American cooking has a long and colorful tradition. When the Pilgrims first landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620, they found the Indians cooking with such foods as cranberries and pumpkins, corn and maple syrup - foods unknown to Europeans at the time, but now known and cherished throughout the world. At the first Thanksgiving, Pilgrims and Indians joined together to feast on wild turkey and venison.
Over the centuries, as the frontier expanded and the United States grew to be the greatest nation in the world, and I’m not kidding, this is what it says, and I just don’t think I can go on typing this out. You’ve heard the fun part already anyhow.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Omg Jill, “our rich heritage” is on there because it’s a section title, like “appetizers” or “salads.” There is a section header card, a little taller than the others so it sticks up. It looks like this. Note the prominent Liberty Bell and equally prominent tomato aspic.

A card titled “our rich heritage,” featuring a picture of several food items. There is a tomato aspic, a pot of stew filled dangerously to the brim, a cake or cheesecake with strawberries and mint leaves on top, a cruet of what might be vinegar or maple syrup, and a somber black teapot. These are presented in front of a needlepoint sampler in shades of brown, depicting something that might be alien plant life or a spilled box of electronics components. In the top right corner is an icon of the Liberty Bell.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Garage sale freebie find for today: a plastic box full of recipe cards from the 1970s. I feel like I should start using Instagram just for these.

A recipe card for “baked corn pudding”. This side is just a picture of the pudding, which is a congealed mass of yellowish substance, peppered with mysterious red chunks and kernels of canned corn. It is served in an amazing red mid-century American casserole dish with spirals on the sides.

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Dave Grossman likes pizza @thatdave.bsky.social · 29/07/2023

Glad to know this jar of ceramic Halloween skulls has been sealed for my protection.

Jar of small ceramic skulls with a safety seal labeled “sealed for your protection.”

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