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@theemeraldwizard.bsky.social
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That man behind the curtain - army brat, farm boy, reader, geek, gamer, redneck, storyteller, Hokie, engineer, info. technologist, ally, leader, deist, former civil servant, mentor, father, entrepreneur, et al. There is no justice. There is just us.

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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have a joke about Paranoia XP, but it doesn't see much use what with everyone already always smiling. Because, of course, happiness is mandatory, citizen. How did you not know that? 🤔
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Make a band bigger: Dire Channels
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My day in one image...
A flight schedule from RDU to MSP showing a flight scheduled for 11:37am delayed to 11:25pm
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
TIL that there is insurance a man can buy to cover hiring housework services if his wife falls ill or passes. The cognitive dissonance. I can comprehend not wanting to, I can grok grief and despair rendering one temporarily unable, but I can't understand being unable/unwilling to learn those things.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Without saying your age, post a movie that came out when you turned 18
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a man with long hair has a quote that says so do all who live to see such times but that is not for them to decide
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Just finished the first year tax prep for the LLC. I thought it best to really understand what was involved... and now that I do I am *definitely* paying someone else to do it next year.
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a cartoon of a man holding a folder that says hulu
Alt: Hermes Conrad from the cartoon Futurama, holding a folder full of papers while shivering under a blanket as his wife comforts him with her hands on his shoulders, with the Hulu logo in the top right corner.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDOZ... Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't comin' back...
X-files I Want To Believe poster with the Serenity rather than a UFO.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Batting around class/actor combo ideas for a muppet D&D movie (Sorcerer/ScarJo voiced by Gonzo?) with my wife and she pitched Kermit as the DM. I countered that Kermit should be Paladin/Jason Sudeikis, and the DM should be the only human at the table, @matthewmercer.bsky.social. I'd pay to see it.
Old Twitter post by bravecrab. Pitch: a muppet movie where the muppets play D&D, and it cuts between the muppets around the table and the fantasy being acted out, but instead of it just being the muppets dressed up in D&D fantasy costume, it's celebrity actors but the muppets do the voices, and the actors have to act how those muppets would. Imagine a barbarian played by Jason Mamoa voiced by Miss Piggy.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Age verification?
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Fatally shot and killed is far too many words when you can just say murder. Masked ICE thugs murder another person in Minneapolis.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
No new pictures Where are you at mentally
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Every day now just feels like...
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I managed to score a copy of the 1980's Civilization board game that inspired Sid Meier to create the video game. With a 5-12 hour play time, playing it back in college was an all day backyard BBQ event. Good times. Gotta get the house cleaned up and hopefully I can find enough people to recreate.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Today I wrapped up a run-through of the Horror On The Orient Express campaign for my Call of Cthulhu group. 16 months, ~70 sessions, over 200 hours. Fun, but I'm ready to turn over the GM baton for a bit. Now I just need to scare up at least two more players for a Shadowrun game I've been planning.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Share a GIF or video that reminds you of your teenage years...🖤
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a computer generated image of a galaxy with the words " it was the dawn of the third age of mankind "
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Age yourself with gaming
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Oh god... when did everything make me start feeling so old?
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a GIF
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Finished the HD-2D remake of the original Dragon Quest. It was the 1st Nintendo game I played on my own NES, which I got for Xmas when I was 8 or 9 along with Super Mario 1 & 3 & Duck Hunt. Used to be able to beat it in 8 - 10 hours, but they added enough content to up that to 16. 10/10 nostalgia.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Happy spooky season! Kiddo's first pumpkin. The dino obsession continues.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
First animated crush without saying your age.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Went inside a McDs for the first time in years to get lunch for kiddo. No cashier, automated terminals with poor order workflow (unnecessary steps, pauses, add nags), and chairs bolted to the floor. Automation makes for shitty user experiences more often than not these days.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I'd rather have people wrap themselves in the country and burn the flag than wrap themselves in the flag and burn the country.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
"Vendor guarentees graceful failover."
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I can't believe how much Minneapolis/St. Paul fits my brand of weird over Phoenix. The Viking Fest gives Ren Faire and is apparently kid friendly, and there is a Luminiscence experience in the St. Mary's Basilica that I toured a few months back with an orchestra and light show that looks awesome!
2025 Viking Fest poster showing a group of men with Viking round shields and a mix of spears and axes charging forwardLuminiscence poster showing projected lights on the ceiling and walls of St. Mary's Basilica.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Speaking of game night, between business & new meds, I've been too busy or tired to post the last couple of weeks. September 8th was Quacks of Quedlinburg ❤️, Wizard 👍, & Tiny Towns 👍 Pulled an amazing comeback in Wizards by making 2 5 trick bids in a row, going from last in round 6/10 to winning.
Quacks of Quedlinburg box artWizard card game box artTiny Towns board game box art
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Last night's game night I actually got to run out a couple of mine. First up was suburbia where a math major who had never played wiped the floor with us (came in last). Then Mysterium where the ghost was a teen girl & I failed to grok the logic or make my case. Then Hanabi, to go out with a bang. 😁
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I just heard the best analogy for the travesty playing out on the Late Night stage... "Saying Jimmy Kimmel's firing is going to be the final straw for Trump and MAGA is like saying 'this is the device that will finally get that pesky roadrunner.'" And it applies to every new scandal or atrocity.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Long ago I learned in math that negating a negative makes it positive. Since the current regime has designated "Antifa" a terrorist organization, that makes the United States anti-anti-fascist. In other terms, -(-fascist) -> fascist. I don't recall signing up to live in the Fourth Reich, folks.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
The cognitive dissonance of seeing a Minnesotan with a Confederate flag tattoo... 0_o
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title Tom Clancy's The Ethical Slut
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Made board game night at Tower Games again after missing it for Defcon last week. Tied for 3rd place (out of 4) in Tigris & Euphrates [boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42/tigr…] & missed 1st (of 5) by $6 in Modern Art [boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40381/m…]
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
If you see this, post a robot 🤖
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
www.instagram.com/reel/DNjhfs6... A @endeavorance.camp video that hit my IG feed today reminds me of a PSA I saw back in college... www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrA... How did I wind up in a timeline where satirical comedy failed because they couldn't come up with anything more bizarre than reality?
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Just wrapped up @bethesda.net's The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. Much better than I remembered. Played the original back in college, barely got Martin to Cloud Ruler Temple before getting lost in Guild & side quests and burning out before finishing it. Now 1 of only 3 100% games on Steam.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
After DefCon 33 on top of the FFXIV Fan Fest 10th anniv. event 2 years ago, I feel pretty proficient at navigating the Las Vegas Convention Center. But my feet & legs are not happy as day 5 of my Vegas visit wears on. Looking forward to leaving the heat behind and returning to Minneapolis tomorrow.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
In Vegas for DefCon staying at the Conrad. Asked for a view of the Sphere if they had one. Got this instead... I almost threw up a little. Curtains have remained shut since. You just can't escape the Pumpkin Pedofuhrer...
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Last night's board game night was taken up by Atlantis: Exodus. Interteresting, complex, and entertaining. Came in 2nd by 3 points after splitting my focus between training priests into oracles to generate apotheosis and building a giant fleet to sail to safety. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42...
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
And now the unboxing of our life begins... well, it really began last Thursday one Civic-load at a time, but today Pods 2 and 3 were dropped, so we have all of our critical furniture again. And the grandfather clock survived!
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I find it interesting how much of the media seems to be ignoring the fact that the CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, estimated to be the largest player in buying up single family homes & squeezing the market for main street Americans, was a victim. You leave people with nothing to lose...
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Drop your 10/10 game. No context needed.
Meme of a closeup of the Nameless One's face from Planescape: Torment saying, "That really updates my journal"
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Putting this new computer together is making me feel old and out of touch. Doing the same things I did 6 years ago is causing way to much rework. GPU now so big it needs a support bracket, time to unmount the mobo... Liquid cooler needs a back bracket, time to unmount the GPU & mobo... etc, etc...
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Caught the new Superman at a matinee showing Friday afternoon. Really enjoyed it. I remember someone on Instagram mentioning that David Corenswet has big Brenden Fraser energy, and it was true in the best possible way. Great to see an earnest do-gooder Superman again. 8.5/10, will watch again.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Went to see the "Murder Night in Blood Forest!" @nightvaleradio.bsky.social live show at @thefitzgerald.bsky.social theater last night. @cecilbaldwiniii.bsky.social, @symphonysanders.bsky.social, @happierman.bsky.social, & @disparition.bsky.social did not disappoint! Al Olender was great!
Jeffrey Cranor, Cecil Baldwin, and Disposition on stage.Al Olender and Disparition on stage.Symphony Sandars and Cecil Baldwin on stage.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The wife has been jonesing to play a Shadowrun TTRPG. I came up with a concept whimsical enough to get me interested in running it. I put together a flyer to hang up at the local FLGS & she gives me the side-eye like I'm cracked over the effort... 90 minutes with Stable Diffusion & MS Word.
Flyer with a picture of a circus against the backdrop of a cyberpunk city describing a Shadowrun TTRPG campaign.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
My Instagram feed is filling with posts that the Epstein files and the near certainty Trump didn't confine his sexual abuse to adult women are going to shake up MAGA - it won't. These people have let church-folk & sports coaches rape their kids for decades, ANGH for their Fanta Funny Uncle.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
As of today I have developed an objective measurement of what makes a kitchen too small or crowded. If there is not a single surface in the kitchen capable of holding the full panoply required to make a single ham and cheese sandwich without swapping for space, the area is insufficient.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
And there goes the first sale not based on existing relationships. One more milestone on the checklist.
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Oz @theemeraldwizard.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Life is wild. I saw a post on LinkedIn by a former coworker who was elected mayor at a young age a few years back just appointed to serve as Chair of a regional board. I remember when I had to have my team brick & replace their company phone when they were a PR flack and drunkenly lost it at a bar.
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