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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool

@themanapool.bsky.social
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Content creator extraordinaire! Be kind when possible, be savage when not themanapool.com

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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 20h
10. Werewolves Within (2021) #31DaysofSpooky After my lack of sleep from the last one, I shifted to a horror comedy to ensure sleep. And it worked! I really enjoyed this! It was good as a comedy, fun as a mystery, and had just enough horror to qualify for this event I’m doing. Easy recommendation
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
9. Good Boy (2025 #31DaysofSpooky I loved this one as a film and simultaneously hated every second of it. To clarify: this is excellent and I recommend it heartily, but the tension, for me, was EXTREMELY HIGH THE ENTIRE TIME HOLY CRAP. Like, from the jump. Luckily it’s not very long at 73 minutes
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In the Earth (2021) #31DaysofSpooky Just…no. What the fuck was that? I’ve said before that I love a good slow burn if it’s worth it, and this VERY MUCH WAS NOT. I should have gone with my gut and stopped after the first 40 minutes or so but nooooo, I had to go and give it a chance. What an idiot
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
7. Deadstream (2022) #31DaysofSpooky I’m not entirely sure what I expected, but “actually good”’was not it. This is the story of Shawn, a canceled streamer making his big comeback by, say it with me now, spending the night in a haunted house. Only this one actually is haunted, and shenanigans ensue
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
6. Host (2020) #31DaysofSpooky Hey, a Covid lockdown movie! Remember those times? Sure you do, we all still have serious unprocessed trauma from the early 2020s! We lived the type of fear & anxiety that would really lend itself well to a horror movie if only we could figure out how to make one 🤔
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
5. Lake Mungo (2008) #31DaysofSpooky I love a good fake documentary, and this is definitely one. It’s only slightly a horror movie, but it is pretty spooky. It wastes no time, opening with the death of young Alice and how her family dealt with it. The actors are very believable as a grieving family
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
4. Backrooms (2026) I am SO glad that director (and original creator of the Backrooms series) Kane Parsons and writer Will Soodik didn’t try to do a Backrooms lore movie or origin story or something for this. Just making it an element of the story was the best possible idea #31DaysofSpooky
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
3. Hereditary (2018) I’m gonna get crucified for this, but I really *really* did not enjoy this movie. And not in the way I’m pretty sure you’re *supposed* to not enjoy it. Don’t get me wrong, it’s well made and well acted. It’s not a *bad* movie in any technical sense #31DaysofSpooky
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2. Lake Placid (1999) A classic creature feature from the 90s! The characters really carry this one, with Oliver Platt & Brendan Gleeson doing most of the entertaining. Bridget Fonda is there as a city girl who risks life & limb to…stay away from her ex? Weird choice, but sure #31DaysofSpooky
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1. Presence (2024) A Soderbergh joint I’ve never heard of? What? The concept is cool: the camera POV is always of a ghost in a house. A family moves in, it watches as drama unfolds and sometimes disrupts. It’s occasionally eerie but not scary or even all that spooky #31DaysofSpooky
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Without downloading new pics, describe your gender
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW EPISODE! The dorks have a discussion about the characters that do (and don’t) count as bards across media! What constitutes… bardliness? Bardishness? What makes a bard a bard? Available now on the podcast feed and on YT (link in the reply)
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We’ve done two Zelda retrospective episodes recently - #757 covering the NES & SNES games, and #759 (out tomorrow!) covering the Game Boy & N64 games You can find it podcast feed or on the YouTube channel of course, all the links are here - themanapool.com
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Oh no I’ve rediscovered Baldu’s Gate 3’s photo mode! Send help! Why does the second one look like a straight fire 90s album cover? #bg3 #photomode
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This was my very first run in Fame or Folly, a Balatro-like that feels like blackjack and is presented as a medieval traveling theatre troupe putting on performances. See how I made it to season 11? You win the run at season THREE! I kept running in Endless mode and it was a LOT of fun 😁 #nextfest
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
There was an issue with one game on the docket last night, so tonight is officially the final Next Fest demo stream! First I'm gonna go back to Dimhaven: The Lost Source to finish it properly (hopefully) then I'll be playing Fame or Folly, a roguelike deckbuilder! Join me, I'm live!
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is it! The last batch of Next Fest demos! Unless something goes extremely long I'm not stopping until I finish The Button Effect, Desolus, Your Forever Friend, and Lily's World XD! Two 1st person puzzle games and two games that take place on a computer (I think). Join me for the end!
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I'm ALMOST done with the Next Fest demos I picked out! Today's stream (like right now!) is Swordcery, a Hades-like with all manner of crazy swords, and PRELUDE Dark Pain, a turn-based tactics game with a Darkest Dungeon look to it. Afte that I think I'm down to just 4 left! Come join me, I'm live!
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Next Fest demo streams continue because I downloaded WAY too many! Come join me for Echoes of Mystralia, an action RPG roguelike sorta in the vein of Hades but with a spell crafting system that I can totally see consuming my life! That's probably the only one I'll do tonight, so check it out!
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
More Next Fest demos! Yes I know it's over, I don't care. Today I'm doing The Edge of Water, a beautiful top-down adventure game, Zozo and the Lost Dreams, a 2D platformer with a cute premise, Deka Duck, a 2D platformer with a robot duck hero, and Swordcery, a roguelike ARPG! Join me, live now!
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Tonight's Next Fest stream will be Deer & Boy, a cinematic platformer that looks good, Feed the Scorchpot, which looks like a cross between Catan and Balatro with a big red dragon to eat you, and BoneHold, a first person dungeon crawler ARPG/roguelike thing that just looks fun! I'm live now!
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I am live with more Steam Next Fest demos! First up is Shroom and Gloom, which definitely looks like it could be my next favorite roguelike deckbuilder! After that I'll try out Well Dweller, then even more if there's time! Come join me!
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Steam Next Fest stream 2 is live! Tonight I'm gonna try the demos for Heavydelic, an absolutely gorgeous 2D platformer that's a one-man production, Burn-9, where you're the handler for the last surviving spy stuck behind enemy lines, and Rivage, a 1st person puzzle in a time loop in space! Join me!
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Oh yeah, I did a thing! Since we hit the fundraising goal and I said I’d dye my beard purple…I dyed my beard purple! Thanks so much to everyone who chipped in to help me out, you are the best 💜
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Well there’s something you don’t see every day - a paradox
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Episode 750 is up! Guest host Brian Edwards of @characterissues.bsky.social joins us to talk about growing up a nerd and continuing to be a nerd into adulthood! It was an excellent discussion and I'm so happy to bring it to you all! Link in the next post because algorithmic nonsense
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Math humor without the actual math
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Beware
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Tomorrow (Sunday) I'll be doing a marathon stream of game demos from the Steam Next Fest! I have TWENTY games across a variety of genres and flavors and tones installed! I'm starting at noon (Eastern time) and going until I either play all the games or I hit midnight, so come join me on Twitch!
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I'm live, playing the demo for Prime Monster! It's a weirdly topical deckbuilder about being a corrupt politician in a world of monsters, and it looks like a lot of fun! Plus it's by the folks that did The Sexy Brutale, so it should be pretty good. Come join me! twitch.tv/themanapool
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The final episode of 2025 is up! We inadvertently spent the whole show on nostalgic nonsense, like GI Joe movies, Ghostbusters vs Ghost Busters, randomizing old video games, mashups, game franchise collections, and moon logic! Yay! The link’s in the reply in case this place works like the bad one
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I am LIVE! Come join me for this utter lunacy of a hybrid randomizer run!
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Today is Double Credits Day! I'm going to roll credits on two of the best games I have ever played in two streams on the same day! First up is Baldur's Gate 3, which marks the end of an amazing long journey with this truly excellent game. That will run today from noon-4pm or so
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
New TMP is up- the Dorks take on the odd things known as cryptids. What are they? Are they real? Probably not! Give it a listen now, it's up on the podcast feed & YouTube at the link in the reply Be sure to let us know if you think they're real and throw any other suggestions for weird stuff at us!
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
What in all the hells
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Tonight’s stream will be something new! I was given a code for Wordatro! by the publisher, so I’m gonna check it out! Come join me at 8:30 Eastern (about 2.5 hours from this skeet)
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Sounds like some RFK jr medical advice 🤨
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Damn the Man! Save the Pool! continues into its 2nd week! While trying to raise money to pay off my too-large government debt, I'm playing Baldur's Gate 3 for the 1st time! Tonight I'm going down the well to fight what I can only assume are giant spiders, oh goody. Join me! twitch.tv/themanapool
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The final Damn the Man! Save the Pool! fundraising stream of the week is here! Come hang out while I play more Baldur's Gate 3 for the first time and try to raise money to help pay my damn government debt! twitch.tv/themanapool
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Damn the Man! Save the Pool! fundraising campaign day 2 has begun! I'm streaming Baldur's Gate 3 every day from 12-4 Eastern this week to raise some money, so come hang out! twitch.tv/themanapool
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
First stream is over, and here's how I ended it! 😂 #baldursgate3
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I'm live on Twitch, streaming Baldur's Gate 3 for the first time to raise money to help me pay off my government debt! Anyone who donates $10 or more gets a Steam game off the spreadsheet, just like my charity streams! Come help me out, I'm at the end of my rope here! twitch.tv/themanapool
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Also, Dr Vahlen scares the *crap* out of me
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“I get SO excited about a digital cow with two heads!” - my girlfriend Renee, when a Brahmin showed up at the settlement she was working on in #Fallout4
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Cheevos For Charity 2025 is almost here! I'll be streaming from 12pm to 12am all next weekend - Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, March 21-23! I'll be chasing achievements w/ a list of over 1000 Steam games to give away to raise money for @translifeline.bsky.social! Join me then on twitch.tv/themanapool!
Promo image that shows everything in the attached skeet for easier sharing. Cheevos For Charity benefitting Trans Lifeline, Friday March 21 Saturday March 22, Sunday March 23, Noon to Midnight EDT all three days. Over 100 Steam games to give away. Twitch.tv/themanapool
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This is hanging in my local library. Does it look like Psyduck is happy about his arson to anyone else? Fun fact: I took this to send to my mom, who identified with Psyduck for years because she always had a headache 🙁 Fun fact 2: Neither of us have ever played a Pokémon game or watched the show 😅
A painting depicting the Pokémon Psyduck in an inner tube laughing in the foreground while a large military ship is seemingly on fire behind him
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
You can go to hell too, Cookie Clicker
Two notifications in Cookie Clicker. The first says “Halloween is over.” The second says “Christmas season has started!”
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This place has no riz
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Spoooooky Chewie of The Mana Pool @themanapool.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
27: Sinister The consequences of one man’s obsession with recapturing his 15 minutes of fame. It’s dark, subtle, and very personal. It’s true crime while still being supernatural. I really love this one 👍 #31DayHorrorChallenge
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