The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes! You definitely have the sort of approaches I'm looking for, I'll get my shit in gear and send you out an email with a bit of a work package outline (first time I've ever done this kind of thing so do bear with me) 110
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If anyone can help me get feelers out: I'm working on a Troika adventure and I'd like to work with fantasy and sci-fi artists who specialise in the kind of gonzo style you'd associate with left-field TTRPGs About 3-4 B&W illustrations (possibly a full colour as well). Paying rates, obviously. 1171
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026could you imagine how hard a spooky staticy record of a waltz would sound echoing through it. immaculate vibes 020
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Searching for the winsome (though I'd settle for grinsome) 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026It's so bewildering and funny to me that And A Scampi And Chips For Grandpa has found itself soaring new vitality among the youth 020
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026At the Vanity Fair party no less... Anna Wintour ur legacy shall forever be known for turning decent honest businessmen into into Jokers of Crime.. 000
Reposted by The Ruddy ManMoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Alfred Leslie, The Second Two-Panel Horizontal, 1958 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont… 1437
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Honestly on thought it's probably just because they need a more sophisticated dialogue engine, plus it's clear that they couldn't keep pumping out the Miéville prose and speculative dialects they established and there really isn't any harm in tuning it down 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Me reluctantly having to go to Bey Lah and Grit Gate again because everyone in it is incredibly annoying or someone's RP character that is both simultaneously over- and under-written 100
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Caves of Qud is a game I think about a lot which is funny because I think it has some utterly terrible character design but it does stick with you 110
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 21/11/2025My "I've made some certainly very serious and writerly thoughts about the idea of 'settling' wrt my current boyfriend in this substack" is making people ask a lot of questions etc etc 000
Reposted by The Ruddy ManJames Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 11/11/2025huge ty to everyone supporting the Substudies project, & in that spirit i finally finished the translation drafts i started a while back of Adorno-Benjamin’s joint critical (incredibly catty lol) “reports” for Horkheimer on 3 Paris conferences in early August ‘37! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra... 2206
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Playing Caves of Qud a lot recently, the worldbuilding is pretty great but if I had a complaint its that there are clearly characters that are dev faves like Q-Girl or the Svardim in the Yd Freehold that expound on left-wing anarchism and I'm not sure if the devs realise they're actually communalist 010
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025These are so fuckin great W, my immediate go to was to "How Do I Do It Right" and this is just the critical voice talking so you were totally right to ignore that and give me something that actually does matter. Love you !!!! 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025I've always been incredibly poor at visually communicating things quickly and effectively and think it would be a nice thing to be able to do when I'm running a game 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025This is a general question for everyone who reads (feel free to repost) but @wellawoods.bsky.social was the first person I had sought to ask: are there any recommended resources available for complete rank beginners to illustration? Mainly in anatomy, architectural detail and weaponry 100
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 25/10/2025www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO6Z... really underrated feature about DM it all is the choice of chapter music, feels really carefully curated to fit the tone of dark pulpyoutube.comVault of the Drow: The 1st Drow Campaign | D&D WalkthroughsYouTube video by DM It All 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Playing Oblivion Dark Brotherhood questline, so funny to me that these guys are just like assassin juggalos 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025I will never debase myself doing the "fire hydrant" mobility exercise 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 17/09/20253rd one has that wonderful fine grain that reminds me of the Kodak Eastman they shot with in Alien 020
Reposted by The Ruddy ManToulouse-Lautrec @toulouselautrec.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Babylone d'Allemagne Par Victor Joze 0213
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Can never fault the Japanese rule of cool with a lot of these things but I do think they thought hard about how a person's misconceptions of the world could shape reality and incorporated that as a semi-self-critique 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Played through the original Baroque PSX game, kinda got bored so didn't get the final ending though. I do love how it pretends to be a Neoplatonist game at first but reveals itself to be Spinozist in disguise. 100
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Never not thinking about the horse that says Benny Hill in LotR 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Reason I'd encourage this is I think generally people don't really know this is indeed a thing you can do without any kind of commodity attachment or stakes and for many they just sort of adorn these as personal belief instead? 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 21/08/2025I'm a TTRPG nerd so of course I'd think this but I think everyone should indulge in a bit of worldbuilding from time to time, feels like something we ought to do more as a therapeutic creative exercise. Share it with others, engage with other's worlds and adapt them. Or not! 130
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Anyway give me a billion squillion dollars and I'll make this to a Hollywood standard 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Everyone would hate it, but I'd fucking love it and thats the important bit 100
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025If I could make one film it would be as a finale to the Exorcist films where the science overlaps with the occultism and a priest using the hypno mind synching machine introduced in 2 assumes the mantle of God by possessing Jesus Christ across space and time 100
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025My "gifted child syndrome" moment was at age 30 when my mother called me a genius for saying she could put the laptop on the toilet seat to watch shows in the bath 010
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I think so thank u! I haven't been this athletic ever really, and I've noticed people are a bit flirtier with me which I'm not used to but I personally enjoy 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I think it's doubtful this online safety act is going to make it to this year but surveillance issues aside I feel the complaint is mostly having to look into your own eyes as you're really about to regain discord access to The Cakefart Zone 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Sorry for the photo of myself I managed to drop 15kg since the beginning of this year and I'm happy about that 020
Reposted by The Ruddy ManJames Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Adorno’s too god damn I forgot how good it was 0101
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025For everything else I think I'm better prepared for knowing what I emotionally need to avoid falling into a perpetual loop "I have to keep doing the work because I am falling ass first into these situations and I hate causing this person grief" which almost killed me tbh 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I know it's from me but there were material factors that expressed something that isn't there even in other stressful situations. Example being how extended the arguments got, how isolated I had become etc etc 100
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I think the way I had rationalised it when my last relationship went wrong is admitting you aren't victim-blaming to admit that the stresses and beats of a relationship can turn you into somebody you don't like at all. 100
Reposted by The Ruddy Manextempufo.bsky.social @extempufo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025CUM BALLET umbrog.bandcamp.com/album/pulse-...umbrog.bandcamp.comPULSE BLONDE ON BLONDE, by A LARGE SHEET OF MUSCLE14 track album 3116
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Sidney Sweeney tries to do this and succeeds with a certain cohort but it's the combination of being unearthly in your attractiveness that is the true killer 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025"getting back into it" and realising I've done nothing but yap on about fantasy for months on here lol 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025It's really basic English throughout and the only actual dialogue of complex topics is done between learned classes who probably had very similar words for things 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Getting back into fantasy/sword and sorcery schlock a lot recently and watched Conan the Destroyer again. A thing I really like which might be a negative in any other film is how sparse all the dialogue is which feels kind plausible as to how a bunch of proto languages may have understood each other 210
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025though its funny that near the end her husband assumes it's kind of some sort of perpetuated misogynist sexual dynamic which is dismissed as outdated by the lover but the actual nature of the relationship is actually older than both views 010
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Babygirl is really quite good, I like how it plays out as a dialectical sex therapy process from desire to childhood regression to fetish to its eventual sensual resolution. 110
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Is there a cyberpunk TTRPG where you basically get to all be babe assassins à la Aeon Flux, Ghost in the Shell etc. If not who wants to make one 000
The Ruddy Man @theruddyman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Malcolm McDowell is an actor who has the comportment of having been dead a long time, but no he's still kicking and it always gives me a surprise 000
Reposted by The Ruddy Man➿ @porous.bsky.social · 23/05/2025i don't have a strong sense of how but it really seems to me the scale of the insanity in the US is unintelligible without the need for repressing the filling-to-the-brim mass consciousness of gaza 0545
