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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 19h

I have not played Star Wars Galactic Racer yet, but just reading the reviews is a great reminder that racing games (as with all sports games) are much better served by great characters than great vehicles. See also: a little indie called Mario Kart

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 29/09/2026

Love to unsubscribe from Jon Ossoff's emails and not only still get them, but immediately receive one from Gavin fucking Newsom.

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 23/09/2026

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS: ESCAPE FROM DINO ISLAND IS BETTER THAN DUNGEONS & DRAGONS 5E #ttrpg

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 23/09/2026

This is both DEEPLY upsetting and also kind of a sleight of hand, right? Young Frankenstein feels even older than, say, Blazing Saddles (also 1974!) because of the black and white

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 22/09/2026

All good! And lol what can I say? D&D is my “I can fix him!” game.

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 21/09/2026

Every year Yom Kippur reminds me that I don’t know how to fill the hours of a day if I’m not constantly drinking water and refilling my water bottle.

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 21/09/2026

I played in a (short by D&D standards, long by indie game standards) 4e Eberron campaign! It was somehow my first time playing in a published setting and I kinda loved it?

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 18/09/2026

Rude to not even offer to sell it to your internet friends

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 10/09/2026

Going to get kicked out of the Robyn concert tonight for mansplaining the true meaning of Dancing on My Own (making it to the MLB playoffs) to everyone in earshot

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 06/09/2026

Figured I should share a link since it’s an older game: lessthanthreegames.com/product/down...

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Downfall – Less Than Three Games

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 06/09/2026

I have essential spider-woman vol 2 if that’s helpful

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 06/09/2026

If you’re reading X-men in black and white, how do you even know which Wolverine costumes to hate?

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 06/09/2026

Im purely a show watcher, and not fully caught up, but what about semi-forgotten masterpiece DOWNFALL?

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 01/09/2026

It's really wild how even now X-men (imperfect as it is) remains miles ahead of the rest of the big two's output in its gender parity.

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 01/09/2026

Lanterns ep 3 and Brand New Day adding juice to my theory that superhero movies/shows need way more and way cooler music cues.

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 01/09/2026

I think solidly 50% of rpg drama could be defused if people understood that most manifestos are mostly for the author Anyway this one is good!

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 01/09/2026

Was literally having this exact thought about Philly a few days ago…

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 31/08/2026

A supers game needs to wield its genre to say something about the world or to push the genre forward, even if only a little bit. It can’t just be about, like, balancing Superman and Batman’s power levels so they can be equally combat effective or having a move for meeting your clone

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 31/08/2026

I’m mostly thinking about what Vincent Baker wrote about genre emulation here lumpley.games/2021/05/24/p... The point is to take the genre and run with it. The same way each issue of Spider-man has to be more than just recognizable as a spider-man story, etc

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 31/08/2026

(Tim Torres was 8 when his mother and soon-to-be stepfather were gunned down in front of him on their wedding day. Placing their rings on his hand for safekeeping, he discovered that he could manifest his worst fears in black and white. Now he fights crime as RINGBEARER!)

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 31/08/2026

“I bet you’re thinking, how could rules possibly model a powerset like Green Lantern’s? But look! Here’s RINGBEARER to show you!”

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 31/08/2026

Yeah most of the time they give you a whole set of knockoff heroes and the only purpose is to show how you’d stat up all the big names (and if we’re being honest mostly just to prove that Batman and Superman can work as PCs).

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 31/08/2026

The dragging it out feels terrible but instantly might be worse? Had a few that rejected me faster than my buddy who worked there could send a note to the hiring manager — definitely communicates that a human looked at my resume

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 31/08/2026

It’s almost funny how it’s bad even by the standards of an industry/genre built on shamelessly ripping characters!

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 31/08/2026

When Jeff said “or video game” this was the first thing I thought of. I was obsessed with this in high school — made so many custom skins!

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 31/08/2026

More and more I think the problem with superhero RPGs is that they need 50% less genre emulation and 50% more genre embodiment. It’s pastiche all the way down.

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 26/08/2026

Well, did the playlist have any Dolly on it?

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 06/08/2026

My pitch was going to be that we nail down a setting. Doesn’t have to be as concrete as Blades but a distinct sensibility and collection of nouns

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 06/08/2026

Im with you completely! I’m jealous that you can actually realize your visual ideas

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 06/08/2026

60s ideas, 90s aesthetics, contemporary themes — where have I heard that one before?

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 06/08/2026

I’m so torn because I love the 90s/Y2K aesthetics of the Matrix movies, but giving it a throwback aesthetic is both such a great way to break free of their influence and really, really fun in its own right. Makes me think of X-men ‘97 using 90s aesthetics/stories to address modern ideas

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 06/08/2026

Uhhh… I’m In / We’re In The Mainframe Mainframers Uplink Bugs in the Code Code Collapse Blue City of Death

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🎃ALL HALLOW'S VERMIN👻 @legendaryvermin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A Tumblr post from user mint-swirl reads as follows:

*trying to come up with rules for my new society after successfully leading the revolution* why don't we just repurpose 5e

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 05/08/2026

We really did! I just went back to Operator I Need an Exit (and, uh, may have given Sam T a peek) — it's so much farther along than I remembered... and still very cool! (Should we finish it?)

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 05/08/2026

😳 Come on, Nick! It’s too early here for that kind of praise. (Also, hilariously, I feel the same way about Stealing the Throne.)

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 04/08/2026

Hilariously, Dark Sun, always an awkward fit in D&D, would make for a killer Magic set

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 03/08/2026

It's also easy to forget how much the TV networks played this aspect up with "special presentation" bumpers and host introductions for movies (even TV movies), themed marathons, etc. We really only get this kind of stuff on streaming around Halloween and Christmas now and it's a pale imitation.

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 03/08/2026

Realizing my TV experience was the opposite (but equally great): My parents had a "we only turn on the TV to watch something specific" rule, so even a mid-season episode of whatever middling series we were watching had the feel of an event.

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 03/08/2026

Maybe not quite as formative, but I will never forget sleeping over at a friend's house in middle school and stumbling upon the Aeon Flux cartoon in the middle of the night. Blew my mind — and at the time I had no way of learning anything about what I'd seen.

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 01/08/2026

I can’t believe they’re making D&D World of Warcraft and Star Wars!

My old copies of the d20 Star Wars Roleplaying Game and Warcraft Manual of Monsters from around 25 years ago

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 30/07/2026

I did the Roswell That Ends Well one for a birthday party in high school! (It was extremely silly and not very much fun, but I think in retrospect we chose a bad set.)

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 29/07/2026

My kid has one of these and they’re so fun

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I Still Know What You Did Last Sam R @thesamroberts.com · 27/07/2026

It will never not be funny that the album featuring “Love Hurts” looks like this

The vinyl album cover for Nazareth’s Hair of the Dog. It features a gnarly illustration of a three headed devil dog with barbed, demonic wings standing atop a pile of skulls.

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