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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New Resident Evil was good. No complaints about the second half of the movie but it was clearly where they were like "Okay, this has to be a specifically Resident Evil movie now."

The apartment scene from Pulp Fiction
My Friends who are less familiar with the Resident Evil series: "We happy?"
Me, a lifelong fan of the RE series who was disappointed the previous movies being their own thing, viewing the new Resident Evil movie
In the briefcase: Las Plagas style zombies, how genuinely cumbersome and awkward carrying guns and ammo is if you don't have the right equipment or formal training, first half of the movie is a legit horror masterpiece, some great comedy that's well balanced with the horror, a flawed but good-hearted protagonist, protagonist stands on social convention no matter what
Me: Oh, we happy

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

- Most of the hallucinations/manifestations are not real, at least as I pictured/intended. But then the Hat Man can kind of read your mind? IDK he's just the Hat Man. - @betterlegends.bsky.social I'm sorry that the Hat Man will be haunting you forever. Thanks for taking a look!

Spook elevator from the David Pumpkins SNL sketch. An elevator operator smirks with a knowing face. On the right a man looks exasperated saying "I am so in the weeds with the hat man!"

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

In the immortal words of Gary Gygax: "You're a woman!"

Her one personal encounter with Gary Gygax revealed a similar bias. Early on, Lee sent copies of A&E to TSR. After a couple of months, she received a phone call, which she recounts.

“This is Gary Gygax,” said the voice, “and I’d like to speak to Lee Gold.”

“I’m Lee Gold,” I said. “I gather you got the copies of A&E I sent you.”

“You’re a woman!” he said.

“That’s right,” I said, and I told him how much we all loved playing D&D and how grateful we were to him for writing it.

“You’re a woman,” he said. “I wrote some bad things about women wargamers once.”

“You don’t need to feel embarrassed,” I said. “I haven’t read them.”

“You’re a woman,” he said.

We didn’t seem to be getting anywhere, so I told him goodbye and hung up.

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Things I liked in 2025 that I will add to as I think about it. In terms of games I went half-crazy about with my friends, Blue Prince takes the cake. Below (with some spoilers) is a meme I put together reflecting late-game discussions we had.

Charlie from Always Sunny with conspiracy board.
"Furnace: Inherently Evil???
Dinner-maxing Banana Boy
If god isn't real, why does the stolen crown fit perfectly on my head?
Her ladyship= Titania?
Mom= Persephone?
Great Uncle Herber= King Minos???
Simon= The minotaur once sealed within the manor, now curse to never call it home
How to seal Master Bedroom forever?
Barbie Dream House when???
Mrs. Babbage isn't real
Puzzle solvers get rewarded with more puzzle solving
Who checks the coat check?
"If the blue box is false, this box won't not be not never containing no gems."

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Remembering this fun in-universe document I made for the Lost Bay Urban Legend Jam. Need some lumberjack signs? timogames.itch.io/loggers-guide

A yellow sheet with paper covered with spray paint symbols.

A logger's guide to the spray paint labels of the forest
"Orange X": Marked to cut down
"Purple Vertical line": No Trespassing
"Blue equal sign": Sale contract boundary
"Red horizontal line": Forestry Service Boundary
"White Circle": Endangered Species Lives in this tree
"Black zigzag": Ignore/Cancel Order
"Pink slash": Do no cut
"Orange Square": Not a tree, do not touch after nightfall
"Fire with black line above": Immune to fire
"Red backslash with lightning": Falling hazard: Lightning strike
"Red backslash with green cloud": Falling hazard: Rotten
"Red backslash with gravestone": Falling hazard: Vengeance

"Green cupped hands": Hers
"Red apple": Proffer sacrifice to proceed
"Green Xs cloud": Deadly Pollen
"Two brown vertical lines": Safe for guests of the forest to sleep under
"Acorn bouncing off hardhat": Asshole squirrels live in this tree
"Purple Uturn": Turn back now
"Back Uturn with red X at the end": Too late to turn back
"Red Downward Swoop": Eagles not friendly to climbers
"Black No sign": No outside food/drink
"Green Ivy": Ivys prevalent in this area
"Yellow moon behind red jail bars": After dark, you cannot escape until sunrise
"Brown bear head": Bear sighted in this area
"Purple, distressed eye": You've fallen asleep, wake up
"Green and purple dotted lump": The moss knows here
"Red one with orange circle": One hour maximum in this area

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

TFW you're just puttering through the drama and backstabbing, making an honest living and selling ad space for folding credits. #over/under

An astronaut on the moon, arms out in agony
"Why don't you think I'm a traitor or pretending that I might be?
I'm not a traitor or pretending but why does no one think I'm lying?"

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Classifieds publication I'm doing for the #over/under mega game to hopefully help with market clutter!

A classifieds ad for the Mothership mega game Over/under. Ads for how orange crayons do not taste like oranges and a doomsday cult!

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

This meme remains one of the finest I have in the quiver

Several people attend a funeral dressed in black. One is stooped over the grave, smiling and flashing a peace sign, while another laughs.
Graveston: "The OSR: (Literally Never Alive)"
People are labeled:
The OSR
The OSR
Believe it or not, the OSR
Not Your Uncle's OSR
Yes, The OSR
I Regret to Inform You it is the OSR
Lyric Games (Just Here for the yummy potatoes)

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Comment on Hello, We've Been Trying to Reach You, my curse module for Liminal Horror. Love the implication that if you want the Big Creepy, you gotta pay!

Comment from the itch page "Hello, We've Been Trying to Reach You"
Eelwaffles: "just read through this, its so fucking creepy. scariest liminal horror module ive read so far thats free"

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I've made a Bingo-style Limit Break system for Mothership, because I wanted to. Please remix and reuse as much as you want for other systems! timogames.ghost.io/teamster-has...

Pick One from the right row All attacks target you until your next turn, they don't hurt you, they only make you madder (+X to damage rolls on your next turn where X is the amount of damage you would have taken) Take 2 unblockable damage, suceed at your next check as long the odds of your success wouldn't be inconceivable. Subtract your current stress from skill rolls for the remainder of the session Reload and fire the entire clip of a nearby Weapon at a single target, all will hit, roll only damage. Your next melee attack that hits deals rolled damage times your current Stress
Blood Make as many additional attacks as you would like this turn but move one further down on the Bleeding Wound table for each additional attack, starting at the top 3 Stress 10 dmg 12 dmg 2 dmg 1 dmg
Indignation Gain 10 temporary armor this turn, if you are damaged or your armor is destroyed, you may immediately attack your attacker 4 Stress 20 dmg 9 dmg 8dmg 4 dmg
Niceties Ceased End a negotiation by putting a weapon on the table, roll d100, 50 and under, your terms are accepted. Above 50, combat immediately breaks out 18 dmg 6 dmg Free (You're a Mothership Character) 15 dmg 17 dmg
Going Going Gone Your next melee attack sends your target flying as if they were in zero-g. If conditions are already zero-g, break a piece of equipment of your choice 5 dmg 3 dmg 13 dmg 2 Stress 11 dmg
Ontological Collapse A target you attack is atomized. Roll Sanity, Fear, and Body saves, repeat the above effect if you fail and then roll on the Panic Table before resolving your next save 19 dmg 1 Stress 7 dmg 16 dmg 14 dmg
Pick One from the above column (excluding the other Pick One)

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My fellow Nebraskans, I regret to inform you... (My Antonia, however, remains one of the most boring novels I have ever read.)

Hulk, a big green muscular guy, crying
"Guys..."
Hulk looks up at the viewer
"I think I like Willa Cather now..."

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac... I often say "Things would be better if you just minded your own business and dated a lady golfer."

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

From AP THIS is the kind of reporting I need.

"A last quiet moment before the excitement
by Vanessa Gera

A few minutes before the white smoke, a small seagull chick appeared near the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. Alongside the chick were to larger seagulls, almost as if they were family. Just as the mother was feeding the chick, the chimney began to smoke."

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Had a guy stop and admire it for 10 minutes, periodically saying "I love this."

A bison stands on a rock, a grasshopper and human skull in the foreground

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I have many versions of this meme cooking

Man eats a slice of pizza in his car.
"Making book taste so good when u ain't got a super backer in ya ear telling you it's shipping later than your literal guess as to when it would ship."

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Here's Izzy (Isolde), 10 year old giant but the sweetest cat and extremely tolerant of the kids. A good mouser and has even knocked down two bats

A black cat lays on a wooden floor in the sun

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

(Mind I am extrapolating from this photo and the Superman trailer only)

Arthur Fleck with a cigarette
"Having Hal Jordan as scruffy, tired, too old for this shit guy
John stewart in the key of Jack Reacher (also extremely beautiful)
And Guy Gardner looking the galaxy's biggest dipshit."
Arthur: "You get it."

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

4 Childhood Favorite Novels that stuck with me into adulthood (I know A Dark, Dark Room isn't a novel per se)

A book "A Matter of Profit" by Hilari Bell. Two sword wielders stand in a palace with a spaceship in the background.

A book "Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery" by Deborah and James Howe. A white and black rabbit stands imposingly with vampire fangs.

A book "In a Dark, Dark Room and other scary stories" retold by Alvin Schwartz Pictures by Dirk Zimmer. Five creepy figures peer into a darkened study.

A book "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen. A boy's fave with a plane, a wolf, the moon, and a hatchet transposed over top. Mountains in the background

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

My favorite show (to consume by osmosis)

The counselor from Severance, Ms. Casey, in a darkened room says "Your outie likes to sever ants."

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Happy birthday! You wanted wizard stuff right?

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

My love language is dumb song parodies about my family's dog

Cate Blanchet, dressed as Hela from Thor 3, looks imperiously at a tablet held by the shorter and scruffy looking Taika Waititi
"My very pretty breadwinning partner"
"Me writing song parodies for them with the theme of our dog."

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thanks everyone who was able to donate! Let's get them to $15k now!

HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit $13,830 out of $15,000

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Favorite demo so far. What if River City Ransom and Xcom had a baby turtle? For those of you familiar with TMNT, the premise is, what if The Foot Clan actually tried? It's surprisingly tough but once you learn the flow of things it felt like you were actually a ninja turtle but in quite a fight

Boxer, fists up: "Ok ima fight the foot clan"
Boxer, sitting down drinking water: "Damn, The foot clan got feet"

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money

Linkin Park's Meteora
Shown is a graffiti artist wearing a mask, spray painting the floor. A stairs ladder is behind them

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