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Vernacular Ham

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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 21h
Picked Arc Raiders back up last night, had an absolute blast. Hopeful for the PvE mode they may have coming too? I don’t hate the way their PvP is tuned but the game screams to me the potential to be a Destiny-like. Also enjoying dune awakening a lot on a private server - built a nice endgame base.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 22h
Shit. Man. I don’t need to buy this but it looks like it’s *so* good.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the answer. The recoil against data centers and AI in the US is a reaction to how the last major tech boom created a feudal elite unaccountable to anyone else and with vast corrupt power. This is the immune system of the public saying “we’ve seen this show before and we’re not ding it again”
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Careful” as in rush out and find this precise kind of person because this sounds like the kind of overwhelmed I’m okay with?
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And the hot dogs!
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*rocks self to sleep with a rendition of Liberi Fatali*
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am considering bringing a whole pack back from Japan even though I have a completely good Japanese marketplace twenty minutes away that has Boss coffee. *Stops, stands* I think I need to go get some Boss coffee.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One day closer to FF8!
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy birthday! You’re not as far behind me as I had thought. It’s not all bad though. And I agree, I’m enjoying myself and trying to live my best life and if you’re managing that what’s age but a number (and maybe some aches you didn’t used to have)
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah. This seems inevitable now. Sigh.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That’s fantastic to hear. Nice to see the company maybe realizes it’s real customers are the kids who’ll keep buying cards and playing for the rest of their lives potentially and not secondary market scalpers trying to pump and dump cards of all things.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Loved him so much in the Americans.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Holy shit the books for the memento mori rpg are beautiful. I will almost certainly never run this, but its so perfect for my habit of collecting rpg books for their rich narratives and world building ideas as much as with any intent to ever run the game.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If it was good for you, I'm glad! And I have no idea what I feel about that starcraft thing. I think I was one of those who never liked starcraft 2 and then never came back to it, so my distance from that franchise is also pretty far.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Huh, that blizzcon was neat. World of Warcraft was always something I'd bounced off of, so a pure nostalgia play does nothing for me. Diablo 5...feels like a hail mary for a franchise that has fucked this up too many times to count. Really the only thing I cared about was HotS coming back...
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Gotta VOD your stream, looks like I’ve got something to look forward to!
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Still writing. No idea where I'm going with any of this, just enjoying riding the energy of it.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Get outside, touch grass! So much of that stuff lives inside you! Not that it's not driven by something real, but dwelling on it can turn into a negative reinforcement loop that doesn't help you and may blow it all out of proportion. Feel better!
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Gamer's gonna complain. It's why I tend to avoid gaming subreddits, they're universally toxic to an extreme even for games that are healthy. It's the same mechanic as "online reviews always trend negative" and social media can be such a swamp of rage because angry people have more incentive to post.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Two complete short stories. Sixteen what I call “fragments” - where inspiration struck me and I wrote down a scene or part of one with hopes to grow it out into a story later. A third documentary style short story inspired by the documentary format of “world war z”. Feels good to write.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
To be clear. Like forty “fragments” as I call them are done too lol. ADD can be great for creativity but I have to go back and cobble these moments into actual functional narratives.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Look what I found doing some reorganizing as I move stuff to new shelves.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Oh I’ll share it in a bit. At least one or two small stories are done. But I want an entry point to the setting that I’m slowly getting the shape of settled.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Yeah I work in software and now the direction I give my teams is “use it. It’s a tool. But that’s all it is, no different than auto correct. Put it in a small box and make it do very specific and well defined small things for you. Trust it more and you will eventually be unpleasantly surprised”
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Frustrating I can barely use it even as a “quick and dirty” editor. It’s terrible at that too.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
No amount of careful design, architecture, rules, reference or however many rare books they feed these things will ever make a glorified pattern matched understand plot or story or emotional beats. It’s a photocopier at heart. No wonder they’re all rushing to turn it into business software.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Is it weird that trying to see if Ai could write or even edit my writing drove me mad with such frustration that it motivated me to just write again myself? Nothing like rage against the machine I guess. And to be clear I’m no novice with either subject. Harnesses and rules abounded. It still sucked
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Been writing. A lot. No idea if anyone will ever want to read this absurd superhero urban fantasy mish mash I've concocted, or if I'll actually *finish* any of these stories.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’ve heard this is good! Shit I don’t need another game to check out lol. I’m already way behind on a bunch of my side projects lol.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The giggles of staying up way too late fiddling with my path of exile build when it dawned upon me a new item I’d gotten meant I could free up a bunch of skill points potentially to go add some powerful new abilities I’d been hoping to unlock before max level.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Wait. Are you implying they say that as a bad thing? I assume they’re celebrating your long opens just chatting about this great game you’re experiencing for the first time and sharing that joy with the community. Clearly they must mean it the same way, right? Right? Oh wait this is the internet.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is also the part of Warframe that clicked most with me. Missions and content are fun - but it was the art of assembling a build and then unleashing it on previously hard content and watching it chew it up that was my delight. Then getting something new or chasing something to pursue more power.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Man. Deep in the endgame of Path of Exile 2 and now I get why Preach loves this game. The build crafting is exquisite. And unlike the first game this one makes it very easy to experiment and evolve over time. It’d not for everyone I’m sure but I’m having a blast, especially after D4 bored me.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
God it’s been so long since I played CT and it’s just such a delight to see it hold up. Good games are truly timeless like good books.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I like retrolarper, that’s a fun word. You should wear that with pride lol, it sounds fancy.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Shit. Path of Exile 2. That world is fuuuuucked. I’d never want to live there as a normal person. Aside from that Dune, which is also a terrible place.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Also most enemies still had like traditional White Wolf mechanics based health levels. So...7, or less. You'd put down like 5 quintillion damage and the enemy would have like "2 armor". The game never resolved the fact that most enemies were literally chaff on the wind lol. Later editions tried.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It's a fave of mine. But I've made a ton of homebrew lore adjustments over the years to make the world weirder and wider and deeper, to really play into the mythical angle the 1st edition tried and failed to thread in and later editions abandoned, and working on my own homebrew rules adjustments.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Man, I know it was dumb but it felt awesome to pick up like just two handfuls of d10s to roll my Solar Exalt's single attack with bow/giant sword/whatever. But why I'm working on a card based system. It always felt like something that deserved a more hybrid boardgame/tabletop rpg solution.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
WHAT DO YOU WANT THE BOOK FOR YOU CANT READ ANCIENT SUMERIAN! *Screeches in Tremere frustration*
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Bah. All you silly Gangrel. I guess you're useful as front line cannon fodder to break open that Sabbat cathedral so I can find that forbidden tome of the secret history of Enoch.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Oh good, I'll sell tickets to the fight to both the local Sabbat and Cam residents looking for something to shake them out of their jaded nights.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
That would be giving you what you want you street mongrel anarch. Get off my clean Chantry lawn and I won't turn you into a newt.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’ll bring Exalted, Aberrant and Vampire 20th anniversary edition. Also I might bring an experiment I’ve been working on converting exalted to a card based system.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Now they feel like mostly an artifact of the period of their primacy despite the fact that I think their core ideas remain ever relevant and their presentation with an edgy stylized 90s/00s punk/anime/comic vibe would be fine today with just slight updates. Look at the success of DCs Absolute line.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It is weird to me how big of a thing White Wolf RPGs were for me growing up in the 90s and early 2000s and how utterly forgotten they mostly are except to millennials like me today even as despite Hasbros best efforts DnD remains relevant and tabletop rpgs remain strong.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I wouldn’t be surprised if GTA6 drops and runs like dog shit for the first several weeks unless you have a PS5 ultra or whatever it’s called.
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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You're assigned to make Final Fantasy 17 You must use elements of prior FF games, but one per game and the source games' numbers have to add up to 17 You can have Cloud (7) playing blitzball (10), for example You can use as many games as you want to reach that sum of 17 What do you combine?
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Expedition 33. The combat.
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Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Look did I superchat 90 minutes before the stream even starts? Yeah I’m fine. I’m not excited to hang out and experience this thing again. Nope. Chill. Really I should be working. Gotta focus or something something…
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