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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Suz Sheldon is being impersonated on BlueSky. Help me tank this bad profile which is, no doubt, a salty racist backer from the new Resto game.

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Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Boosting not because they need the help, but because Queen's Gambit was a genuinely great game and this looks AWESOME Great pick for Restoration. Love it

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The Lord of the Rings™: The King’s Gambit

The final, fateful battle in the war for Middle-earth plays out across four epic fields of battle.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The unabashed racism in the comments of The King's Gambit Kickstarter campaign is infuriating. Half of the comments demand the publisher answer the question "Why is Aragorn Black?" and the publisher "fix it" before they pledge.

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beth @bethsobel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very cool to see an Aragorn who's Black! More pushes towards accurate representation of the incredibly varied world we live in will only ever be a huge plus for me. @restorationgames.bsky.social

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I played the final version of this over the weekend with some friends and I’m stoked with how it turned out!

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another game I worked on is out in the wild! I did development for this fun party game and wrote all the prompts and answers. Grab Will Get Won’t Game from your LGS or from Ultra Pro’s website.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Lost day. 22 years ago the pilot for Lost aired, and the same day the narrative began with Oceanic Flight 815 crashing after altering course through turbulence. Meanwhile Desmond killed his mentor and buried him so far away he forgot to press the button causing 815 to crash.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m having a lot of fun with Aniimo but I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. It’s made with AI or the dev team are anti-Semitic or or or and I really wanna just enjoy it.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The longest continually published video game franchise is The Oregon Trail, originally published in 1971. It’s since published 14 games. Most recently it published The Oregon Trail (2021) on Apple Arcade, Nintendo Switch, PS5, XBOX X/S, and Windows.

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Anna Russell @aenrussell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

September poll has closed! We will be discussing "Guillotine" by @goosemixtapes.bsky.social , published by @strangehorizons.bsky.social on September 27. Join my Patreon for monthly short story discussions!

Hand drawn word Guillotine with Patreon link: patreon.com/aenrussell

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Illinois is proud enough of this to take a photo op lmao 🤣

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

✨GIVEAWAY✨ for an advance copy of MONSTERA. Like and reskeet this post, then tell me how many points you have: 10- preordered Monstera 9- chose it for book club 8- added it on Goodreads or Storygraph 7- requested at the library 6- joined the preorder swag giveaway 5- added to TBR 4- heard of it

This is an image of the book Monstera against a chartreuse background with flowers. Monstera has a bloodied hand holding a gardening tool, also bloodied, amidst a handful of greenery. I really can't stress enough how much blood, hands, and plants are involved. Like, A LOT.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think this is marketing for the next Root expansion right @patrickleder.bsky.social

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

With Spidey 4 dominating the 10 highest grossing actors list changed. Tom Holland is now number 1, and 9/10 are MCU actors. Tom Cruise is 7th. Of the 9 MCU actors only 8 of them have Endgame billed as their highest performing film. Any ideas who the 9th person is and what the alt movie is?

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m playing through FF7 Rebirth. The party consists of 8 people. An indigenous dogfolk dork son of the protector of the Ancients, a Scottish capitalist cat, Matt Mercer vampire, and 5 eco terrorist humans in different flavors of queer.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fun fact. In S06E04 of The Sopranos the Gilmore Girls is playing on TV. In S07E17 of Gilmore Girls Richard wears a tracksuit & Lorelai jokes by asking if he’s gonna have lunch with Tony Soprano. If The Sopranos show exists in Gilmore Girls, eventually they would come across Tony watching them.

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Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hark! @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social is this weekend! There's a lot of really wonderful programming planned if you're not already aware, and your registration and donations help @dreamfoundry.bsky.social do lots of very valuable work, so come through! flights-of-foundry.org

A screenshot of Brandon O'Brien's Flights of Foundry schedule:

Friday September 18
8PM AST
Indie TTRPGs

Saturday September 19
7AM AST
Game Recommendations!

Saturday September 19
10AM AST
Chill-n-Chat with Brandon O'Brien

Sunday September 20
1PM AST
Pathways to Speculative Poetry

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hi! This is out today and it’s awesome! And I am proud to be connected to it! SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE!!! WE ARE FUCKING MAGICAL!!!!

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What Happened at Aleister Crowley’s Boleskine House? | #WITCHYAF

YouTube video by Etch

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fun fact of the day with Will. Furious 7 was the highest grossing film for Universal for a mere 3 months; April - June 2015. It was dethroned by Jurassic World, which held the title until this year. Which Universal movie dethroned it?

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’d like to submit to the court that both Tron and The Hunger Games are LitRPG. Both use games as a tool to facilitate the main characters journey, and the game is central to the world as well. In this essay I will—

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Nick Martell @nickmartell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

B&N is doing a preorder sale until 9/11 which includes my upcoming novel TERMINA STATION. Preorders are important for authors, and I always appreciate anyone who’s willing to give a book a shot before it’s out 🙏

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 08/09/2026

My next event will be Game Hole Con XIII in October! Spaces are filling up fast, so be sure to register! For your convenience, I've attached an infographic of my public-facing schedule. Hope to see you there!

Monica Valentinelli
booksofm.com
Special Guest
2026 Events

Thursday, October 15th
Noon CST: Worldbuilding in Faerie Realms Seminar

5:00 pm: Setting design in RPGs

Friday, October 16th

11:00-2:00 pm: Teatime with the Hatter

2:30-5:30 pm: Teatime with the Hatter

8:00-11:00 pm: Drinks with Authors VI: The Reckoning

Saturday, October 17th

10:00 am: Magic and Consequences

2:00-5:00 pm: Teatime with the Hatter

Register online at www.gameholecon.com

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’ve found myself with gratuitous amounts of time, so I made a list of games from my backlog to check off. These are all games I already own on Steam. QB is shared with someone, the other two on the bottom are time sinks.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 07/09/2026

somewhere along the way, a lot of people equated "discomfort" with "bad" and "bad people" and i am not sorry but that is very wrong and a path to actually bad things when marginalized folks are telling their true actual stories? it might cause discomfort. you know what that is? that's GROWTH

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I love playing Remedy games cause I get to start as a writer on a deadline trying to overcome writers block and an hour later a Swedish rock band hands me a cassette player so I can travel through dimensions and then I’m watching evil me on a talk show trapped in the Backrooms

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Locke must’ve pushed the donkey wheel

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Let it be known the winner of the Universal Summit this week is @425suzanne.bsky.social and there’s no contest.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 21/08/2026

today at @mothership.blog, it's jennifer lufau breaking down exactly what is so important and special about South of Midnight. free to read with just your email address! do not miss this game; compulsion games is indie now and both needs & deserves your support.

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South of Midnight is a master class in cultural appreciation

I’m a French Black woman whose favorite game of 2025 was not Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. And how could it be, when South of Midnight was released around the same time?

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The art and gameplay of this thing looks incredible, and I'm always a sucker to play one of Jon's games. Check out what a miniature skirmish with a unique twist of prioritizing problem-solving instead of just chucking dice looks like.

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Stealing the Horizons

A hybrid board game and sci-fi skirmish game featuring a tactical Momentum Engine. Pure weaponized problem solving for 1-4 players.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The only force greater than love is getting around the table with friends and playing 7 or more games of Spirit Island over a single weekend.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I need a short game now that I’m wrapping up my ~500 hour Palworld marathon. Hit me with your video game recs that I can complete in 5-10 hours. Bonus points if it dropped this year.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What do you call an RPG experience where the narrative/adventure is not as open ended or up to a GM? I’m thinking of games like Alice is Missing.

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Kenna Alexander @kennaalexander.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

One of the things I was hoping I'd see for my adventure, Chrysalis, for the Alien RPG was some art for the pre-generated characters. Sadly, didn't happen. If anyone does any fan art for it, please tag me! Or talk to me if you're planning on doing some, and I will boost the heck out of you.

Alien RPG Chrysalis cover.

Aliens ttrpg tabletop gaming games artist fanart roleplaying

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Mike Underwood @mikerunderwood.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Huge congrats to the organizing workers! And props to the owners for what seems like an extremely quick & relatively painless recognition. I'd like to see unionization come to RPG studios big & small, even other places where staff are generally happy with conditions. And here's why (1/2)

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"...this game is just too big. It's impractical. It's silly." — Quinns "I have no idea what people will make of this." — Kieron Gillen "Completely unpublishable." — [publisher name redacted] SEVEN PART PACT HAS 24 HOURS REMAINING www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

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Seven-Part Pact

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I don't know how effective a viewer boycott of the show could be--I guess we'll see--but I do think a media boycott would have some impact. If all the websites that would ordinarily cover this from every angle just greet it with oceans of silence...maybe it'd mean something.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If the Purge were real legit all I would do is erase my name from my student loans and fudge my credit score a bit. Cause I still have to live with it, right? I’d be happy living with the fact that I made my life easier and just erased a line in a database.

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Anna Russell @aenrussell.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

New post up! Come check it out to watch me be uncomfortably vulnerable and ramble about how cool short stories are. www.patreon.com/aenrussell/p...

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Thanks to @douglevandowski.bsky.social I’ve been exploring more and more solo TTRPGs since May. And I gotta say, this is pretty fun yall.

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Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Here’s my Gen Con 2026 haul. I’m always excited to see what folks brought home. I may be most excited for Slugblasters, where you play as kids on inter dimensional hover boards doing teenager shit but you gotta get home in time for dinner with your parents.

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Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We survived GenCon Writers Symposium 2026, y’all (and that’s saying something considering the occasional tornado). I was so busy running around I barely got to enjoy it. Luckily, my interns and friends made sure to slow me down to experience what we were curating.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This year's GenCon Writers Symposium was amazing! Check out this thread from @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social to learn why the convention is a must-attend for writers. Maurice and his staff have truly transformed the Symposium in the last two years. I can't wait to see what they do next time!

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