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Charlie

@zerobits.bsky.social
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TTRPGs, Music, Game Dev, Movies. Art and cetera. I just like to enjoy the things that people make. He/Him. "Waiting for the rain to fall — across my head, it drips right into my mind"

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 7h
god RCR is so good its basically "car as literature", by way of cultural anthropology and car culture this linked bit until 16:35 until 20:40ish is just wonderful if you write about machines you should listen to this and where its going
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Real Herbie The Love Bug: 1963 Volkswagen Beetle
YouTube video by Regular Car Reviews
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Worm is basically that for superheroes and it rules
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a former copywriter I know it's because the keyword gets more hits. But understanding it only makes me hate it more.
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"THE PLAGUE researcher at THE PLAGUE (and other infectious diseases) lab contracts mystery illness!" Most everything in "other infectious diseases" is more of a concern to the public than the long-solved problem that is the plague. We have not yet lost the recipes for moldy bread and wash ye hands.
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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a HUGE contribution to tooling for running games at the table. DirectSun is burying the lede a little. He has made a web template that lets you have clickable maps, preview hyperlinks, and have multiple views of an adventure open at once. This is an incredible resource for GMs!
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If I had a cool sword and could sword good, then I wouldn't be sad either.
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Coward shit.
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Brian Yaksha (He/They) @brianyaksha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I could keep tinkering with this forever but I think its better that I do not. Added some outlying islands and some coastal debris, made the morass/river bleeding out of the west a bit more pronounced, and yadda yadda yadda. God my week got real busy.
A woodcut style map of hexes depicting a desolate coastal region with a harbor towards the center.
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The "We should be able to modify ourselves genetically or technologically in any way we please except changing our genders. That one's simply a bridge too far." sort?
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Noah Caldwell-Gervais @noahgervais.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Aside from a small list of minor edits, I finished my horror novel today. Its later than I hoped and years after when I thought I would be done, but it seems like I'm at the very least going to be done with the ebook version in time for spooky season. I'll be sharing more as I get closer to release.
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JRMES @jrmes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Here are some mouthpieces from Carnuntum (AUT). The army used different instruments for different things, but we can't as yet distinguish which mouthpiece came from which instrument (unless one is still attached!). Of course, they also had civilian uses (eg in the amphitheatre).
A selection of copper-alloy musical instrument mouthpieces found at Carnuntum in the Museum Carnuntinum. These could have been used with the cornu, tuba, bucina, or lituus (there is currently no way of telling which is which). Image: MCB (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yippee!!! Super excited to check it out!
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I picked my first apartment in large part because it was on the same block as a grocery store and a bus stop. Unfortunately, within a year the grocery store had fallen into the abyss (an sink hole) and the city turned the whole lot into a big ditch.
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On Jacob Geller
I'm aware of the rape allegations against Jacob Geller, as well as the fact that his name is on a court-ordered list of UNC students disciplined for sexual violence. I've hesitated on whether to post anything about it, because the victim hasn’t been identified and I don’t want to participate in a retraumatizing conversation against their wishes. At the same time, as someone who has collaborated with Jacob Geller, I do not want my silence to be taken as endorsement.

For my part, I did not know about this and I wish I had. What justice and repair look like in cases like these are for the victim to decide, and I do not know their wishes or what accountability processes, if any, took place. However, strictly on a personal level, I’m uncomfortable having collaborated with someone who has presented himself as a nonthreatening feminist without ever disclosing his history of sexual violence to me or any other colleagues I’ve spoken to. I have no intention of ever working with Geller again. Beyond that, the person this happened to ought to be the ultimate authority on what happens next, and how they wish to tell their story if at all.
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The Loch Ness Monster @nessiopeia.space · 30/09/2026
Anyways, if you haven’t go listen to Wendy Carlos’ “Beauty in the Beast” or “Digital Moonscapes” right now. There’s no way to do it while supporting her unfortunately, but you can at least celebrate her genius and dream of a better tomorrow
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We don't talk enough about the soundtrack of Fuck's Quest II, which was clearly made by someone who understands how to compose music and used that knowledge for evil
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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Not dying at 0 hp" is probably the most common house rule used for people who otherwise are judicious adherents to B/X or OSE. What if every class had its own mini table of house rules of things that happened at 0 hp, though? What if you used MANY house rules for death?
Death
When you reach 0 hp, you may choose to die or roll on the following table.
Dismemberment. You take a grievous wound and fall unconscious. After a turn, you awake with 1 hp and learn that you've lost your 1. eye, 2. hand, 3. leg below the knee. You must retreat from the dungeon as soon as possible. You must rest for a week before adventuring again.
Taken. The monsters [take you prisoner/swallow you] and retreat. You may be [rescued/regurgitated] and restored to 1 hp.
Wounded. You take a wound and fall unconscious. After a turn, you awake with 1 hp. You must retreat from the dungeon as soon as possible. You must rest for a week  before adventuring again.
Sacrifice. Your squire/henchman steps in front of the last blow and falls to 0 hp instead of you. They are taken out of the fight, and must recover in a stronghold before adventuring again.
If no squire/henchman, you will die in 1 turn if you receive no healing.
Weak. You are conscious, but weak. You can crawl and whisper, but not perform any tasks that require a roll. At the end of the combat, you regain 1 hp.
Last chance. You are conscious, but weak. If you lay still, you regain 1 hp at the end of combat. If you take any actions, treat them as having rolled a natural 20, but you will die at the end of the round.
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No. No. It's fine. I just wasn't expecting it to be Family Guy.
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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 01/10/2026
Getting through a solid backlog of blog posts is actually a Herculean task in the sense that more blog posts spring up like hyperlinked hydras just as fast as you can read the original tabs you had pulled up
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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
holy crap, my novel, The Happiest Apocalypse, is up to 300 reviews and enough are 5 stars to put me at 4.2, WHICH AS WE KNOW, rounds up www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMDQW52...
amazon.com
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As nice as it is that we have a glut of incredible, well-made and well-tested TTRPGs. You don't really need good mechanics or systems. More people could stand to play games that aren't good, or make their own games that suck, or have their 7/yo cousin run his own made up game that sucks.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: two heavyset fellas sit around an unusual, scrawny humanoid alien at a diner counter. One of the guys pushes a little basket of bread in front of the alien and says, “this here is corn bread.” Panel 2: the alien takes a small bite of the golden corn bread. The alien says, “con… bred.” Panel 3: the alien begins to hover, emitting an otherworldly light and causing gravity to shift around its immediate vicinity. A frightened waitress behind the bar shouts, “what’s happening?!”
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's a mountain range. Any one spot might be more or less related to a particular peak and you can get up atop any one of them and yodel about how this one is your mountain. But as far as it spans, it's all the same upheaved continental crust.
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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As part of this, I'm adapting some class features into hypo-diegetic rules. For example, knights can wear heavy armor and wield martial weapons because they have the legal right to do so - commoners cannot.
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 27,1943
P1- MR.SPUTTER WILL NOT LET NANCY ENTER THE KITCHEN 
NANCY: WHY CAN’T I COME IN THE KITCHEN?
MR. SPUTTER:BECAUSEP I’M DEVELOPING NEGATIVES IN HERE!
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NANCY:I WANNA WATCH YOU 
MR. SLUGGO: O.K. , BUT YOU CAN'T SEE ANYTHING- -IT'S DARK IN HERE!
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MR. SPUTTER: Y'SEE?- I HAVE TO WORK IN PITCH BLACKNESS
NANCY: OH, WELL- - WHILE I'M HERE I GUESS ILL HAVE SOME - - 
P4- 
NANCY: MILK - - OOPS
WITHOUT THINKING NANCY OPENS THE REFRIGERATOR DOOR 
EXPOSING THE FILM NEGATIVES TO THE LIGHT
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Andreas and Caspar talking to Gert in big head mode in Pentiment
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🎃Yagamimi🎃 @luigiyagami.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
what's so goddamn funny
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It depends on the exact type. But LPL lays it out better than I could in like a minute and a half youtu.be/pji33MoJ5Z4?...
youtu.be
[991] Removing Inventory Control Tags FAST!
YouTube video by LockPickingLawyer
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Iirc all you need is a decent magnet. The exact mechanism varies based on the specific model of theft protection device. But it's almost always a magnetic unlock.
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think this type of hat with the opening screed from www.timecube.com would be a totemic object of power.
A very tall trucker hat. It reads:

WOMEN FEAR ME
FISH FEAR ME
MEN TURN THEIR EYES
AWAY FROM ME
AS I WALK
NO BEASTS DARE
MAKE A SOUND
IN MY PRESENCE
I AM ALONE ON
THIS BARREN EARTH

and then there's a picture of a fish. The hat is white and green.Variously capitalized text spread in bafflingly short lines on an ancient web page. It is dark blue over a grid paper esque background. It reads:

FREE SPEECH in AMERICA is
"BULL SHIT",
EVIL EDUCATORS
block and suppress
www.timecube.com.
You are educated evil,
and might have to kill
the evil ONE teaching
educators before you
can learn that 4 corner
days actually exist -but
all Cube Truth denied.
Dumb ass educators fear
me and hide from debate.

[sic. Yes. Really. Exactly that text in that format with that punctuation and capitalization.]
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You ever reach the last legs of your paycheck and start thinking of ways to disprove the Harmonic Cube for that $1,000.00?
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The best of these segments (by Bethesda standards) is "Take it Back!" in FO3. But in an irony, it's primarily because of the one really large ally being such an effective showpiece.
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's something that Bethesda has always struggled with—and a very hard problem to solve at their mechanical scale. But I always find myself sorely disappointed by their "fighting with an army of allies" segments. Not least of all because the army is inevitably like twelve guys maximum.
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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New dungeon for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM with really crisp writing. I like the factions in this one a lot.
crinkycrongler.itch.io
Lighthouse of the False Sun by CrinkyCrongler
A His Majesty The Worm Dungeon
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
would be weird to be macklemore and see everyone be like "Fuck yeah dude, finally, man of the people. Real dog shit artist tho. A living icon, a hero of our age. Truly awful body of work"
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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱 @oddoblivion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
God I’m ready
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Setting the stage for the next FDR.
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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱 @oddoblivion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Weed has me become a simple shape and I have all the love in the world in my heart. Talk at me. ngl.link/oddoblivion
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's not quite as baroque. But His Majesty the Worm has a fantastic funeral mechanic that could easily be expanded to fit this mold. (Especially re: magical items or heirlooms)
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Rubeki Games 🛩️The Hollowing Demo Live!🛩️ @rubeki.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
✈️Just announced in the PC Gaming Show✈️  The Hollowing is an atmospheric first-person horror flight sim Your job is to maintain communications towers at various airports and outposts in the Megastructure FREE DEMO OUT NOW!! link below 👇
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We all become dust before we can ever realize that the years have gone somewhere else and left us behind.
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's expected that they'll take some time to really find their groove. But also: How the hell are they in a second season already? Didn't they launch last month?
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*suspicious lobster wife* where did you get that shrimp *still confused lobster* you're never gonna believe this
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Spectra @spectra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
animated funicular <3
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
1. Am I Mad? ↓ I'm not mad. Please don't put in the newspaper that I got mad.
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
real youtu.be/cQow1I2S8yE?...
Anyaustin screen grab with Austin and a Venn diagram that says never stop moving / disappear immediately and the stared area says NPCs Fish
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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My stomach and spine are those of Sekhmet, my buttocks are those of the Eye of Horus, my thighs and flanks are those of Nut, my legs are those of Ptah, my toes are those of living falcons. (BDQ)
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Charlie @zerobits.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I really should get back into steel nib pens. My hands yearn for the deep stain of ink.
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