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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 10h

Of course while working on these very edgy horror graphics, I'm listening to a bimbocore playlist. youtu.be/Lyo-KlKo6s8

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A Slutty (and slighty melancholic)✨Bimbocore✨ Playlist for The Divas 💅

YouTube video by Gregnant Clipp

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 11h

Am I a good TTRPG reviewer? Who can say. But I fuck hard with aesthetics and that's more important.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 12h

I should make a fursona that's a feral sea anemone and conduct myself in such a way that nobody knows if I'm serious or not.

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Logan @bulklogan.bsky.social · 15h

Wendy Carlos in front of a synthesizer with 50 bazillion wires and knobs

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 15h

Honestly, at this point I'm just encouraging healthy group dynamics.

Dommy Mommy: As an action you may “encourage” one of your teammates to perform better. This may be done with any teammate with whom you currently have at least one-way verbal communication—they need to hear you, you don’t need to hear them. When encouraging, choose one of the two following options.
Comfort: Give an ally +1 to any dice assigned to the Cool Table, as you calmly encourage them to do their best and make you proud.
Chastise: Give an ally +1 to dice assigned to the Success Table, and −1 to the Cool Table, as you make it very clear just what will happen if they fail to meet your expectations.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 19h

I know I say this a lot for how incredibly specific of a thing it is to say, but I once again find myself wondering if I somehow got my hands on some kind of early pre-release beta version of the game, because how could it just be like this?

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 21h

Like, I guess people just view misogyny and thinly-veiled white supremacy as such core parts of the core TTRPG experience that only teenage boy level of sexual content is the only thing that seems noteworthy.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 21h

As someone who has made several hours of videos on FATAL, I can tell you that lots of people seem to think acknowledging sex is the most egregious—and possibly only—offense that FATAL commits. Like, in their twisted little mind FATAL is just "the gross sex game."

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cartoon wolves used to be horny for human women. But now human women are horny for cartoon wolves. The reason? Woke.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I can't tell you the last time it was over 100 degrees here at all, let along on October fucking fourth.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've been a militant atheist my entire adult like, and even I'm starting to wonder if god just hates California.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Actually, that could explain why I didn't remember. I reviewed it originally in 2018 and probably just didn't take note of it since the 2020 himbo boom hadn't happened yet.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So not even a movie I saw, but the small local video store had a Return of the Living Dead 3 poster hanging on the wall that was very unsettling to my young mind. Anyway that probably explains the intense interest in body modification and monster women I developed later in life.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've been holding out hope that there actually is a special condition, since it is confidently stated many time, but I'm losing that hope quickly.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If by "adventurer faux pas" you mean good and proper manners.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This book has now, in two different paragraphs, specified that a roll under your skill is a success, and a roll over your skill is a failure.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Obviously there is a 0.0% chance that I will be making any other kind of charter in this video.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Of course, in THOT Crimes, I just make it clear that "bimbo" is gender-neutral.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Despite having covered it previously on my blog, I was not expecting BLOOD! The Roleplaying Game of Modern Horror (2006) to include the term "himbo."

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🍄 @snakeroot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That big boy, that big bitch, for all weather

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just got my optimistic mood ruined by remembering that YouTube changed the way views are counted, so actually my recent videos haven't been performing nearly as well as that metric makes it seem.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So I was putting the script for my review of The Final Girl in the proper folder, and found another complete script for a video on The Final Girl that I wrote in 2022 and never recorded.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This holiday season, let us not forget the true meaning of Halloween. #zart

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whenever someone has an unusually strong stance against "railroading" you just know that at one point they got yelled at for trying to intentionally derail a game.

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Blood Red DM @bloodredpinups.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rites of the Red Cult of Unease are designed to make onlookers uneasy. But the gods of fear and dread are pleased or else the gods of the sky are angry as lightning illuminates this terrible scene... #bloodred

Color drawing of a nude, white haired priestess with skull adornment and bloody dagger. She seems to be in bliss over having slaughtered the latest sacrificial victim, with blood spattering over her body. Lighting fills the sky

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good rules writing means not using terms that haven't been defined yet in text, so defining everything at the beginning of the book was often seen as an excuse to be a bad writer.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The loss of the glossary as a normal thing at the beginning of a TTRPG book is a two-edged sword. One one hand, it was a convenient way to look up terms. On the other hand, it encouraged authors to not explain those terms when they came up in context since "It's in the glossary."

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The worst part about discussing horror RPGs is saying "horror RPG" without slurring the two words together.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An excellent example. This is an older book, but shows the basic idea I'm getting at.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Seriously, I don't know if it's the way I export my videos, something about my voice, or just that as a low-level longform content creator YouTube only begrudgingly tolerates my presence on their platform so just passive-aggressively overcompresses my audio hoping I'll leave.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In a discussion on Tumblr someone mentioned a younger player in a game making their character by literally just asking an AI to "make a Vampire: the Masquerade character." And that is a perfect example of the goal. AI exists to make the fantasy of the unenlightened "peasant class" a reality.

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Blur @tomboypepsilove.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Watched an El Santo movie and I htink the funniest thing to me is that he's simultaneously played as a detective superhero yet he's also still an in-universe wrestler, so he has to pause the plot to go wrestling three separate times

El Santo on a phonecall: "When I develop it, it'll be confirmed. Got to go wrestling."

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Probably a mistake to announce that my Hole-O-Ween Orgynizer mod would have 13 guests. I'm 4 days behind and only have 11, and haven't finished the room either.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm going to create a genre called "glitterdark" I don't know what it's going to be ecactly, but I assume yassified gramdark.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When I say "cute couples photos" I only mean this.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the one I was looking for. You can see how I would see that and say "I don't need this image now, but I probably will at some point."

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trying to find a stock photo I bookmarked because it seemed like I might use it at some point, and it wasn't this one, but just look at this marvelous creature.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Me: this is bad game design Audience: yeah it is Me: no no, I mean like really bad Audience: yeah, we get it Me: okay hold on, let me just make a big color-coded chart to show you how bad this is

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I demand a video game of whatever this is.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I keep looking up how loud background music should be, and it always seems way too loud to me, and I think I might just have issues filtering out sounds.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Alright, time to see if I remember how to do background noise reduction in audacity! It was standard practice for my old videos that I recorded with a $20 microphone.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good thing I bit the bullet and recorded that video last night when it was in the 80s, because it's in the 90s now.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Possibly, but Joanne has historically had something against role-playing games. Like, I don't think she's ever said anything about it, but she must have received hundreds of licensing applications for a HP RPG, and the fact that she denied them all says something.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I genuinely don't know what to do, I need to record some camera-facing segments, and my options are either have a loud fan blowing, or be visibly sweating. It's fucking midnight, why is it still 80 degrees?

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Or paleontology. Yes, "Modern art," art made by modern humans.

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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm sweating like I just ran a mile, but all I did was sit at my desk for 30 minutes with only the small fan running.

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