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i think everyone needs to stop framing whats going on as “bending the knee” and what’s really happening which is “they’re finally feel free to do what they’ve always wanted to do”

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I need to apologize to the Captain Planet writers for not acknowledging their restrained and nuanced portrayal of rich corporate villains.

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screen-frazzled insomnia of the anthropocene

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Alrighty, here we go! My #ZineMonth project, OddFolk, is released and funding on Itch! I've been working on this game for over a year and I"m really quite fond of it. OddFolk is a modular TTRPG of compounding consequences that exclusively uses D4s. maxwellander.itch.io/oddfolk

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Hands down one of the coolest projects out there! These are brilliant books

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The procedural, full-spread Shrine Generator from our forthcoming sourcebook about holy sites.

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love my great nation. not the schools though they teach wrong. not the agriculture though the workers are immigrants. not the scientists though they try to trick me. not the great cities though they’re elite. HATE the great cities. not my neighbors though they criticize my nation. I love the banks

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Players vibing with Gigi is super fun to see because, as the only original character we added, she's our darling, too.

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If Earth were a PvP server and players like Elon topped the boards, we would hot-fix out that meta and IP-ban their accounts.

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When I was 8, my best friend stole my boomerang and we got into a big fight. The next day his parents died in a car accident and I never saw him again. Jeff, if you’re reading this, I want my boomerang

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fondly recalling this sentence from my old report cards

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ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all

submitted 35 days ago • 402 comments

Our company has a rite of passage where, whenever someone joins, some scammer outside the company reaches out to them as the CEO, and then that new-joiner posts a screenshot in Slack like “Ummm guys???,” and everyone else is like “ONE OF US. ONE OF US.”

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

This is my new favorite game.

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As a kid I leaned on CHA because I liked attention and it was fun to entertain, as a young adult I focused INT to grind technical competence, and now hitting the latter half of my 30s I wonder if WIS was ur-stat all along—steering, for better or worse, all the choices that I made.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

If you spend too much time on the internet, you really gotta start treating the people here the way you'd treat them in real life.

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

Transcendence has always meant death

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Kickstarter is now live! The Beasts and Blessings of the Hallow’d Hall: a deck of 45 bestiary cards along with a companion compendium of folk prose cowritten by myself and writer/composer @notquitereal.bsky.social kickstarter.com/projects/badbucket/the-beasts-and-blessings-of-the-hallowd-hall

submitted 79 days ago • 8 comments

Post-cultural consultation rework of a shrine from the crowdfunding campaign. It's satisfying to circle back and redevelop the early ideas, having found the book's complexity-level further into writing.

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just from a folklore point of view, "attractive hooded man kills billionaire head of hated business with bullets inscribed with political slogans and then vanishes" is narratively breathtaking

submitted 83 days ago • 116 comments

You have to make it because you want to see it exist in the world. It’s gotta annoy you a little that it doesn’t exist, and you gotta do it for yourself.

submitted 83 days ago • 19 comments

Just met with Tibetan monk and nonprofit director Khenpo Pema Wangdak for cultural consultation on Shrines: Sites of Reverence & Power, our forthcoming TTRPG supplement about sacred spaces and devotional practice. Here's a selfie we took with the Windows Snipping Tool.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

What if we were, like, not glib and mean on this one

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Announcing a new kickstarter project with the fantastic composer/writer @notquitereal.bsky.social and myself - The Beasts and Blessings of the Hallow’d Hall: A Deck of Bestiary Cards Stay tuned for the Kickstarter drop next week (full trailer on my insta due to bluesky video limit)

submitted 90 days ago • 12 comments

Ok, I’m loving the starter packs! This one is for women (inclusively defined) in Ocean Science. You need more ocean 🌊 in your feed! Follow these folks. If you would like to be added please just let me know 👋 … if I forgot you, please don’t be offended, it was an accident! go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo

submitted 98 days ago • 107 comments

I've been seeing the sentiment lately of artists committing to making weirder, more self-indulgent art and I love it

submitted 94 days ago • 44 comments