madman.bsky.social
Game designer, musician, swordsperson, forever DM.
Panelist on the Oingo Boingo Secret Appreciation Society podcast.
Someday, I will do something with my life.
he/him
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"productized"? Really?
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14. Space. I love space shit. I went to Space Camp three times, most recently in 2019. As a kid I subscribed to Astronomy magazine. I follow an astrophysicist on youtube. One of the biggest disappointments with the future we got was I thought by now I would have been able to go to space...
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I also have to assume she knows that. But I didn't, that's a cool tidbit! I hope the young one enjoys the book.
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I genuinely wondered if anyone reading this would recognize Morkeleb! The cover for that book, by Michael Whelan, is one of my go-to pieces of art for "what my platonic ideal dragon looks like".
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13. Dragons. I collect figurines, dragon art, and sometimes dragon books or games. From Smaug to Morkeleb to Orm Embar, give me more cool dragons.
...Maybe someday I should read the Pern books.
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12. A specific author: Roger Zelazny. I have read every word he published- every book, every short story, every poem, every essay. This took a while. I haven't heard any stories about him turning out to be a POS like so many other authors, so my fingers are crossed there.
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11. @failbettergames.bsky.social 's Fallen London, which I have been playing for almost 11 years. If you play, hit me up and I'll send you some rats.
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10. The Princess Bride. It is a great book, and the perfect movie. I will not be taking questions.
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9. West Peak. A site in the Hanging Hills in Meriden, CT, this is where I spent much of my high school years hanging out when I wanted to get away. Always windy, you can look out over a cliff to a great view.
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8. Reading. For a while, in the early pandemic, I didn't have the brain to read anything new, but I still was constantly rereading something. Most recent book I finished was Nightborn by CS Friedman. I primarily read fantasy and scifi.
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7. My partners. I have 4 but won't list them each individually as that feels cheap. :)
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6. Board gaming. My favorite board game of all time is an old game called Magic Realm; my favorite from the past decade is probably Terraforming Mars. I am always down for Cosmic Encounter. I love board games.
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5. The Ultima series. My favorite game of all time is Ultima V, I grew up with them, they shaped my tastes and possibly, through the virtues, my morality.
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4. Swords and swordfighting. I LARP, I took sword lessons for a decade, and now that I don't do it often I miss the hell out of it.
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3. Being a Dungeon Master. Turns out if I go long enough without my brain starts itching (and my fingers start itching for dice). I mostly run D&D but have a soft spot for Amber Diceless. My next game starts up on Saturday. I am doing prep in another window.
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2. Making music. I sing, play the guitar and piano fairly well, play the hammered dulcimer, didgeridoo, drums, harmonica, and a few others quite badly. I have written and recorded songs, and composed the music to my computer game. Music is in my soul.
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1. Listening to music. I'm rarely not listening to something. My favorite band is Oingo Boingo, my favorite genre is probably celtic, my favorite song is possibly Time by Pink Floyd. (None of those go together.)
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There's some really nice things in that list!
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I got about 50 pages into Last Call and then got distracted by another book. I really should pick it up. Only Powers I've read is The Anubis Gates, which I absolutely loved. I was introduced to him at a con by a mutual friend once, even. So I have no excuse.
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What I am still not, however, is any good at it. I die a lot. :P
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I have this neat game on my phone called Ananias that works well for it, too. :)
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I play Marvel Snap for that purpose.
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Ah, I get what you're saying. 1000%, as a certain Dropout personality might say.
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Yes and no... Make Some Noise is mostly a handful of Whose Line Is It Anyway games put in a blender, as Sam is happy to acknowledge and point out when they got Wayne Brady on.
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However, after graduating college I started a project of reading books that many people had been made to read in high school, but I hadn't. Read Brave New World, 1984, F 451, and a few others, and then threw A Catcher in the Rye across the room and abandoned the project. God I hated that.
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Read Shakespeare of course, loved Great Gatsby, Things Fall Apart, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. College introduced me to Vonnegut with Player Piano.
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Oh no, I'm so sorry. I hope it passes quickly.
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Dirty Laundry/Terraformers does not really become anything coherent, alas...
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Ok, this is my new favorite.
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...I would contribute to this meme but this contribution here cannot be topped.
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Paks is a great addition.
For "name a FEMALE character not from LotR that could resist the One Ring", I will add... Ista dy Chalion. After living with a curse for 20 years, I think that her steel spine would not bend even for the Ring.
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Ok, I've got:
Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett. I've read it once before and now I'm reading them in pub order, and I'm so looking forward to getting back into this one.
Paladin's Grace, @tkingfisher.com
And, genuinely, not just because you're the one who asked:
Someone You Can Build a Nest In.
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John.
...but also, yes. Yes it is.
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End of the Iran hostage crisis.
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Oh no, you found me!
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Well, I hadn't bought the book yet, so... now I guess I have, and then a couple other books to bring it up to free shipping. Curse you! *shakes tiny fist*
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Ah, I thought it sounded familiar! I saw Kooza when it came to SF some years ago, and I'm pretty sure it's my favorite of all their touring shows!
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Well that makes sense. What was the show?
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Wow. That sounds incredible. I've had one swordfight on a 4-inch wide pipe (which was only about 6 inches off the ground), and even that was... well, no one got hurt, at least? :) But on a tightrope, that's getting into Cirque territory. How very cool.
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This piece is where I learned the word "gloaming", years ago.
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Good night! Your posts are always... inSpiring!
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oh nooooo
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Responding just to give you a better notification.
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I was going to joke "I thought popcorn buckets were supposed to be fuckable?" but then I decided that's not what I wanted one of my few bluesky posts to be.
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Finished some Work Ass Progress!