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Captain Zenscuel is Writing Starlight Journals
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Making a far future sci-fi TTRPG named Starlight Journals. Also general life updates. My game development has no "AI" elements to it. Everything is either my work or commissioned.

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Captain Zenscuel is Writing Starlight Journals @captainzenscuel.bsky.social · 7d
#TTRPG
Hello everyone! I have finished the "Early Player Draft." This is a rules complete, though not fully reviewed, version of the book re-write. Consider this a draft and not a final manuscript copy. It does not include the Chapter 13/14 Lore chapters. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vnk9l...
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captainzenscuel.bsky.social
Get the Zeon Apologists, Ball.
fuul.bsky.social Fuul @fuul.bsky.social · 20h
Fuck it, We ball
RB-79 Ball
#Gundam #Fanart
The RB-79 Ball is a civilian mobile suit fitted for battle, reinforced with heavier armor and equipped with a 180mm cannon for most cases. It's thrusters used "solid" fuel instead of normal liquid fuel, essentially, little explosions that triggered the impulse, giving it a good reaction time. It was dubbed the "Mobile Coffin" by the own EFF because of it's fragility. It was however, very nimble and small enough to avoid most attacks, it was faster than most regular mobile suits at the time, and had a longer range of attack than the Zaku II, all while being cost effective, that's why it was.... BORN TO ROLL ZEON IS A FUCK Kill Em All 0079 I am round man 410,757,864,530 DEAD ZEEKS
February 4, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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fuul.bsky.social
Fuck it, We ball
RB-79 Ball
#Gundam #Fanart
The RB-79 Ball is a civilian mobile suit fitted for battle, reinforced with heavier armor and equipped with a 180mm cannon for most cases. It's thrusters used "solid" fuel instead of normal liquid fuel, essentially, little explosions that triggered the impulse, giving it a good reaction time. It was dubbed the "Mobile Coffin" by the own EFF because of it's fragility. It was however, very nimble and small enough to avoid most attacks, it was faster than most regular mobile suits at the time, and had a longer range of attack than the Zaku II, all while being cost effective, that's why it was.... BORN TO ROLL ZEON IS A FUCK Kill Em All 0079 I am round man 410,757,864,530 DEAD ZEEKS
February 3, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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kennylogins.bsky.social
colossal stone head @colossal-head.bsky.social the alt text field is where you imagine what guybrush threepwood might say if he examined your image September 5, 2024 at 5:56 PM
June 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
I'm gonna try to go extra tiers of dweeb that annoys the other dweebs

Just start throwing random Japanese, Latin, and German words in my English fandom discussion

Senpai, dis anime is a Meisterstück truly nulli secundus.
February 3, 2026 at 8:21 PM
captainzenscuel.bsky.social
I do kind of wish there was a different word in sci-fi for making settlements on a place with nobody there like say, the Moon or an asteroid or something other than "Colonize" since that's traditionally the word for, well, lots of bad things. You guys understand that.
February 3, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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grickle.bsky.social
But it also caused a lot of winter anxiety. #grickledoodle #scrolling #hibernation #internet #cartoon #bears #art #drawing #funny
A cartoon illustration of three bears lying in a cave looking at an ipad or phone. Caption reads "The internet made hibernation bearable."
February 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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machineiv.bsky.social
Idiocracy is not “a documentary.” It’s an incredibly gross piece full of classist arguments for eugenics. Eugenics is literally the solution of the problem in the movie.

Love what that says to people like me, born of ignorant right wing rednecks.
February 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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ishidaval.bsky.social
νガンダム（ハイ・ストリーマー）
ν-GUNDAM[Hi-Streamer]
February 3, 2026 at 1:08 PM
captainzenscuel.bsky.social
The funniest part about this is that sun rises are a solved problem.
demongrrl.gay demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 2d
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*breathes*

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
Twitter post from @BenjaminDEKR “OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How? The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk")” Continuation of twitter post “1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders 3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK" 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage: - Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats - 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone - Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." The problem is: 1. Heartbeat uses Opus (most expensive model) for a trivial check 2. Sends the entire conversation context (~120k tokens) each time 3. Runs every 30 minutes regardless of whether anything needs checking That's $750 a month if this runs, to occasionally remind me stuff? Yeah, no. Not great.”
February 3, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
Repeat after me:

Hate watching still counts as watching, hate watching still counts as watching
February 2, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
Here's another bird strutting through the wetlands for #WorldWetlandsDay! An American Bittern out in the open, searching for a meal on a late winter day

#birds 🌿
A streaky beige bird struts through a brown winter landscape. One yellow foot lifted out of the shallow water which reflects the bird and the mud flats.
February 2, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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demongrrl.gay
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*breathes*

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
Twitter post from @BenjaminDEKR “OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How? The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk")” Continuation of twitter post “1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders 3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK" 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage: - Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats - 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone - Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." The problem is: 1. Heartbeat uses Opus (most expensive model) for a trivial check 2. Sends the entire conversation context (~120k tokens) each time 3. Runs every 30 minutes regardless of whether anything needs checking That's $750 a month if this runs, to occasionally remind me stuff? Yeah, no. Not great.”
February 2, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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cheflubu.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
here's my entry!! #Comics4Liam
a rabbit pops out of the snow; second panel shows many rabbits popping up; third panel has liam himself popping up and the rabbits all around him. text says for liam! love, all the bunnies in the whole wide world <3
February 1, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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bisexualmothman.bsky.social
doing an easy build to get back into the swing of gunpla

then next up is layzner!!
Box for HG G-Self gunpla.
August 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com
Ok, #ttrpg hot take time. I've had a couple of beers, may regret this later.

If metacurrency ruins your immersion, then unless you've been doing some FKR bullshit, then every other RPG you've ever played has also done that. All of them require doing things that are "meta".
February 1, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Ferbruary #oldknees
A downy woodpecker sits on a spruce on a sunny winter day. "Ahh... Febuary" it says. Close up on it correcting "Febrary" then "Febberary..." then finally "Frebrury"
February 1, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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captainzenscuel.bsky.social
Tag yourself. Young Harry Dubois drinking decaff or man with 70s hair (wig) having a bad morning.
Hyvee Classic Roast with a picture of a man with large glasses, large hair, and a full beard preparing to drink coffee. To the right is Hyvee Classic Decaf with a man with a handlebar mustache and a wig of heavily swept over hair in a pastel green-pink getup very 70s style.
February 1, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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kinofabino.bsky.social
First person shooters
February 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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rappenem.bsky.social
it's true
February 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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mynameisrichard.bsky.social
There must be examples of ttrpgs out there that explicitly detail/have rules for "how to win" at them?

Like, there is direction (get this treasure, save this person, banish this nightmare) but the concept of winning feels like it should be in conflict with the narrative but I am not sure that it is
February 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
captainzenscuel.bsky.social
Tag yourself. Young Harry Dubois drinking decaff or man with 70s hair (wig) having a bad morning.
Hyvee Classic Roast with a picture of a man with large glasses, large hair, and a full beard preparing to drink coffee. To the right is Hyvee Classic Decaf with a man with a handlebar mustache and a wig of heavily swept over hair in a pastel green-pink getup very 70s style.
February 1, 2026 at 4:40 PM
captainzenscuel.bsky.social
Up at 4 AM eating dried strawberries because tummy was rumbly. Time to go back to bed.
January 31, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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captainzenscuel.bsky.social
One thing I'm realizing as I'm writing the history stuff again is that I think the reason so much of sci-fi treats aliens as the way they do in a lot of 4x games and the like, IE Mass Effect, is that it makes it easier to make it about the good people vs bad people instead of really reckon with it.
January 30, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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miraclebutt.bsky.social
Another, for anticipation and Keep Alives.

Anticipation often starts with the eyes. Viewers can be "primed" to look somewhere by following a character's gaze.

Keep Alives are fidgeting, blinking, breathing, etc. when a character's not the focus of a scene, e.g. listening to a conversation.
January 30, 2026 at 11:13 PM