Daniel Zenon Klein
@danielzklein.bsky.social
he/him
Game designer, prev. Riot, Magnopus, Respawn. Loves dogs, pretzels, absurd humor, and magnesium. Shader truther. Reads too many TTRPGs, starts too many creative projects, never finishes anyt
Game designer, prev. Riot, Magnopus, Respawn. Loves dogs, pretzels, absurd humor, and magnesium. Shader truther. Reads too many TTRPGs, starts too many creative projects, never finishes anyt
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Hello, friend, and welcome to the Palintíri help and support system, provided by the Eldar, Eru's first born, to you, men, Eru's second born, free of charge and with a minimum of condescension.
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any discussion of city transit improvement online ever
January 1, 2026 at 12:07 AM
any discussion of city transit improvement online ever
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2026 ?
2+26 = 28
2026-28 = 1 998
1998 divisé par 3 (cotés du triangle illuminati) = 666
Bonne chance à nous tous.
2+26 = 28
2026-28 = 1 998
1998 divisé par 3 (cotés du triangle illuminati) = 666
Bonne chance à nous tous.
December 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
2026 ?
2+26 = 28
2026-28 = 1 998
1998 divisé par 3 (cotés du triangle illuminati) = 666
Bonne chance à nous tous.
2+26 = 28
2026-28 = 1 998
1998 divisé par 3 (cotés du triangle illuminati) = 666
Bonne chance à nous tous.
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May 2026 be better, safer, and fairer. May all that was good in 2025 be better in 2026. May all that was bad in 2025 be things we put our efforts towards improving.
December 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
May 2026 be better, safer, and fairer. May all that was good in 2025 be better in 2026. May all that was bad in 2025 be things we put our efforts towards improving.
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This episode of Sesame Street has a training montage with Elmo trying to get good at hot potato set to the song “eye of the potato” and I just think that’s peak
December 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This episode of Sesame Street has a training montage with Elmo trying to get good at hot potato set to the song “eye of the potato” and I just think that’s peak
I'm making all my friends watch this tonight
Time for the most German of traditions
Dinner for One with Freddie Frinton and May Warden
YouTube video by Retro TV
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I'm making all my friends watch this tonight
*squints*
87. And it felt like a slow year? To be fair I've been getting more into @aptshadow.bsky.social's back catalogue and 87 books is how many he seems to publish in an average year. (I'm 4 books deep into Shadows of the Apt, which I started two weeks ago not expecting it to be for me)
87. And it felt like a slow year? To be fair I've been getting more into @aptshadow.bsky.social's back catalogue and 87 books is how many he seems to publish in an average year. (I'm 4 books deep into Shadows of the Apt, which I started two weeks ago not expecting it to be for me)
NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American.
Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
December 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
*squints*
87. And it felt like a slow year? To be fair I've been getting more into @aptshadow.bsky.social's back catalogue and 87 books is how many he seems to publish in an average year. (I'm 4 books deep into Shadows of the Apt, which I started two weeks ago not expecting it to be for me)
87. And it felt like a slow year? To be fair I've been getting more into @aptshadow.bsky.social's back catalogue and 87 books is how many he seems to publish in an average year. (I'm 4 books deep into Shadows of the Apt, which I started two weeks ago not expecting it to be for me)
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Dwarves. Never change.
December 31, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Dwarves. Never change.
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"my friends are too incapable of going places, I need a car to force them to get to the movie" would be a weirdly accusative projection of what people use vehicles for.
Rules are supports that make things easier. Sometimes, they'll give you a unique experience you wouldn't have found on your own.
Rules are supports that make things easier. Sometimes, they'll give you a unique experience you wouldn't have found on your own.
I regret to inform you that basically all games have incentive structures.
Generally, if an object of play doesn't have incentive structures, it's a toy.
Generally, if an object of play doesn't have incentive structures, it's a toy.
December 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"my friends are too incapable of going places, I need a car to force them to get to the movie" would be a weirdly accusative projection of what people use vehicles for.
Rules are supports that make things easier. Sometimes, they'll give you a unique experience you wouldn't have found on your own.
Rules are supports that make things easier. Sometimes, they'll give you a unique experience you wouldn't have found on your own.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
When you’re a famous literary critic you can just throw out outrageous statements as obviously true facts in a little “such as” phrase and move on and no one will call you on your bullshit. Truly the dream.
December 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
When you’re a famous literary critic you can just throw out outrageous statements as obviously true facts in a little “such as” phrase and move on and no one will call you on your bullshit. Truly the dream.
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
Anyone else getting the bug on iPhone where if you watch a video full screen in the Bluesky app the player will not close after and you have to kill and restart the app?
December 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Anyone else getting the bug on iPhone where if you watch a video full screen in the Bluesky app the player will not close after and you have to kill and restart the app?
Me: *showering the dog, reaching for the dog shampoo*
Me: yeah! That’s the shampoo!
Dog: *looks worried yet curious*
Me: I’m sorry but there’s no real poo in it.
Dog: *stares*
Me: I guess that’s why they call it SHAM-poo!
Dog: *laughs hysterically, high-fives me*
Me: yeah! That’s the shampoo!
Dog: *looks worried yet curious*
Me: I’m sorry but there’s no real poo in it.
Dog: *stares*
Me: I guess that’s why they call it SHAM-poo!
Dog: *laughs hysterically, high-fives me*
December 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Me: *showering the dog, reaching for the dog shampoo*
Me: yeah! That’s the shampoo!
Dog: *looks worried yet curious*
Me: I’m sorry but there’s no real poo in it.
Dog: *stares*
Me: I guess that’s why they call it SHAM-poo!
Dog: *laughs hysterically, high-fives me*
Me: yeah! That’s the shampoo!
Dog: *looks worried yet curious*
Me: I’m sorry but there’s no real poo in it.
Dog: *stares*
Me: I guess that’s why they call it SHAM-poo!
Dog: *laughs hysterically, high-fives me*
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still my favorite christmas post
December 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
still my favorite christmas post
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happy erev christmas
December 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
happy erev christmas
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Jólabókaflóð
In Iceland, books are exchanged on Christmas eve, and you spend the rest of the night reading.
People generally take their books to bed along with some chocolate.
More info in the alt text 👇
In Iceland, books are exchanged on Christmas eve, and you spend the rest of the night reading.
People generally take their books to bed along with some chocolate.
More info in the alt text 👇
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Jólabókaflóð
In Iceland, books are exchanged on Christmas eve, and you spend the rest of the night reading.
People generally take their books to bed along with some chocolate.
More info in the alt text 👇
In Iceland, books are exchanged on Christmas eve, and you spend the rest of the night reading.
People generally take their books to bed along with some chocolate.
More info in the alt text 👇
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Imagine the amount of good that could have been done with that much money.
December 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Imagine the amount of good that could have been done with that much money.
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After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
December 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
As a treat I allow myself to repost this one once a year. Yes I'm insufferable.
Hello, friend, and welcome to the Palintíri help and support system, provided by the Eldar, Eru's first born, to you, men, Eru's second born, free of charge and with a minimum of condescension.
December 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
As a treat I allow myself to repost this one once a year. Yes I'm insufferable.
My Christmas present to myself is I let myself word-vomit a post that's been rattling in my brain for days and post it to my semi-defunct blog with zero editing or thought. No "is this useful to anyone" or "am I even making sense", just words and the publish button.
danielzklein.com/gamers-searc...
danielzklein.com/gamers-searc...
Gamer’s Search For Meaning – DanielZKlein
danielzklein.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
My Christmas present to myself is I let myself word-vomit a post that's been rattling in my brain for days and post it to my semi-defunct blog with zero editing or thought. No "is this useful to anyone" or "am I even making sense", just words and the publish button.
danielzklein.com/gamers-searc...
danielzklein.com/gamers-searc...
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like prime, but with human beings”