Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky
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Oh, I technically never made a 2024 iteration of this thread! Ah well, as good a time to start as any. As always, 10 great, 5 OK, 1 sucks ass and if you want more in-depth thoughts go check out my Backloggd: backloggd.com/u/Mr_Finn_Mc...
Oh shit, it's 2025, so time for a new one-post review thread of every game I play this year! I use an x/10 ranking because it helps convey general sentiment with limited characters. 10 is Maximum Finn Shit, 5 is OK, 1 Super Bad.
Going through some old RPG notes, still very happy with this mystery I wrote for the Between.
The Lords and Ladies of Weymouth House
The Lords and Ladies of Weymouth House Presenting the Threat Edmund Weymouth has approached Hargrave House with concerns regarding his mother, Patricia Weymouth. Mrs Weymouth has a reputation as an ec...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Going through some old RPG notes, still very happy with this mystery I wrote for the Between.
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On the one hand Disney are invested in LLMs and financially need this to work, on the other this inevitably leads to videos of Mickey dicking down Yensid in the hour. I think ends up with knife fights at HQ.
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users
(via THR)
(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
On the one hand Disney are invested in LLMs and financially need this to work, on the other this inevitably leads to videos of Mickey dicking down Yensid in the hour. I think ends up with knife fights at HQ.
Well that's a massive fucking shame. One fewer game to buy I guess.
Well, fuck. Revoking any and all Peripeteia recommendations (and I wish I could un-back it on Kickstarter) based on the very thinly veiled transphobia from the dev (the first one in the screenshots here).
I hate this.
I hate this.
Acquaintance grabbed these screencaps. Idk if it's getting purged.
"Second stage is people rejecting conspiracy discourse" is genuinely hilarious, I gotta teach em a little about Yakub and maybe they'll change their tune
"Second stage is people rejecting conspiracy discourse" is genuinely hilarious, I gotta teach em a little about Yakub and maybe they'll change their tune
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Well that's a massive fucking shame. One fewer game to buy I guess.
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Unfortunately Keating also introduced the concept of mutual obligations and then found that lots of public servants didn’t want to enforce rules that would cut people’s payments off and then concluded you’d have to start privatising some of it then. He laid the groundwork for Howard’s butchery
Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
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Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Unfortunately Keating also introduced the concept of mutual obligations and then found that lots of public servants didn’t want to enforce rules that would cut people’s payments off and then concluded you’d have to start privatising some of it then. He laid the groundwork for Howard’s butchery
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Some people you give your time & receive gifts a thousandfold over. It's not that you calculated it, or contracted it, it just is that echo of the blessed in Dante's Paradise, who say "lo, here comes one who will increase our loves." A mirror of light, who sees you truly but also your best self.
My dearies. I’m keenly aware that in real & meaningful ways, we all owe very few people our time. Thank you for choosing to share some of yours with me, either in the #AW3rd kickstarter, in conversation at #Metatopia2025, or in other #ttrog spaces. How we are with each other matters.
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Some people you give your time & receive gifts a thousandfold over. It's not that you calculated it, or contracted it, it just is that echo of the blessed in Dante's Paradise, who say "lo, here comes one who will increase our loves." A mirror of light, who sees you truly but also your best self.
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One year later, and I got to have a brief reunion with my pal Juan Carlos. He's as handsome as ever.
November 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
One year later, and I got to have a brief reunion with my pal Juan Carlos. He's as handsome as ever.
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in my dream i was being really nice to this kid and he called me a new slur for people who are really nice
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
in my dream i was being really nice to this kid and he called me a new slur for people who are really nice
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This is so much funnier now LOL
November 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This is so much funnier now LOL
I can't *fucking* believe I didn't get the joke was that Dr Vegapunk uses his Apple to communicate with the Cloud until I listened to this episode.
OUT NOW: It's been four years since we covered One Piece, and a lot of crazy shit has happened since then. Tom and guest co-Sicko @marquez.bsky.social discuss da best comic book ever made, with full spoilers up to the current chapter. This one is for the One Piece heads.
237: The One Piece Episode - Part 2 | Anime Sickos - Podcast for Geniuses
It's been four years since the Sickos covered One Piece, and a lot has happened since then. Tom and Guest co-Sicko Marquez are current on One Piece and ready to...
animesickos.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I can't *fucking* believe I didn't get the joke was that Dr Vegapunk uses his Apple to communicate with the Cloud until I listened to this episode.
Following Dominic Tarason is fucked up, man. You'll think you're reasonably across all the good indie shit that's out there. Then you see a thread of his float onto your timeline and come to with another dozen games you want to check out.
There's a round of GOTY discussion going around, and I realized that a lot of my favourite games this year have been absolute Sicko Picks.
So here's a few games I've loved so far in 2025, starting with a mild one: Babushka's Glitch Dungeon. A scrunkly lil' puzzle-metroidvania with so many fun verbs
So here's a few games I've loved so far in 2025, starting with a mild one: Babushka's Glitch Dungeon. A scrunkly lil' puzzle-metroidvania with so many fun verbs
Save 50% on Babushka's Glitch Dungeon on Steam
Oh hello dearie.. Babushka needs to clean up her big magical cellar. Use hag magic, or just hit stuff with your broom.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Following Dominic Tarason is fucked up, man. You'll think you're reasonably across all the good indie shit that's out there. Then you see a thread of his float onto your timeline and come to with another dozen games you want to check out.
I'm one of the legions of people whose brain was completely rewritten when the first iteration of Apocalypse World came out nearly 20 years ago, time to do it all again baby.
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I'm one of the legions of people whose brain was completely rewritten when the first iteration of Apocalypse World came out nearly 20 years ago, time to do it all again baby.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happene...Hm? Oh, never mind.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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November 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happene...Hm? Oh, never mind.
Often I've reflected that this selection makes it look like I drive like a maniac, which is about as far from true as it could possibly be.
I enjoy this kind of thing.
Please judge me based on my four favourite films
Please judge me based on my four favourite films
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Often I've reflected that this selection makes it look like I drive like a maniac, which is about as far from true as it could possibly be.
I enjoy this kind of thing.
Please judge me based on my four favourite films
Please judge me based on my four favourite films
November 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I enjoy this kind of thing.
Please judge me based on my four favourite films
Please judge me based on my four favourite films
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The last time New York had a decent mayor was Giuliani, over two decades ago. Say what you will about him (you younger people only know what's become of him after leaving office), but he really did clean up the city. He oversaw the removal of its two biggest eyesores.
November 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The last time New York had a decent mayor was Giuliani, over two decades ago. Say what you will about him (you younger people only know what's become of him after leaving office), but he really did clean up the city. He oversaw the removal of its two biggest eyesores.
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
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Can’t believe Dick Chaney couldn't even last four days into No Nut November
November 5, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Can’t believe Dick Chaney couldn't even last four days into No Nut November
"This is not a game" is the critical equivalent of "Dogs can't play basketball " - it's an appeal to the refs, a claim that this situation shouldn't be engaged with at all, and frankly I'm going to assume it's because you're scared the dog will kick your ass.
i wish people would be substantially more careful with their choice to dismiss art/games they don't like as "not art / not a game"
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"This is not a game" is the critical equivalent of "Dogs can't play basketball " - it's an appeal to the refs, a claim that this situation shouldn't be engaged with at all, and frankly I'm going to assume it's because you're scared the dog will kick your ass.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Oh, you like Mamdani? What if we told you his campaign was actually run by his 11/10 smokeshow wife?? What then???
[the NY Post scrambling to make a last-ditch scandal:]
"umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"
"umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Oh, you like Mamdani? What if we told you his campaign was actually run by his 11/10 smokeshow wife?? What then???
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for all you people lined up to complain about honest and simple bread wrapped around a free grilled weener i am going to need you to eat the little paper that the "i voted" sticker comes on and tell me how it tastes
November 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
for all you people lined up to complain about honest and simple bread wrapped around a free grilled weener i am going to need you to eat the little paper that the "i voted" sticker comes on and tell me how it tastes