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Re: #CastleSuperBeast question if Biblical D&D exists

Never played it myself, just got ut for the yuks, but I heard it's actually pretty decent

@patstaresat.bsky.social @wooliewoolz.bsky.social
Photo of the front cover of a tabletop roleplaying game called "Testament: Roleplaying in the Biblical Era"
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
The HELL is up with these ads I keep getting on Tumblr? Been seeing them for MONTHS now
A banner advertisement on Tumblr split into 6 images. 4 of them seem to various crafting tools, one a closeup of a neck with a thin chain necklace, one of a ling sleeve shirt that says "P.E.N.I.S. People Encouraging Niceness In Society" on it
October 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
acanuck.bsky.social
What? You mean the Musk endorsement DIDN'T help boost numbers!? 😱
A human-ish robot built by "xAI", the company owned by terminally online alleged billionaire Elon Musk, posing in front of a poster for the movie "Tron: Aries" featuring the same robot
October 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
It's weird, the new episode DID download for me but afterwards I got a 503 error when updating my feeds
Screenshot of the podcast feed for Talk From Superheroes in the app Podcast Addict. The latest episode on Alien Earth is download, but there is also a "Error: 503" message at the top saying the app was unable to reach the hosting server
September 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
TECHNICALLY "season 4" is just two movies split up into episodes with commercial breaks, BUT IT STILL COUNTS!!
September 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
acanuck.bsky.social
Text heavy, but if you're a diehard Star Trek fan it's HILARIOUS! I look around for this thing every few years, and keep thinking I should FRAME it 😂

tldr: Aliens don't understand that the movie "Back to the Future" is a comedy because Doc Brown is how ALL Starfleet Engineers behave
Post by prokopetz Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn't just an artifact of the television serial format. Rather, it's because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they don't really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses - but they're as likely as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn't actually happen to anyone else; it's literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis. Post by writebastard So to everyone else in the galaxy, all humans are basically Doc Brown. Post by prokopetz Aliens who have seen the Back to the Future movies literally don't realise that Doc Brown is meant to be funny. They're just like "yes, that is exactly what all human scientists are like in my experience". Post by roachpatrol THE ONLY REASON SCOTTY IS CHIEF ENGINEER INSTEAD OF SOMEONE FROM A SPECIES WITH A HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL APTITUDE IS BECAUSE EVERYONE FROM THOSE SPECIES TOOK ONE LOOK AT THE ENTERPRISE'S ENGINE ROOM AND RAN AWAY SCREAMING Post by roachpatrol vulcan science academy: why do you need another warp core humans: we're going to plug two of them together and see if we go twice as fast vsa: last time we gave you a warp core you threw it into a sun to see if the sun would go twice as fast humans: hahaha yeah humans: it did tho vsa: IT EXPLODED humans: it exploded twice as fast Post by froborr I love this. Especially because of how well it plays with my headcanon that the Federation does so much better against the Borg than anyone else because beating the Borg with military tactics is nigh-impossible, but beating them with wacky superscience shenanigans works as long as they're unique wacky superscience shenanigans. Post by megabeeprime Yeah, I love this. Post by underscorex Reminds me of the thing I wrote a while back about Humans in high fantasy realms - they're basically Team Fuck It Hold My Beer I Got This. Impulsive, passionate to a fault, the social structures they build to try and regulate this hotheadedness ironically creates even greater levels of sheer bull-headedness. Even their "cooler" heads take action in months or weeks. All their great heroes of the past were impossibly rash by galactic standards. Humans Just Go With It, which is their great flaw but also their greatest strength. Post by roachpatrol klingons: okay we don't get it vulcan science academy: get what klingons: you vulcans are a bunch of stuffy prisses but you're also tougher, stronger, and smarter than humans in every single way klingons: why do you let them run your federation vulcan science academy: look vulcan science academy: this is a species where if you give them two warp cores they don't do experiments on one and save the other for if the first one blows up vulcan science academy: this is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they will ask for a third one, immediately plug all three into each other, punch a hole into an alternate universe where humans subscribe to an even more destructive ideological system, fight everyone in it because they're offended by that, steal their warp cores, plug those together, punch their way back here, then try to turn a nearby sun into a torus because that was what their initial scientific experiment was for and they didn't want to waste a trip. vulcan science academy: they did that last week. we have the write-… Post by dragon-in-a-fez you know what the best evidence for this is? Deep Space 9 almost never broke down. minor malfunctions that irritated O'Brien to hell and back, sure, but almost none of the truly weird shit that befell Voyager and all the starships Enterprise. what was the weirdest malfunction DS9 ever had? the senior staff getting trapped as holosuite characters in Our Man Bashir, and that was because a human decided to just dump the transporter buffer into the station's core memory and hope everything would work out somehow, which is a bit like swapping your computer's hard drive out for a memory card from a PlayStation 2 and expecting to be able to play a game of Spyro the Dragon with your keyboard and mouse. Post by dragon-in-a-fez you know what, I'm not done with this post. let's talk about the Pegasus. the USS Fucking Pegasus, testbed for the first Starfleet cloaking device. here we have a handful of humans working in secret to develop a cloaking device in violation of a treaty with the Romulans. they're playing catchup trying to develop a technology other species have had for a century, and what do they do? do they decide to duplicate a Romulan cloaking device precisely, just see if they can match what other species have? nope. they decide, hey, while we're at it, while we're building our very first one of these things, just to find out if this is possible, let's see if we can make this thing phase us out of normal space so we can fly through planets while we're invisible. "but why" said the one Vulcan in the room. "because that would fucking rule" said the humans, high-fiving each other and slamming cans of 24th-century Red Bull. there must be like twenty different counselling groups for non-human engineering students at Starfleet Academy, and every week in every single one of them someone walks in and starts up with a story like "our assignment was to repair a phaser emitter and my one human classmate built a chronometric- flux toaster that toasts bre…
September 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
Hell of a #thrift find today!

The controllers and the trail cam were $3 EACH! They were so cheap b/c they're untested, so it may still have been a waste but at THAT price I'll take the chance!!
Photo of finds at my local thrift shop. Two wireless Xbox One controllers, a wired Xbox 360 controller, a motion activated trail camera, and a DVD of the 1960 Ocean's 11 movie.
September 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
If you see this, QTP with a title screen that's iconic to you!
Title screen for Mass Effect 1
September 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
No new pictures, where are you at mentally?
An animation of Bugs Bunny using a saw in front of a Tim Hortons sign, then the image abruptly shifts to an image of a mao of North America and the USA splits away from Canada
August 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
Huh, looks like they've updated the banner to remove Settler's Edition

I guess I wasn't the only one upset
Screenshot of the Steam mobile app showing several banners for on sale games including a banner for Sid Meir's Civilization 7. The banner is just the logo of the base game
August 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
I HATE when this happens. Civilization VII is on sale on Steam right now, the banner add CALLS it "Settler's Edition" which is the name of the highest tier of the game that includes all the DLC BUT the actual price displayed on the banner is the BASE GAME with no DLC
Screenshot of the Steam Games store showing a few banners for games on sale including Sid Meir's Civilization 7 which is currently 30% off. The banner says it is the Settler's Edition but the displayed price is for the base game. Screenshot of the Steam store page for Sid Meir's Civilization 7 showing the various versions of the game available in Canadian dollars. The base game is $63, Deluxe Edition is $91, and the Settler's edition is $112.
August 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
The holotype example of internet discourse

"How DARE you criticize [insert celebrity here]!!"
"Why do you like them?"
"lol wut? Never seen his work"

Imagine being THIS passionate about a stranger you know NOTHING about beyond "He big, he have money!"
Screenshot of a TikTok reply conversation. Post one by amg_sd: "Did you just compare liver king to joe rogan. I think you need to look in the mirror lol. You are off the rails if you think you are even in the same conversation as rogan lol. rogan is your daddy kid". Mark Andrus replies: "imagine your idol being Joe Rogan 💔 bro can't can't feel like a man without his daddy telling him he's strong 💔" and amg_sd replies: "Never watched a joe rogan podcast in my life. Just know him as a fighter and comedian and how succesful he is. Considered how triggered you are and confused with your identity it make sense how your feelings must be hurt."
August 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
Why are the Ents posed like Power Rangers? 😂
Cover art for a 4K steel book copy of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" featuring a stylized image of five Ents standing side by side on top of a hill with Sauron and Sauronon's towers in the background.
August 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
I wonder where the weird spike around 41 u's comes from, either way I'm saving that in my clipboard 😂

Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, princess!
Screenshot from the website linked in the quoted post. For some reason there's a massive spike in the number of u's at 41.
July 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
My Fantastic Four
The four main characters from the 1994 computer animated series Reboot; Guardian Bob, Dot Matrix, her young brother Enzo Matrix, and his dog Frisket. They are all leaning into frame and looking at the viewer with a mix of expressions ranging from curious to concerned.
July 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
If you see this I implore you to post a picture from your device without comment.
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 logo with text in front that says "Keep circulating the tapes"
July 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
John Arbuckle answering a ref phone and loudly shouting "He WHAT?!" and Garfield laying down on the counter in front of him is looking at the viewer smiling as he thinks "I've been a busy boy" Lady Dimitrescu from "Resident Evil Village" holding an old fashioned phone up to her ear with a frustrated look on her face.
June 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
acanuck.bsky.social
Including Gary!!
Cover of Canadian magazine called "explore" with a picture of a fluffy cat sitting on a rock, wearing a walking harness with a yellow rope tied to it, and a picturesque mountain in the background. The subtitle of the magazine says "Meet Canada's Adventurous Cats" and in small font below it is "(including Gary!)" with an arrow pointing to the cat.
June 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
How mainstream is tabletop gaming? Generic dice towers at the dollar store mainstream
Photo of a shelf at a dollar store, there are a few tabletop gaming dice towers above toy helicopters
June 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
My first time seeing the original Star Wars trilogy was the pan-and-scan full screen versions

When I saw the special editions I thought they had actually changed MORE things b/c I didn't realize my copies cut out stuff you could only see in widescreen 😅
Photo of a VHS tape of Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope held in a hand.
May 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM
acanuck.bsky.social
🎵 THE DEVIL'S SPAWN NO LONGER BREATHES
DESCENDING ANGELS AND FALLEN KINGS
RAISE YOUR HANDS, WHAT DO YOU HOLD?
THE DEVIL'S BLEEDING CROWN 🎵
Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music" playing her guitar for children
May 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
Was scrolling through the @zoom-platform.com news page and saw an update for the FEVER DREAM DOS game The Fortress of Dr. Radiaki that it's getting new modern controls updates. I was curious at first, but when I saw "Donkey Kong BONGOS" support I figured it MUST have been April fools, right?
Text from the update page for Zoom-Platform.com version of the DOS game "The Fortress of Dr. Radiaki" showing that they are adding "Native support for the most common controllers" and said common controller is described as "Fully compatible with the DK Bongos" presumably referring the Bongo controllers for the GameCube game "Donkey Konga"
April 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
Playing with my nephew on easter, holding his stegosaurus toy and my mind is FIXATED on looking for a reason to explain why the tail is called a Thagomizer 😅
Picture of the tail of a stegosaurus tail with red sine plates and tail spikes Two images side by side. On the left is a Far Side comic featuring a cave man giving a presentation to a group of other cave men. The cave man giving the presentation is pointing to the spikes on the tail of a stegosaurus. Text on the bottom says "Now this end is called the thagomizer… after the late Thag Simmons". The image on the right is a picture of a fossilized stegosaurus tail spikes with text explaining that before the Far Side made a joke about the name of a stegosaurus tail there had actually been no name for a tail weapon so paleontologists adopted the word Thagomizer.
April 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
The Simpsons meme of a bus driver casually telling the passengers "Don't make me tap the sign" then the second panel is him tapping said sign which has been modified to read "If purchasing is not ownership then piracy is not theft"
April 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
acanuck.bsky.social
Question for the greater Bluesky gamer collective; is this JUST how "additional download required" games will work on the Switch 2, basically being exactly how it CURRENTLY works, or is this how ALL Switch 2 games will work?

If the latter, I've lost ALL interest 😞
An image of a Nintendo Switch 2 console with a cartridge above the cartridge slot. Text on screen describes the procedure for activating a cartridge that contains no game data but only enables a download of the full game to the console. It says once the game is downloaded you will only need to connect to the internet once to activate it then after only the cartridge will be needed to play it.
April 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM