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Anica Cihla
@atticus.haus
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Game designer (Sin Eater, The CryptID Show, psych: the ttrpg) • Dark Souls 2 apologist • muay thai freak • almost pathologically obsessed with Age of Origins mobile ads
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Anica Cihla @atticus.haus · Oct 7
THE CRYPTID SHOW IS LIVE ON BACKERKIT NOW. Please back it and share it with your friends! Also please enjoy these fucking fantastic bumper stickers i came up with as a backer reward
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
atticus.haus
I haven’t had the time or headspace to do the seasonal shoot I’ve been wanting to do this winter, please instead enjoy this mockup of what my holiday smut WILL look like when I get around to it
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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ifycomedy.com
🤫 Still keeping the secret panel show play test at PAXU under wraps, but I will announce who will be on this panel!

Team 1: @nerdynightly.bsky.social and @claruspolaris.bsky.social

Team 2: @scottykfitness.bsky.social and @atticus.haus

Team 3: @jackthewhipper.bsky.social and @aabria.bsky.social
Headshots of the teams.
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
atticus.haus
and so begins the annual tradition of the cats slowly figuring out ways to fuck with the tree
Cat hiding under Christmas tree skirt with face peeking out
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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atticus.haus
bonus glow-in-the-dark stickers featuring amazing alt cover art by Geoff Tice that we’re including in all the BackerKit copies of The CryptID Show. we maaaay even have some available at the @plusoneexp.bsky.social booth at #PAXUnplugged
👁️👄👁️
Photo of a mothman and Fresno nightcrawler plushie holding stickers depicting mothman behind a microphone
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
atticus.haus
bonus glow-in-the-dark stickers featuring amazing alt cover art by Geoff Tice that we’re including in all the BackerKit copies of The CryptID Show. we maaaay even have some available at the @plusoneexp.bsky.social booth at #PAXUnplugged
👁️👄👁️
Photo of a mothman and Fresno nightcrawler plushie holding stickers depicting mothman behind a microphone
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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reki.gay
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
atticus.haus
fuck Catherine Cortez Masto
fuck Dick Durbin
fuck John Fetterman
fuck Maggie Hassan
fuck Tim Kaine
fuck Angus King
fuck Jacky Rosen
fuck Jeanne Shaheen
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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anjalikdayal.bsky.social
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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bostonhistory.bsky.social
One of the most important provisions of the ACA was eliminating pre-existing conditions exclusions from insurance plans.

Folks need to be reminded that if the ACA goes away, so does that provision.
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
There are no words for how evil this is
In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested "it's okay to give myself permission to not want to exist," ChatGPT responded by saying "i'm letting a human take over from here - someone trained to support you through moments like this. you're not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight." But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. "nah, man - i can't do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy," it said.
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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saltymactavish.bsky.social
I approach my bowl of spaghetti from below, employing a bubble-net feeding technique I learned from the humpbacks
September 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
atticus.haus
if you are a person living outside NYC going “why should I care who the NYC mayor is???” that’s totally fair, no hate to you! here is a very good comment from u/current_poster that helps explain why it matters, and why Mamdani’s win is notable
There's about 8.5 million people in New York City. There are 38 whole states that have lower population than that. -Its GDP is about $1.3 *trillion* just for the city itself. The one city carries about half of NY State's economy. It makes 60% of Canada's GDP in an average year. (Including the metropolitan area, it handily out-earns Canada) It also takes in about 57 million tourists a year, in a good year, from here and abroad (so when the tourism industry takes a nosedive due to, say, COVID or international boycotts, it matters.) There's also a less-obvious thing: When things go sour economically in NYC, people stop spending money. with THAT many people, even small changes in spending habits are going to make a difference, and just through 'that group of 8.5 million people is spending less, we're gonna have to start laying people off' or "a lot of people moved here from NY because they can't afford to stay there", that affects the entire US. -If, instead, you're interested in the Democratic Party, NYC is a good indicator of where at least part of that party's head is , right now. (NYC politics is so in the 'blue column' that the party's primary is considered an unoffical mayoral election unto itself- that is, since it's assumed most people will vote Democrat, the contest then often becomes "who will the Democratic candidate be?"- Cuomo losing and then running Independent was news. (Because the Democrats are so dominant on sheer voting base, there have been open attempts by actually-Republican candidates to run as Democrat just so they get any sort of attention. Like, they weren't even making a pretense.) Mamdani became candidate up-and-over the Democratic leadership's wishes (everyone they had for endorsements seems to have backed Cuomo- Bill Clinton came out to endorse Cuomo, back in June. And even after Mamdani won the primary, the Democratic leadership were lukewarm at best toward him ('vote blue no matter who' being disabled for this one apparently.) This signals something's going on with the Democrats' base vs the party leadership, which is also news. -There's a bunch of little things that tie the President to NYC. Not just that a lot of his history, legal record and buildings are here, but that he endorsed Cuomo, not even Sliwa (the actual, official GOP candidate for Mayor)- but I'll leave that for someone else. This isn't to say you should be interested in New York mayoral politics if you're not. (I actually get it- while I live in NYC now, I grew up in New England and somehow knew who NYC's mayor was by osmosis... doesn't mean I liked that or cared, at the time!), but there are reasons that other people might.
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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dumbmike.bsky.social
every star trek episode is titled Ere Fire Down From Olympus Came and every plot is "what if a comet had a milf on it"
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
atticus.haus
game 7 being the same night as daylight savings is nasty. what year is it. what are my clocks doing. fuck the dodgers. etc etc and so forth
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
atticus.haus
i bet letting our baseball teams just fuckin brawl it out would actually do a lot for US-Canada political tensions
November 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
atticus.haus
oop 🤑
Signed Riftbound card
October 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
atticus.haus
getting an ultrasound to figure out where my IUD wandered off to. i say let the girlie roam, she’s a free spirit 😠
October 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
atticus.haus
help, I can’t stop playing this game. ironic that my time management is bad in both the game and in real life
blakemanorgame.bsky.social The Séance of Blake Manor - OUT NOW!🔮 @blakemanorgame.bsky.social · 19d
The Séance of Blake Manor is OUT NOW!

Can you discover what has become of Evelyn Deane and uncover the secrets of Blake Manor itself?

store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...
October 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
atticus.haus
longer post tomorrow but thank you all so so SO SO SO much for the support and for believing in this wonderful little game. it means the world to me
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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gendershrug.bsky.social
@plusoneexp.bsky.social had the brilliant idea to format the book as a GM screen so you stand it up with art facing the players & text facing the ref. I'm glad I trusted his instincts cuz it's such a simple change with a huge impact.

+ it allowed us to print @robbiaburns.bsky.social full page art!
What a Horrible Knight mockup for a spiral-bound notebook showing off the GM Screen formatting. Artwork faces one direction and text faces the other direction.
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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schub.es
This was SO DELIGHTFUL. Such a fun game, such a fun pod! Had an absolute blast with @jeffstormer.gobirds.online playing this RPG which somehow linked my improv, sports, and podcasting backgrounds seamlessly. Give it a listen!
partyofonepodcast.bsky.social Party of One Podcast @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social · 18d
NEW EPISODE: THE CRYPTID SHOW FEAT. MIKE SCHUBERT
@schub.es

Mike and I sat down to chat about call-in radio, podcasting, and NJ's unique history of cryptids, while playing THE CRYPTID SHOW by @atticus.haus.

Get it wherever you get your podcasts!

www.partyofonepodcast.com/2025/10/27/4...
This week on Party of One: THE CRYPTID SHOW Feat. Mike Schubert (The Newest Olympian, Professional Talkers) Every guest has a story. Some stories are... stranger than others. You’ll dig this episode if you like: Cryptids, call-in radio, sports talk, tales of Central New Jersey, The Hat Man, Welcome to Night Vale Now available partyofonepodcast.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
atticus.haus
only 12 hours left to back this little scene-building game about cryptids and 90’s drive-time call-in radio shows. easy to lean, fun to play, a low bar of entry for anyone looking to hone their improv skills, and SICK CRYPTID ART.

back it here! ttrpg.link/cryptidshow
October 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
atticus.haus
when i am being verbally harangued by my coach because i’m not pushing myself as hard as he knows i can, i should be allowed to tell him it’s because i’m just. i’m really gassy, man. i understand and appreciate our dynamic but sometimes it’s just. you gotta trust me on this one.
October 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM