Classic Al
@darkal.bsky.social
Geekery, TTRPGs, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, comedy, politics
Scottish, left-ish
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Scottish, left-ish
Views mine; repost/like =/= endorsement
Morons muted, bigots blocked
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Behold! The massive RPG Moral Panic video I've been researching and assembling for years, and why people who call the whole affair the Satanic Panic are wrong.
I'm so damned happy to finally have this beast out of my system.
youtu.be/OpjV-melB-c
I'm so damned happy to finally have this beast out of my system.
youtu.be/OpjV-melB-c
The 3 Waves of the RPG Moral Panic - RPG History
YouTube video by Seth Skorkowsky
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November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Behold! The massive RPG Moral Panic video I've been researching and assembling for years, and why people who call the whole affair the Satanic Panic are wrong.
I'm so damned happy to finally have this beast out of my system.
youtu.be/OpjV-melB-c
I'm so damned happy to finally have this beast out of my system.
youtu.be/OpjV-melB-c
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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The Star Trek/Red Dwarf crossover we've all been hoping for.
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Star Trek/Red Dwarf crossover we've all been hoping for.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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Our Bundle of Holding deal is steaming along, having just passed 420 bundles (~13,000 books) sold. The deal (link @ end of thread) runs 8 more days.
I promised a "behind the scenes" anecdote for every 100 bundles sold so I now owe two.
Here's one .. about H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Yog-Sothothery.
I promised a "behind the scenes" anecdote for every 100 bundles sold so I now owe two.
Here's one .. about H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Yog-Sothothery.
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Our Bundle of Holding deal is steaming along, having just passed 420 bundles (~13,000 books) sold. The deal (link @ end of thread) runs 8 more days.
I promised a "behind the scenes" anecdote for every 100 bundles sold so I now owe two.
Here's one .. about H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Yog-Sothothery.
I promised a "behind the scenes" anecdote for every 100 bundles sold so I now owe two.
Here's one .. about H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Yog-Sothothery.
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The Call of Cthulhu is a bit more like my speed
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Call of Cthulhu is a bit more like my speed
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“WHY WOULD ANYONE LOOK INSIDE AN ALIEN EGG??” this is why:
November 18, 2024 at 8:35 PM
“WHY WOULD ANYONE LOOK INSIDE AN ALIEN EGG??” this is why:
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Our parliamentary democracy exists to make sure a government can’t just do whatever it wants. That must be respected - and that includes this government
The court’s decision in @libertyhq.bsky.social’s
case is due in the New Year
The court’s decision in @libertyhq.bsky.social’s
case is due in the New Year
With reports that Britain is THREE TIMES more likely to arrest climate activists than other countries everyone should watch this film
The court’s decision in @libertyhq.bsky.social’s
case is due in the New Year
youtu.be/qk5aiRXRuU0?...
The court’s decision in @libertyhq.bsky.social’s
case is due in the New Year
youtu.be/qk5aiRXRuU0?...
Labour Government backs Tory power grab by appealing Liberty High court victory
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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December 23, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Our parliamentary democracy exists to make sure a government can’t just do whatever it wants. That must be respected - and that includes this government
The court’s decision in @libertyhq.bsky.social’s
case is due in the New Year
The court’s decision in @libertyhq.bsky.social’s
case is due in the New Year
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In October, I had a very long chat with Alan Moore. On magick, sci-fi, the perils of ecological doomerism, the joy of occultist pranks, the psychogeography of Stoke Newington, the invention of the taser - and much more!
As a Christmas treat here it is IN FULL.
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As a Christmas treat here it is IN FULL.
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It’s a rabbit out of a hat: On magick, fantasy and pretty much everything else, with Alan Moore
In October of this year, I spent a balmy evening talking with Alan Moore on the week that he had two — count ’em!— new books on the…
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December 23, 2024 at 1:14 PM
In October, I had a very long chat with Alan Moore. On magick, sci-fi, the perils of ecological doomerism, the joy of occultist pranks, the psychogeography of Stoke Newington, the invention of the taser - and much more!
As a Christmas treat here it is IN FULL.
seamas.medium.com/its-a-rabbit...
As a Christmas treat here it is IN FULL.
seamas.medium.com/its-a-rabbit...
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When you get replaced as GM by someone far more predisposed to toy with the party and then kill them off.
December 22, 2024 at 9:54 PM
When you get replaced as GM by someone far more predisposed to toy with the party and then kill them off.
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Birdseye - a great advert for your frozen peas would just be to shout 'peas are good ' to the tune of 'Ebeneezer Goode' by The Shamen. You can have that one for free.
December 20, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Birdseye - a great advert for your frozen peas would just be to shout 'peas are good ' to the tune of 'Ebeneezer Goode' by The Shamen. You can have that one for free.
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Legend (the world of #DragonWarriors ) through the ages...
December 20, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Legend (the world of #DragonWarriors ) through the ages...
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Prompted by chat on here, I find myself thinking that when defining terminology at the start of a game, TTRPGs really should explicitly say how long they think a session is more often. When a lot of things - GM advice, advancement, whatever - is based upon that it seems a weird thing to miss.
December 21, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Prompted by chat on here, I find myself thinking that when defining terminology at the start of a game, TTRPGs really should explicitly say how long they think a session is more often. When a lot of things - GM advice, advancement, whatever - is based upon that it seems a weird thing to miss.
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Dragon Warriors: evolving covers from Alan Craddock's original sketch & 1985 painting to the 2008 revisiting of that scene by @handiworkgames.bsky.social
#ttrpg
#ttrpg
December 21, 2024 at 8:20 AM
Dragon Warriors: evolving covers from Alan Craddock's original sketch & 1985 painting to the 2008 revisiting of that scene by @handiworkgames.bsky.social
#ttrpg
#ttrpg
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Question 24 was my favourite
December 21, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Question 24 was my favourite
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I said variations of this:
If I invented a program that could access any person’s bank account and take random amounts of money out whenever it felt like it, but said that it was fine people could always opt out of this happening via an undecided on process, would you consider this acceptable?
If I invented a program that could access any person’s bank account and take random amounts of money out whenever it felt like it, but said that it was fine people could always opt out of this happening via an undecided on process, would you consider this acceptable?
December 21, 2024 at 10:06 AM
I said variations of this:
If I invented a program that could access any person’s bank account and take random amounts of money out whenever it felt like it, but said that it was fine people could always opt out of this happening via an undecided on process, would you consider this acceptable?
If I invented a program that could access any person’s bank account and take random amounts of money out whenever it felt like it, but said that it was fine people could always opt out of this happening via an undecided on process, would you consider this acceptable?
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The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
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The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
bylinetimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 1:49 PM
The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
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bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
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Fritz Schwimbeck - Im Gewölbe (In the Vault), c. 1920
December 15, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Fritz Schwimbeck - Im Gewölbe (In the Vault), c. 1920
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Very much appreciating Salman Anwar’s photo of The Shard in the UK, which he points out they’ve tried to make festive and instead made look menacingly evil.
December 15, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Very much appreciating Salman Anwar’s photo of The Shard in the UK, which he points out they’ve tried to make festive and instead made look menacingly evil.
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Explain this, humankind
December 15, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Explain this, humankind