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my partner brought evil into the house
photo of a small plastic golden snail with a button on top. it's a "buster call" snail from the manga/anime One Piece.
November 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Riff Tamson
Screenshot of a youtube video thumbnail showing the deeply unfortunate shark man from a previous tweet in this thread. The name "Riff Tamson" is at the bottom of the image in big all-caps letters.
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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"tell me u don't know any furries w/o telling me"-ass image
Screenshot of a "karkarodon", a species of people in Star Wars, apparently. It is a shark-like humanoid with webbed hands and feet, but no tail.
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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can't come i'm busy doing hot girl shit
screenshot of the Overwatch character select screen. I've chosen the character Juno, with a character skin that makes her look like a magical girl with cute little glowing winged shark friends. screenshot of my spotify, which is listening to cute poppy electro shit from an artist named dark cat. screenshot of Overwatch again, this time a victory screen showing my team after we won. My magical girl Juno is floating with her little shark friends in as menacing of a pose as she can manage.
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Image of the character Janet from the show The Good Place. Janet is something sort of like a cosmic artificial intelligence. In this scene, she has been "rebooted", and keeps handing the other character, Michael, cactuses which she manifests behind her back whenever he asks her to instead manifest a particular file for him. In the image, she's smiling, and says, "Michael, good news!"
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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in case you are stupid like me:
Screenshot showing instructions for how to opt into the public beta for turn-based mode in Pillars of Eternity. Text reads: "To opt in to this current update, use the Public Beta branch in Steam. 1. In your Steam Library Right click on Pillars of Eternity, and select "Properties". 2. Select the "Beta" Tab, and click the Drop Down for labeled "NONE" - Select "public_beta". Close the Window, and you should have a download ready. Attempting to play the game should automatically trigger the download."
November 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I wrote too much again, on a bit of a tangent, but i promise this is about "nonmagical rogues"
Text of a very long post (almost 700 characters over the bluesky character limit): "Not to get all Tolkien on you, but I think this is where my disconnect is w/ people who deride the notion of "magic systems" in fantasy (stipulating that I know there are very stupid and inelegant takes on that concept). Your whole fucking world has to be "magic" if any of it is. Layering "magic" onto a world that otherwise functions with our world's same physical and chemical causal mechanisms (whether the characters are aware of those physical laws or not) makes very little sense and is extremely boring. "Magic" isn't "spells & circles & incantations", it has to be "skill" or "craft" or "lore" or "will enacted upon a receptive aetheric medium", otherwise it's basically nonsense. If your world wasn't sung into creation or woven from threads of probability or ordered from chaos by the worldrunes or whatever, then it basically shouldn't have magic. And if it has magic anyway, you should be open to exploring how its presence is dramatically unraveling reality."
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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i wrote too much again
Screenshot of a post with too many words in it to post. It reads: "Like the perverse incentives are all the way down, from XP to very fun combat, and the solutions are basically * Make bad guys mostly irredeemable and/or strongly disincentivize Talking Them Down (by making the consequences of their continued presence SEVERE) * Make XP for Talking the BBG Down dependent upon un-killed goons so you don't miss out if you don't wanna kill everyone, and are actively punished for playing inconsistently"
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Get this! As far as I can tell, each box also only contains 2 playable characters? I think??
Screenshot from the product page of one of the Elden Ring board game products, reading "Play as the Confessor or Prisoner, unique to this set." Screenshot from the product page of one of the Elden Ring board game products, reading "Play as the Hero or Bandit, unique to this set."
October 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Took a second to try to figure out how the steamforged Elden Ring board game actually works, because there are like 15 boxes and none of them seemed to be, like, *the* core set, and the answer was... interesting.
Screenshot of a "Buyer's Guide" for the Elden Ring board game by Steamforged Games. It shows a flowchart of different game boxes, indicating a recommended path of progression from one game box to the next, with supplemental game boxes in between. Each one of these boxes is like 150 dollars.
October 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I like how book titles used to just be like 325 words, we should go back to doing that
Screenshot of a book with an extremely long title, which is about to fire off here in a second, so if you're using a screen-reader, you were warned: "The basic outline of universology. An introduction to the newly discovered science of the universe; its elementary principles; and the first stages of their development in the special sciences. Together with preliminary notices of alwato (ahl-wah-to), the newly discovered scientific universal language, resulting from the principles of universology. By Stephen Pearl Andrews, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Ethnological Society, the New York Liberal Club, etc; Author of The Science of Society, Discoveries in Chinese, etc."
October 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Actually there *is* at least one picture of Regdar without a hat that I can think of. Todd Lockwood's early concepting stuff, ofc.
Drawing of Regdar the fighter by Todd Lockwood, made for the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons.
October 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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The one for incarnum is funny because I look at it and my brain is trying really hard to turn it into Regdar, even though I know it's that skarn guy. Idk if he has a name.

I also love that it has ring slots, but then says "no corresponding chakra slots here, bud, sorry, idk y we put this here lol"
Screenshot of a similar magic item slot diagram to the one shown in the previous post, but this one is specifically for the Magic of Incarnum book, which shows the so-called "chakra meld" locations on the body where characters could create magic items from their chakra energy.
October 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Always funny seeing this silhouette and immediately thinking "oh hi Regdar"
Screenshot of a "magic item record sheet" for dungeons & dragons 3rd edition, showing all of the various slots (that is, parts of the body) where one's character could wear magic items. In the center is the silhouette of an armored human.
October 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Oh man this one is devious

Come On & Slam shows up like 2.5 minutes in for some reason. It's like all of the bees in my brain are each getting bespoke service.
Screenshot of a youtube video that's a mashup of the following songs: In the right ear: Lisa Miskovsky's "Still Alive" and Alstroemeria Records' "Bad Apple". In the left ear: Akatsuki Records' "Supernova" with the instrumental track from Kiss's "I Was Made for Lovin' You".
September 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I dip into like 3 noise music songs and suddenly youtube is serving me up the Advanced Neurodivergence Medleys
Screenshot of a youtube video which is essentially a mashup of "I Was Made For Lovin' You" by Kiss & "Beat It" by Michael Jackson in the left ear, while simultaneously playing "Taiyo no Hana - Eternal Summer" by Akatsuki Records mashed up with "Lagtrain" by Inabakumori in the right ear.
September 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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For my Extremely Long-Term Games, Daggerheart's 10 levels don't provide quite frequent enough opportunities to advance or change stuff up.

Seen discussion abt a few possible solutions. The one I'm working on rn makes staying within a given tier for longer into a more tolerable/desirable thing.
Screenshot of a work-in-progress piece of game material for the tabletop roleplaying game Daggerheart. It shows a new advancement subsystem I'm working on called "Masteries", which allow you to perform significant deeds called Achievements in order to gain benefits outside of the game's normal advancement paths.
September 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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lmfao
Screenshot of a youtube video titled "D&D's Most Disturbing Book Ever". The thumbnail image for the video is a close-up of the cover for the Book of Vile Darkness.
September 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Image of Marge Simpson saying, "It's true, but he shouldn't say it."
September 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Is it salmon?
Screenshot of an insipid clickbaity article headline which reads "the salmon superfood you've never heard of", with a picture of a salmon being held in a human hand.
September 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Screenshot of a tweet with the following text, depicting a conversation between the characters Emet-Selch and the Warrior of Light from the game Final Fantasy 14: "Emet-Selch: Those are just the cubus, everyone loves the cubus. Warrior of Light: The cubus tried to kill me multiple times. Emet-Selch: Back in the days of Paradise everyone loved getting attacked by cubuses on the street every day, and it was an enjoyable part of all of our days."
September 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Image macro meme of Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force hiding in his house with the lights off while Frylock peeks in the window looking for him. The impact font text says, "So friggin tired of this. Go away you freaks."
September 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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I like movies.
Image of Samuel L. Jackson as Carl Lee Hailey in the movie A Time to Kill (1996)
September 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Courtesy of my friend and the terrible night he's having in Total War.
Screenshot from Warhammer Total War showing the details of the Faulty Doomsphere event, which detonates when your Skaven Corruption statistic reaches 100. Image of the Skaven Corruption tracker, showing it at 87. A muscular Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants in a basketball jersey, gesturing as if to assert his dominance and bask in adulation which does not surprise him, which he is certain he has earned without even a hint of doubt in his expression. It's an image macro meme, with the text, "Another 1000 Skaven Corruption" on it.
September 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Deez right here.
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September 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM