JC (they/them)
@sentienthominid.bsky.social
Mid-30s, friendly crank whose been online far to long.
Bigots get blocked. Profiles with AI Art will also be blocked. Try being less of a loser sometime.
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Art by • Markus Vesper
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Using IE to download Netscape
November 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Using IE to download Netscape
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The story of how Rebecca Heineman overcame corporate incompetence to develop the Doom 3DO port in two and a half months is incredible (via @bghof.com) www.badgamehalloffame.com/doom-3do/
DOOM (3DO) - Bad Game Hall of Fame
"Swept With the Boom, Don’t Forget to Assume, Time Catches up With Some 3DO DOOM." DOOM's foray onto the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer doomed from the word go, thanks to its being handled by the indust...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The story of how Rebecca Heineman overcame corporate incompetence to develop the Doom 3DO port in two and a half months is incredible (via @bghof.com) www.badgamehalloffame.com/doom-3do/
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My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
A more apt example for TRPGs is Pro Wrestling. Many folks confuse the nazicircus WWE's brand and manufactured history as the monolithic truth. However, just crack some books open, watch more broadly and read some old news clips and the entire brand's image crumbles under its own lies.
A frustration I have with fantasy and trpg dialog is the lack of historical depth and curiousity beyond marketed brands.
Its like talking about the history of metal and refusing to budge from an ahistorical focus on Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Metallica as the sole important artists. Its wrong.
Its like talking about the history of metal and refusing to budge from an ahistorical focus on Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Metallica as the sole important artists. Its wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A more apt example for TRPGs is Pro Wrestling. Many folks confuse the nazicircus WWE's brand and manufactured history as the monolithic truth. However, just crack some books open, watch more broadly and read some old news clips and the entire brand's image crumbles under its own lies.
A frustration I have with fantasy and trpg dialog is the lack of historical depth and curiousity beyond marketed brands.
Its like talking about the history of metal and refusing to budge from an ahistorical focus on Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Metallica as the sole important artists. Its wrong.
Its like talking about the history of metal and refusing to budge from an ahistorical focus on Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Metallica as the sole important artists. Its wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A frustration I have with fantasy and trpg dialog is the lack of historical depth and curiousity beyond marketed brands.
Its like talking about the history of metal and refusing to budge from an ahistorical focus on Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Metallica as the sole important artists. Its wrong.
Its like talking about the history of metal and refusing to budge from an ahistorical focus on Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Metallica as the sole important artists. Its wrong.
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NANCY AT THE PENNY ARCADE
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
NANCY AT THE PENNY ARCADE
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149) The definitive history of Sword & Sorcery has not been written...and may never be.
Brian Murphy's FLAME AND CRIMSON and Jeffro Johnson's APPENDIX N are decent starting points, but I feel there major gaps, and especially for more recent (1990s-2020s) S&S, inadequacies. Which is understandable.
Brian Murphy's FLAME AND CRIMSON and Jeffro Johnson's APPENDIX N are decent starting points, but I feel there major gaps, and especially for more recent (1990s-2020s) S&S, inadequacies. Which is understandable.
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
149) The definitive history of Sword & Sorcery has not been written...and may never be.
Brian Murphy's FLAME AND CRIMSON and Jeffro Johnson's APPENDIX N are decent starting points, but I feel there major gaps, and especially for more recent (1990s-2020s) S&S, inadequacies. Which is understandable.
Brian Murphy's FLAME AND CRIMSON and Jeffro Johnson's APPENDIX N are decent starting points, but I feel there major gaps, and especially for more recent (1990s-2020s) S&S, inadequacies. Which is understandable.
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In a mood.
1 like = 1 hot take on sword & sorcery
1 like = 1 hot take on sword & sorcery
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
In a mood.
1 like = 1 hot take on sword & sorcery
1 like = 1 hot take on sword & sorcery
I do not think this is like intentional behavior in many cases. Its a social pressure driven by consumption. Its thorny, but I think needs pushed back against somehow.
Probably by being loud and enthusistatic with cited sources to poke holes at nostalgia blinded talking point.
Probably by being loud and enthusistatic with cited sources to poke holes at nostalgia blinded talking point.
One of the more insidious parts of nerd culture is positioning itself as outsider-y while simultaneously enforcing a narrow selection of acceptable media for discussion. The media always has marketing behind it, usually legacy brand and sold like kid’s toys.
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I do not think this is like intentional behavior in many cases. Its a social pressure driven by consumption. Its thorny, but I think needs pushed back against somehow.
Probably by being loud and enthusistatic with cited sources to poke holes at nostalgia blinded talking point.
Probably by being loud and enthusistatic with cited sources to poke holes at nostalgia blinded talking point.
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One of the more insidious parts of nerd culture is positioning itself as outsider-y while simultaneously enforcing a narrow selection of acceptable media for discussion. The media always has marketing behind it, usually legacy brand and sold like kid’s toys.
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
One of the more insidious parts of nerd culture is positioning itself as outsider-y while simultaneously enforcing a narrow selection of acceptable media for discussion. The media always has marketing behind it, usually legacy brand and sold like kid’s toys.
One of the more insidious parts of nerd culture is positioning itself as outsider-y while simultaneously enforcing a narrow selection of acceptable media for discussion. The media always has marketing behind it, usually legacy brand and sold like kid’s toys.
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
One of the more insidious parts of nerd culture is positioning itself as outsider-y while simultaneously enforcing a narrow selection of acceptable media for discussion. The media always has marketing behind it, usually legacy brand and sold like kid’s toys.
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JC! You escaped? Is that what lockdown's about?
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
JC! You escaped? Is that what lockdown's about?
Is that Sting or "Sting"?
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Is that Sting or "Sting"?
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 12,1946
November 12,1946
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 12,1946
November 12,1946
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Art by • Simone Pinna
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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35) Jessica Amanda Salmonson deserves more kudos.
As a writer, Salmonson's work is definitely a continuation of the WEIRD TALES tradition, including historical adventure fiction, S&S, horror, weird fiction, & poetry. Sadly, her peak of influence has passed, & not enough people read her now.
As a writer, Salmonson's work is definitely a continuation of the WEIRD TALES tradition, including historical adventure fiction, S&S, horror, weird fiction, & poetry. Sadly, her peak of influence has passed, & not enough people read her now.
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
35) Jessica Amanda Salmonson deserves more kudos.
As a writer, Salmonson's work is definitely a continuation of the WEIRD TALES tradition, including historical adventure fiction, S&S, horror, weird fiction, & poetry. Sadly, her peak of influence has passed, & not enough people read her now.
As a writer, Salmonson's work is definitely a continuation of the WEIRD TALES tradition, including historical adventure fiction, S&S, horror, weird fiction, & poetry. Sadly, her peak of influence has passed, & not enough people read her now.
One of my favorite takes on "adventuring parties" is in The Barrow, where many are bands of killers, ex-soldiers and grave robbers.
Sure, a few are bound together by a higher sense of purpose but those tend to be the exception rather than the rule (even then higher purpose doesnt mean good).
Sure, a few are bound together by a higher sense of purpose but those tend to be the exception rather than the rule (even then higher purpose doesnt mean good).
33) Job titles are arbitrary, but adventurers are weird
A lot of folks have absorbed the idea of the D&D-esque adventurer w/o thinking about how we got that point. Adventurers are fundamentally people who don't fit into established society. They exist outside of it. That's what an adventure is.
A lot of folks have absorbed the idea of the D&D-esque adventurer w/o thinking about how we got that point. Adventurers are fundamentally people who don't fit into established society. They exist outside of it. That's what an adventure is.
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
One of my favorite takes on "adventuring parties" is in The Barrow, where many are bands of killers, ex-soldiers and grave robbers.
Sure, a few are bound together by a higher sense of purpose but those tend to be the exception rather than the rule (even then higher purpose doesnt mean good).
Sure, a few are bound together by a higher sense of purpose but those tend to be the exception rather than the rule (even then higher purpose doesnt mean good).
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18) Trauma is universal.
Sword & sorcery heroes hurt. They bleed. They make mistakes and other people hurt. They suffer loss, pain, imprisonment, defilement, subjugation. It is how they respond to that which makes them heroes, which drives them, which makes their story more than a fairy tale.
Sword & sorcery heroes hurt. They bleed. They make mistakes and other people hurt. They suffer loss, pain, imprisonment, defilement, subjugation. It is how they respond to that which makes them heroes, which drives them, which makes their story more than a fairy tale.
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
18) Trauma is universal.
Sword & sorcery heroes hurt. They bleed. They make mistakes and other people hurt. They suffer loss, pain, imprisonment, defilement, subjugation. It is how they respond to that which makes them heroes, which drives them, which makes their story more than a fairy tale.
Sword & sorcery heroes hurt. They bleed. They make mistakes and other people hurt. They suffer loss, pain, imprisonment, defilement, subjugation. It is how they respond to that which makes them heroes, which drives them, which makes their story more than a fairy tale.
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5) We are due for a critical reassessment of the 1970s-1990s sword & sorcery boom.
There was a ton of S&S that was published during the peak paperback fantasy period which has been almost forgotten today. Who remembers Jean Lorrah's SAVAGE EMPIRE?
There was a ton of S&S that was published during the peak paperback fantasy period which has been almost forgotten today. Who remembers Jean Lorrah's SAVAGE EMPIRE?
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
5) We are due for a critical reassessment of the 1970s-1990s sword & sorcery boom.
There was a ton of S&S that was published during the peak paperback fantasy period which has been almost forgotten today. Who remembers Jean Lorrah's SAVAGE EMPIRE?
There was a ton of S&S that was published during the peak paperback fantasy period which has been almost forgotten today. Who remembers Jean Lorrah's SAVAGE EMPIRE?
Me, being clearly a normal human being.
"I did have to find the scanner, which in all the ruckus eluded me briefly."
The fuck kind of English is that. Victorian Yokel? I need to read some books written in the vernacular of our times...
Oh 1975 fantasy novel! That'll do it.
"I did have to find the scanner, which in all the ruckus eluded me briefly."
The fuck kind of English is that. Victorian Yokel? I need to read some books written in the vernacular of our times...
Oh 1975 fantasy novel! That'll do it.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Me, being clearly a normal human being.
"I did have to find the scanner, which in all the ruckus eluded me briefly."
The fuck kind of English is that. Victorian Yokel? I need to read some books written in the vernacular of our times...
Oh 1975 fantasy novel! That'll do it.
"I did have to find the scanner, which in all the ruckus eluded me briefly."
The fuck kind of English is that. Victorian Yokel? I need to read some books written in the vernacular of our times...
Oh 1975 fantasy novel! That'll do it.