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John Rhymes with Oreo
@unitedcatsofulthar.bsky.social
animal rights/human rights, book nerd, trumpet student, guitar teacher, noise maker in Atlanta.

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June 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I've been rewatching ever episode of The Amazing World of Gumball (possibly for the 4th or 5th time). As good as some of the episodes are that follow it (and that it does tie to the last episode), S6E34 The Future should have been the last episode. That ending is so good.
May 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I'm sure my students (i teach adults guitar) think I'm crazy, but sometimes i nearly jump out of my seat when they nail something that was challenging for them. I get so freaking happy and excited for them! My last lesson ended an hour ago and I'm *still* pumped. #guitarteacher #guitarlessons
May 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The players had fun but I think the game was dwarfed by the spread I put out. Did my best to imitate the way my mom entertains - plenty of variety, way too much food, and make sure it goes home with people. #justlikemama 2/2
May 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
BFRPG (with a healthy dose of plain B/X) episodic campaign kicked off today with the Halfling Home from The Chaotic Caves. It was a good appetizer. Also, a good reminder of how stirges can be brutal for 1st level PCs 1/2 #osr #bfrpg
May 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Goblurfs? Smurflins? Sometimes I crack myself up.

Might use them for Sword Weirdos. Might use them for Basic Fantasy RPG.
May 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
According to no less a source than a random email I received - today is International Mouthpiece Day. So, to all who celebrate I hope you have a good one.
May 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
My 90-day supply of Sertraline went down from $12 to $6. Unexpected. Welcome, but unexpected.
May 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Coworkers were talking about the Village People this morning - queue vivid flashback to trading Village People trading cards with friends in Kindergarten (along with KISS cards).
May 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
If i start looking now, in about three hours, when i'm ready to watch a movie, I'll have one picked out.
May 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Spent part of my day talking to my best friend about their D&D game, spent another part talking to a coworker about D&D game. Now I'm going into the weekend and ... not gaming until next weekend 😭
May 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
If short songs and distorted guitar are your thing, my 4-song metal infused punk EP is available for your listening pleasure redslaad.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

"Total brutality with nightmarish vocals"

#crustpunk #hardcorepunk #deathmetal #thrashmetal
Songs of Liberty, by Red Slaad
4 track album
redslaad.bandcamp.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The hard part for me of breaking away from Prime (Fuck Amazon!) is relearning how to wait. As a kid, 4-6 weeks for delivery was common, but at some point 3 days become an inconceivable annoyance even for non-essentials. I have to remind myself that I don't NEED my new distortion pedal that badly.
May 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I'm tempted by OSRIC 3.0, but it's been 10 years or so (what? how is that possible?) since I went in on OSR crowdfunding stuff - and I've kept none of it. So, I'm doing my best to remind myself of that and not jump on it. Still . . .
May 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I'm not an artist by any stretch, but I made a "graphical user interface" (looks like a map, but no scale or even relative distance) for players to choose which adventure they want to go on (episodic campaign and trying to replicate the player agency of a sandbox hex crawl). #osr #bfrpg (1/2) :
May 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Session 0 confirmed my preference for the 4 core classes and races. It took over 2 hours for people to decide between all of the options available. (I'm running Basic Fantasy RPG www.basicfantasy.org with just about all of the race and class options, to satisfy the 5e desires of my players).
Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game
www.basicfantasy.org
May 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Friday afternoons I play the will-they-or-won't-they game: I have a student who schedules a lesson almost every Friday evening and about half of the time, they need to reschedule last minute for Sunday. In my studio, that's fine (I teach adults, life happens). I just find it amusing. #guitarteacher
May 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Trying to help some (well 1) of my players understand that B/X / BFRPG is not about heroes being heroic but about nobodies trying to become somebodies with this guideline: "If your backstory is longer than a sentence or two, you're too attached to your character."
(typo in previous post of this)
May 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Oh and it's my first #BandCampFriday with this project. It's PWYW so, you don't have to pay a damn cent if you don't want to.

redslaad.bandcamp.com

(btw, the EP name is tongue-in-cheek. Idk why I feel the need to explain that)
Songs of Liberty, by Red Slaad
4 track album
redslaad.bandcamp.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Out today (for your May Day enjoyment) Red Slaad - Songs of Liberty EP : redslaad.bandcamp.com

4 songs, ~5 minutes.

Described by one listener as "total brutality with nightmarish vocals." Pretty sure that's a good thing.

#punk #hardcorepunk #crustpunk #deathmetal #idk_iveneverbeengoodwithgenres
Songs of Liberty, by Red Slaad
4 track album
redslaad.bandcamp.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
My son(13) who, like me, prefers b/x to 5e observed that my plan to use the Black Pudding zine classes for our group's upcoming campaign risks slowing down combat to 5e speeds (at least in our group, 5e combat drags) because some classes have a lot of options. Damn. He may be right. 1/2
April 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
There's something amazing about starting my day with trumpet practice. 🎺
April 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Grocery shopped friday. It's only Monday and i'm arleady opening and closing cabinets not finding anything I want to eat.
April 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM