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Brian R

@brianwrites.me

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Data engineer by day, anxious person by night. Likes rugby, writing, tabletop RPGs, Rifftrax, and other stuff. What are you doing, writing a memoir? Hey, who's this mook asking all the questions. He/him.

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Brian R @brianwrites.me · 4d

Recently got into photography and use a FOSS program called Darktable to manage/edit etc my pictures.

Last week my brother in law, who's semi-professional, was raving about how I should use Adobe's AI slop filled Lightroom instead & I had to sit there like 😬 "Uh huh. Yes, I see that is interesting"

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 4d

This is what I tell my mother when she asks why I'm sill single.

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 4d

And the bastards wouldn't let you in? You should've sued. 😡

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 4d

The Beach That Makes You Grow Old movie is so, so terrible & is my exhibit A in how Shyamalan always speaks down to his audiences.

(Alternatively I hold Fury Road up as a film that respects the audience & trusts they will get plot & world/setting without halting the movie to explain it to them)

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 6d

Impossible to overstate how much Tolkien would hate Elon Musk and his industrial tech empire. Tolkien didn’t even like trains. Regular ass steam engine TRAINS.

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Brian R @brianwrites.me · 11d

Buddy, wait till you see all the excess U's!

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 11d

What?! A decent movie?! This is am outrage. I'm asking Patreon for a refund.

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 11d

@systemmastery.bsky.social @gurglespasm.bsky.social Just a theory, but taking into account Jef's insistence that the swamp vehicle in spliter of the mind's eye has open air bench seating, the southern accents, and the sadistic Imperial governor, this book may take place on Planet Florida....

Several people you wouldn't want to interact with on an air-board.

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 12d

Everyone is mourning Ace's death in their own way.

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 13d

All LBJ had to do was call up Mr Haggar to get some new damn slacks.

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 13d

Am I allowed to forgo the "giant head" prosthetic and pointy ears, or is that compulsory?

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 14d

While I wait to leave this app I will continue to post on this app because my narcissism and performative righteousness knows no bounds! Like and subscribe!

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 14d

Ehhhhh.... After they replaced some of the cast after the first season, it's no wonder it was eventually cancelled. 😉

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 15d

This has real "I've heard people say 'off-the-record' in movies therefor, I know what that means" vibes.

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 15d

It's the deep cuts like this that fill me with power, Mr Corbett. Thank you for all you do. Also, thank you for all the chicken... green peppers... corn... chili... *sigh*... onions....

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 15d

@rifftrax.com I hope the grand prize is a 50% discount on solr pnls. www.ktvu.com/news/half-mo...

Half Moon Bay's world champion pumpkin weighs in at 2,346 pounds

A new Half Moon Bay World Champion Pumpkin grower has been crowned, and he's from Santa Rosa.

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Brian R @brianwrites.me · 18d

Watch on the Rhine - 1943. Bette Davis, Paul Lukas.

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 25d

Sometimes, a single reaction isn't enough.

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 27d

@seanthomason.bsky.social @conorlastowka.bsky.social owka.bsky.social As a couple of San Diego Chicken experts, I immediately thought of you two when I saw this while watching some old rugby league games from Australia. Turns out ol' SD *wasn't* the original...

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Brian R @brianwrites.me · 27d

You're talking about the president aren't you?

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 27d

a man in a white shirt and black tie is asking what do you think we are millionaires

ALT: a man in a white shirt and black tie is asking what do you think we are millionaires

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Brian R @brianwrites.me · 27d

One guy did stuff like make characters who's goal was to be a leather tanner. Not even *the worlds greatest* leather tanner, or even as part of a "I just want to tan my damn leather, and the bastards keep pulling me back in" repeated beat/joke. But being a fighter and his goal was wanting a... job.

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 27d

Do you run into people who won't take chances or be heroic or motivated *in game*? In my last group this was a repeated theme. It was mind boggling. Sure, i want my pc to survive, but i also wanna do cool stuff, and this would happen despite "session zero"... I could never get them over that.

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Brian R @brianwrites.me · 27d

This a really good question. As a gm, I've changed. I used to map out a story I wanted to tell, so definitely more the first, but as I've grown older and away from systems like D&D (heavily prescriptive systems) I tend to want to explore themes and see how people react.

Brian R @brianwrites.me · 27d

"No, I'm afraid you're mistaken - 'THAC0 Thursday' isn't a clever way to sell Mexican food later in the week. Anyway, here's 3d6, roll 6 stats..."