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Brian Spookner
@bschoner.bsky.social
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Software geek by day, freelance writer by night, bass guitarist on the weekends, voice actor whenever time permits, and gamer ALL THE DAMN TIME. Cohost of the https://bsky.app/profile/ascentofboardgames.bsky.social podcast. He/him.
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
A ton of Trump regime accounts just joined Bluesky. Block 'em in bulk here. bsky.app/profile/did:...
I'm still pushing for "bleets," but I think it's a lost cause.
Man EVERYBODY is discontinuing DEI these days...
Time for a new volume/edition of Because Internet, @gretchenmcc.bsky.social !
9/10, cat should be a chicken.
Great ideas and great execution! Also, TIL what a kist is, so thanks for that too!
"Maybe make us some sandwiches while you're at it, there's a good girl." UGH.
More of @spazzster.bsky.social 's "An Elegy in Crimson" podcast, which is basically @timhutchings.bsky.social 's Thousand-Year-Old Vampire played out in the form of an interview. But this one has me in it! krademachir.podbean.com/e/an-elegy-i...
Halloween haiku:

Twelve-foot skeletons
Guard the yards and watch the streets
Plastic talismans
Halloween Season Poetry:

a haiku

Eldritch standing stones
Melted shades of primal gods
Blood-splashed once more

(Like, share, quote post with your own. We can make this a thing. 😜😱 )
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Episode 75 is here, as we start examining computer games that were turned into board games...with varying degrees of success.

www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-75...
Just started act 4…having a blast!
This is a fascinating interview about a wonderful game. It's deep, and some might find it a little full of itself, but I'm so glad that a game that can generate this kind of discussion exists. Go play Slay the Princess, if you haven't.
Just read through this massive interview about Slay the Princess and got floored multiple times through the whole thing. By god. int-magazine.com/interview/sl...
Slay the Princess’s Tony Howard-Arias and Abby Howard: “I mean, that she loves you. She loves you unconditionally”
int-magazine.com
It's an older era of horror, but Fury of Dracula remains one of my favorites. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18...
Of potential interest to @paigeleitman.bsky.social
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
Horse breeding? Is horse semen a resource in the game, or is that still exclusive to Grade Up to Elite Cow?
IIRC Wildsea was produced in landscape format, seemed to work out fine.
Taking Firefly as read, mine would be Sports Night and the way-ahead-of-its-time Profit.
Wait a minute - this is NEXT weekend! (I can read dates, I swear.) Never mind - I'm in!
Thanks! It's our first return in the post-COVID era, so we're really looking forward to it.
This sounds great! If I wasn't helping to run a real-world puzzle hunt tomorrow (playDASH.org), I would be all over this in real time; hopefully I can avoid hints and spoilers to solve it after the fact!
Did anyone die during character creation?
Flashing back to "Shifty Checkers" (an actual, if terrible, published game), as referenced in @amabel.bsky.social 's great recent video on the rise and fall of the Aurora company). youtu.be/TH3QT05C25w...