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Benjamin Gray

@imbenvincible.bsky.social

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He/Him. Professional Writer. Unprofessional Writer. TTRPGs, literature, comedy, and more. 1/3 of Roleplay Retcon. The good stuff is at heybenjamingray.com.

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Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's FLOPS day!!!!

It's a TTRPG where you can do what I've been doing for six years-- fix a bad movie with your friends!

It's worth the purchase price alone for @simonwl.bsky.social 's art!

benjamingray.itch.io/flops

FLOPS by Benjamin Gray

The TTRPG about fixing the movies that let you down with cinematic superpowers!

benjamingray.itch.io

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Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 26m

I suspect that a not-insignificant percentage of people who use the phrase "A wild ______ appears" do not know it's from Pokemon and I think that's interesting

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 5h

If you’re looking for answers, this ain’t your roundtable. Instead it’s a lot of generative (unanswered) questions about who gets to be an authority, what it means to teach & evangelize for TTRPGs in different contexts, & more.

Hopefully the start of more conversations with more folks, more places.

Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social · 5h

Tune in Monday October 20th for our latest Talk of the Table Roundtable.

This conversation with @friede.bsky.social, @itsquinns.bsky.social, and @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social is all about teaching TTRPGs through actual play and finding more on-ramps into this hobby for new players.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 4h

I asked @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social because of how D20 (notably D&DQ) has worked as intro to D&D.

@itsquinns.bsky.social PTFO is actively trying to dramatize the joy (& humor) of learning old systems.

There’s lots of other folks who could/should/will be interlocutors as well: a symposium-full!

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Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social · 22h

Today we got to do something INCREDIBLY exciting that was one of the core reasons we started the Many Sided Network:

We got to pay our affiliates!

No one is receiving a lifechanging amount of money—far from it—but we're proud to help small independent podcasters make a bit of money from their art

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Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 22h

I'd rather be watching the critically acclaimed NBC television series Ed (2000-2004)

Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, is there another Biblical figure that seemingly miraculous things happen around? Like, for example, a wound that he recovers from that everyone marvels at

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Mega Infinity @megainfinity.band · 1d

You can support musicians directly by purchasing their physical media instead of supporting billionaires who take anyone’s money to run an ad and never cared who that hurt.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 1d

So, to be fair, I kinda *get it.* I also got fucking sick of journalism and quit. But acting like it's some sort of integrity move to do it is bullshit. Saying "the fascists wanted me to quit, so I am, and THEY'RE GONNA BE SORRY" is just stupid. Just say you're doing it for you.

Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, saying "okay, you win" to politicians is not journalistic integrity

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

n.pr

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Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe this is a hot take, but this guy is right

Gamers are terrible

It's the "designed with gamers in mind / designed with activists in mind" meme by a psychopath who edited Erika Ishii in Ghost of Yotei to be a woman with a waifu face and huge knockers. Everyone in the world is clowning on him.

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Roleplay Retcon is remaking Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) @roleplayretcon.bsky.social · 2d

Just learned about Rob Wieland"s death. He wrote Save Game, the TTRPG we used to remake Pixels. Rest in peace, man.

The cover for save game. A martial arts character, a young wizard with purple clothes, a disco dancer with a disco ball for a head, and a superhero dig with a jetpack face face down a faceless crowd. Spike balls float in the air and a marie antoinette like villain with an eye patch looms over them

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Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 3d

Would

Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 4d

I've heard that, too

Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 4d

Haha look at those kooky skeletons hahaaaAAAAAAAGGGHH

Samus's "skeleton" from Smash 64, which I think is just supposed to be her body inside the suit, but it looks like a fleshy mannequin

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Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 6d

During the Obama/McCain election, CNN debuted some tech that let people remotely project into the studio *for the audience,* but the studio anchor (Wolf, usually) couldn't actually see them. Wolf was like "It's great to be able to see you," which was a lie, and I have never forgiven him

A woman with a blue outline stands on a pad in a television studio built for election coverage. Wolf Blitzer stands a few feet away, with his back to the viewer, addressing the woman. American flags are on monitors in the background.

The woman is being captured by a camera elsewhere and is being digitally projected; Wolf can't actually see her, only the television viewers can.

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Henn, known robot kisser @iwriterobots.com · 7d

Still thinking about Capenna's Humors-Based-HRT

A screenshot of text from the Magic the Gathering story "No Tells" by Isaac Gellman. It reads:
"I don't get it, Yuma," said Elnor. She was cool for a woman with thunder pointed at her; I could smell the power, like the smell of rain coming to the desert. "Weren't we good to you? Didn't we accept you when nobody else did? Didn't we hook you up with the best body-man in the city to change your humors, to make you a fella?"

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Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 6d

And the inverse scenario, where the credits roll and the guy calms down a little after cursing God for this ironic punishment, and he's like, okay, that was a pretty good twist tho tbf

Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 6d

They're kinda right. I think you're coming from "laws won't stop him," but he says a lot of this shit so that you'll be afraid and he can use your fear against you. He is not all powerful.

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Tales Yet Told | New Episodes Bi-Monthly @talesyettold.com · 6d

Honored to be amongst so many passionate and talented folks within the AP space

Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social · 6d

My First Dungeon: The Wildsea is currently ranked NUMBER FOUR in the Audio Fiction World Cup!

Also in the Top 40 are MSN shows:
@talesyettold.com
@5gmsofficial.bsky.social
@theheartisadungeon.bsky.social @magehandhighfive.bsky.social

Also shoutout to our buds at @planetarcanapod.bsky.social

The first page of the rankings for the Audio Fiction World Cup as of October 8th, 2025. My First Dungeon: The Wildsea is listed at #4.

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Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 7d

I think you're old enough to hear this: "and they were roommates" was staged

Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 7d

If you use generative AI, it destroys my home and is a direct offense to me.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 8d

I know the guy doesn't eat anything but burnt steaks with ketchup, but... surely he's seen Melania eat a fish

Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 8d

Me, a Foxy Shazam fan, hearing the Peacemaker season 2 theme song for the first time

The excited, pointing soyjak (It's a simple, amateurish line drawing of a person with a patch beard looking at the viewer with an open mouth and a hand pointing behind them)

Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 8d

Julian

It's a hungry world

Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 8d

Threatening someone isn't a thought crime. Nor is harassing someone.