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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 8m

As a gay boy from Pittsburgh, it feels very good and appropriate that my first subscription issue of Fangoria features the upcoming queer zombie movie directed by George Romero’s daughter

Me, a chubby bearded guy with glasses and piercings in a black shirt sitting in front of a framed Godzilla vs Biolante poster, holding the latest issue of Fangoria

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 5h

I hate AI. I hate stumbling upon a Patreon for printable paper minis and feeling like the art assets are AI generated and being unsure if I should reach out to the creator and ask if they use generative AI in their workflow because the About section on the page is also oddly cagey. Feels paranoid.

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 6h

No, Google Hangouts, I don’t want to customize my appearance with AI for this work meeting I’m about to do.

Or ever.

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 23h

Can I see your notes on that when you’re done holy SHIT

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 23h

No.

No, no, no.

No no no no no no no.

I do not have the free time nor the energy to dedicate towards doing a weird homebrew hack of Daggerheart to do the AD&D Birthright setting oh my goodness stop it brain.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 1d

Do you know how dogs first came into existence? They were wolves once

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 1d

I’m still extremely salty over Rush Duel never making it over to the English market in a physical format lol

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Marc Moureau @marcmoureau.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #PortfolioDay ! 🎨 I'm a french illustrator specialized in fantasy cartography. Here's a medley of maps from adventures past. You can find more on my portfolio :
www.marcmoureau.com

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 1d

These are gorgeous! Absolutely fantastic work!

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Luigi is a folk hero! 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @seriesjunkie.bsky.social · 1d

Hello everyone.

Antifa is not a real organization.

Proud Boys are.

Oath Keepers are.

Patriot Front is.

KKK is.

Heritage Foundation is.

Antifa is not.

Thanks for your attention.

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a little sad to see that the new Warhammer Quest may be moving away from the cute and traditional modular dungeon tile system, but having larger, more dramatic encounter areas is also extremely cool

A blurry and low-res screengrab showing miniatures and a game board for Warhammer Quest: Darkwater

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t have reliable internet access as a teenager, but I did have plenty of time to over-think about the fantasy literature I was grabbing listed in appendix N, haha!

Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight’s Hyperborea game ended with my pyromancer being tortured in an underground cell by a werewolf and afflicted with lycanthropy after setting a forest on fire as a distraction and our party splitting, with two PCs solo hex crawling in opposite directions

Elfgames rule, baby

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 1d

I definitely did not realize that as a gay teenager reading these books and then obsess over it for years

Couldn’t be me

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 1d

Man, I’m so glad I ended up buying this Gundam novelization from 1990 from the used book store today. It was only $10! I’ve literally never seen these in the wild until now.

A copy of Mobile Suit Gundam volume 2: Escalation, written by Yoshiyuki Tomino and translated by Frederik L. Schodt

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 2d

I had a feeling this might be related to the Avatar cycle of novels and adventure modules TSR used to narratively transition the Forgotten Realms from AD&D 1e to 2e, and it seems I was right! Glad I snagged it.

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 2d

Came very close to grabbing that out of curiosity!

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 2d

Bauhaus playing Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, easily

youtu.be/rhJZrRV5YKo?...

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 2d

It was heartbreaking to run across the toy I wanted most as a child and not be able to afford buying it

That the store’s speakers immediately began to play Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division felt like a weird cosmic cruelty

The Kenner Aliens Queen Hive action figure and play set still in the box in immaculate condition

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 2d

Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 2d

What even have I stumbled upon

The front cover of a copy of the Hercules and Xena RPG

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 2d

Parting ways with three IKEA bags of tabletop RPG books and accessories that I either don’t vibe with anymore because my tastes have changed or the creators who made them are chuds. It kinda sucks but it’s more shelf space for new games.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 2d

What the actual fuck, YouTube.
It decided to automatically replace my own voice with AI bot voice, without my consent. What is the point of this shit.
Turn the volume on 🔈

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 2d

Beebee is being a horrible little goblin demon brat this morning. She has, thus far -

Screamed at the top of her lungs in my face

Screamed at the top of her lungs in my partner’s face while he tries to sleep in

Nibbled on a Warhammer mini

Tried to lick my breakfast

Tried to eat plastic

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 2d

I tried really hard to ignore her so she started nibbling on a Warhammer mini 🙃