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CRIT Award Nominated Freelance #TTRPG writer and critic, Black and 🇨🇦. For all my content, contacts, & support: https://linktr.ee/pocgamer Cool things I've worked on: - Blue Planet Recontact - Night City 2045 - Hard Wired Island ⚠️ Harsh Language

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · Nov 24

Hey everyone! I'm Graeme, a BC based freelance #TTRPG writer and critic. Hit up the link below for my social media and links to the main POCGamer site. If you like what you see, consider supporting me on Patreon or ko-fi!

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 24m

Puppy, minutes ago: attempts to eat a butterfly, fails, eats a dandelion instead.

Puppy, now: Now actively eating dandelions.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 11h

4/2 Sorry about the delete/reposts, I didn't have good clarity in 2/2 and needed to fix that up to make sure that the i3 > Celeron and Atom message got through.

POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 11h

3/2 And if your immediate thought to this is "Well, I use Apple for my laptop needs", you're in a different tax bracket and this conversation isn't really for you. Not being hostile, just don't need the Apple comments.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 11h

2/2 I say this because some friends got laptops at the back to school sale that were Atom or Celeron powered for CPUs and they're dying by stages right now. The laptops look great, but they're desperately underpowered for basic multitasking and project work. i3 is a little workhorse comparatively.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 11h

If you're a writer/creator and you're looking for a basic laptop to use for work, I cannot stress this enough:

An i3 processor is the MINIMUM for your CPU.

Why? Because if you want to do any kind of multitasking and not re-live the early '00s for latency and speed, i3 is it. 1/2

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Shauntelle B (they/them): Flavourful weirdo @shauntelleb.bsky.social · 17h

Ooooooh y’all this was a good ‘um 🤩

The QueerXP @thequeerxp.bsky.social · 17h

Hello everyone! We are gearing up for a new horror one-shot of MOTHERSHIP! Prepare yourselves as we follow a ship crew, wandering into the deepest and most horrific parts of Space!

PUBLIC RELEASE: Monday 10/20
PATREON EARLY RELEASE: TOMORROW 10/16

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 12h

Yeah............. Facial expressions are absolutely not "common to all humans". Maybe as infants, but by adulthood? Socialization around acceptable expressions, and even vocalizations, is a POWERFUL force.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 12h

The fact, THE FACT, That people are discovering "Furry Force" again is a source of endless hilarity to me.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 13h

TBH, I like the alternate Step Dice System as opposed to the standard Dice Pool System. The "roll a six on a d6" to succeed, even in a dice pool, is a bridge too far for me as someone with a lot of experience in meet or beat d6 pool systems.

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Adventure Dice @adventuredice.ca · 1d

Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme! Escape from Dino Island! Business Wizards! SWADE! Ironsworn! D&D (5e.14)! and Lasers & Feelings!

YOU could be a player in any of these RPGs, and help us raise money for Canadian Cancer Research - sign up now: forms.gle/ACGRgitqa9Zf...

nine photos of people in various poses, showcasing the GMs for the Andrea's Adventures TTRPG charity weekend (November 7-8-9): En, James, Jordan or Hoshi, Kat, Ogre, Owen, Pixie, Sam, TJ

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 17h

Forbidden Lands is... a series of Design Decisions™. I can see why people prefer their other fantasy game, Dragon Bane, over it.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 19h

I am falling hard for the Year Zero System. It's that medium level of crunch I enjoy; enough granularity to make things unique, but still with flex for players and GMs to work with. #TTRPG

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 22h

Burned most of the day on errands, but getting the literally the last BLÅVINGAD tote in the local IKEA for my bairn was worth it.

A picture of a BLÅVINGAD, a gentle sea green tote with a cartoon whale with a turtle on its head from IKEA.

POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 1d

2/2..., but we've never fired it up.

And really, TBH, I wonder sometimes why games with similar settings seem to get passed over too. Sure, there's some work to do to scrub the racism from the concept, but it's not super hard. Yet we still seem to skip mythological Bronze Age fun.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 1d

Atlantis: The Second Age is one of my white whale #TTRPG goals. I've owned the books forever. Me and my friends have read through them. But somehow, SOMEHOW, we've generally failed to actually play a game of it. It's bizarre. It hits all those weird fantasy/mythology/Bronze Age sweet spots...1/2

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Basil Wright 🛫 Carcosa @kobanya.bsky.social · 2d

Since it's #PortfolioDay, it's an excellent time to repost the Sensitivity Consultant starter pack!

go.bsky.app/92T7cw1

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 2d

The best was her explaining the movie to me.

"Now Dad, they fight demons, but don't worry. They aren't scary so you won't be scared watching." 😂

POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 2d

This show is the soundtrack to my life right now. It's all my daughter wants to listen to!

a group of cartoon girls are standing next to each other with their arms in the air .

Alt: Hunter/X shouting in excitement.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 2d

This is brutal. Who does this to people?!?

Friday, Juice, and New Jack City.

Spiritual GAYngsta @rockzillasworld.bsky.social · 4d

You can only pick THREE, whatcha picking?

I’m picking Friday, Set it off, & Juice!

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 3d

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Lola | Zine Month 25 | Dice Goblin for a Free World @thirdvaultyarns.com · 3d

We're live on the Twitch Homepage! Come watch the Age of the Outage!

EUphoria Actual Plays @euphoriaap.bsky.social · 3d

TONIGHT! Its Black History Month, and we're showing off game designer & GM
@chochy.co.uk's new system!

Players @theneoncaster.bsky.social, @daisypowerhour.bsky.social, @thirdvaultyarns.com, and @akingmade.bsky.social explore a world losing its spark...

Sponsored by @threesailsstudios.bsky.social

POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 3d

Usually, yes. What I'm seeing a lot of lately though is deeper. Like a weird nostalgia rush from the Gen X and Millennial cohorts that's less about care free childhood and more that "everything" was "simpler" at all levels.

POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 3d

Walk into a new room? Man, I can just stand up and look in the direction I want to walk and forget what I was going to do!

tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 3d

HEARTBREAKING: Person walks into a new room and immediately forgets what they were going to do.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 3d

2/2 When I look at the 90s and 00s, I don't see a time when things were easier. I see a time when it took a different set of skills to achieve the same ends. That and a lot of survivor bias.

POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 3d

"Things were simpler back in the day..." is a phrase I've come to really dislike. Because it's patently untrue. Things were just complex in different ways. A lot of things were way more difficult. And barriers? Barriers were worse because the prevailing culture was more supportive of them. 1/2

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