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Robert Mackenzie

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Was @RobertRambles on the ol' bird site. Co-creator of Compass for Image Comics. I write things from time to time! It turns out, you *CAN* go home again.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · Nov 16

So, given the boom around here, I thought it might be useful to have an easy access guide to who I am and what I'm about. If you're like me and you see a good post or get a follow, you do a quick timeline scan to see whom you've come across.

Hi!

I'm Robert Mackenzie.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

Gutted to hear about Rob Wieland. Cool in my short interactions with him, long in the hours of joy he indirectly contributed to my table. Tabletop is a small place in a lot of ways, despite the ever growing player base. Voices sound a long way, Rob's sounded very loud but always graciously. RIP.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 12d

"You wanted a chance to make law? Make it a good one." Captain Picard, The Measure of a Man, Star Trek: The Next Generation

Data protection legislation.

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 15d

But Gene's robots are his nicest people! This is slander and I'm not having it.

Typical engineer really.

Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 15d

AI is an unreliable narrator pretending to be your robot buddy

You think you’re in an Isaac Asimov story and you find out you’re in a Gene Wolfe story

Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 28d

AI is stupid, Exhibit 10^{100}

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 18d

It's just Lex Luthor but he gets no respect in Coast City

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 18d

No tidy resolution, just the loneliness of "...twenty minutes?". Just Picard and Kamin's flute, a tune only he will know and perhaps never entirely capture, knowing that in less than half an hour he's become inexorably separated from the understanding of everyone who knew him.

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 18d

One for the Australians

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 18d

That's the way it's gonna be, Clarice Starling/
We'll listen to Goodbye Horses, yeah yeah

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 19d

Talking with some friends yesterday about the pure joy of watching goblins go to work causing havoc has become a free, rules light, one-page RPG.

I hope you all enjoy "Oops...All Goblins!"

Rules for "Oops...All Goblins", a one-page TTRPG.

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 21d

Dear *God*.

Lisa Grimm Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialise @lisagrimm.com · 22d

Shall we all club together and buy a bookshop in the Yorkshire Dales? As a former rare book librarian, I'm still on all the mailing lists...could I run it from Dublin with regular trips over, please?

www.worldofinteriors.com/story/richar...

Buyer sought for over 150,000 books and the one-time Yorkshire Dales youth hostel in which they’re housed

Richard Axe is celebrated in the bookselling trade for his vast collection of antiquarian and second-hand volumes. Since 2005, his stock has been arrayed on over a mile’s worth of shelving in a former...

www.worldofinteriors.com

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 25d

Shifting the default video game presentation to 3D first person or over the shoulder to allow dominance for the console market was a mistake, beautiful 2D environments were robbed for decades.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 25d

Oh my yes

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 27d

Garak reading the comics of Steve Ditko

Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 27d

This is an interesting thought experiment because what kind of human literature would Garak actually like? He thought Julius Caesar was "farcical" and obvious so he probably wouldn't like our political intrigue. The Cardassian literature he DOES like is due to their rigid, authoritarian structure

ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 27d

My headcanon is that Garak adores Jane Austen, especially Persuasion.

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · 29d

Fucking *what*?

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · Sep 12

Oh, dip

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · Sep 9

Oh, yeah, I have that!

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · Sep 8

Have based more than one game on it, to a greater or lesser degree of inspiration! One (13th Age first, Everway later) still going strong after 12 years. So (though it was more tonal than direct inspiration) I strongly feel there were more stories to tell!

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · Sep 8

Every TV enthusiast I know has strong feelings about Terriers, the true tastemaker's classic. I've heard Gene Wolfe described as "your favourite author's favourite author", Terriers might have to be "your favourite critic's favourite show"

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · Sep 8

I think, still, after all this time, it's CARNIVALE. Twin Peaks got properly finished, I'd really REALLY like Carnivale to be completed too.

Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social · Sep 7

If you could get just one more season of any cancelled show, which would you pick?

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · Sep 2

The rare work that changes you actively as you read it. Tehanu particularly I remember as a young man (read man especially) rewiring bits of my brain page by page.

Robert Mackenzie @robertmackenzie.bsky.social · Sep 2

Among other things, the Earthsea books are treatises on the limitations of power. Not just that they teach that power is finite, they actively question by what metric we measure success, how we measure selfhood, what the purpose is of our life. Power fantasies inverted into wonder fantasies.