NineBlack
@9black.bsky.social
Socialist Shitposter
He/Him Cis Straight White 34
Rural American factory worker
ACAB BLM
Pro LGBTQ+
Into Video games, TTRPGs, Cats, Horror media
DMs open to moots
He/Him Cis Straight White 34
Rural American factory worker
ACAB BLM
Pro LGBTQ+
Into Video games, TTRPGs, Cats, Horror media
DMs open to moots
I fucking lost it when he gives the drone a thumbs up like that would be exactly my response looooool
King County Sheriff's office used a drone to deliver a life vest to a man stranded atop his car due to rushing floodwaters in Washington state.
Read more: https://cnn.it/4q26cXB
Read more: https://cnn.it/4q26cXB
December 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I fucking lost it when he gives the drone a thumbs up like that would be exactly my response looooool
Their entire catalog is on sale. I watched all of Ragnars vids on these games which isn't the same as playing them but I can recommend his recommendation as well lol
Soma is going for an absolutely silly discount right now, 95% off.
If you've not played it, it's perhaps Frictional's best. I never finished it, cos I got too scared
If you've not played it, it's perhaps Frictional's best. I never finished it, cos I got too scared
Save 95% on SOMA on Steam
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very exi...
store.steampowered.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Their entire catalog is on sale. I watched all of Ragnars vids on these games which isn't the same as playing them but I can recommend his recommendation as well lol
You know, the mines/halls of Castamere would still contain all the gold and jewellery of that family. You'd just need a bucket and a lot of freetime to get it out of there.
December 13, 2025 at 6:13 AM
You know, the mines/halls of Castamere would still contain all the gold and jewellery of that family. You'd just need a bucket and a lot of freetime to get it out of there.
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I really do think men's loneliness is treated as a societal crisis because lonely men are more dangerous. See also concerns about young men's unemployment.
I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
men’s loneliness gets “more airtime”?
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
December 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I really do think men's loneliness is treated as a societal crisis because lonely men are more dangerous. See also concerns about young men's unemployment.
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bluesky feature i would love: spoiler tags
December 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
bluesky feature i would love: spoiler tags
I don't like draw steels use of the term Immunity when they mean resistance. Odd choice.
December 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I don't like draw steels use of the term Immunity when they mean resistance. Odd choice.
The comments to this are kind of telling yet sad, everyone basically remembers when their parents or grandparents bought from the company. No one seems to have done the same when they grew up, thus the deliveries stopped for everyone.
If you missed the news about Schwan's (more recently known as "Yelloh"), here's the news from September of last year
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
Yelloh, formerly known as Schwan's Home Delivery, permanently closing frozen food deliveries
A once-iconic frozen meal delivery service is shutting down after over 70 years in operation.
www.usatoday.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The comments to this are kind of telling yet sad, everyone basically remembers when their parents or grandparents bought from the company. No one seems to have done the same when they grew up, thus the deliveries stopped for everyone.
Idk man I know that this isn't twitter and the algo isn't jammed down everyones throat but there is a Discover feed and popular with friends and At least 500 likes and just loads of feeds that actually do care about likes and reposts so if you get mad that you are getting likes
December 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Idk man I know that this isn't twitter and the algo isn't jammed down everyones throat but there is a Discover feed and popular with friends and At least 500 likes and just loads of feeds that actually do care about likes and reposts so if you get mad that you are getting likes
When I tun out of this cherry-lemon trolli mountain dew I'mma cry. Its so good.
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
When I tun out of this cherry-lemon trolli mountain dew I'mma cry. Its so good.
You know what is actually strange now that I am thinking of the time line of me getting hyper into nWoD is that by the time I first started buying the books almost every book that came out for the first edition had already been published? I got into it in 2007 and Mirrors launched in 2010,
December 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
You know what is actually strange now that I am thinking of the time line of me getting hyper into nWoD is that by the time I first started buying the books almost every book that came out for the first edition had already been published? I got into it in 2007 and Mirrors launched in 2010,
All those haters bitching about how it was a total flop because "no one's even talking about it anymore" like two days after it launched when like no bestie you just alienated the normies who don't want to talk to you about the new album since you don't like it? Obviously???
The Recording Industry of America announced its annual tally of the most successful albums and songs of the year, and it should serve as no surprise that Taylor Swift obliterated all competitors.
Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' Was The Biggest Album of the Year -- And It Wasn't Even Close
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
All those haters bitching about how it was a total flop because "no one's even talking about it anymore" like two days after it launched when like no bestie you just alienated the normies who don't want to talk to you about the new album since you don't like it? Obviously???
This is really giving me book of mazarbul (the journal the fellowship finds in moria) vibes
I made it better*
*worse
*worse
December 12, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is really giving me book of mazarbul (the journal the fellowship finds in moria) vibes
Also like if you haven't tried UFO50 you should? Party House alone is worth the price of it. It's kind of addicting and it's kinda odd that the game creators haven't like put it on the app store.
December 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Also like if you haven't tried UFO50 you should? Party House alone is worth the price of it. It's kind of addicting and it's kinda odd that the game creators haven't like put it on the app store.
They are stealth dropping Oblivion again.
There are some wild rumors/buzz floating around about a game (not Half-life 3) that could maybe possibly get announced at the Game Awards tonight, and if it happens, it's going to be one of the biggest "WHAT?!" moments.
But also, I'm not convinced.
But also, I'm not convinced.
December 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
They are stealth dropping Oblivion again.
The only reason I don't want this place to ever get group chats or circles is that no one would add me to any of theirs and as long as they don't add them I can keep forgetting that fact.
December 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The only reason I don't want this place to ever get group chats or circles is that no one would add me to any of theirs and as long as they don't add them I can keep forgetting that fact.
One of my little asshole traits is whenever someone gets all mad about alt text I go find some of their media posts to find out how well they are using it, generally they are in the okay territory but occasionally you'll find them adding alt text that is functionally useless.
Hey, instead of yelling at people about not using Alt text, if it's really important with you, post the alt text in comments.
Accessibility is important, yes, but let's not forget that people have different levels of energy to provide them.
It is not always malicious intent.
Accessibility is important, yes, but let's not forget that people have different levels of energy to provide them.
It is not always malicious intent.
i think the accessibility features on bluesky are great but because i don't use the platform often, i always forget they're there. whenever i post my art, i post the same thing on all my socials at the same time, so it's a lot of copypasting.
December 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
One of my little asshole traits is whenever someone gets all mad about alt text I go find some of their media posts to find out how well they are using it, generally they are in the okay territory but occasionally you'll find them adding alt text that is functionally useless.
Seeing a fabulous scholar flying overhead:
December 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Seeing a fabulous scholar flying overhead:
I swear to God and on my literal soul that I posted all that and then started scrolling and saw this and not the other way around. Automatically popped up in a relevant feed. Like brahhhhh
December 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I swear to God and on my literal soul that I posted all that and then started scrolling and saw this and not the other way around. Automatically popped up in a relevant feed. Like brahhhhh
Slightly annoyed by three issues in the feeds of this place, the first and most annoying is that keyboard smashes appear too often, can you not add a space before the keywords am to prevent those from showing up? I literally don't know.
The 2nd people tagging porn to it. Like I'd like to be able to
The 2nd people tagging porn to it. Like I'd like to be able to
December 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Slightly annoyed by three issues in the feeds of this place, the first and most annoying is that keyboard smashes appear too often, can you not add a space before the keywords am to prevent those from showing up? I literally don't know.
The 2nd people tagging porn to it. Like I'd like to be able to
The 2nd people tagging porn to it. Like I'd like to be able to
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"Democrats want ACA subsidies to tank so they can campaign on that" is right up there with "Democrats want to lose their elections so they can send you more fundraising emails" in the hall of fame of dipshit political hobbyist theories on the internet
December 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"Democrats want ACA subsidies to tank so they can campaign on that" is right up there with "Democrats want to lose their elections so they can send you more fundraising emails" in the hall of fame of dipshit political hobbyist theories on the internet
For most of the new world of darkness (aka CofD) I bought any of the new splatbooks as I could and any core or Requiem related supplements as I could find. I've played almost none of the actual games but man was it worth just reading them all
I wonder sometimes about the market segment of game READERS: folks who sometimes buy entire TTRPG game lines just to read the books, but who have never had the opportunity (or sometimes even the desire) to play them.
Some of this is also because, in a big part of the era, more than half of the people -buying- weren’t -playing- but were instead reading these almost like periodicals, so there was a focus on advancing the narrative episodically.
December 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
For most of the new world of darkness (aka CofD) I bought any of the new splatbooks as I could and any core or Requiem related supplements as I could find. I've played almost none of the actual games but man was it worth just reading them all
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Some of this is also because, in a big part of the era, more than half of the people -buying- weren’t -playing- but were instead reading these almost like periodicals, so there was a focus on advancing the narrative episodically.
While it is true that WW games sold themselves on being more story focused than D&D in the 90s...
The GM advice is nearly entirely "railroad" or "branching path railroading" with a tiny section pointing to improv as a holy grail only for master GMs.
Which is extremely traditional.
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The GM advice is nearly entirely "railroad" or "branching path railroading" with a tiny section pointing to improv as a holy grail only for master GMs.
Which is extremely traditional.
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Genuine question: what makes World of Darkness fans recoil from the (imo, correct) characterization of WoD games as solidly Trad? I’ve been getting a lot of folks trying to argue that games like Vampire are storygames, which seems ridiculous to me.
December 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Some of this is also because, in a big part of the era, more than half of the people -buying- weren’t -playing- but were instead reading these almost like periodicals, so there was a focus on advancing the narrative episodically.
And I keep coming back to the thing that has me craving violence, y'all said the ACA AND the Biden era ACA subsidies were just handouts to the insurance companies when they passed??!?!??
They were meaningless neoliberal bullshit up until the Rs are taking them away now they are super important?!?!?
They were meaningless neoliberal bullshit up until the Rs are taking them away now they are super important?!?!?
December 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
And I keep coming back to the thing that has me craving violence, y'all said the ACA AND the Biden era ACA subsidies were just handouts to the insurance companies when they passed??!?!??
They were meaningless neoliberal bullshit up until the Rs are taking them away now they are super important?!?!?
They were meaningless neoliberal bullshit up until the Rs are taking them away now they are super important?!?!?
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It is the sign of a deeply diseased mind to believe that Republican actions are actually just a nefarious Democratic plot.
December 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It is the sign of a deeply diseased mind to believe that Republican actions are actually just a nefarious Democratic plot.
Apparently letting Americans starve will look bad for Republicans which will make them lose elections and this is A WORTH TRADE THE DEMS MUST MAKE but letting the subsidies expire will financially ruin a bunch of Americans and this will.... Not look bad for Republicans?
December 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Apparently letting Americans starve will look bad for Republicans which will make them lose elections and this is A WORTH TRADE THE DEMS MUST MAKE but letting the subsidies expire will financially ruin a bunch of Americans and this will.... Not look bad for Republicans?