Hiếu McKinney
@bokavordur.bsky.social
He/him
Hiếu from Hew from Matthew
Born to read, doomed to talk to strangers
I talk about libraries, Linux and TTRPGs
Not Vietnamese, just passionate about it
Hiếu from Hew from Matthew
Born to read, doomed to talk to strangers
I talk about libraries, Linux and TTRPGs
Not Vietnamese, just passionate about it
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Introduce yourself in 5 #TTRPG classes:
- Troubadour (Draw Steel)
- Witch (Pathfinder)
- Whisper (Blades in the Dark)
- The Hungry (Apocalypse Keys)
- Junk Mage (Heart)
- Troubadour (Draw Steel)
- Witch (Pathfinder)
- Whisper (Blades in the Dark)
- The Hungry (Apocalypse Keys)
- Junk Mage (Heart)
Introduce yourself in 5 #TTRPG classes (being a bit loose with the definition here, but whatever):
-Tzimisce (Vampire the Masquerade)
-Humakti (RuneQuest)
-Scoundrel (Thirsty Sword Lesbians)
-The Infernal (Monsterhearts)
-Occultist (Call of Cthulhu)
-Tzimisce (Vampire the Masquerade)
-Humakti (RuneQuest)
-Scoundrel (Thirsty Sword Lesbians)
-The Infernal (Monsterhearts)
-Occultist (Call of Cthulhu)
Introduce yourself in 5 #TTRPG classes
1. Brujah (Vampire the Masquerade)
2. Animist (Pathfinder 2e)
3. Troubadour (Draw Steel)
4. The Vagrant (Root)
5. Wizard (Daggerheart)
1. Brujah (Vampire the Masquerade)
2. Animist (Pathfinder 2e)
3. Troubadour (Draw Steel)
4. The Vagrant (Root)
5. Wizard (Daggerheart)
Okay, yeah so fully stoked for Draw Steel.
I can see this becoming my game if choice.
I can see this becoming my game if choice.
December 24, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Okay, yeah so fully stoked for Draw Steel.
I can see this becoming my game if choice.
I can see this becoming my game if choice.
Gonna write a trans only parody of Harry Potter and gonna ship it to JK Rowling
December 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Gonna write a trans only parody of Harry Potter and gonna ship it to JK Rowling
Proud to be the 6,441st backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Draw Steel: Crack the Sun! @hellomcdm.bsky.social www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Draw Steel: Crack the Sun
"We watched Cthrion Uroniziir try to reduce the timescape into one singular universe, wiping out reality as we know it. She was defeated, and we see her cage every day."
www.backerkit.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Proud to be the 6,441st backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Draw Steel: Crack the Sun! @hellomcdm.bsky.social www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
I... I... I sometimes feel like western leftists have an ego that makes them blind to their own shortcomings.
Because yes, "Marxists" (a very broad category that groups in many people) argue about material conditions.
So do anarchists. That's literally the point.
Because yes, "Marxists" (a very broad category that groups in many people) argue about material conditions.
So do anarchists. That's literally the point.
December 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I... I... I sometimes feel like western leftists have an ego that makes them blind to their own shortcomings.
Because yes, "Marxists" (a very broad category that groups in many people) argue about material conditions.
So do anarchists. That's literally the point.
Because yes, "Marxists" (a very broad category that groups in many people) argue about material conditions.
So do anarchists. That's literally the point.
Hot take
The best fantasy settings are not the classic medieval Hodge podge of early medieval to Renaissance.
No, the best settings, imo, are either modern fantasy (entirely fantasy people's and histories going to the mall and using magic cell phones) or fantasy 1900s-1920s
The best fantasy settings are not the classic medieval Hodge podge of early medieval to Renaissance.
No, the best settings, imo, are either modern fantasy (entirely fantasy people's and histories going to the mall and using magic cell phones) or fantasy 1900s-1920s
December 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Hot take
The best fantasy settings are not the classic medieval Hodge podge of early medieval to Renaissance.
No, the best settings, imo, are either modern fantasy (entirely fantasy people's and histories going to the mall and using magic cell phones) or fantasy 1900s-1920s
The best fantasy settings are not the classic medieval Hodge podge of early medieval to Renaissance.
No, the best settings, imo, are either modern fantasy (entirely fantasy people's and histories going to the mall and using magic cell phones) or fantasy 1900s-1920s
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“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
Libraries are great because where else can you have a PhD researcher reading a book about physical cosmology, sitting next to an 8 year old reading about Warrior Cats.
December 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Libraries are great because where else can you have a PhD researcher reading a book about physical cosmology, sitting next to an 8 year old reading about Warrior Cats.
Americans will do this while also shaming AES countries for their journalism being controlled for a narrative.
My siblings in the US... OUR media and journalism is the problem. It's all controlled by bourgeoisie interests.
My siblings in the US... OUR media and journalism is the problem. It's all controlled by bourgeoisie interests.
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Americans will do this while also shaming AES countries for their journalism being controlled for a narrative.
My siblings in the US... OUR media and journalism is the problem. It's all controlled by bourgeoisie interests.
My siblings in the US... OUR media and journalism is the problem. It's all controlled by bourgeoisie interests.
So, I'll be running the Delian Tomb in this setting, that IF we continue on with the game I'll build out the world as we go.
General idea: Broadhurst is a town in the nation of Lebarra, a theocracy near the center of the world ish.
With both the head of the Church of Videlicet and a monarch ruling
General idea: Broadhurst is a town in the nation of Lebarra, a theocracy near the center of the world ish.
With both the head of the Church of Videlicet and a monarch ruling
I decided to do something radical for me...
I just made a localized hex map for a TTRPG game instead of a full world with lore. Deciding to build it as we go.
I just made a localized hex map for a TTRPG game instead of a full world with lore. Deciding to build it as we go.
December 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
So, I'll be running the Delian Tomb in this setting, that IF we continue on with the game I'll build out the world as we go.
General idea: Broadhurst is a town in the nation of Lebarra, a theocracy near the center of the world ish.
With both the head of the Church of Videlicet and a monarch ruling
General idea: Broadhurst is a town in the nation of Lebarra, a theocracy near the center of the world ish.
With both the head of the Church of Videlicet and a monarch ruling
I've always loved the Tales Of series of JRPGs. Are they high art? No. Are they hokey and anime? Yeah, basically.
But man, I still enjoy them because they go out of their way to criticize systems of oppression a lot.
But man, I still enjoy them because they go out of their way to criticize systems of oppression a lot.
December 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I've always loved the Tales Of series of JRPGs. Are they high art? No. Are they hokey and anime? Yeah, basically.
But man, I still enjoy them because they go out of their way to criticize systems of oppression a lot.
But man, I still enjoy them because they go out of their way to criticize systems of oppression a lot.
I decided to do something radical for me...
I just made a localized hex map for a TTRPG game instead of a full world with lore. Deciding to build it as we go.
I just made a localized hex map for a TTRPG game instead of a full world with lore. Deciding to build it as we go.
December 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I decided to do something radical for me...
I just made a localized hex map for a TTRPG game instead of a full world with lore. Deciding to build it as we go.
I just made a localized hex map for a TTRPG game instead of a full world with lore. Deciding to build it as we go.
Me when I do my dissertation related to AI in libraries, so now I'm the local expert on LLMs and have to explain it over and over and over again.
December 22, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Me when I do my dissertation related to AI in libraries, so now I'm the local expert on LLMs and have to explain it over and over and over again.
So, we have a weekly game of Pathfinder 2e, and I think I'm at my wits end with one of the players.
He's in his mid to late 30s and this man is SUPER immature and awful to my brother, the GM. Just constantly arguing about rulings and not even reading his feats or spells.
He's in his mid to late 30s and this man is SUPER immature and awful to my brother, the GM. Just constantly arguing about rulings and not even reading his feats or spells.
December 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
So, we have a weekly game of Pathfinder 2e, and I think I'm at my wits end with one of the players.
He's in his mid to late 30s and this man is SUPER immature and awful to my brother, the GM. Just constantly arguing about rulings and not even reading his feats or spells.
He's in his mid to late 30s and this man is SUPER immature and awful to my brother, the GM. Just constantly arguing about rulings and not even reading his feats or spells.
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What's the Nebula Crew up to these days? Still taking $30k a month from their rabid patrons while uploading fuck all?
December 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What's the Nebula Crew up to these days? Still taking $30k a month from their rabid patrons while uploading fuck all?
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Liberals: we need to reach out to Republicans!!
The average Republicans:
The average Republicans:
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Liberals: we need to reach out to Republicans!!
The average Republicans:
The average Republicans:
Them: "Hew, why do you want to run Vampire the Masquerade?"
Me: "So I can make Ronald Reagan a vampire so players and beat the shit out of him"
Me: "So I can make Ronald Reagan a vampire so players and beat the shit out of him"
December 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Them: "Hew, why do you want to run Vampire the Masquerade?"
Me: "So I can make Ronald Reagan a vampire so players and beat the shit out of him"
Me: "So I can make Ronald Reagan a vampire so players and beat the shit out of him"
In my version of Vampire the Masquerade, the key is survival and community.
Sure, every group has their idea of what a good society means. They're all representative of radical groups in a way.
The Camarilla, Carthians, Sabbat, Lilithian League, Strix, they all want stability and community.
Sure, every group has their idea of what a good society means. They're all representative of radical groups in a way.
The Camarilla, Carthians, Sabbat, Lilithian League, Strix, they all want stability and community.
Well I don't care, I'm sharing
So, I'm a dirty heretic who rewrites A LOT in order for people to have options and such. As such, I basically took the Jyhad (renamed to Kulhivaru for reasons) and made it more of a millenia long game of chess and not as much all out war... Usually.
So, I'm a dirty heretic who rewrites A LOT in order for people to have options and such. As such, I basically took the Jyhad (renamed to Kulhivaru for reasons) and made it more of a millenia long game of chess and not as much all out war... Usually.
Psst, hey kid, wanna hear the plot to my Vampire the Masquerade (using PbtA) chronicle concept set in Washington DC?
December 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
In my version of Vampire the Masquerade, the key is survival and community.
Sure, every group has their idea of what a good society means. They're all representative of radical groups in a way.
The Camarilla, Carthians, Sabbat, Lilithian League, Strix, they all want stability and community.
Sure, every group has their idea of what a good society means. They're all representative of radical groups in a way.
The Camarilla, Carthians, Sabbat, Lilithian League, Strix, they all want stability and community.
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Draw Steel not only enables or encourages team work, it demands it. So many abilities in the game "don’t work" if you don’t have an ally to do them with
In tactical RPGs we often see the "how do I optimize MY hero" discussion, which certainly happens with Draw Steel, but I have also seen a lot of people say stuff like, "If you really wanna optimize in DS, you should focus on the party not the individual." That was by design, and I'm glad it works.
December 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Draw Steel not only enables or encourages team work, it demands it. So many abilities in the game "don’t work" if you don’t have an ally to do them with
If you elect me President of the United States, I will make debate streamers illegal.
December 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If you elect me President of the United States, I will make debate streamers illegal.
When I was in the UK I was on Threads instead (it was awful) and I got off of there because liberals thought they were revolutionary and repeating CIA propaganda and shaming anyone for correcting it.
Good times.
Good times.
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
When I was in the UK I was on Threads instead (it was awful) and I got off of there because liberals thought they were revolutionary and repeating CIA propaganda and shaming anyone for correcting it.
Good times.
Good times.
Waterfox is cool again, at least.
I really wish there were more actually independent web browsers that aren't Chromium.
There's really only Chromium (ew)
Safari (Mac only)
Firefox flavors
Interested to see what Lady Bird looks like when it eventually launches.
I really wish there were more actually independent web browsers that aren't Chromium.
There's really only Chromium (ew)
Safari (Mac only)
Firefox flavors
Interested to see what Lady Bird looks like when it eventually launches.
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Waterfox is cool again, at least.
I really wish there were more actually independent web browsers that aren't Chromium.
There's really only Chromium (ew)
Safari (Mac only)
Firefox flavors
Interested to see what Lady Bird looks like when it eventually launches.
I really wish there were more actually independent web browsers that aren't Chromium.
There's really only Chromium (ew)
Safari (Mac only)
Firefox flavors
Interested to see what Lady Bird looks like when it eventually launches.
I believe it is impossible to continue supporting the USA after reading about what happened in Vietnam by the US and South Vietnam puppet government.
It's disgusting.
One thing after another, and it's a constant stream of horrors.
Vinh Quang Việt Nam
It's disgusting.
One thing after another, and it's a constant stream of horrors.
Vinh Quang Việt Nam
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I believe it is impossible to continue supporting the USA after reading about what happened in Vietnam by the US and South Vietnam puppet government.
It's disgusting.
One thing after another, and it's a constant stream of horrors.
Vinh Quang Việt Nam
It's disgusting.
One thing after another, and it's a constant stream of horrors.
Vinh Quang Việt Nam
The key problem is that the DNC/liberals do not care. They want their own imperialism.
It's why we called out the inhumanity of the DNC for a long ass time
youtu.be/-sF4XoLTxnA?...
It's why we called out the inhumanity of the DNC for a long ass time
youtu.be/-sF4XoLTxnA?...
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The key problem is that the DNC/liberals do not care. They want their own imperialism.
It's why we called out the inhumanity of the DNC for a long ass time
youtu.be/-sF4XoLTxnA?...
It's why we called out the inhumanity of the DNC for a long ass time
youtu.be/-sF4XoLTxnA?...
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cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”