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Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 4h

Q3 sales numbers (public-facing, primarily volume based, no strong distinction made between physical and digital sales, but still, visualization) for Evil Hat: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Archive going back to 2016 (when I switched over to doing them in Drive) drive.google.com/drive/folder...

2025Q3 Quarterly Numbers for Evil Hat

docs.google.com

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Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 4h

Ah! Thanks.

Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 5h

... for what game?

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Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 9h

Hhhhhyep.

Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 9h

The ants would've written it better.

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Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · 10h

My list of TTRPGs to play in 2026 now sits at 31. Realistically I will manage maybe half that.

What should be on my list? Hit me with the good stuff.

And no I won't say what is already on it.

a man in an orange jacket is sitting on a couch and says hit me

Alt: a man in an orange jacket is sitting on a couch and says hit me

media.tenor.com

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Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 10h

Huge if true www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5z...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

www.youtube.com

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Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 11h

Sun was a company several folks I knew were genuinely happy to be working for. After Ellison got his drippy hands all over it it became one of the worst work experiences for many. That family is anathema to positive outputs and work environments.

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Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 11h

Reposting this mainly to affirm that Oracle-derived ventures putting out crap is not a surprise to anyone who’s spent significant time with their shit in the last (checks watch) … 30 years? I still remember watching the slow death of post-acquisition Sun Microsystems from the sidelines.

Bill Lamberton @billyhilllamberton.bsky.social · 20h

I get CBS news on a streaming service. I pay attention to Scott McFarland because he's all business. When he gets fed up and leaves, I'll stop watching altogether. Oracle puts out shitty and expensive products and I expect that CBS will turn into another shitty Oracle product.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 21h

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 21h

Seeing a lot of "No Kings" protests groups using AI images lately

You aren't resisting fascism by using their tools

Be better than that

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 19h

This is FATAL for the true sickos.

Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 19h

a ttrpg but it’s all tables. The cover is a table you roll on to determine which art is on the cover. There’s a table to determine who was its lead designer. there’s a table for who becomes the GM and instead of rolling dice it’s decided by how many snacks are present

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Matt Forbeck @forbeck.com · 19h

Gamers! If you're going to Gamehole Con, you can donate to help out Rob Wieland's wife and daughter by purchasing tickets to our memorial event there. If you can, please do!

The link for those donations is here: www.gameholecon.com/events/event...

In lieu of our annual Baron's Ball, we will be toasting our beloved Admiral with our own tall tales of Rob, our friendships, and his legacy 8pm Friday at Gamehole Con.

Please join us and help support his family at this time through this link:

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 18h

the “[organisational_role] of Antifa” is the new “social justice [5E_CLASS]”

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 14h

Back from a long staycation, which involved not looking at this site for five whole days. Cannot recommend it enough tbh

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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 12h

Genuinely delighted to say I'll be guest of honor, along with the fantastic Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social), at Octocon (@octocon.bsky.social), the National Irish Science Fiction Convention, in Cork, Ireland over October 3-4, 2026! I hope to see some (many!) of you there!

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Ophelia Shade @shadowedophelia.bsky.social · 22h

I've been struggling to process this news all day, honestly. One of the early conversations I remember having with Rob involved him telling me that if I thought "Arthurian Legend meets Big Stompy Mechs" sounds fun, I should check out Camelot Trigger.

Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 1d

Rob Wieland's first email to me was on Sat, Oct 21, 2006, asking to get the PDF of Spirit of the Century to go with his physical-copy purchase.

There since the beginning.

Wish he could've been there until the end.

Cover of Fate Worlds Volume 2: Worlds in Shadow, featuring cover art taken from Rob Wieland's contribution to this book, the amazing King-Arthur-in-Mech-Suits CAMELOT Trigger setting. Armored mech-knights suit up to face the robotic horde led by the giant-floating-head MerGN-A!

In this interior image from CAMELOT Trigger, we get a closer look at the giant floating head MerGN-A as her mouth opens to disgorge endless flying robots.

Writing credit:

CAMELOT TRIGGER
by Rob Wieland
editing by Tom Cadorette, Mike Olson, and Brian Engard
art by Brett Barkley

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PVincent (Table Cat Games) @tablecatgames.com · 1d

Rob Wieland wasn't just a ttprg guy, he wrote great nerdy themed articles of Milwaukee Record (one of the greatest Milwaukee indie news outlets)

milwaukeerecord.com/arts/r-i-p-r...

R.I.P. Rob Wieland

Rob was a steadfast contributor to Milwaukee Record since its founding in 2014. He will be forever missed.

milwaukeerecord.com

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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 1d

-the list for a press junket, because I knew there'd be a chunk of time where not only would I be chatting with a great journalist, but I'd also just be sitting across from a pal talking about the hobby we both loved.

Rob, I will really, really miss you, my friend.

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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 1d

I think Rob holds the record among journalists I've worked with for joyfully and happily going over time on a Zoom call - every time we would chat, we'd immediately shoot the shit for at least 15 minutes about home games or deep cut TTRPG lore, and I would eagerly anticipate seeing his name on-

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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 1d

I join a massive host of people who think the world of Rob, and are gutted by the news. While I only ever got to know him through his work, Rob's humanity, integrity and kindness were so overwhelming that his mere presence in an interview or on a phone call immediately brightened your day.

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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 1d

Devastated to hear about Rob Wieland's passing - a wonderful, golden-hearted man, a brilliant writer and journalist, and a passionate advocate for games and the people who play and make them. Sending nothing but the utmost love and deepest condolences to his friends and family.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 1d

historian of Latin America here, reminder that Columbus's extreme cruelty to indigenous peoples was known to his contemporaries and got him in trouble *then*

yes this man was so racist that he got chastised for it in *1500*

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