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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 23h

Brass is one of my favorite board games, absolutely worth it at that price

Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 1d

I was always surprised by how much they quoted from Dungeon Master's level design

I enjoyed Grimrock quite a bit and was saddened that it never led to a revival of the dungeon blob subgenre

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 2d

Tag yourself, I'm the firebrand of hell

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 3d

subtitles

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 3d

Also the case for anime and MAL ratings

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 16d

What stuff have you seen that you enjoyed?

I am convinced the best anime gets a rating between 5.5 and 7 on websites like MAL

Some now obscure anime that I like: Ai City, Run Melos, Mahou Shoujotai Arusu, Venus Wars

buncha gross ghoulies in dayglo colors from the anime OVA Ai City

The titular character running while dressed in a few rags and bandages from the anime Run, Melos

a moment from the opening of Mahou Shoujo Tai Arusu in which a witch and a wizard lookat a towering city in the distance that resembles Bruegel's Tower of Babel

strange sci fi vehicles in a ruinous landscape from Venus Wars

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 3d

Folks, Swords Without Master is the most fantastic ttrpg

Unwritten Earths Symposium @unwrittenearths.bsky.social · 4d

⚔️ The Season of Swords is upon us! Swords Without Master is coming out of the pages of Worlds Without Master Issue 3 into a full, stand-alone release!

🔮 Follow the Kickstarter page to get notified on launch in early 2026

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Coming soon: Swords Without Master

A ttrpg of strange sorceries, brutal violence and astounding wonder by Epidiah Ravachol.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 4d

Can't believe this might become the symbol of Amermaidan.

Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 5d

Frogtifa

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 6d

CJ Cherryh is good though I haven't read this novel

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 8d

The Riddler of Amigara Fault

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Jake, Subject Matter Expert @thewoodlandman.bsky.social · 8d

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 9d

they haven't because its not as cool as the early incorrect illustrations made it seem and they're too embarrassed to admit that the helicoprion is a loser

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 10d

The closest I could come up with for a story that actually qualified was Conrad Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow, but alas it has numbered chapters

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 10d

Looking at the Sparks discography, they've got the best 11th album and the best 19th album ever made

Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 11d

heinlein's among the worst sf writers to be regarded as a grand master of the form

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 11d

bobcat's deeply underrated

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 12d

That patrick mcgoohan vs lee van cleef movie would have no appeal to a kid but its overwhelmingly what I would watch in this lineup

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 13d

I don't know that I can find a use for the term because to some extent I feel all games are frankensteinian creations, cant think of any that sprung fully formed from zeus's head

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fishttp:// @fishttp.website · 13d

all mammals share an instinct to destroy their ancient enemy, the loathsome gourd

Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 13d

let the gourd times roll

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 13d

Cultivation games all read like this

The term "Cultivation" itself feels like a dreadful machine translation

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 14d

I never got mad at baby steps but I was muttering "fuck you" every few minutes when I played a game that featured dice rolls

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 14d

If the original text is meant as a "what these characters believe of themselves," it could be contrasted with critical marginalia, written by a lowborne hand

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 16d

ⓘ 𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 16d

"behind a picture frame you can find bullets"

Eric Adams goes through life like he's a resident evil character

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 16d

What stuff have you seen that you enjoyed?

I am convinced the best anime gets a rating between 5.5 and 7 on websites like MAL

Some now obscure anime that I like: Ai City, Run Melos, Mahou Shoujotai Arusu, Venus Wars

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Hawk Tuah'Dib @memorioustulpa.bsky.social · 18d

I totally get why Tartakovsky wouldn't believe anyone who told him Fixed was a bad idea, because execs treat everything he makes like its as bad an idea as Fixed

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