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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · 21d

Watching a Lyft driver approach your pickup spot is a little like a reverse Tron. Lightcycle Pac-man, if you will. Nom nom nom 6 minutes nom

a pixel art drawing of a yellow car with the words " i 'm getting out of here right now "

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Okay apparently it was a sample from a Kraftwerk track which surprises me not at all. The little stories behind tracks and sounds is so cool.

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Sep 8

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New Order - Blue Monday (Isolated Choir and Strings) (Cover)

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Sep 8

The noise that hybrid and electric cars make when in reverse or full electric mode is the choral synth from Blue Monday. Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk.

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Jul 31

Walks outside for air in Maryland:
Is… is this soup?

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · May 30

Forged in the Dark games are some of my most best absolute favorite to play. Happy to back this! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts

Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts is a 128-page expansion for the Blades in the Dark roleplaying game — containing a treasure trove of lore, setting material, and alternative mechanics John Harper develop...

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Apr 7

Starting today, you can pick up New Year, New You: a Speculative Anthology of Reinvention for $0.99!

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Apr 6

At my book club and someone said a story we read had nods to Frankenstein and Alice in Wonderland in it. And then I thought “oooh, what about Frankenstein in Wonderland” and then I realized that from the golem’s perspective, he’s always in Wonderland.

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Apr 5

This will hit small manufacturers and budding designers hardest of all. Steve Jackson isn’t a small name in this space. A price hike for them is a death knell for a smaller press.

Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Mar 25

Rest in roses, legend

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Brian James, founding guitarist of the Damned, dies aged 70

James was the lead songwriter for the trailblazing British punks’ first album Damned Damned Damned and went on to collaborate with artists such as Iggy Pop

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Mar 24

Plenty of games out there that embody the ethos and spirit to use the moniker. No bones there. Just… if I see something like Corporationpunk, I may flip a table.

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Mar 24

If a game is simply a reskin of Wanton, Unfettered Violence (TM) but this time with purple mohawks! …that’s not punk.

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Mar 24

Okay maybe I called my game “hopepunk.” But I don’t feel bad about that. Keener, more interested minds have dug into the overuse of the suffix to describe stories and games that are simply edgy, without embodying any actual punk ethos.

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Mar 24

I love me some “-punk” games. But good-got-dang not everything needs to be -punk. I wrote a game that was about actual punks flying pirate ships around a sentient void, but I’m not out here calling my game piratepunk, shippunk, musicpunk, sentientvoidpunk, or trombonepunk.

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Mar 17

The story ends well: we ran to get towels and saved the table as best we could. They are probably sick of me telling this story, but it's the most hilarious meet cute between two game companies I've ever heard of. Please consider supporting their (likely dry by now) games.

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Mar 17

Funny story: I met Josh and Chris at GameFace Con in Baltimore. The con had been open for 10 minutes. Their games were laid out nicely. They were friendly without being overbearing. Their games were good. I was impressed! Then, to celebrate, [name redacted] spilled a beer across their entire table.

Chris, Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · Mar 17

Moon Rings is out now!

This is a solo journaling game made for the Below a Bad Moon Jam.

Venture into the underground labyrinth, find the hidden Moon Rings, and cast a ritual to change the cursed blood moon!

Sharing is greatly appreciated!

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Moon Rings by Junk Food Games

a solo journaling game about a casting a ritual on the cursed blood moon

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Mar 13

Check out the game my small press is publishing! Assemblage: A TTRPG of World Building & World Breaking on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Assemblage: A TTRPG of World Building & World Breaking

Together, become a weird ecology. When the world shatters, how will we survive? Assemblage is a science-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG in which 2-6 players collaboratively build the story of an interdepen...

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Feb 24

I’m at GAMA Expo, in a panel about social media, and I’m the only one missing the presentation because I’m posting to social media…

IS NO ONE LISTENING TO THIS GUY?? 😂

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Feb 15

a woman speaking into a microphone with the words i need her written below her

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Brigitte Winter @brigittewinter.bsky.social · Feb 14

To save a missing child, two exes must reunite in their cryptid-obsessed hometown to investigate an unsolved mystery from their childhood.

❤️‍🔥Sapphic yearning
✨Genre-bending fun
👻Spooky small town mystery vibes

👽X-Files if Mulder and Scully were the monsters all along…

#cupit #Q #A #LGBT #HOR #RM

Book mood board The Normal Monster Club featuring Polaroids giving romantic spooky mystery vibes

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VML @vmlmtg.bsky.social · Jan 20

We are sad to announce that we have been told by Wizards that they will no longer support us with either funding or invites to Organized Play events.

Without this support - especially the invites - it is impossible for us to continue, and there will be no more VML seasons going forward.

We are sad to announce that we have been told by Wizards that they will no longer support the VML program with either funding or invites to Organized Play events.

Without this support - especially the invites - it is impossible for the league to continue, and there will be no more VML seasons going forward.

Over the past five years, we’ve radically changed competitive Magic for the better. When we started the program with 26 players back in Season 1, we never thought that we would end up having served hundreds of competitors and with over a thousand people in our community. We have sent cohorts of people to the Set Championships, Regional Championships, and Pro Tour. As a result of our program, representation of people of marginalized genders at the highest levels of play has multiplied from a handful at each event to over twenty who will play at PT Chicago. Several of our team members and players have gone on to be hired to work at Wizards.

We are also proud of the change we’ve created in the broader sense. The Magic community is a much more diverse, vibrant, and inclusive place than it was five years ago. The gender balance at in-person events has improved significantly, and the overall image of the game has changed for the better. We don’t claim to have caused all of that, but we are happy knowing our efforts have played a part.

We want to thank all the organizations who have worked with us and supported the cause: Good Luck High Five, Lodestone Coffee, NRG, Team Arclight, MTG Melee, BOP!, and the many wonderful creators, personalities, and players who have contributed.

To everyone who has been a part of the team here: you have all been brilliant, and without your passion and dedication we would not have made it this far. Every single one of you has gone above and beyond, giving your time and effort generously to the program and you should be extremely proud of yourselves.

Finally, to our awesome community: we’re sorry that we couldn’t keep this projec…

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Jan 1

Alright now
Dig slowly
Not too greedily
You got this
You know what the dwarves found
Down there in the mines
Ohhhhh yeah! Fire and Shadow!
Okay now slide

Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Jan 1

The dark fire will
Not avail you
Flame of UDÛN
OKAY NOW TWIST
get low with it
Just like Balin
Son of Fundin

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Jan 1

One
And two
Fly
You fools
You fools
You fools
Fly
You fools

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Bela Lugosi’s Dad Jokes @neversaydustin.bsky.social · Jan 1

On a writing retreat and a bunch of them are in the next room doing one of these intense dance workout routines led by some (I assume) wizard named Gandalf. I am in the kitchen cooking dinner, yelling out LOTR quotes to the beat.

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