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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 15h

Rob was devoted to tabletop RPGs, a talented writer, and a real pro to work with. My deepest condolences to his friends and family.

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Gaming Journalist Rob Wieland Passes At Age 48

It is with a heavy heart that we report the passing of Rob Wieland. As well as his weekly reviews column here at EN World, Rob's work could be found on Forbes, Geek & Sundry, and other outlets, as wel...

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Tim @timmoydaen.bsky.social · 17h

Happy Columbo Day

Columbo, smiling, covered in hot pink silly string

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Eric O. Scott @ericoscott.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to read people who actually have intelligent things to say about Watchmen, look up @eruditorumpress.com or @thathoberekguy.bsky.social.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 1d

He drinks your milkshake

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 1d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who was once literally followed into a men's room stall in a St. Paul bar by someone who'd decided that any fat guy with bushy hair HAD to be Jack god damn Osbourne, can confirm that is bizarre behavior for any reason whatsoever

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 22d

i really don't think anybody else's endochrine systems are my business in general and that's because i am not an odious freak who is constantly trying to peek into public bathroom stalls

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like Thiel thinks literally every narrative is about the Antichrist, which makes me wonder what he makes of the Lars von Trier movie Antichrist

Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 2d

I still crack up at "You ever notice what big stars real estate agents have become?"

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 2d

Lackey: "Do you know what is stupid...THIS guy."

Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 2d

Kid Rock: "Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings."

Also, Kid Rock (Pictured).

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 2d

Can honestly say that in over fifteen years of active magical practice I have never once been stupid enough to even consider getting into a fight with a frog wizard.

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine being a dying WW2 veteran and the last thing you see on earth is your great-grandson invading Portland for fascism and losing to a frog wizard.

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 3d

Thiel summed up in four words:

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago October 2025: "Are the helicopters over my house this evening because of the Cubs playoff game or is it the federal government doing extrajudicial kidnappings?"

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 4d

Let me get this straight: the California National Guard has been federalized and deployed to Illinois.

Who will be submitting the articles of impeachment?

Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 5d

"Chillax" needs to be stricken from the entire language and never uttered again

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 5d

Some great tips here - not just for Blades GMs but for GMs of any system. 👍

Ronan@Thedicepool @thedicepool.bsky.social · 5d

New post on the dice pool dot com! Our new Blades in the Dark campaign starts tonight! I’m so excited that I wrote another blogpost about the game. This time its the GM best practices and bad habits described by @johnharper.bsky.social. #ttrpg #rpg #bladesinthedark

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Blades in the Dark Best Practices and Bad Habits

The bad habits that are listed here are fewer in number but oh so much greater in the size and capitalisation of their headings

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 6d

“Bucking tradition and legal precedent?” Don’t you mean “breaking the law?”

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HBO MaXXXinoparsnip @dekkoparsnip2.bsky.social · 6d

Let's do the fucking news

Kevin McCarthy in UHF, finding out what happens when you mess with Weird Al

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Lack(ey)-o'-Lantern @riotlackey.bsky.social · 6d

“Bucking tradition and legal precedent?” Don’t you mean “breaking the law?”

NPR @npr.org · 6d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.