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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 5h

My niece told me yesterday its from a song detailing the height of a basketball player.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 6h

Feels like Toilet needs to be thicker which to be fair is a not-uncommon complaint I have

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

hang this in the louvre (there's room now)

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 21h

Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident at a construction site. I thought to myself, "what if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?"

--Shigeru Miyamoto

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 1d

Its also one of my favorites, and I'm sure del Toro knows what he's doing. Looking forward to it.

There was a really good production of it filmed for National Theatre Live with Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller. They put it up on YouTube for free during the early days of Covid.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 1d

Just Raleigh and Seattle, my in-laws used to live there.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit is drinking a cup of coffee in an elevator

Alt: Dougie Jones drinking coffee in an elevator

media.tenor.com

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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 2d

Define "perfect ending"?

Major Kong rides a falling nuclear bomb while waving his hat

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · 2d

This is the kind of cultural touchstone we lost when we moved away from 22-episode seasons and into prestige TV

Grand Nagus Zek's smiling face floats in a haze of bright pink light

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 2d

It feels too fitting for a show so obsessed with nostalgia that the radio station is the same as my local classic rock station.

To be clear, I know it's a coincidence, no one's Easter Egging my home city.

Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 3d

found someone on a local city discord building their own TTRPG and asked if anyone was interested and I thought, sure, I'll chat with this person about game design.

"So how far along are you?"
"Oh, its coming quick, I just ask ChatGPT"

Why would I want to play a game you don't want to design

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 3d

always a good ttrpg session when everyone has to spend all their adrenaline dice. even better when it's the only thing standing between two PCs and a fiery death.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 3d

Successful redaction.

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 4d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 5d

writing tip: trim your word count by reducing entire chapters to a single mysterious glyph

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 5d

www.reddit.com/r/horrorlit/...

Go on, ask me something. Ask me "How does it feel to have no questions on your AMA, losah?!"

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KINDAFREE | IRI @denofsin.bsky.social · 5d

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Adam Holcombe @adamholcombe.bountyink.com · 5d

Oh hey, look at the day! It's release day!

If you want an action packed, sci-fi adventure that meshes the heart of Guardians of the Galaxy with the weird of One Piece and the vast galaxy of Mass Effect wrapped into a love letter to Star Wars Legends, then look no further than Bounty Inc!

Out now!

Graphic featuring a mockup of Bounty Inc with text reading "Out Now!"

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 5d

Featherless, Featherless! Damned autocorrect tried doing it here as well.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 5d

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 5d

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 5d

Plato: Man is a fatherless biped

Diogenes: *brings forth plucked chicken* Behold! A Man!

My son, over 2000 years later: this is the greatest joke of all time

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes there'll be a joke written by someone who's been dead for tens, hundreds of years & i'll stop and think about another human reaching through time to make another human laugh, long after they're gone, and it's so beautiful it makes me well up.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 6d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 6d

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 6d

If I ever started my own blog it would be me reviewing classics as "JUST LOOK AT THIS SHIT LOOK AT IT"

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 6d

I took my kids to A Midsummer Night's Dream this summer, and the 9 year old understood the plot pretty much perfectly, the 6 year old was a bit more unsure but loved the pageantry of it.

Yeah, it's old, but he made it for Lots Of People.

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Haunted Howse @ryanhowse.bsky.social · 6d

There's an erroneous belief that the classics are only enjoyable as a 'snooty elitist' thing. Classics have *so much* weird shit in them. Whether it's an action sequence in The Iliad that feels like it's straight out of a JRPG, a curse that makes a dick too big, or horse piss washing away an army...

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 7d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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