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Seth Skorkowsky

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Author. Game Master. Audio Book addict I also make YouTube videos about TTRPGs Gold ENNIE Award winner (x3) Silver ENNIE Award winner for Best Streaming Content https://www.youtube.com/@SSkorkowsky Agented by Amy Brewer at Metamorphosis Literary Agency

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 3h

Like some monster from a Stephen King novel, it must return every couple decades to inflict suffering and despair upon a new generation of fantasy fans.

Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah... because you know I'll die, allowing you enough time to escape. I'm not falling for that one again

Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 6h

You're at least prepared for that horror movie scene where the killer is charging down the hall toward you and you shut the elevator in time. Meanwhile, I'm totally screwed because I don't know what to do.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 6h

I've been in a lot of old buildings and ridden in some sketchy-ass elevators, but I don't believe I've ever ridden in one of those elevators with the accordion gate you have to manually close.
Maybe, like quicksand, Hollywood has completely misled me about how often I'd encounter them.

a group of people in an elevator with the words ghostbusters frozen empire

ALT: a group of people in an elevator with the words ghostbusters frozen empire

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 15h

Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 14h

I'm not claiming it's not. I'm all for removing lead.
But... there's also evidence the drop in the number of children born and raised unwanted or by adults unable to financially or emotionally support them as a very convincing argument.

Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 14h

Crazy how you can be so confident it was that while someone else posted Stanford Law School evidence it was legalized abortions. There are multiple things people have attributed with very good evidence to back them up. Maybe one is correct. Maybe they all are. No one knows.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 15h

I'm not 100% sure. I believe the reason they use arrest rates is simply it being a trackable metric, but the 'tough on crime' aspect leading to the rise I don't know. But I do know the mid-90s was the "lock em up and throw away the key 3-strikes super-predator" era which was mostly racist posturing

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 15h

It is one of those aspects that not enough people seem to talk about. I remember hearing about it in the mid-00s or so and then no one ever mentioned it again during all the debates and law changes.

Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 15h

Was this an own to my specifically mentioning Roe V Wade as one attributed reason? Am I owned now?

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 15h

I'm simply pointing out the well-documented rise and drop. I chose these particular graphs because they showed the longest period (most are 1980-2020).
If the cause was legal access to abortions, clean air/water, sweet video games, or Ginger Spice, is unknown. Maybe we should protect them in case

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 15h

Reason #935 why we need to keep the EPA. Clean air and water might be a good thing.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 15h

I want to say it was Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything that talked about him as the inventor who ruined the world. I can't recall.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 15h

Say what you like about Millennials and younger generations, but data shows they are far less likely to rob, beat, or murder you than Boomers and Xers.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 15h

Enforcement increased in some areas, for sure. But incidents decreased everywhere.
Was it the rise of the Spice Girls in 95?

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 15h

Fun with Data
Juvenile Crime skyrocketed between the 1960s and 1990s. Gang violence and 'super-predators' dominated the news. Then in 1995 it dropped and kept dropping.
No one knows why.
Some attribute it to Roe-v-Wade passing 20 years before.
Possibly it was all those "violent" FPS video-games.

Three graphs charting 1960 through 2021.
One tracks Juvenile Robbery Arrests Rates, another for Juvenile Aggravated Assault, and the third Juvenile Violent Crime. All the graphs rise from 1960, peak in 1994/1995, then drop to just above or below the 1960 rates in 2021.

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 1d

Y’all thin Y’golonac ever just does this?

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 1d

Dragon #114, October 1986.
I loved it so much I reached out to the artist and ordered a print made

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 3d

Well deserved. Bud loved RuneQuest so damn much, and I'm happy to see the love right back at him.

Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 3d

Today, on the seventh anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, Chaosium is pleased to announce William "Bud" Baird as the 2025 Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom winner.

Bud Baird is the 2025 recipient of the Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom

This month marks the seventh anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, and we are pleased to present the 2025 award to William "Bud" Baird.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 3d

It's all recycled fear-mongering. The original "these fragile minds will confuse fiction for reality" argument was from the moral panic about women reading novels.
The 'Video Games carouse violence' one is especially funny when you compare the claim against youth crime rates since the mid-90s.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 3d

FRP and/or FRPG really should have caught on.

Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 4d

Oh you gotta watch the Dark Dungeons movie. It's a very intentional comedy.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 4d

I was forced to watch Cruel Doubt (with Gwyneth Paltrow and Adam Baldwin). M&M was about the "brilliant but emotionally fragile" kid losing touch with reality narrative, but Cruel Doubt was "D&D makes you murder your family"

Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 4d

I need to get one. You can order them from Chick Pub, but only in bulk.

The movie is amazing. They did it straight-faced and it's hilarious.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 4d

On the bright side, I scored a copy of The Truth About Dungeons And Dragons off ebay.

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