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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 10h

D&D was a random, poorly constructed miniatures game that lucked into a false promise of weird simulationism and then was misconstrued as a storytelling game and it isn't either of those things. The sooner we realise and move on and leave it behind, the better.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 16h

Once you realize the NYT is trying to help him you can’t stop seeing it

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16h

It was an unrealistic promise, not a lie!

Facade of White House's East Wing Is Torn Down to Make Way for Trump's
Ballroom
President Trump had pledged that construction wouldn't "interfere with the current building," a promise that seemed unrealistic given the scale of the plans.
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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 10h

The first step to defeating D&D is ignoring D&D. Just forget about it. It will always be shit.

cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 1d

Obligatory disclaimer:
I like games where you go in a scary hole to fight monsters and level up. I also like social games about PCs having emotions at each other. I even like games about queer topics.
My point is that this shit is dishonest marketing on hasbros part, because dnd is only the first.

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Skel-Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 14h

Putting a beholder, The Most Racist Creature, in the background of a Pride art piece is a good bit

cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 1d

What does any of this shit have to do with D&D, which is a game about going somewhere dangerous (eg dungeons) to fight scary monsters (eg dragons)?
What relevance does all the twee art like this Hasbro keeps churning out have for a game that is fundamentally about peril, violence and adventure?

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merritt @merrittk.com · 21h

genuinely incredible to encounter a 'millennials ruined ____' post in 2025. like meeting an uncontacted tribe

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1d

centrist: Where do we go from here? We have to find common ground. We can't just call the other group "Nazis." At the end of the day, we're all just rich white men with podcasts.

Republican lawmaker: Welcome to Hitler Chat. I'm Hitler

Republican lawmaker 2: Hello. I am Hitler as well.

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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 20h

Today I am making sure our fish mafia setting has protestants and catholics, because this is the work of worldbuilding

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Powerful, grubby men using their connections to cover their abuse of a trafficked teenage girl.

After all the revelations, it's never "not" shocking.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society

also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 21h

Hating liberals is what unites us all, though.

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 2d

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”

Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

www.stereogum.com

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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 1d

being an artist is impossible
but lou reed says
do it anyway
I'm trying, lou
I'm trying

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1btx...

Lou Reed - Why can't I be good

YouTube video by Heartattackevine

www.youtube.com

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 2d

I know there's been some concern that we haven't done the meme yet, but c'mon would we let you down? so here we go, freshly updated for issue 7 (now please buy a copy, thanks)

a photo of Taika Waititi showing a disapproving looking Cate Blanchett dressed as Hela from the MCU the latest issue of Wyrd Science

the towering balnchett is tagged "My Executive level bread winning wife"

Waititi is tagged "me, showing her yet another magazine about wizards I've just made"

same time, same place, next issue folks!

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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 1d

The funniest thing about American liberalism is that only Americans talk about liberalism, while also living in a society so illiberal the rest of the world points and laughs.

Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 1d

I agree that bad games mess with people, but my games don't need you to be "into" the mechanics for them to work.

Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 1d

Now I've had people say that as you soon as you try to control behaviour, you've lost, but to that I say "piffle"

Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 1d

Spicy take: while I think it’s great to be up front in the rulebook about the goals of play I’m also always wary of ttrpgs that write on the character sheet things like “get into trouble” or “make dramatic choices” because if you’ve made the game properly, the mechanics should make you do that.

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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 1d

this book is PHENOMENAL and everyone should read it, even if you don't like (whatever you think you won't like)

Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to me relentlessly bullying @eleanormorton.bsky.social in this month's episode of Eleanor & Alasdair Read That. We're doing Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch (1974). And we're not doing Harry Potter, the Keir Starmer of fantasy literature.

linktr.ee/readthat

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daughterofmrandmrss @nosregis.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote a fan letter to her when I was a kid
She replied to say thank you & she'd doodled witches, webs & bats on the envelope.
8 year old me thought I'd died & gone to heaven :)
Mum told EVERYONE!

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noted bones haver @noted.bones.haver.zone · 2d

I knew Jill, she lived a few doors down from me back when I lived in Cornwall, I went to school with her son & I used to swim in her pool. We kept in touch; when I came out as trans, I emailed her to tell her my new name, she was excited for me and supported me. She was incredibly lovely. I miss her

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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 1d

Internet, you are drunk, and when you are drunk you forget that Willow is the best fantasy movie of all time.

Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 1d

If you're lucky, the staircase falls down eventually, and hopefully doesn't take the whole house with it, but it sure does a lot of damage as it falls.

Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 1d

And maybe the house ends up not talking to each other, or everyone packs into the broken staircase and pretends it works...sigh.

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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 1d

And they keep attracting people who don't mind climbing up the walls, which ends up making the subculture weird or cliquey because you have to nail your colours to a mast instead of just all mixing together, or people who think the whole house is falling down just don't come in at all.

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Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 1d

You can't criticise the staircase being broken from the inside, because they like it that way. You can't criticise from the outside because the staircase has become a supporting wall of the whole subculture and you can't pull the whole house down.

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