Sean Murphy (not that one)
@taser8.bsky.social
Lead Content Producer for Civilization at Firaxis Games; 34 years in game dev; cigar-box guitar builder; mega Tolkien nerd. Opinions my own. I seen some shit, y'all. #deprogramthetrumpcult
Repost with an iconic fictional band:
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Repost with an iconic fictional band:
My latest bit of cleverness:
"MAGA? More like MANGA, amirite?"
('Cause, you know...Make America Nazi Germany Again...I'll see myself out)
"MAGA? More like MANGA, amirite?"
('Cause, you know...Make America Nazi Germany Again...I'll see myself out)
October 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
My latest bit of cleverness:
"MAGA? More like MANGA, amirite?"
('Cause, you know...Make America Nazi Germany Again...I'll see myself out)
"MAGA? More like MANGA, amirite?"
('Cause, you know...Make America Nazi Germany Again...I'll see myself out)
Interesting comment from ST:SNW Exec Producer Akiva Goldsman on the...let's charitably say "uneven" Season 3:
September 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Interesting comment from ST:SNW Exec Producer Akiva Goldsman on the...let's charitably say "uneven" Season 3:
If you are a gamer, do not be tempted by the LG G4 OLED - it's beautiful for movies and shows but if you try to play a console through it, you will spend most of your time staring at a screen that says "no signal". And it's absolutely a problem with the tv that LG refuses to do anything about.
September 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
If you are a gamer, do not be tempted by the LG G4 OLED - it's beautiful for movies and shows but if you try to play a console through it, you will spend most of your time staring at a screen that says "no signal". And it's absolutely a problem with the tv that LG refuses to do anything about.
If you’re still on Xitter then you are telling the world that you care more about your engagements and follower count than supporting actual Nazis.
September 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
If you’re still on Xitter then you are telling the world that you care more about your engagements and follower count than supporting actual Nazis.
It was tempting but I passed...
September 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It was tempting but I passed...
If you unironically use the term "warfighter" I am laughing at you to your face and behind your back.
September 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If you unironically use the term "warfighter" I am laughing at you to your face and behind your back.
Laid off again - come on, sing it with me, you know the words...
"The road goes on forever and the party never ends"
"The road goes on forever and the party never ends"
September 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Laid off again - come on, sing it with me, you know the words...
"The road goes on forever and the party never ends"
"The road goes on forever and the party never ends"
Site for getting life coaching from a singing demon? you mean Lornehub.
site for meeting up with a violent startrek alien lizard species? you mean GornHub.
Site for cereal grain that grows on cobs? You mean CornHub
August 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Site for getting life coaching from a singing demon? you mean Lornehub.
Spent four lovely hours tubing on the Shenandoah River today, and having finally learned my lesson, I was very careful to apply - and reapply - generous amounts of high SPF sunscreen.
I am now discovering all the spots I missed...
I am now discovering all the spots I missed...
August 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Spent four lovely hours tubing on the Shenandoah River today, and having finally learned my lesson, I was very careful to apply - and reapply - generous amounts of high SPF sunscreen.
I am now discovering all the spots I missed...
I am now discovering all the spots I missed...
Hey, wasn't there a whole thing where we absolutely had to annex Greenland or some shit? What happened with that? Weird.
August 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Hey, wasn't there a whole thing where we absolutely had to annex Greenland or some shit? What happened with that? Weird.
Getting really tired of the "If you're using AI you're not a real artist" posts - the problem isn't artists who use AI and pretend to be artists, the problem is businesses who just want "product" and don't care where it comes from - and if they can get it for "free" that's all that matters to them.
July 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Getting really tired of the "If you're using AI you're not a real artist" posts - the problem isn't artists who use AI and pretend to be artists, the problem is businesses who just want "product" and don't care where it comes from - and if they can get it for "free" that's all that matters to them.
The least believable part of Superman wasn’t flying humanoid aliens, or people who can turn into any element, or magic power rings, but the idea that conservatives would change their minds on something based on a newspaper report.
July 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The least believable part of Superman wasn’t flying humanoid aliens, or people who can turn into any element, or magic power rings, but the idea that conservatives would change their minds on something based on a newspaper report.
Once "content" - not art, not music, not writing - became a commodity, it was inevitable that a capitalist system would want to maximize output while minimizing cost.
When I see "content" I can't help replace it with "shit". That's all these companies want - a machine that makes shit.
When I see "content" I can't help replace it with "shit". That's all these companies want - a machine that makes shit.
July 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Once "content" - not art, not music, not writing - became a commodity, it was inevitable that a capitalist system would want to maximize output while minimizing cost.
When I see "content" I can't help replace it with "shit". That's all these companies want - a machine that makes shit.
When I see "content" I can't help replace it with "shit". That's all these companies want - a machine that makes shit.
Completely snarky thought - I wonder how many people complaining (rightly) about generative AI have Napstered music or torrented movies...
(ducking)
(ducking)
July 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Completely snarky thought - I wonder how many people complaining (rightly) about generative AI have Napstered music or torrented movies...
(ducking)
(ducking)
Okay so...I didn't love Spaceballs. There. I said it. Come for me.
July 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Okay so...I didn't love Spaceballs. There. I said it. Come for me.
When I was in boarding school in a foreign country during high school I used to take a bus into the city once a week to go to the US embassy to get my mail. There was a little newsstand there and the little old lady who ran it used to order exactly one copy of Starlog magazine, just for me.
June 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
When I was in boarding school in a foreign country during high school I used to take a bus into the city once a week to go to the US embassy to get my mail. There was a little newsstand there and the little old lady who ran it used to order exactly one copy of Starlog magazine, just for me.
Mass production experiment seems to be going well so far
June 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Mass production experiment seems to be going well so far
I can not begin to fathom the brain of someone whose car sports a "We the People - 1776!" sticker right next to a Trump sticker. True, full-on Orwellian Doublethink.
June 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I can not begin to fathom the brain of someone whose car sports a "We the People - 1776!" sticker right next to a Trump sticker. True, full-on Orwellian Doublethink.
I may have given myself a new addiction.
June 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I may have given myself a new addiction.
Any day I can introduce someone new to Master and Commander is a good day.
June 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Any day I can introduce someone new to Master and Commander is a good day.
Idiots. Morons. Shit-for-brains. Fuckwits. Dolts. Pinheads. Numbskulls. Imbeciles. Cretins. Dolts. Ignoramuses.
Ladies and gentlemen, the people running the United States.
Ladies and gentlemen, the people running the United States.
June 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Idiots. Morons. Shit-for-brains. Fuckwits. Dolts. Pinheads. Numbskulls. Imbeciles. Cretins. Dolts. Ignoramuses.
Ladies and gentlemen, the people running the United States.
Ladies and gentlemen, the people running the United States.
Is my radish trying to become a Pikmin?
June 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Is my radish trying to become a Pikmin?
Why are Trumpist pols comfortable passing a wildly unpopular bill that will kills thousands, remove the last dregs of oversight on the president, impoverish millions, make Americans sick and stupid - unless they expect there will never be free and fair elections in this country ever again?
May 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Why are Trumpist pols comfortable passing a wildly unpopular bill that will kills thousands, remove the last dregs of oversight on the president, impoverish millions, make Americans sick and stupid - unless they expect there will never be free and fair elections in this country ever again?