Undead Author
@undeadauthor.bsky.social
TTRPG creator, amateur anthropologist and folklorist, bronze age enjoyer, and educator.
https://jamesbarton3.itch.io/
https://jamesbarton3.itch.io/
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AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
January 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
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MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok
December 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok
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Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
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ever find yourself looking in a history book and thinking "lol, those fucking idiots"?
ron perlman voice: humanity never changes
ron perlman voice: humanity never changes
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
ever find yourself looking in a history book and thinking "lol, those fucking idiots"?
ron perlman voice: humanity never changes
ron perlman voice: humanity never changes
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December 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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I have this tabletop RPG about play superheroes that lays out what being superhumanly intelligent means, and one of the earliest levels is "if you are dropped into a third world country, you will within a few months be solidly middle class via application of your intelligence"
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I have this tabletop RPG about play superheroes that lays out what being superhumanly intelligent means, and one of the earliest levels is "if you are dropped into a third world country, you will within a few months be solidly middle class via application of your intelligence"
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kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
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Once again to celebrate this awesome game and encourage people to make things for it, I'll be putting the asset pack that Andy used in MM on sale for $3 from Dec 15th through the end of the month.
itch.io/s/172140/mid...
itch.io/s/172140/mid...
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Once again to celebrate this awesome game and encourage people to make things for it, I'll be putting the asset pack that Andy used in MM on sale for $3 from Dec 15th through the end of the month.
itch.io/s/172140/mid...
itch.io/s/172140/mid...
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Rent is almost paid but I'm out of anxiety meds. Can anyone throw me like $40 to pick up a fresh prescription?
Hey. It's an emergency again. I need $650 for rent by Friday but I'm only making $400 at work this week. If you or anyone you know can help me keep my house, that would be appreciated. Cat pics pro gratis as always.
paypal.me/tknyarly
paypal.me/tknyarly
December 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Rent is almost paid but I'm out of anxiety meds. Can anyone throw me like $40 to pick up a fresh prescription?
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
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There’s something about a desert that makes me want to fill it with giants 🏜️
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
There’s something about a desert that makes me want to fill it with giants 🏜️
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Where this breaks for me is “can I intuit something useful about the setting from the new terms?” A calendar with Wet, Dry, and Storms does that, while D&D’s Mystaran calendar is just the normal one with an extra step where you look up to confirm that “Nuwmont” is January.
Not sure how I feel when a book tells me that instead of "12 months" they have "10 arcs," which are each 40 days long, and they all have names like Blossomarc, Flamearc Snowarc,.... I appreciate the world building, but couldnt we have just kept the calendar the same?
November 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Where this breaks for me is “can I intuit something useful about the setting from the new terms?” A calendar with Wet, Dry, and Storms does that, while D&D’s Mystaran calendar is just the normal one with an extra step where you look up to confirm that “Nuwmont” is January.
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Watching Giant Grant Game's 4 hour C&C retrospective reminded me that Command and Conquer's tiberium series was...uh, pretty forward looking when it came to sci-fi, like, uh...wow, what could tiberium be about???
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Watching Giant Grant Game's 4 hour C&C retrospective reminded me that Command and Conquer's tiberium series was...uh, pretty forward looking when it came to sci-fi, like, uh...wow, what could tiberium be about???
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Didn't have time to make a bundle for this itchIO #CreatorsDay (I'm sneaking this skeet at work)
Wanna support a #RPGLatAm designer? Awesome! get my games at mrdrhobo.itch.io
Which games you ask? Well...+
Wanna support a #RPGLatAm designer? Awesome! get my games at mrdrhobo.itch.io
Which games you ask? Well...+
August 25, 2023 at 7:21 PM
Didn't have time to make a bundle for this itchIO #CreatorsDay (I'm sneaking this skeet at work)
Wanna support a #RPGLatAm designer? Awesome! get my games at mrdrhobo.itch.io
Which games you ask? Well...+
Wanna support a #RPGLatAm designer? Awesome! get my games at mrdrhobo.itch.io
Which games you ask? Well...+
ghost story: and this guy was a weirdo academic
me: uh huh
ghost story: he had like, the Mysteries, Orphic Poems, things on Mithras worship, and Neoplatonists on his shelf.
me, looking at my bookshelf: hey wait--
me: uh huh
ghost story: he had like, the Mysteries, Orphic Poems, things on Mithras worship, and Neoplatonists on his shelf.
me, looking at my bookshelf: hey wait--
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
ghost story: and this guy was a weirdo academic
me: uh huh
ghost story: he had like, the Mysteries, Orphic Poems, things on Mithras worship, and Neoplatonists on his shelf.
me, looking at my bookshelf: hey wait--
me: uh huh
ghost story: he had like, the Mysteries, Orphic Poems, things on Mithras worship, and Neoplatonists on his shelf.
me, looking at my bookshelf: hey wait--
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Essential reading, like virtually all of Klein's work
@naomiaklein.bsky.social: ”Where the Surrealists made irreverent and untameable art, the fascists sought a world of perfect symmetry. While the Surrealists embraced the frailties and mysteries of the human body, the fascists waged war on deviance.’’ www.equator.org/articles/sur...
www.equator.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Essential reading, like virtually all of Klein's work
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[reading mencius] ok i understand this is one of the most influential philosophical texts in the history of our species but every chapter is "dude you have to promise me. in a war. do not let your idiot brother manage your grain supply. preferably ask someone who knows how to manage grain supply"
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
[reading mencius] ok i understand this is one of the most influential philosophical texts in the history of our species but every chapter is "dude you have to promise me. in a war. do not let your idiot brother manage your grain supply. preferably ask someone who knows how to manage grain supply"
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give it up for Henry yall
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
give it up for Henry yall
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almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.