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Author of DEVIL, AIM FOR ME. Contributing writer for Gauntlet RPGs including ENNIE award winners Trophy and Brindlewood Bay; Public Access; Planet Raygun; others | profile pic by Binglin Hu binglinhu.com

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Scientist (standing between armed marines and a plainly homicidal alien): Wait! Don't shoot! This is humanity's first contact with an alien species! Doesn't it deserve a chance to use our affiliate code for 15% off a GetFresh subscription with the code 1STCONTACT, plus free shipping for the first three months?

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Flashback to the time cartoonist and bon vivant Pete Toms rendered a casual sketch of me that managed to capture accurately how I feel most of the time.

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Welcome to my TED talk! First slide please.

[a slide appears with IMPACT font that reads WOLVERINE'S BONE CLAWS ARE BULLSHIT]

The doors are all barred from the outside, so let's get comfortable, shall we? In 1974...

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Water cooler chat at work led to a mention of the decline of "third spaces" in the US as outlined in the book BOWLING ALONE. Now I'm listening to the author talk about his research in '95, years before his book came out.

Decades ago it was known that social cohesion was on the decline since the 70s, as was civic engagement. The internet and covid didn't help.

Hard to imagine how a society reverses this kinda trend, or if it can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpBOgh2zxtE

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Oh, nothing much, just having a complete crisis about my worth as an artist and human being, must be Monday, nothing to see here, move along...

headdesk

signalstation,
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@lilithsaintcrow

oh that's clever, you pick a day of the week for those?

I've been doing this impromptu approach that... honestly, the frequency dial is probably a bit too high for something this unscheduled and yet impactful

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HOW IS ALIEN ISOLATION TEN FUCKING YEARS OLD?

jfc

what is going on with time?

I'm old as fuck, that's what's going on.

signalstation,
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@Jyoti

I think it's time we try to drum up support for a public pact to stop talking about time until time sorts itself out.

Because this sort of thing just keeps happening and I think we're encouraging it.

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You know what I keep forgetting? That I can use simple browser tools to make websites say whatever I want, whenever I want.

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tried that new dating app but every match I got was with THE STONE CITADEL and sure, I'm game, even though their interests seem a bit limited:

SEALING THE GATES and FLOODING THE OUBLIETTE and MY DOG MAX and STANDING FOR A THOUSAND YEARS INVIOLATE

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If you got yourself a witchfinder problem, do what we did. We had all the young ladies tell the WF that our witches could turn into toads, sent'm down to the toad pond. Spent weeks down there demanding the toads change back to face Christ's judgment.

Next witchfinder comes along, we say "we've just got the one witch, they hang out at the pond yelling at toads." Cancels out.

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I want to see your favorite fantasy and sci-fi cover art! Books, magazines, RPGs, comics, whatever!

signalstation,
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@Tim_Eagon

One of the few pieces of TTRPG art that, once seen, I decided I needed to download so I'd never lose it.

Here it is, in fact, from my work computer, where there's no reasonable use case for having it handy. I've seeded it everywhere.

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@Tim_Eagon

It's named Malleus Monstrorum so I think it was intended for the book of the same name from Chaosium. It's by Loïc Muzy, same artist who did the book's cover.

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I'm as troubled as any elected official about the reports that a giant shark has been eating tourists. That's why I fired our Marine Life Task Force and used the proceeds to purchase this three-wheeled robot that can only move on flat paved surfaces and comes pre-installed with full chatbot capabilities.

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when there was only one set of footprints in the sand, that was when Jesus leaned into me, merging our limbs where they met, absorbing me like an amoeba so we were briefly shambling in terror, one independent leg apiece, my features flowing like cascading mud into his, my identity vanishing

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Cleaning up old posts on my personal weblog and dug up this gem from 2018.

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Hey, RPGers, help me out.

Do you like having an in-game pet when you roleplay? If so, what's the appeal?

And who gets narrative control over your pet, usually, is it you or the person running the game?

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the sixth sense, i get, but what's the third sense?

signalstation,
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@lilithsaintcrow

is it a different half, depending on the dead person?

this person: bottom

this person: back

this person: insides

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feeling kind of dumb now that I put "fuck with moon dust" on my new year's resolution list

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“Therefore, as Long COVID patients become louder, as their presence becomes more undeniable, as their numbers grow, the COVID normalization project must pivot from attempting to disappear these victims to steadily stigmatizing them." https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-peoples-exclusion-from-indoor

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@lilithsaintcrow

As the number of masks I see when I go out continues to drop, at least I can take some comfort at seeing the facts so plainly stated.

I would also prefer not to wear a mask. Masks suck. But so does becoming disabled in a country that won't hesitate to let you die if you can't afford help (or don't have a well-off social network to crowdfund, voting with their dollars the extent to which they like you and wish you to continue living.)

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Pushed over a wizard and scored this +1 sword, but all it does is attempt to post a thumbs up to a dead Google social media site.

...

Anyone? Is this joke just for me? Not even this annoyed wizard gets it.

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Going full Roy Batty thinking about all the moments that will be lost in time like:

• The CD buying public going nuts for Gregorian chant
• A socially contagious spate of "people dressing like clowns and standing somewhere clowns shouldn't be"
• Belt-mounted quarter dispensers
• Banned ninja movies

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accidentally watched a good film

what do I do now

how do I avoid doing it again

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The only thing fines do is tell corporations to not get caught next time. Dissolve the entire fucking business, put the board and CEO in prison for six months, and see if other corporations decide to do the same shitty thing as that one. I dare you.

signalstation,
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@lilithsaintcrow

The phrase "a fine is a price" was like putting on THEY LIVE glasses for me, the first time I heard it.

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All the other newsboys are like "Extree, extree! Read all about it!" and I got the newsboy who's like "Keep yer nickel, mac, there ain't a single thing going on the world that's gonna help your ugly mug. Might as well be ugly with a nickel than well-informed and five cents lighter."

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Used to be that to write a ghost story, all you needed to do was spend a few pages with a protagonist laying out the extent to which they do not believe in the supernatural and then they see a ghost and change their minds. That was the whole story.

But these days you have to ask the Floating Drowning Lady to stop screaming in your ear for five minutes while Scrivener loads or something and then a publisher wants you to TIKTOK?!?

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