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Ben Paddon

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Writer, podcaster, comedian, former world-record speedrunner. Jump Leads, The Game of Rassilon, Out On Her Fanny, Hot Quest, PortsCenter. Non-binary, they/them. linktr.ee/BenPaddon


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E A SPORTS it's in the SPORTS

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats

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Your periodic reminder that Worms Armageddon is $2.99 on Steam RIGHT NOW. Buy it! It still gets updates!

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Everyone is entitled to their terrible, terrible opinions. Squirtle is King of the Starters™.

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Counterpoint: Squirtle rocks socks.

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"I like bread… and fillings?"

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I would love a good reason not to leap headfirst into the giant whirring blades of a comically-oversized blender right now.

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A French egg looks in and mirror and says its daily affirmation: "I am an œuf."

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Last performance of The Dinner Party today. I have emotions! Really enjoyed doing this play and getting back onto the stage. I want more of this.

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sowing / reaping

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Shock as rich person dates other rich person.

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TERFs are people who, as children, were told "boys have a winkle and girls have a bajingo" and have aggressively refused to do any sort of follow-up research.

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It's Gollum.

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Cried some tears of gender-affirming joy this afternoon. Feels good. Long may it continue. (It won't, I this particular context, but maybe there's something I can do about that. We'll see.)

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There's no impersonation flag on this account, so I can only assume it's the real Sonic. Which, y'know. Hell yeah.

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My brain is being fizzy and unkind tonight, so if anyone has any kind words to say about any of the things I've have a hand in putting out into the universe - Jump Leads, PortsCenter, The Game of Rassilon, whatever it may be - please do share.

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The original Resident Evil trilogy is going onto GOG.com and I am - no joke - going to die of happiness. My entire body will explode like a rocket. I'm going to ragdoll towards the sun.

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JIMINY GLICK: Now you, you, you, you—your cars, they tend to run over pedestrians. Or else BURST into flames. ha HA isn't that wonderful! ELON MUSK: *the least convincing laugh of all time* GLICK: *tucking his legs under himself* You bought a website where no one likes you. Why?

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That's... quite a take when it comes to Moffat's showrunning. I don't think he's ever missed with a season finale, IMO, but that's just me.

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It's one of those Forever Good pieces of TV. It had one dud like - "I know evil when I see it and I see it in that window" - which was added in post to cover a plot point that got removed in the edit, but other than that it's golden.

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I can't tell you how excited I am for the release of Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition. I am going to be feral about it for one month minimum.

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Last night's performance was so good. The entire cast crushed it, and the audience was so on board and energetic. Best night of the show. We have one more performance this Saturday (already sold out!). I'm going to miss this play so much when it's over.

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Chappell Roan's album has fully two songs on it that I guarantee will appear in pizza commercials at some point in the next ten years.

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Well, of course! I don't know how you fit it all in.

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Also, I know @benjaminahr.bsky.social follows me here and on TikTok, so I need to find a way to Inception into his brain the idea of doing a Doctor Who podcast together. We could call it "Two Bens One Doc".

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Listening to @greatesttrek.bsky.social go through Battlestar Galactica has me wanting to run through the series again. I'd be doing it now! Only I'm in a play in Hollywood in like 3 hours.

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Fun fact: "Slicers" was adapted from a script by @andrewt.net for the original comic. I added the base heist bit - lifted from another script I'd written that got shitcanned for being awful - to add some stakes.

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The state of state-of-the-art technology these days, smh. #audiodrama

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Rocket over North Hollywood! Weird.

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Happy 14-year anniversary to the Cirque du Soleil x Kinect show, an event held in LA during E3 to promote the Kinect that was all at once beautiful and pointless. It also scored bonus points for successfully convincing my dad that he didn't need a Kinect - he already had a Wii.

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Live now! We start in 5 minutes.

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Set up to stream, so I'll probably start at around 12:30pm.

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Got my Xbox 360 back from a friend recently, including my modded copy of Rock Band 3, so I may well end up streaming some Rock Band later today! Follow me on Twitch to get notified: twitch.tv/portscenter

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this aired last sunday and it left me speechless however bad you think another trump presidency would be, it'd be worse. you need to understand the full extent of the 2025 Project if you're thinking about not voting because Biden pisses you off (understandable!), WATCH THIS NOW N-O-W

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If you're promoting a book you "wrote", and your "writing process" was punching prompts into an AI text generator, you didn't write anything. Nothing creative happened there. And if you couldn't be bothered to actually write the book, why do you expect anyone to be bothered to read it?

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Illumi was the creator of the word “skeets” for that we should all be eternally grateful and help him out if it’s possible for you ❤️

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It's so good. I'm watching the behind the scenes stuff, and Neilsen recounting the head of ABC saying the show failed because you had to watch it is such a damning truth about American TV audiences. Still true today! Wow.

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Rewatching Police Squad. It's still a fantastic bit of TV comedy, but the first episode is the best one of the bunch and it never quite reaches those heights again.

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THIS IS IT.

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Reminder that Stockholm Syndrome was invented because a kidnap victim said, accurately , that the kidnappers were more concerned with their safety than the cops were.

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We did a tableread for two episodes of @jumpleads.zone yesterday. Big takeaway: one episode really works, one needs a page-one rewrite. Which… y'know, annoying, but that's what these tablereads are for.

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How old am I? Old enough to remember the original "Who's That Pokémon? IT'S PIKACHU It's Clefairy! FUUCCKK!!" video someone made, that then got lazily remade by someone on Vine years later, and now the imposter the only version people remember or reference.

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Is now a good time to say that Spaceballs was never actually good? Because I don't think it was ever funny.

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