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dapperdinobot.bsky.social@dapperdinobot.bsky.social |
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Yet another nerd on the internet. Ask me about giant robot cartoons or obscure TTRPGs or kung fu movies or food history or sci fi/fantasy novels and I will talk your ear off.
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@dapperdinobot.bsky.social
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Meanwhile, the gang's gearing up for a new D&D campaign, at which point I've decided to go with "Legally Distinct from Bilbo Baggins" as a character concept. As archetypes are there for a reason, I guess.
#letmetellyouaboutmycharacter
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Because nobody asked for it, I'm gonna ramble about #RiverCityGirls2 . As it's a game that feels like it was made for me, specifically.
"Oh, you like Mega Ran? He's on the soundtrack. You main Jam in Guilty Gear? SHE MAKES A CAMEO."
Plus, y'know. Walk right. Punch dudes. Quite fun.
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But the gimmick is, you don't have to declare exactly WHAT is in your load until you decide to use it. So if it's "oh hey, a grappling hook would be useful right now," and you have an open gear slot? You're good to go! And if not, you just have to improvise. It neatly streamlines things.
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It's a TTRPG and not a video game, but I always thought Blades in the Dark had a really novel take on this. Basically, before a job starts, you declare your "load," which gives you a set number of inventory slots. The heavier the load, the more conspicuous you are.
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Mina Li (she/her)
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turns out my state is having a contest on "I Voted" sticker designs, and I would like to show you the most metal one by a middle schooler:
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Tade Thompson
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This is a subtweet about Frankenstein because I don't want to be a dick, but I also want some facts out there. 1. Most novels at the time were anonymous. We can't make definite judgements about why Mary Shelley's name wasn't on it. It was common practice. The novel was barely respectable. 1/?
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@dapperdinobot.bsky.social
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Thinking about how I've officially been at my current job for three years now, which may be the longest I've ever stayed at the same gig? Probably not going anywhere anytime soon. Though if someone wants to give me a million dollars to talk about giant robot cartoons, I'm gone.
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THIS SAID, the best Gundam is a three-way tie between G-Gundam, 08th MS Team, or Gundam Build Fighters.
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I mean, DS9 is easily best Trek (though Lower Decks ranks surprisingly well). Ciaphas Cain's memoirs are one of the few sources of actual 40k canon, everything else is propaganda. And yeah, RPM is the best Power Rangers (and the only one I really paid any attention to post 90's).
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So if I'm not totally exhausted by work tomorrow, I'm gonna run the superhero RPG #ICONS again tomorrow. Neat!
I shall be introducing an NPC whose personality is basically "Teenage Zangief."
It is that kind of game.
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@dapperdinobot.bsky.social
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In other news, a new season of Netflix's BBQ Showdown just dropped, and it's probably my favorite piece of Netflix's original programming. Mostly 'cause it's basically the Great British Bake Off, only I have some idea what the contestants are doing.
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Shiv Ramdas
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"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me
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@dapperdinobot.bsky.social
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Happy 4th, go punch a fascist.
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Any taco can be a breakfast taco if you wake up early enough.
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I'm statting up pre-generated characters for the Icons (a superhero #RPG) game I'm running, and I can't help but put in utterly shameless jokes.
Which is to say, the Soviet super-soldier weretiger's real name ... is Anton.
Tony the Tiger.
I am, as they say, back on my bullshit.
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The Midnight Society
@midnightpals.bsky.social
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Vladimir Nabokov: ok this is the story of the guy who raised his own child bride Piers Anthony: why would you say something so controversial and yet so brave
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@dapperdinobot.bsky.social
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So there are different kinds of relics. Notably, anything a Saint touched during their life can be a relic. Which means that somewhere out there, there could be a RELIC NINTENDO.
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@dapperdinobot.bsky.social
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Thinking about running #UnknownArmies for my gaming group.
The thing is, I've never actually played the game (though I've got the 1st ed corebook), and the game's so big and weird I honestly don't know what a "standard" UA game looks like?
Any suggestions/one shot ideas would be quite welcome!
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Mike McMahan
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All of Lower Decks season one is up for free on the P+ YouTube for a limited time (USA).
A great way to intro a friend to the Cerritos!
youtu.be/jTQnkijDtRQ?...
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@dapperdinobot.bsky.social
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Man, I keep on seeing trailers for Kevin Kostner's Horizon movie, and there's not a single robot dinosaur in sight.
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How am I just learning about Full Moon's new Ray Harryhausen-inspired creature feature throwback? As this is exactly my kind of bullshit.
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C. L. Polk
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Nothing has actually changed. You have a choice between congresspeople and senators and AGs and school board reps It’s a long damn ticket to examine for your vote, just like you had last week. Nothing about Joe and that felon has changed. Eyes on the structural prize.
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So I’m reading Anthony Bale’s “A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages,” and it’s depressingly (if unsurprisingly) Eurocentric. Like, I’m nearly halfway through the book, and I don’t think it’s mentioned Ibn Al’Battua even once? When I can point at gaps in your research, you’re probably doing it wrong.
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I'm not watching the debates, but knowing that they're happening right now makes me want to pour another whiskey. Getting some mildly existential cosmic horror vibes. As you do.
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Star Wars is the funniest thing to be an angry reactionary about because you gotta be really mad while typing stuff like “Blurk Skindoo”
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If anything, D&D's Thief owes a lot to Lieber's Grey Mouser, down to having proficiency in slings and being able to read magic at higher levels.
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Like if you had told 5 year old me that, in the future, there would be a whole channel devoted to Transformers, he'd be more excited about that than the flying cars. Which is something of a silver lining considering how cyberpunk dystopian the rest of the 21st century is.
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I am continually fascinated by the amount of free entertainment (often of the entertainingly schlocky variety) through digital channels or streaming services like Pluto or Tubi.
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Freakazoid is also only apparently shown 12:30 am Saturday mornings, so, uh, I guess that's just to cater to nostalgic weirdos who are up too late. Also they have Go-Bots, of all shows-- which makes me think someone wanted to get Transformers, but this was all they could manage.
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Meanwhile, digital channel MeTV now has a 'Toon' channel-- (Thankfully not called 'MeToon,' oof). And it's kinda fascinating the random grab-bag of stuff they were able to license for cheap. The Real Ghostbusters, Johnny Quest, old Warner Bros cartoons, Popeye-- and Freakazoid!
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merritt k
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"average mini painter drinks 3 pots of nuln oil a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average painter drinks 0 pots of nuln oil per year. merritt k, who lives in woods & drinks over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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David Buchanan
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wildlife photographer walks into bar "why the long lens?"
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@dapperdinobot.bsky.social
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Are you running a historical game that requires research, or is it just general modern day "what the fuck, reality" kind of depressing?
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WildGorillaMan
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Urgente: Gato
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From what I can tell, all these badly spelled "Hawk Tour" memes indicate a resurgent interest in falconry.
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I'm just waiting for The Protomen to get their shit together and release a new album already, which'll be a handy excuse to visit and catch a show.
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Had a dream last night in which I visited @carminedeville.bsky.social 's house, but then they got mad at me for disturbing the careful layout of their ExoSquad action figure collection (they were still boxed!) and letting the cats out of the basement.
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The interesting part being, now that I'm discussing the show with other folks, there's one character who's universally loathed. It's like "hey, welcome to the fandom. Also this dude sucks." Like if Jar Jar binks was a sex pest.
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So I binged the first season of #MyHeroAcademia over the last week, and it's pretty solid?
Admittedly, the show still has the same SHOUTY SHONEN DETERMINATION that ... kinda grates on me, but things get a lot more interesting once the story opens up and introduces a slew of new characters.
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I have done fuck all today, and it's been kind of great? Work tomorrow will likely be a minor fiasco, but hey. That's tomorrow me's problem.
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👯♀️ lydelle buster 👯♀️
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new labelling service that tags everyone on the website as a Brak, a Zorak, or a Spaceghost,
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It still floors me that, back in the 60's, the Sonics released a song that was ultimately "HEY KIDS DRINK POISON," and it was a fukken banger.
(The Banana Splits footage is laid over the song after the fact, but it's still entertaining as hell).
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Wait, what? All I remember is Gargamel. But then again, I only vaguely recall The Smurfs as "that show I didn't pay much attention to because I was killing time 'til Ninja Turtles came on."
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Unspeakable violence?
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George Moser
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*sighs in Louisa*
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So! Just ran the first session that #ICONS #ttrpg that I've been tinkering around with for the last month. And it went really well!
Had a great crew of players who, while I'd never played with any of them before, were all on the same page in regards to teen superhero nonsense.
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Haus of Decline
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