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Aaron Voigt

@aavoigt.bsky.social

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Portfolio and contacts at aavoigt.com TTRPG Videos: https://youtube.com/@aavoigt Co-host: https://www.youtube.com/@mortifiedpod Games: http://aaronsxl.itch.io He/him

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 2d

My latest essay is on @olddog.games's "Deathmatch Island!" I talk about how the game designs its climax around the Prisoner's Dilemma, and how, despite the fact that the game wants you to break that cycle, that initial tension is the best part of the text.

Deathmatch Island, Squid Game, and the Tension of the Prisoner's Dilemma [TTRPG Video Essay]

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 6h

Rob Wieland was the tabletop community's Man At Forbes who did a lot to promote us all in the public eye. His last post was on the Last Caravan Kickstarter, which he probably did not anticipate would be his last.

May we all attain the level of kindness and geekery that Rob did.

Banana Chan @bananachangames.bsky.social · 6h

Extremely sad to hear the passing of Rob Wieland. He was a beloved figure in tabletop and a friend.

Will miss our post-con chats, Rob.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 19h

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
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Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

dying at rightwingers falling for what looks like an ai generated turning points USA half time show with special guest “measles”

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 10h

Weirdly, the first PBTA game I ever encountered was Interstitial, 3 years before I got fully into FaTT and learned what PBTA really was. I’m a sucker for Kingdom Hearts through and through

Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 13h

For tons of folks, there was that -one- game that blew the doors open and showed what #TTRPGs could be. The one that started the #IndieGame rabbit hole.

What was YOUR "gateway" indie #TTRPG? The first one that made you realize a whole other world was out there?

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 14h

Maryland changed you man

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Amaan🎙️GODKILLER: Qismat @amaanhk.bsky.social · 16h

GODKILLER: QISMAT IS BACK, BABY! We go live in 30 minutes @pantslesstables.bsky.social
twitch.tv/pantslesstab...

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 16h

Reshare: The entire field of public health emergency preparedness is built upon the understanding that we cannot avoid bad odds for eternity. The question is how will we respond.

www.rascal.news/preparing-fo...

Preparing for Public Health Disasters With Tabletop Games

What can we learn from a wargame about combating illness?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 16h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Benj Dino 2 has a Patreon! @goobernuts.itch.io · 22h

I was invited to Cebu by @playgubatbanwa.bsky.social folk to speak on Mangayaw. It was my first time outside of Luzon, and the farthest I have been away from home. Yet I felt welcome at every juncture of my whirlwind of a 2 day adventure in Cebu.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4d

This finding potentially opens up new perspectives for the prevention and treatment of HIV infections.
• uni-koeln.de/en/universit...

The study has been published in Nature Immunology. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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ABSTRACT
Administration of HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies can suppress viremia and prevent infection in vivo. However, clinical use is challenged by envelope diversity and rapid viral escape. Here, we performed single B cell profiling of 32 top HIV-1 elite neutralizers to identify broadly neutralizing antibodies with highest antiviral activity.
From 831 expressed monoclonal antibodies, we identified 04_A06, a VH1-2-encoded broadly neutralizing antibody to the CD4 binding site with remarkable breadth and potency against multiclade pseudovirus panels (geometric mean half-maximal inhibitory concentration =0.059 ug ugml-1, breadth = 98.5%, 332 strains).
Moreover, 04_A06 was not susceptible to classic CD4 binding site escape variants and maintained full viral suppression in HIV-1-infected humanized mice.
Structural analyses revealed an unusually long 11-amino-acid heavy chain insertion that facilitates interprotomer contacts with highly conserved residues on the adjacent gp120 protomer. Finally, 04_A06 demonstrated high activity against contemporaneously circulating viruses from the Antibody-Mediated Prevention trials (geometric mean half-maximal
inhibitory concentration = 0.082 ug ml-1, breadth =
98.4%, 191 virus strains), and in silico modeling for
04_A06LS predicted prevention efficacy of >93%.
Thus, 04_A06 will provide unique opportunities for effective treatment and prevention of HIV-1 infection.

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Tabletop Arts Fund @tabletopartsfund.org · 1d

Hey there! Couldn't help but notice that you haven't applied for the 2026 TTAF AP Grants yet. It's cool. I get it -- you've been busy. But why not take some time today to give your show a shot at being screened 'round the world?

apply.tabletoparts.fund/actualplay2026

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 2d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

important to remember that no matter how unpopular you think the regime is currently, this is actually the most popular they will ever be between today and any dat you pick in the future

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d

learning to embrace sucking is the greatest gift you can ever give yourself as a creative

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 1d

Haha I’m glad you liked it! I do wish it wasn’t so prescient about the US Department of Education

Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve heard some shit on Waypoint/Remap over the years but hearing that Chia Contreras grinds her pepper with a mortar and pestle has sent me to the shadow realm

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 2d

"Thus says the Lord: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs." - Exodus 8:1b-2

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 2d

i wonder if Kingdom Hearts could make it without Sora? My boy’s been the core of that series for so long, and even the kh2 opening when you played as roxas was divisive. I’d want them to try, but I’m not sure if the fans could move on, especially since the franchise is founded deeply on nostalgia

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 2d

Haha I'm far from it, but I think you've pulled together a really slick game!

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 2d

Evening bump for my new video!

Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 2d

Deathmatch Island, Squid Game, and the Tension of the Prisoner's Dilemma [TTRPG Video Essay]

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