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Ben

@benbartlett.bsky.social

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Aging nerd, office drone and recovering librarian. TTRPGs, retrofuturism, gushing about Pratchett and increasingly radicalised political takes. Please ignore my bad posts, unless they made you mad, in which case know that I meant every word.

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Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 22h

Me quietly reading this like 'Wait, those AREN'T normal you?'

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 2d

His Knife Floor Room was the best part because it meant he had to spend 45 minutes arranging them or do it once and tiptoe in and out of the room every time he wanted to lie on the floor for a good ol' mirthless chuckle

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 2d

The second guy might be a young Tory but already looks like he doesn't get unsupervised access to the kids

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 2d

A slight amendment: Considering that a commoner has 4 hit points and the average person can lose 2000-2500ml before dying, I'd estimate about 500ml of blood per hit point, meaning a 20th-level barbarian can have about 165 litres of blood in him

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus Christ lol

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 2d

Turns out there's a very good reason the cap guy is trying to hide his face from the camera

Photograph of a young white man wearing a blue 'Make Britain Great Again' baseball cap. He looks like a nervous sixth former who spent all year campaigning to be Head Boy but didn't get it because he got caught wanking under the desk.

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 2d

He has a special function on his TARDIS that tracks the location of every school throughout time and space because he's not allowed to materialise within 200 yards of one

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 2d

You never see her hanging out with Haim anymore so she should unequip them from her inventory and switch them out for The Last Dinner Party so she can benefit from the discourse buffs. Maybe add the singer from Maneskin who went trad to her loadout.

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 3d

Ooooh, I can see Forged in the Dark working fairly well for this

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 3d

A whole class of masculinity influencers yelling at you to do the carnivore diet and free bleed.

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 3d

Watching Air Bud and having to reluctantly respect his hoop game even though I agree with the other team that a dog should not be permitted to play basketball

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 3d

I saw someone saying that people can still enjoy media that they don't agree with and sure, ok. I can't think of many pieces of media I've enjoyed, however, that are vehemently opposed to every aspect of my personal morality and philosophy however.

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty Normal Activity

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 4d

I... I think I'm too baffled to be properly infuriated

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 6d

This is incredible, it's a better rip of Wes Anderson than the tiktoks that were explicitly trying to copy him

Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 6d

What if Wes Anderson made the 10th entry in a DTV action series?

The answer is SNIPER G.R.I.T. (2023)

Reposted by Ben

Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 8d

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

A model of the first level from Mario 64.

A model of a snowy level from Mario 64.

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 10d

Is 400 their combined prison sentence?

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 10d

Don't worry Jamie, even if you're getting older you'll always be sexy to me

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 10d

I'm just wondering what aspect of the ships he'd object to. Like we know he doesn't have a problem with age gaps

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 10d

Which idiot showed him a Zumwalt?

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10d

Trump: I'm not a fan of some of the ships you do. I'm a very aesthetic person and I don't like some of the ships you're doing, aesthetically.

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 10d

I hear she has enormous... ratings.

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 11d

Two screenshots from the 'White people drive like this' joke from The Simpsons with photoshopped captions. The first image depicts a black stand-up comedian in a relaxed, leant-back pose captioned 'Yo, check this out. Sunni guys drive a car like this.' The second image depicts the same stand-up comedian in an awkward, leaned-forward pose captioned 'Yeah, but Shia guys, see, they drive a car like this.'

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 11d

Oh so you want him to become Carrie? You want him to develop telekinetic powers and use them to murder a school full of students on prom night? You think murdering schools full of children is good?

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 11d

Is it being out of touch, or is that genuinely the best they can do? I mean it's not like a Tom MacDonald alternative halftime show is going to get anything but laughed at

Ben @benbartlett.bsky.social · 11d

Ma'am that is not a family that is the Hellraiser and Friday 14th franchises added together, reboots included