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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · Aug 8

Football back

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 1h

my favorite is a WRPG non fantasy shop equally cuz a silent ubermensch walks into a shack and the shopkeep that has nine bullets, a can of sardines and like a device that makes you invisible will go "if you even think about steal any of this, I will shoot you were you stand stranger"

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1h

I love RPG shops. Going over to some dumpy looking peasant and being like “Here’s 50,000 gold pieces. I need a tome of necromancy, three scrolls of fireball, a potion of invisibility, a dagger, an axe, an amulet of feather fall, and no questions asked,” is such a mood.

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 1h

HotD ran into the problem of thinking they need three year turnaround but The Hedge Knight is kind of perfect small ball fanatsy story telling, should be fun

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 1h

Dunk & Egg comming to HBO this january

thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 1h

I like The Lord of the Rings a lot but we need more bite sized swords and sorcery fantasy TV/movies. Willow is the platonic ideal of lightweight high fantasy, and Dungeons and Dragons (2023) is its spiritual successor. But overall the field seems very thin 🫤

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 3h

"The antihero, Ozymandias, the antichrist type figure," reads like a shitpost about people somehow wiffing on Watchmen

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

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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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 15h

Donald Sutherland really going super hard in this franchise for like no reason. Literally nobody else is doing anything in the ballpark of acting

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 7d

This is about being shown the hunger games for the first time, yes

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 17h

Completely unrelated but they are gonna rerank Texas arnt they

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 17h

Oh no. Not like this.

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 17h

Wow not great

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 17h

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 17h

Fuck

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 17h

Concerns continued

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 17h

October Maryland in the balance over a matriculation drive. Concerned

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 20h

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 18h

The history version of "who was president in 2020" impact, is "who was in a non aggression pact with who in 1940?"

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 18h

Also "for the money?" Fuck all the way off

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 18h

RE the USSR: by "pushed Germany out of Eastern Europe" means "was allies two months prior, was getting their shit push in" in December of 1941

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 20h

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 19h

Texas/OU trying its hardest to be a November B1G west game

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 20h

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 20h

THE NEW FACE OF FEAR

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 20h

Trust the process

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 21h

That was the grossest game losing pick I've ever seen

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 21h

DeBoer really setting himself up for some doy doy coaching here

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 1d

I love match up specific trophies. It's so silly.

"The year was 1908. The greatest of foes. Brother against Brother. The plains of the Midwest stained with blood. We play for this wooden Muskrat statue ever since"

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a simple man. Realism is having a lean button and bullets can go through drywall

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 1d

"You like realism mods too?"
"Oh of course. The only way to play."
"Great! Okay let's say our favorite. I love bullet dro-"
"I must pee every 15 minutes or I die"

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, difficulty in games is ultimately about what behaviors you want to reward and punish. What gets the rat a bite of cheese and what gets it a little shock. I'm all for a hardcore roleplaying experience, but it's reasonable to want to play your role in the game in a roleplaying game.

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 1d

I love the "it's realistic.. Real life is brutal that is why you starve to death if you don't eat an entire roast chicken every 15 minutes" as a gaming philosophy.

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 1d

"Gonna go goblin mode-" stop it Diane, you're just antisocial

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