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Maq

@maqusan.bsky.social

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Kind of heart, Kind of an arse. Part Owlbear. Posts may contain traces of #TTRPG, #ADHD / #bipolar 2 / #cPTSD, Leftist snark and Dadhood. Sydneysider -> Londoner -> Stockholmare. He/him.

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 4h

Random peeve: ”five by five” doesn’t mean what everyone who writes a pilot saying it thinks it means just because the shuttle pilot said it in Aliens.

Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 6h

I kickstarted the boardgame back when the kids were little and I'd got them into Thunderbirds. I'm not sure we've played it with the full rules before.

Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 6h

Everyone likes to joke about how Art of War was written for clueless failsons but not enough is said about how Machiavelli's The Prince was essentially written for the US Democrats. It could have been subtitled "This Isn't A Game You Spoon-Fed Cunts, People are Dying"

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 7h

Not sure I can face this one tonight.

Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 7h

"Some people should die. That's just unconscious knowledge."

Jane's Addiction - Pigs in Zen

Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 8h

Normally me too but kids don’t play RPGs and wargames so much.

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 9h

This post bought to you by me watching old episodes of Suits and not reading the Streets of Jade rules.

Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 9h

The boardgame is fun.

Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 9h

Part of this is definitely an ADHD problem. My brain slides off dry rules but fires up if I can put myself mentally in the game.

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 9h

Whenever she’s been in Sweden I’ve been busy. Selfishly praying for her marriage to remain strong.

Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 9h

You think with this bank statement you can order the Fancy Feast?

Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 9h

One thing I know I need for RPG rulesets these days is examples of play — either in the written rules or in an official AP. I want to see what the authors intended instead of trying to interpret it.

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 9h

You don’t have to stand in line for the right to feel like you’re struggling. And even if you did I’d be right behind you.

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 13h

Extra ironic given that that’s how the CIA overthrew the Prime Minister of Australia.

Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 13h

Fucking wild to me that you cab just shut the government down in the US and it doesn’t trigger an immediate election like pretty much every other democracy on the planet. Absolute clown shoes.

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 22h

People who say that only say it to make themselves feel better. Which is fine if it’s about themselves, not so much if they’re a normie trying not to feel uncomfortable.

Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 1d

The difference between autism and adhd is that people with autism have to convince normies that it’s not a disability and people with adhd have to convince them that it is.

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 1d

Combined?

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 1d

*nap

Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 1d

Been buzzed by one flying map of the earth on the last day of a festival as I was packing up my tent in the middle of a raging comedown.

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 1d

People complained about the spontaneous dance &/or sex scenes in Sense8 but have you ever seen sn actual fight in real life?

Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 1d

30 years on and Nno-one has ever surpassed Chris Morris in terms of responses to complaint letters.

Chris Morris on Biteback, 1994

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 1d

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't seen a single article about how Matt Berry or Kit Harrington or John Lithgow or Keira Knightley or fucking Nick Frost AND Simon Pegg have very publicly made it clear that they value a big blood soaked paycheck over human rights

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 2d

Right. I have filled the dutch oven to the brim with bœuf bourguignon and have actually remembered to cool it on the balcony and out it in the fridge.

Tomorrow I’ll bloody well remember to portion and freeze it so I don’t end up wasting time money and food again.

This is why I don’t bulk cook.