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@merrittk.com

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Writer/comedian. Madness archaeology @1900hotdog.bsky.social, story-based games at @insecretplaces.com, podcasting @ifyouredriving.bsky.social

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merritt @merrittk.com · Aug 6

i wrote a novella

it's about longtermist vampires, doing too many drugs, and socialism

it's available right now merrittk.itch.io/vampirocene

thanks to @slimyswampghost.bsky.social for the killer cover art

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1h

im biphobic

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1h

this was playing on a tv in the bar last night and god it kicks ass www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GPG...

A Night's Work (Shadowrun promo, 1990)

YouTube video by Lacecard

www.youtube.com

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1h

i believe that the kinsey scale from men ranges from "fully gay" to "primarily interested in women but at the end of the day will put their dick in anyone who is sufficiently feminine"

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1h

there are straight women but i dont believe in heterosexual men

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merritt @merrittk.com · Jul 14

bro i saw your palette swap at the 7/11 today. yeah he was wearing red instead of white and his hair was different but he was doing all your moves. straight shooting fireballs in the parking lot. you gotta copyright your shit man

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1h

correct, there's a huge attribute range where they just don't matter at all

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 3h

If Clinton had won there would've been a David S. Pumpkins movie

merritt @merrittk.com · 4h

remember david pumpkins? that was like 10 years ago

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merritt @merrittk.com · 4h

remember david pumpkins? that was like 10 years ago

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merritt @merrittk.com · 4h

imagining a warioware-style game where you're polishing a brick until it becomes a mirror, putting legs on a snake, etc.

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 11h

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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merritt @merrittk.com · 4h

i always loved this guy but it seemed like a cruel joke for rita repulsa to make a living thing entirely out of eyeballs

༺ƊǗƝƓĘƠΝƁÏƬƇΗ🌙🦇.𖥔 ݁ ˖ @dungeonbitch.bsky.social · Oct 25

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merritt @merrittk.com · 4h

in RIFTS if you're casting a spell that takes more than one turn and take any damage at all, you lose focus and waste the mana. so there was a proto-meme on the RIFTS message boards about how little Timmy, armed with a handful of rocks, could defeat any high-level wizard

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merritt @merrittk.com · 4h

there was a big war in rifts between the magic-hating human supremacist nazis and the city-states that liked magic and it treated the whole thing like there were good people on both sides, which was very funny. but mechanically it also made no sense

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 5h

He got canceled, came back to make a movie that got canceled because Bill Murray was being a massive creep on set, and THEN ruined his ACTUAL big comeback with beloved actors Seth Rogen, Keanu Reeves, and Keke Palmer to do a quick set for Saudi Arabia. he’s addicted to fucking up

Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 2d

It felt like Aziz Nasari was mostly free of his MeToo rep but then he does Riyadh it's so funny it's like he got used to be being cancelled and couldn't live without it like Brooks on the outside in Shawshank Redemption lol

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merritt @merrittk.com · 5h

learning that there is an active community of ao3 girlies shipping these two was a balm to my soul

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merritt @merrittk.com · 5h

happy Re-Animator day to all who celebrate

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merritt @merrittk.com · 5h

realizing midway through a date that you're closer to his parents' age than his

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

40k Primarchs as 30 Rock Quotes

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

citizens of Nostramo:

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merritt @merrittk.com · Jul 21

they should let me write more marvel comics. i can be trusted with beloved characters like NFL SuperPro

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merritt @merrittk.com · 9d

introduced a new character in my comic today named Car Maiden who is an insane woman in a wedding dress that drunk-drives an indestructible 1960 Chrysler New Yorker convertible www.patreon.com/c/merrittk

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merritt @merrittk.com · 2d

i wrote an instruction manual for a fictional CD-i game where you play as an executive at a company that produces RC cars in the 90s 1900hotdog.com/2025/10/nerd...

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merritt @merrittk.com · 2d

this week on the Dogg Zzone i try to explain the early 90s tabletop game RIFTS and how a lunatic RPG writer from Detroit shaped my creative sensibilities

1-900-HOTDOG @1900hotdog.bsky.social · 2d

You can also watch @seanbaby.bsky.social, @brockway.bsky.social, and @merrittk.com discuss RIFTS on our animated podcast. It's on YouTube and also sometimes mysteriously on your television, which you could have sworn you unplugged? youtu.be/ZmwaYxqeIYo

Dogg Zzone 9000 - Episode 248, RIFTS with Merritt K

YouTube video by 1-900-HOTDOG

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

i really thought this would be my shit and it kind of is but the protagonist just screaming herself hoarse for half the runtime makes it one of the most grating movies i've ever seen

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

here's my review of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2: "Oh god! Oh god no! No! Please! Don't do it! Aah! God! No! Noo!!! Please!!! BLease! Dlont! Blont~! Dont! No! Nooaioaoo!! Oooaooa! Aaoooahshhh!!! Aieieieie!!!! PLEasese!! Beleshahese!!! ohsohaheosososo!!! God!!! Eee! !1 aoughhhh! aoooooga! lalpleae!"

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