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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Halloween!
#halloween

A sitting Sam animatronic from Trick r Treat

A Halloween display with skeletons holding lit pumpkin lanterns and jack o lanterns in the background

13 jack o lanterns on a short set of stairs

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 4d

Ok but 3k for a pair of Piggy’s pumps is a steal

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 5d

I was fortunate enough to catch it in the I think two whole weeks it was on Broadway, and agreed it’s a wonderful if superbly strange time.

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 5d

I honestly thought I had hallucinated Dance of the Vampires.

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 5d

Middle Earth is vast and rich and so much better suited to a huge open world game. it doesn’t make any sense to me to emulate a game that most people didn’t even like (even with the ethics of playing put aside).

Like guys this is so obvious, basically a money printer.

JUST LET ME KILL ORCS! 3/3

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 5d

I want to choose my race. I want to design my character. I want to be able to go ANYWHERE right off the bat.

More than anything I have female Dunedain hopes and dreams and I just don’t trust any current dev to deliver that.

I don’t understand the need to compete with HP. 2/3

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 5d

Apparently they are making an LOTR game ‘to directly compete with Hogwarts Legacy’ and this terrifies me because I think what everyone actually wants is The Elder Scrolls: Middle Earth Edition and we may never get that. 1/3

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 7d

I have definitely experienced the same but as I’m sure you know it feels so good once you push past it.

Hang in there!

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 8d

It would appear that we have found yet a new way to make IT stupid.

Like guys this isn’t hard-kids vs killer clown shapeshifter thing it’s not that bloody complicated.

Why does everyone insist on trying to make this specific story worse than its last iteration?

Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 8d

Can’t tell you how much I love that basically every anti-virus software that exists now does nothing but scan for problems that it won’t fix unless you pay more money.

Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 10d

And it’s not because they win every year, it’s because they TRY to.

I can get on Cashman all I want for bad decisions but I’ve never doubted that they want to win.

Most of the time they’re going to lose and I’m ok with that because I am a baseball fan and that is baseball. 3/3

Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve been a Yankee fan my whole life, they are my local and the team my family roots for and we’re just as diehard as anyone else with a decade plus title drought.

And yeah there were a lot of bandwaggoners when they were winning but you know what? Most of them have stayed. 2/3

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 10d

Look I hate the Dodgers as much as the next girl but as a Yankee supporter I do have to sympathize with their fans.

It is douchey to believe that just because you root for a small market team that fleeces their fans every year and always loses that you love the game more 1/3

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · 24d

Halloween display part 1. It will only grow from now until the big day!

#Halloween #skeleton

A Halloween skeleton holding a lit pumpkin in front of a gravestone

A Halloween skeleton holding a lit pumpkin on a railing

A Halloween skeleton holding a lit pumpkin kneeling next to a tree

A Halloween skeleton holding a lit pumpkin clinging to a tree branch

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · Sep 26

So @srblomquist.bsky.social and I were supposed to go to the PA Renfaire this weekend but alas a plague has infiltrated my house.

The dogs are at the kennel for the weekend.

We literally cannot leave.

This can mean only one thing

#LOTRwatch2025

a woman in a white dress is holding a ring

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · Sep 23

That moment where you realize that your world building had spawned at least three new prequels and probably six novellas because the history is actually interesting:
#writing #worldbuilding #nooooooo

a young boy is sitting in front of a shelf with toys and says let 's see where were we .

Alt: a young boy is sitting in front of a shelf with toys and says let 's see where were we .

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · Sep 23

This article is interesting, not because not wearing makeup is a bold choice but because most of the article is ‘experts’ weighing in on why you should still buy a ton of beauty and skincare products as if makeup had necessary benefits that are being lost.

The desperation to sell is palpable.

Pamela Anderson leads the way for women who choose to go makeup free

Pamela Anderson has embraced a makeup-free lifestyle at 58, attending fashion shows and film premieres with a bare face.

apnews.com

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · Sep 18

I really try not to post about politics on here because I like to think of it as a place I can go to get away from that shit but please call your congressperson.

It really does work if enough people take the time and we should all be making time now.

Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · Sep 18

Unfortunately I don’t think you’re overreacting at all but as someone in the same boat I hope we’re both proven wrong.

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · Sep 16

I’m so sorry, she looks like such a sweetheart. And I’m doubly sorry that you had to deal with people being cruel to you after something so painful.

I lost a cat recently and I don’t think I could bear people being like that on top of it. I hope you get nothing but support from here on.

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · Sep 2

I finally gave in and tried playing CoD online.

Gentlemen (and I’m sure some ladies though I didn’t hear any)…

Are you alright?

#gaming

Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · Sep 2

Something can be aesthetically pleasing, even beautiful but not be art.

There is no such thing as AI art. Art requires the effort of a creator and prompting a machine is not effort.

Something that is not pretty, even ugly CAN be art because it’s human effort and skill.

Pretty was never the point

Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · Aug 23

My one friend has admitted that she doesn’t know what the Edmund Fitzgerald is.

She is currently trying unsuccessfully to hide her horror at how much my wife and other friend absolutely do know what the Edmund Fitzgerald is.

Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · Aug 21

Any day you’ve outlived James Dobson is a good day.

May he rot.

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Author S.B. Baxter @sbbaxx.bsky.social · Aug 10

We made pizza tonight and I firmly believe about 2 out of 3 meals a day that I am a Chopped contestant so mine was barbecue pork belly and mandarin pizza.

Guys it was AMAZING
#cooking

a woman is sitting in front of a food channel sign

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