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Eric_IAG

@thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social

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A TTRPG collector who battles Nazis and sinus headaches, all while keeping the witty banter alive. Disabled. LGBTQIA+. He/him

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Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 24d

This is the thread for my professional #ttrpg campaigns on @startplaying.bsky.social. Below is my profile with some info about me (and my position on Nazi punching) and reviews from my players. If you have any questions, hit me up.

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Professional Game Master - Eric The Social Justice GM | StartPlaying

I've been running games in every medium (tabletop, larp, and pbp) and system for 20+ years - and playing for more than 30. I have run a lot of games in a lot of systems. I have a special fondness for ...

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Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 3h

Oof. I hope it passes quickly.

Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 3h

This is rambling nonsense... which is to be expected from a philosophy major.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

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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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 3h

1 - green guy (labeled america) who are you? figure in all black with a red bat on his suit "you funded both sides of a war in my country"

2 - green guy (america) replies "do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?'

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Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 12h

Mostly just saltines. If your stomach can handle some carbonation, Sprite Chill is pretty great when I'm nauseous.

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Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 12h

It's pretty fucking awful. I don't get what anyone sees in this trainwreck of a show.

Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 12h

Eve Online is a job you don't get paid for.

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · 13h

Happiness!

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

#dog #dogday #bluesky #nature #animals #wildlifr

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Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 15h

I really enjoyed Tron: Legacy. Great cyberpunk aesthetics and Michael Sheen was highly entertaining as Castor Zeus.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 16h

Untamed Worlds is really nicely laid out. Daggerheart is well done. The Whispering Vault is pretty intuitive for a 90s game about once mortals walking through the guts of world spanning worms to capture and imprison rogue gods.

Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 16h

I got so sick of the sewers.

Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 17h

The Nos kind of suck to play.

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 1d

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

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Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 18h

This sounds ominous.

Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 18h

I'm a big fan of Daggerheart. It does a lot of things very, very well.

Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 19h

Yes it is.

Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 21h

Honestly I think it's grounds for a pardon. Not under this administration but in a sane world not run by paedos.

Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 21h

I have been with my better half for 21+ years and I still do this.

Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 21h

Someone doesn't know the difference between psychopathy and psychotic.

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Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 21h

They're not because psychopathy isn't a real diagnosis, dipshit! Too bad you're trying to sell your bullshit to someone who has a degree in psychology.

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Madness Heart Games @mhp-games.bsky.social · 7d

KILL THE NAZI is FREE: our BADASS system (Overgrowth, Splatter League) distilled down to a business card! Download it, share it, upload your playthroughs, message us, and tell us what you did! After all, we fight fascists through community! #TTRPGs madness-heart-games.itch.io/kill-the-nazi

Art card featuring a stylized, socialist realist portrait of a worker throwing a Molotov cocktail at a figure in a suit with a long red tie. Text reads "KILL THE NAZI! A Micro-BADASS Game for 1 GM & 2-3 Players"

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Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 21h

Me after downing 3 5 Hour Energies.

Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 22h

Head and shoulder shot of 1970s era Captain Marvel from Marvel comics. His eyes are angry and red and his face has otherwise been completely replaced by stars planets. What look like a couple of exploding stars. Narration: “… And THIS man can protect it. For he is now COSMICALLY AWARE!“

Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 21h

It's a side effect of the TCH.

Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 22h

Ableist shitwaffle thinks every Right Winger is a diagnosable psychopath unaware that evil is a choice. Much like idiocy.

FIGHT BACK DAMMIT! @notallme.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, you do. When you have Antisocial Personality Disorder or psychopathy like most right-wingers...

Eric_IAG @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 22h

Says the moron claiming all Right Wingers have APD or psychopathy without realizing that they are the same from different linguistic generations of psychology terms while scoffing at a term like evil.

Evil exists. Sadism and callousness do not require a mental illness. They require a choice.

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