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Trollbeard

@trollbeard.bsky.social

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⚒️ Here for indy wrestling, wargaming, dinosaurs, queer shite, metalwork, art, piracy and bad TTRPG takes 🗝️Bremen, Germany 🎲 He/him, Dwarven Barbarian 🏳️‍🌈🏴 Frodo defunded the police. 🖌️ Insta @captaintrollbeard

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Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 17d

Bi as in "I have partners of three different genders and if I find one more we can combine to some kind of Dino Megazord"

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 23h

And so weren't all the people who drown at our borders, yeah.

Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 23h

I vaguely remember even I won one in 2012 together with some folks.
It's silly.

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Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, you don't have chairs you can sit on from either side?

Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 1d

We called it

The renaissance
of the renaissance.

...which admittedly was dumb but not being very clever was what for us into this situation in the first place.

Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 1d

A post digital future where generative AI has poisoned electronic media to a degree where only hand painted illustrations are understood as reliable depictions of reality because they can at least guarantee the artist felt something genuine.

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 1d

if you're curious about WHY every other occult horror movie is chock full of Hebrew-lettered diagrams, & also why this actually sucks, you can read my (citation-heavy) zine on the subject here ezrarose.itch.io/fyma-a-lesse...

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April Landry @landrysesame.bsky.social · 1d

if you’ve read BPRD you know what’s next

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 1d

Aaah, thank you 😅

Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 1d

So if your TTRPG core book has black and white line art illustrations and you don't advertise it as a colouring book you probably are a coward.

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Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 1d

I think I wasn't much online back then, can you tell me more about chuds winning RPG spaces? Was it like forum wars or publication-wise or what?

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Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 2d

Card game mechanics in games that aren't narratively or stylistically connected to card games.

Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 2d

So it's for situations where you surrender to very few enemies who have no backup nearby and all come into touch distance at the same time?
And also you want to commit war crimes.

I don't know, that sounds a bit unlikely

Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 2d

"These new brass knuckles are extremely awkward to use but at least you only get one try!"

I want them to be cool but no, sucks

Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 2d

Me watching a deathmatch wrestling bloodbath with barbed wire and burning glass panels: Ouh yesss, more, killkillkill!

Me watching a wrestler of my size not wearing knee pads: Brother nooo, please be careful with your body!!

Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 2d

So the WWE leadership went full maga.
And the magas desperately want to fight "Antifa".

🤔

Will they bring back RETRIBUTION?

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 3d

I find it baffling how little impact the existence of the Undertaker, a literal walking corpse, has had on science and religion

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Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 3d

(This is not "Oh, this is harmless" but more "Why do you think they print AI IS THE FUTURE! in big letters when a guy said it who did cool stuff without it but won't realistically be around in that future?")

Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 3d

Just me, but I think when you are 80 you should be allowed to have a few nonsensical opinions based on misinformation without international media making a big deal out of it.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 3d

And I will never miss to point out: Their usual phrasing of "unconditional solidarity" already acknowledges they knowingly decided to support unethical positions.
You don't need "unconditional" to do what's right.
They found a new way to just follow orders.

Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 3d

This is sooo my shit.

Dinolords - Closed Alpha Trailer

YouTube video by Ghost Ship Games

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Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 3d

Recontextualises everything.
I used to hate how everybody is just rude to him but turns out they had good reason.

All the droids only pretending to have quirky personalities makes Star Wars so much darker EVEN WHILE CUTTING OUT THE DROID SLAVERY.

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Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 3d

People immersed in fiction tend to oversee the whole situation is made up just to tell the story of people justifying doing evil.

If they were supposed to be the good guys the story would be written in a way that made that possible.
Their 'tough choice' is not real.

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Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 3d

Only that one

Trollbeard @trollbeard.bsky.social · 3d

"My" guard still is the one where there are dozens of different regiments in the codex, telling you there are tens of thousands more and no two are a like so I disagree with general characterisations.

But GWs model range featuring one that one, portraying them as noble heroes is cowardice to true

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