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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 3h

"Thus says the Lord: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs." - Exodus 8:1b-2

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 3h

i wonder if Kingdom Hearts could make it without Sora? My boy’s been the core of that series for so long, and even the kh2 opening when you played as roxas was divisive. I’d want them to try, but I’m not sure if the fans could move on, especially since the franchise is founded deeply on nostalgia

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 4h

Haha I'm far from it, but I think you've pulled together a really slick game!

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 4h

Evening bump for my new video!

Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 10h

My latest essay is on @olddog.games's "Deathmatch Island!" I talk about how the game designs its climax around the Prisoner's Dilemma, and how, despite the fact that the game wants you to break that cycle, that initial tension is the best part of the text.

Deathmatch Island, Squid Game, and the Tension of the Prisoner's Dilemma [TTRPG Video Essay]

YouTube video by A.A. Voigt

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“Sam,” and in some cases, “Samuel” @insideoutside15.bsky.social · 1d

Put Eric Adams on Inside The NBA

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 7h

FROG 🐸 SEMIOTICS 🐸 REDEMPTION 🐸 ARC

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 8h

A big update to the @friends-table.bsky.social Perpetua soundtrack on Bandcamp, with combat themes for indoor scuffles and a boss fight with a sniper added. The big ticket item, though, is Beachminton, a new minigame theme! notquitereal.bandcamp.com/track/beachm...

Beachminton, by Jack de Quidt

from the album Perpetua: Friends At The Table Soundtrack, Season Nine

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 10h

My latest essay is on @olddog.games's "Deathmatch Island!" I talk about how the game designs its climax around the Prisoner's Dilemma, and how, despite the fact that the game wants you to break that cycle, that initial tension is the best part of the text.

Deathmatch Island, Squid Game, and the Tension of the Prisoner's Dilemma [TTRPG Video Essay]

YouTube video by A.A. Voigt

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10h

The humanities grad school papers on this dynamic are gonna go on forever.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 21h

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 8h

neat opportunity for those excited about Deathmatch Island!

Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 8h

ATTENTION [competitor fname]
PRODUCTION has unearthed a cache of Limited Edition copies for DEATHMATCH ISLAND.
As of this writing there are ONLY 25 AVAILABLE.
Players wishing to secure a copy must use CHALLENGE BEAST Capabilities.
COMPETITORS. The event begins NOW:
evilhat.com/product-cate...

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 8h

Talk of the Table is less than 2 years old and they're already facilitating shit like this, truly impressive stuff

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 8h

holy shit

Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social · 8h

COMING OCTOBER 20th!

Tune in for a TWO HOUR discussion about teaching games through actual play featuring an absolute POWERHOUSE panel.

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@friede.bsky.social
@itsquinns.bsky.social
@brennanleemulligan.bsky.social

Subscribe to Talk of the Table wherever you get your podcasts.

Talk of the Table Patreon w/ Dr. Emily Friedman, Quinns, & Brennan Lee Mulligan.

Roundtable: Teaching Games Through Actual Play

Pictures of each guest are in circles on a yellow background. To each side are anthropomorphized dice, one with a mouth and one with an ear.

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Pantsless Tables @pantslesstables.bsky.social · 11h

Are you a BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ TTRPG game designer? Do you have a new game/kickstarter launching soon? Would you like to be featured on "BUT WHY?" our TTRPG talk show where we
1. interview a game designer
2. play a one-shot with their game/setting
3. have chill fun vibes?

If this is you, DM us!

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10h

Side note: lest you think this is a one-off, a sizable group of Catholic nuns, priests and lay leaders have announced plans to do the same thing — offer communion to detainees in the Broadview ICE facility — tomorrow.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

Clergy holding communion wares talking to police.

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 10h

thanks Spencer! I agonized over this one because I think DMI is a great game, but it's a very structured one (probably why Denee is on Blades 68), and I found it hard to talk about stuff that wasn't the rules!

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 10h

If you are really in the mood for death games, you can join my Patreon, where you'll not only get a second "review" of Deathmatch Island, but also a 30 minute book report about a YA novel where the Department of Education turns into a Survivor Spinoff factory patreon.com/aavoigt

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 10h

Transcript here: aavoigt.com/f/deathmatch...

Deathmatch Island, Squid Game, and the Prisoner's Dilemma

Deathmatch Island

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 10h

My latest essay is on @olddog.games's "Deathmatch Island!" I talk about how the game designs its climax around the Prisoner's Dilemma, and how, despite the fact that the game wants you to break that cycle, that initial tension is the best part of the text.

Deathmatch Island, Squid Game, and the Tension of the Prisoner's Dilemma [TTRPG Video Essay]

YouTube video by A.A. Voigt

youtu.be

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 11h

What's the channel?

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11h

today I discovered a YT channel which is this one guy who does critical analysis of Bollywood movies by first re-enacting the whole thing line by line by himself and then doing commentary on his own performance and I think the medium just achieved the highest level of art it will ever see

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 12h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 12h

Okay, this worked really well last time! I need someone from Brazil who knows about the RPG scene (specifically Vampire/White Wolf) in the early 2000s. Anybody here who could answer a couple quick questions?

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 23h

I regret to report it is both terribly paced and also devastatingly prescient about the state of America in 2025

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 23h

New video up tomorrow on Deathmatch Island! Patrons have access to it now, along with 1. the first draft of the essay which is more of a review and 2. a book report I did on Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083-- real ones from the Scholastic Book Fair know what I'm talking about.

Surviving Antarctica Book Report | Aaron Voigt

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water.

‘Mad Max’ Director George Miller Says ‘AI Is Here to Stay and Change Things’: ‘It’s Way More Egalitarian’ and Will Make Filmmaking ‘Available to Anyone Who Has a Calling to It’

'Mad Max' director George Miller says that "AI is here to stay and change things" and praises the potential to make filmmaking "more egalitarian."

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