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Thomas White

@blarkytopia.bsky.social

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AKA Test Subject Not-A-Whale-Biologist. I also occasionally like to play games badly in the name of charity fundraising. America’s foremost streaming influencer (self-proclaimed), Twitch Stream Star of 2024 twitch.tv/blarkytopia

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s happening again! Team Sensible Shoes once again heads to the mines to fight monsters and rack up mutations to help the kids of Children’s Miracle Network!

Game days are Nov 15 & 16, but all manner of chaos-inducing incentives are open now!

www.extra-life.org/participant/...

Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future

I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.

www.extra-life.org

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 14h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 1d

All ties settled via pivot table.

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 1d

I want all of this. I am too far away for all of this.

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I did grow up as an Angels fan in the 80’s, so I guess I don’t care if I ever get back.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 1d

Get Me The Fuck Away From The Ball Game

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 2d

Well that’s good. Just had an image of you stumbling upon a chop shop and hilarity ensuing.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 2d

Like, an active legal repair facility? Or one that’s a bit spicy on the legal front?

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of incentives available to make our lives difficult, and background character choices too! Help us help the kids!

www.extra-life.org/participant/...

Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future

I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.

www.extra-life.org

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 2d

We’ve crested $1000 now, and so I will paint up the Magma Giant so that it can pummel Team Sensible Shoes with its massive fists!

A Kitsune-turned-Dark Stone Shaman, a Sumo-turned-Nun, a ???-turned-Enforcer, and a ???-turned-Traveling Monk will fight the magma monsters for #EXTRALIFE next month!

A painting of a Magma Giant attacking a group Old West heroes

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Qryztinkerer @qryztinker.bsky.social · 3d

Mini mix-and-match me!

Pictures of unpainted gaming miniatures, tops and bottoms offset and mixed. From Shadows of Brimstone, FoFo, and similar.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 3d

Today I taught a young Canadian person about the band Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet.

This is their own culture they were ignorant about! What is going on the Great White North?

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 3d

My father has decided that my inspired class will be a Traveling Monk. Prepare for a lot of jokes about ringing the bell.

But what’s my background class? And what classes will @qryztinker.bsky.social play on game days? So many choices for chaos for the kids!

www.extra-life.org/participant/...

Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future

I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.

www.extra-life.org

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you! I am quite pleased with how they turned out, and how good they look on the tile. The success of these got me hyped to finish some other projects on my table that will undoubtedly be shown later.

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 4d

But you’ll love how AI wildly hallucinates the contents of your event page even when you just try to copy last year and update it! /s

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 4d

It will be cursed update with needless AI for some reason, I’m sure.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 4d

But I want him to die en-route to Mars aboard one of his faulty starships thinking he will be god emperor there.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 4d

If only I could take my favorite parts of the Extra Life site and Tiltify and combine them into one site to rule them all.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 4d

That the Extra Life site won’t let you select multiple incentives at once is something I give them feedback about every single year, and they haven’t fixed it yet. It gives me a disappoint.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve received two coins recently that I quite like.

One to celebrate the good works of a friend, and one to celebrate my own good works and service.

Two metal coins. One with a styled skull exploding with wires that says “NEVER FORGIVE THEM FOR WHAT THEY’VE DONE TO THE COMPUTER,” and one that shows a game controller with wings and a pair of dice that says “EXTRA LIFE $10,000 RAISED.”

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, I did see that! I agree, and then I was looking stuff up. Most of their albums have come out on late summer or fall, so it’s probably connected. Then I failed to reply.

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 5d

I have loved that “with a map of the end times” lyric for decades now.

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runcible @runcible.bsky.social · 5d

our national motto

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 5d

Another one of those “oh shit” moments.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 6d

Help us help the kids, and bring another painted monster to our table!

www.extra-life.org/participant/...

Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future

I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.

www.extra-life.org

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 6d

My $1000 fundraising milestone? Why, it’s their big brother, the Magma Giant! Look how plain he looks next to his little brothers.

Think of how great he’ll look smashing his fists of magma down on the hapless heroes of Team Sensible Shoes if he’s painted!

Unpainted miniature of the Magma Giant for Shadows of Brimstone next to painted models for the Magma Fiends.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 6d

The painting milestone for my first $500 raised for this year’s #EXTRALIFE are these fabulous Magma Fiends. I am very happy happy with how they turned out, and they look great on the board with their lava trails.

Team Sensible Shoes will have a fiery good time fighting them in six weeks!

Living rocks dribbling a trail of lava behind them, it’s Magma Fiends for Shadows of Brimstone!

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