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Jack Norris

@jackno.bsky.social

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Game designer, writer, consultant, attorney, scholar on various topics, and all around professional nerd. (Apologies if sometimes my phone decides real words needs changing and I don't catch it)

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 25d

Osprey put together a fun package to go with my blog on character generation in Untamed Worlds.

Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 26d

▶️▶️ Learn all about character creation for our new anthro sci-fi RPG Untamed Worlds - out this week - in the author Jack Norris's design diary on our website blog: bit.ly/46JN2Ov

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah but I'm sure he thinks it means something. Maybe just "I'm a classy classy boy" or whatever. But something. He's too lazy to type that out repeatedly if it doesn't.

Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 18h

Because he constantly does it, it's weird AF, and I pretty much never see anyone talking about it.

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 18h

Has any psychologists analyzed why Emperor Cheeto the First always signs off with that inane "thank you for your attention to this matter"? Did someone tell him that makes it official or something silly like that?

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 19h

I'll freely admit my favorite random encounters in Red Dead are the Klan rallies. Especially if I'm loaded up with dynamite.

Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 19h

Or give me a game like Dishonored except the more CSA assholes you kill each level? The world gets brighter. Like birds are singing and such.

Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 19h

"Hon, what ya playing?"
"Assassins Creed: Civil War."
"Did you just murder that whole garden party full of confederates?"
"Of course not...I told the slaves serving everyone to run first."
"Ah okay. That's fine then."

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 19h

I actually get why, given the current US climate, Ubisoft was not ready to pull the trigger on a Civil War era Assassins Creed game.

But speaking personally I would preorder the deluxe edition of a game that let me knife Klansmen and had a "burn your way to the sea" mini game.

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 21h

So apparently the billionaire who backs the best candidate for who might actual be the antichrist is saying Greta Thunberg is the antichrist? Huh.

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

Those two drunk girls at the club who just wouldn't shut up.
RFK Jr. Brain Worm.
Twiggy.
That 1959 Cadillac El Dorado still up on blocks at the end of the street.
Dr. Fu Manchu.
Lew Zealand.
Joseph Goebbels.
The entire population of of Sumner, Florida circa 1923.
The Great Pumpkin.
Dan Smith, BYU.

Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

Also "snubbed" for the Nobel Peace Prize:

Kristi Noem.
Kim Jong-Il.
A barrel of ebola infected crabs.
Thanos.
Pol Pot.
Your racist uncle who ruins all the family barbecues.
Ted Bundy.
Maximus the Mad of the Inhumans.
Cthulhu.
Oswald Cobblepot.
Issei Sagawa.
Pete Hegseth's sobriety coach.

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

Awww... did little Donnie not get his Peace Prize? I'm sure we'll hear all about that ad nauseum.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, that's a voice from the fake-ass warzone that is Chicago. I need to put on my combat armor so I can safely walk my dog. Pray for me and I hope to see you again.

Kidding, its a hoody and the biggest danger is we see a squirrel.

Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

And don't get me started on the influencers. Useless twatwaffles. They all say "remember when we used to build things!" And they don't build anything but therapy bills for the eventual deprogramming of all their weak-willed cultists.

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

Again, this is as much for me as you. It's hard to see this day after day. To see these dumbfucks in their "tactical" gear taking a break from beating off in their completely superfluous mega trucks and shitty fascist-factured EVs to spew more sunglass-plastered hate.

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

They're the ones whose "side" regularly molests and abuses kids. Who think its cool to zip tie them naked and leave them to the elements. And yet they claim you're a danger to children because you don't support having a nation of abused child brides and Hitler youth. So don't let them grind you down

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

They're the weirdos who give a fuck who is pooping near them. Who scream about the gays and then go overload grindr with their clandestine hookups because their "tradwife" marriages are just dire. Who can't succeed due to their own willful deficiencies and want to blame everyone else.

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

They want you to feel despair and say "Oh maybe its me! Everyone else seems okay with this, maybe I need to get with the program or I'll be a weirdo!"

Fuck em. Those are lies and they're the goddamned weirdos. And not the good kind. Not the punks and drag queens and such living their own lives.

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

BUT you can be aware of it. When you see a dozen people cheering ICE online when you were just checking for what's happening on the north side of Portland or whatever this weekend? Remember that's just a different form of psych warfare. They want you to feel hopeless and small and alone.

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

It also means your local groups and such you usually check for lost pets and local events are being assaulted by dumbfucks who've registered with them, often lying about living in your areas, so they can basically harass you indirectly with comments and claims. There's not a ton to be done about it.

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

Because I regularly have to remind myself:

Online commentary on ICE in Chicago and Portland are being brigaded by bots and MAGA shits with too much spare time. Thus in certain online groups and spaces ICE support looks stronger than it is. If you look outside these spaces? Different story.

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

Now I suspect Tomi and her ilk would say they weren't "really" Americans either. To which I'd say "fuck off, Nazis."

Bunny's family has been Americans more generations than Trump's. I'm not sure about Lahren's, but that ignorant alt-right starfucker isn't worth the time it would take to check.

Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

My maternal grandfather defied his Quaker family to enlist to fight the Axis. He was a farmer who worked with and supported local immigrant and indigenous communities, being one of the few white guys around regularly invited to join them at events. He would have surely opposed Trump. Not American?

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

My father went to West Point. He nearly died in an accident, graduating in absentia while given an honorable discharge and thus becoming a disabled vet. He then went on to serve as a public servant for decades. My father in law was a blue water Vietnam vet. Both couldn't stand Trump. Not Americans?

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 1d

My grandfather fought behind enemy lines during WW2. He worked in the private sector for an aerospace company that worked on various government projects. He was a lifelong FDR Democrat who despised the positions held by Trump and co. Our family has been here since Jamestown. Was he not an American?

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