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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest

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Writer and (ENNIE winning!) TTRPG designer who thinks about death the normal amount. VOID 1680 AM, No-Tell Motel, Lighthouse at the End of the World, Killer Ratings. linktr.ee/bannerlessgames Avatar by @catie.bsky.social

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · Jan 29

VOID 1680 AM is an ENNIE winner, IGDN nominee for Most Innovative and Crit Award nominee for Best Solo Game.

Build a playlist, take calls and create a radio show you can submit for broadcast on the air.

PDF here: bannerlessgames.itch.io/void-1680-am
Physical copies here: bannerless.games/shop

VOID 1680 AM by Bannerless Games

A solo playlist building game about being a lone voice in the dark.

bannerlessgames.itch.io

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 53m

What a pair of scenes! The moment that had me like FUCK YEAH HUMANITY

The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 1h

That is specifically why I wanted to go back a second time, to really relish in those spaces - i keep thinking, fondly, of how dirty the dojo's windows are

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 1h

I'm thinking of how messy and lived in all the spaces where characters like Bob and Sensei live in against the arid staging a McMansion for Zillow quality of the CAC headquarters and the empty particle board cube they show Lockjaw, who nearly swoons with ecstasy over it at that.

Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 1h

OBAA rewards a repeat viewing, it's chaotic, free wheeling qualities reveal the larger whole that any story about America, about activism, about families is going to be messy.

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 22h

Heyyyy Austin, I'll be at Lone Star Zine Fest this weekend!

If you're in Austin come out and say hi. It's free, family-friendly, they got zine-making workshops, the works.

the Lone Star Zine Fest poster, which reads
"The 2025 Lone Star Zine Fest
Oct. 11 & 12th at Blue Genie
6100 Airport Boulevard
Austin, TX
LoneStarZineFest.org"

The art is an old-fashioned computer desk. The computer and monitor have post-its that read
"12-6 PM"
"Free!"
"All ages!"
"100+ vendors"
"Comics jam"
"door prizes"
"zine making"

The Lone Star Zine Fest layout. Bannerless Games is at table 85, just to the left of the entrance.

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 3h

Only saw them for the first time a few weeks ago!

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 3h

Hell of a start

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George @hannahtempler.com · 6h

a loose digital sketch of a little polar bear throwing a small white dogbear into the blue sky happily

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 6h

Are any of my followers lawyers (or know of lawyers!) who can discuss IP law around fan fiction and publishing? I have some questions about this practice for a piece I’d like to pitch

Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 8h

honestly why do we even bother

Substack post from Lincoln Michel:

"Alchemised debuts at #1 with massive sales, making it the THIRD Harry Potter Draco-Hermione friends-to-enemies fan fic to be turned into a bestselling novel in 2025. It's easy to say that publishers are just feeding readers slop, but harder to admit that they... enjoy it. They’re going to keep publishing it if people gobble it up by the ton."

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 8h

The new Erang is pretty damn good if you are one of the 500 people on Earth who likes dungeon synth

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 8h

Time to investigate

The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 8h

I do. I do be saying that

The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 8h

Oop new Perturbator, new Princess Nokia

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 9h

There is no rationalization or rhetorical trick or secret third thing that will let you avoid making this choice; not making the choice is the same as getting rid of every other player that player will drive away.

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 9h

Lesson from tabletop gaming: your choice is never "get rid of a player" vs "keep a player"; your choice is always "get rid of a player" vs "get rid of every other player that player will drive away"

Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 11h

We have to tell them to fuck off. They need to know they are unwelcome everywhere.

Reading those comments I thought this was a grim dark game but look below what the game is and how it is presented. 🤦🏻‍♀️

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 1d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 2d

fucking cartoon loaf of bread. ridiculous. a loaf of bread to stash in your bindle. break open any given crate or candelabra and you get this, an apple, or a wedge of swiss cheese. maybe a roast chicken if you're real lucky

a pullman loaf sitting on a butcher block. imagine a cartoon loaf of bread. you seeing it in your head? round crusty top, white insides, elongated? congratulations, this is her

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 21h

John Cena got large short guy energy

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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 10h

Hootie was huge

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 10h

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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The Ken in Yellow @ Lone Star Zine Fest @kenlowery.bsky.social · 20h

In Vampire the Masquerade you'd pick your character's Demeanor, the face they showed the world, and their Nature, who they truly were beneath. I always knew you were Kindred Tom