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Jeff Good

@lowguppy.bsky.social

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Fulltime RV Life TTRPGs, Misc nerd hobbies, baseball, music, movies Progressive. Trans rights are Human rights Writing about Dynaaty baseball on fantraxhq.com

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Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · Jan 14

I finally sat down and chucked my little fumble table TTRPG up on itch lowguppy.itch.io/failing-west...

Failing Westward by lowguppy

A game of slapstick, snowballing calamity played entirely on fumble tables

lowguppy.itch.io

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 1h

Getting dizzy watching the prom dance... 🥴

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 2h

Lotta slapping in this movie

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 3h

The shirt she has on over it in the next scene tho

Mario girl now has a white t-shirt over her outfit that has a blue racecar and two red electric guitars over it and the words "ROCKIN'ROAD"

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 3h

Next day: Same outfit

Girl is still wearing the red hat, red shirt, overalls fit the next day

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 3h

The gym teacher trying to help still slaps her

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 3h

Okay there is some actual plot happening but still. Also: One of the girls is dressed like Mario???

Girls in the locker room taunting Carrie, one is wearing a red shirt, red hat and overalls like Mario, who wouldn't be created for several years. The hat also has a rainbow heart on it which I don't think was a pride thing yet either?

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 3h

Watching Carrie and wow these opening titles are gratuitous

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 5h

Beat your Ring camera to death with a bat

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a... yeeeeeah

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

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thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 7h

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 9h

Then there's the stuff that didn't fit thematically like Castle Rat and Starbenders, or Ada Rook. The past week or so has been a lot of Elliot Lee and Lola Blanc and I'm still leaving out like a dozen artists that show up on multiple playlists.

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 10h

Then soundtracking for an Urban Shadows story arc I call "Oops Vampire Girlfriend" added Poppy, In This Moment, New Year's Day, Stitched up Heart, Conquer Divide, MOTHICA, Meg Myers, COBRAH, Night Club, PI3RCE, Aurora, Harpy, Xana, Lilith Czar, Casyette and perhaps most importantly: IZZY REIGN

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 10h

Even the current phase has two parts. One started with the Birds of Prey soundtrack. Sofi Tukker was obv my shit but I also got hooked on Galxara, K.Flay and then the algorithm delivered Lizzo, Ashnikko, Bones UK, Stella Cole, Lenii, DEZI, and the big bridges to the next phase: ZAND and DeathbyRomy

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 10h

Post college was a lot of coasting but the new stuff in the 2010s was mostly synthwave like Magic Sword, not exactly nerdcore Professor Elemental and a big dive into KPop starting with BIGBANG, into Monsta X, Taemin, Mamamoo and Sunmi with that trend towards femme artists continuing into phase 3...

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 10h

College was mostly the same artists and genres. Tool, Harvey Danger, Groove Armada, Aphex Twin, Bloodhound Gang, Primus, Nerf Herder, System of a Down, plus nerdcore hip hop stars MC Chris and MC Frontalot all took on a bigger role but I'd heard them before.

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 10h

There were forays into harder music like Ministry, Coal Chamber and especially Stabbing Westward, but also softer alternative like Weezer, Folk Implosion, Tragically Hip and Badly Drawn Boy. Plus oddballs like Soul Coughing, Beck, Cake and TMBG.

My love of Placebo really blossomed after high school

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 10h

I got Talking Heads and Beatles from my parents. REM and Butthole Surfers from my older sister. Daft Punk's Homework was the first tape I bought and that was really formative.

High school added more electronic with Chemical Brothers, Underworld and Fatboyslim, but not immediately...

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 10h

There's at least 3 phases to my tastes.
1. High School/college and my Parents' music that stuck (90s-00s/older)
2. Synthwave & KPop (2010s)
3. Modern music very little of which is older than like 2018

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 10h

Define your music taste in eight artists:
This is actually impossible I made a playlist a few years ago of every artist I had been really into for a stretch of time and it was 74 tracks and I probably need to add a couple dozen more now.

Scooterb23 @scooterb23.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Bruce Springsteen
Prince
Aphex Twin
Ghost
Warren Zevon
Run the Jewels
Nine Inch Nails
Kansas

Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Metric
The Jezabels
Old 97's
Big Country
Dragon Inn 3
Bloc Party
Pronoun
Sinead O'Connor

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 23h

Cant stop wont stop constantly trembling! 🫨
linktr.ee/wylder

Please assist in seeking care?

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 1d

Okay who told Shohei he hits worse when he pitches?

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget the people who helped you get through 2020.

The cover of Neil Cicierega's 2020 album Mouth Dreams

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 1d

Oh this is the theme song I guess music.youtube.com/watch?v=PGQy...

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 1d

They needed a sink for all their compute investments when NFTs bombed and crypto crashed in 2021. LLMs had been in the works before that but the marketing pivot to them was swift

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 1d

It's 90% the same people who were pushing NFTs 5 years ago

Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 1d

Just open with a scene and throw them into it. Explain rules as they come up in a guided intro scenario.

(My "real" answer is in the replies but I started writing a game thus way)

Josh Fox 🔜 Ex Tenebris coming to Kickstarter @armadajosh.bsky.social · 2d

There are many ways to structure a TTRPG book with pros and cons.

Put character creation first: engaging for players but lacks context.
Setting first: immersive but delays the "how do you play" bit.
Rules first: dry but helps you understand the rest.

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