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Michael Bernth

@monovoce.bsky.social

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Digital designer and owner of mono voce (yes, you can hire me). TTRPG GM, music and comics nerd, and lover of useless nonesense. - and you can buy cool t-shirts at my web-shop, mono units, and I have a few books for RuneQuest on DriveThuRPG. He/him

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Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 10h

Oh no, then you’re going to miss the amazing song from the danish version.

Next you should watch Journey to the Seventh Planet 😀

Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 10h

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 18h

The lack of understanding of how creativity works, is frightening.

Also, the fundamental understanding of LLM’s is shockingly low.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 1d

Every moment in history creates its own heroes

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Josh Fox 🔜 Ex Tenebris coming to Kickstarter @armadajosh.bsky.social · Sep 9

Ex Tenebris is LIVE on Kickstarter! Back now to help us get a strong start.

Play a ragtag team of investigators, walking the stars and hunting indescribable horrors with few resources and no backup.

The Republic Of Stars needs you. Will you answer the call?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Ex Tenebris: A gothic space TTRPG

Unravel mysteries, battle horrors, protect the stars

www.kickstarter.com

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Gaz @evilgaz.bsky.social · 1d

Last chance to jump in on this Kickstarter! Want to try before you buy? Well, we've got a punchy AP with the creators all ready for you - check it out!

youtu.be/aHiHuFXNFqg?...

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Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 2d

well, that might be what they signed up for, but by complying they are now MAGA stormtroopers

Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 2d

An industry that can only survive by theft should die. It’s really not a difficult decision.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 3d

I think the fascination comes from the basic idea of a global criminal conspiracy masterminded by an ancient undead sorcerer is just so much fun. And with Howard’s ability to write action driven stories, it carries a lot of promise. Unfortunately the result is a terribly racist and messy story.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 3d

Man, you don't ask much.

Okay, so the idea of a multi-ethnic, multi-national, international criminal organization that depends on a secret, communal primordial religion of non-white peoples draws obvious influences from Sax Rohmer's FU MANCHU novels & Robert W. Chambers' THE SLAYER OF SOULS (1920).

Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 3d

Everything about Robert E Howard’s novella Skull-Face that sane people are afraid to ask

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Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 3d

Everything about Robert E Howard’s novella Skull-Face that sane people are afraid to ask

Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 3d

Bollockshead
The Bollocks Man
Bollocks
Blue Bollocks
Bollocks at Heart
Twin Bollocks: Fire Walk with Me
Lost Bollocks
The Bollocks Story
Mulholland Bollocks
Bollocks Empire

Canberra Tragic @emoneconomist.bsky.social · 3d

Big Bollocks in Little China

Hanno/Ronin/Donut @roninsama.bsky.social · 3d

The Secret Bollocks of Walter Mitty

Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 3d

What the living fuck?

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 4d

Here's respected #TTRPG critic @pookie-uk.bsky.social's 100th review of a Jonstown Compendium release at his popular website, reviews from R'lyeh. Supporting independent #RuneQuest creators in this way is greatly appreciated!

Jonstown Jottings #100: City on the Edge of Forever

Much like the Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition , the Jonstown Compendium is a curated platform for user-made co...

rlyehreviews.blogspot.com

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · Nov 10

Why put nasty hairy little men in a setting when you can have ducks? It doesn't make any sense.

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 5d

Fear and bitching in the Black Company RPG.
youtu.be/-LZUacfO-PM?...

Interview with Dennis Detwiller, Part Two

YouTube video by OrcusDorkus' RPG Shenanigans

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Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations on your impressive milestone!

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Gaz @evilgaz.bsky.social · 5d

🔊 New podcast alert! 200th* Episode special

Me and my good friend Ben reflect on many years of gaming and podcasting. What have we learned along the way? (Opinions vary.)

* More then 200 episodes are available. All those bonus eps, we're too good to you!

200th Celebratory Show

open.spotify.com

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Rich LeDuc (He/Him) @rich-leduc.bsky.social · 5d

I got thinking about hit points in #TTRPG and figured some folks might like to read about the early years. #DnD isn't the only damage system, and some of the early ones are still popular to this day.

#Runequest #Fringworthy #PsiWorld #MorrowProject

ruduswritings.blogspot.com/2025/10/putt...

Putting the Hurt on Player Characters: the Early Years of HP

TL;DR. OSR style play captures one view of early gaming, but there are others. Here I explore damage systems in the early years of tablet...

ruduswritings.blogspot.com

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Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 5d

They really need to wake up and realize that ICE is just another name for Gestapo.

Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 5d

Sounds great! Now I really want to see it.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 5d

It's okay for the abyss to stare back, but does it have to wink?

That's just unseemly.

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 6d

I'm in this new book of weird stories of the future (extra weird!). I think it's about 2/3rds reprints, pretty sure HG Wells didn't write a new piece; trade paper, includes Robert Silverberg, Charles Beaumont, Harlan Ellison, Larry Niven, many others. My story is brand new. And it's quite weird. 💙📚

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Michael Bernth @monovoce.bsky.social · 5d

It’s fun for me to think about how a gaming session with my friends last summer was turned into a published scenario, and is now mentioned by Chaosium. It make me giddy with joy.

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