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Pandatheist @pandatheist.bsky.social · 1d

OMG YES 😂🙌

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Pandatheist @pandatheist.bsky.social · 1d

Why aren't more corn mazes called maize mazes? Feels like a missed opportunity 🤔

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Pandatheist @pandatheist.bsky.social · 29d

You have two stats: Game and Design...

jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 29d

Ttrpg friends and colleagues, are there any games where playing the game directly teaches you how to make another game like it? Not just through observation of its system, but where that is the central engine of play and learning design principles explicitly *is* the system?

Philip and Rollie TF, rememberer of Aggie @ripperelse.bsky.social · 29d

I want an rpg making rpg. Is this weird?

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Jez Gordon @jezgordon.bsky.social · Sep 9

Digital ice-nine.

Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · Sep 9

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

bnacker @bnacker.bsky.social · Sep 9

Starting to regret inventing the podcast

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Pandatheist @pandatheist.bsky.social · Sep 4

Skerples has a tutorial heist worth checking out.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2...

Kidnap the Archpriest - Skerples | DriveThruRPG

The Archpriest, leader of the Church, has defied a summons to the Immortal Capital. You have been chosen to retrieve the recalcitrant pontiff. Kidnap the Archpriest is designed to be an implicit tutor...

www.drivethrurpg.com

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Pandatheist @pandatheist.bsky.social · Sep 3

Im sure there are more annoying sounding lawnmowers than what my neighbors have sacrificed in being, but its tough to imagine. The constant pitch and tone changes. The way it gets louder just as you start to ignore it. Repeatedly stopping just long enough to get your hopes up. Symphony of horror 🤬🤬🤬

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Sidney Icarus @sidneyicarus.bsky.social · Sep 2

New free game alert!

"Posting Through It"
A playful futures game that explores how social media has redefined what it means to “win” and “lose” in uncertainty.

I co-designed Posting Through It with @randylubin.com, so grab it over at his Itch page:

randylubin.itch.io/posting-thro...

Posting Through It by Randy Lubin, Sidney Icarus

Explore the consequences of a major disruption by playing organizations and influencers posting on social media

randylubin.itch.io

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Pandatheist @pandatheist.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Watchmen trailer really was a shockingly good Smashing Pumpkins music video

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Pandatheist @pandatheist.bsky.social · Aug 31

🫂

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Devin Elle Kurtz @devinellekurtz.bsky.social · Aug 22

My Neighbor Demon-Tiger

A digitally painted fanart of Kpop Demon Hunters. Rumi, a Korean pop star in her early 20s, stands under a yellow umbrella in the pouring rain outside a glowing corner store. Next to her is the silly blue tiger derpy, sitting in the wet street with no umbrella. The tiny, six-eyed bird Sussie sits on top of Derpy's head with a tiny red umbrella. The colors skew toward a glowing magenta.

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Pandatheist @pandatheist.bsky.social · Aug 23

a raccoon wearing a wreath of pink and white flowers on its neck

ALT: a raccoon wearing a wreath of pink and white flowers on its neck

media.tenor.com

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Maz @mazistyping.bsky.social · Aug 21

So, on 29th August, the US is ending de minimis treatment for parcels under $800 value globally. It's already done this for China; now it's going to come in for everyone. If you post parcels to America, this is going to affect you, in one of several ways.

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Pandatheist @pandatheist.bsky.social · Aug 21

Its beautiful 😍💖

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October DEATHules @aprildaniels.bsky.social · Aug 21

Gavin Newsom beckoning liberals down into the sewers like Pennywise.

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · Aug 20

By me!

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Aug 20

A woman returning to her family’s home town discovers why people in Connorville might be more than they seem.

"In Connorville" by @tanaudel.bsky.social is now available to read for free at Reactor!

Art by @armandoveve.bsky.social
Edited by @datlow.bsky.social

reactormag.com/in-connorvil...

In Connorville - Reactor

A woman returning to her family’s home town for a wedding discovers why people in Connorville—including her family—might be more than they seem.

reactormag.com

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Shannon Lawson @nanlawson.bsky.social · Aug 20

My latest book rebind!

#booksky #scifi #books

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · Aug 20

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

Nothing lasts forever, and that includes the Roman Empire.

The Fall of Rome-Scented Candle smells like cypress trees and red wine. Light it and watch the Roman forum melt into a puddle of wax while you quietly contemplate the impermanence of civilizations and/or candles.

Do you think individual Romans understood that their civilization was collapsing? Or did it happen so gradually that they were able to ignore the warning signs—international trade breaking down, the senate becoming a rubber stamp for the supreme leader, and political violence becoming expected during transfers of power?

It’s hard to say, because it’s impossible to imagine being in that kind of situation. In any event—hope you enjoy the candle!

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Pandatheist @pandatheist.bsky.social · Aug 20

Omg yes! Weekend double feature 🎉 I really should rewatch Black Hole in particular though. Loved/terrified of it as a child 😱🙌

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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · Aug 20

just bookbinding things

pbks.lostpages.co.uk

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Pandatheist @pandatheist.bsky.social · Aug 20

Congrats!!! 🥳🎉🎊

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Pandatheist @pandatheist.bsky.social · Aug 20

RIP Alternity

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Pandatheist @pandatheist.bsky.social · Aug 20

"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see" 🖤😱🖤

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Aug 20

Paul W.S. Anderson's Event Horizon isn't a perfect movie, but it's pretty great, in spite of what you might have heard! Let's reconsider the sci fi horror film that was pitched as "The Shining in space"!

reactormag.com/event-horizo...

Event Horizon: Bring All Your Bad Memories to the Blood Orgy - Reactor

Box-office bomb? Yes. But is this movie a pretty good sci fi horror movie? Also yes.

reactormag.com

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Pandatheist @pandatheist.bsky.social · Aug 20

Love this series. And the art really is something special 💖

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Shannon Lawson @nanlawson.bsky.social · Aug 19

No one can hear you scream ✨

A dreamlike Illustration of a Xenomorph from Alien in outer space.

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