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"This grimdark medieval fantasy game — with its visually sadistic illustrations, jarring color schemes, erratic page layout, and seemingly arbitrary fonts — turned the TTRPG scene on its head."

#gaming #art #Medium

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Artpunk Games Will Save Your Soul
Mörk Borg, HōL, and the savage subversion of tabletop roleplaying games
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"Those who are currently single can only hope to love somebody as deeply as [John] Woo adores slow motion."

#movies #filmmaking #Medium

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‘Mission Impossible II’ Is an Outlandish Thrill Ride — A 25-Year Retrospective
The second entry in the action film franchise is as delightfully demented as one would expect from director John Woo
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December 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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"The grand aspirations of ‘One Battle After Another’ are undermined by its own text and subtext."

#Medium #movies #philosophy

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‘One Battle After Another’, ‘Eddington’ and the Neo-Silent Cinema of the 2020s
Silence can be both loud and inspire revolution, or quiet and inspire complicity
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December 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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"While I felt that satisfaction in Blue Prince’s early runs, the feeling faded away as it began to feel more and more like I was spinning my wheels."

#puzzles #gaming

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‘Blue Prince’ Is the Best Game I’ve Played That’s Ultimately Not for Me
Beautiful environmental storytelling and wonderful puzzles result in a game I don’t need to keep playing
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December 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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"Debt is a tool of exploitation, oppression, and value extraction. If ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ can realize the nature of debt, why can’t we?"

#gaming #money #GiftArticle

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‘Red Dead Redemption 2’: Should we pay back our debts?
What’s the difference between Arthur Morgan, the Mafia, and the bank?
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December 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Another Day anothe Johnny Mnemonic post
December 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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"As Mothership is a deadly game, where one mistake can cause a cascade of failure that leads to all the players’ deaths, I have found that one-shots and very short campaigns tend to work better than grand narratives."

#horror #crowdfunding #NoPaywall

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How I Kickstarted My ‘Mothership’ Adventure
My journey into the strange world of crowdfunding TTRPG projects
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December 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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"There is plenty of dramatic content at the core of the film, but it is unlocked gradually, with stressful situations continuing to pile up, threatening to drown this protagonist."

#nurses #healthcare #movies #GiftArticle

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‘Late Shift’ is a Tense, Invigorating Tribute to Nurses and Their Everyday Struggles
This tense feature from Petra Volpe, set across a single late-night shift, highlights the stress endemic to this profession
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December 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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"The main, root story is epic adventure, but individual episodes are right up there with The All-New Super Friends Hour."

#AvatarTheLastAirbender #MagicTheGathering

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Magic Arena x Avatar: the Last Airbender | An Earth-Shattering Standard
“Everything changed when the Badgermoles attacked…” — wait let me see that script
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December 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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"The Mafia will break your legs if you don’t pay your debt back, meanwhile the bank will leave you homeless."

#RedDeadRedemption #gaming

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‘Red Dead Redemption 2’: Should we pay back our debts?
What’s the difference between Arthur Morgan, the Mafia, and the bank?
medium.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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"...Routine builds a kind of 1970s retro-futurism, with sterile rooms and dark corridors, closed-circuit CRTs, Xerox PARC-level primitive graphical user interfaces, and menacing security robots."

#sciencefiction #horror #Medium

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‘Routine’ is a Cold and Uncomfortable Look at Human Nature
Lunar Software expertly shows us a history we’re doomed to repeat
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December 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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"Sorry, Dale. My Space Marines are just over a half-inch outside of your artillery range. Looks like you don't have a shot."

"I thought Brian was gonna make a dick joke with this screenshot, Hank!"

"Well, he went with Warhammer 40K. So you just deal with it."
December 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
theuglymonster.bsky.social
"Much like its prized possession, Snatch is a gem, a cult classic severely underappreciated by critics at the time, and a reminder that there was once room for magic and wonder in a Guy Ritchie film."

#classic #movies

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‘Snatch’ is a Charming, Brutal, Laugh-out-loud Gem: A 25-Year Retrospective
Guy Ritchie’s second feature film is a career-high masterwork, blending intricate storytelling with a unique twist on the crime genre
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December 19, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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"...folks, especially women, on the spectrum were deprived of a character that represented their feelings and experiences."

#Autism #television #GiftArticle

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Why Does ‘Bones’ Shy Away From Neurodivergence?
Dr. Temperance Brennan is, by all appearances, on the autism spectrum — so why isn’t this acknowledged over the series’ twelve seasons?
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December 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Hey, new announcement for DIE RPG. Next year, @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social will be crowdfunding DIE RPG: THE METADUNGEON - a huge dungeon where each level is explicitly about a different period of RPG history.
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Get Ready for DIE: Metadungeon
From Rowan, Rook and Decard - Get Ready for DIE: Metadungeon
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December 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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"Without visuals, audio cues work double time to simulate in vivid detail the sensory overload that victims of Scarecrow’s fear toxin experience."

#Medium #podcasts #comics #Batman

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The Overlooked Batman Adaptation You Can’t See
‘Batman: The Audio Adventures’ is amazing, and more people should hear it
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December 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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"Hamnet is a story of connection, of isolation, of endless grief, and of trying to process the pit of despair that loss becomes. It is guttural and so visceral that while it is a painful watch, you can’t look away."

#movies #PaulMescal #JessieBuckley

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‘Hamnet’ Will Shatter Your Heart Over and Over
A viscerally emotional story about the origin of the play ‘Hamlet’
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December 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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"Capitalism has run amuck to such an apocalyptic extent that the very laws of physics have been corrupted. The Earth itself has been worked to death, along with everyone on it."

#GiftArticle #wargaming #DarkFantasy

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Lo! Thy Dread Empire: Capitalism Will Work You To Death
and then resurrect your corpse to finish your shift
medium.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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My Comic Book Haiku on The Toxic Crusaders #2 is up at The Ugly Monster. #comics #troma @theuglymonster.bsky.social
Toxic Capitalism: A Comic Book Haiku
The Toxic Crusaders #2
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December 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
theuglymonster.bsky.social
"Grok, Elon Musk’s AI...claims to be “truth-seeking.” Not long ago, Grok encountered a bug that spread false reports of “white” genocide unprompted."

#movies #NoPaywall #AIslop

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Romance and Revolution in the Age of AI
According to movies, 2025 is the year of AI uprisings, but how true can they be?
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December 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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"In this storyline,
homelessness and downsizing
are now side villains."

#comic #TheToxicAvenger #NoPaywall #Medium

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Toxic Capitalism: A Comic Book Haiku
The Toxic Crusaders #2
medium.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
theuglymonster.bsky.social
"In this storyline,
homelessness and downsizing
are now side villains."

#comic #TheToxicAvenger #NoPaywall #Medium

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Toxic Capitalism: A Comic Book Haiku
The Toxic Crusaders #2
medium.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
theuglymonster.bsky.social
"Journalism became an effective weapon not despite [Rodolfo Walsh's] revolutionary activities...but because of them."

#movies

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‘Escritor’: Writing as a Weapon
Rodolfo Walsh was the father of investigative journalism, but he was also a revolutionary
medium.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Guy threatening to stab someone else meme. The guy in a defensive stance is labeled "Time Magazine" the guy with the knife is labeled "The dictionary"
December 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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"From psycho killer
to well-intentioned soldier?
Thanks, redemption arc!"

#CaptainAmerica #comic #NoPaywall

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Act Like Cap: A Comic Book Haiku
Captain America Volume 12 #5
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December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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"...cheating extra value out of trick lands isn’t the best use of earthbending. It’s much more productive to stack counters on land creatures (multiple earthbends can target the same land), give them trample, and beat face."

#MTG #ATLA #GiftArticle

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Magic Arena x Avatar: the Last Airbender | An Earth-Shattering Standard
“Everything changed when the Badgermoles attacked…” — wait let me see that script
medium.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM