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Matthew Varley
@varbles.bsky.social
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He\Them. Reader, tabletop game enthusiast, video game player, and miniature painter. Principal software engineer making telephones ring in my day job. Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@varbles
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 4h
Maltagliati. It's just floppy bits that don't hold shape or sauce.
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 2d
Hear me out. We tell all the tourists that the AI wall is the new gum wall. They'll take care of it for us.
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 7d
Yup. I'm very aware that a preview is an ad. The studio won't feature a bad review. And creators won't be negative because that could jeopardize future work or due to a non-disparagement clause.

A playthrough lets me see how the game works, and that is something I can project onto my own group.
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 8d
Banned Books - Gator Days
Banned Books - Gator Days Transcript Panel 1 Olivia and Gustopher are at the library. The Library is having a special event for books that have been banned in the past. Dora the librarian is stacking books with titles like "BOOK", "Boogers", "Tales", "Can you", "read this" and "Word". Olivia has a great interest in forbidden knowledge and has been browsing what's available. She's found a book called "Salt Box" and has an important question for the librarian. Olivia: Miss Librarian! Why was this book banned? Dora: Vulgar Language. Panel 2 Dora makes a shocked expression and holds her hands to her face. This is the only way she can express how depraved the book is. Dora: The word "butt" is used.... FIFTEEN TIMES! Panel 3 Dora looks down to the children to gather their reaction. Internally, Gustopher is wondering if Dora meant "but" with one "t" or "butt" with two. Olivia immediately assumes it's the latter. Behind them is a poster promoting banned books week. There is a cartoon book that's smiling and saying "I'm forbidden!" He's booky the banned book. He was specifically banned for being made using the darkest of magic. He's also kind of rude. Panel 4 Olivia is excited about the book. This leads Gustopher to assume that "butt" was indeed spelled with an extra "t". Olivia: Now I have to read it. Dora: Oh noooo... I'll help you check it out.
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 9d
We got a lot of drawings today.
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 9d
Tampa decided to play like Florida while protesting the unwillingness of the NHL to do anything about Florida intentionally injuring players on other teams.

A NHL exec is the dad of Florida's AGM, and has a history of interfering on behalf of his son www.businessinsider.com/blogger-reve...
Leaked E-Mails Embarrass Top NHL Executive
A blogger exposes scandalous emails from an NHL executive, igniting controversy in the sports world.
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 10d
Historically, not paying the military has always worked out well. /s
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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 11d
Jay @jay.bsky.team • 3h You could try a poster's strike. I hear that works ••. Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social • 3h please don't listen to the people who tell you to stop doing this, you should definitely keep this up T. Eoz @deadhorsephoto.bsky.social • 3h There was this very cool guy called Richard Kyanka in fact, who won all his spats with his users ••• Spooky Tired @tiredderit.bsky.social I was married to the guy and I read her post and had some weird body memory reaction and was like, did he possess her? Why are we repeating history?
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 11d
Can't imagine the grocery bill for that fella.
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 12d
Woah. Where is the ship from?
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 14d
The sports stuff is probably okay because low-effort annual casinos disguised as sports games are extremely lucrative.

Everything else is probably going to end up as dead as a studio bought by EA.
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t3h b3agLe oF d00m @jellyb.bsky.social · 18d
20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could

now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest
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Monte Cook Games @montecookgames.com · 18d
WE'RE IN OVERTIME!

As long as the Backertrain is chugging along, Cypher is STILL LIVE! Join over 5,000 people to bring Cypher to life!

How long will overtime last?? That's entirely up to you! It's been HOURS on our last campaigns! Choo choo 🚂🚂🚂

mymcg.info/cypher
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 20d
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 21d
If Tylenol caused autism, we'd have a LOT more trains.
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 23d
Companions
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 26d
I think it solidified when Nickel became everyone's most common defense. 3-4 vs 4-3 mattered a lot less. 3-4 schemes would pull the NT, OLBs would become 5-techs, and the DEs would become DTs.

And that ended up nearly identical to the 4-3 defenses just pulling a LB.
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 28d
Remap Radio
Revolutions by Mike Duncan
Shelved by Genre
Friends at the Table
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28d
dating apps should just make men list their top 5 podcasts
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 29d
Yup. Just need to tell Steam to save your credentials. help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view...
Steam Support :: Offline Mode
help.steampowered.com
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · Sep 13
Musubi is always a good choice.
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · Sep 13
New Fire Emblem! And I love all the characters already.
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · Sep 10
Ten Years Later, LIGO is a Black-Hole Hunting Machine

LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA celebrate anniversary, announce verification of Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Area Theorem.

www.caltech.edu/about/news/t... 🧪🔭 @ligo.org @caltech.edu
This plot shows gravitational-wave signals recorded by the LIGO Hanford detector almost ten years apart. The top shows data from LIGO's first-ever detection of gravitational waves, an event called GW150914, captured in 2015. The bottom shows the signal known as GW250114, captured in 2025. Both events involve colliding black holes about 1.3 billion light-years away with masses between 30 to 40 times that of our Sun. The purple line shows the data, which are a combination of the signal plus background detector noise. The noise comes from a variety of sources, including seismic motions that jiggle giant mirrors inside LIGO. The green line shows the best-fit prediction from general relativity for each signal. The much lower noise seen today is thanks to cutting-edge improvements made to the LIGO detectors that hush unwanted noise. Credit: LIGO/J. Tissino (GSSI)/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) This chart plots discoveries made by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network since LIGO's first detection, in 2015, of gravitational waves emanating from a pair of colliding black holes. The detections consist mainly of black hole mergers, but a handful involve neutron stars (either black hole-neutron star collisions or neutron star-neutron star collisions). Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC)
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · Sep 9
Can I, as a sender, prevent the messages I send from being backed up by other people?
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · Sep 8
There's no link in your bio.
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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · Sep 7
Alright, Steelers impressions

1) Nice to have an offense. I forgot points could get into the 30's.

2) Defense needs to show up. They're being paid way too much to allow over 30 points and almost 200 rushing yards.

3) Broderick Jones was bad enough that he might need to get benched immediately.
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