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bigfatsocialist.bsky.social
Big Fat Socialist
@bigfatsocialist.bsky.social
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I make silly videos because come the revolution we will all need a chuckle.

Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Black/Biracial ✊🏾Socialist 🚩
Nerd 🎲Storyteller 🎭 Content Creator 📹
https://www.youtube.com/@bigfatsocialist8067
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Sometimes when I write stuff for my players its for serious plot centric reasons... and sometimes I wanna make a D100 Table of the Galaxy's Top Holofilms so I know what the crew are watching on the ship's projector between being traumatised and getting into debt during missions. #MothershipRPG
GAFTA TOP 100 HOLOFILMS (2101-Present) 1. Extraterrestrial 2. Swordwalker 3. Entanglement 4. Dark Matter: On the Farside of the Galaxy 5. Roboboy II 6. Aliens and Cowboys 7. Cryofever 8. Love at Lagrange Point 9. Exterminator 10. Space Zombie 11. Angel in Guchee 12. Teamster, Scientist Soldier Synth 13. What?! I’m the Princess of Mars?!!! 14. Passion of Robots 15. 2201: A Void Saga 16. Floppit Treasure Planet 17. Do Electric Sheep Know Androids Dream About Them? 18. Abeni 19. Dark Matter III: The Logistical Preparation at Fort Prosperity 20. Blokeback Valley 21. Its a Wonderful Robot 22. The Godparent 23. Space Zombies 24. The Fairly Wonderful Eight 25. Ace Spacer: Space Racer 26. Robot Armageddon 27. Dark Matter V: Into the Abyss 28. Dark Matter IV: Light’s Edge 29. Robot Armageddon 30. Roboboy 31. Extraterrestrial VS Robot 32. I Married a Sessionist! 33. Necropolitian 34. Raiders of the Outer Rim 35. Dark Matter II: Crimson Nebula 36. Gaian Holiday 37. Ace Spacer: Dead Man’s Land 38. Swordwalker 2249 39. First Out of Cryo 40. Wilfred and Plyer: The Wrong Vacsuit 41. Seven Clones of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 42. Dude, Where’s my Spaceship? 43. Momento Mori: The Great Space War in Colour 44. Lunch in Liberty 45. Seeking The Way to My Heart 46. Planet of the Newts 47. Best Little Brothel Station in Nebula Christi 48. Alotta Butta, Space Detective 49. But the President is an Alien! 50. The Rim Job 51. Captain Whiskers 52. Extraterrestrials 53. Robot Armageddon II 54. Robot Armageddon III 55. Captain Whiskers: Luxury Feliner 56. Not Space: Edge of Nothing 57. I Married a Sessionist, and now we’re in a Polycule with an Alien! 58. The Yorbian Connection 59. Schnugglewumps…
November 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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I braved the storm to see the RSNO playing Mahler with my dad and brother.

I ain’t much for body confidence these days but boy does a man feel good when he gets the chance to throw on a big coat.
The man known as Elias, feeling very sure of himself in a big light blue overcoat.
October 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Sadistic Sabotage (17th Level) Learn two more up to 14th level Artificer Magic Item Plans. Your Sabotaging Charms can now destroy magical items that are Legendary, and when a creature is dealt damage by one of your Sabotaging Charms, double the damage.
August 31, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Sophisticated Sabotage (13th Level) Learn two more up to 10th level Artificer Magic Item Plans. The damage form your charms can now be Acid, Thunder or Cold and you can now set complex triggers for your Charms (such as temperature changes, a spoken phrase or the use of a specific spell or school of magic) on a delay of up to 8 hours. When a creature or object is reduced to 0 hit points by damage from a sabotaging charm you may choose to deal any remaining damage to another creature or object within 15 feet of them. Your Sabotaging Charms can destroy magical items of Very Rare or lower quality.
August 31, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Savage Sabotage (9th Level): Learn two more up to 6th level Artificer Magic Item Plans. Damage from your Sabotaging Charms is now considered magical, and on triggering any non-magical objects they are attached to are also destroyed. Your Sabotaging Charms can also destroy magical items of Rare or lower quality.
August 31, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Savvy Sabotage (Level 3): As a bonus action, you can do one of the following: Scrutinize Item: Focus on an item and learn if it is a magic item or some other magical object, whether it requires Attunement, and how many charges it has, if any. If you instead touch the item, you also learn its properties and how to use them, whether any ongoing spells are affecting the item and what they are. Nullify Item: Touch a magical item leaving behind a tiny Charm to disable its properties. Upon triggering, for one hour (or until the sabotage is discovered and the Charm removed) that item’s magical properties are nullified and if it is attuned to a creature their attunement to that item is broken. Sabotage Item: Touch an object and leave behind a sabotaging charm to rig it to damage its next user. The damage dealt is equal to your sneak attack die/dice and is your choice of piercing, fire or lightning.
August 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Rogue – Saboteur Nice weapons/armour you got there! Be a real shame if something happened to em… Saboteur's Secrets (Level 3): You learn two up to 2nd Level Artificer Magic Item Plans, gain expertise in two kind of tools and your choice of Arcana or Investigation. You also learn how to use rudimentary arcane and alchemical knowledge to identify magical objects and attach Sabotaging Charms to disable, disrupt or even destroy them. You may set a Charm to trigger on a delay of up to an hour or another simple trigger (e.g. the unsheathing of a sword or the opening of a box lid) but otherwise the default triggers are: -When a creature wearing or carrying the object is next hit with an attack. -When the object is wielded as a weapon and used to make an attack. If a creature suspects an item sabotaged it must succeed on an intelligence saving throw equal to 12 Plus your Rogue level to identify the sabotaging charm and another save of the same difficulty to disarm it without triggering any other effects.
August 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Iain M. Banks' 'The Player of Games', in which the greatest game theorist of the Culture (a technocommunist pan-Alien utopia) is blackmailed into upending another civilisation whose entire social hierarchy organised around a highly complex game.

Looking back from Utopia is horror in its own right.
The cover of Iain M. Banks 'The Player of Games' from the Culture series, which features serveral yellow simiplified stars, planets and spheres on a black baground and a yellow grid.
August 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Grok: *says something critical of Musk/Trump*
Musk: Yep... there's your problem!
The back of the Krusty the Clown doll from the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror III, but with the EVIL and GOOD settings changed to GROK and MECHAHITLER
July 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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The working title is...
'Whodunblowedthebugleonthehypertraintomurderville?'
July 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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TTRPG Creators all take heed:

There is reading and learning about the plight of real people to tell nuanced stories, and then there is reducing people to bit caricatures that reinforce their ongoing persecution.

Do not do this, ever. This is some FATAL bullshit and brings disrepute to our craft.
Descriptor for an in-game Hazzard called 'Illegal Alien' Illegal Alien (Dangerous; Formidable in groups) Features: Unintelligible language Orange jumpsuit Shackles Drives: Escape Aggression Organize in Gangs Tactics: Shiv from behind Brave only in groups Dogpile
July 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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This photo of a very tiny snail I saw on top of a bin outside my work on a hot summer's day in 2019 with my fingertip for scale (the snail was then relocated to a shady leaf).
A tiny snail on top of a metalic bin with a human finger for scale.
June 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Update, our Jackdaw fledgling is still there but the parents are checking in on him, we've been able to work on the Shed while moving around him and keeping an eye out for errant cats!
June 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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I think today is gonna be a good day...
A picture of a fledgling bird (probably a crow or jackdaw). A conversation about the fledgling bird. Person A: Is this smol creature near the Shed??? Person B: I have a little dude on the lawn. Advice seems to be leave him alone as the parents are flocking around. Person A: Oh yeah, if they've got flight feathers they won't he far away. Person B: Down outside the shed just now...
June 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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This review betrays a level of scrutiny I would fear to face over a gaming table, cheers @jadedcynic.bsky.social
A comment on a YouTube video titled "Boat Madness" @empath69: Tiny nitpick in the subtitles: title "Bo'sun" or "Bosun" from the old term "boatswain" for 'the person in charge of the care, maintenance and use of the ship's boats'. ...unless this is the sailor's proper name: Ordinary Seaman Bolson O'Shea. ;) Otherwise very excellently done! Good choice of stock footage for backgrounds, reasonable premise, nicely unexpected twists on 'what people with cabin fever would do', and even a nice little hint of foreshadowing of the ending, too! <3 P.S. apparently a 'bolson' is a desert valley or depression surrounded by recently uplifted hills or mountains (from the Spanish bolsón or 'large purse'). Sounds like a good name for a purser. :D @bigfatsocialist8067: Hey chat, we found the Sailor!
May 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Right, let's pour a few halfs and see what 4.0's got in store for us... #stellaris
www.twitch.tv/bigfatsocial...
May 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Hey troops! I've got Merch! That folk can buy! From my website! Like a proper influencer!
weeredshedproductions.com/oor-merch
April 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Hey @tashcrow.bsky.social the fans loved Veronica so much I decided to let the Patrons pick the Chosen One they might want to see next! With just two days left, the Cleric appears to be in the lead... #immersionbreakers #dnd #actualplay
www.patreon.com/posts/which-...
A screenshot of a patreon poll titled 'Which of the Chosen Ones should we get the artwork for next?' The options are Warlock, Cleric, Wizard, Rogue and Bard, Cleric is in the lead. There are 13 votes and 2 days left on the poll.
April 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Briefly ignoring the global economy collapsing by remembering when I gave the internet my best Ian McKellen impression... #lotr #gandalf #faramir
April 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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It’s gotten to the point in my TTRPG Creator Journey that I’m commissioning character references!

A million thanks to the wonderful @tashcrow.bsky.social for the now canon design of Veronica the Paladin from my D&D series, soon to be actual play, the Immersion Breakers!
#dnd #immersionbreakers
April 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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‪Hey Followers!

For no reason I’d like to encourage you to follow my good sibling and friend of the Shed @votivecandle.bsky.social for their amazing artwork, like these recent favourites.

They deserve 100 times my follow count anywhere, go ask them about their OCs!

(Love you bud)

Your bro.
March 31, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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AND THE PAINSTAKING REMASTER IS COMPLETE, JUST IN TIME FOR BE TO COME DOWN WITH SOME KIND OF CHEST INFECTION!

TIME FOR THE OBLIGATORY THREAD!!!
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March 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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And in that moment, he realised the power of the Delta Keyer...
March 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I was in town for a meeting with a prospective artist for a project, and made a friend on the train. His name is Vinny.
A sandy brown greyhound dog with dark stripes rests his head on the carpet of a train, looking up and into the camera.
March 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Just realised 3 minute uploads means I can finally tell #BlackSky about the time my Black Scottish Dad did a DNA Test to find our roots and got a lot more than he bargained for... #AddToBlackSky
March 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM