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Darryl Mott 💀

@gamerstavernshow.com

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Freelance writer on tabletop roleplaying games (credits: EN World, Ain't It Cool News, Zombie Orpheus), video producer/streamer (Gamer's Tavern Media), and podcast editor/producer (EN Live, Scary Basement, Gamer's Tavern). Opinions are my own.

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · Aug 2

In Oct 2024, I was hospitalized. I have kidney failure and require dialysis, and it was months before I learned to walk again. Before I got Medicaid, I maxed out every credit card I have to pay for medical transport and groceries. Any help you can offer to pay down the debt is appreciated.

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 1h

Listen...hear me out...

We make Tron: Ares into a meme...

Just as an experiment to see if Disney can learn from the mistakes of others or not...

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 1d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 1h

I'm old enough to remember when a middle-aged dude obsessing about how teenage girls dressed was considered creepy.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Gryph @lfgryph.com · 2h

An attempted family picture, the best one I got out of multiple tries. 😆

A tuxedo mama cat and three kittens in their shelter kennel. Mama is reclining up top on a shelf, enjoying some time away from her children. A floofy white and grey kitten is sitting on some light green fabric and looking at the camera. A brown tabby kitten is standing still, but looking off to the side at random. A black kitten is looking down at the bright orange ball tower he's standing on, completely ignoring everything else.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 4h

A real one.

Nic Wilkinson @nicwilkinson.bsky.social · 4h

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 4h

I too thought this said "I'm Not Your Personal Trainer" AND I thought it was a Traveller supplement.

Daniel Solis @danielsolis.bsky.social · 4h

Design tip: The font Futura is drawn with geometric shapes and minimalist features, which makes it especially prone to confusing lowercase a and o.

I thought this said "I'm Not Your Personal Trainer"
#typography #graphicdesign

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 22h

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 7h

The tariffs changed again.

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Chocmoojoo @chocmoojoo.bsky.social · 7h

“Selected for customs review”

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 7h

And a bonus one for anyone in any industry working for a company:

It's a leveraged buyout.

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 7h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"So about my character..."

Karen Rodgers @karenisagm.bsky.social · 7h

It's in C# major.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 20h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

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EN World | D&D/TTRPG News & Reviews @enworldrpg.bsky.social · 7h

Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles for October 12, 2025 #ttrpg #dnd

www.enworld.org

Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles for October 12, 2025

twp.ai

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 8h

I'm not Zack Snyder, and the reason is I want the guardrails of working within an already-established setting where I don't have to do the heavy lifting of worldbuilding. Also the challenge of telling an original story with those restrictions.

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 9h

Ugh. I feel the urge to write, but the only ideas I have that are in any shape to start writing on are set in worlds I would never get permission to write in. And I'd like to get paid for my work.

Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 9h

I am surprised that the movement to make "God Bless America" the new national anthem didn't go anywhere.

Personally, I'd choose "American Jesus". Feels more fitting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=12kc...

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 14h

God Bless America is just a song by Irving Berlin. It’s not the national anthem. America is so far down the moron hole it will never get out

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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 9h

Lot of talk about the flagrant misreading but actually I think this is active psychosis. Nobody in their right mind makes everything about the antichrist

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 9h

Ironic that they're suing "AI" companies for training on their material then using those same algorithms to create shit for a series.

Sorry, they claim this is hand-drawn art just using "AI enhancement". Suuuure.

Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 10h

I'm starting to doubt they even dropkicked these Murphys...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 10h

Instead of creating shock value by killing protagonists off seemingly at random, what they've done is cultivate a style of storytelling where I can't let myself get invested BECAUSE I can never know if someone's about to die. So all you've done is train me to not care. So then why watch?

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 10h

Unless I'm watching a horror movie or a murder mystery, I should know precisely who is going to die before the die. Hell, even in those two genres, I should know or at least kick myself for not seeing the signs it was coming when it does happen.

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 10h

Later on is when they started the LOLRandom style of just killing people or making radical character changes for no real reason other than shock value. Then everyone started copying that style of "storytelling" because it was the big trend. "You never know who will live or die!" Fuck that.

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 10h

The first season of Game of Thrones was actually the opposite of this. Everything that happened was clearly set up by the narrative. Yes, protagonists died, but it happened because they made stupid choices AND there was time for the consequences to set in for the audience.

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