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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 12h

This is the aesthetic of the future

Kyle wolf
@CRXSSF4DE
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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 16h

Just don't share A.I. slop of any sort. I've seen a wave of Sora shit on various social media platforms.
A.I. is destructive on too many levels to ever encourage anyone to use it, and sharing or liking is encouragement.
Complicity in the destruction of our planet and humanity.

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 12h

Arriving Fri from @goodluckpress.co
👣The Dance of Death Bundle - 2 tarot-driven solo RPGs, each complementing the other to create a duet
📚bookmark microRPGs - a collection of 5 games to play in a book
🚙TORQ - a post-apocalyptic RPG where the cars drive fast but cooperation is the rule of the wastes

The Dance of Death Bundle is two games displayed together, Venatores and Belluae. Venatores is black print on a white background. The title is in all caps, vertically, down the spine. Its main image is obscured behind the other game, Belluae, a game of becoming something monstrous by Seb Pines (black and white on a black background, title also in all caps, vertical down the spine). The main image is a monster wrapped in shreds of clothing, holding its arms out.

A fanned-out collection of five bookmarks. Each is a tiny RPG, each has a different vibe - one looks like a map, one looks minimalist, two are pastel, and the one on top is black with white brush strokes for decoration. Its title is "words unsaid, a revision game for one, a spines rpg"

The cover of Torq: Operator manual, rallyraid roleplaying by will jobst. The game is rectangular but oriented horizontally. The title appears in a cream-on-yellow, fat, 70s-inspired font, tipped to imply motion, with the "o" and the "q" extra-round to look like wheels

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 2d

There's a tale of a dead-eyed corporate zombie who has absolutely no regard for the welfare of others and has become utterly hell-bent on delivering a provably dangerous technology purely for personal profit.

And the other one wanted to smuggle Xenomorphs back to Earth.

Paul Reiser as "Carter Burke" from the film ALIENS.

Sam Altman, a pallid, dead-eyed white man making a gesture of emphasis with his left hand.

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 1d

Yeah, that's the vibe

The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 1d

Mood: listening to NIN's YEAR ZERO start to finish

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 1d

People have been diggin em in the vending machine, too. Three people claimed copies of The Serpent and The Spider last week!

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 1d

Arriving Friday - two new @junkfoodgames.bsky.social zines
🍃Wither & Grow - a tiny solo game following the life of a sentient being made of growing plants
🐍🕷️The Serpent & The Spider - a duet for a necromancer + a sword-wielder to team up, combatting corporate corruption in a fantasy techno-future

The cover of Wither & Grow, a solo journaling game by Junk Food Games. Dark green ink on light green paper. The title is all lower-case whimsical serif font with an elaborate ampersand. The central image is a hulking being made of shaggy plants. Its face is partially covered by vines, flowers bloom from its back, and its willowy arms drag on the ground

The cover of The Serpent and The Spider, a ttrpg for 2 players by Junk Food Games. Yellow paper with black ink, calligraphy font for the text, and, in the center, a hand-drawn vampire skull with a sword through it, accented by a snake

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Chris, Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · 2d

It's October! Are you looking for a spooky and cool playing card deck?? Well, you're in luck!

Chris, Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · 24d

BIG NEWS! Moon Rings playing card decks are available now!

Edition of 100, standard 52-card deck. Can be used for playing Moon Rings or for any reason you'd use a card deck.

Get them from the game's itch page. Shipping to the U.S. only atm

Please share!

junkfoodgames.itch.io/moon-rings

Photo of a deck of cards for Moon Rings laid out in a grid. There is a yellow meeple on one of the cards and red 12-sided dice in the background.

hands holding a deck of cards for Moon Rings being fanned out

deck box for Moon Rings playing cards. the deck box is black with red foil that has the game title and graphics of tiny stars.

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Sam Leigh @goblinmixtape.bsky.social · 3d

The power went out at the apartment so I'm finishing my playthrough of Spine by @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social by candlelight

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 2d

Arriving FRIDAY - gamebooks!
🦋Choose Your Own Adventure: Mothman - discover an age-old rivalry between extraterrestrials and cryptids
🏰The Citadel of Whispers - a student mage fights to save their magical home
🐉Usborne Aventures - solo stories w intricate illustrated puzzles and a d6 combat system

The cover of Choose Your Own Adventure: Mothman, Cryptid Chronicles by Christin Bishara. A pulp horror style illustration with the title in all caps across the top. The illustration shows a kid walking through a dark forest, their path illuminated only by their flashlight. Behind them, a giant moth-shaped shadow with red eyes is looming

The cover of Choose Your Own Adventure: The Citadel of Whispers by Kazim Ali. A pull quote along the bottom reads "Several challenging and compelling stories to explore and YA readers will love them all" - Wil Wheaton, Stand by Me, Big Bang Theory (but not Star Trek for some reason, which he is arguably the MOST famous for). The illustration is a watercolor-style landscape of a white castle atop a lush hill overlooking a soft pink river. The sky is cotton candy sunset colors and there are misty mountains in the background

A flaired stack of Usborne Adventure books. The cover of the book on top says Usborne Adventure Gamebooks: Storm Quest, by Andy Prentice, Illustrated by Tom Knight. The image is a nighttime scene of a heroic character steering their ship through choppy, stormy seas. Behind the character, a sea monster looms

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 3d

One had Trent Reznor on it and was just for the soundtrack

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 6d

"How to Report ICE" 10/2:

Buffalo, CA, Chicago, CO, DC Metro, DE, FL, Indianapolis, KC Metro, MD, MA, NC Triangle, much of NJ, NM, NYC, Phoenix, Philly, Pittsburgh, Portland OR, RI, Rochester NY, St. Louis Metro, St. Peter & Mankato MN, VA, WI, WY

San Francisco in Spanish

tinyurl.com/mupyyr2x

Aloe plant "reading" a "How to Report ICE" zine.

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 3d

Arriving Friday - The Aisling Tarot
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A deluxe, Gothic Lolita-flavored, coffin-shaped Rider Waite deck full of symbolism, dark details, and autumn vibes

A example spread from the Aisling Tarot. Three prism-shaped cards, The Sun (orange tones, a circus performer with a striped dress and stockings stands above a carousel and holds a smiling sun), The Eight of Cups (pink tones, eight chalices with lunar symbols on them at a stone gateway, floating steps ascend toward the moon), and The Two of Swords (purple tones, two hands reach toward a broken hand mirror with two crossed daggers atop its handle). Also visible in the photo: a two-part box (also coffin-shaped), the rest of the cards spread face down, and the instruction manual

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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · 4d

Ttrpg design is wild because half the time you're thinking "I wonder if I can make people do vector calculus to resolve an attack check" and the other half of the time your game is called Monster Butts and the rules are that if a monster hits you with its butt you become a monster.

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 4d

Arriving Next Friday - seasonal polyhedral dice sets from @foambrain.com
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No longer solely residents of the vending machine, introducing Blood Splatter (great for vampires, monsters, serial killers, etc) and Into The Bog (great for chaotic goblins and other grungy creatures)

A closeup of polyhedral dice scattered atop books and tarot cards, all products coming soon. A d12 and d6 are green and yellow swirls with pink numerals. A d8, a d%, and a d12 are white with red blood splatter decoration

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 5d

Coming next Friday: THE OCTOBER DROP
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All our favorite creepy stuff - Liminal Horror modules galore, a coffin-shaped tarot deck, monsters & monster hunters, plant people & necromancers, mothman & magical girls
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Board games, gamebooks, dice, playing cards, +more

A smorgasbord of items coming soon. Games, like The Serpent and the Spider and the Dance of Death Bundle (Venatores and Belluae). Toys like Rubik's-inspired keychain fidgets. A tarot deck with coffin-shaped cards and Gothic Lolita-inspired characters. And gamebooks like Choose Your Own Adventure: Mothman and Usborne Adventure book The Goblin's Revenge

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 6d

Four Favorites with Good Boy star Indy and director Ben Leonberg 🐕

#GoodBoy is in US theaters this Friday via @ifcfilms.bsky.social and @shudder.com

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 6d

Periodic reminder: if you're out and about in Portland, you can visit TPK Brewing, where our vending machine mini-boutique lives (now properly decked out for October - JK ITS STAYING LIKE THIS FOREVER)

5051 SE Hawthorne
PDX OR 97215

A hand holds open the slot of a wooden crate to reveal to bulgy eyeballs staring intensely (though not directly) at you. In fact, the wooden crate is actually the outer shell of a game vending machine and the eyes are stickers inside the chute where you grab the things you bought

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 5d

Sometimes we think about running one of those word cloud things on our website copy

“Iridescent” would be real big… probably “solo” too lol

will jobst -> gamehole con @willjobst.bsky.social · 19d

i can't explain why but here are some rpg words: dais, brazier, dexterity, crevasse, rogue

i'd like to add "maw" to that hallowed list

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🍟🍟🍟 @jen-the-magician.bsky.social · 6d

She’s watching tv

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 5d

Coming next Friday: THE OCTOBER DROP
🎃
All our favorite creepy stuff - Liminal Horror modules galore, a coffin-shaped tarot deck, monsters & monster hunters, plant people & necromancers, mothman & magical girls
🎃
Board games, gamebooks, dice, playing cards, +more

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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 6d

We have a fascination for the Hand of Glory. So, we had to make one…or 100. These are available for preorder now.

A collab with Mithras Candle.
Made with black beeswax and tallow.

Includes a ghostly zine of 5 rituals and a new translation of an excerpt from Le Petit Albert!

flaminghand.com

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 6d

"Unsettling pile of scribbled-upon loose pages" is definitely a vibe - book-form will be great too but dang, look at all that cursed-lookin paper

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 6d

Periodic reminder: if you're out and about in Portland, you can visit TPK Brewing, where our vending machine mini-boutique lives (now properly decked out for October - JK ITS STAYING LIKE THIS FOREVER)

5051 SE Hawthorne
PDX OR 97215

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