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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 1h

I hate the new Patreon layout

An East Asian man squinting looking down to the right corner of the screen, caption reads “what the fuck am I reading”

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mami treez ♱ 10/22🎂 @ztreez.bsky.social · 3h

yall hit the save button in a post before you hit a repost button and that’s the issue i mostly have.

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah I ain’t shocked, I work in a much MUCH smaller industry if TTRPGs and this is happening there too

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 2h

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 4h

His are all digs at various politicians somehow

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 4h

We are like one year or so from Zohran showing up on dropout

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 5h

a lot actually

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 6h

for a very specific demographic (ppl who spent their teen years in niche forum communities), this game will reawaken a corner of your brain

Graham Gentz Loves To Playtest @thismaybegraham.bsky.social · 6h

I hear you asking. BUT WHAT IS THE OTHER GAME.
why it's Emo Girl Boots, of course
A LiveJournaling Game 🥀

Tell the Rise and Fall of Band Fan Forum

And @annethegnome.bsky.social ACTUALLY MADE A FORUM

WATCH THE SUPER SECRET EPISODE w/@trueryankhan.bsky.social ->
www.patreon.com/AllMyFriends...

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スキタダキマ〜ス🌻 @synxiec.blacksky.app · 6h

IT'S TOMORROW

And also, if you ain't watch the prologue episode: GO WATCH IT!

Othersider Studios Cordially Invites You... @othersiderstudios.bsky.social · 8h

Episode 1 - Statement Begins of Arcane Corps: Gifts of Fear releases TOMORROW at 8PM ET! Watch it our Twitch, Youtube, and @montecookgames.com ' Moonbeam platform!
www.twitch.tv/others...
www.youtube.com/live...
www.moonbeam.stream/...

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 6h

that said, if you planning to work at #DragonCon2026 get at me, panels, games, I have never been down there so I am trying to get active

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 6h

it was broken for me this morning too

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 7h

So absolutely stoked the world is learning about my favorite game Fabula Ultima

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 7h

I GOTTA work with @needgames.bsky.social actually

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 7h

If this pikmin game lets me mike help out a baby im fully in

🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 1d

in what WORLD do you leave your baby alone outside of the crib while you leave the room fully, also Nintendo is this you soft launching something www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsuf...

Close to You – Nintendo

YouTube video by Nintendo of America

www.youtube.com

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 8h

Room for my first ever @dragoncon.org booked. See you in 2026 Atlanta

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 8h

Nice!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8h

Three SCOTUS cases saw movement this week targeting LGBTQ+ people: A conversation therapy case, a shadow-docket case on trans passports, and a sports ban that will determine equal protection for trans people.

Writer S. Baum details all of them in our latest.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Three Supreme Court Cases Targeting LGBTQ+ People See Movement This Week

From sports to passports, these cases may determine the vitality of trans rights in the U.S. for generations to come.

www.erininthemorning.com

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 9h

👁️👀👀👁️

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stellaluna 🔜 PAX Unplugged @stellaluna.tv · 22h

just.... wondering.... 👀 who is an actual play performer that you know that loves superhero/supervillain RP narratives? 📝

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 9h

Hi hello hi

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Esperanza @knifenun.bsky.social · 23h

Halloween has come (yes the whole month is now named Halloween) and with it a Spooky Scary SHoNM episode! Featuring a scary version of the intro music composed by a reanimated skeleton (me)

Secret Histories of Nerd Mysteries @nerdmysteries.bsky.social · 1d

We submit this episode to the @maximumfun.org podcasting network, we call this The Tale Of Are You Afraid Dark. Join us as Host Austin relays the tale of how this show transformed from Old Guy Reads A Book to Child Twilight Zone But Like Way Scary

maximumfun.org/episodes/sec...

a group of children are sitting around a campfire in the woods .

ALT: a group of children are sitting around a campfire in the woods .

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Brenda @batmanandsobbin.bsky.social · 1d

I also need your help for next week’s episode! If you’ve had a theme park ghost experience and you’re fine with us sharing your story on air, send us an email to nerdmysteries at maximumfun dot org.

Secret Histories of Nerd Mysteries @nerdmysteries.bsky.social · 1d

We submit this episode to the @maximumfun.org podcasting network, we call this The Tale Of Are You Afraid Dark. Join us as Host Austin relays the tale of how this show transformed from Old Guy Reads A Book to Child Twilight Zone But Like Way Scary

maximumfun.org/episodes/sec...

a group of children are sitting around a campfire in the woods .

ALT: a group of children are sitting around a campfire in the woods .

media.tenor.com

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🎃Scary Vampire Austin🧛🏿‍♀️🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah second

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 6d

Taught @yayforzig.bsky.social how to play magic so I could beat his ass. See how that worked out for me!

Good Time Society @goodtimesociety.com · 7d

We heard your demands for pictures of Spider-Man and we have delivered... A Commander Party, which does technically include PICTURES OF SPIDER-MAN! So get off our backs, JJ, we did the assignment. Feat. @@yayforzig.bsky.social @ifycomedy.com @negaoryx.bsky.social & Becca!
youtu.be/y2S4Gy5-M7s?...

Spider-Man Comic Writer Plays Spider-Man Commander! | Commander Party #13 | EDH MtG Gameplay

Can one hero defeat three villains? Cody Ziglar, Spider-Man and Deadpool comic writer, comes to Commander Party to take on Becca, Ify, and Emme! At 41:11 there is a non-basic in play, don't worry,…

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