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JC (they/them)
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Mid-30s, friendly crank whose been online far to long.

Bigots get blocked. Profiles with AI Art will also be blocked. Try being less of a loser sometime.
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This article is extremely illuminating and frustrating:
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

It's likely not the sole cause of declining literacy rates but it's been a colossal fuck-up nonetheless.
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Art by • David Wyatt
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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tastesbetterfromscratch.com/chick-fil-a-...

Havent eaten at Bigot Chicken for years. Heres a recipe if you need one. It hits the spot and I get to call it UnBigoted Chicken and my fiance knows exactly what we are eating lmao.
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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3D Pinball
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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for fuck's sake

two strikes on the account now for "cyberbullying" because YouTube's AI interprets wrestling as "harassment"
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Art by • Markus Vesper
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Using IE to download Netscape
November 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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The story of how Rebecca Heineman overcame corporate incompetence to develop the Doom 3DO port in two and a half months is incredible (via @bghof.com) www.badgamehalloffame.com/doom-3do/
DOOM (3DO) - Bad Game Hall of Fame
"Swept With the Boom, Don’t Forget to Assume, Time Catches up With Some 3DO DOOM." DOOM's foray onto the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer doomed from the word go, thanks to its being handled by the indust...
www.badgamehalloffame.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A more apt example for TRPGs is Pro Wrestling. Many folks confuse the nazicircus WWE's brand and manufactured history as the monolithic truth. However, just crack some books open, watch more broadly and read some old news clips and the entire brand's image crumbles under its own lies.
A frustration I have with fantasy and trpg dialog is the lack of historical depth and curiousity beyond marketed brands.

Its like talking about the history of metal and refusing to budge from an ahistorical focus on Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Metallica as the sole important artists. Its wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A frustration I have with fantasy and trpg dialog is the lack of historical depth and curiousity beyond marketed brands.

Its like talking about the history of metal and refusing to budge from an ahistorical focus on Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Metallica as the sole important artists. Its wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Geocities
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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NANCY AT THE PENNY ARCADE
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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149) The definitive history of Sword & Sorcery has not been written...and may never be.

Brian Murphy's FLAME AND CRIMSON and Jeffro Johnson's APPENDIX N are decent starting points, but I feel there major gaps, and especially for more recent (1990s-2020s) S&S, inadequacies. Which is understandable.
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Next Week!
November 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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In a mood.

1 like = 1 hot take on sword & sorcery
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I do not think this is like intentional behavior in many cases. Its a social pressure driven by consumption. Its thorny, but I think needs pushed back against somehow.

Probably by being loud and enthusistatic with cited sources to poke holes at nostalgia blinded talking point.
One of the more insidious parts of nerd culture is positioning itself as outsider-y while simultaneously enforcing a narrow selection of acceptable media for discussion. The media always has marketing behind it, usually legacy brand and sold like kid’s toys.
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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One of the more insidious parts of nerd culture is positioning itself as outsider-y while simultaneously enforcing a narrow selection of acceptable media for discussion. The media always has marketing behind it, usually legacy brand and sold like kid’s toys.
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
One of the more insidious parts of nerd culture is positioning itself as outsider-y while simultaneously enforcing a narrow selection of acceptable media for discussion. The media always has marketing behind it, usually legacy brand and sold like kid’s toys.
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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JC! You escaped? Is that what lockdown's about?
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Is that Sting or "Sting"?
WCW VS. NWO: WORLD TOUR
AKI CORPORATION 1997
N64
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 12,1946
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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