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Scarred Muldoon

@silentdibs.bsky.social

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Game player, Loud talker, Wargame designer, JP>EN translator, Amateur linguist, Gundam head, Divorced father, Inert revolutionary, Program uncoordinator

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Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · Nov 11

Pinned post! I want to tell you a little bit about me, what won’t fit in a bio.

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Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 11h

silver linings

Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 12h

I wouldn’t risk it.

Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 12h

On fire today

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Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 13h

a man in a blue hoodie is sitting on a couch and looking at the camera .

ALT: a man in a blue hoodie is sitting on a couch and looking at the camera .

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Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 14h

This is true, but during a lot of his writing periods there were paper shortages as well, so sometimes the need to use whatever was at hand was even more acute.

Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 18h

Fatmouse approves fatmouse.org

THE DOMAIN OF THE FATMOUSE - UNOFFICIAL MIRROR

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Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 19h

Clutching my dymaxion globe, rocking back and forth

Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 1d

nobody talks about buckminsterfullerene any more. they just don't have the buckyballs

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Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 19h

Big Tolkien Energy - wrote Lord of the Rings so he could build out his Elf languages.

Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 1d

The old one is never coming back.

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Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 1d

I think we have to seriously consider that this government may be shutdown permanently. Until we get a new one.

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Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 1d

In the dawn of time I had long hair and wore a trenchcoat in the winter. One of my work colleagues called me Silent Bob. The Dibs part comes from abbreviating my bachelor name. SilentDibs was my handle for the Gmail beta, back when you had to get invited.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

explain your username:

short version: it’s my author pen name

long version: I was going by the initials “CM” on a message board for writers, because it stood for “Chicken Mafia.” People knew me as CM and then suddenly I needed a real name for human interaction purposes.

🖤👻 Ashley Mayhem 👻🖤 @misskittyf.bsky.social · 2d

explain your username:

I started going by “Miss Kitty Fantastico” online when I started watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer as a teenager, but that was often too longer for a username on a lot of sites, so I shortened it to “misskittyf.” It’s stuck for nearly 20 years now.

Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 1d

Realized five minutes later it should be Mawlon but whatever.

Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 1d

777 followers? Is that anything?

Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 2d

Mawlin Brawndo?

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Sunday. Have a snack. (Not me, a different snack.) 🤭

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Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, it wouldn’t be Cataclysm if we didn’t sell you the rope…

Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 2d

The game’s framework is much simpler than that and we actually abstracted out most of the economy. However if you are a Hawk power you can commit Force to conflicts - but failure creates Disorder at home. You can suppress it but if it boils over the result is catastrophic.

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Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, the what now?

Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 3d

We also don’t have a counter for the Epstein files 🤷🏻‍♂️

Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 3d

You can’t imagine what it’s like to help design a geopolitical game that has to account for [waves arms in every direction]

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Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 3d

We should talk, man!

Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 3d

I should finish that Vassal module…

Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 3d

People. He’s just going to do it. Like every other illegal thing he is doing right now. The justification will never matter.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

Trump is looking at 2028 and he has to figure out, how does he circumvent or avoid the rule that he can't run again. I think one of the ways he's going to do that is to create what's perceived to be a real crisis in America."

Barbara Walter joins @johnavlon.bsky.social:

Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 3d

CATACLYSM: NEW WORLD ORDER (1990-2049), even higher scale and much faster playing than its older cousin. The UK disk is a “regional power” which costs the EU a VP for existing independently in its homeland. The meeple is an EU “Force”.

Scarred Muldoon @silentdibs.bsky.social · 3d

Some tweaks from testing, some rules tightening… I think we have to learn to play the game better 😅 we are making low-risk moves instead of fighting the most important threats. 2P remains quite fun, but I want to play more multi.

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