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Dionysus 🍇
@virtualdionysus.bsky.social
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Eclectic. Gamer. He/Him. Bi/Pan. ❤️ 💜 💙

Current Games
🎮: Guild Wars 2
🎲: Tales of the Valiant, Call of Cthulhu, ALIEN
♟️: Café Baras, Chess, Poker
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Dionysus 🍇 @virtualdionysus.bsky.social · Dec 31
My #Introduction Post.

🎲Gamer of 40+ years, mostly as a #ttrpg GM.
🔊Contributor to Our Turn: Gaming for Everyone podcast
🪑Former Gaming Chair, ConStellation
💡ENFP "Campaigner"
💪 Input, Connectedness, Communication, Learner, Positivity
❓ Unitarian Universalist #UU with Zen and Neopagan leanings
virtualdionysus.bsky.social
Doing map completion for the 3rd time in Guild Wars 2. Current progress is 62%.

Done with Ascalon. I like some of the zones, but the starter zones there are large and desolate at times.

#GuildWars2 #GW2
Map of central Tyria. Stars mark completed zones. Ascalon and Orr regions are completed, as are Mt. Maelstrom and Frostgorge Sound.
December 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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friede.bsky.social
If you’re naming me in the same breath as TTRPG studies then you should be following and listening to and citing Professor Torner who has done more for analog game infrastructure than any one person can comprehend. (Any number of us shine from reflecting Evan’s light)
guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 3d
Indeed. The purchaseable *product* we call the TTRPG begins in the 1970s with Western Gunfight, Chainmail, and D&D.

Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D.

Parlor games were feminized...
December 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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culturecrave.co
New York passes law requiring ads to disclose if AI actors are in it

They've also banned deepfakes of deceased performers without their estate’s consent
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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kiennas.bsky.social
resharing this little award I made for everyone who is "ruining" the #TTRPG space 🤭
A golden award plaque with an engraving that reads "Single-Handedly Ruined TTRPGs - For improving the community by making it more inclusive and diverse (and making bigots mad)"
August 20, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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platinumeggs.bsky.social
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone

- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware

but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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scenefour.bsky.social
I cannot express how pathetic you have to be to believe this happened in the TTRPG hobby in the last decade
A screenshot of a comment reading “so when theater kids colonized the hobby, hollowed it out and erected new barriers against the previous cadre of TT gamers?”
December 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
It's her.
The villain Kai Winn from Deep Space Nine, dressed in her religious robes.
December 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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earlgreymemes.club
the classic Bashir/Garak template; Bashir: what should I do with this sketchy employee survey? Garak: report it to infosec as a phishing attempt; Bashir: even if my manager says it's genuine? Garak, smiling deviously: especially if your manager says it's genuine
December 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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stevejacksongames.bsky.social
A new edition of Toon: The Cartoon Roleplaying Game is coming to BackerKit! In this hilarious RPG, you'll become any human, creature, or inanimate object you can think of . . . or make up. Characters will fall down – but they'll never die. Sign up for project notifications today!

bit.ly/toon2ebk
December 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
virtualdionysus.bsky.social
Hey #TTRPG GMs. I have an idea for a Victorian horror fantasy game, like Shadowrun meets Call of Cthulhu with a splash of steampunk. More pulp than gritty. What RPG system would you use to run that?

I already know about Cypher and FATE. Looking for other suggestions.
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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mariabamford.bsky.social
🚨 NEW TOUR DATES ALERT! 🚨
I’m coming to a city near you, presale starts now!

✨Use code MARIA to grab your tickets early before the raccoons get them🦝

🎟️ Get tickets at mariabamford.com/tourdates
December 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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ninawils.bsky.social
Relatable Corvid
December 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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professorkiosk.wtf
ask your doctor if lying down in the forest to be consumed by the earth is right for you
November 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM
virtualdionysus.bsky.social
Would anyone in the #LNK area be interested in an HP OfficeJet Pro 8028 All-in-One printer? It still works great.
HP OfficeJet Pro 8028 All-in-One printer
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
reposting w/ alt text
A screenshot of the image in the quoted post that reads: irritatingly, the list of Al settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2026), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one): • browser.ml.enable • browser.ml.chat.enabled • browser.ml.chat.menu • browser.ml.chat.page • browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge • browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge • browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled • browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled • browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled • browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled • extensions.ml.enabled • browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate in addition to nuking Al, it'll also speed up your browsing
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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j.schwa.systems
I've had this stuck in my head all summer. #LNK
A screenshot from 90s RPG EarthBound for the SNES. A distressed man stands next to a blocked path and is saying "Oh, oh... The road's closed again. It's Lincoln's claim to fame!"
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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robdenbleyker.com
I'm no expert on the word "eliminated" but pretty sure one outbreak oughta strip you of the title
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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rustywx.bsky.social
Just before 8:30 PM, Monday, November 17, and there are scattered showers and thunderstorms everywhere. They are all moving to the northeast. Small hail, lots of lightning, and heavy rain likely. 
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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artcher.bsky.social
Otter Paladin!
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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fishonareef.bsky.social
A well articulated and utterly thorough examination of the influencer savior-centered film. No science here.

www.drjackacooper.com/writing/shar...
Shark Whisperer is lying to you: a look into the harmful effects of Ocean Ramsey and shark influencers — Dr. Jack A. Cooper
Ocean Ramsey is undoubtedly one of the most well-known “shark influencers”, whose videos show her free diving and touching wild great white and tiger sharks as she swims right up alongside them. Those...
www.drjackacooper.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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shecky.bsky.social
Saruman telling Gandalf, "Your love of the halfling's leaf has clearly slowed your mind." Response post: "never forget when saruman literally told gandalf 'you've been smoking too much weed bro'" Counter-response: "You're smoking too much weed," says the guy who got addicted to manosphere podcasts on his orb and started a fascist militia with a side hobby of deliberate environmental destruction. Started cutting down trees to own the woke elves.
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
virtualdionysus.bsky.social
Surprise delivery today. No tracking info or anything.

#Alien #AlienRPG #TTRPG #NotDnD #FreeLeague #FriaLegan
ALIEN RPG, Game Mother's Screen, and USCSS Fidanza patch. Covers of book and GM screen feature a human silhouette armed with a flame thrower in foreground. The background is a giant facehugger X-ray.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM