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🛸 healed, she/her, mid 20s, born under a meteor. a very very smart girl with something like a university degree in Truth and a tactical goodness confidence queen 🛸 games: thehorizonmachine.itch.io poems: rosequarterdrifting.itch.io
i still hate the doom "you control the buttons you press" tweet and that people repost it like it's real wisdom. fundamentally unserious approach to game design. that is actually very much what I buy a video game for. are the buttons fun to press. if there is bad button why did you put bad button
The Welsh Underground Network's Statement Regarding the EHRC's Anti-Trans Guidance
I play ttrpgs with my children to quickly teach them life's most important lessons: -treasure is real -pyramids are powerful -killing is okay -the law can't stop you
i realize this is a hack observation but its really striking how "good customer service" in the us does not mean "providing customers with a good service", but instead "providing customers with a terrible service but forcing the people providing it to act slavishly obsequious at all times"
2019 Defunctland video: "In 1989, the Walt Disney corporation was feeling the heat from the Six Flags Dick Smasher and wanted a one of their own" (20 mins) 2025 Defunctland video: (single very serious plaintive piano note) "Since the dawn of time... Man... Has always tried to eat a snack" (3 hours)
0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.
What do you mean before he was Scrooge he was Ebenezer those are just his first and last names lol
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w agoFirst poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”
Rather than addressing the issue at its core, the United States and its capitalist class has created an entire school shooter industrial complex.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last wk.Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters The plastic, non-lethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers will be at the ready at certain schools in Colorado, Florida and Georgia www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
this is my EVIL RULES-HEAVY and STORY-LIGHT ttrpg framework focused on RIGIDITY, LACK of PLAYER AGENCY, SOLIPSISM, and MEANINGLESS decision making
underside, my dark cape ttrpg, is now available in playtest form. if you wanna support its development or just can't wait to get your hands on it, you can get it here: thehorizonmachine.itch.io/underside-beta
UNDERSIDE Playtest Edition by the HORIZON MACHINE
costumed violence in the dark
thehorizonmachine.itch.io
hate "right-wingers/conservatives can't make good art" as a talking point. at best it's indicative of a US-centric inability to imagine conservativisms other than modern day MAGA, at worst its a sign of wilful refusal to engage with the history of literally any artform whatsoever
i could never watch marvel rivals esports because like... i don't know how to explain it, but it all feels completely weightless. it's like watching someone smash paper dolls against each other
medieval peasants actually had access to far more Doritos than we do nowadays
underside, my dark cape ttrpg, is now available in playtest form. if you wanna support its development or just can't wait to get your hands on it, you can get it here: thehorizonmachine.itch.io/underside-beta
UNDERSIDE Playtest Edition by the HORIZON MACHINE
costumed violence in the dark
thehorizonmachine.itch.io
i'm at it again: here's a new game you can play with magic: the gathering cards that's not, like, the main one you might have heard of docs.google.com/document/d/1...
divinity original sin 2 lost me basically immediately with its bizarre tonal dissonance. am i wearing a slave collar and being shipped to wizard superjail or am i a looney tune larian
Instead of a What is an RPG section in your book, include a What Isn't an RPG section with an exhaustive list of everything that an RPG is not, so that potential players can understand the shape of a game through its absence
Study: Mosquitos More Attracted To People Branded With Mosquito God’s Rune Of Punishment https://theonion.com/study-mosquitos-more-attracted-to-people-branded-with-mosquito-gods-rune-of-punishment/
The amount of effort people spend hunting down AI at conventions is impressive but it does sadden me that creators have very rarely had the same energy when it comes to checking if the cheap plastic keychains and bootlegs being sold on convention floors are made by slaves
i will simply avert my eyes politely to bad and shallow literary theory posting bc it is dolls doing it today
"[The commission of inquiry] concluded that the government of then-Prime Minister Forbes Burnham had organized the murder, which was perpetrated by an active-duty sergeant in the Guyana Defense Force, Gregory Smith." nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The Walter Rodney Murder Mystery in Guyana 40 Years Later
Washington D.C., November 12, 2021 (Updated February 3, 2022) – More than four decades after the murder of Guyanese scholar-political activist Dr. Walter Rodney on June 13, 1980, Guyana’s National Ass...
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This is a pro rape policy. They want to facilitate the rape and abuse of trans women. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Transgender woman 'raped 2,000 times' in all-male prison
'It was hell on earth, it was as if I died and this was my punishment'
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Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 2mo agoFor Women Scotland won another case against the Scottish government, this time at Court of Session. Trans prisoners must now be housed in birth sex prison as a result of 2025 FWS. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2621030...
love how every app has to periodically inform me that push notifications are disabled. damn bro who do you think did that!!! history's mysteries
would anyone like to see my collection of extremely tortured metaphors I've heard on youtube
if you tell a Linux Guy that you think UI matters to most people they'll try to kill you
Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 2mo agoGIMP is objectively unintuitive and also can’t parse text layers of PSDs properly, it’s designed by FOSS people that have never created tools for professionals. Telling someone to use it for their job is like saying you can make a feature on iMovie. Technically true but not serious.
like the oppressed economic classes that will abolish themselves along with the class of their oppressors under communism, our end goal includes the abolition of our own oppressed gendered classes along with the classes of our oppressors. we are seeking to destroy cisness.
wrote a bit about magic: the gathering, stax, and the things 60-card players don't consider about commander medium.com/@rosequarter...
IN DEFENSE OF LITTLE TIMMY
No, you really shouldn’t be allowed to play Blood Moon at FNM.
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The liberal bourgeoisie grant reforms with one hand, and with the other always take them back, reduce them to nought, use them to enslave the workers, to divide them into separate groups and perpetuate wage-slavery.
