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Do I play a couple of very dumb mobile games that push too many ads? Yes. But it does mean I get to witness the madness that is Solitaire Clash sketches

Currently really bugged by the continuity errors in the 1939 children’s book Madeline

Fiction in the Space Between | A Tracy Chapman TTRPG Fanzine A zine full of roleplaying game odds-and-ends inspired by Tracy Chapman songs. Includes games, experiences, mechanics and more.

Cool #ttrpg thing:

Fiction in the Space Between: A Tracy Chapman TTRPG Fanzine

“A zine full of roleplaying game odds-and-ends inspired by Tracy Chapman songs. Includes games, experiences, mechanics and more.”

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Interesting that we get Fallout, Silo and [redacted for spoilers] on all TV right now.

Treasure Island but instead of finding a treasure map Jim finds the Necronomicom

YouTube video by PlasmaKong2 The Abyss - Pants (look at the bottom-left corner)

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I love The Abyss. I’ve seen it a dozen times. Today is the first I’ve learned that in the Director’s Cut you can see an extra get pantsed.

Want a 5th WDW gate that is all the properties that have no or almost no park presence. The Rescuers, Treasure Planet, Atlantis, Meet the Robinson’s, Bolt, Bedknobs & Broomsticks, Candleshoe, That Darn Cat!, The Black Hole. Heck, give me a Monkeys, Go Home! dark ride!

We live in an amazing era of indie TTRPGs. Especially solo journaling games.

They were actually called
The Death Star
The Death Star 360
The Death Star One
and
The Death Star Series X/S**

*Starkiller Base
**Sith fleet at Exegol

Wait. Was System Error at Parkside Lounge on Sundays? May have been.

I miss having an indie improv show during the Super Bowl and having an audience of 3 to 6 people. (This seemed to happen every year. And none of my regular shows were on Sundays.)

Teddy Bears’ Picnic is folk horror

Hey #music and #TTRPG people: I’m look non-English sailing songs and similar. Basically non-Anglo Saxon sea shanties and equivalent. This is for The Wildsea RPG so I guess I want tree shanties.

Wait! Emily In Paris is NOT a Gilmore Gils spin off with a body swap twist?!

I don’t get enough opportunities to discuss at length the genius and implications of the the various performances of “Kristen Schaal’s A Horse”

Poster in CPAP mask and electrodes

feeling cute might delete later

She’s not performing! She’s an audience member! She doesn’t even know what the plays are! (But also yes)

Just started the Princess Peach demo and it’s charming but who the heck brings a rolling suitcase to see a play?

A.I. psychiatry www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLd2Uu8t/

I used to think the Twilight Zone episode “It’s Good Life” was about the impossibility of a perfect world until my one year old made me sing “Wheels On The Bus” 37 times in a row

Oscars Traditionalists Are Coming Remarkably Close to Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud This Oscar season just got its dumbest controversy yet.

The more of the doc nominees I see, the more embarrassing I find the bitchy moaning that came up in the trades. Sam is exactly right here. The three I’ve seen so far are tremendous; complainers are transparently unserious. slate.com/culture/2024...

I really could use a therapist that understands not only the collapse/shift of the NYC improv scene in 2020 but also, for context, the indie team explosion from 2005-2009. I’m tired of explaining it

You can trade them in for 15 likes or 1 repost

He feels your pain and knows how to make it worse

Bluesky is officially “open” now (no more invites). So just a reminder to not engage with trolls and bad actors, there is no algorithm here to promote or spread them, replying to them is what puts them on everybody’s timelines. So block and give no oxygen.

post a selfie of you right now at this moment. dont fix your hair dont put on makeup dont pop a filter on it just. take it and post it

100% convinced that bay leaves are a hoax