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YouTube video by Levirex Blood: the Last Vampire (2000) - Full Anime Movie | English Dubbed

A fantastic choice if you want a tight, 48 minute, vampire action flick for Halloween! Apparently the Japanese language version is hard to stream in the US, but the dub is pretty good, and most of the characters are American!
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The cover of Call of Cthulhu adventure entitled The Dare. The cover features a group of kids in Halloween costumes facing a creepy house.

Tomorrow night's Halloween weekend one-shot!
Thanks to @sskorkowsky.bsky.social for the excellent video review and advice for Keepers! #ttrpg #CoC #80s

Microtransactions

Character Death - Tis the Season! – GM Therapy (Group Screaming Starts at 8am CST) YouTube video by RPG Sean

Character Death

LIVE Saturday, Nov 1 - 8am CT

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Is that the cranberry silo near Derry, or the one out by Castle Rock?

YouTube video by Matt Baume Frankenstein's Gay Maker: James Whale, The Queen of Hollywood

So far, a lovely morning catching up on grading and watching the excellent new video essay by my friend @mattbaume.bsky.social.
Whale's films are some of my favorites, and always bring back fond memories of preproduction on ILM's ill-fated Frankenstein digital feature.
youtu.be/2hU9jiUTFLo

I mean, Vishal Shah *does* have experience with products that no one wants.

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

Amazon Plans to Cut 30,000 Corporate Jobs, Reuters Reports Amazon.com Inc. plans to cut corporate jobs in several key departments, including logistics, payments, video games and the cloud-computing unit, according to people familiar with the matter.

Big layoffs hitting Amazon as soon as tomorrow, including within the video-game division, sources tell Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Defends Demolition Of Yggdrasil, Ancient Tree Of Life

Trump Defends Demolition Of Yggdrasil, Ancient Tree Of Life https://theonion.com/trump-defends-demolition-of-yggdrasil-ancient-tree-of-life/

Awesome! Adding to my list!

They don't deserve you.

Which ones are you watching?

Enjoy 31% off eerie adventures like The Voidspeaker's Apprentice or The Waking Tomb, and save monstrously on that infamous bestiary Tome of Beasts 2 in Pocket Edition and PDF!

Our foray into pure, pulpy terror ends October 31, so grab a new title now! Only at Koboldpress.com

This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...

NEW: Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.

By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins Management’s goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects

SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average.

This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything.

Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

YouTube video by Vulf Vulfmon & Zachary Barker - Disco Snails (Official Video)

Maybe you need something different than doomscrolling? How about a banger about disco snails? youtu.be/oAZBKlVSLkU?...

We're sure this isn't Canada again, right?

Today during my Game Systems class, I mentioned in passing that our family has cancelled our Game Pass subscription. All 70 students broke out into applause.

A Letter to the Parents that Gave My Son Charlie a Bunch of Rocks for Halloween Fellow parents, I am so angry and drunk right now that I am shaking. This evening, our young son spent several unsupervised hours trick-or-treating...

"One rock? Okay, fine. But every house in the neighborhood? This was obviously a coordinated effort to humiliate our family."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-l...

An image from the Disney educational film Donald in Mathmagic Land. Donald Duck is shown, dressed in ancient greek attire, revealing a tattoo of a pentagram on his palm.

I don't have any, but there is one I've been considering of late.

A Miro collaboration app page showing no boards loading.

A Miro status page showing outages: Miro degraded Our engineering team continue to work toward restoring service. We apologize again for any inconvenience caused. Identified·Ongoing for 1 hour·Affects Application

I'll just hop on Miro and work on some assignment planning while I wait for Glassdoor to come back...

Demolition of the East Wing has commenced to build Trump's $250 million ballroom.

Trump previously pledged that the ballroom would not interfere with the existing building.

Error message from Glassdoor.com: Glassdoor is currently down for maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our team is hard at work making sure things get up and running as soon as possible — please check back with us in a little bit.

I'll just add some updated game studio information to my slide deck while I wait for Canvas to come back...

What was that you *just* posted about movies not showing professors frantically prepping before class? I think you jinxed us!

An error screen with an image of two friendly robots fixing a broken rocket. The text reads: Canvas is experiencing issues due to an ongoing AWS incident. We are working on recovering as soon as possible. You can follow the status of the issue at https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status and https://status.instructure.com/"

Cool.

YouTube video by Arrow Video Outland | Official Trailer | 4K

4K Outland is coming! A sci-fi reimagining of High Noon in an Alien-adjacent corporate future. A must-watch if you play the #mothership #ttrpg
youtu.be/Z7OzKVHzfiI

OpenAI blocks MLK Jr. videos on Sora after 'disrespectful depictions' OpenAI is preventing people from making AI videos of King on its Sora app after the estate of the civil rights leader complained about the spread of offensive and vulgar portrayals.

OpenAI is preventing people from making AI videos of King on its Sora app after the estate of the civil rights leader complained about the spread of offensive and vulgar portrayals.

Madison. WI:

The Psychonauts studio's latest game has made fall in love with a lighthouse – this adventure can't be missed Keeper is one of those rare birds that the less you know about it, the better. It's a stunning, bizarre, and totally unanticipated game.

"It's a stunning, bizarre, and totally unanticipated game that isn't afraid to subvert your expectations at every turn. It's so good I wish I could wipe my memory and play it again."

(Spoiler-Free)

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