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@danarndtwrites.bsky.social

Board Game and TTRPG Journalist, Managing Editor at @TheFandomentals. Bylines at Polygon. Comics, Writing, and Goth Stuff. dan@thefandomentals.com He/Him

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Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop Huge numbers of Windows users are refusing to upgrade to Windows 11 -- and many of them are citing its AI features as the reason why.

"Stop this nonsense. No one wants this."

06.12.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1587    πŸ” 496    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 85

Someone shared a meal with me today, so I've been able to hold off on ordering. If I could get just one or two small Instacart cards tonight, that would cover a full basic run in the morning! <3

07.12.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I need to see the tabletop Grindr stats

07.12.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘€

07.12.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Who do I contact to learn everything about this and talk about it

07.12.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing four seasons of show, shame they canceled it before they could dig into AFFC/ADWD

07.12.2025 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Quentin Tarantino should be nicer to Matt Lillard or he's gonna have a lot of nerds with swords and goth women with Ghostface tattoos coming for him

06.12.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm mostly there for Katy and there's not nearly enough

06.12.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like a lot of people are sleeping on Ring of Chaos

06.12.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How'd you feel about The Running Man?

06.12.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's #LastFourWatched time again!

06.12.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Free League And Two Little Mice Announce Twilight Sword TTRPG Inspired By The Legend of Zelda And Dragon Quest - The Fandomentals Free League Publishing and Two Little Mice have launched the Twilight Sword Roleplaying Game on Backerkit Crowdfunding. Inspired by video game classics like

The new TTRPG from Two Little Mice and Free League Publishing is inspired by classic video games as well as the films of Studio Ghibli. The company specifically notes that all aspects were created by humans.
www.thefandomentals.com/twilight-swo...

05.12.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jeff The Landshark Meets The Man Without Fear In New Crossover - The Fandomentals IT’S JEFF MEETS DAREDEVIL, from Eisner-winning creative team Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru, arrives this February.

Jeff The Land Shark makes a splash in Hell's Kitchen in a new crossover from @kellythompson.bsky.social and @gurihiru.bsky.social.

www.thefandomentals.com/jeff-the-lan...

05.12.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tarot for Transformation by MothSpire Games A bundle by MothSpire Games, $20.00 for The Old Ways Must Go, The Optimist's Guide to Tarot

Happy Holidays! We're running a sale on digital copies of the Tarot for Transformation collection to help fund the print run of the next 'zine in the series, "Make a Tarot Game"!

Get all three 'zines in DRM-free PDF for only $20, here! itch.io/s/171885/tar...

06.12.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Women gamers boycott global esports tournament over trans ban Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.

Kudos for these women for standing up and doing the right thing but they're trying to ban trans women from e-sports now? Absolutely ridiculous.

05.12.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2215    πŸ” 643    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 78

Best new trend in ttrpg press releases is companies emphatically stating they didn't use ANY AI in production

06.12.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Say what you will about a lot of it, at least the new Wuthering Heights looks at least like it's getting a little weird with it

06.12.2025 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When it's that cool it absolutely should be covering something

06.12.2025 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Instead Of Relying On Wealthy Donors, Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh Is Using A Twitch Stream To Raise Money – And Fight A Federal Indictment "If you can't find joy during fascism, you don't have anything"

β€œif you can't find joy during fascism, you don't have anything.” listen to @katmabu.bsky.social y’all

04.12.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 537    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

Silly to lump the two halves together under "tabletop" but still good reporting

06.12.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Buc-ees is Wawa's Wario I will not explain

05.12.2025 04:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Her 9 year old son is battling cancer

He’s receiving care at a children’s hospital but her health insurance company says he can’t go there anymore

She pays $800 a month for insurance

A $10,000 deductible

Yet the greedy company wants to force her sick child to start all over somewhere cheaper

04.12.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 10

Since they made the mistake of getting rid of the Anthem of the Soviet Union, I'm a firm believer the Russian national anthem should be "All The Things She Said"

04.12.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Daggerheart: Hope And Fear Launches For Preorder With New Classes, New Magic, And Plenty of Shirtless Werewolves - The Fandomentals Daggerheart: Hope & Fear nearly doubles the offering of the TTRPG from Darrington Press, for players and GMs

Have you checked out Daggerheart: Hope and Fear, the first expansion to the hit game from @darringtonpress.bsky.social ?

www.thefandomentals.com/daggerheart-...

04.12.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Girl, the settings

04.12.2025 04:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait you can't?

04.12.2025 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and a Shaper of Memphis Soul Music As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ’70s.

Steve Cropper, the prodigious guitarist, songwriter and producer who played a pivotal role in shaping the lean gutbucket soul music made at Memphis’s Stax Records in the 1960s and ’70s, has died at 84.

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You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to" Valve

04.12.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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