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Ali Bencheikh

@abencheikh.bsky.social

He/Him - Dad & Geek, videogame/ttrpg/tech enthusiast!

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There may not be a more iconic character in fantasy—and particularly sword and sorcery—fiction than Conan the Barbarian. And for that, we can thank Robert E. Howard.

Read more: goodman-games.com/blog/2025/01...

22.01.2025 18:33 — 👍 49    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
A screenshot of a post from Instagram reading "Not only have I constantly been open about my political views, I even I did a whole book about rational, secular people turning to authoritarianism and state violence. It’s called The Labyrinth. From the content of the book and all I have said publicly about it, I thought it was pretty clear where I stood on the political spectrum. I’m surprised some of you who follow me seem to get upset when I express myself politically here, and that I still have followers that will rush to the defence of neo-fascist maggots like Musk and Trump. I can assure you that when you unfollow me, the violins playing won’t even show up on a transmission electron microscope.

Also my upcoming book is a queer love story full of gay sex and libtarded woke ideas about masculinity. Looking forward to royally disappoint you again, you bootlicking cryptoscum."

A screenshot of a post from Instagram reading "Not only have I constantly been open about my political views, I even I did a whole book about rational, secular people turning to authoritarianism and state violence. It’s called The Labyrinth. From the content of the book and all I have said publicly about it, I thought it was pretty clear where I stood on the political spectrum. I’m surprised some of you who follow me seem to get upset when I express myself politically here, and that I still have followers that will rush to the defence of neo-fascist maggots like Musk and Trump. I can assure you that when you unfollow me, the violins playing won’t even show up on a transmission electron microscope. Also my upcoming book is a queer love story full of gay sex and libtarded woke ideas about masculinity. Looking forward to royally disappoint you again, you bootlicking cryptoscum."

He's not on here sadly but Simon Stålenhag (Tales From The Loop etc) isn't holding back on instagram right now (www.instagram.com/p/DFH_nAQK32y/)

You can read more about his run ins with 'fans' confused about his political views in our interview with him here: www.wyrdscience.online/post/mazes-m...

22.01.2025 19:30 — 👍 727    🔁 151    💬 9    📌 16
Polygon's article screenshot featuring a TTRPG cover art by Evlyn Moreau

Polygon's article screenshot featuring a TTRPG cover art by Evlyn Moreau

Just saw this article on Polygon, and was like: "this looks a lot like @evlynmoreau.bsky.social art style!"
And it indeed is: congrats Evlyn ❤️
(although I wished the article author would have credited you)

22.01.2025 10:43 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Mais il ne le fera probablement pas, justement parce qu'au vu de son passif, certains ont reçu et apprécié ce salut, intentionnel ou non. Et il ne voudra pas les antagoniser.

Et c'est ça qui est extrêmement problématique comme tu le dis.

22.01.2025 10:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Entièrement d'accord.
D'ailleurs pour mettre fin aux polémiques il suffirait qu'il dise : "Toutes mes excuses pour ceux que mon geste maladroit a blessé. J'abhorre le Nazisme, son idéologie de haine, et ceux qui la prônent. Je me désolidarise de tout ceux qui se reconaissent derrière ce salut."

22.01.2025 10:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not even American, and I feel sick.

21.01.2025 00:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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That is just plain ridiculous. R-rating Balatro, a contender for GOTY 2024, shows how much PEGI is clueless.

19.12.2024 09:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Stormlight Archive - FULL STORY RECAP BEFORE WIND AND TRUTH
YouTube video by Wizards and Warriors Stormlight Archive - FULL STORY RECAP BEFORE WIND AND TRUTH

J-2 avant le dernier Stormlight Archives 😱😱
Pour m’y préparer je regarde ce recap (en anglais), et c’est un régal !
cc @notpatrick.com
youtu.be/uU9QZD6dyss?...

04.12.2024 20:16 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Age yourself with your first computer!
(Amstrad PPC 1515 du daron. Il se vante aujourd'hui d'avoir fait exprès de le laisser allumer pour que je bidouille avec quand j'avais 6 ans 😅)

24.11.2024 13:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2
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Cairn Player's Guide - 2nd Edition: Gal, Yochai, B, Derek, Hensley, Adam: 9798345564660: Amazon.com: Books Cairn Player's Guide - 2nd Edition [Gal, Yochai, B, Derek, Hensley, Adam] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Cairn Player's Guide - 2nd Edition

The Cairn Player's Guide (Second Edition) is now available for sale at cost on Amazon. Hopefully this makes it even easier for folks to get their hands on it!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DN6MVWT...

15.11.2024 14:16 — 👍 103    🔁 31    💬 8    📌 1

As this place gets busier, I highly recommend the following Feeds: OnlyPosts (filters out reposts), Quiet Posters (highlights posts+replies from your follows that don’t get much likes etc) , and The ‘Gram (posts from your follows that feature images, great for following artists and pet pictures).

15.11.2024 01:08 — 👍 302    🔁 107    💬 21    📌 5
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Sunderfolk Sunderfolk is a couch co-op, turn-based tactical RPG where you use your phone as the controller. Rediscover game night with your friends and family!

Welcome !
2 questions pour le prix d'une 😊
Tu penses que l'IA va avoir quel impact sur ton boulot ?
Et est-ce ça te chaufferait de bosser sur des projets hybrides/tech comme Sunderfolk ?
(www.dreamhaven.com/fr-fr/games/...)

15.11.2024 09:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

J’ai vraiment un soucis de poule vs œuf sur ce réseau. Meme si mon audience est rachitique sur le réseau de Elmo depuis les nouveaux algo, ici c’est proche de 0 😅
Mais comment construire ici sans poster ?
Va falloir s’y mettre, quitte à parler dans le vide quelques semaines 💪🏼

06.11.2024 20:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I must resist… temptation…

02.11.2023 15:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Frissons : écouter le podcast et replay de France Inter Fantômes, ovnis, zombies et failles spatio-temporelles…Du surnaturel, de l’étrange et des affaires drôlement inquiétantes pour ceux qui aiment jouer à se faire peur ! Conseillé à partir de...

Placement produit : si vous avez des enfants de 8 ans ou plus qui dorment un peu trop bien, pensez à leur faire écouter le podcast Frissons, spin-off des Odyssées, toujours animé par Laure Grandbesançon et réalisé par Marion Le Lay pour France Inter

25.10.2023 08:56 — 👍 34    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 1
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Le site Variety nous apprend une excellente nouvelle : Godzilla Minus One sera diffusé en France au cinéma à partir du 1er décembre grâce au distributeur Piece of Magic, via une campagne qui vise en tout 38 pays d'Europe !
Et la France est bel et bien mentionnée !
variety.com/2023/film/ne...

31.10.2023 17:24 — 👍 23    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 3

I had deleted X app on my phone for #NoTwitterDay and didn’t bother reinstall it yet. Not a strong commitment for this platform yet but we’ll see 🤷🏽‍♂️

31.10.2023 18:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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X Banned the Account of a Major Critic. Now He’s Taking It to Court Software developer Travis Brown’s X account was banned after his research alleged far-right influencers were becoming more prominent on the platform. He’s taking X to court in a bid to reverse the...

Elon Musk taken to court by researcher banned for exposing how X has been turned into a churning cesspool of far-right disinformation. www.wired.com/story/x-twit...

31.10.2023 18:11 — 👍 994    🔁 318    💬 21    📌 18
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I don't know how well threads work on bsky but I'm gonna try and post all my fauxnimated Elric pieces in relatively high resolution in three connected posts.

Here we have Elric, Elric's throne room, Prince Yyrkoon, and Princess Cymoril

24.10.2023 12:44 — 👍 589    🔁 168    💬 20    📌 7

Moi j’ai trouvé le vélo sans compromis, si ce n’est le prix 😅
Mais j’ai peur que le vélo reste au garage trop souvent parce que je me vois pas faire Vincennes <-> Boulogne à vélo, même électrique :/

16.10.2023 20:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Le TDAH c’est aussi s’obséder sur une idée, ici l’achat d’un VAE, visiter la page du produit tous les jours, vérifier les stocks, lire des avis, se torturer l’esprit sur sa réelle utilité, hésiter comme si on s’apprêtait à faire un investissement sur 40 ans. La paralysie face aux choix simples.

16.10.2023 07:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Bluesky for Journalists

Just published on our blog: Bluesky for Journalists FAQ

This page also includes a link to a waitlist form for journalists, so members of the press no longer have to email our press inbox for a code.

We appreciate everyone's help sharing this information!

13.10.2023 22:57 — 👍 3047    🔁 2518    💬 76    📌 144
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Two Hobbyists Made One of This Year’s Best Video Games While the volume of play on Steam has been modest, Chants of Sennaar has received a flood of positive reviews

How two hobbyists made one of this year's best video games: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

15.10.2023 15:30 — 👍 151    🔁 41    💬 6    📌 5
Text appears on a black background which fades in an hombre from deep black to light gray, left to right. Palestinian flags appear in the top left and right corners. 

The text “GAMES FOR GAZA” appears in a capital font in red flourescent lettering. 

The following red flourescent text appears inside a box, outlined in green: 

“An itch.io bundle to benefit Medical Aid For Palestinians
To donate games, scan the OR code or email itch URLs to esther@oakgrove.games” 

The hashtag #Games4Gaza appears in red flourescent text at the bottom middle of the image. 

In the bottom left corner, there is a graphic of two lower arms and hands, one dark-skinned and one fair-skinned, lifting a Palestinian flag. In the bottom right corner there is a heart with the colors of the Palestinian flag.

Text appears on a black background which fades in an hombre from deep black to light gray, left to right. Palestinian flags appear in the top left and right corners. The text “GAMES FOR GAZA” appears in a capital font in red flourescent lettering. 

The following red flourescent text appears inside a box, outlined in green: “An itch.io bundle to benefit Medical Aid For Palestinians To donate games, scan the OR code or email itch URLs to esther@oakgrove.games” The hashtag #Games4Gaza appears in red flourescent text at the bottom middle of the image. In the bottom left corner, there is a graphic of two lower arms and hands, one dark-skinned and one fair-skinned, lifting a Palestinian flag. In the bottom right corner there is a heart with the colors of the Palestinian flag.

Hey game designers, especially all my folks in the ttrpg space: I'm making an itch bundle to benefit Medical Aid For Palestinians. If you'd like to donate your game(s), hit up the QR code below or email me at esther at oak grove dot games. Please share widely, and Free Palestine!

15.10.2023 01:20 — 👍 369    🔁 324    💬 4    📌 9

DURF, c’est de l’OSR frais et minimaliste, bien inspiré et bien illustré. Un de mes préférés du genre, si vous appréciez le genre et êtes créatifs sachez que la Jam 2023 est en cours :)

14.10.2023 22:18 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve been playing less and less video games lately, I can’t invest and focus for hours on games like I used too.
Instead I play bite-sized games, like card games and roguelites…
Is it age? Or my ADHD getting worse?

14.10.2023 17:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Comme l’impression que Bluesky est en train d’atteindre la masse critique pour vraiment décoller… je vois plein de gens débarquer qui amènent avec eux leur réseau, mon flux ressemble enfin à quelque chose…
Espérons que ça dure, et qu’ils ajoutent quelques features !

11.10.2023 19:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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