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@jondowner

SF-based Dungeon Master moonlighting as a video game lawyer.

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I do miss the painted poster-type covers of so many of these games. It gave them such a cinematic appeal, even if the games themselves were largely less so than today.

06.03.2026 05:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Finally got a 3d printer. This is absolutely going to become a problem.

06.03.2026 03:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Heading to #GDC next week?

A bunch of game industry veterans from the @thegig.bsky.social have contributed to this handy guide feat tips, tricks, and more.

Full guide here - thegig.guide/gdc

Thanks to @neurotic.bsky.social @tenaciouschi.bsky.social @alykkat.bsky.social for their contributions

04.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I like that I see "capers" and immediately know the question must have been to do with O'Brien's potato casserole recipe.

04.03.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Like a goth Disney princess over here.

04.03.2026 02:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mean Girls star β€˜to host first-ever episode’ of Saturday Night Live UK The British spin-off is set to begin airing in March on Sky

"Saturday Night Live UK" sounds like an SNL skit.

04.03.2026 00:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE Activity Tracker - Community Safety Alert System Anonymous community-driven tool to report and track ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) activity. Help protect undocumented immigrants and their families by sharing real-time safety alerts.

Currently there is no ICE activity reported in the Bay Area but I would still recommend keeping a glance at this if you're traveling for GDC or Nvidia's GTC this month just in case. www.iceinmyarea.org

02.03.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Who's your favorite Star War and why is it Wat Tambor?

02.03.2026 05:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a woman wearing a shoulder brace. Caption: Shoulder Pain is Not From Sleeping Wrong. Meet The Real Enemy

Photo of a woman wearing a shoulder brace. Caption: Shoulder Pain is Not From Sleeping Wrong. Meet The Real Enemy

I will destroy her

01.03.2026 03:58 πŸ‘ 6275 πŸ” 1351 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 21

I want Democrats to start talking about prosecuting Kalshi and Polymarket out of existence and charging their executives for the crimes they are committing every day.

01.03.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 833 πŸ” 156 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

28.02.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 5689 πŸ” 1817 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 28
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."
Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.
That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

28.02.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 6087 πŸ” 2054 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 125

What is there left to say at this point

28.02.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

27.02.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 19199 πŸ” 4334 πŸ’¬ 1075 πŸ“Œ 170

Yeah, I'm more of a Dapper Dan man, myself.

27.02.2026 06:27 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Do they come with some sort of schmear? Or do dogs only get dry bagels? Seems rude, if so.

26.02.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Two panels from a Marvel comic book of the character Morbius reading a paper. In the first panel he is reading normally, in the second he has a shocked expression. He is stunned by the words he has read, his comprehension of their meaning a curse.

Two panels from a Marvel comic book of the character Morbius reading a paper. In the first panel he is reading normally, in the second he has a shocked expression. He is stunned by the words he has read, his comprehension of their meaning a curse.

26.02.2026 00:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"I was there the day the gates of Ahn'Qiraj opened. I worked alongside you all as we gathered resources all those months for the war effort. And I was there, on Mannoroth, standing in the fields of Silithus, when the treacherous Alliance fired the first shot. The server crashed, but we persevered."

25.02.2026 22:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

24.02.2026 12:38 πŸ‘ 15628 πŸ” 2745 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

If something feels Canadian but isn't, does that make it headcancon?

24.02.2026 02:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Legitimately afraid of the day I see this @beetlemoses.bsky.social comic and it DOESN'T make me laugh for like, five straight minutes.

23.02.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 812 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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The source is lost to time, but this is one of the funniest photos ever taken

22.02.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 6636 πŸ” 1442 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 117
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GOD's Revenge
AGAINST
PUNNIN
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Seming the miferable Fates of Perfons addicted to this Crying Sin, in Court and Town.
Anifold have been the Judgments which Fleav'n from Time to Time, for the Chaftifement of a Sinful People, has inflicted on whole Nations.goFor when the Degeneracy becomes Common,
'tis but Juft the Punifhment thould be General: Of this kind, in our own unfortunate Country, was that deftructive Peftilence,
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Mortality was fo fatal, as to Iweep away, if Sir William Petty may be

ΰΈ£ΰΈ±ΰΈ•ΰΈ£ΰΈ²ΰΈ­ΰΈ” GOD's Revenge AGAINST PUNNIN β€’ 40i2 Seming the miferable Fates of Perfons addicted to this Crying Sin, in Court and Town. Anifold have been the Judgments which Fleav'n from Time to Time, for the Chaftifement of a Sinful People, has inflicted on whole Nations.goFor when the Degeneracy becomes Common, 'tis but Juft the Punifhment thould be General: Of this kind, in our own unfortunate Country, was that deftructive Peftilence, whole Mortality was fo fatal, as to Iweep away, if Sir William Petty may be

β€œGod’s Punishment” was right there, you humorless scolds.

23.02.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 302 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 6
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Guys being Dudes

21.02.2026 03:20 πŸ‘ 7720 πŸ” 1851 πŸ’¬ 114 πŸ“Œ 243

In honor of Crystal of the Inhumans, right? She's a cool and relevant character with the youths these days, isn't she?

20.02.2026 08:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the way.

19.02.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Everything is just so brazen and gross and exhausting all the time now.

19.02.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

18.02.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 14704 πŸ” 2450 πŸ’¬ 212 πŸ“Œ 194

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras.

This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

17.02.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 2059 πŸ” 785 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 17

There was even going to be a party for you. A big party that all your friends were invited to.

17.02.2026 22:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0