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    Moreau VazhT
    @Printdevil I hope they also have the even more intense range of mountains alluded to at the end of the story when Lovecraft realises he probably should have stopped writing at the discovery of an enigmatic ruined city.
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    Moreau VazhT
    @RogerBW Oh that is an amazing piece of trivia! I have a lot of fondness for that chase sequence. He absurdity of a squadron of formation-driving assassins only makes it better.
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    Jürgen HubertJ
    @randahl 'If a mother uses a spell in order to ease her birth, then the Evil Enemy tries to lure these children in particular. Thanks to this magical influence, such children — if female — are born with the drive to trude. But male children are driven to theft (the “Bilwez Cut!”).'https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Witches_and_Trudes
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    Jürgen HubertJ
    @AnarchoNinaWrites I am glad that I never bought any MS Office license.But I feel that I should prioritize moving from Windows to Linux this year... and from Google Drive to NextCloud.
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    Chris TrottierA
    Rock ‘N’ Roll Defense is a painfully average tower defense game. And it would be entirely forgettable if not for one thing. It has a killer soundtrack full of punk, metal, emo, and garage rock tunes. And all the songs are from bands I’ve never heard before. The developer has really good taste in music, and I would mind up playing for longer than I intended purely so I could listen to more tracks. The premise is pretty silly, though. You defend a rock band from an invasion of pop fans by placing speakers in strategic locations that will cause them to explode. So this isn’t so much a good game. It’s more like something to keep you busy while you listen to an exceptional soundtrack.
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    Jürgen HubertJ
    @AnarchoNinaWrites All the best for you and yours. I'm still trying to prevent the same from happening over here... again, but I feel I should read up on tradecraft if the worst comes to worst.
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    AnarchoNinaWritesA
    Brey, Antifa ninjas don't post. And those that do, end up on charges. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but if you're living that life you're not posting and if you're posting even in support of that life, you're not doing it on your spare time. I love the one lady out here who does both - but also, note? She got arrested and charged. They targeted her specifically because they knew she was the messenger; that made her a priority target actually. That happened.
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    Jürgen HubertJ
    A postman from Itzehoe once stumbled across a strange, otherworldly city where his presence was as much of a surprise to the inhabitants as it was to him.#Germany #folktale #folklore https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Postman_of_Itzehoe
  • New #dnd / #rpg post from Alphastream:

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    New #dnd / #rpg post from Alphastream:What Did We Accomplish In a Year?https://alphastream.org/index.php/2026/01/05/what-did-we-accomplish-in-a-year/
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    Pteryx the Puzzle SecretaryP
    Though the party still pretty desperately needs a break... even if there's so *much* that needs doing that the break might have to be in Daanvi, The Eternal Order, so that little enough time passes in the Material Plane to not let things get worse.By now, spending days doing paperwork would be *worth it* to have the opportunity to reserve a park with eerily equal-height grass and grid-distributed flowers to flop in, then later a workshop to catch up on our crafting to-do list in.
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    Chris TrottierA
    There’s a reason I stopped talking about games I bought in June 2016: most of them are dreadful. And while I’m playing them—at least for as long as I can stand them—I certainly don’t want to write about them. Better to purge them from my memory. But The Sequence is pretty good. It’s a puzzle game where you have to figure out the correct object to put in a particular spot. And to do that, placement is key. It reminds me of building a conveyor belt system at a factory. The graphics are really simple. Nothing to write home about. But then again, they get the job done.
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    Jürgen HubertJ
    @mekkaokereke There has been a microcosm of that debate in #ttrpg / #dnd spaces. A lot of gamers want to move away from the "Designated Bad Guy Races" and portray, say, orcs as people like everyone else.And predictably, there is a fierce backlash against this from other gamers who claim that "I don't want politics in my gaming!" Which, of course, means that they are comfortable with the politics as they are, and don't want to think about them.(They also don't want to acknowledge that Gary Gygax, one of the founders of the hobby, was a massive racist and misogynist who baked his assumptions into the game, but that's another story...)https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dungeons-and-dragons-is-shedding-race-in-gaming-heres-why-it-matters/
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    Chris TrottierA
    Release on the SEGA Genesis in 1990, ESWAT: City Under Siege is a run-‘n-gun platformer that’s clearly inspired by RoboCop. In fact, the Japanese name is ESWAT: City Under SiegeAt the time of release, people were amazed by its incredibly detailed backgrounds. But for me, what stands out is just the overall vibe. Especially once your character is given his power suit. And if that’s not enough, you eventually have a jet pack too!While it has some aesthetic similarities to RoboCop, it plays like a cyberpunk version of Shinobi. Which is fine by me!
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    New #dnd / #rpg post from GROGNARDIA:REPOST: The Sorcerer of Xiccarphhttp://grognardia.blogspot.com/2026/01/repost-sorcerer-of-xiccarph.html
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    Chris TrottierA
    I’ve already talked quite ant length about Ecco the Dolphin—one of the most bizarre games ever made. And I say this knowing full well that Seaman exists. Ecco Jr. should probably be called Diet Ecco because it looks like Ecco but has less calories. No story. No lore. You’re just a baby dolphin on a fetch quest. Which is either a good or bad thing depending on who you are. This is an okay game—not exceptional. Not as intense as Ecco. Definitely not as weird.
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    Chris TrottierA
    I say Dynamite Headdy is among the top tier of SEGA Genesis platformers. It’s up there with Sonic 3, Ristar, and Aladdin. And it was Treasure’s second game, the one they made after Gunstar Heroes. What makes this one stand out is that it has a puppet theme. That’s right, every character is a puppet. And the game takes place in a theatre. Even health is indicated by theatre lights. The reason the game’s called Dynamite Headdy is because you beat enemies by hitting them with your head. In terms of mechanics, it works well. Definitely a classic.
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    “Environmental amnesia” lets critics focus on costs of laws, while forgetting why these laws were needed and the real benefits they delivered, according to an environmental law professor.The “Documerica” project shows in clear photographic evidence how dirty the U.S. used to be. https://theconversation.com/the-us-used-to-be-really-dirty-environmental-cleanup-laws-have-made-a-huge-difference-271277
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    NullN
    @croyle@wandering.shop Indeed. I have a lot of memories with some of the properties, but I don't buy Warhammer figures largely because of this. But someone I know who has only ever really done painting for fun was given a bunch of figures for a particular army that they want to play, so I got them something for that.
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    Chris TrottierA
    I’m going to be talking about more SEGA Genesis games, giving my thoughts on titles that I own. It really was an exceptional console.
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    Chris TrottierA
    Steve Russell—the man who made the first video game—is still alive. Not a myth. Not a footnote. Walking around, same as the rest of us. In 1962, Russell coded Spacewar! on the DEC PDP-1 at MIT. It spread fast. So fast that it directly led to the formation of Atari. Their first arcade release, Computer Space was essentially Spacewar! shoved into a coin-op cabinet. Russell didn’t stop there. He wrote the first two implementations of Lisp. He later taught Bill Gates and Paul Allen how to use a computer. Video games. Programming languages. Microsoft. Same guy. Still alive.