Ghostagonist

Ghostagonist

@contagonist.bsky.social

Writer?/Game Designer?/Artist?| writing Stars Go Cold https://contagonist.itch.io/stars-go-cold | wrote Break Glass In Case Of Fire https://contagonist.itch.io/bgicof | mayhem they/them | No AI | 📡🌴Havana Syndrome Survivor 🌴📡 | in Napoli

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My first five TTRPGs played: 1. Rifts 2. Some d10 based superhero game 3. Aberrant 4. Deadlands 5. D20 Star Wars

Jaws Slayer 🎃@jesawyer.bsky.social

My first five (TT)RPGs played: * Basic/Expert D&D (counting these as the same) * AD&D 1st/2nd Ed. (counting these as the same) * Gamma World * Paranoia * Call of Cthulhu

My main takeaway from You Can See Everything is how the silicon valley technofascists believe their own bullshit and still are trying to get the bag with craven ruthlessness

You know what? I love this car now. I want to see people driving it.

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com

Ah, the auto influencers have explained that this carbon fiber-wrapped ball, which sits right behind the driver's head, holds about 100kg of nitrogen pressurized to about 10,000 psi. Let me just go review the tolerances people found in their Cyber Trucks

Medical science is doing shit that I would have considered magic in 2008. mRNA vaccines alone still blow my mind.

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Going to roleplay as Morshu at work for Holloween. "Faster browser? Cabling replacement? Password reset? It's yours my friend, as long as you have enough rupees."

Comparative weapon maintenance OSU rifle: push a pin, flip aside the stock, pull out the spring, bolt carrier, bolt, firing pin. Push out another pin, pull out the trigger assembly. Auric rifle: the entire reciever is disposable. New ones come in the plastic clamshell packaging that cuts your hand

Stanley Kubrick's set designers in Dr. Strangelove had to reverse engineer the cockpit and cabin sets of the B-52 (which was classified at the time) from first principles and comparative analysis of similar aircraft. They wound up being so accurate the feds visited and questioned them.

Amy "Thunderjam" Chase@amythunderjam.bsky.social

We all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.

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Developed in the last years of the Second Committee, the Everest pattern now known as the Sagarmatha experienced some of the bloodiest infighting ever witnessed in Union's history. Both SecComm loyalists and revolutionary forces fielded countless variants in fratricidal struggle.

The best part of getting fluvid vaccinations is the jokes. Last time I got mine I said "finally, I can take advantage of those 5G speeds" and the nurse bent over cackling.

Blindsight (2006, Peter Watts)

josh boo-erman 👻@bosh.worstpossible.world

the big thing the rise of LLMs has revealed to me is that there is a not insignificant chunk of the population that considers cognition itself to be a frustrating and unnecessary burden

Techfash don't see any problem with claiming that llm's are sapient and that they want to use them as slaves. Techfash want slaves. When you read any of the stuff they put out with their names attached to it, it is clear they want slaves and think slaves are cool and good. Treat them accordingly.

I have to admit, I'm not a fan of later (or really, most) Gundam series' tendency to have the protagonist and their gundam have some kind of mirror nemesis version. I think that's too easy. I much prefer when there's something just completely different, like the Zeong or Kampfer.

Hand perverts hold up the sky

Jess Fink🍉🌈@jessfink.bsky.social

People talk a lot about foot fetishists, but nobody talks about how artists are all sickos for hands. Anyone who draws the human form regularly goes absolutely wolf-howl sicko mode over a well drawn hand. It's like an entire body on it's own, artists are out here hubba-hubba-ing and awooga-ing