Miel

Miel

@mxmarkus.bsky.social

They/them @non_embodied on the bird site. So glad to be here with the real posters. Designer and writer on Road Warriors:A Stand-Up Comedy Odyssey, now in early access from DGB Games with @dungeonscrawler.bsky.social dgbgames.itch.io/road-warriors-beta

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“protein enriched chocolate chip cookie” is kinda the perfect synthesis of the conflicting american male desires to be a spartan warrior and also five years old

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Therapy is a fantastic tool for going from having a problem whose nature and implications you don't understand to having a well-understood problem you're materially unable to constructively address.

We were the weirdos with the spare room to a succession of gay German graduate students, an Australian fashion model who got dumped while in the air, and an Afropunk Festival attendee who accidentally texted me "idk if I can smoke weed in the airbnb" (I assured her she could)

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it's hard to describe to young folks how cool airbnb was when it first launched. just weirdos and spare rooms for like twenty bucks. we stayed at a guy's house in oregon who was a "bear safety expert" and when we asked him what to do if a bear attacked you he replied, completely seriously "i dunno."

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elevated snuff films are on their way out, cozy snuff films are going to be the next hot thing. people want low-conflict murders they can watch without stressing out too much

People keep acting like the tesla kickflip car is some incredible "spectacle" but these people clearly never saw the Universal Studios Hollywood Waterworld stunt show.

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Folks! My very good friends at DGB studios are funding their TTRPG Road Warriors! It's a damn good time, developed by great people. Check out the fundraiser, and if you're free tomorrow, RSVP to the live play event at Twenty Sided where comedians and game designers try to survive the road life:

twentysidedstore.comWatch Party | Road Warriors a Stand Up Comedy TTRPG - FRI 10/16/2026 @ 7pWatch Party | Screenings & Performances Road Warriors a Stand Up Comedy TTRPG     A brand new TTRPG about Stand Up Comedians going on their first tour. Come watch as we hit the road as hopeful com...

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can't wait to build my Robot That Mag Dumps 14 Rounds of 400 Winchester Magnum in a Random Direction Every Hour. i assume this is legal, since the precise time at which the trigger gets pulled is randomized!

LANTERNS: this ain't it, chief. Those men are charming and there's like almost a good idea between John being programmed into Black Excellence and Noah being a killer robot in the skin of a Nice White Boy but it never comes together

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Who Killed Hal Jordan is a way better mystery hook than Who Is The Manhunter but it gets shunted off into the final stretch instead of getting space to be interesting and committing to the True Detective ripoff split timelines would give the one space and the other context

Also there is simply no way to make composing a little poem a badass conclusion to your character arc, made me miss Black Lightning leaning into making its lead an earnest Corny Unc who could land something like that

LANTERNS: this ain't it, chief. Those men are charming and there's like almost a good idea between John being programmed into Black Excellence and Noah being a killer robot in the skin of a Nice White Boy but it never comes together

2016 mystery boring and pointless, 2026 mystery rushed and undercooked, none of its ideas are developed enough to work on their own and don't actually hook into or drive the plot

What if Toxic Black Excellence Made You Green Lantern and What If The Nice White Boy Serial Killer Was Actually A Killer Robot From Space are decent ideas that potentially play well together but neither are actually The Show, they are one overwrought episode and one ok scene respectively

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I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you're the owner of Last Ditch, the COVID Conscious Lesbian Bar in Western Massachusetts

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Replying to @prokopetz.bsky.social

Looking in from the outside, you may have assumed the software that multinational corporations are plunking down million-dollar license fees for would be better than the run-of-the-mill paid apps we proles have to make do with, and you could be forgiven for thinking so.

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While I admire their optimism, I feel like folks predicting that all major software vendors turning their flagship products into vibe-coded horseshit will be the tipping point for mass corporate adoption of open source software don't have any perspective on how bad enterprise software already was.

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I'm cracking up imagining a medieval parent going "Uh huh. Oh interesting." to an endless stream of "And this is St Albinus and he has the power to protect you from pirates and this is St Bernadette and she can..."

absolutely crisis levels of substituting the metric for the goal. teaching to the test on a societal level. a positive mindset eliminates the distinction between sign and signified.

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It makes so much sense that cigarettes were popularized by soldiers in artillery-heavy conflicts because the cigarette is maybe rivalled only by the smartphone in terms of human achievements in pointlessly killing time