Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
I'm just this guy, you know? Late-stage GenX. Motorcycles, music, Slavstuff, and nerdshit. Rust belt forever. Former Ohioan. Live from Detroit. He/Him
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Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
All Rise for the Bsky National Anthem
Whew, I needed that.
I haven't watched anything by Jeunet since Amilie, but I love(d) his work, even Alien 4. What's he doing now? Just junk?
Yes. Yes, you do.
This fuckin' sucks, man. I'm gonna miss him.
Fuck, man. Somebody go check on Gary Farmer.
An average Todomatsu meal.
I... Honestly, I don't know how to respond to this one, Bugs.
Ah, but that's the operator's fault, not the ride's!
Man, apropos of nothing, but The Zipper is an S-tier carnival ride. One of the best to ever do it.
Look, I love Chicago (as I love all Great Lakes Region cities), but it's no NYC.
Honestly, I have not. I could be convinced, though. Maybe.
ALL THESE APPS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT BLUESKY. ATTEMPT NO POSTING THERE.
Man, as much as I love Detroit, NYC really is the greatest city in the world, isn't it?
Shit, I love Oakland. I was there a couple years ago for a week or so and found it very much like my beloved Detroit. Same vibes, just in a different key. I think by "dangerous" the people who make these polls mean, "visible poverty".
A very happy Labor Day to everyone except the goons, the ginks, the company finks, the deputy sheriffs, the company boys, the company spies, the company stools, and the National Guard.
That dress is cute as /hell/.
Bluesky growth discourse
Shit, man. That rules. Your dad sounds like a real mensch.
God, seriously.
Uppies from a frost giant could fix me.
Maybe later I'll write some giant robot stuff for RIFTS Genesys, or go out to the garage and just stare at the Beezer.
Those glasses are fantastic.
Still sick, so instead of going to the Hamtramck Labor Day Festival like I should be doing I'm inside working and listening to Esquivel.
Little of column A, little of column B.
Really? Right in front of Walter P. Reuther?
Oh, Dover's not too far from my hometown! I gotta check this out.
They're /right/!
Hell yeah, kid.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Tinariwen? Mdou Moctar?
Happy labor day, beskies. Go listen to some Woody Guthrie, eat a hot dog, and throw a rock at a Pinkerton.
That is /deeply/ embarrassing.
This one comes with an asterisk - The song was released at the end of '75 but charted in the first couple weeks of '76 so I'm using it ('cause it bangs)
18. youtu.be/87r0CPQbFds?...
17. youtu.be/-51KCTiE2ZY?...
16. youtu.be/ISoSVmXXJuc?...
16. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nAO...
Well, shit.
14. Lawl, I'm already married, but these guys played my wedding and this was our spotlight dance song. Also, the photos in the video are mine! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R3u...
13. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxg...
Also - www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJ...
12. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7F...
Tell me you don't know shit about HRT without telling me you don't know shit about HRT...
Oh, this guy /fucks/.
11. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKLi...
10. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8VX...
Clint Eastwood, best known for his uncredited role as Lab Technician Jennings in Revenge of the Creature (1955)
...the FUCK!?
You are, Frog. You absolutely are.
9. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuX...
Here's a bonus - A Song That's Not About Vampires but is Totally About Vampires www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5dW...
8. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhMO...
7. When the reverend screams at :38 my foot goes aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the way through the firewall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1yh...
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
Also... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_E...
Look, it was 1981. In Pittsburgh. The past is a foreign country!
6. PARTY PARTY PARTY www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yd...
5. I don't always listen to Donnie Iris, but when I do, so do my neighbors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH5A...
4. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-eV...
3. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr0t...
2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzim...
1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwY...
Christ almighty. Put that on the one dollar bill.
Okay, now that we've done TTRPGs let's do this. Hit me.
God, FUCK Jim Craig. Fuck him forever.
Like, is she a French spy in WWII like Josephine Baker? Is she a cyberpunk nightclub owner/information fence who specializes in using those red spiders as little surveillance drones? Is she a crime fighter in 70s Detroit with an alter-ego singing at Baker's?
I need, like, a years-long multi-media universe starring her. I need to know /all/ about her.
God, this is good. So, so good.
Stella needs some help. She's a good egg.
WE DID NOT HOLY SHIT
Also, just to make clear, I'm not quote tweeting to bash on OP here. @nora.zone made a great thread.
Every evil act this man engages in was enabled by Democrats.
Yeah, by the time I was in high school my parents (my mother, specifically, even though she should have known better) grew out of the Satanic Panic and never fell for another moral panic again.
I had to hide my D&D books under my mattress like they were skin mags because of 80s conservative shiteaters. These people have been my enemy, and the enemy of all good people around the world, as long as I've been alive.
That's fair. Craig is probably my second favorite bond behind Dalton and /just/ ahead of Lazenby. Too bad Lazenby was such a tremendous pain in the dick, 'cause he would have had a great run.
Same! SAME! We don't need them anymore!
My real opinion is that James Bond movies should always be period pieces set in the 50s/60s and should be played straight. No winking at the camera. Give me a straight-up espionage thriller with a touch of sci-fi in it.
James Bond should always be a cis/het white Englishman. BUT. James Bond also, as an IP, should be tossed in the dustbin of history and never remade because we have no more use for it (much like cis/het white Englishmen HEYOOOOOOOOOO)
Ooooooooh, this is one of them there "rhetorical" questions (it's because the Dems /also/ want to force children to undergo genital inspections to play sports because they think it'll net them imaginary swing/undecided voters)
That act led directly to me having a 25-year career in and around the TTRPG industry. I always shout him out whenever I can. Unfortunately, eventually, he moved away and I never spoke to him again. He died in his mid-30s of cancer. If you could, please pour one out for him tonight.
20. Okay, last one. When I was in jr high in the late 80s, I had this friend named Bryan Hamlin. One night I was sleeping over his place in a tent in his backyard, and he produced the OG D&D red box basic set. It completely blew my mind. A few months later he gave me that box because he got bored.
19. Newp.
Also, LOL, I should describe him. He was this weird amalgam of humanoid and crustacean that stood about 8 feet high and was covered in thick, chitinous armor. He had lobster/crab claws for hands, and could snap clear through an AK-74 like it was butter and punch holes through armored vehicles.
The PC who unveiled it said, "You mean, like, a statue of Lobster Man?" To which Marc replied, "Noooooo, it's Lobster Man. Roll initiative" The amount of hooting and hollering and scampering that followed has been the stuff of legend in that gaming group for almost 20 years now.
One time, we were investigating the studio of an allegedly corrupted sculptor who's art was getting weirder and weirder. We were in the studio with all these creepy statues, some of them covered in tarps. One of the PCs pulled the tarp off a statue and Marc, the GM, said, "Oh, it's Lobster Man!"...
And we never did learn who or what he was. He was just a faceless, implacable, EXTREMELY deadly horror that was dedicated to our destruction.
Lobster Man, though? He showed up in a scene and we ran like hell. We learned REAL fast in the first couple encounters with him that he was nigh unstoppable and absolutely Tonberry horrifying. God that character was scary. He was finally destroyed by divine intervention in the last session...
18. OH MAN! An excuse to tell you all about Lobster Man! So, that In Nomine/CoC game I mentioned upthread? Lobster Man was a recurring NPC/Villain who was absolutely fucking terrifying. We (the PCs) faced down angels, demons, cultists, Cthulhu monsters, black ops groups, all kinds of shit no sweat..
17. Night Witches, Mothership, Under Hill, By Water, Salvage Union, and Stoneburner.
My youngest is a junior derby kid, and it absolutely rules.
16. I'm gonna do this for free. I will ALWAYS buy a game from Gavriel Quieroga, @jdragsky.bsky.social, @sky-writes.bsky.social, Maximum Mike Pondsmith, and Jason Morningstar.
15. Sir Bail's relationship with the thieves guild that I mentioned earlier. If you're talking, like, a romantic relationship, I don't play those kinds of games.
The GM let me get away with SO MUCH horseshit thanks to that vehicle. I could justify having access to just about anything thanks to how I described and statted it out.
14. Hmmmmm. Oh, that minotaur upthread? He had a custom vehicle - a 1950's-era Chevy sedan delivery truck on a modern, post-cataclysm frame with a modern powertrain - that housed a portable cyberware lab and had a zillion little drawers and nooks and crannies for storage.
13. SIGH. Yes. In the mid-90s I played V:tM LARP at the College of Wooster as Doc Holiday (clan Toreador) as portrayed by Val Kilmer in Tombstone (1993). Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.