Icosahedral Misfortune
@procrastin28052.bsky.social
Sweary Xennial nerd. Loves dogs and gaming. Tabletop and SF&F. Stationery magpie. Archer. Sometimes moany. Has a chronic illness. Marooned in a future I have no wish to participate in.
These messages will self-destruct in a couple of months. Or whenever.
These messages will self-destruct in a couple of months. Or whenever.
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"Of course they mix everything up. Look at what they have to work with, huh? Basic Set, Dungeon Fantasy, and hundreds of sourcebooks and licenses. GURPS GMs take what they want and leave the rest. Just like your salad bar."
-Egg Shen. Big Trouble in Little China.
-Egg Shen. Big Trouble in Little China.
Everyone's already heard my joke about Palladium but I refuse to update it.
I have a joke about Fighting Fantasy, but I feel like I'd be Testing my Luck with it!
I have a joke about 5e but it's bloated, overcomplicated, and complicit in transphobia
September 19, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Everyone's already heard my joke about Palladium but I refuse to update it.
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Such a terrible fucking rebrand. Looks like the brand identity of a stupidly expensive kitchen shop.
September 19, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Such a terrible fucking rebrand. Looks like the brand identity of a stupidly expensive kitchen shop.
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The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.
September 19, 2026 at 10:36 AM
The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.
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One of Galway's best
Title Theme from Wizball
YouTube video by The Strong Museum
youtu.be
September 19, 2026 at 9:53 AM
One of Galway's best
Even the version of DuckDuckGo specifically designed to filter out AI is now just awash with slop.
Everything now takes fucking ages because I have to check and double check anything and everything I read on the internet. AI is a massive time waster.
Everything now takes fucking ages because I have to check and double check anything and everything I read on the internet. AI is a massive time waster.
September 19, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Even the version of DuckDuckGo specifically designed to filter out AI is now just awash with slop.
Everything now takes fucking ages because I have to check and double check anything and everything I read on the internet. AI is a massive time waster.
Everything now takes fucking ages because I have to check and double check anything and everything I read on the internet. AI is a massive time waster.
Little Shih Tzu gets to remove his cone of shame. Quick and (relatively) cheap fix for the car. Not a bad start to the weekend.
Got really good news about my doggo this morning at a post-op vet checkup.
Drove out of the car park and the car broke.
Glad it was that way round, to be fair.
Drove out of the car park and the car broke.
Glad it was that way round, to be fair.
September 19, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Little Shih Tzu gets to remove his cone of shame. Quick and (relatively) cheap fix for the car. Not a bad start to the weekend.
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I have no 'legitimate concerns' with migrants. I do however have 'legitimate concerns' about political parties receiving massive donations from foreign crypto billionaires and men in masks and black shorts attempting to intimidate the public.
September 18, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I have no 'legitimate concerns' with migrants. I do however have 'legitimate concerns' about political parties receiving massive donations from foreign crypto billionaires and men in masks and black shorts attempting to intimidate the public.
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I am once again pleading for any RPG creators who make PDFs to put *something* on them to let me know what game this is for. When I am trying to sort through hundreds (or thousands) of files and I come across handouts.pdf or charsheet.pdf, I'd really like to put them with their parent game.
September 18, 2026 at 12:47 PM
I am once again pleading for any RPG creators who make PDFs to put *something* on them to let me know what game this is for. When I am trying to sort through hundreds (or thousands) of files and I come across handouts.pdf or charsheet.pdf, I'd really like to put them with their parent game.
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"Oooh Leisure Games has the new revised GURPS Basic Set in stock. I'll order than when I get home."
*gets home*
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
*gets home*
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
September 18, 2026 at 1:38 PM
"Oooh Leisure Games has the new revised GURPS Basic Set in stock. I'll order than when I get home."
*gets home*
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
*gets home*
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
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Just got word of this INSANE Traveller bundle. 128 products for $33 over on Fanatical.
www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/tr...
www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/tr...
Traveller RPG Ultimate GDW Collection | eBook Bundle | Fanatical
Download the ultimate Traveller RPG Collection! Unlock classic...
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September 17, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Just got word of this INSANE Traveller bundle. 128 products for $33 over on Fanatical.
www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/tr...
www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/tr...
"You know what they say. Fives have lives, Fours have chores, Threes have fleas, Twos have blues and Ones don't get a rhyme because they're garbage."
September 17, 2026 at 3:22 PM
"You know what they say. Fives have lives, Fours have chores, Threes have fleas, Twos have blues and Ones don't get a rhyme because they're garbage."
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A Covid wave is starting in England. The data is now unmistakable: as of 13 September, 1 in every 378 people were infected, up 78% on the previous week. The BuDS overall Covid risk level has been raised to Moderately High.
A thread 🧵
A thread 🧵
September 16, 2026 at 7:57 PM
A Covid wave is starting in England. The data is now unmistakable: as of 13 September, 1 in every 378 people were infected, up 78% on the previous week. The BuDS overall Covid risk level has been raised to Moderately High.
A thread 🧵
A thread 🧵
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Each day stranger than the last.
September 16, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Each day stranger than the last.
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Regular reminder that JG Ballard’s final novel, “Kingdom Come” (2006), is about a far-right English town which creates their own militarised breakaway state in a shopping mall, where they worship the gods of St George and consumerism. Old JG wrote it as tongue-in-cheek satire. At the time.
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
www.bbc.com
September 16, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Regular reminder that JG Ballard’s final novel, “Kingdom Come” (2006), is about a far-right English town which creates their own militarised breakaway state in a shopping mall, where they worship the gods of St George and consumerism. Old JG wrote it as tongue-in-cheek satire. At the time.
If the people of Piddington want to fuck off out of the UK so badly they can go grab a lift on the Ed Sheeran tour bus. I hear there’s quite a bit of room.
September 16, 2026 at 8:21 AM
If the people of Piddington want to fuck off out of the UK so badly they can go grab a lift on the Ed Sheeran tour bus. I hear there’s quite a bit of room.
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“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA.
Learned a lot, watching this.
Learned a lot, watching this.
August 13, 2026 at 2:31 AM
“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA.
Learned a lot, watching this.
Learned a lot, watching this.
Slowly but surely, year on year, I pump less and less money into the local economy. So many different barriers to Point Of Sale have been cropping up in the last decade and I cannot be fucked to overcome them, even if I wanted to. And with regards to apps like this, I don't fucking want to.
Ordered at a local cafe I've not visited for a while, presented an almost-full loyalty card. "Oh no, we've switched to an app, that's no good any more."
FUCK YOU AND YOUR INSECURE BLOATWARE, LOYALTY IS A TWO-WAY STREET MOTHERFUCKERS AND YOU JUST BIT THE KERB, PLUS YOUR AIRCON IS ALWAYS FAR TOO HIGH
FUCK YOU AND YOUR INSECURE BLOATWARE, LOYALTY IS A TWO-WAY STREET MOTHERFUCKERS AND YOU JUST BIT THE KERB, PLUS YOUR AIRCON IS ALWAYS FAR TOO HIGH
September 15, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Slowly but surely, year on year, I pump less and less money into the local economy. So many different barriers to Point Of Sale have been cropping up in the last decade and I cannot be fucked to overcome them, even if I wanted to. And with regards to apps like this, I don't fucking want to.
It can do anything, so give us money!
It can’t do everything, so give us money!
It’ll replace you, so give us money!
Is it alive? Give us more money!
We’ve “lost control“ so give money!
It’ll save us! We need more money!
It’ll destroy us. Money! Money! Give us all the fucking money!
It can’t do everything, so give us money!
It’ll replace you, so give us money!
Is it alive? Give us more money!
We’ve “lost control“ so give money!
It’ll save us! We need more money!
It’ll destroy us. Money! Money! Give us all the fucking money!
September 15, 2026 at 8:04 AM
It can do anything, so give us money!
It can’t do everything, so give us money!
It’ll replace you, so give us money!
Is it alive? Give us more money!
We’ve “lost control“ so give money!
It’ll save us! We need more money!
It’ll destroy us. Money! Money! Give us all the fucking money!
It can’t do everything, so give us money!
It’ll replace you, so give us money!
Is it alive? Give us more money!
We’ve “lost control“ so give money!
It’ll save us! We need more money!
It’ll destroy us. Money! Money! Give us all the fucking money!
Britain died when The Big Breakfast got axed. Brexit was just rolling the corpse into a ditch and throwing some leaves over it.
The 90s ended not with the millennium, or with 9/11, but with the ending of Live and Kicking on a Saturday morning and its replacement with bland, safe cooking shows. The party was over at that exact moment.
September 14, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Britain died when The Big Breakfast got axed. Brexit was just rolling the corpse into a ditch and throwing some leaves over it.
Got really good news about my doggo this morning at a post-op vet checkup.
Drove out of the car park and the car broke.
Glad it was that way round, to be fair.
Drove out of the car park and the car broke.
Glad it was that way round, to be fair.
September 14, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Got really good news about my doggo this morning at a post-op vet checkup.
Drove out of the car park and the car broke.
Glad it was that way round, to be fair.
Drove out of the car park and the car broke.
Glad it was that way round, to be fair.
Empty house this evening so I stuck some Tangerine Dream on the record player, pulled out some notebooks and paper and dived back in to heavy-thewed savagery on the Venusian high seas.
Starting a new GURPS game this evening. Stumbled upon a map of Venus that depicted it with Earth-like water oceans and now I’m going to use it as a sword and sorcery setting. Am excite.
September 13, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Empty house this evening so I stuck some Tangerine Dream on the record player, pulled out some notebooks and paper and dived back in to heavy-thewed savagery on the Venusian high seas.
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Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, 2,700 pages in print, was written longhand and then typed.
September 13, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, 2,700 pages in print, was written longhand and then typed.
Not using your massive majority to tighten political donation regulations but instead send out begging letters because the other guys got millions is a cunt move, and just as infuriating as anything that happened during the Johnson-Truss-Sunak years. Fucking shame on you all.
September 13, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Not using your massive majority to tighten political donation regulations but instead send out begging letters because the other guys got millions is a cunt move, and just as infuriating as anything that happened during the Johnson-Truss-Sunak years. Fucking shame on you all.