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2026-08-13 12:10:11 UTC

Brr brr looks like rain here.. a little balmy getting though.
Yellow Thunderstorm warning all the rest of the week.

2026-07-28 19:39:51 UTC

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2026-07-15 18:41:20 UTC

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I don't think I ever had a game with Lenslok
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2026-06-17 12:05:17 UTC

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@nprofile…5yjg They'd ghost them on their phones too.
That is the true story of the Call of Cthulhu

2026-05-05 12:42:04 UTC

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@nprofile…nmr0 also part of the eternal order of Mod Podge *secret handshake secret handshake*

2026-04-21 14:01:31 UTC

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@nprofile…5y0h Could be could be. I had a group and never noticed the edifice crumbling without.

2026-04-21 10:21:29 UTC

I was just in the FLGS and during a little chat (and only at 11.15am) there were a lot of phone calls from players looking to get involved in an RPG locally but they had no group. The GM shortage is really hitting gaming as a social face to face activity.
Everyone feels GMing is thankless apparently, or "just work"
When did that happen to RPGs?
#ttrpg

2026-04-05 17:11:25 UTC

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#spangleman
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2026-04-05 11:17:20 UTC

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I've always wondered if you can capture that "whistle and you'll be very worried, what's that at the window, oh dear" feeling about MR James in an RPG (except outside of a very specific player group)
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2026-04-05 11:02:05 UTC

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Did either of you play any of the MR James supplement for CoC?
@nprofile…3t8n @nprofile…2pp8

2026-04-04 00:00:12 UTC

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Have you clicked on everything, maybe there are two objects that make kettle in combination. Or a secret panel to another location. @nprofile…k36v @nprofile…zqv6

2026-04-01 13:32:41 UTC

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@nprofile…zqv6 Yes, it's Alexei Sayle.

2026-03-31 16:30:30 UTC

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@nprofile…zqv6 Wasn't it Goethe who said "Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate, because they turned us into orange smoke"

2026-03-31 11:37:34 UTC

Do I need a bulk order of "Bok" pins?

2026-03-27 09:40:59 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 https://ashen-victor.itch.io (pay what you want and lots of types?)

2026-03-25 15:19:39 UTC

fricking night of the demon clown magician showing off weather here today...

2026-03-25 09:16:39 UTC

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@nprofile…3t8n I so wanted to be able to swim like that, but what I did instead was drown a bit eel-like trying.

2026-03-23 12:37:30 UTC

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Famously so, as they're very little support in the shaft for thumping. I have a sword-umbrella and actually the ball-haft of it is probably better as a weapon than the "ahah" reveal stabby part.
I've never seen sword cane or an umbrella cane, even vintage ones with a decent tang. They really are one use weapons. There are modern survival canes and brollies made of single piece plastic which are very clubbable though.
Not that I buy these things...
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2026-03-23 10:08:58 UTC

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@nprofile…3t8n That poster for it was more exciting than the entire series

2026-03-23 09:30:57 UTC

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@nprofile…zqv6 I have quite a good book about stick whomping people and Umbrellas get a good chapter, but the abuse of sword cane is fabulous.
"The weapon of an assassin with no value to a man of distinction" etc etc

2026-03-21 09:47:52 UTC

@nprofile…3t8n (and any other horror aficionadoes)
Anyone got any thoughts on the new House of Hammer thing. It looks quite interesting, but £35 a volume is steep for basically a magazine?
https://hammerfilms.com/products/house-of-hammer-volume-1

2026-03-19 10:00:16 UTC

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@nprofile…3t8n My main objection to aging is my slow descent into Catweasel cosplay.

2026-03-19 09:16:28 UTC

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@nprofile…3t8n That was a strange.. strange series.

2026-03-05 18:00:56 UTC

This surprised face on Windy Miller exiting the Windmill in Camberwick Green is a direct insight into my game design. In a sense players always should get to do this face at least once in the "I think a bad thing is happening" phase of the game
I would also allow a Lighthouse.
#boklessprovocateur #spangles
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2026-03-04 10:17:00 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 same same, just sent my older one to Urgent Care to get an X-ray, because she hurt her foot and didn't want to go to school, and the younger one started acting out for attention.

2026-03-03 09:07:03 UTC

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@nprofile…5y0h 2026 FIFA peace epitaph.

2026-02-26 11:18:58 UTC

One of the little known facts about the internet is that Memes have to audition. When he is brought back from the dead via the Electro-necrocompositor Dennis Norden is going to host a TV show about them which will play directly on your retina if you don't pay a monthly subscription.
#memes
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2026-02-25 11:22:05 UTC

For the developing little village of Edwardiana here's two shops side by side, a butchers and a post-office/news/bookshop. I think the bookshop/butcher combo is quite CoC
"Volumes bound in skin might take some help from my neighbour sir"
Scale included for beardlords
#ttrpg #ttrpgmaps
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2026-02-23 21:38:53 UTC

My elder daughter answered the phone with "professori professori the ants have taken my eyes"
*so proud*

2026-02-20 19:30:06 UTC

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@nprofile…galm I think there are lots of us who loved this book before we got into RPGs, just based on the boosts today.
There must be other things like it I've never heard of?

2026-02-20 12:16:12 UTC

What is it about Zombies and Cornwall.
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2026-02-20 10:09:55 UTC

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@nprofile…zqv6 New Terminator and Brother of the King of England.
Don't forget the full title,

2026-02-20 09:01:31 UTC

For many of us who started gaming in the tail end of the 1970s, The Handbook for Space Pioneers: Exoplanet Colonies (1978) by Wolfe and Wysack was basically the first space game supplement that wasn't intended for RPGs at all... and yet...
It provided fully realised worlds, maps, races, threats, economies, deckplans, personality tests, and recruitment ideas for characters.. er.. cough the readers.
Perfect for traveller or Star Trek and packed with colonial issues too.
#ttrpg
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2026-02-19 17:56:42 UTC

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"He who stops being better, stops being good. Now lets go kill some Irish"
Oliver Cromwell (maybe)
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2026-02-08 11:28:39 UTC

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@nprofile…zqv6 How's that Pre-Labour law Victorian cosplay working out for you?

2026-02-05 10:47:56 UTC

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@nprofile…zqv6 I object to this being news. This happens constantly here and it's never been news. Signs in banks and the like are uniformly put up in Welsh here and it never gets a mention.

2026-02-05 10:41:59 UTC

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@nprofile…5y0h That's what confused me. What about a rook/bishop move where the monsters can't see or react to you if you move at them diagonally or in some kind of straight line at then. but if you move off it they get to see you again.

2026-02-05 10:38:40 UTC

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@nprofile…5y0h Stealth mechanic for the players or the encounters?

2026-02-04 10:10:17 UTC

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@nprofile…5y0h
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2026-02-04 09:54:57 UTC

Yay.
#bokpropaganda
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2026-02-03 19:28:26 UTC

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Well now I want to be able to dance the Bokolati
Which sounds vaguely like it might be a gargoyle inclined Tarantella, with a hint of the 1518 Strasbourg dancing plague.
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2026-02-03 19:21:56 UTC

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A Bokowaty sounds like a jaunty little folk dance step.
@nprofile…q5yn @nprofile…5y0h

2026-02-03 18:43:46 UTC

Is the adjective from Handsome Gargoyle "Bokkish" or "Bokesque"

2026-02-02 14:23:06 UTC

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Actually the Cybermen really really wanted a Time Machine
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2026-02-02 14:14:04 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 It does look right on a cover
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2026-02-01 09:14:30 UTC

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@nprofile…3t8n Terrible monster, utterly awful (particularly the fall from tree moment) but a great movie.
Pure Doctor Who really.

2026-01-29 16:53:03 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 Mine has a maths thing and she logs on and her 45 minutes of homework takes 4 hours.. and you can watch the 2% creep.. to 4% over hours and then when you finally just lose the will to live she does the last 96% in five minutes.

2026-01-29 09:17:55 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 I quite liked the Oriental Adventures rules. I think as a stand alone book (vs supplement classes) it was quite nifty.

2026-01-24 15:14:48 UTC

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@nprofile…3t8n Flawless SFX. I watched it again recently.

2026-01-24 10:58:00 UTC

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@nprofile…zqv6 Ulster says No.

2026-01-21 09:56:55 UTC

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I think so much of 98-99 was frenzied about Y2K and the tourist industry frantically trying to get people to book holidays to be somewhere when it was New Year that society was leaning into the 2000s hard by then. I was surrounded in 98/99 by people trying to make "millennium" stuff and that probably tilted the zeitgeist of those two years a lot.
@nprofile…5y0h

2026-01-19 11:10:07 UTC

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@nprofile…3t8n Those were really really fiddly though. Actually there was a long period of games like I was almost terrified to get out of their box

2026-01-19 10:51:59 UTC

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@nprofile…3t8n And forty million tiny tiny counters to lose *instantly*

2026-01-19 10:03:13 UTC

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@nprofile…zqv6 Ginger issue?

2026-01-13 17:29:55 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 the last MUD/MUSH I used had nearly magnetic scrolls level of syntax understanding it was mental. You could build and assign properties to objects like weight and length to make the components in solving problems (etc)
and then graphics came

2026-01-11 14:47:07 UTC

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@nprofile…zqv6 I think half the page being marred with game identds and logos would detract from any art

2026-01-09 19:44:17 UTC

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@nprofile…zqv6 I must admit the John Silence stories are not my favourite of the Ghost Detective types either though.

2026-01-09 15:26:51 UTC

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@nprofile…zqv6 Have you read the Miles Pennoyer stories?

2025-12-31 18:30:16 UTC

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@nprofile…n7x3 I have that exact same mental block too, which is one of the reason I can do designy things, but very rarely create anything.

2025-12-21 17:19:20 UTC

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@nprofile…tvnd I'm sensing a theme

2025-12-21 12:40:34 UTC

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@nprofile…n7x3 But the bit with the gargoyle turning the soldiers into orange smoke is still in the Greek... Right... Right?

2025-12-16 13:19:54 UTC

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@nprofile…n7x3 I'm already seeing that at a freelancer level. Everyone has gone.

2025-12-13 13:15:29 UTC

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@nprofile…mq79 Your emergency oxygen delivery is now coming on Thursday, sorry for the delay we have allocated £4.50 for the inconvenience.

2025-12-12 09:48:10 UTC

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@nprofile…x5s0 As a reverse of the Lion annuals I was never disappointed with the Gerry Anderson ones, and they always had great cutaways and stuff in them

2025-11-30 09:41:36 UTC

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@nprofile…x5s0 I assume you and I have what would be regarded as a library now.

2025-11-30 09:31:32 UTC

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@nprofile…x5s0 I only ever saw them second hand, Supernatural Sleuths is one of my favourite ever collections

2025-11-30 09:11:33 UTC

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@nprofile…x5s0 How many were in that style/set? I've the Supernatural Sleuths, The Radio one and that Christmas One, were there any others?

2025-11-24 19:00:57 UTC

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@nprofile…tvnd I had lots of Prince August stuff back in the 80s, and it was really low melting point, but utter crap.

2025-11-20 11:30:33 UTC

Wandering through the local game shop, all the boxed fantasy games I don't recognise are obviously sold as "It's basically the same sort of stuff as 5ed but you'll like it"
Monocrop fantasy.

2025-11-11 09:10:42 UTC

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@nprofile…x5s0 The pale print colour of that has made me lose SAN

2025-11-07 11:33:25 UTC

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*sniff*
@nprofile…msez @nprofile…a600

2025-11-07 11:29:40 UTC

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My mother was a fresh water trout.
@nprofile…msez @nprofile…a600

2025-11-07 10:22:21 UTC

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Sushi?
@nprofile…msez @nprofile…a600

2025-11-06 09:58:03 UTC

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@nprofile…x5s0 I got that in a shop when it came out, I am so the old.

2025-10-29 09:13:15 UTC

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@nprofile…rtt8 The games I have the most play time on tend to be ones I've returned to a lot because I am able to start a new game, or pick up where I left out without feeling I've lost the knack, or forgotten the plot. I just don't have the contiguous time to play Elder Scrolls type things all the through anymore. So I find smaller games better.

2025-10-28 16:09:47 UTC

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@nprofile…n7x3 My daughters both loved Holes and abandoned the Rowling stuff instantly, they couldn't stomach the Hogwarts thing at all. Holes though? They adored it.

2025-10-21 20:05:47 UTC

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*nudge nudge* I could sell you a gargoyle NFT - very reasonable pricing?
@nprofile…msez @nprofile…rtt8 @nprofile…a600

2025-10-08 14:34:39 UTC

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It's a bit of a busted flush in terms of design ethos for me. Speaking as a person who pastes Bok into Hulu posters.
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2025-10-06 18:09:13 UTC

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@nprofile…u7s3 It's better when you don't read the article and can imagine she has a half of a metal skull in her hands and has to get rid of it without ten days or a wet girl with rough hair is going to climb out of her phone and make her dance.

2025-10-06 17:40:24 UTC

While I'd research almost anything for a plot I'm refusing to do this.
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2025-10-06 13:07:06 UTC

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@nprofile…gwm4 I don't know if backed up block of brain-memories is Ai or not, but you could easily imagine a rock type or a world electromagnetic affect that did it accidentally.
That's quite Star Trek though

2025-10-06 12:38:13 UTC

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@nprofile…gwm4 Mutant Crawl Classic has "Data Ghosts" who are (possibly) backed up data versions of people encoded in the environment and present and communicate with players. You could go down that route if you wanted technological possibilities?
Very Stone Tape really I suppose.

2025-10-03 17:22:26 UTC

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@nprofile…03hd If the Avengers: Doomsday isn't about Blackbeard's Treasure the world is a farce and a sham.

2025-10-03 17:19:50 UTC

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@nprofile…03hd Other villain people dream of world conquest and dominion over the powers of reality itself, but not Doom. Doom wants a foxy box full of saucy pirate loot from the 1700s. AND HE BUILDS A TIME MACHINE TO GET IT
*clapping intensifies*

2025-10-03 08:11:56 UTC

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@nprofile…dpn3 Lovely edition.

2025-10-02 13:55:25 UTC

Is it time to declare Boktober? I'm going to run a competition to win a book keyring I think. The world is fairly too stupid at the moment and I think we could do with some whimsy. Boktoberfest.
#bok

2025-10-02 10:53:01 UTC

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@nprofile…lahr Yes. And factor that up by every year you've lived in the place and hidden stuff in the attic

2025-10-01 09:05:34 UTC

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@nprofile…gwm4 I used to play those games with my wife, and we sat sharing the same keyboard, complaining about tactics, and also the fact I always learnt that skipping bomb spell which I insisted was going to be useful and never was.

2025-09-30 10:02:43 UTC

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@nprofile…gwm4 Active night vision glows in the dark to *other* night vision systems. The reflection on them with some light can make them light up too. I've two sets of Night Vision googles IRL and one of them does give off a bit of a glow. The glowing trail thing is an artefact of digital lag if you're using a low end system. I have no idea why they'd include it in a game.
I only have Night Vision kit because of espionage not anything creepy.

2025-09-29 22:05:56 UTC

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@nprofile…ec4u I know it's outside your loop but the little details on the Playmobil Klingons were lovely

2025-09-07 14:41:22 UTC

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@nprofile…gwm4 Well he's not exactly.. in a lot of those episodes, for example his appearance in one is "turning his head to the camera"

2025-09-07 14:40:47 UTC

@nprofile…zdp7 I have helped.
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2025-09-07 14:39:30 UTC

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@nprofile…gwm4
"Not enough"
Actually five in total.
It's a testament to the futility of my existence that I have found as many screen grabs of him really.

2025-09-07 11:36:34 UTC

SUNDAY CAPTION BOK
"When they held Doctor Who reunions, Bok often sat by himself, not because he was antisocial or snobby but because they were only actors and he was animated gargoyle from beyond time"
"Bok sat apart from the rest, not because he didn't like them, but because he was simply better"
"Later Bok regretted the red onion sandwiches as the lunch choice"
#bokpropaganda
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2025-09-06 08:25:05 UTC

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@nprofile…dpn3 Very tempted by the new release, but not.. sufficiently tempted.

2025-09-04 19:21:27 UTC

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@nprofile…03hd reply with something mysterious like "I assume you didn't mean to send those access codes"

2025-09-04 12:39:46 UTC

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@nprofile…gwm4 My mother in law cannot cope with the word "gorge" or "disgorge"
so I never ever
ever
use it in conversation
👀

2025-09-04 12:35:16 UTC

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@nprofile…gwm4 I'm a terrible one for turtling because I just like making little utopias. All my SimCity2k cities were idylls.

2025-09-04 12:33:07 UTC

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@nprofile…gwm4 the Anno games were always a mixed bag for me. "Lovely Lovely. Oh that's nice, er.. I appear to have not prepared for the violence"

2025-09-04 12:27:54 UTC

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@nprofile…gwm4 I'm fond of Tropico. That might be the music though. I quite liked Colonization too, but I think that was because when you got a "fountain of youth" the music was so enthusiastic it made you forget the appalling slaughter the game was founded on.