Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void reposted
Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void
Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void
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What made Austin the cultural hot spot that it was in the 70s and into the 90s was cheap rent. Being able to work part time flipping burgers and spending the rest of your time playing music on the porch with your friends or making art in a cheap studio space It’s also the key to a happy life
People don't realize how necessary cheap rent is to the arts.
Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void reposted
Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void reposted
Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void reposted
Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void reposted
Stock up! Get those copies of #FiascoRPG and other cool games by @jmstar.bsky.social! #TTRPGs #RPGs #larp bullypulpitgames.com/collections/...
Good news, #ttRPG fans! Fiasco 2nd edition is back in print! My copy just arrived from @bullypulpithq.bsky.social
Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void reposted
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Replying to @meghna.bsky.social
video games are an artistic medium which is specifically suited to asking what it is like to step into another personhood — which is to say another’s agency, or even unusual or unexpected forms of agency, which is a primary affordance. the video game *can* be a mirror but it is also always a portal
Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void reposted
Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void reposted
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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@bigbadcon.bsky.social isn’t shy
don't be shy gen con go ahead. don't be shy pax unplugged go ahead. don't be shy origins go ahead. don't be shy gamehole go ahead. don't be shy gary con go ahead. don't be shy page go ahead. don't be shy breakout go ahead. don't be shy dragon con go ahead.
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ssssssssss The Golden Cobra Challenge 2026 is OPEN for sssubmissions. Ssubmit by October 15th! www.goldencobra.org
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For @justgravyllc.com’s consideration, a Compile AUX pack that contains the protocols FUCK, MARRY, KILL
Sounds like comic book and Star Wars films and shows tbh These are not places of honor. They are the last of the crusty toothpaste being squeezed out of the tube
In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.
Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void reposted
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Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void reposted
I’ve never seen this Harryhausen quote about why stop motion animation is its own aesthetic form & trying to make it feel like smooth live-action is a category error. ❤️
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
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A stunning indictment of modern cities. Witness Austin, TX, a city that has become a theme park of itself. It went from being the inspiration for the movie Slacker to a tech hustle city. Now service industry folks can’t afford to live there and the tech bros complain about how it “used to be cool”
"A city doesn't get hollowed out by too many visitors. It hollows out when too little of the city remains underneath them, when the thing they queued to see has been quietly sold off around them while they queued." Great piece on #Dublin by Conor McGuire in Western People.
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