#  @SandyofCthulhu Sandy Petersen 🪔 Sandy Petersen, a renowned game designer, recently expressed pride in having contributed to bringing H.P. Lovecraft's works out of near-obscurity and into fame, with many fans crediting his games, particularly Call of Cthulhu, for introducing them to Lovecraft's works. He also made light of his involvement in the gaming industry, joking about his role in creating content for Dungeons & Dragons and other games. Petersen's tweets showcase his interests in gaming, history, and pop culture. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/interactions)  - [--] Week [----------] -35% - [--] Month [-----------] +36% - [--] Months [-----------] +247% - [--] Year [-----------] +19,504% ### Mentions: [---] [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/posts_active)  - [--] Week [---] -14% - [--] Month [-----] +32% - [--] Months [-----] +323% - [--] Year [-----] +1,178% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +2.90% - [--] Month [------] +13% - [--] Months [------] +67% - [--] Year [------] +398% ### CreatorRank: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) 12.14% [gaming](/list/gaming) 4.29% [finance](/list/finance) 3.57% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 2.68% [stocks](/list/stocks) 1.43% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 1.25% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 1.07% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) 1.07% [musicians](/list/musicians) 0.18% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) 0.18% **Social topic influence** [the most](/topic/the-most) #1088, [in the](/topic/in-the) #4701, [if you](/topic/if-you) 3.75%, [age of empires](/topic/age-of-empires) #22, [the first](/topic/the-first) #2610, [food](/topic/food) #5872, [guess](/topic/guess) #2277, [history](/topic/history) #1201, [the world](/topic/the-world) 2.32%, [movies](/topic/movies) #1394 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@dante41763048](/creator/undefined) [@olexgamedev](/creator/undefined) [@ballinatbigcost](/creator/undefined) [@bsdero](/creator/undefined) [@exquizitely](/creator/undefined) [@kyrtuck](/creator/undefined) [@windycitygamer](/creator/undefined) [@yeatsdf](/creator/undefined) [@konti_go2](/creator/undefined) [@celebrim42](/creator/undefined) [@redditlies](/creator/undefined) [@odyssjii](/creator/undefined) [@mr_twitting](/creator/undefined) [@palmerluckey](/creator/undefined) [@mademechangeit](/creator/undefined) [@johnrheritage](/creator/undefined) [@farrarn57854](/creator/undefined) [@ohoopty](/creator/undefined) [@tzor](/creator/undefined) [@bill_peschel](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "There is and it's an old old idea. It's called being "born again". "Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." Jesus the Christ "There must be something like the opposite of suicide whereby a person radically and abruptly decides to start living" https://t.co/o2itLkk7Ct "There must be something like the opposite of suicide whereby a person radically and abruptly decides to start living" https://t.co/o2itLkk7Ct" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2022019608065323293) 2026-02-12T18:46Z 71.2K followers, 41.5K engagements "Donald Pleasance is one of my favorite actors. He flew [--] bomber missions in WW2 for the Royal Air Force. He got shot down and spent 1944-45 in a German prison camp. He killed The Shape (Halloween) at least twice very nearly killed James Bond once was eaten by a white blood corpuscle and was president of the United States. Here he is with his daughter in a really great Amicus movie. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022400475358957819 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022400475358957819" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2022400475358957819) 2026-02-13T20:00Z 71.2K followers, 17.6K engagements "For me the deathknell for the new Star Wars was their misuse of Finn. Here was a SUPER EXCITING character - a guy who used to be a Storm Trooper Now joined the good guys What a concept I expected to see him angsty about killing former comrades giving the heroes insights into the Empire and perhaps heading up a whole new movement of ex-Imperials. Nope. He fires blasters into ranks of attacking stormtroopers with glee. He basically behaves like any other vanilla character. What a disappointment. By comparison Han Solo started out as a tricky possibly untrustworthy ally who helped because of his" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1886164599738953991) 2025-02-02T21:27Z 71K followers, 299.3K engagements "it's kind of depressing that the most popular Real Time Strategy game today (according to the ever-reliable Reddit) is Age of Empire [--] which we designed back in [----]. Yeah I know it's somewhat updated but still . there hasn't been ANY huge improvements in RTS in [--] years Are there any forgotten game genres or design trends you wish devs would bring back Are there any forgotten game genres or design trends you wish devs would bring back" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1901729673509499382) 2025-03-17T20:17Z 71K followers, 643.4K engagements "How to get your dream project - corporate politicking. After my successes with Rise of Rome and The Conquerors I was a shoe-in to do the expansion for Age of Empires [--]. But I had a problem. The natural assumption everyone had was that this expansion would be Asian civs. I did not want to do Asian civs because it was stupid - 1600s Japan India China & Korea were emphatically not in colonizing moods. And believe it or not I do care a little about historical verisimilitude. (Mainly because I think it makes the game more fun but still.) So what I wanted to do was to turn some of the Native" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1902088891576012920) 2025-03-18T20:05Z 71K followers, 240.9K engagements "Heres another awesome t-shirt I own from early [----]. Only [--] people got these. The front is just a shirt but when people saw the back their eyes popped" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1904553826755219752) 2025-03-25T15:19Z 71K followers, 74.8K engagements "My Food Opinions no one likes or cares about [--] - Pasta Fazool is better with peas than with beans. [--] - the absolute best enchiladas are just cheese & onion. [--] - if your steak is cooked more than medium-rare you should just have fajitas instead because you don't really appreciate steak. [--] - "blue" steak is for posers. [--] - never order chicken at a sit-down restaurant unless it specializes in chicken [--] - it's fine to order seafood at a steak house but never order steak at a seafood joint. [--] - the best burger in your town is sold at a mom-and-pop one of a kind place. No fast food chain burger is" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1912932260296446266) 2025-04-17T18:12Z 70K followers, [----] engagements "I am absolutely not an anime guy. But my granddaughter and friend have tricked me into watching Frieren. I like the idea that its after the great quest. And I am thrilled that the demons are unredeemably foul. Its rare & refreshing" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1924650808232313237) 2025-05-20T02:18Z 71.1K followers, 63.1K engagements "No point running from the cheetah. https://t.co/LAd17QZEXg https://t.co/LAd17QZEXg" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1946000772191093103) 2025-07-18T00:15Z 71.1K followers, 17.3M engagements "REJECT THE FOUR-ELEMENT THEORY. The true elements are Air Fire Metal Water Wood and Void. These are obviously far superior to the pathetic air/fire/earth/water. Use the six elements in your games" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1947367969442439299) 2025-07-21T18:47Z 70.3K followers, 20.1K engagements "Yet another Russian joke. A new gulag resident enters his shared cell. The old-timer asks "So how long are you in for" The newcomer says "Twenty years." "Twenty years What did you DO" New guy: "Nothing NOTHING at all." The old-timer says "Not possible. The sentence for doing nothing is only ten years."" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1949125776089157857) 2025-07-26T15:12Z 71K followers, 851.7K engagements "For a change of pace here's a joke from Communist Poland. Wlodek wants to deposit his money saved carefully in a mattress to the bank. He walks in. Wlodek: "I want to make sure my [--] zlotys are safe. What happens if someone robs the bank" Banker: "No worries. The main branch in Warsaw will cover the loss." Wlodek: "But what if our whole bank branches & all goes bust I know this can happen." Banker: "No worries. The Polish Central Bank guarantees us." Wlodek: "But what if the Polish Central Bank also goes bust" Banker: "It's unlikely but in that case our treaty with the Soviet Union means THEY" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1949126995121775019) 2025-07-26T15:17Z 71K followers, 305.9K engagements "for anyone who's unaware this is the most accurate description of what our media has become ever. Surf Dracula. Don't forget it" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1951069417443635437) 2025-07-31T23:56Z 71.2K followers, 2.3M engagements "One day I would like to see a logo redesign that made it look better instead of soulless and terrible. Can anyone give a counterexample" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1958262177229606982) 2025-08-20T20:17Z 71.1K followers, 29.5M engagements "I worked in the computer game industry for [--] years. I have met Gabe personally. This is 100% a realistic fear. Gabe is barring the gate to Hell. There are others like him but he is one. https://t.co/YLBFYFSrRl https://t.co/YLBFYFSrRl" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1967633004651815120) 2025-09-15T16:53Z 71.1K followers, 3.6M engagements "For those doubting Thai commercials are the best in the world. Possibly the entire solar system" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1969408326623773059) 2025-09-20T14:28Z 71.2K followers, 2M engagements "Comic artists will never draw a cooler image than Watterson's T-Rex in an F-15 Strike Eagle. Bill Watterson just pausing Calvin & Hobbes to flex that he was sitting on one of the coolest alt comics art styles imaginable https://t.co/N1BAkK4DyC Bill Watterson just pausing Calvin & Hobbes to flex that he was sitting on one of the coolest alt comics art styles imaginable https://t.co/N1BAkK4DyC" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1975204450148274360) 2025-10-06T14:20Z 71.2K followers, 1.4M engagements "This is the single best description of modern media I've seen. Surf Dracula" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978135716912652665) 2025-10-14T16:28Z 71.1K followers, 69.1K engagements ""Kobolds are Lawful Evil. They are organized and cooperative but thoroughly nasty to anything outside of their clan and even to each other much of the time." Actual quote from rules" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978616834254573621) 2025-10-16T00:19Z 71K followers, 578.2K engagements ""Blue dragons are crafty deceptive illusionists and tricksters. One of the more powerful dragons they use their mastery over illusion to mislead travelers in the deserts to their lairs. Bold and confident they consider themselves lords of all they survey. They are Lawful Evil." actual rules" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978617543867978009) 2025-10-16T00:22Z 71K followers, 150.3K engagements "When I was set to design Age of Empires II: The Conquerors the main task was of course to add new civilizations. A secondary task was to add a little something to every existing civ so they'd feel special. And the third task was to add new features to improve the game. This third task was based mostly on feedback we'd gotten in the last few weeks of tests where we found problems we would like to fix but more important tasks got in the way. So now that we were able to take a short breather as it were we could put these new features in. The first and most glorious feature that everyone loved" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978928289839485328) 2025-10-16T20:57Z 71K followers, 19.5K engagements "When me and my tiny team were creating Age of Empires: The Conquerors one of the fixes we did was letting you stack up farms. Basically you'd pay your wood costs ahead of time and then as farms timed out the farmer could grab one from the stack and keep going. I have been told that in age of Empires Definitive Edition the farmers now can just grab wood from your supply instead of you needing to queue them up. We actually considered this while working on the Conquerors but we decided that having the farmers basically "steal" wood from your pile would sometimes result in some real frustration" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979220685735309461) 2025-10-17T16:19Z 71K followers, 29.3K engagements "Who the heck can read Tolkien and think its black-and-white Is Denethor all bad Is Boromir Is Frodo all good One of the central most important characters in the whole book is Gollum and hes ambiguous as hell. Anyway Game of Thrones isnt morally gray. Its gray-and-black without any white - just as dull and predictable as what they falsely think LotR is. Nominative determinism strikes again https://t.co/Rycf4fRLJk Nominative determinism strikes again https://t.co/Rycf4fRLJk" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979677479431528588) 2025-10-18T22:34Z 71K followers, 154.5K engagements "One of the two most lethal traps I ever used was this. The problem is when the player fell into the pit he couldn't see anything because of the whipped cream. The other players couldn't see him. When they tried to lower ropes to him the ropes just laid atop the whipped cream and he couldn't grab them. The party eventually lowered a chain to him but they had to find a chain first. Then when it was lowered he couldn't see it and they couldn't hear him talking and eventually he just expired with no oxygen and the whole time I sat there watching innocently. Was it evil Well I AM the man who" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1981113547389366377) 2025-10-22T21:40Z 71.2K followers, 376.2K engagements "In [----] Ensemble Studios started planning a gigantic MMO set in the Halo universe. We code-named it Titan. It was to take place tens of thousands of years ago before the Halos were set off & destroyed all sentient life in the Galaxy. I was in charge of the universe-building - planet histories alien species etc. You could play either as Forerunners or their enemies the Covenant. The Flood of course was in the game but not playable. We had quest lines all worked out homeworlds for all the species etc. etc. The lowest estimate we & MicroSoft had for the games totaly income was $1.1 billion. It" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1982965186781954468) 2025-10-28T00:18Z 71.2K followers, 673.9K engagements "According to Bungie when they gave Ensemble Studios our massive info dump on their universe the horror of the Flood is: As enough infected zombies accumulate and gather dead matter into a single point a Gravemind is formed which is vastly more intelligent than any other known being. The reason the Forerunners destroyed the galaxy was that they realized that the Gravemind wasn't the Final Stage of the Flood. As they got stronger and stronger the Graveminds of various planets would be able to connect their minds together enhancing their abilities and eventually they would reach a critical mass" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1983219666878378274) 2025-10-28T17:09Z 71.1K followers, 368.5K engagements "A fun fact is that the worst writing "system" in the world is Japanese and it's not close. Even the Japanese know this. My best friend works as a translator from Japanese to English and tells me dire stories all the time. Below is an image from Spirited Away in which by removing the second syllable in her name "Chihiro" is somehow changed to "Sen". My friend told me of a civil court case in America in which the attorney asked him how to pronounce a certain name and he had to say "I don't know." The attorney started to mock his translation skills and my friend explained that for a lot of" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1986104888456265757) 2025-11-05T16:14Z 71K followers, 1.4M engagements "Every bad thing J. Jonah Jameson perpetrated was redeemed in this single scene. Please post like moments from film or book. Im not baiting - I just want to know more such bits" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1986493744695431581) 2025-11-06T17:59Z 71.1K followers, 132.4K engagements "The modern world's approach to humor is best-described by C. S. Lewis (in the persona of the demon Screwtape) "Flippancy is . very economical. Only a clever human can make a real Joke about virtue or indeed about anything else; any of them can be trained to talk as if virtue were funny. "Among flippant people the Joke is always assumed to have been made. No one actually makes it; but every serious subject is discussed in a manner which implies that they have already found a ridiculous side to it. "If prolonged the habit of Flippancy builds up around a man the finest armour plating against the" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1986888344144584842) 2025-11-07T20:07Z 71.1K followers, 382.7K engagements "I urge everyone to ruin the Black Cauldron movie for yourself by reading Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series. Also this is a great series for kids to read both boys & girls" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1987989793532457457) 2025-11-10T21:04Z 71.1K followers, 23.9K engagements "Do you know a boy ages 8-18 who can't seem to find interesting books His teachers try to foist him off with the tedious or depressing garbage they were taught in college. So here are ten books that are easy reads easy to find exciting and don't talk down to them or try to "retrain" them into something they don't want to be. 1) Penrod; Booth Tarkington 2) Tom Sawyer; Mark Twain 3) Kidnapped; Robert Louis Stevenson 4) The Face in the Frost; John Bellairs 5) Hospital Station; James White 6) The Wind in the Willows; Kenneth Grahame 7) Ivanhoe; Walter Scott 8) A Princess of Mars; Edgar Rice" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2001356222486974659) 2025-12-17T18:18Z 71.1K followers, 56.9K engagements "I kept a giant Chinese mantis as a pet for a summer (they only last one season) and whenever I gave it something potentially dangerous to eat the first thing the mantis did was deactivate the danger. Usually this was done by chewing through the victims neck & severing its head but since wasps & bees can still sting when headless it makes sense to go for the abdomen. https://t.co/pDpJ6cqlIP https://t.co/pDpJ6cqlIP" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2001371385185423747) 2025-12-17T19:18Z 71.1K followers, 344.1K engagements "I got asked what I did on Age of Empires since I wasn't a coder. (And obviously only coders do actual work.) I was on Age [--] Age [--] Age [--] Age of Mythology Halo Wars and all the expansions we did plus several cancelled projects. My jobs were: 1) I was the historian who was in charge of giving the other team members actual facts to add verisimilitude. 2) I created the outlines for the scenarios and for the campaigns for the expansions and Age [--]. I did not do this for Age [--] or Age [--] themselves. I also didn't actually create the scenarios - I just presided over them. 3) I did the vast majority of" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2001705310067789861) 2025-12-18T17:25Z 71.1K followers, 137.5K engagements "Capitalist states are well fed. Artificial famines are a known tool of communism. Holodomor Cultural Revolution Pol Pot. Capitalism preserves life and provides food. It infuriates me so much when people claim the opposite" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2003144530716164552) 2025-12-22T16:44Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements "Who's the greatest captain of all time You can't say Kirk" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2003151842856013836) 2025-12-22T17:13Z 70.7K followers, 156.9K engagements "This poster is better than the artist imagined" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2007188268572676250) 2026-01-02T20:32Z 70.5K followers, 973.4K engagements "On Nightmare. Also at the start of each level get killed then do it starting over with just a pistol. Thats how I playtested every level multiple times. Every level. Sign of a weak man: Has never played the original DOOM https://t.co/LnsLx3dbe1 Sign of a weak man: Has never played the original DOOM https://t.co/LnsLx3dbe1" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2007335639382126737) 2026-01-03T06:18Z 70.3K followers, [----] engagements "Here's why this map is dumb: 1) Poland can probably defeat Russia's entire conventional forces all by itself. 2) Pakistan has a population almost twice Russia's AND nukes. No one thinks Pakistan gets half the world. 3) France has a higher GNP than Russia and nukes. 4) Italy has a higher GNP than Russia and could get nukes if it wanted. 5) South Korea has a GNP 85% of Russia's divided among a much smaller population and could get nukes if it wanted. https://t.co/KSqdJmTaQ5 https://t.co/KSqdJmTaQ5" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2008255650263167434) 2026-01-05T19:13Z 70.5K followers, 2M engagements "A guy who worked for TI back in the day told me that after they created the first electronic hand calculator they got a call from Bell Telephone. The folks from Bell sounded uncertain and worried. You see when they were creating the first push-button phone they did extensive tests to determine the exact best pattern for the numerical buttons - the pattern that would be easiest for people to tap in the dark or by muscle memory. But now they were concerned theyd completely blundered because they saw that TIs machine had the exact opposite layout. So they asked. What did your tests show The guys" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2008875485187702914) 2026-01-07T12:16Z 71.2K followers, 4.7M engagements "The Minnesota national guard is 13k strong and if it's anything like the California Texas Utah and Maryland national guards (which I'm familiar with) it's composed of the most right-wing portion of the electorate. BREAKING - Tim Walz is now threatening to mobilize the Minnesota National Guard to keep the federal government out of Minnesota. Literal civil war style rhetoric. https://t.co/lwwTTMUYb2 BREAKING - Tim Walz is now threatening to mobilize the Minnesota National Guard to keep the federal government out of Minnesota. Literal civil war style rhetoric. https://t.co/lwwTTMUYb2" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2009046676535947626) 2026-01-07T23:37Z 71.1K followers, 134.7K engagements "I asked Grok to do a map of the world and color it according to whether it wanted to live there. Green means yes yellow is iffy red is no. Suck it French Guiana" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2009405882707443940) 2026-01-08T23:24Z 71.1K followers, 10.4K engagements "I once dreamed about the Dog God. It is He who passes unseen when dogs bark at "nothing". He might have mange because he left clumps of fur behind when he departed" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2011195337894216070) 2026-01-13T21:55Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements "Look at it. Just look at it" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2011587004568650065) 2026-01-14T23:51Z 71.1K followers, 173.4K engagements "This art page was put into the Ensemble Studios artbook which was made available at the end of Age of Kings [--]. This was genuinely our hope and plan. Never happened because MicroSoft laid everyone off despite our never selling less than [--] million copies of a game and making us the single most profitable game company they had. Now what they do is double down on new versions and updates and expansions for the old stuff we did long ago. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012581574353789161 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012581574353789161" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2012581574353789161) 2026-01-17T17:43Z 70.8K followers, 195.7K engagements "As those who follow me know I hate humanoid aliens. This extends to aliens who look just like other Earth animals. For this reason I really like the bugs of Starship Trooper. They are a really cool design (that is nothing like the book) and are not really like any earth animal. Yes they're clearly arthropod like but aren't clearly crustaceans insects or arachnids and really any creature with an exoskeleton would have jointed limbs. Whoever designed these things is one of my unsung heroes. For those wondering the bugs in the book look like big spiders and carry laser guns. They also have a" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2012725660293410867) 2026-01-18T03:16Z 70.8K followers, 90.5K engagements "Here is the truth behind the horror of sea horses. 1) The male has a marsupial pouch. The female doesn't. 2) The female sea horse lays her eggs INTO the male's pouch where they are fertilized. 3) the male then carries the eggs around in his pouch while they mature. 4) when the eggs hatch the male ejects them from his pouch into the water. At first they're so ignorant they try to grab bubbles and stuff with their tails. So this is why the male sea horse "gives birth" to the babies. He even carries them for the weeks or months before their "birth". Yet he is still male. It completely reverses" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2012945452812079553) 2026-01-18T17:49Z 70.7K followers, 35.4K engagements "I joined Ensemble Studios in [----] and stayed until we received the deathblow in [----]. I worked on Age [--] Age [--] Age [--] Age of Mythology Halo Wars and all the expansions we did during those years. Plus I worked on no less than five projects which were eventually cancelled. My jobs were several: 1) I was the "history guy" responsible for answering history questions from artists & other designers so the games and scenarios would have a semblance of accuracy. 2) I created the plot outlines for the scenarios for all the expansions and for Age II. I did not design the scenarios myself. 3) I was the" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2014153991580700870) 2026-01-22T01:51Z 71.1K followers, 16K engagements "Since I actually saw a ghost (when I was 11) arguments against ghosts are risible to me. Now sure you can argue that the white floating translucent figure I saw wasn't a "spirit of the dead" and who knows. What the apparition I saw would be called a "ghost" by any reasonable person. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014158236673577413 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014158236673577413" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2014158236673577413) 2026-01-22T02:08Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "Reminds me of when Plato defined humans as a featherless biped. So Diogenes walked into the town square with a plucked chicken and said "Behold Plato's man." Plato added the phrase "With broad flat nails". A shape with four sides of equal length with four right angles https://t.co/14TArsbON5 A shape with four sides of equal length with four right angles https://t.co/14TArsbON5" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2014512473349460327) 2026-01-23T01:36Z 69.7K followers, 1.6M engagements "We used to leave pizza sitting out overnight in our office at Ensemble Studios all the time. Then in the morning people would take a slice or two for breakfast. This practice stopped cold when one day upon opening the pizza box several large Texas cockroaches were spotted having their own breakfast. From that day on food was NEVER left out overnight. Okay question This pizza has been sitting out overnight is it still edible now https://t.co/msyXqHkFgz Okay question This pizza has been sitting out overnight is it still edible now https://t.co/msyXqHkFgz" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2014840183385161927) 2026-01-23T23:18Z 71K followers, 3M engagements "When Ensemble Studios did Halo Wars we were sent a huge amount of background files which we obsessively pored over. We played the games. We were desperate to get as much right as possible. We made mistakes Im sure but honest ones. @SandyofCthulhu Remember when the writers for the Halo tv show bragged about how they never played the games or even watched the cinematic read the books or comics so that they wouldnt be influenced by the lore Yeah I believe that same thing happened here. Id bet the writers room has more @SandyofCthulhu Remember when the writers for the Halo tv show bragged about" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2014889238857457689) 2026-01-24T02:33Z 71.1K followers, 14K engagements "This movie is a creation of evil and its intent is to spread evil. Im not saying dont watch it but be aware going in. BEGOTTEN (1989) https://t.co/qYr9dohuu7 BEGOTTEN (1989) https://t.co/qYr9dohuu7" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2015526515212222636) 2026-01-25T20:45Z 70.9K followers, 7.8M engagements "Death Race [----] also features a side plot to kill the president David Carradine as "Frankenstein" the protagonist and a heap of other great characters including Sylvester Stallone as a gangster-themed driver. Before The Running Man there was Death Race [----] (1975) think Wacky Races but with mass murder. The U.S. is now a totalitarian regime and to pacify the public the government sponsors a race where drivers score points by killing pedestrians. Cult movie carnage. https://t.co/yT8xemwIGd Before The Running Man there was Death Race [----] (1975) think Wacky Races but with mass murder. The U.S." [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2015804350887759887) 2026-01-26T15:09Z 70.1K followers, [----] engagements "Clark Ashton Smith once wrote a time travel story which actually took this into account. When the travels built their machine the world immediately rushed off into space and was left far behind. They had to wait in their machine until another world happened to come close enough for them to land. Then when they landed the inhabitants were super hostile. So they took off again and kept going until they found a third world. On this world the inhabitants decided the time machine was a God and started worshipping it. Shortly afterwards another time machine turned up from the second world with the" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2015901201678623212) 2026-01-26T21:34Z 70.1K followers, 537.2K engagements "Hot Fuzz is in fact the best of the three films in this group. Just the ride from London out to the sticks is epically filmed. Plus Hot Fuzz is also a horror movie with a sinister cult and everything. Shaun of the Dead is NOT better than Hot Fuzz Shaun of the Dead is NOT better than Hot Fuzz" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2015968523634540694) 2026-01-27T02:02Z 70.7K followers, 467.9K engagements "This might be the worst book cover ever https://t.co/Ix96oifPdx This might be the worst book cover ever https://t.co/Ix96oifPdx" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2016213456744058982) 2026-01-27T18:15Z 70.6K followers, 161.7K engagements "My friend walked into his backyard in suburban Dallas. There was a big scruffy cat. So he yelled Scat The cat just looked him. Getting angrier he stepped forward. Then he thought That car is REALLY scruffy. And he noticed it was REALLY big. Finally he saw that it had no tail to speak of. Realizing he was outside and only about [--] feet away from a pissed-off bobcat he backed up vewy vewy swowly (as he put it). Until he was back inside. Then he watched as the bobcat slowly marched away head high. Probably on his way to eat the neighbors chihuahua. same software different hardware" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2016214684152569931) 2026-01-27T18:20Z 70.3K followers, 564.8K engagements "One aspect of the Pacific war that's rarely shown in film is the ubiquitous Japanese Type [--] "knee mortar". They issued three of these per 3-squad platoon enough for [--] per squad. However the three mortars usually operated together for maximum effect. This gave a Japanese unit a lot more firepower than you might expect and more than made up for their lack of submachine guns. A Japanese company had a dozen Type 89s while an American company only had [--] mortars. The constant bombardment from these mortars even in the small-unit fights inflicted plenty of casualties on Americans (often not lethal" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2016285725411475732) 2026-01-27T23:02Z 71.1K followers, 184.8K engagements "Never believe a professional game reviewer. The truth is not in them. When I was at MicroProse (1988-1993) they openly asked us for bribes for good reviews. They would literally say shit like "Hey fly me to Baltimore so I can see the game in person." Then expect wining and dining. The most egregious even asked for "honorariums". When I was at Ensemble Studios (1997-2009) they weren't as overt. Instead they would call us and make "suggestions" such as "Hey we're going to review Rise of Rome in our November issue. Would you like to buy a full-page ad to accompany it" I had enough experience" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2016565120990879757) 2026-01-28T17:32Z 71K followers, 83.9K engagements "MicroSoft: the company that laid off the entirety of Ensemble Studios. Ensemble had never sold less than [--] million copies of a game. Ensemble was just getting started on the Titan project which MicroSoft itself estimated would bring in a minimum of $1.1 billion. Is that the MicroSoft whining about games I was there. Microsoft blames gaming for the overall revenue decline. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. https://t.co/dD2zlD7mFC Microsoft blames gaming for the overall revenue decline. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. https://t.co/dD2zlD7mFC" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2016860660617953773) 2026-01-29T13:07Z 71K followers, 229.1K engagements "If only there were a way to just toss a handful of peppers into a bottle of normal vodka to produce a chili-flavored vodka. The way you can toss in vanilla beans or citrus peel or swedish fish for example. Absolut Vodka has teamed up with Tobasco to make Absolut Tobasco a chili pepper flavored vodka https://t.co/8inEFZYBRD Absolut Vodka has teamed up with Tobasco to make Absolut Tobasco a chili pepper flavored vodka https://t.co/8inEFZYBRD" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2016910290995335421) 2026-01-29T16:24Z 71K followers, [----] engagements "20 years ago a left-leaning officemate whom I then and now consider a friend was trying to explain to me how killing terrorists won't lead to a decrease in terrorism. I said "But THOSE terrorists won't kill anyone anymore." His argument was when a terrorist is killed it radicalizes the population to produce one or more replacement terrorists and so the total terrorist numbers either stay the same or even increase. I said "Is this why killing Confederate soldiers and Imperial Japanese troops led to neverending war" And he got irritated and the discussion wasn't continued." [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2016923513043435684) 2026-01-29T17:16Z 70.7K followers, 688.8K engagements "A great science fiction TV show that is unjustly obscure nowadays was Journey to the Bottom of the Sea featuring the nuclear sub Seaview. The first season was mostly cold war shenanigans but starting with the second season they moved into science fiction and even fantasy. There was a full-length movie before the TV show but the movie is dull and slow-moving. Skip it. There's an episode with a gigantic undersea werewolf one in which an old-time ghost galleon attacks the sub and one in which Vincent Price uses ventriloquist puppets to replace crew members. It had a smaller "flying sub" which" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2016936078310330576) 2026-01-29T18:06Z 70.1K followers, [----] engagements "There is an ancient Buddhist temple from the 1700s in Thailand whch has this idol of David Beckham proving that David Beckham is an eternal vampire. Some claim that the David Beckham image was added later. But if you know you know" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2016956994020684109) 2026-01-29T19:29Z 70.1K followers, [----] engagements "Just in case anyone doesn't know the Nazis were not Christians. In fact if you were a Nazi official you were required to cease church activity. In the 1920s [--] million Germans had their names removed from the records of churches. They didn't just stop attending which would be easy. They went TO the church and had their names taken off the rolls. That's an active dislike of the Church. The Germans in the 1920s were experiencing a massive decline in Christianity which I believe helped lead to both Nazism and the Communism which fought for the remaining souls of the people." [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2016965347522596970) 2026-01-29T20:03Z 70.2K followers, 646.1K engagements "My personal theory is that radio waves are an interim form of communication and are superceded by something else after only a few hundred years. This something else is fairly easy to find as science advances but you cant detect it with radio antennae. With civilizations only using radio waves for a couple centuries the odds of two existing at the same time are small. It's funny because I don't care if aliens exist or not but the Fermi Paradox absolutely fascinates me. https://t.co/mAygAytmXA It's funny because I don't care if aliens exist or not but the Fermi Paradox absolutely fascinates me." [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017045351363203519) 2026-01-30T01:21Z 70.8K followers, 447.8K engagements "Who would not eat shepherds pie Its one of like three edible meals Britain has available. (The other two are fish & chips and full English breakfast.) Hmm 😒 🤔 https://t.co/Aqj0h0Nl0b Hmm 😒 🤔 https://t.co/Aqj0h0Nl0b" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017062152469881334) 2026-01-30T02:27Z 71.1K followers, 26.3K engagements "Ensemble Studios never had a crunch time that lasted more than [--] weeks. And it was strictly 10am to 10pm AND they brought in lunch and dinner. Of course some projects needed more than [--] weeks of crunch. They handled this by spacing out the crunches. So youd work [--] months do [--] weeks crunch then another [--] months normal time. Our games did exceedingly well and we made our deadlines (exception: Halo Wars when MicroSoft changed the entire plot and theme one year in). It will be so satisfying if this is the game that finally kills Naughty Dog. Culmination of all of Neil Druckmann's hubris It will" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017069523279716826) 2026-01-30T02:57Z 71.1K followers, 17.1K engagements "The Saturday before the Adams release (planned for Monday) one of the devs thought We should do a long-term test on the printer. So he turned it on and left it running all night. He came back Monday morning and the printer was on fire. As you can imagine this was a red flag. So they delayed it while they put in a quick fix of some sort (sorry I dont remember what). Things went from bad to worse and it killed Coleco. Source: Jenille Jaquays (then Paul) who was the head of game development there. I interviewed with them in [----]. He told me the tale of woe later. In [----] the Coleco Adam home" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017099675112026237) 2026-01-30T04:56Z 71.2K followers, 57.5K engagements "The author of the amazing book Seabiscuit which was eventually made into a film suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome. Shed research the book for an hour each morning then rest several hours then write a bit then rest. She obviously did not work swiftly but she gave us the best book about a horse ever written. The final post shared by 28-year-old Lauren Hoeve before her death by assisted s**cide at her home in late January [----]. She had been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome in [----] which she cited as the reason for her decision. https://t.co/XhXEbJJe8y The final post shared by" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017236748569399655) 2026-01-30T14:01Z 71K followers, 105.6K engagements "My wife found herself and was fulfilled by raising a family & loving them. She didnt have to go on a quest journey out into the world with a bunch of strangers who dont know her from Adam and didnt care if she lived or died. Her strategy paid off last night when four grandkids came over to play boardgames and one of them ousted me from my seat so they could play with Grandma instead. The problem with How To Train Your Dragon [--] is that the mom abandoned her husband and baby to go "find herself" or whatever and we're supposed to be cool with it. Well I am not cool with it I think she is a bad" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017262068202713214) 2026-01-30T15:42Z 70K followers, 18.1K engagements "No offense my British friends. But what the heck were you thinking Also beans on tortillas beans on toast any day" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017287176514613559) 2026-01-30T17:21Z 70.6K followers, 292.1K engagements "For Age of Empires we used a fake language for the units. It was kind of a cross between Latin and faux-English. The villagers would say "Erectus" when they were told to make a house for instance. For Age of Empires [--] & [--] we sourced out the real language for the civs. Some we could not and had to use substitutes. No one knows what the Huns spoke back in [---] AD for instance. Someone told me the Huns in Age of Empires [--] speak Hungarian but I don't know if this is true. The Goths don't speak Gothic because we couldn't find any Gothic speakers so they speak German. For most of the languages I" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017360788185391389) 2026-01-30T22:14Z 70.3K followers, 269.1K engagements "Hes so adorable" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017372968893231535) 2026-01-30T23:02Z 70.3K followers, [----] engagements "White Zombie. A playboys old college friend and his brand-new wife drops by his estate in Haiti for a visit. The playboy gets obsessed with the wife and hires the evil bokor Murder Legendre (played by Bela Lugosi) to turn her into a zombie so he can boink her. What a tale. Recommend an obscure movie which deserves to be seen by more people. https://t.co/JgFE2TyOoS Recommend an obscure movie which deserves to be seen by more people. https://t.co/JgFE2TyOoS" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017374490012066046) 2026-01-30T23:08Z 70.3K followers, [----] engagements "They say you eat an average of [--] spiders a year. What they DONT say is that this isnt amortized over your lifetime. If at age [--] you havent eaten any spiders then [---] of them show up at your deathbed and march down your throat" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017375982496432171) 2026-01-30T23:14Z 70.5K followers, 31.9K engagements "The best swordfight scenes ever made are those from the Three Musketeers (1973) and the Four Musketeers (1975) and its not close. Fun fact: Oliver Reed was unable to take to swordfighting so they had him get disarmed early on in every fight and he reverted to what was basically barroom brawling which he was really good at. Thats why hes always swinging around a cloak or a club instead of stabbing. Still looks great. This is by far the best sword fight scene ever made https://t.co/Q21U9rib4X This is by far the best sword fight scene ever made https://t.co/Q21U9rib4X" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017376954954235979) 2026-01-30T23:18Z 71.1K followers, 313.7K engagements "We love Princess Leia. We love Black Widow. We love Katniss. We love Sarah Connor. We love Hermione. We love Ripley. We love The Bride (Uma Thurman). We love Clarise Starling. We love Eleven AND Sadie Sink. Being female in no way affects fandom's love and I wish people would stop gaslighting us pretending that we hate strong female characters. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017378312079749384 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017378312079749384" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017378312079749384) 2026-01-30T23:24Z 70.5K followers, 39.1K engagements "The most important character in most superhero movies is the villain. A lot of movie makers don't "get" that. Yes the hero has to be likable but the villain can make the movie. Do you agree" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017379443560595862) 2026-01-30T23:28Z 69.9K followers, 15.1K engagements "Roddy McDowell has always been one of my favorites. Check him out in It (1967) in which he gets control over the Golem an indestructible killer. Night Gallery (1969) https://t.co/eyLPFRRIIL Night Gallery (1969) https://t.co/eyLPFRRIIL" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017608987047309769) 2026-01-31T14:40Z 70.7K followers, [----] engagements "An Italian explained to me that the two halves of Italy are culturally distinct. One nation two societies. The North Italians influenced by France Austria and Switzerland built up infrastructure. The South had more government corruption and invented the Mafia. Over time infrastructure accumulates. Government corruption builds nothing. Even with two groups that share 90% of the same values over a century that accumulation makes a big difference. Dont rage at me. I dont know how true the analysis is. Im telling you what an Italian from Rome told me. Ive only been to Italy once myself to Tuscany" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017610914149683247) 2026-01-31T14:48Z 70.7K followers, 428.2K engagements "Buchanan was worse but Wilson had a really pernicious effect because historians tried so hard to whitewash him. When I was growing up he was lionized in my school textbooks and I was constantly taught what a great man he was and how evil Henry Cabot Lodge was. How Wilson tried to do right by Europe and the eeevil British & French forced the nasty old Versailles Treaty against Wilsons objections. But even as a kid it was REALLY OBVIOUS that Wilson was a bad guy and a terrible leader. I am so glad people are now seeing through the web of lies. Also I was taught that Andrew Johnson was a great" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017612345590104312) 2026-01-31T14:54Z 70.6K followers, 89.5K engagements "Americans call the sport "soccer" because when it arrived in the United States from England in the middle of the 19th century the Oxford slang in vogue loved to name things by using part of a word then adding "-cer" to it. So since the sport was promulgated by a National Society of some sort it got nicknamed Soc-cer (for Society). That's what we Americans were told the name was. So we called it Soccer before ANY of you guys called it "football". Hell most countries don't even use their own words for foot & ball. Do Brazilians say pe-bola No they say "futebol". Do Spanish-speakers say" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017629349038424205) 2026-01-31T16:01Z 70.7K followers, 171.2K engagements ""in nature the females are . larger and stronger". Sister this entirely depends on whether the males compete with each other for the females or in some cases if they have to fight to defend the group (as with gorillas). If they don't then females are (sometimes) larger. If they do then the males outbulk the females by a lot. Examples: Sea Lions male [----] lbs; female [---] lbs. Lions male [---] lbs; females [---] lbs. Gorillas male [---] lbs; females [---] lbs Norwegian rats male [---] grams; females [---] grams. but in any case males are usually far more highly decorated. For instance human males have" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017650676755796281) 2026-01-31T17:26Z 71.1K followers, 1.4M engagements "What was Jesus's skin color Since Christ's time Israel has been invaded and settled by: Arabs Romans Greeks Turks Crusaders Mongols and Persians. So the modern skin color is not relevant. It's doubtful that a Jew from 30AD had many genes in common with the modern inhabitants. Even the Israelis who live there now went through [----] years of genetic mingling and drift before they returned. The best we can do is look at images from the time but the Jews of Christ's time didn't leave portraits bearing idolatry. So . we don't know. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017655962262507889" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017655962262507889) 2026-01-31T17:47Z 70.6K followers, [----] engagements "This is common for large states. In the USSR the Baltic States always turned a profit which was taken away and sent to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (which were money pits). It had a happy ending though. When the USSR died and communism ended the Baltics were able to prosper. Even Uzbekistan & Tajikistan did better than before. Imagine how awesome Albertas production would be without Canadas weighing it down. This is one of the primary justifications for the separatist movement https://t.co/O4vG2vcrgG This is one of the primary justifications for the separatist movement https://t.co/O4vG2vcrgG" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017724776274665887) 2026-01-31T22:20Z 70.6K followers, 32.2K engagements "Too bad we cant raise him from the dead & kill him again. Epstein supposedly had a hand in the appearance of microtransactions in Call of Duty https://t.co/UCJIPL1ntH Epstein supposedly had a hand in the appearance of microtransactions in Call of Duty https://t.co/UCJIPL1ntH" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017732051286573533) 2026-01-31T22:49Z 70.5K followers, 57.7K engagements "Everyone showing this picture of Lupita Nyongo and the community notes keep saying Well akshually this isnt from The Odyssey its from [--] years a slave. Well okay. So is she prettier now Younger Will she wear a radically different outfit How will she pull off being Helen of Troy" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017732936649609563) 2026-01-31T22:53Z 70.5K followers, 27.7K engagements "I wrote Call of Cthulhu the roleplaying game. Despite this I am fully aware that there are hundreds possibly thousands of keepers who are superior to me at running a game. I've even played with some of them. The fact I created the game does make me experienced so I'm not the worst. But I know others have used the tools I created in combination with their own talents and skills to surpass me and that's just fine. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017749993424142777 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017749993424142777" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017749993424142777) 2026-02-01T00:01Z 69.7K followers, [----] engagements "Mexico is not a race. It is a country. Some Mexicans are pure Indian heritage. Some are African. The bulk are a mix of European and American Indian. The most pale-skinned woman I ever knew was a Mexican who spoke with a strong stereotypical accent. My guess is she was of almost pure Spanish ancestry. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints founded many colonies in Mexico. Technically Salt Lake City itself was founded in Mexico because it was started before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which transferred the intermountain West to the USA. A lot of the church's colonies in Mexico were" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017775650623701195) 2026-02-01T01:42Z 70.7K followers, 63K engagements "Call of Cthulhu has a lot of interesting character choices" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017793228028973452) 2026-02-01T02:52Z 69.7K followers, [----] engagements "@Ethan3of7 Ooh thats a good idea" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017828328494018680) 2026-02-01T05:12Z 70.2K followers, 41.5K engagements "John Carmack was excited about the Jaguar when it came out. No one else at id thought it would be a success but he really wanted to program for it. Since redoing the levels for it was a job no one wanted I got to do it. So I simplified every level so theyd fit in the Jaguars limited memory space. That was my task for several months. Of course I was also doing levels for Doom [--] at the same time. I had fewer and smaller textures & had to simplify geometry. Heres what it looked like. 🧠underrated or misunderstood https://t.co/kkll5rbKzR 🧠underrated or misunderstood https://t.co/kkll5rbKzR" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017919667906732492) 2026-02-01T11:15Z 70K followers, 71.4K engagements "Trust me. Youll love the change of pace. Also of all roleplaying games (with the possible exception of Toon) Call of Cthulhu is the very easiest to play a one-shot to see what its like" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017978219547279392) 2026-02-01T15:07Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "Rabbits are evil beings which constantly plot dark thoughts. Source: my pet rabbit as a teen Mr. Bit What was going on with rabbits in the Middle Ages https://t.co/YELht74uEh What was going on with rabbits in the Middle Ages https://t.co/YELht74uEh" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017979518342791615) 2026-02-01T15:13Z 70.1K followers, [----] engagements "Its not hard. Its Age of Empires of course. I could go into detail about why its the best but will restrict myself by pointing out that it had the most handsome charming and interesting designer ever working on it. I am always torn when I think about what the best RTS series was back in the day. Not a single game but a series. The two big ones I can think of are the Age of Empires series and the Command & Conquer series both brilliant and in a way genre defining. Pretty hard to decide https://t.co/HsPlzBOazK I am always torn when I think about what the best RTS series was back in the day. Not" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2017982943134937318) 2026-02-01T15:26Z 70.5K followers, 10.5K engagements "Gameplay has always mattered more - to the players. The issue is that when you the developer are showing off the early version of your game to the non-gamer strongly-opinionated suits who control your salary you must show them stuff that impresses them. They're not impressed by gameplay because they don't understand it. They CAN see graphics and fps. Also those same suits for some reason are required to ask for something or pee in your oatmeal every time you show them something. Apparently if they don't ask for some change or addition in every meeting they feel like they're not doing their" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018009623144649014) 2026-02-01T17:12Z 70.9K followers, 381.6K engagements "I have zero games on Steam. Well to be more precise I DO have games I designed on Steam but none of them give me any money when sold. Anyway Gabe Newell has single-handedly prevented Steam from being destroyed by the forces of evil that lurk just off-screen waiting to turn it into the same kind of shabby rip-off as Epic Games the Microsoft store and the EA App. The only similarly decent site is GOG which really doesn't compete. It is a blessing to the gaming world that Gabe has enough money to keep him in comfort the rest of his life and is an actual honest-to-God gamer so he cares about what" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018026880235147391) 2026-02-01T18:21Z 71.1K followers, 656.9K engagements "Here are my reasons sir. 1) throughout history disciplined infantry has proved superior to heavy cavalry. Cavalry's use is if it can hit the infantry's flank or if the infantry is open order. I would assume the Romans would form up before the fight. 2) the Romans have pila and effective shields. This weapon combination is the best possible against cavalry. 3) if unarmored British with bayonets could hold off huge numbers of French cuirassiers at Waterloo a group of Romans equal in number to the knights should be able to pull off a defense. I agree it's possible the knights might win. It would" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018032707431788777) 2026-02-01T18:44Z 69.9K followers, 22.6K engagements "He can't afford to have his weapons further proven useless against the USA. BREAKING: Russia says it will not send its forces to defend Iran against the US. https://t.co/JAv7GE2M1G BREAKING: Russia says it will not send its forces to defend Iran against the US. https://t.co/JAv7GE2M1G" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018035198357598608) 2026-02-01T18:54Z 70.6K followers, 27.3K engagements "This is the flag of Amsterdam. Someone from the Netherlands please defend this travesty which looks like the label on a bottle of moonshine" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018040734130057472) 2026-02-01T19:16Z 70.7K followers, 14.7K engagements "Because theres plenty of times the race doesnt matter. Master-at-Arms is from Eternia. Who cares what his race was. But Helen of Troy is from ancient Greece a nation which specifically regarded ethiopians as hideous. I dont agree with the ancient Greek stance but its idiotic to think they would have idolized a black woman. What's weird about conservatives is that something like this will happen they'll all flip out and boycott. But then another film will do the same race swap woke stuff (He-Man) and they'll all cheer for it like clapping seals. Why can't we universally decry woke white" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018064793928872424) 2026-02-01T20:51Z 70.8K followers, 80.8K engagements "My three favorite short poems of all time are Ozymandias The Tyger (Blake) and Jabberwocky. Whats one of yours A beautiful poem and cautionary tale of the impermanence of power. Interestingly one of the final episodes of the show Breaking Bad is entitled Ozymandias. Percy Bysshe Shelleys Ozymandias is one of literatures sharpest warnings about power and pride. Written in [----] https://t.co/8sz8IrsrlU A beautiful poem and cautionary tale of the impermanence of power. Interestingly one of the final episodes of the show Breaking Bad is entitled Ozymandias. Percy Bysshe Shelleys Ozymandias is one" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018089702167806424) 2026-02-01T22:30Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "Three real quotes from self-identified liberals: In a video shared on X: Every MAGA I want to punch you in the fcking face. I want to beat you up until you are a pulp on the ground. I want to curb stomp the sht out of you. You voted for Donald Trump Come tell me in the comments. Im gonna find where you fcking live. Im gonna beat up your whole fcking family. If you have a five-year-old kid Im gonna pick them off too. I f*cking hate you guys. On X woman tells a MAGA supporter I hope you die a slow painful death. A woman in a video on X said she wanted to burn MAGA people alive in their homes" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018101060468895751) 2026-02-01T23:16Z 70.8K followers, 40.9K engagements "He also died because he was too embarrassed to leave his seat to pee during a fancy dinner and drank so much that his bladder burst. In [----] Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe lost a portion of his nose during a sword duel with his cousin sparked by a drunken dispute over mathematics. For the remainder of his life he wore a metal prosthetic nose crafted from brass and secured with adhesive. https://t.co/aUUC2oMFZc In [----] Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe lost a portion of his nose during a sword duel with his cousin sparked by a drunken dispute over mathematics. For the remainder of his life he wore" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018102787867869478) 2026-02-01T23:22Z 70.7K followers, 151.6K engagements "Culdcept. A lost gem. The deepest video game I ever played. What game is this https://t.co/OkcoA6Rpxk What game is this https://t.co/OkcoA6Rpxk" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018110439742407082) 2026-02-01T23:53Z 71K followers, 56.9K engagements "The whole time he had this far superior girl waiting on him. She can even cook. https://t.co/1QV2KRTIEu https://t.co/1QV2KRTIEu" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018129704625348617) 2026-02-02T01:09Z 70.8K followers, 22.6K engagements "I was asked to list off what I thought were Stephen Kings best and worst works. Please bear in mind that this is my opinion of King relative to King. He is not my pick for best modern horror author. He doesnt even make the top ten. But here goes: Best: Christine From a Buick [--] Salems Lot Pet Sematary Dreamcatcher all his short story collections Worst: It The Stand Needful Things The Regulators The Dead Zone Tommyknockers" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018138165299810393) 2026-02-02T01:43Z 70.9K followers, 11.5K engagements "Finland joined Germany because they hoped to regain the territory lost to Russias aggression. Despite German prompting they refused to advance beyond their original borders. Russias former President Medvedev: Finnish Pres. Stubb constantly forgets that his country was a satellite of Hitlers Germany & that the Finns were forgiven for this after WW2 Medvedev constantly forgets Russia attacked Finland when it didnt have any relations with Germany https://t.co/7Ow8Al1bLx Russias former President Medvedev: Finnish Pres. Stubb constantly forgets that his country was a satellite of Hitlers Germany &" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018149293216141662) 2026-02-02T02:27Z 70.5K followers, [----] engagements "This is the best most accurate description of what our media has become. Surf Dracula. Remember" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018168599412724196) 2026-02-02T03:44Z 70.9K followers, 10.9K engagements "I think I have enough chops in gaming to be able to say authoritatively that games must be fun. And right from the start. And for me that means that the player should be making interesting decisions that matter. We spent a lot of time making Age of Empires fun immediately. Here's how: Lions visibly hunt gazelles in Age of Empires. Birds fly by overhead. Why Because it looks cool. You can hunt deer fight off lions and lure wild boars. It's its own minigame. Right off the bat you need to decide where to place your mill (by the berries By the deer herd) your lumberyard and when to start mining" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018189394113335640) 2026-02-02T05:07Z 70.6K followers, 44.9K engagements "Here is some deep philosophy for you all" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018190627121377550) 2026-02-02T05:11Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "I was part of the team that created the Doom Slayer AND I am a man that is uninterested in Warhammer. In all fairness Id have to say that Khorne has got to be way way stronger than the Cyberdemon. The. cyber demon was originally about 20-24 feet tall. I think in Doom [----] Cybers almost [--]. But Khorne is AT LEAST [---] feet tall. So Fellas Khorne vs The Doom Slayer Fellas Khorne vs The Doom Slayer" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018202344723521846) 2026-02-02T05:58Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "Fallout only sold 600k Man I loved that game. That seems tragically low. The funniest cope I continually see from Modern Fallout fans is that "Fallout was failing" when Bethesda bought it. Fallout [--] sold [------] copies in [----]. Fallout [--] sold far less with [------] but was still a commercial success and the brand continued to gain interest across the https://t.co/z5T6osu9zS The funniest cope I continually see from Modern Fallout fans is that "Fallout was failing" when Bethesda bought it. Fallout [--] sold [------] copies in [----]. Fallout [--] sold far less with [------] but was still a commercial success" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018206113733464340) 2026-02-02T06:13Z 70.1K followers, 13.5K engagements "In [----] Tamerlane plowed [---] miles into India sacked Delhi and returned. He left not a single man woman or child alive on his route. It was one of the most pointless devastating and evil deeds of history. Its a good thing he didnt have nukes. Yes we've seen way worse actually https://t.co/4eVntBcGM2 Yes we've seen way worse actually https://t.co/4eVntBcGM2" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018209077156098362) 2026-02-02T06:25Z 70.8K followers, 239.5K engagements "My German friend told me that when the potato was first introduced to Prussia no one would try the weird foreign tuber. So the king (Frederick I) resorted to a ploy. He proclaimed that potatoes were the royal food and that no one else could eat them. Then he planted vast acres of them and stationed guards. He gave the guards careful instructions to never ever catch or stop anyone stealing potatoes. Which of course they did by the hundreds driven by curiosity and greed. This is what I was told and if its not 100% true it ought to be" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018361910526201912) 2026-02-02T16:32Z 70.9K followers, 26.1K engagements "There is a Japanese movie named Sayonara Jupiter in which Earth plans to turn Jupiter (lifeless in the film) into a second much smaller sun to radiate the outer planets. There is a violent opposition movement trying to stop the plan the only reason being that the are pointless anti-space activists. Its a little overlong at [---] minutes but an interesting hard science fiction watch and exactly exemplifies the sentiments described in the post below. I cant wait for the rise in the Anti-Space sentiment we will be building mass drivers on the Moon while activists protest saying it ruins the beauty" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018365604009476409) 2026-02-02T16:47Z 70.7K followers, 212.3K engagements "Literally zero of the Final Fantasy games I played from FF1 through FFIX had any form of fascism as an opponent. Get a grip people. https://t.co/K0iF2zkWeI https://t.co/K0iF2zkWeI" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018399261839483378) 2026-02-02T19:00Z 71.1K followers, 205.2K engagements "I once put a movie up for a bunch of my friends without telling them what it was. When the Toho logo appeared they literally clapped just like in a Reddit story. Also: https://t.co/8H38LuyhdY https://t.co/8H38LuyhdY" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018402450093543886) 2026-02-02T19:13Z 70.3K followers, [----] engagements "Humans in Lord of the Rings are basically "dire halflings". Hobbits were created to be mild unadventurous and bucolic. Tolkien's Humans are seen from the non-human perspective of hobbits and we're larger-than-life. This was a genius move by Tolkien. It not only made the humans become an interesting "other" from the viewpoint of the hobbits but it made us all proud to BE human. At last it did for me. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018413470367281481 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018413470367281481" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018413470367281481) 2026-02-02T19:57Z 70.8K followers, 16.7K engagements "The UN needs to make a case for how it will benefit the USA to pump billions into it. When I am looking at a car or a restaurant entree or a piece of furniture the person trying to sell it has to do the same thing. Why Sandy should pay for this. No one in the real world would try to make the case that his firm is entitled to my money. JUST IN: United Nations is at risk of an "imminent financial collapse." https://t.co/8KrtqM8rc7 JUST IN: United Nations is at risk of an "imminent financial collapse." https://t.co/8KrtqM8rc7" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018419972037370149) 2026-02-02T20:23Z 71K followers, 10.4K engagements "Give the name or a frame of a silent movie that is still worth watching today. I'll start: The Golem 1920" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018428563985453058) 2026-02-02T20:57Z 71K followers, [----] engagements "Pro Tip: if a woman asks you to guess her age always guess [--]. If she's older she'll be flattered she looks young. If she's younger she'll be flattered she looks grown-up" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018428820177428936) 2026-02-02T20:58Z 70.9K followers, 62.4K engagements "Immigration enforcement is 100% beneficial to Hispanics citizens of the USA "I want to live in a country where there are rules the law is respected and the law is enforced." A Mexican restaurant in Arizona run by Jorge Rivas a Salvadoran businessman and local conservative figure recently opened its doors with an unusual offer: to offer free food to https://t.co/OqRI9Gx2aF "I want to live in a country where there are rules the law is respected and the law is enforced." A Mexican restaurant in Arizona run by Jorge Rivas a Salvadoran businessman and local conservative figure recently opened its" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018450081440297327) 2026-02-02T22:22Z 69.8K followers, [----] engagements "Wow someone has Stockholm Syndrome bad. I see now the new line is "Okay maybe the prequels had some good ideas and cool fight scenes but everyone has to admit the acting and dialogue was terrible." No we're conceding nothing. We are claiming total cultural victory. The prequels are actually jam-packed with great https://t.co/xiQOJpllyL I see now the new line is "Okay maybe the prequels had some good ideas and cool fight scenes but everyone has to admit the acting and dialogue was terrible." No we're conceding nothing. We are claiming total cultural victory. The prequels are actually" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018465604202848745) 2026-02-02T23:24Z 70K followers, [----] engagements "Homer says she is white-armed" and fair-cheeked". This doesnt confirm a hair color but she wasnt olive-skinned. https://t.co/IcWCOXNSFQ https://t.co/IcWCOXNSFQ" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018478577562608072) 2026-02-03T00:16Z 70.5K followers, 10.9K engagements "My wife's uncle who was on Iwo Jima in the battle said he saw the flag raising. He said "Everyone saw the flag raising. It was in broad daylight and the island was tiny." If you didn't happen to be looking at it someone would smack your helmet and point to it so you could see." Which awesomely means the Japanese all saw it too. Never forget the real American heroes. https://t.co/77M6YmR1oX Never forget the real American heroes. https://t.co/77M6YmR1oX" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018494892646048173) 2026-02-03T01:20Z 69.9K followers, 510K engagements "When I grew up in the 60s and 70s almost all Latin America was tinpot dictators or juntas. Starting in the 80s this started to change. Latin states became democracies one by one. But then so many started to fall to crime networks or cancerous socialism. Its refreshing and rewarding to see so many nations throwing off their despotic shackles an become free economically successful states. Destroying the criminal gangs and liberating their people. Acabo de felicitar va telefnica a la Presidenta electa de Costa Rica Laura Fernndez. Le deseo el mayor de los xitos en su Gobierno y todo lo mejor" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018500091712045400) 2026-02-03T01:41Z 70.8K followers, 49.6K engagements "Here are my suggestions for awesome history/myth tales not told enough: 1) Maximus Thrax - the giant emperor 2) Sundiata (epic of Mali) 3) decent movie of George Washington 4) Johnny Appleseed 5) Shackleton Would you watch these https://t.co/cTzconMlHV Would you watch these https://t.co/cTzconMlHV" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018512613215478008) 2026-02-03T02:31Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "The easy solution is to borrow from history. Heres three examples. 1) Queen Nitocris drowning her enemies at a banquet. Smendes Please let the water in upon the gentlemen. 2) Lincolns cabinet is at daggers-drawn. They demanded he fire one or the other. He used their egos and honor to trick both into offering resignation then got them to cancel each other out. 3) British Intelligence captured a Nazi spy turned him and got him to be Germans top spy head of the England network. Every new German spy went to him & was taken. The British actually fed real intel to the Nazis so theyd trust him. This" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018542569332826143) 2026-02-03T04:30Z 71K followers, 204.2K engagements "Cthulhu makes the perfect national leader. With anyone else you get the certainty of death & taxes. But under Cthulhu there are no more taxes" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018562674674823204) 2026-02-03T05:50Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "The great secret of the medieval economy is that it has almost no parallels to the modern economy. You can't compare medieval guilders to modern cash. Prices of food goods housing and clothing were not comparable in almost anyway except that some things cost more than others. No one had salaries. "Employees" were apprentices serfs or relatives. You could live a long life and only see actual coins once or twice a year. It was SO alien that if you are running a roleplaying game in such a world you can basically do as you please and have fun. Don't worry about finance." [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018563372409631090) 2026-02-03T05:53Z 71K followers, 93.8K engagements "In the very early 80s we owned an IBM Selectric. My wife put me through school typing papers for grad students. We also used typewriters to create Chaosiums games. In [----] we got Osborne II computers. Our belied was that wed supplement the typewriters with computers. After [--] months of the computers Greg Stafford had to fill out a form by typewriter to adopt a son. When he cranked in the paper a hideous dead spider splayed out became visible. He realized that from the moment he had gotten the computer hed abandoned the typewriter to the point that vermin were nesting in it. We all thought it" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018566911617884360) 2026-02-03T06:07Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "Europeans say Americans are "parochial" but it's far harder for us to travel to another nation. The distance from Dallas to Boston is the same as Berlin to Moscow. We have to go much further and perhaps overseas. Plus if you're traveling to see natural wonders rather than history & culture the USA has plenty more spectacular than Europe. I'm not saying that Europe isn't awesome. I love visiting Europe. But Europe also doesn't have the amazing features below: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018712913473659388 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018712913473659388" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018712913473659388) 2026-02-03T15:47Z 71.2K followers, 73.5K engagements "This was demonstrated pretty conclusively in World War [--]. Pearl Harbor Bismarck Musashi Yamato Hiei. Several more sunk by land-based air. Only one carrier was sunk by gunfire at Samar. Aircraft carrier vs battleship which one is more dangerous https://t.co/5grPUFzrR5 Aircraft carrier vs battleship which one is more dangerous https://t.co/5grPUFzrR5" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018735479102029878) 2026-02-03T17:16Z 70.9K followers, [----] engagements "A mans got to have his priorities. When I taught game development at SMU an artist (she was from Malaya) was on a team making a light action adventure game project. Her sketches of the hero had him wearing a Yankees cap. The team designer protested so she appealed to me. Arent the Yankees a popular team I told her Yes but they are completely the wrong choice if your hero is supposed to be a likable nice guy. We explained that sports teams in America just as in Malaya have personalities. No offense Yankees fans. You know its true. Nice. https://t.co/0TOn6fpS2F Nice. https://t.co/0TOn6fpS2F" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018737332229492896) 2026-02-03T17:24Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "Here's how this trap works. The players see the ladder leading up. They're cautious. They expect a surprise at the top. The secret panel's edges are obscured from view by the ladder's runners & rungs. When the climber gets to it the medusa inside opens the panel and the climber's eyes are naturally drawn to the opening. And BINGO As a bonus the newly-stone body of the victim falls down and possibly crushes the person below. Works like a charm. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018742148925989290 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018742148925989290" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018742148925989290) 2026-02-03T17:43Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "What's the greatest "I'm about to die" moment for you" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018758428718669843) 2026-02-03T18:48Z 70.4K followers, [----] engagements "Guess which political party prevented him. In [----] President Dwight Eisenhower proposed stripping convicted Communists of their U.S. citizenship. https://t.co/IkVkreg7nG In [----] President Dwight Eisenhower proposed stripping convicted Communists of their U.S. citizenship. https://t.co/IkVkreg7nG" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018775760451064035) 2026-02-03T19:57Z 71.1K followers, 879.4K engagements "I attended a Battle of Spotsylvania re-enactment as one of the Union soldiers. As you might expect re-enactors are overwhelmingly conservative even reactionary. Particularly those who march for the Southern side. At this re-enactment there were a group of black dudes in Union uniform (which was historically accurate). I was hanging around a campfire with three of them and asked "So is it creepy or risky to go into the Confederate camp" They laughed me to scorn. "Buddy we LOVE visiting the Confederates. They are super friendly and welcoming. They hand us beers treat us to food and are the most" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018780761348833468) 2026-02-03T20:16Z 71.1K followers, 128.7K engagements "For those unaware my game Call of Cthulhu is the number one roleplaying system in Japan. I believe this is because knights & wizards are not really the Japanese weltanschauung but scary monsters work for everyone. (Yes I know there are some knight/wizard games there. Far less prevalent than my own.) Also Call of Cthulhu is not all about combat - a game feature which women are less keen on than men. Call of Cthulhu is about mysteries and spooky stuff which appeals to women (of course also men). Anyway about 70% of the players of Call of Cthulhu in Japan are women. While Call of Cthulhu does" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018781616579973319) 2026-02-03T20:20Z 70.9K followers, [----] engagements "It's so stark and hideous that I kind of like it. Reminds me of Dol Guldur. My God I think Barack Obama's new presidential center might be the ugliest building on planet Earth https://t.co/q39iANEweJ My God I think Barack Obama's new presidential center might be the ugliest building on planet Earth https://t.co/q39iANEweJ" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018782522168279461) 2026-02-03T20:23Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "When a prisoner slipped her a note to give to his parents when she returned she narked on him and the communists enforced rigorous punishment. While American soldiers were being held captive and tortured by the Vietnamese Jane Fonda was having a great time with their captors. I cant despise her enough.😡 https://t.co/sD684MZ6aI While American soldiers were being held captive and tortured by the Vietnamese Jane Fonda was having a great time with their captors. I cant despise her enough.😡 https://t.co/sD684MZ6aI" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018783854031675473) 2026-02-03T20:29Z 70.3K followers, 758.4K engagements "I watch obscure movies. Some are foreign. Many are old. They are staggeringly hard to find on streaming services. Bring back DVDs. In the week the great Hungarian film director Bela Tarr died not a single one of his films was available to stream legitimately. Not even on bespoke art film services. Twenty years ago you could get them on DVD in a big HMV. This is not progress. In the week the great Hungarian film director Bela Tarr died not a single one of his films was available to stream legitimately. Not even on bespoke art film services. Twenty years ago you could get them on DVD in a big" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018786601837748256) 2026-02-03T20:40Z 70.9K followers, 54.5K engagements "I would like to be mummified in a gigantic sarcophagus and placed in an intrusive stone tomb in downtown Kyoto. ☪ Conservative candidate Uryu Hirano explains: "We can't have Islamic burials in this country. it's not about denying any religion/custom but it can't happen here". In recent months there have been many Muslim protests in favor of Islamic burials around Japan. https://t.co/fOgFkuv6NZ ☪ Conservative candidate Uryu Hirano explains: "We can't have Islamic burials in this country. it's not about denying any religion/custom but it can't happen here". In recent months there have been many" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018787130244530530) 2026-02-03T20:42Z 70.6K followers, [----] engagements "Man alive I'm not Sicilian but I belong to a smallish eccentric church AND I design games for a living and I get so much "correction" from people who tell me what I did. People don't know what they don't know yet they think they know better. A random internet dude correcting A SICILIAN on the word MAFIA. Obviously cosa nostra is another way to say it but I've heard the word "la mafia" my ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE in Sicily. Believe it or not https://t.co/LoIDLxlfEf People don't know what they don't know yet they think they know better. A random internet dude correcting A SICILIAN on the word MAFIA." [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018789084978946550) 2026-02-03T20:49Z 71K followers, [----] engagements "In the 1960s I was reading a Superman comic and Lex Luthor as a sniper shot a kryptonite bullet at Superman while he was giving a speech outdoors. The bullet missed and hit a caveman frozen in a block of ice who animated and the story progressed from there. This REALLY bugged me as a kid because I couldn't see why Lex couldn't try the same plan again perhaps with a different (more accurate) shooter since it only failed by chance. Emperor Palpatine watching Wile E. Coyote: "okay but that contraption had potential Now that you know the failure point remove it and try again No need to start from" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018794663289987390) 2026-02-03T21:12Z 69.9K followers, 139.8K engagements "Two of the things I thought of was: 1) tie a rope around the waist of another character and drop him in. That guy flails around till he grabs the victim then tugs on the rope so they can be both lifted out. 2) stick long spears into the whipped cream until they impale or hit him. He grabs on and they lift him out. I have a third method safer than those above but will reserve it for my personal use. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018803037800714721 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018803037800714721" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018803037800714721) 2026-02-03T21:45Z 71K followers, 298.8K engagements "I have an extensive figure collection. They are packed away for now. So here is what we used for our session in a recent roleplaying adventure. Please note the peep standing in as a terrifying giant monster" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018803245473542544) 2026-02-03T21:46Z 70.9K followers, [----] engagements "Green Iguanas are absolutely edible. Iguana tacos barbecued iguana iguana pozole etc. Marinade in milk or beer for [--] hours before cooking. Look at the size of that mug These things are brutal. She is holding a 12-pound invasive Green Iguana that froze and fell out of a tree in Miami. If he was awake that tail and those teeth would send you to the hospital for stitches. https://t.co/mnuy2oWTV7 Look at the size of that mug These things are brutal. She is holding a 12-pound invasive Green Iguana that froze and fell out of a tree in Miami. If he was awake that tail and those teeth would send you" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018805123758403803) 2026-02-03T21:53Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "Pro Tips after working in the game industry for [--] years. Probably applies to any industry. 1) if they say "We don't need a contract." You need a contract. 2) If they say "Don't you trust us" Don't you trust them. 3) Never EVER let a guy in a suit see a game with unfinished art" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018822861129998571) 2026-02-03T23:04Z 70.5K followers, 90.5K engagements "Pfui. An obvious knock-off of the glory that is Age of Empires II. I remembered what I wanted to play recently 🤔🔊 🕹 Cossacks: European Wars (2000) PC https://t.co/BwheWCjdTb I remembered what I wanted to play recently 🤔🔊 🕹 Cossacks: European Wars (2000) PC https://t.co/BwheWCjdTb" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018834011049652289) 2026-02-03T23:48Z 70.7K followers, 15.5K engagements "If you do Texas next year you can visit London Cairo Paris Rome Berlin Athens Dublin and Moscow. Planning a European road trip thoughts https://t.co/fL79S5deY8 Planning a European road trip thoughts https://t.co/fL79S5deY8" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018837987505971428) 2026-02-04T00:04Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements "Fun fact: in Age of Empires our artists used the nearby Benihana's restaurant as a basis for the oriental building architecture. That's why the asian buildings have blue tile roofs. It was the worst Benihana's I've ever been to. It actually had graffiti on some of the INSIDE walls and the cooks didn't do a show. At least not for us. The one cool thing it had was mounted over the cash register there was a big sasumata (mancatcher). https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018839339527004418 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018839339527004418" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018839339527004418) 2026-02-04T00:09Z 70.9K followers, 108.9K engagements "Ive been here" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018903400860328411) 2026-02-04T04:24Z 70.9K followers, [----] engagements "Cant scare em off" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018918791229374504) 2026-02-04T05:25Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "For me IRL it was about [----]. I was out of shape and decided to swim across the quarry to join my family there. About 3/4 the way I realized I could go no further and started just trying to float to put off my drowning as long as possible. I finally managed to gasp out a Help please to a distant floating platform and a man heard me swam to me and saved me. Im actually better shape now age [--] and could possibly make the swim. Not then. I'm assuming Sandy is asking about on-film but the most surreal IRL "I'm about to die moment" was when a swing-stage fell out from underneath me. I was just" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018922522050494788) 2026-02-04T05:40Z 70.9K followers, 24.5K engagements "I am glad to learn Jane Fonda didnt actually turn in a prisoner who tries to pass a note. I still think shes a traitor. But at least now I know the prisoners werent dumb enough to try to slip her a note. When a prisoner slipped her a note to give to his parents when she returned she narked on him and the communists enforced rigorous punishment. When a prisoner slipped her a note to give to his parents when she returned she narked on him and the communists enforced rigorous punishment" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019052753239114189) 2026-02-04T14:17Z 70.9K followers, 11.1K engagements "It takes [--] damage per bullet. It is genius level intelligence its (multiple) attacks drain your stats and it casts spells. So yeah fire away" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019061710871777747) 2026-02-04T14:53Z 71.1K followers, 12.5K engagements "I did a humorous (I thought) post about how Dark Young were a tough enemy and some of the responses were stuff like "Well a Hellfire missile would make short shrift." or the equivalent of "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster." Of course a Hellfire missile would absolutely destroy a Dark Young. For that matter a burst from a Bradley's 30mm gun would leave it a mass of twitching fragments. But that's hardly a critical weakness. I mean those weapons would destroy a human too. The "hokey religion" part seems to think that the Dark Young would be stuck in the Dark" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019118446701867252) 2026-02-04T18:38Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements "Whoa THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR. I and my talented team labored over this from September [----] through April [----] This was the best computer game expansion ever. https://t.co/FHgNv4bizr This was the best computer game expansion ever. https://t.co/FHgNv4bizr" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019126354344915048) 2026-02-04T19:10Z 70.8K followers, 28.3K engagements "Not just in England - Cairo Moscow Berlin Rome Paris Athens and Cairo were all named after towns in Texas alone. Its wild how many places in England were named after US towns https://t.co/1Vbnpw2EAz Its wild how many places in England were named after US towns https://t.co/1Vbnpw2EAz" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019126502064075070) 2026-02-04T19:10Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements "I like Mark Wahlberg. While I liked him in Blue Bloods I always felt he was underused in a long-term TV drama and could have done a lot more. Paramount has canceled a $150 million project with George Clooney after the acter refused to agree to the terms of his contract. "They want me to do or say nothing political for the next two years" said Clooney "That's not a contract; it's a gag order." Clooney doesn't seem https://t.co/POCvkZ2ouu Paramount has canceled a $150 million project with George Clooney after the acter refused to agree to the terms of his contract. "They want me to do or say" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019130327277662283) 2026-02-04T19:25Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements "A lot of the countries that don't require voter ID (like China) don't actually count the votes. They just decree the victor. My friend was taking a pre-law course at Southern Methodist University which for some reason attracts a lot of Arabs (mostly Saudis). His teacher was from mainland China. During one lesson she asked the Arabs how their "parliament" passed laws. The Saudi who was called on muttered "I guess the king has advisors he might talk to." She had no idea that Saudi Arabia was a monarchy. Nicki Minaj is just unironically correct - the US is essentially the only democracy on earth" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019131170613784637) 2026-02-04T19:29Z 71K followers, 22.7K engagements "If one of my kids or grandkids got hit during an ICE protest it would be because one of the protestors hit them so I'd go right to the most horrendous confiscatory lawsuit available vs. the entirety of the protest organizers as well as the individual responsible for the violence. Lets make this very clear OUR CHILDREN WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ANYWHERE NEAR AN ICE PROTEST Our children were taught to respect ALL Law Enforcement Officers and to never interfere or impede them doing their job. PERIOD. https://t.co/7MCiivPNfD Lets make this very clear OUR CHILDREN WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ANYWHERE NEAR" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019131571929072055) 2026-02-04T19:30Z 70.8K followers, 14.3K engagements "This woman is the light of my life. Whenever I have a new game published I show it off to her. When I get a positive review I read the relevant bits to you. When I am at a convention and see a group playing one of my games I make sure she sees it too. Remember when you were [--] years old and were showing off to Suzy Terwilliger by trying to walk along the top of the high fence That's EXACTLY what I'm doing to try to impress her. She says it works. Also that weird neon thing in her hand is a deep-fried twinkie from the Texas state fair. The blue sauce I guess is antifreeze." [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019135264581644452) 2026-02-04T19:45Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "My friend said "This is a great series. You HAVE to read it Sandy." I got about [---] pages in and complained to him "What the hell Nothing interesting has happened." He said "Oh well yeah it doesn't really get good until you're [---] pages in." So I put it back on the shelf and never opened it again. Beginning of the wheel of time journey https://t.co/sDSxrYe182 Beginning of the wheel of time journey https://t.co/sDSxrYe182" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019136743149302137) 2026-02-04T19:51Z 70.9K followers, 86.9K engagements "The fact that the movies and shows following the prequels were even worse does not magically improve the quality of the prequels. I admit that if I'd seen the prequels with absolutely no knowledge of the original movies I would think of them as simple mid-level science fiction that sure cost a lot of money. But I wouldn't feel compelled to see them again. Instead of bashing on them more how about watching one of THESE five awesome science fiction movies instead: 1) The Invisible Ray (1936) Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi in science gone mad. 2) Metropolis (1927) arguably the greatest science" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019139585733730730) 2026-02-04T20:02Z 70.9K followers, 23.3K engagements "This would be so awesome. My father was a doctor (I guess he still is though no longer practicing). He never really increased his prices to keep up with the times so was probably the cheapest Otolaryngologist in Utah Valley. But he was really good - he invented the antrum puncture and even had a technique that cured the common cold (it only gave a couple years of immunity though). So many times people would come see him and be amazed a doctor of his skill was so inexpensive. Letting people shop for doctors the same way we shop for literally everything else would be life-changing. And no I" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019152092879786445) 2026-02-04T20:52Z 71.1K followers, 12.5K engagements "I think the idea of "barbarians" as a character class in D&D is risible. "Barbarian" is a description of a type of society not a type of human. Look - the Romans considered the ancient Britons of [--] BC to be barbarians. I agree. But those Britons had farmers hunters fishers craftsmen nobles a military structure a religious hierarchy bards and so forth. Not every ancient Briton would be a "Barbarian" class character. Instead there would be barbarian fighters barbarian wizards barbarian clerics (druids) barbarian rogues and so forth. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019168254955032662" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019168254955032662) 2026-02-04T21:56Z 70.8K followers, 21.3K engagements "Seven Samurai of course. Whats a long movie that earns every minute of its runtime Whats a long movie that earns every minute of its runtime" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019178147334242451) 2026-02-04T22:35Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements "My food opinions that no one probably cares about: 1) Pasta Fazool is better with peas than beans. 2) the best enchiladas are just cheese & onion. 3) If your steak is cooked more than medium-rare you should get fajitas instead because you don't appreciate steak. 4) so-called "blue" steak is for posers. 5) never order chicken at a sit-down restaurant that doesn't specifically specialize in chicken. 6) It's okay to order seafood at a steak house but NEVER order steak at a seafood place. 7) the best burger in your town is sold at a one-of-a-kind mom-and-pop place. 8) Kansas City BBQ is the worst" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019185285804749042) 2026-02-04T23:04Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements "When I am stumped I often ask myself What would Grond do Then I set myself on fire and slam my head against the problem. https://t.co/Tk6t92ZAG6 https://t.co/Tk6t92ZAG6" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019190646267933036) 2026-02-04T23:25Z 70.9K followers, 132.6K engagements "We set a goal for Age of Empire [--]. The goal was for us an RTS company to win Best Graphics at E3. This prize always went to first persons shooters but we set our caps and pulled out all the stops. We had buildings that splintered and shattered when struck by cannonballs. We had flaming arrows fired into thatched roofs and wooden walls. We had clouds of gunsmoke belching over the field. We have waves and reflections in the sea. Parrots flew overhead. And you know what We won. Our artists felt like cock of the walk and were insufferable for week. The programmers also took their sizable share of" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019202401262264562) 2026-02-05T00:12Z 71.1K followers, 81.4K engagements "The Noahide laws which all humans are bound to obey state clearly that we are not to eat flesh from a living animal. Drunk shrimp is a traditional Chinese dish where live or fresh shrimp are soaked in alcohol (often rice wine like Shaoxing wine) with aromatics such as ginger garlic and sometimes sugar or soy sauce. 📹 highcosper_gourmet https://t.co/yHjJPuYgnn Drunk shrimp is a traditional Chinese dish where live or fresh shrimp are soaked in alcohol (often rice wine like Shaoxing wine) with aromatics such as ginger garlic and sometimes sugar or soy sauce. 📹 highcosper_gourmet" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019205379037753356) 2026-02-05T00:24Z 70.1K followers, 176.2K engagements "America is a Pacific Rim Nation and we will prosper more and more as we turn our gaze away from Europe. Taiwan passes Germany to become US' 4th largest trading partner https://t.co/MGWd09yEk0 Taiwan passes Germany to become US' 4th largest trading partner https://t.co/MGWd09yEk0" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019214043316384133) 2026-02-05T00:58Z 70.9K followers, 49.9K engagements "Warcraft is intimidating because you break it into the two component parts of the word: Warc and raft. While we know what a raft is warc is a mystery and confuses and frightens us. Also there are no rafts in Warcraft. The term "accessibility" has been warped beyond recognition. What used to be for actual disabilities has been mangled into softening every edge and watering everything down so it's made for "everyone". "Warcraft is intimidating" to fucking WHO The term "accessibility" has been warped beyond recognition. What used to be for actual disabilities has been mangled into softening" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019216646657687803) 2026-02-05T01:08Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements "Who else loved this comedy" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019218499911164155) 2026-02-05T01:16Z 70.1K followers, 17.2K engagements "Yay Its win-win Bloomberg. America First https://t.co/dzhz1XEnB7 Bloomberg. America First https://t.co/dzhz1XEnB7" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019219651054694669) 2026-02-05T01:20Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements "Too bad they kept testing it near Hollywood. https://t.co/rNeDwtmt5m https://t.co/rNeDwtmt5m" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019220048481538298) 2026-02-05T01:22Z 70.8K followers, 11.6K engagements "This is sweet sweet sweet. As of 26th of January Valve has WON the lawsuit with Rothschild and now the case will be proceeding into settling how much money Rothschild owes to Valve for their Patent trolling Can't stop winning even in court https://t.co/lGbGgtD4IX As of 26th of January Valve has WON the lawsuit with Rothschild and now the case will be proceeding into settling how much money Rothschild owes to Valve for their Patent trolling Can't stop winning even in court https://t.co/lGbGgtD4IX" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019223342780395876) 2026-02-05T01:35Z 69.6K followers, [----] engagements "Dungeon Master (1987) originally for the Atari ST has the best magic system of any roleplaying game ever. I include tabletop roleplaying games in this such as D&D or Call of Cthulhu. I thought so in [----] and I think so today. The system perhaps exactly as given to us in the game is not actually "the greatest". It is actually just an introduction to what COULD be the greatest. But it is easily expandable and opened my mind and heart to the possibilities of magic. I blame my own sloth in not adapting it to a game. I haven't actually done an RPG that incorporated magic since then so really" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019237018107277509) 2026-02-05T02:29Z 70.9K followers, 25.4K engagements "My wife's name Wendy was invented by James Barrie for his book Peter Pan. It is pretty clearly a derivative of Guenivere or Gwendolyn though. In my wife's case it's a female form of her father's first name - Wendell. Devil's advocate: the name Jennifer was so unusual in [----] that this Shaw play had to explain it's a real name. https://t.co/CNpic8iHXa Devil's advocate: the name Jennifer was so unusual in [----] that this Shaw play had to explain it's a real name. https://t.co/CNpic8iHXa" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019237493506470397) 2026-02-05T02:31Z 69.7K followers, [----] engagements "Do they have absolutely no ability to look inward No sense of self Anti-ICE activist describes roadblocks and checkpoints constructed in Minneapolis: We are literally creating a place that we know who's coming and going in and out of our neighborhoods." You cant make it up. https://t.co/oWiPJI3PH1 Anti-ICE activist describes roadblocks and checkpoints constructed in Minneapolis: We are literally creating a place that we know who's coming and going in and out of our neighborhoods." You cant make it up. https://t.co/oWiPJI3PH1" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019238185193337270) 2026-02-05T02:34Z 71.1K followers, 14.5K engagements "How about this one Name a bigger downgrade. https://t.co/bjVxbnxmbt Name a bigger downgrade. https://t.co/bjVxbnxmbt" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019240267346506094) 2026-02-05T02:42Z 70.9K followers, 10.9K engagements "Washington was a decent general. Like every leader from Alexander to Patton he made errors. But he kept his army going fought and bested a foe superior in numbers equipment & training. He deserves real praise" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019256415303368932) 2026-02-05T03:47Z 69.7K followers, [----] engagements "A group of city leaders organized and saved Leningrad when it was sieged by the Germans for [---] days. They rationed food & medicine set up a submachinegun factory (which made better SMGs than the Red Armys) kept morale high. They were true national heroes. After the war Stalin had these harmless old men all executed lest anyone steal his spotlight. This is Communisms legacy. [--] years ago on February [--] [----] Stalin's henchmen executed [--] members of the Skatuve Latvian Theatrical Company in Moscow. All of them - [--] actors and actresses five stage hands two directors one stage director one" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019263933664637254) 2026-02-05T04:16Z 71K followers, 158K engagements "Hes not wrong" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019277875464270183) 2026-02-05T05:12Z 71K followers, 198.1K engagements "1) we ARE taught that we entered after being attacked. 2) so all the lend-lease the [---] destroyers given to England the oil the tanks the food rhe ammo the actual LOSS of an American destroyer to a German U-Boat while guarding British ships. None of that matters to you Madelaine Only that we didnt start the fight when you did It's shocking to me as a Brit that Americans aren't taught that they only entered the war against the Nazis AFTER Nazi Germany sided with Japan after pearl harbour and declared war against the USA. At no point did the USA decide to 'save democracy from Nazism'. It's" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019279712716042692) 2026-02-05T05:19Z 71.1K followers, 103.6K engagements "I seem to remember needing Canadian currency on both my trips to Canada - over [--] decades ago. Also since the USA doesnt use Canadian money seems fair. https://t.co/WwjvI11a3q https://t.co/WwjvI11a3q" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019298377041600756) 2026-02-05T06:33Z 71.1K followers, 11.3K engagements "Germansll eat it right in front of you. Like savages. This must be an old picture though because [----] is really cheap. When I was growing up (1960s) it was well-known that raw pork could have trichinosis. I investigated why this wasnt true in Germay and learned that their pork was sanitary. Since the dark days of the 1960s America has largely cleaned up its act and trichinosis is gone from our pork too. Still not gonna eat it raw though. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019385256533537057 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019385256533537057" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019385256533537057) 2026-02-05T12:18Z 70.9K followers, 118.7K engagements "You have to find the special full-auto switch. It looks like this: WOW Hochul says there's a hand g+n that fires over [----] rounds per minute Where can I order one of those 🤣 WOW Hochul says there's a hand g+n that fires over [----] rounds per minute Where can I order one of those 🤣" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019385910195085606) 2026-02-05T12:21Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements "Only this one. Also the Renault FT was the first with a turret. But yeah the T-34 changed tanks forever. Were still designing tanks around its principles of sloped armor potent gun & high speed. Hard to find at tank that had more historic impact than the T-34. Change my mind. https://t.co/Sv6LmBmPUc Hard to find at tank that had more historic impact than the T-34. Change my mind. https://t.co/Sv6LmBmPUc" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019405459615080926) 2026-02-05T13:39Z 69.9K followers, [----] engagements "if your girlfriend asks you to choose shes only using you. Age if Empires love for you is sincere and deep. We coded it right in there" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019428482447733003) 2026-02-05T15:10Z 69.9K followers, 14.4K engagements "Here are two sets of downgrades. I think the amount that the second picture is worse is comparable. I realize that Star Trek is not the cultural nor literary titan that is Tolkien but be fair - Game of Thrones is far better than Star Fleet Academy whatever you think of George R. R. Martin. So the amount of drop-off is about the same. Agree https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019437447222866148 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019437447222866148" [X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2019437447222866148) 2026-02-05T15:46Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@SandyofCthulhu Sandy Petersen 🪔
Sandy Petersen, a renowned game designer, recently expressed pride in having contributed to bringing H.P. Lovecraft's works out of near-obscurity and into fame, with many fans crediting his games, particularly Call of Cthulhu, for introducing them to Lovecraft's works. He also made light of his involvement in the gaming industry, joking about his role in creating content for Dungeons & Dragons and other games. Petersen's tweets showcase his interests in gaming, history, and pop culture.
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Social category influence countries 12.14% gaming 4.29% finance 3.57% travel destinations 2.68% stocks 1.43% technology brands 1.25% celebrities 1.07% automotive brands 1.07% musicians 0.18% luxury brands 0.18%
Social topic influence the most #1088, in the #4701, if you 3.75%, age of empires #22, the first #2610, food #5872, guess #2277, history #1201, the world 2.32%, movies #1394
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"There is and it's an old old idea. It's called being "born again". "Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." Jesus the Christ "There must be something like the opposite of suicide whereby a person radically and abruptly decides to start living" https://t.co/o2itLkk7Ct "There must be something like the opposite of suicide whereby a person radically and abruptly decides to start living" https://t.co/o2itLkk7Ct"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:46Z 71.2K followers, 41.5K engagements
"Donald Pleasance is one of my favorite actors. He flew [--] bomber missions in WW2 for the Royal Air Force. He got shot down and spent 1944-45 in a German prison camp. He killed The Shape (Halloween) at least twice very nearly killed James Bond once was eaten by a white blood corpuscle and was president of the United States. Here he is with his daughter in a really great Amicus movie. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022400475358957819 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022400475358957819"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:00Z 71.2K followers, 17.6K engagements
"For me the deathknell for the new Star Wars was their misuse of Finn. Here was a SUPER EXCITING character - a guy who used to be a Storm Trooper Now joined the good guys What a concept I expected to see him angsty about killing former comrades giving the heroes insights into the Empire and perhaps heading up a whole new movement of ex-Imperials. Nope. He fires blasters into ranks of attacking stormtroopers with glee. He basically behaves like any other vanilla character. What a disappointment. By comparison Han Solo started out as a tricky possibly untrustworthy ally who helped because of his"
X Link 2025-02-02T21:27Z 71K followers, 299.3K engagements
"it's kind of depressing that the most popular Real Time Strategy game today (according to the ever-reliable Reddit) is Age of Empire [--] which we designed back in [----]. Yeah I know it's somewhat updated but still . there hasn't been ANY huge improvements in RTS in [--] years Are there any forgotten game genres or design trends you wish devs would bring back Are there any forgotten game genres or design trends you wish devs would bring back"
X Link 2025-03-17T20:17Z 71K followers, 643.4K engagements
"How to get your dream project - corporate politicking. After my successes with Rise of Rome and The Conquerors I was a shoe-in to do the expansion for Age of Empires [--]. But I had a problem. The natural assumption everyone had was that this expansion would be Asian civs. I did not want to do Asian civs because it was stupid - 1600s Japan India China & Korea were emphatically not in colonizing moods. And believe it or not I do care a little about historical verisimilitude. (Mainly because I think it makes the game more fun but still.) So what I wanted to do was to turn some of the Native"
X Link 2025-03-18T20:05Z 71K followers, 240.9K engagements
"Heres another awesome t-shirt I own from early [----]. Only [--] people got these. The front is just a shirt but when people saw the back their eyes popped"
X Link 2025-03-25T15:19Z 71K followers, 74.8K engagements
"My Food Opinions no one likes or cares about [--] - Pasta Fazool is better with peas than with beans. [--] - the absolute best enchiladas are just cheese & onion. [--] - if your steak is cooked more than medium-rare you should just have fajitas instead because you don't really appreciate steak. [--] - "blue" steak is for posers. [--] - never order chicken at a sit-down restaurant unless it specializes in chicken [--] - it's fine to order seafood at a steak house but never order steak at a seafood joint. [--] - the best burger in your town is sold at a mom-and-pop one of a kind place. No fast food chain burger is"
X Link 2025-04-17T18:12Z 70K followers, [----] engagements
"I am absolutely not an anime guy. But my granddaughter and friend have tricked me into watching Frieren. I like the idea that its after the great quest. And I am thrilled that the demons are unredeemably foul. Its rare & refreshing"
X Link 2025-05-20T02:18Z 71.1K followers, 63.1K engagements
"No point running from the cheetah. https://t.co/LAd17QZEXg https://t.co/LAd17QZEXg"
X Link 2025-07-18T00:15Z 71.1K followers, 17.3M engagements
"REJECT THE FOUR-ELEMENT THEORY. The true elements are Air Fire Metal Water Wood and Void. These are obviously far superior to the pathetic air/fire/earth/water. Use the six elements in your games"
X Link 2025-07-21T18:47Z 70.3K followers, 20.1K engagements
"Yet another Russian joke. A new gulag resident enters his shared cell. The old-timer asks "So how long are you in for" The newcomer says "Twenty years." "Twenty years What did you DO" New guy: "Nothing NOTHING at all." The old-timer says "Not possible. The sentence for doing nothing is only ten years.""
X Link 2025-07-26T15:12Z 71K followers, 851.7K engagements
"For a change of pace here's a joke from Communist Poland. Wlodek wants to deposit his money saved carefully in a mattress to the bank. He walks in. Wlodek: "I want to make sure my [--] zlotys are safe. What happens if someone robs the bank" Banker: "No worries. The main branch in Warsaw will cover the loss." Wlodek: "But what if our whole bank branches & all goes bust I know this can happen." Banker: "No worries. The Polish Central Bank guarantees us." Wlodek: "But what if the Polish Central Bank also goes bust" Banker: "It's unlikely but in that case our treaty with the Soviet Union means THEY"
X Link 2025-07-26T15:17Z 71K followers, 305.9K engagements
"for anyone who's unaware this is the most accurate description of what our media has become ever. Surf Dracula. Don't forget it"
X Link 2025-07-31T23:56Z 71.2K followers, 2.3M engagements
"One day I would like to see a logo redesign that made it look better instead of soulless and terrible. Can anyone give a counterexample"
X Link 2025-08-20T20:17Z 71.1K followers, 29.5M engagements
"I worked in the computer game industry for [--] years. I have met Gabe personally. This is 100% a realistic fear. Gabe is barring the gate to Hell. There are others like him but he is one. https://t.co/YLBFYFSrRl https://t.co/YLBFYFSrRl"
X Link 2025-09-15T16:53Z 71.1K followers, 3.6M engagements
"For those doubting Thai commercials are the best in the world. Possibly the entire solar system"
X Link 2025-09-20T14:28Z 71.2K followers, 2M engagements
"Comic artists will never draw a cooler image than Watterson's T-Rex in an F-15 Strike Eagle. Bill Watterson just pausing Calvin & Hobbes to flex that he was sitting on one of the coolest alt comics art styles imaginable https://t.co/N1BAkK4DyC Bill Watterson just pausing Calvin & Hobbes to flex that he was sitting on one of the coolest alt comics art styles imaginable https://t.co/N1BAkK4DyC"
X Link 2025-10-06T14:20Z 71.2K followers, 1.4M engagements
"This is the single best description of modern media I've seen. Surf Dracula"
X Link 2025-10-14T16:28Z 71.1K followers, 69.1K engagements
""Kobolds are Lawful Evil. They are organized and cooperative but thoroughly nasty to anything outside of their clan and even to each other much of the time." Actual quote from rules"
X Link 2025-10-16T00:19Z 71K followers, 578.2K engagements
""Blue dragons are crafty deceptive illusionists and tricksters. One of the more powerful dragons they use their mastery over illusion to mislead travelers in the deserts to their lairs. Bold and confident they consider themselves lords of all they survey. They are Lawful Evil." actual rules"
X Link 2025-10-16T00:22Z 71K followers, 150.3K engagements
"When I was set to design Age of Empires II: The Conquerors the main task was of course to add new civilizations. A secondary task was to add a little something to every existing civ so they'd feel special. And the third task was to add new features to improve the game. This third task was based mostly on feedback we'd gotten in the last few weeks of tests where we found problems we would like to fix but more important tasks got in the way. So now that we were able to take a short breather as it were we could put these new features in. The first and most glorious feature that everyone loved"
X Link 2025-10-16T20:57Z 71K followers, 19.5K engagements
"When me and my tiny team were creating Age of Empires: The Conquerors one of the fixes we did was letting you stack up farms. Basically you'd pay your wood costs ahead of time and then as farms timed out the farmer could grab one from the stack and keep going. I have been told that in age of Empires Definitive Edition the farmers now can just grab wood from your supply instead of you needing to queue them up. We actually considered this while working on the Conquerors but we decided that having the farmers basically "steal" wood from your pile would sometimes result in some real frustration"
X Link 2025-10-17T16:19Z 71K followers, 29.3K engagements
"Who the heck can read Tolkien and think its black-and-white Is Denethor all bad Is Boromir Is Frodo all good One of the central most important characters in the whole book is Gollum and hes ambiguous as hell. Anyway Game of Thrones isnt morally gray. Its gray-and-black without any white - just as dull and predictable as what they falsely think LotR is. Nominative determinism strikes again https://t.co/Rycf4fRLJk Nominative determinism strikes again https://t.co/Rycf4fRLJk"
X Link 2025-10-18T22:34Z 71K followers, 154.5K engagements
"One of the two most lethal traps I ever used was this. The problem is when the player fell into the pit he couldn't see anything because of the whipped cream. The other players couldn't see him. When they tried to lower ropes to him the ropes just laid atop the whipped cream and he couldn't grab them. The party eventually lowered a chain to him but they had to find a chain first. Then when it was lowered he couldn't see it and they couldn't hear him talking and eventually he just expired with no oxygen and the whole time I sat there watching innocently. Was it evil Well I AM the man who"
X Link 2025-10-22T21:40Z 71.2K followers, 376.2K engagements
"In [----] Ensemble Studios started planning a gigantic MMO set in the Halo universe. We code-named it Titan. It was to take place tens of thousands of years ago before the Halos were set off & destroyed all sentient life in the Galaxy. I was in charge of the universe-building - planet histories alien species etc. You could play either as Forerunners or their enemies the Covenant. The Flood of course was in the game but not playable. We had quest lines all worked out homeworlds for all the species etc. etc. The lowest estimate we & MicroSoft had for the games totaly income was $1.1 billion. It"
X Link 2025-10-28T00:18Z 71.2K followers, 673.9K engagements
"According to Bungie when they gave Ensemble Studios our massive info dump on their universe the horror of the Flood is: As enough infected zombies accumulate and gather dead matter into a single point a Gravemind is formed which is vastly more intelligent than any other known being. The reason the Forerunners destroyed the galaxy was that they realized that the Gravemind wasn't the Final Stage of the Flood. As they got stronger and stronger the Graveminds of various planets would be able to connect their minds together enhancing their abilities and eventually they would reach a critical mass"
X Link 2025-10-28T17:09Z 71.1K followers, 368.5K engagements
"A fun fact is that the worst writing "system" in the world is Japanese and it's not close. Even the Japanese know this. My best friend works as a translator from Japanese to English and tells me dire stories all the time. Below is an image from Spirited Away in which by removing the second syllable in her name "Chihiro" is somehow changed to "Sen". My friend told me of a civil court case in America in which the attorney asked him how to pronounce a certain name and he had to say "I don't know." The attorney started to mock his translation skills and my friend explained that for a lot of"
X Link 2025-11-05T16:14Z 71K followers, 1.4M engagements
"Every bad thing J. Jonah Jameson perpetrated was redeemed in this single scene. Please post like moments from film or book. Im not baiting - I just want to know more such bits"
X Link 2025-11-06T17:59Z 71.1K followers, 132.4K engagements
"The modern world's approach to humor is best-described by C. S. Lewis (in the persona of the demon Screwtape) "Flippancy is . very economical. Only a clever human can make a real Joke about virtue or indeed about anything else; any of them can be trained to talk as if virtue were funny. "Among flippant people the Joke is always assumed to have been made. No one actually makes it; but every serious subject is discussed in a manner which implies that they have already found a ridiculous side to it. "If prolonged the habit of Flippancy builds up around a man the finest armour plating against the"
X Link 2025-11-07T20:07Z 71.1K followers, 382.7K engagements
"I urge everyone to ruin the Black Cauldron movie for yourself by reading Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series. Also this is a great series for kids to read both boys & girls"
X Link 2025-11-10T21:04Z 71.1K followers, 23.9K engagements
"Do you know a boy ages 8-18 who can't seem to find interesting books His teachers try to foist him off with the tedious or depressing garbage they were taught in college. So here are ten books that are easy reads easy to find exciting and don't talk down to them or try to "retrain" them into something they don't want to be. 1) Penrod; Booth Tarkington 2) Tom Sawyer; Mark Twain 3) Kidnapped; Robert Louis Stevenson 4) The Face in the Frost; John Bellairs 5) Hospital Station; James White 6) The Wind in the Willows; Kenneth Grahame 7) Ivanhoe; Walter Scott 8) A Princess of Mars; Edgar Rice"
X Link 2025-12-17T18:18Z 71.1K followers, 56.9K engagements
"I kept a giant Chinese mantis as a pet for a summer (they only last one season) and whenever I gave it something potentially dangerous to eat the first thing the mantis did was deactivate the danger. Usually this was done by chewing through the victims neck & severing its head but since wasps & bees can still sting when headless it makes sense to go for the abdomen. https://t.co/pDpJ6cqlIP https://t.co/pDpJ6cqlIP"
X Link 2025-12-17T19:18Z 71.1K followers, 344.1K engagements
"I got asked what I did on Age of Empires since I wasn't a coder. (And obviously only coders do actual work.) I was on Age [--] Age [--] Age [--] Age of Mythology Halo Wars and all the expansions we did plus several cancelled projects. My jobs were: 1) I was the historian who was in charge of giving the other team members actual facts to add verisimilitude. 2) I created the outlines for the scenarios and for the campaigns for the expansions and Age [--]. I did not do this for Age [--] or Age [--] themselves. I also didn't actually create the scenarios - I just presided over them. 3) I did the vast majority of"
X Link 2025-12-18T17:25Z 71.1K followers, 137.5K engagements
"Capitalist states are well fed. Artificial famines are a known tool of communism. Holodomor Cultural Revolution Pol Pot. Capitalism preserves life and provides food. It infuriates me so much when people claim the opposite"
X Link 2025-12-22T16:44Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Who's the greatest captain of all time You can't say Kirk"
X Link 2025-12-22T17:13Z 70.7K followers, 156.9K engagements
"This poster is better than the artist imagined"
X Link 2026-01-02T20:32Z 70.5K followers, 973.4K engagements
"On Nightmare. Also at the start of each level get killed then do it starting over with just a pistol. Thats how I playtested every level multiple times. Every level. Sign of a weak man: Has never played the original DOOM https://t.co/LnsLx3dbe1 Sign of a weak man: Has never played the original DOOM https://t.co/LnsLx3dbe1"
X Link 2026-01-03T06:18Z 70.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Here's why this map is dumb: 1) Poland can probably defeat Russia's entire conventional forces all by itself. 2) Pakistan has a population almost twice Russia's AND nukes. No one thinks Pakistan gets half the world. 3) France has a higher GNP than Russia and nukes. 4) Italy has a higher GNP than Russia and could get nukes if it wanted. 5) South Korea has a GNP 85% of Russia's divided among a much smaller population and could get nukes if it wanted. https://t.co/KSqdJmTaQ5 https://t.co/KSqdJmTaQ5"
X Link 2026-01-05T19:13Z 70.5K followers, 2M engagements
"A guy who worked for TI back in the day told me that after they created the first electronic hand calculator they got a call from Bell Telephone. The folks from Bell sounded uncertain and worried. You see when they were creating the first push-button phone they did extensive tests to determine the exact best pattern for the numerical buttons - the pattern that would be easiest for people to tap in the dark or by muscle memory. But now they were concerned theyd completely blundered because they saw that TIs machine had the exact opposite layout. So they asked. What did your tests show The guys"
X Link 2026-01-07T12:16Z 71.2K followers, 4.7M engagements
"The Minnesota national guard is 13k strong and if it's anything like the California Texas Utah and Maryland national guards (which I'm familiar with) it's composed of the most right-wing portion of the electorate. BREAKING - Tim Walz is now threatening to mobilize the Minnesota National Guard to keep the federal government out of Minnesota. Literal civil war style rhetoric. https://t.co/lwwTTMUYb2 BREAKING - Tim Walz is now threatening to mobilize the Minnesota National Guard to keep the federal government out of Minnesota. Literal civil war style rhetoric. https://t.co/lwwTTMUYb2"
X Link 2026-01-07T23:37Z 71.1K followers, 134.7K engagements
"I asked Grok to do a map of the world and color it according to whether it wanted to live there. Green means yes yellow is iffy red is no. Suck it French Guiana"
X Link 2026-01-08T23:24Z 71.1K followers, 10.4K engagements
"I once dreamed about the Dog God. It is He who passes unseen when dogs bark at "nothing". He might have mange because he left clumps of fur behind when he departed"
X Link 2026-01-13T21:55Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Look at it. Just look at it"
X Link 2026-01-14T23:51Z 71.1K followers, 173.4K engagements
"This art page was put into the Ensemble Studios artbook which was made available at the end of Age of Kings [--]. This was genuinely our hope and plan. Never happened because MicroSoft laid everyone off despite our never selling less than [--] million copies of a game and making us the single most profitable game company they had. Now what they do is double down on new versions and updates and expansions for the old stuff we did long ago. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012581574353789161 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012581574353789161"
X Link 2026-01-17T17:43Z 70.8K followers, 195.7K engagements
"As those who follow me know I hate humanoid aliens. This extends to aliens who look just like other Earth animals. For this reason I really like the bugs of Starship Trooper. They are a really cool design (that is nothing like the book) and are not really like any earth animal. Yes they're clearly arthropod like but aren't clearly crustaceans insects or arachnids and really any creature with an exoskeleton would have jointed limbs. Whoever designed these things is one of my unsung heroes. For those wondering the bugs in the book look like big spiders and carry laser guns. They also have a"
X Link 2026-01-18T03:16Z 70.8K followers, 90.5K engagements
"Here is the truth behind the horror of sea horses. 1) The male has a marsupial pouch. The female doesn't. 2) The female sea horse lays her eggs INTO the male's pouch where they are fertilized. 3) the male then carries the eggs around in his pouch while they mature. 4) when the eggs hatch the male ejects them from his pouch into the water. At first they're so ignorant they try to grab bubbles and stuff with their tails. So this is why the male sea horse "gives birth" to the babies. He even carries them for the weeks or months before their "birth". Yet he is still male. It completely reverses"
X Link 2026-01-18T17:49Z 70.7K followers, 35.4K engagements
"I joined Ensemble Studios in [----] and stayed until we received the deathblow in [----]. I worked on Age [--] Age [--] Age [--] Age of Mythology Halo Wars and all the expansions we did during those years. Plus I worked on no less than five projects which were eventually cancelled. My jobs were several: 1) I was the "history guy" responsible for answering history questions from artists & other designers so the games and scenarios would have a semblance of accuracy. 2) I created the plot outlines for the scenarios for all the expansions and for Age II. I did not design the scenarios myself. 3) I was the"
X Link 2026-01-22T01:51Z 71.1K followers, 16K engagements
"Since I actually saw a ghost (when I was 11) arguments against ghosts are risible to me. Now sure you can argue that the white floating translucent figure I saw wasn't a "spirit of the dead" and who knows. What the apparition I saw would be called a "ghost" by any reasonable person. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014158236673577413 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014158236673577413"
X Link 2026-01-22T02:08Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Reminds me of when Plato defined humans as a featherless biped. So Diogenes walked into the town square with a plucked chicken and said "Behold Plato's man." Plato added the phrase "With broad flat nails". A shape with four sides of equal length with four right angles https://t.co/14TArsbON5 A shape with four sides of equal length with four right angles https://t.co/14TArsbON5"
X Link 2026-01-23T01:36Z 69.7K followers, 1.6M engagements
"We used to leave pizza sitting out overnight in our office at Ensemble Studios all the time. Then in the morning people would take a slice or two for breakfast. This practice stopped cold when one day upon opening the pizza box several large Texas cockroaches were spotted having their own breakfast. From that day on food was NEVER left out overnight. Okay question This pizza has been sitting out overnight is it still edible now https://t.co/msyXqHkFgz Okay question This pizza has been sitting out overnight is it still edible now https://t.co/msyXqHkFgz"
X Link 2026-01-23T23:18Z 71K followers, 3M engagements
"When Ensemble Studios did Halo Wars we were sent a huge amount of background files which we obsessively pored over. We played the games. We were desperate to get as much right as possible. We made mistakes Im sure but honest ones. @SandyofCthulhu Remember when the writers for the Halo tv show bragged about how they never played the games or even watched the cinematic read the books or comics so that they wouldnt be influenced by the lore Yeah I believe that same thing happened here. Id bet the writers room has more @SandyofCthulhu Remember when the writers for the Halo tv show bragged about"
X Link 2026-01-24T02:33Z 71.1K followers, 14K engagements
"This movie is a creation of evil and its intent is to spread evil. Im not saying dont watch it but be aware going in. BEGOTTEN (1989) https://t.co/qYr9dohuu7 BEGOTTEN (1989) https://t.co/qYr9dohuu7"
X Link 2026-01-25T20:45Z 70.9K followers, 7.8M engagements
"Death Race [----] also features a side plot to kill the president David Carradine as "Frankenstein" the protagonist and a heap of other great characters including Sylvester Stallone as a gangster-themed driver. Before The Running Man there was Death Race [----] (1975) think Wacky Races but with mass murder. The U.S. is now a totalitarian regime and to pacify the public the government sponsors a race where drivers score points by killing pedestrians. Cult movie carnage. https://t.co/yT8xemwIGd Before The Running Man there was Death Race [----] (1975) think Wacky Races but with mass murder. The U.S."
X Link 2026-01-26T15:09Z 70.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Clark Ashton Smith once wrote a time travel story which actually took this into account. When the travels built their machine the world immediately rushed off into space and was left far behind. They had to wait in their machine until another world happened to come close enough for them to land. Then when they landed the inhabitants were super hostile. So they took off again and kept going until they found a third world. On this world the inhabitants decided the time machine was a God and started worshipping it. Shortly afterwards another time machine turned up from the second world with the"
X Link 2026-01-26T21:34Z 70.1K followers, 537.2K engagements
"Hot Fuzz is in fact the best of the three films in this group. Just the ride from London out to the sticks is epically filmed. Plus Hot Fuzz is also a horror movie with a sinister cult and everything. Shaun of the Dead is NOT better than Hot Fuzz Shaun of the Dead is NOT better than Hot Fuzz"
X Link 2026-01-27T02:02Z 70.7K followers, 467.9K engagements
"This might be the worst book cover ever https://t.co/Ix96oifPdx This might be the worst book cover ever https://t.co/Ix96oifPdx"
X Link 2026-01-27T18:15Z 70.6K followers, 161.7K engagements
"My friend walked into his backyard in suburban Dallas. There was a big scruffy cat. So he yelled Scat The cat just looked him. Getting angrier he stepped forward. Then he thought That car is REALLY scruffy. And he noticed it was REALLY big. Finally he saw that it had no tail to speak of. Realizing he was outside and only about [--] feet away from a pissed-off bobcat he backed up vewy vewy swowly (as he put it). Until he was back inside. Then he watched as the bobcat slowly marched away head high. Probably on his way to eat the neighbors chihuahua. same software different hardware"
X Link 2026-01-27T18:20Z 70.3K followers, 564.8K engagements
"One aspect of the Pacific war that's rarely shown in film is the ubiquitous Japanese Type [--] "knee mortar". They issued three of these per 3-squad platoon enough for [--] per squad. However the three mortars usually operated together for maximum effect. This gave a Japanese unit a lot more firepower than you might expect and more than made up for their lack of submachine guns. A Japanese company had a dozen Type 89s while an American company only had [--] mortars. The constant bombardment from these mortars even in the small-unit fights inflicted plenty of casualties on Americans (often not lethal"
X Link 2026-01-27T23:02Z 71.1K followers, 184.8K engagements
"Never believe a professional game reviewer. The truth is not in them. When I was at MicroProse (1988-1993) they openly asked us for bribes for good reviews. They would literally say shit like "Hey fly me to Baltimore so I can see the game in person." Then expect wining and dining. The most egregious even asked for "honorariums". When I was at Ensemble Studios (1997-2009) they weren't as overt. Instead they would call us and make "suggestions" such as "Hey we're going to review Rise of Rome in our November issue. Would you like to buy a full-page ad to accompany it" I had enough experience"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:32Z 71K followers, 83.9K engagements
"MicroSoft: the company that laid off the entirety of Ensemble Studios. Ensemble had never sold less than [--] million copies of a game. Ensemble was just getting started on the Titan project which MicroSoft itself estimated would bring in a minimum of $1.1 billion. Is that the MicroSoft whining about games I was there. Microsoft blames gaming for the overall revenue decline. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. https://t.co/dD2zlD7mFC Microsoft blames gaming for the overall revenue decline. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. https://t.co/dD2zlD7mFC"
X Link 2026-01-29T13:07Z 71K followers, 229.1K engagements
"If only there were a way to just toss a handful of peppers into a bottle of normal vodka to produce a chili-flavored vodka. The way you can toss in vanilla beans or citrus peel or swedish fish for example. Absolut Vodka has teamed up with Tobasco to make Absolut Tobasco a chili pepper flavored vodka https://t.co/8inEFZYBRD Absolut Vodka has teamed up with Tobasco to make Absolut Tobasco a chili pepper flavored vodka https://t.co/8inEFZYBRD"
X Link 2026-01-29T16:24Z 71K followers, [----] engagements
"20 years ago a left-leaning officemate whom I then and now consider a friend was trying to explain to me how killing terrorists won't lead to a decrease in terrorism. I said "But THOSE terrorists won't kill anyone anymore." His argument was when a terrorist is killed it radicalizes the population to produce one or more replacement terrorists and so the total terrorist numbers either stay the same or even increase. I said "Is this why killing Confederate soldiers and Imperial Japanese troops led to neverending war" And he got irritated and the discussion wasn't continued."
X Link 2026-01-29T17:16Z 70.7K followers, 688.8K engagements
"A great science fiction TV show that is unjustly obscure nowadays was Journey to the Bottom of the Sea featuring the nuclear sub Seaview. The first season was mostly cold war shenanigans but starting with the second season they moved into science fiction and even fantasy. There was a full-length movie before the TV show but the movie is dull and slow-moving. Skip it. There's an episode with a gigantic undersea werewolf one in which an old-time ghost galleon attacks the sub and one in which Vincent Price uses ventriloquist puppets to replace crew members. It had a smaller "flying sub" which"
X Link 2026-01-29T18:06Z 70.1K followers, [----] engagements
"There is an ancient Buddhist temple from the 1700s in Thailand whch has this idol of David Beckham proving that David Beckham is an eternal vampire. Some claim that the David Beckham image was added later. But if you know you know"
X Link 2026-01-29T19:29Z 70.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Just in case anyone doesn't know the Nazis were not Christians. In fact if you were a Nazi official you were required to cease church activity. In the 1920s [--] million Germans had their names removed from the records of churches. They didn't just stop attending which would be easy. They went TO the church and had their names taken off the rolls. That's an active dislike of the Church. The Germans in the 1920s were experiencing a massive decline in Christianity which I believe helped lead to both Nazism and the Communism which fought for the remaining souls of the people."
X Link 2026-01-29T20:03Z 70.2K followers, 646.1K engagements
"My personal theory is that radio waves are an interim form of communication and are superceded by something else after only a few hundred years. This something else is fairly easy to find as science advances but you cant detect it with radio antennae. With civilizations only using radio waves for a couple centuries the odds of two existing at the same time are small. It's funny because I don't care if aliens exist or not but the Fermi Paradox absolutely fascinates me. https://t.co/mAygAytmXA It's funny because I don't care if aliens exist or not but the Fermi Paradox absolutely fascinates me."
X Link 2026-01-30T01:21Z 70.8K followers, 447.8K engagements
"Who would not eat shepherds pie Its one of like three edible meals Britain has available. (The other two are fish & chips and full English breakfast.) Hmm 😒 🤔 https://t.co/Aqj0h0Nl0b Hmm 😒 🤔 https://t.co/Aqj0h0Nl0b"
X Link 2026-01-30T02:27Z 71.1K followers, 26.3K engagements
"Ensemble Studios never had a crunch time that lasted more than [--] weeks. And it was strictly 10am to 10pm AND they brought in lunch and dinner. Of course some projects needed more than [--] weeks of crunch. They handled this by spacing out the crunches. So youd work [--] months do [--] weeks crunch then another [--] months normal time. Our games did exceedingly well and we made our deadlines (exception: Halo Wars when MicroSoft changed the entire plot and theme one year in). It will be so satisfying if this is the game that finally kills Naughty Dog. Culmination of all of Neil Druckmann's hubris It will"
X Link 2026-01-30T02:57Z 71.1K followers, 17.1K engagements
"The Saturday before the Adams release (planned for Monday) one of the devs thought We should do a long-term test on the printer. So he turned it on and left it running all night. He came back Monday morning and the printer was on fire. As you can imagine this was a red flag. So they delayed it while they put in a quick fix of some sort (sorry I dont remember what). Things went from bad to worse and it killed Coleco. Source: Jenille Jaquays (then Paul) who was the head of game development there. I interviewed with them in [----]. He told me the tale of woe later. In [----] the Coleco Adam home"
X Link 2026-01-30T04:56Z 71.2K followers, 57.5K engagements
"The author of the amazing book Seabiscuit which was eventually made into a film suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome. Shed research the book for an hour each morning then rest several hours then write a bit then rest. She obviously did not work swiftly but she gave us the best book about a horse ever written. The final post shared by 28-year-old Lauren Hoeve before her death by assisted s**cide at her home in late January [----]. She had been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome in [----] which she cited as the reason for her decision. https://t.co/XhXEbJJe8y The final post shared by"
X Link 2026-01-30T14:01Z 71K followers, 105.6K engagements
"My wife found herself and was fulfilled by raising a family & loving them. She didnt have to go on a quest journey out into the world with a bunch of strangers who dont know her from Adam and didnt care if she lived or died. Her strategy paid off last night when four grandkids came over to play boardgames and one of them ousted me from my seat so they could play with Grandma instead. The problem with How To Train Your Dragon [--] is that the mom abandoned her husband and baby to go "find herself" or whatever and we're supposed to be cool with it. Well I am not cool with it I think she is a bad"
X Link 2026-01-30T15:42Z 70K followers, 18.1K engagements
"No offense my British friends. But what the heck were you thinking Also beans on tortillas beans on toast any day"
X Link 2026-01-30T17:21Z 70.6K followers, 292.1K engagements
"For Age of Empires we used a fake language for the units. It was kind of a cross between Latin and faux-English. The villagers would say "Erectus" when they were told to make a house for instance. For Age of Empires [--] & [--] we sourced out the real language for the civs. Some we could not and had to use substitutes. No one knows what the Huns spoke back in [---] AD for instance. Someone told me the Huns in Age of Empires [--] speak Hungarian but I don't know if this is true. The Goths don't speak Gothic because we couldn't find any Gothic speakers so they speak German. For most of the languages I"
X Link 2026-01-30T22:14Z 70.3K followers, 269.1K engagements
"Hes so adorable"
X Link 2026-01-30T23:02Z 70.3K followers, [----] engagements
"White Zombie. A playboys old college friend and his brand-new wife drops by his estate in Haiti for a visit. The playboy gets obsessed with the wife and hires the evil bokor Murder Legendre (played by Bela Lugosi) to turn her into a zombie so he can boink her. What a tale. Recommend an obscure movie which deserves to be seen by more people. https://t.co/JgFE2TyOoS Recommend an obscure movie which deserves to be seen by more people. https://t.co/JgFE2TyOoS"
X Link 2026-01-30T23:08Z 70.3K followers, [----] engagements
"They say you eat an average of [--] spiders a year. What they DONT say is that this isnt amortized over your lifetime. If at age [--] you havent eaten any spiders then [---] of them show up at your deathbed and march down your throat"
X Link 2026-01-30T23:14Z 70.5K followers, 31.9K engagements
"The best swordfight scenes ever made are those from the Three Musketeers (1973) and the Four Musketeers (1975) and its not close. Fun fact: Oliver Reed was unable to take to swordfighting so they had him get disarmed early on in every fight and he reverted to what was basically barroom brawling which he was really good at. Thats why hes always swinging around a cloak or a club instead of stabbing. Still looks great. This is by far the best sword fight scene ever made https://t.co/Q21U9rib4X This is by far the best sword fight scene ever made https://t.co/Q21U9rib4X"
X Link 2026-01-30T23:18Z 71.1K followers, 313.7K engagements
"We love Princess Leia. We love Black Widow. We love Katniss. We love Sarah Connor. We love Hermione. We love Ripley. We love The Bride (Uma Thurman). We love Clarise Starling. We love Eleven AND Sadie Sink. Being female in no way affects fandom's love and I wish people would stop gaslighting us pretending that we hate strong female characters. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017378312079749384 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017378312079749384"
X Link 2026-01-30T23:24Z 70.5K followers, 39.1K engagements
"The most important character in most superhero movies is the villain. A lot of movie makers don't "get" that. Yes the hero has to be likable but the villain can make the movie. Do you agree"
X Link 2026-01-30T23:28Z 69.9K followers, 15.1K engagements
"Roddy McDowell has always been one of my favorites. Check him out in It (1967) in which he gets control over the Golem an indestructible killer. Night Gallery (1969) https://t.co/eyLPFRRIIL Night Gallery (1969) https://t.co/eyLPFRRIIL"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:40Z 70.7K followers, [----] engagements
"An Italian explained to me that the two halves of Italy are culturally distinct. One nation two societies. The North Italians influenced by France Austria and Switzerland built up infrastructure. The South had more government corruption and invented the Mafia. Over time infrastructure accumulates. Government corruption builds nothing. Even with two groups that share 90% of the same values over a century that accumulation makes a big difference. Dont rage at me. I dont know how true the analysis is. Im telling you what an Italian from Rome told me. Ive only been to Italy once myself to Tuscany"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:48Z 70.7K followers, 428.2K engagements
"Buchanan was worse but Wilson had a really pernicious effect because historians tried so hard to whitewash him. When I was growing up he was lionized in my school textbooks and I was constantly taught what a great man he was and how evil Henry Cabot Lodge was. How Wilson tried to do right by Europe and the eeevil British & French forced the nasty old Versailles Treaty against Wilsons objections. But even as a kid it was REALLY OBVIOUS that Wilson was a bad guy and a terrible leader. I am so glad people are now seeing through the web of lies. Also I was taught that Andrew Johnson was a great"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:54Z 70.6K followers, 89.5K engagements
"Americans call the sport "soccer" because when it arrived in the United States from England in the middle of the 19th century the Oxford slang in vogue loved to name things by using part of a word then adding "-cer" to it. So since the sport was promulgated by a National Society of some sort it got nicknamed Soc-cer (for Society). That's what we Americans were told the name was. So we called it Soccer before ANY of you guys called it "football". Hell most countries don't even use their own words for foot & ball. Do Brazilians say pe-bola No they say "futebol". Do Spanish-speakers say"
X Link 2026-01-31T16:01Z 70.7K followers, 171.2K engagements
""in nature the females are . larger and stronger". Sister this entirely depends on whether the males compete with each other for the females or in some cases if they have to fight to defend the group (as with gorillas). If they don't then females are (sometimes) larger. If they do then the males outbulk the females by a lot. Examples: Sea Lions male [----] lbs; female [---] lbs. Lions male [---] lbs; females [---] lbs. Gorillas male [---] lbs; females [---] lbs Norwegian rats male [---] grams; females [---] grams. but in any case males are usually far more highly decorated. For instance human males have"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:26Z 71.1K followers, 1.4M engagements
"What was Jesus's skin color Since Christ's time Israel has been invaded and settled by: Arabs Romans Greeks Turks Crusaders Mongols and Persians. So the modern skin color is not relevant. It's doubtful that a Jew from 30AD had many genes in common with the modern inhabitants. Even the Israelis who live there now went through [----] years of genetic mingling and drift before they returned. The best we can do is look at images from the time but the Jews of Christ's time didn't leave portraits bearing idolatry. So . we don't know. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017655962262507889"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:47Z 70.6K followers, [----] engagements
"This is common for large states. In the USSR the Baltic States always turned a profit which was taken away and sent to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (which were money pits). It had a happy ending though. When the USSR died and communism ended the Baltics were able to prosper. Even Uzbekistan & Tajikistan did better than before. Imagine how awesome Albertas production would be without Canadas weighing it down. This is one of the primary justifications for the separatist movement https://t.co/O4vG2vcrgG This is one of the primary justifications for the separatist movement https://t.co/O4vG2vcrgG"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:20Z 70.6K followers, 32.2K engagements
"Too bad we cant raise him from the dead & kill him again. Epstein supposedly had a hand in the appearance of microtransactions in Call of Duty https://t.co/UCJIPL1ntH Epstein supposedly had a hand in the appearance of microtransactions in Call of Duty https://t.co/UCJIPL1ntH"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:49Z 70.5K followers, 57.7K engagements
"Everyone showing this picture of Lupita Nyongo and the community notes keep saying Well akshually this isnt from The Odyssey its from [--] years a slave. Well okay. So is she prettier now Younger Will she wear a radically different outfit How will she pull off being Helen of Troy"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:53Z 70.5K followers, 27.7K engagements
"I wrote Call of Cthulhu the roleplaying game. Despite this I am fully aware that there are hundreds possibly thousands of keepers who are superior to me at running a game. I've even played with some of them. The fact I created the game does make me experienced so I'm not the worst. But I know others have used the tools I created in combination with their own talents and skills to surpass me and that's just fine. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017749993424142777 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017749993424142777"
X Link 2026-02-01T00:01Z 69.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Mexico is not a race. It is a country. Some Mexicans are pure Indian heritage. Some are African. The bulk are a mix of European and American Indian. The most pale-skinned woman I ever knew was a Mexican who spoke with a strong stereotypical accent. My guess is she was of almost pure Spanish ancestry. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints founded many colonies in Mexico. Technically Salt Lake City itself was founded in Mexico because it was started before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which transferred the intermountain West to the USA. A lot of the church's colonies in Mexico were"
X Link 2026-02-01T01:42Z 70.7K followers, 63K engagements
"Call of Cthulhu has a lot of interesting character choices"
X Link 2026-02-01T02:52Z 69.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@Ethan3of7 Ooh thats a good idea"
X Link 2026-02-01T05:12Z 70.2K followers, 41.5K engagements
"John Carmack was excited about the Jaguar when it came out. No one else at id thought it would be a success but he really wanted to program for it. Since redoing the levels for it was a job no one wanted I got to do it. So I simplified every level so theyd fit in the Jaguars limited memory space. That was my task for several months. Of course I was also doing levels for Doom [--] at the same time. I had fewer and smaller textures & had to simplify geometry. Heres what it looked like. 🧠underrated or misunderstood https://t.co/kkll5rbKzR 🧠underrated or misunderstood https://t.co/kkll5rbKzR"
X Link 2026-02-01T11:15Z 70K followers, 71.4K engagements
"Trust me. Youll love the change of pace. Also of all roleplaying games (with the possible exception of Toon) Call of Cthulhu is the very easiest to play a one-shot to see what its like"
X Link 2026-02-01T15:07Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Rabbits are evil beings which constantly plot dark thoughts. Source: my pet rabbit as a teen Mr. Bit What was going on with rabbits in the Middle Ages https://t.co/YELht74uEh What was going on with rabbits in the Middle Ages https://t.co/YELht74uEh"
X Link 2026-02-01T15:13Z 70.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Its not hard. Its Age of Empires of course. I could go into detail about why its the best but will restrict myself by pointing out that it had the most handsome charming and interesting designer ever working on it. I am always torn when I think about what the best RTS series was back in the day. Not a single game but a series. The two big ones I can think of are the Age of Empires series and the Command & Conquer series both brilliant and in a way genre defining. Pretty hard to decide https://t.co/HsPlzBOazK I am always torn when I think about what the best RTS series was back in the day. Not"
X Link 2026-02-01T15:26Z 70.5K followers, 10.5K engagements
"Gameplay has always mattered more - to the players. The issue is that when you the developer are showing off the early version of your game to the non-gamer strongly-opinionated suits who control your salary you must show them stuff that impresses them. They're not impressed by gameplay because they don't understand it. They CAN see graphics and fps. Also those same suits for some reason are required to ask for something or pee in your oatmeal every time you show them something. Apparently if they don't ask for some change or addition in every meeting they feel like they're not doing their"
X Link 2026-02-01T17:12Z 70.9K followers, 381.6K engagements
"I have zero games on Steam. Well to be more precise I DO have games I designed on Steam but none of them give me any money when sold. Anyway Gabe Newell has single-handedly prevented Steam from being destroyed by the forces of evil that lurk just off-screen waiting to turn it into the same kind of shabby rip-off as Epic Games the Microsoft store and the EA App. The only similarly decent site is GOG which really doesn't compete. It is a blessing to the gaming world that Gabe has enough money to keep him in comfort the rest of his life and is an actual honest-to-God gamer so he cares about what"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:21Z 71.1K followers, 656.9K engagements
"Here are my reasons sir. 1) throughout history disciplined infantry has proved superior to heavy cavalry. Cavalry's use is if it can hit the infantry's flank or if the infantry is open order. I would assume the Romans would form up before the fight. 2) the Romans have pila and effective shields. This weapon combination is the best possible against cavalry. 3) if unarmored British with bayonets could hold off huge numbers of French cuirassiers at Waterloo a group of Romans equal in number to the knights should be able to pull off a defense. I agree it's possible the knights might win. It would"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:44Z 69.9K followers, 22.6K engagements
"He can't afford to have his weapons further proven useless against the USA. BREAKING: Russia says it will not send its forces to defend Iran against the US. https://t.co/JAv7GE2M1G BREAKING: Russia says it will not send its forces to defend Iran against the US. https://t.co/JAv7GE2M1G"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:54Z 70.6K followers, 27.3K engagements
"This is the flag of Amsterdam. Someone from the Netherlands please defend this travesty which looks like the label on a bottle of moonshine"
X Link 2026-02-01T19:16Z 70.7K followers, 14.7K engagements
"Because theres plenty of times the race doesnt matter. Master-at-Arms is from Eternia. Who cares what his race was. But Helen of Troy is from ancient Greece a nation which specifically regarded ethiopians as hideous. I dont agree with the ancient Greek stance but its idiotic to think they would have idolized a black woman. What's weird about conservatives is that something like this will happen they'll all flip out and boycott. But then another film will do the same race swap woke stuff (He-Man) and they'll all cheer for it like clapping seals. Why can't we universally decry woke white"
X Link 2026-02-01T20:51Z 70.8K followers, 80.8K engagements
"My three favorite short poems of all time are Ozymandias The Tyger (Blake) and Jabberwocky. Whats one of yours A beautiful poem and cautionary tale of the impermanence of power. Interestingly one of the final episodes of the show Breaking Bad is entitled Ozymandias. Percy Bysshe Shelleys Ozymandias is one of literatures sharpest warnings about power and pride. Written in [----] https://t.co/8sz8IrsrlU A beautiful poem and cautionary tale of the impermanence of power. Interestingly one of the final episodes of the show Breaking Bad is entitled Ozymandias. Percy Bysshe Shelleys Ozymandias is one"
X Link 2026-02-01T22:30Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Three real quotes from self-identified liberals: In a video shared on X: Every MAGA I want to punch you in the fcking face. I want to beat you up until you are a pulp on the ground. I want to curb stomp the sht out of you. You voted for Donald Trump Come tell me in the comments. Im gonna find where you fcking live. Im gonna beat up your whole fcking family. If you have a five-year-old kid Im gonna pick them off too. I f*cking hate you guys. On X woman tells a MAGA supporter I hope you die a slow painful death. A woman in a video on X said she wanted to burn MAGA people alive in their homes"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:16Z 70.8K followers, 40.9K engagements
"He also died because he was too embarrassed to leave his seat to pee during a fancy dinner and drank so much that his bladder burst. In [----] Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe lost a portion of his nose during a sword duel with his cousin sparked by a drunken dispute over mathematics. For the remainder of his life he wore a metal prosthetic nose crafted from brass and secured with adhesive. https://t.co/aUUC2oMFZc In [----] Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe lost a portion of his nose during a sword duel with his cousin sparked by a drunken dispute over mathematics. For the remainder of his life he wore"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:22Z 70.7K followers, 151.6K engagements
"Culdcept. A lost gem. The deepest video game I ever played. What game is this https://t.co/OkcoA6Rpxk What game is this https://t.co/OkcoA6Rpxk"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:53Z 71K followers, 56.9K engagements
"The whole time he had this far superior girl waiting on him. She can even cook. https://t.co/1QV2KRTIEu https://t.co/1QV2KRTIEu"
X Link 2026-02-02T01:09Z 70.8K followers, 22.6K engagements
"I was asked to list off what I thought were Stephen Kings best and worst works. Please bear in mind that this is my opinion of King relative to King. He is not my pick for best modern horror author. He doesnt even make the top ten. But here goes: Best: Christine From a Buick [--] Salems Lot Pet Sematary Dreamcatcher all his short story collections Worst: It The Stand Needful Things The Regulators The Dead Zone Tommyknockers"
X Link 2026-02-02T01:43Z 70.9K followers, 11.5K engagements
"Finland joined Germany because they hoped to regain the territory lost to Russias aggression. Despite German prompting they refused to advance beyond their original borders. Russias former President Medvedev: Finnish Pres. Stubb constantly forgets that his country was a satellite of Hitlers Germany & that the Finns were forgiven for this after WW2 Medvedev constantly forgets Russia attacked Finland when it didnt have any relations with Germany https://t.co/7Ow8Al1bLx Russias former President Medvedev: Finnish Pres. Stubb constantly forgets that his country was a satellite of Hitlers Germany &"
X Link 2026-02-02T02:27Z 70.5K followers, [----] engagements
"This is the best most accurate description of what our media has become. Surf Dracula. Remember"
X Link 2026-02-02T03:44Z 70.9K followers, 10.9K engagements
"I think I have enough chops in gaming to be able to say authoritatively that games must be fun. And right from the start. And for me that means that the player should be making interesting decisions that matter. We spent a lot of time making Age of Empires fun immediately. Here's how: Lions visibly hunt gazelles in Age of Empires. Birds fly by overhead. Why Because it looks cool. You can hunt deer fight off lions and lure wild boars. It's its own minigame. Right off the bat you need to decide where to place your mill (by the berries By the deer herd) your lumberyard and when to start mining"
X Link 2026-02-02T05:07Z 70.6K followers, 44.9K engagements
"Here is some deep philosophy for you all"
X Link 2026-02-02T05:11Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"I was part of the team that created the Doom Slayer AND I am a man that is uninterested in Warhammer. In all fairness Id have to say that Khorne has got to be way way stronger than the Cyberdemon. The. cyber demon was originally about 20-24 feet tall. I think in Doom [----] Cybers almost [--]. But Khorne is AT LEAST [---] feet tall. So Fellas Khorne vs The Doom Slayer Fellas Khorne vs The Doom Slayer"
X Link 2026-02-02T05:58Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Fallout only sold 600k Man I loved that game. That seems tragically low. The funniest cope I continually see from Modern Fallout fans is that "Fallout was failing" when Bethesda bought it. Fallout [--] sold [------] copies in [----]. Fallout [--] sold far less with [------] but was still a commercial success and the brand continued to gain interest across the https://t.co/z5T6osu9zS The funniest cope I continually see from Modern Fallout fans is that "Fallout was failing" when Bethesda bought it. Fallout [--] sold [------] copies in [----]. Fallout [--] sold far less with [------] but was still a commercial success"
X Link 2026-02-02T06:13Z 70.1K followers, 13.5K engagements
"In [----] Tamerlane plowed [---] miles into India sacked Delhi and returned. He left not a single man woman or child alive on his route. It was one of the most pointless devastating and evil deeds of history. Its a good thing he didnt have nukes. Yes we've seen way worse actually https://t.co/4eVntBcGM2 Yes we've seen way worse actually https://t.co/4eVntBcGM2"
X Link 2026-02-02T06:25Z 70.8K followers, 239.5K engagements
"My German friend told me that when the potato was first introduced to Prussia no one would try the weird foreign tuber. So the king (Frederick I) resorted to a ploy. He proclaimed that potatoes were the royal food and that no one else could eat them. Then he planted vast acres of them and stationed guards. He gave the guards careful instructions to never ever catch or stop anyone stealing potatoes. Which of course they did by the hundreds driven by curiosity and greed. This is what I was told and if its not 100% true it ought to be"
X Link 2026-02-02T16:32Z 70.9K followers, 26.1K engagements
"There is a Japanese movie named Sayonara Jupiter in which Earth plans to turn Jupiter (lifeless in the film) into a second much smaller sun to radiate the outer planets. There is a violent opposition movement trying to stop the plan the only reason being that the are pointless anti-space activists. Its a little overlong at [---] minutes but an interesting hard science fiction watch and exactly exemplifies the sentiments described in the post below. I cant wait for the rise in the Anti-Space sentiment we will be building mass drivers on the Moon while activists protest saying it ruins the beauty"
X Link 2026-02-02T16:47Z 70.7K followers, 212.3K engagements
"Literally zero of the Final Fantasy games I played from FF1 through FFIX had any form of fascism as an opponent. Get a grip people. https://t.co/K0iF2zkWeI https://t.co/K0iF2zkWeI"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:00Z 71.1K followers, 205.2K engagements
"I once put a movie up for a bunch of my friends without telling them what it was. When the Toho logo appeared they literally clapped just like in a Reddit story. Also: https://t.co/8H38LuyhdY https://t.co/8H38LuyhdY"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:13Z 70.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Humans in Lord of the Rings are basically "dire halflings". Hobbits were created to be mild unadventurous and bucolic. Tolkien's Humans are seen from the non-human perspective of hobbits and we're larger-than-life. This was a genius move by Tolkien. It not only made the humans become an interesting "other" from the viewpoint of the hobbits but it made us all proud to BE human. At last it did for me. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018413470367281481 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018413470367281481"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:57Z 70.8K followers, 16.7K engagements
"The UN needs to make a case for how it will benefit the USA to pump billions into it. When I am looking at a car or a restaurant entree or a piece of furniture the person trying to sell it has to do the same thing. Why Sandy should pay for this. No one in the real world would try to make the case that his firm is entitled to my money. JUST IN: United Nations is at risk of an "imminent financial collapse." https://t.co/8KrtqM8rc7 JUST IN: United Nations is at risk of an "imminent financial collapse." https://t.co/8KrtqM8rc7"
X Link 2026-02-02T20:23Z 71K followers, 10.4K engagements
"Give the name or a frame of a silent movie that is still worth watching today. I'll start: The Golem 1920"
X Link 2026-02-02T20:57Z 71K followers, [----] engagements
"Pro Tip: if a woman asks you to guess her age always guess [--]. If she's older she'll be flattered she looks young. If she's younger she'll be flattered she looks grown-up"
X Link 2026-02-02T20:58Z 70.9K followers, 62.4K engagements
"Immigration enforcement is 100% beneficial to Hispanics citizens of the USA "I want to live in a country where there are rules the law is respected and the law is enforced." A Mexican restaurant in Arizona run by Jorge Rivas a Salvadoran businessman and local conservative figure recently opened its doors with an unusual offer: to offer free food to https://t.co/OqRI9Gx2aF "I want to live in a country where there are rules the law is respected and the law is enforced." A Mexican restaurant in Arizona run by Jorge Rivas a Salvadoran businessman and local conservative figure recently opened its"
X Link 2026-02-02T22:22Z 69.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Wow someone has Stockholm Syndrome bad. I see now the new line is "Okay maybe the prequels had some good ideas and cool fight scenes but everyone has to admit the acting and dialogue was terrible." No we're conceding nothing. We are claiming total cultural victory. The prequels are actually jam-packed with great https://t.co/xiQOJpllyL I see now the new line is "Okay maybe the prequels had some good ideas and cool fight scenes but everyone has to admit the acting and dialogue was terrible." No we're conceding nothing. We are claiming total cultural victory. The prequels are actually"
X Link 2026-02-02T23:24Z 70K followers, [----] engagements
"Homer says she is white-armed" and fair-cheeked". This doesnt confirm a hair color but she wasnt olive-skinned. https://t.co/IcWCOXNSFQ https://t.co/IcWCOXNSFQ"
X Link 2026-02-03T00:16Z 70.5K followers, 10.9K engagements
"My wife's uncle who was on Iwo Jima in the battle said he saw the flag raising. He said "Everyone saw the flag raising. It was in broad daylight and the island was tiny." If you didn't happen to be looking at it someone would smack your helmet and point to it so you could see." Which awesomely means the Japanese all saw it too. Never forget the real American heroes. https://t.co/77M6YmR1oX Never forget the real American heroes. https://t.co/77M6YmR1oX"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:20Z 69.9K followers, 510K engagements
"When I grew up in the 60s and 70s almost all Latin America was tinpot dictators or juntas. Starting in the 80s this started to change. Latin states became democracies one by one. But then so many started to fall to crime networks or cancerous socialism. Its refreshing and rewarding to see so many nations throwing off their despotic shackles an become free economically successful states. Destroying the criminal gangs and liberating their people. Acabo de felicitar va telefnica a la Presidenta electa de Costa Rica Laura Fernndez. Le deseo el mayor de los xitos en su Gobierno y todo lo mejor"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:41Z 70.8K followers, 49.6K engagements
"Here are my suggestions for awesome history/myth tales not told enough: 1) Maximus Thrax - the giant emperor 2) Sundiata (epic of Mali) 3) decent movie of George Washington 4) Johnny Appleseed 5) Shackleton Would you watch these https://t.co/cTzconMlHV Would you watch these https://t.co/cTzconMlHV"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:31Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The easy solution is to borrow from history. Heres three examples. 1) Queen Nitocris drowning her enemies at a banquet. Smendes Please let the water in upon the gentlemen. 2) Lincolns cabinet is at daggers-drawn. They demanded he fire one or the other. He used their egos and honor to trick both into offering resignation then got them to cancel each other out. 3) British Intelligence captured a Nazi spy turned him and got him to be Germans top spy head of the England network. Every new German spy went to him & was taken. The British actually fed real intel to the Nazis so theyd trust him. This"
X Link 2026-02-03T04:30Z 71K followers, 204.2K engagements
"Cthulhu makes the perfect national leader. With anyone else you get the certainty of death & taxes. But under Cthulhu there are no more taxes"
X Link 2026-02-03T05:50Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The great secret of the medieval economy is that it has almost no parallels to the modern economy. You can't compare medieval guilders to modern cash. Prices of food goods housing and clothing were not comparable in almost anyway except that some things cost more than others. No one had salaries. "Employees" were apprentices serfs or relatives. You could live a long life and only see actual coins once or twice a year. It was SO alien that if you are running a roleplaying game in such a world you can basically do as you please and have fun. Don't worry about finance."
X Link 2026-02-03T05:53Z 71K followers, 93.8K engagements
"In the very early 80s we owned an IBM Selectric. My wife put me through school typing papers for grad students. We also used typewriters to create Chaosiums games. In [----] we got Osborne II computers. Our belied was that wed supplement the typewriters with computers. After [--] months of the computers Greg Stafford had to fill out a form by typewriter to adopt a son. When he cranked in the paper a hideous dead spider splayed out became visible. He realized that from the moment he had gotten the computer hed abandoned the typewriter to the point that vermin were nesting in it. We all thought it"
X Link 2026-02-03T06:07Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Europeans say Americans are "parochial" but it's far harder for us to travel to another nation. The distance from Dallas to Boston is the same as Berlin to Moscow. We have to go much further and perhaps overseas. Plus if you're traveling to see natural wonders rather than history & culture the USA has plenty more spectacular than Europe. I'm not saying that Europe isn't awesome. I love visiting Europe. But Europe also doesn't have the amazing features below: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018712913473659388 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018712913473659388"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:47Z 71.2K followers, 73.5K engagements
"This was demonstrated pretty conclusively in World War [--]. Pearl Harbor Bismarck Musashi Yamato Hiei. Several more sunk by land-based air. Only one carrier was sunk by gunfire at Samar. Aircraft carrier vs battleship which one is more dangerous https://t.co/5grPUFzrR5 Aircraft carrier vs battleship which one is more dangerous https://t.co/5grPUFzrR5"
X Link 2026-02-03T17:16Z 70.9K followers, [----] engagements
"A mans got to have his priorities. When I taught game development at SMU an artist (she was from Malaya) was on a team making a light action adventure game project. Her sketches of the hero had him wearing a Yankees cap. The team designer protested so she appealed to me. Arent the Yankees a popular team I told her Yes but they are completely the wrong choice if your hero is supposed to be a likable nice guy. We explained that sports teams in America just as in Malaya have personalities. No offense Yankees fans. You know its true. Nice. https://t.co/0TOn6fpS2F Nice. https://t.co/0TOn6fpS2F"
X Link 2026-02-03T17:24Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Here's how this trap works. The players see the ladder leading up. They're cautious. They expect a surprise at the top. The secret panel's edges are obscured from view by the ladder's runners & rungs. When the climber gets to it the medusa inside opens the panel and the climber's eyes are naturally drawn to the opening. And BINGO As a bonus the newly-stone body of the victim falls down and possibly crushes the person below. Works like a charm. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018742148925989290 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018742148925989290"
X Link 2026-02-03T17:43Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"What's the greatest "I'm about to die" moment for you"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:48Z 70.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Guess which political party prevented him. In [----] President Dwight Eisenhower proposed stripping convicted Communists of their U.S. citizenship. https://t.co/IkVkreg7nG In [----] President Dwight Eisenhower proposed stripping convicted Communists of their U.S. citizenship. https://t.co/IkVkreg7nG"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:57Z 71.1K followers, 879.4K engagements
"I attended a Battle of Spotsylvania re-enactment as one of the Union soldiers. As you might expect re-enactors are overwhelmingly conservative even reactionary. Particularly those who march for the Southern side. At this re-enactment there were a group of black dudes in Union uniform (which was historically accurate). I was hanging around a campfire with three of them and asked "So is it creepy or risky to go into the Confederate camp" They laughed me to scorn. "Buddy we LOVE visiting the Confederates. They are super friendly and welcoming. They hand us beers treat us to food and are the most"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:16Z 71.1K followers, 128.7K engagements
"For those unaware my game Call of Cthulhu is the number one roleplaying system in Japan. I believe this is because knights & wizards are not really the Japanese weltanschauung but scary monsters work for everyone. (Yes I know there are some knight/wizard games there. Far less prevalent than my own.) Also Call of Cthulhu is not all about combat - a game feature which women are less keen on than men. Call of Cthulhu is about mysteries and spooky stuff which appeals to women (of course also men). Anyway about 70% of the players of Call of Cthulhu in Japan are women. While Call of Cthulhu does"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:20Z 70.9K followers, [----] engagements
"It's so stark and hideous that I kind of like it. Reminds me of Dol Guldur. My God I think Barack Obama's new presidential center might be the ugliest building on planet Earth https://t.co/q39iANEweJ My God I think Barack Obama's new presidential center might be the ugliest building on planet Earth https://t.co/q39iANEweJ"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:23Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"When a prisoner slipped her a note to give to his parents when she returned she narked on him and the communists enforced rigorous punishment. While American soldiers were being held captive and tortured by the Vietnamese Jane Fonda was having a great time with their captors. I cant despise her enough.😡 https://t.co/sD684MZ6aI While American soldiers were being held captive and tortured by the Vietnamese Jane Fonda was having a great time with their captors. I cant despise her enough.😡 https://t.co/sD684MZ6aI"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:29Z 70.3K followers, 758.4K engagements
"I watch obscure movies. Some are foreign. Many are old. They are staggeringly hard to find on streaming services. Bring back DVDs. In the week the great Hungarian film director Bela Tarr died not a single one of his films was available to stream legitimately. Not even on bespoke art film services. Twenty years ago you could get them on DVD in a big HMV. This is not progress. In the week the great Hungarian film director Bela Tarr died not a single one of his films was available to stream legitimately. Not even on bespoke art film services. Twenty years ago you could get them on DVD in a big"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:40Z 70.9K followers, 54.5K engagements
"I would like to be mummified in a gigantic sarcophagus and placed in an intrusive stone tomb in downtown Kyoto. ☪ Conservative candidate Uryu Hirano explains: "We can't have Islamic burials in this country. it's not about denying any religion/custom but it can't happen here". In recent months there have been many Muslim protests in favor of Islamic burials around Japan. https://t.co/fOgFkuv6NZ ☪ Conservative candidate Uryu Hirano explains: "We can't have Islamic burials in this country. it's not about denying any religion/custom but it can't happen here". In recent months there have been many"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:42Z 70.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Man alive I'm not Sicilian but I belong to a smallish eccentric church AND I design games for a living and I get so much "correction" from people who tell me what I did. People don't know what they don't know yet they think they know better. A random internet dude correcting A SICILIAN on the word MAFIA. Obviously cosa nostra is another way to say it but I've heard the word "la mafia" my ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE in Sicily. Believe it or not https://t.co/LoIDLxlfEf People don't know what they don't know yet they think they know better. A random internet dude correcting A SICILIAN on the word MAFIA."
X Link 2026-02-03T20:49Z 71K followers, [----] engagements
"In the 1960s I was reading a Superman comic and Lex Luthor as a sniper shot a kryptonite bullet at Superman while he was giving a speech outdoors. The bullet missed and hit a caveman frozen in a block of ice who animated and the story progressed from there. This REALLY bugged me as a kid because I couldn't see why Lex couldn't try the same plan again perhaps with a different (more accurate) shooter since it only failed by chance. Emperor Palpatine watching Wile E. Coyote: "okay but that contraption had potential Now that you know the failure point remove it and try again No need to start from"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:12Z 69.9K followers, 139.8K engagements
"Two of the things I thought of was: 1) tie a rope around the waist of another character and drop him in. That guy flails around till he grabs the victim then tugs on the rope so they can be both lifted out. 2) stick long spears into the whipped cream until they impale or hit him. He grabs on and they lift him out. I have a third method safer than those above but will reserve it for my personal use. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018803037800714721 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018803037800714721"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:45Z 71K followers, 298.8K engagements
"I have an extensive figure collection. They are packed away for now. So here is what we used for our session in a recent roleplaying adventure. Please note the peep standing in as a terrifying giant monster"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:46Z 70.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Green Iguanas are absolutely edible. Iguana tacos barbecued iguana iguana pozole etc. Marinade in milk or beer for [--] hours before cooking. Look at the size of that mug These things are brutal. She is holding a 12-pound invasive Green Iguana that froze and fell out of a tree in Miami. If he was awake that tail and those teeth would send you to the hospital for stitches. https://t.co/mnuy2oWTV7 Look at the size of that mug These things are brutal. She is holding a 12-pound invasive Green Iguana that froze and fell out of a tree in Miami. If he was awake that tail and those teeth would send you"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:53Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Pro Tips after working in the game industry for [--] years. Probably applies to any industry. 1) if they say "We don't need a contract." You need a contract. 2) If they say "Don't you trust us" Don't you trust them. 3) Never EVER let a guy in a suit see a game with unfinished art"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:04Z 70.5K followers, 90.5K engagements
"Pfui. An obvious knock-off of the glory that is Age of Empires II. I remembered what I wanted to play recently 🤔🔊 🕹 Cossacks: European Wars (2000) PC https://t.co/BwheWCjdTb I remembered what I wanted to play recently 🤔🔊 🕹 Cossacks: European Wars (2000) PC https://t.co/BwheWCjdTb"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:48Z 70.7K followers, 15.5K engagements
"If you do Texas next year you can visit London Cairo Paris Rome Berlin Athens Dublin and Moscow. Planning a European road trip thoughts https://t.co/fL79S5deY8 Planning a European road trip thoughts https://t.co/fL79S5deY8"
X Link 2026-02-04T00:04Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Fun fact: in Age of Empires our artists used the nearby Benihana's restaurant as a basis for the oriental building architecture. That's why the asian buildings have blue tile roofs. It was the worst Benihana's I've ever been to. It actually had graffiti on some of the INSIDE walls and the cooks didn't do a show. At least not for us. The one cool thing it had was mounted over the cash register there was a big sasumata (mancatcher). https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018839339527004418 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018839339527004418"
X Link 2026-02-04T00:09Z 70.9K followers, 108.9K engagements
"Ive been here"
X Link 2026-02-04T04:24Z 70.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Cant scare em off"
X Link 2026-02-04T05:25Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"For me IRL it was about [----]. I was out of shape and decided to swim across the quarry to join my family there. About 3/4 the way I realized I could go no further and started just trying to float to put off my drowning as long as possible. I finally managed to gasp out a Help please to a distant floating platform and a man heard me swam to me and saved me. Im actually better shape now age [--] and could possibly make the swim. Not then. I'm assuming Sandy is asking about on-film but the most surreal IRL "I'm about to die moment" was when a swing-stage fell out from underneath me. I was just"
X Link 2026-02-04T05:40Z 70.9K followers, 24.5K engagements
"I am glad to learn Jane Fonda didnt actually turn in a prisoner who tries to pass a note. I still think shes a traitor. But at least now I know the prisoners werent dumb enough to try to slip her a note. When a prisoner slipped her a note to give to his parents when she returned she narked on him and the communists enforced rigorous punishment. When a prisoner slipped her a note to give to his parents when she returned she narked on him and the communists enforced rigorous punishment"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:17Z 70.9K followers, 11.1K engagements
"It takes [--] damage per bullet. It is genius level intelligence its (multiple) attacks drain your stats and it casts spells. So yeah fire away"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:53Z 71.1K followers, 12.5K engagements
"I did a humorous (I thought) post about how Dark Young were a tough enemy and some of the responses were stuff like "Well a Hellfire missile would make short shrift." or the equivalent of "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster." Of course a Hellfire missile would absolutely destroy a Dark Young. For that matter a burst from a Bradley's 30mm gun would leave it a mass of twitching fragments. But that's hardly a critical weakness. I mean those weapons would destroy a human too. The "hokey religion" part seems to think that the Dark Young would be stuck in the Dark"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:38Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Whoa THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR. I and my talented team labored over this from September [----] through April [----] This was the best computer game expansion ever. https://t.co/FHgNv4bizr This was the best computer game expansion ever. https://t.co/FHgNv4bizr"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:10Z 70.8K followers, 28.3K engagements
"Not just in England - Cairo Moscow Berlin Rome Paris Athens and Cairo were all named after towns in Texas alone. Its wild how many places in England were named after US towns https://t.co/1Vbnpw2EAz Its wild how many places in England were named after US towns https://t.co/1Vbnpw2EAz"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:10Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements
"I like Mark Wahlberg. While I liked him in Blue Bloods I always felt he was underused in a long-term TV drama and could have done a lot more. Paramount has canceled a $150 million project with George Clooney after the acter refused to agree to the terms of his contract. "They want me to do or say nothing political for the next two years" said Clooney "That's not a contract; it's a gag order." Clooney doesn't seem https://t.co/POCvkZ2ouu Paramount has canceled a $150 million project with George Clooney after the acter refused to agree to the terms of his contract. "They want me to do or say"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:25Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements
"A lot of the countries that don't require voter ID (like China) don't actually count the votes. They just decree the victor. My friend was taking a pre-law course at Southern Methodist University which for some reason attracts a lot of Arabs (mostly Saudis). His teacher was from mainland China. During one lesson she asked the Arabs how their "parliament" passed laws. The Saudi who was called on muttered "I guess the king has advisors he might talk to." She had no idea that Saudi Arabia was a monarchy. Nicki Minaj is just unironically correct - the US is essentially the only democracy on earth"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:29Z 71K followers, 22.7K engagements
"If one of my kids or grandkids got hit during an ICE protest it would be because one of the protestors hit them so I'd go right to the most horrendous confiscatory lawsuit available vs. the entirety of the protest organizers as well as the individual responsible for the violence. Lets make this very clear OUR CHILDREN WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ANYWHERE NEAR AN ICE PROTEST Our children were taught to respect ALL Law Enforcement Officers and to never interfere or impede them doing their job. PERIOD. https://t.co/7MCiivPNfD Lets make this very clear OUR CHILDREN WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ANYWHERE NEAR"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:30Z 70.8K followers, 14.3K engagements
"This woman is the light of my life. Whenever I have a new game published I show it off to her. When I get a positive review I read the relevant bits to you. When I am at a convention and see a group playing one of my games I make sure she sees it too. Remember when you were [--] years old and were showing off to Suzy Terwilliger by trying to walk along the top of the high fence That's EXACTLY what I'm doing to try to impress her. She says it works. Also that weird neon thing in her hand is a deep-fried twinkie from the Texas state fair. The blue sauce I guess is antifreeze."
X Link 2026-02-04T19:45Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"My friend said "This is a great series. You HAVE to read it Sandy." I got about [---] pages in and complained to him "What the hell Nothing interesting has happened." He said "Oh well yeah it doesn't really get good until you're [---] pages in." So I put it back on the shelf and never opened it again. Beginning of the wheel of time journey https://t.co/sDSxrYe182 Beginning of the wheel of time journey https://t.co/sDSxrYe182"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:51Z 70.9K followers, 86.9K engagements
"The fact that the movies and shows following the prequels were even worse does not magically improve the quality of the prequels. I admit that if I'd seen the prequels with absolutely no knowledge of the original movies I would think of them as simple mid-level science fiction that sure cost a lot of money. But I wouldn't feel compelled to see them again. Instead of bashing on them more how about watching one of THESE five awesome science fiction movies instead: 1) The Invisible Ray (1936) Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi in science gone mad. 2) Metropolis (1927) arguably the greatest science"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:02Z 70.9K followers, 23.3K engagements
"This would be so awesome. My father was a doctor (I guess he still is though no longer practicing). He never really increased his prices to keep up with the times so was probably the cheapest Otolaryngologist in Utah Valley. But he was really good - he invented the antrum puncture and even had a technique that cured the common cold (it only gave a couple years of immunity though). So many times people would come see him and be amazed a doctor of his skill was so inexpensive. Letting people shop for doctors the same way we shop for literally everything else would be life-changing. And no I"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:52Z 71.1K followers, 12.5K engagements
"I think the idea of "barbarians" as a character class in D&D is risible. "Barbarian" is a description of a type of society not a type of human. Look - the Romans considered the ancient Britons of [--] BC to be barbarians. I agree. But those Britons had farmers hunters fishers craftsmen nobles a military structure a religious hierarchy bards and so forth. Not every ancient Briton would be a "Barbarian" class character. Instead there would be barbarian fighters barbarian wizards barbarian clerics (druids) barbarian rogues and so forth. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019168254955032662"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:56Z 70.8K followers, 21.3K engagements
"Seven Samurai of course. Whats a long movie that earns every minute of its runtime Whats a long movie that earns every minute of its runtime"
X Link 2026-02-04T22:35Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
"My food opinions that no one probably cares about: 1) Pasta Fazool is better with peas than beans. 2) the best enchiladas are just cheese & onion. 3) If your steak is cooked more than medium-rare you should get fajitas instead because you don't appreciate steak. 4) so-called "blue" steak is for posers. 5) never order chicken at a sit-down restaurant that doesn't specifically specialize in chicken. 6) It's okay to order seafood at a steak house but NEVER order steak at a seafood place. 7) the best burger in your town is sold at a one-of-a-kind mom-and-pop place. 8) Kansas City BBQ is the worst"
X Link 2026-02-04T23:04Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements
"When I am stumped I often ask myself What would Grond do Then I set myself on fire and slam my head against the problem. https://t.co/Tk6t92ZAG6 https://t.co/Tk6t92ZAG6"
X Link 2026-02-04T23:25Z 70.9K followers, 132.6K engagements
"We set a goal for Age of Empire [--]. The goal was for us an RTS company to win Best Graphics at E3. This prize always went to first persons shooters but we set our caps and pulled out all the stops. We had buildings that splintered and shattered when struck by cannonballs. We had flaming arrows fired into thatched roofs and wooden walls. We had clouds of gunsmoke belching over the field. We have waves and reflections in the sea. Parrots flew overhead. And you know what We won. Our artists felt like cock of the walk and were insufferable for week. The programmers also took their sizable share of"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:12Z 71.1K followers, 81.4K engagements
"The Noahide laws which all humans are bound to obey state clearly that we are not to eat flesh from a living animal. Drunk shrimp is a traditional Chinese dish where live or fresh shrimp are soaked in alcohol (often rice wine like Shaoxing wine) with aromatics such as ginger garlic and sometimes sugar or soy sauce. 📹 highcosper_gourmet https://t.co/yHjJPuYgnn Drunk shrimp is a traditional Chinese dish where live or fresh shrimp are soaked in alcohol (often rice wine like Shaoxing wine) with aromatics such as ginger garlic and sometimes sugar or soy sauce. 📹 highcosper_gourmet"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:24Z 70.1K followers, 176.2K engagements
"America is a Pacific Rim Nation and we will prosper more and more as we turn our gaze away from Europe. Taiwan passes Germany to become US' 4th largest trading partner https://t.co/MGWd09yEk0 Taiwan passes Germany to become US' 4th largest trading partner https://t.co/MGWd09yEk0"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:58Z 70.9K followers, 49.9K engagements
"Warcraft is intimidating because you break it into the two component parts of the word: Warc and raft. While we know what a raft is warc is a mystery and confuses and frightens us. Also there are no rafts in Warcraft. The term "accessibility" has been warped beyond recognition. What used to be for actual disabilities has been mangled into softening every edge and watering everything down so it's made for "everyone". "Warcraft is intimidating" to fucking WHO The term "accessibility" has been warped beyond recognition. What used to be for actual disabilities has been mangled into softening"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:08Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Who else loved this comedy"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:16Z 70.1K followers, 17.2K engagements
"Yay Its win-win Bloomberg. America First https://t.co/dzhz1XEnB7 Bloomberg. America First https://t.co/dzhz1XEnB7"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:20Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Too bad they kept testing it near Hollywood. https://t.co/rNeDwtmt5m https://t.co/rNeDwtmt5m"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:22Z 70.8K followers, 11.6K engagements
"This is sweet sweet sweet. As of 26th of January Valve has WON the lawsuit with Rothschild and now the case will be proceeding into settling how much money Rothschild owes to Valve for their Patent trolling Can't stop winning even in court https://t.co/lGbGgtD4IX As of 26th of January Valve has WON the lawsuit with Rothschild and now the case will be proceeding into settling how much money Rothschild owes to Valve for their Patent trolling Can't stop winning even in court https://t.co/lGbGgtD4IX"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:35Z 69.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Dungeon Master (1987) originally for the Atari ST has the best magic system of any roleplaying game ever. I include tabletop roleplaying games in this such as D&D or Call of Cthulhu. I thought so in [----] and I think so today. The system perhaps exactly as given to us in the game is not actually "the greatest". It is actually just an introduction to what COULD be the greatest. But it is easily expandable and opened my mind and heart to the possibilities of magic. I blame my own sloth in not adapting it to a game. I haven't actually done an RPG that incorporated magic since then so really"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:29Z 70.9K followers, 25.4K engagements
"My wife's name Wendy was invented by James Barrie for his book Peter Pan. It is pretty clearly a derivative of Guenivere or Gwendolyn though. In my wife's case it's a female form of her father's first name - Wendell. Devil's advocate: the name Jennifer was so unusual in [----] that this Shaw play had to explain it's a real name. https://t.co/CNpic8iHXa Devil's advocate: the name Jennifer was so unusual in [----] that this Shaw play had to explain it's a real name. https://t.co/CNpic8iHXa"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:31Z 69.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Do they have absolutely no ability to look inward No sense of self Anti-ICE activist describes roadblocks and checkpoints constructed in Minneapolis: We are literally creating a place that we know who's coming and going in and out of our neighborhoods." You cant make it up. https://t.co/oWiPJI3PH1 Anti-ICE activist describes roadblocks and checkpoints constructed in Minneapolis: We are literally creating a place that we know who's coming and going in and out of our neighborhoods." You cant make it up. https://t.co/oWiPJI3PH1"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:34Z 71.1K followers, 14.5K engagements
"How about this one Name a bigger downgrade. https://t.co/bjVxbnxmbt Name a bigger downgrade. https://t.co/bjVxbnxmbt"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:42Z 70.9K followers, 10.9K engagements
"Washington was a decent general. Like every leader from Alexander to Patton he made errors. But he kept his army going fought and bested a foe superior in numbers equipment & training. He deserves real praise"
X Link 2026-02-05T03:47Z 69.7K followers, [----] engagements
"A group of city leaders organized and saved Leningrad when it was sieged by the Germans for [---] days. They rationed food & medicine set up a submachinegun factory (which made better SMGs than the Red Armys) kept morale high. They were true national heroes. After the war Stalin had these harmless old men all executed lest anyone steal his spotlight. This is Communisms legacy. [--] years ago on February [--] [----] Stalin's henchmen executed [--] members of the Skatuve Latvian Theatrical Company in Moscow. All of them - [--] actors and actresses five stage hands two directors one stage director one"
X Link 2026-02-05T04:16Z 71K followers, 158K engagements
"Hes not wrong"
X Link 2026-02-05T05:12Z 71K followers, 198.1K engagements
"1) we ARE taught that we entered after being attacked. 2) so all the lend-lease the [---] destroyers given to England the oil the tanks the food rhe ammo the actual LOSS of an American destroyer to a German U-Boat while guarding British ships. None of that matters to you Madelaine Only that we didnt start the fight when you did It's shocking to me as a Brit that Americans aren't taught that they only entered the war against the Nazis AFTER Nazi Germany sided with Japan after pearl harbour and declared war against the USA. At no point did the USA decide to 'save democracy from Nazism'. It's"
X Link 2026-02-05T05:19Z 71.1K followers, 103.6K engagements
"I seem to remember needing Canadian currency on both my trips to Canada - over [--] decades ago. Also since the USA doesnt use Canadian money seems fair. https://t.co/WwjvI11a3q https://t.co/WwjvI11a3q"
X Link 2026-02-05T06:33Z 71.1K followers, 11.3K engagements
"Germansll eat it right in front of you. Like savages. This must be an old picture though because [----] is really cheap. When I was growing up (1960s) it was well-known that raw pork could have trichinosis. I investigated why this wasnt true in Germay and learned that their pork was sanitary. Since the dark days of the 1960s America has largely cleaned up its act and trichinosis is gone from our pork too. Still not gonna eat it raw though. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019385256533537057 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019385256533537057"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:18Z 70.9K followers, 118.7K engagements
"You have to find the special full-auto switch. It looks like this: WOW Hochul says there's a hand g+n that fires over [----] rounds per minute Where can I order one of those 🤣 WOW Hochul says there's a hand g+n that fires over [----] rounds per minute Where can I order one of those 🤣"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:21Z 71.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Only this one. Also the Renault FT was the first with a turret. But yeah the T-34 changed tanks forever. Were still designing tanks around its principles of sloped armor potent gun & high speed. Hard to find at tank that had more historic impact than the T-34. Change my mind. https://t.co/Sv6LmBmPUc Hard to find at tank that had more historic impact than the T-34. Change my mind. https://t.co/Sv6LmBmPUc"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:39Z 69.9K followers, [----] engagements
"if your girlfriend asks you to choose shes only using you. Age if Empires love for you is sincere and deep. We coded it right in there"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:10Z 69.9K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Here are two sets of downgrades. I think the amount that the second picture is worse is comparable. I realize that Star Trek is not the cultural nor literary titan that is Tolkien but be fair - Game of Thrones is far better than Star Fleet Academy whatever you think of George R. R. Martin. So the amount of drop-off is about the same. Agree https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019437447222866148 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019437447222866148"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:46Z 70.8K followers, [----] engagements
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