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Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp

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game writing | narrative design | literary theory Writer: Disco Elysium, Pentiment, Broken Alliance, Death & Taxes estonian perpetual motion machine

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I think everyone should Ebb. Become the Cleric you were meant to be.

03.03.2026 19:16 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

19.02.2026 19:14 👍 4003 🔁 1271 💬 36 📌 62
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Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube | Cord Cutters News In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just...

If y'all want to get your sci-fi groove on without having to buy into a streaming service...

cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...

13.02.2026 19:56 👍 312 🔁 173 💬 9 📌 33

Don't do it, you have so much to live for!

11.02.2026 08:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are Transcript: Well, it happened again. I’m mentioned in the Epstein files. Again. You probably saw my first video on this topic and you came away thinking that I’ve spent the past decade being as awe…

Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism
skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...

05.02.2026 19:08 👍 2407 🔁 645 💬 87 📌 122

Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?

06.02.2026 21:08 👍 3236 🔁 927 💬 48 📌 15
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Prophecy With these works for accordion and orchestra, Ksenija Sidorova and Paavo Järvi pay tribute to the music of the Baltic countries: the Latvian and the Estonian, who have been collaborating for over 10 y...

outhere-music.com/en/albums/pr...

absolutely spellbinding new release today. RIYL telling the trifling irritants of this material plane to just take a hike because you’re gonna lock eyes with the cosmos for a while

06.02.2026 13:30 👍 104 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 0

this is some proper art chat. so much art that one's hand might fall off from all the art.

05.02.2026 06:55 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

After the episode I went back and listened to both of these songs once more and to be honest I'm 100% agreed with you on this matter! Good Vibrations is an absolute trash garbage song what the heck are people talking about, it's just pure awful. Woe to the results!

03.02.2026 22:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Correct on all counts!

03.02.2026 18:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh no, Tallinn has been conquered. Well, I'd recommend just causing any sort of trouble, create a revolt of some thing, burn a few buildings down, that sorta stuff.

03.02.2026 13:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice

03.02.2026 02:20 👍 8503 🔁 1289 💬 177 📌 21
Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future
Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future YouTube video by Adam Neely

I made a long video about technocapitalism and AI music

youtu.be/U8dcFhF0Dlk?...

02.02.2026 20:23 👍 398 🔁 113 💬 32 📌 70

I don't know man, they keep letting you in Europe even though it's clear you're just after the EU-compliant caps.

02.02.2026 07:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ohh.. interesting. Never would have expected this. Cool.

31.01.2026 07:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Time to climb! Cairn is available now.

Mount Kami awaits, unconquered.

This is what you trained for: fight for every meter of the climb and rise to the challenge.

29.01.2026 17:03 👍 536 🔁 170 💬 22 📌 54
Vile: Exhumed - The Intense Horror Game Steam (Wrongfully) Banned
Vile: Exhumed - The Intense Horror Game Steam (Wrongfully) Banned YouTube video by Power Pak

NEW VIDEO

Last year, Steam banned Vile: Exhumed, a twisted horror experience that pulls no punches, and one of my favourites of 2025. Here's why I loved the game, and why it was wrong of Steam to ban it (and other titles too...)

youtu.be/c-qaFjqJuQ4

24.01.2026 19:03 👍 284 🔁 118 💬 13 📌 14

I have read Gene Wolfe, though not enough yet. Haven't read the others. Always too much to read and all that, the piles keep piling up.

17.01.2026 11:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Babylon 5 is perhaps the most politically sophisticated science fiction series ever made (light years beyond Gene Roddenberry) and much of it speaks directly to the era we live in. I don’t know how @straczynski.bsky.social managed to be this prescient 30 years ago.

17.01.2026 01:01 👍 78 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 1

I wrote half my master's thesis about W.G. Sebald (and the other half about Jaan Kross, an estonian historical fiction classic), so that's just a whole separate world from the previous researcher life.

15.01.2026 14:48 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There's a whole lot more, like specific things by Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Peter Weiss. Strugatsky brothers sci-fi is some great young-me reading. There's a whole separate list for philosophy and theory etc, e.g. Paul de Man, G. Genette, that sort of stuff, but that'll grow out of hand quick enough.

15.01.2026 14:46 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Good Q, as ever. A semi-random list of new & old: W.G. Sebald, Bruno Latour, Ada Palmer, Tamsyn Muir, Günter Grass, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alan Moore, Terry Pratchett, Octavia Butler, J.L. Borges, Richard Rorty, Ursula LeGuin, Jason Hickel; fond of Mieville and Eco, from estonians Meelis Friedenthal.

15.01.2026 14:43 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I wrote a bunch of weirdoes! It's all weirdo-writing.

I think it's five episode in this series? Five or six?

14.01.2026 16:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

13.01.2026 20:45 👍 6707 🔁 4922 💬 168 📌 541

Hahaa, tiny oops has slipped in, I don't have a semiotics degree from University of Tartu, I have a literary and cultural theory degree. I just took the occasional semiotics lecture on the side. :D

14.01.2026 12:17 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

See, all the reason to come visit Tallinn. I will show thee the sights, there are so many other things we can point at. :D

14.01.2026 12:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The third one, the writerly one has arrived! The one where I don't remember what I actually talked about. I bet it's going to be embarrassing, whatever I said. It's probably also the messiest one, in some ways, as the whole writing section of Disco Elysium is a gordian knot made of titanium.

14.01.2026 08:43 👍 60 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 1
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Coming soon: Il Fantasma del Giallo - An RPG of Violence and Identity Your acting career is a ruin. You're out of options. Every path travelled, every bridge burnt. But there's always work in the Yellow...

Hey folks! The prelaunch for my first solo kickstarter just went up here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/har...

I've been working on this for years, so if you dig it or simply wish me well, please repost or share in discords.

Mailing list here: hardyroachgames.co.uk/il-fantasma-...

12.01.2026 10:52 👍 91 🔁 60 💬 7 📌 16
I'm angry.
I'm angry. YouTube video by Charalanahzard

Twitter is the world’s largest generator of CSAM & non-consensual porn by a margin of about 8000%, and somehow… MSM isn’t even reporting on it.

(also includes advice for reporting ‘deepfake harassment’ to police if it escalates to a point where restraining order is necessary)

youtu.be/p71qQKmIGhQ

11.01.2026 07:07 👍 3895 🔁 1247 💬 56 📌 71
LEPROUS - Alleviate (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
LEPROUS - Alleviate (OFFICIAL VIDEO) YouTube video by InsideOutMusicTV

Just remember, whenever in these trying times you feel AaaAaaaaAA or EeeEeEeee or even a bit of ooOoOOooo, there's a perfect song for that.
youtu.be/12eFq16CXSU?...

07.01.2026 15:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0