Open the Box, Meet the Mook

I'm Duvi I'm 27, Agender, they/them I have thoughts, ideas, goofs, jokes, sometimes they're interesting! Sometimes. I'm known for making tabletop games, systems, and homebrew, as well as livestreaming at https://www.twitch.tv/duvi0 Stay awhile. The doors are locked.

[duvi0]

LONELINESS KILLER!! LONELINESS KILLER!!

Hi, I'm Duvi, and I have been hoping to grow or strengthen bonds with people for a while now, but haven't been in environments that were good for me. As a result, I have a low friend index and not much to draw on socially. So, I'm sending out this message to the void for anyone else who wants to KILL their loneliness!

If you fit multiple of the following criteria, you are a good start for a mutual or even a friend!

are between the ages of 21 and 30

are some flavor of queer, any gender or sexuality included

are anti-authoritarian

share in the interests of others even when they don't fit your own

listen to a vast variety of music from a vast variety of genres

are open to playing or hearing about a wide variety of games

are routinely available or enjoy being available to talk

3 or more of the above are preferred, 6 or more is incredible

Now all of that is well and good, but what I want to get into is the more granular individual interests since that's what I can easily tag for relevance!

If you are interested in the bands and artists The Mars Volta, Aesop Rock, PUP, Run the Jewels, Red Vox, Everything Everything, and/or Femtanyl, that is an opening.

If you are interested in the video games Hylics, Team Fortress 2, Your Only Move is Hustle, Rivals of Aether, pretty much any roguelike, Darkest Dungeon, Inscryption, the Pikmin franchise, or the Kirby franchise, that is an opening.

If you watch the YouTubers Vinesauce, Grayfruit, Big Yellow, Dead Meat, Caddicarus, Rata/Rank10YGO, Wambu, Hivemind, and/or anyone who animates or does YouTube Poops, that is an opening.

If you have an opening, meet any criteria, and are feeling anywhere near as lonely as I am, give me a shout in DMs, shoot me an ask, or send me a message on discord @duvi0! Here's hoping this message in a bottle kills some loneliness!

[duvithemook]

Alright, so normally I don't make PSAs, but since I'm familiar with this type of scam I wanted to put it on display for everyone.

So, if you're not interested in the details of the scam, or scambaiting in general, here's the tl;dr: If someone says, on ANY service - tumblr, Bluesky, Steam, Discord, that they "accidentally reported you" and you "need to support a ticket to prove you're not lying":

They Are Attempting To Steal Your Information. Do Not Buy Into It.

Last night I got a message from a hacked account. How could I tell it was hacked? Simple, it messaged me out of the blue after repeatedly reblogging the same 4 posts over and over to look like it was a real fandom blog. Regardless, I bit the bait, because scambaiting is an art and I can't help but pick up the paintbrush.

They start by sending a message like this, suggesting they got the account wrong. Not only is this implausible if you think about it for more than a second, it's also not how these services work, as will be detailed in the next two images.

So, as stated, @staff has access to your DM history, your list of sideblogs, and interactions with others when a report is filed, as was proven by a select few targeted bans. I decided to make it seem like they were being helpful at first to appear as though I was taking the bait, but no, duvisie0 was never a blog that existed. Strike one, and strike two.

They start getting very pushy about reading the ticket, strike three, but I decide I'm going to see what I can get out of them, since looking at this blog for even a minute shows that it's not an art blog, like they claim at the center of their core message. Why they even "reported me" in the first place.

...they send me @daeyumi's artwork. A very talented artist, whose works are DEFINITELY worth at least $550, but it's. Literally watermarked from another blog. Remember, it's noticing these details, asking these questions, that prevents you from getting scammed. So, I point it out, hoping to keep them on the line but make it look like I still believe they're a real blogger.

...buuuut I get too aggressive and lose the line. Yeah, though, this is a reminder that they just move onto the next person, and the next account, looking to get your email and password to do this to more people. Broker for more scams. Tumblr staff will read this post and their responses if they reported my account like an idiot, and if not, they're onto another sad sack, one I hope is as savvy to scams like these as I am.

I will say, remember 3 things:

1. tumblr will send emails to you first if your account is suspect. Whether it's an instaban or not, they won't send it to you through their own service.

2. No website will request you fill out a ticket to prove your authenticity. That's not real, and that's just an attempt to phish you.

3. ASK QUESTIONS. Notice how quickly they started to fall apart the second I took a different route than their prepared script? Most of these people aren't equipped to handle inquiries about them, they want the focus solely on YOU.

That being said, I hope this information finds you well, and the best way to not get scammed is to know what a scam looks like.

[duvithemook]

Blue footed boobies are called that #bird

[kc-corduroy]

i was watching the new grayfruit video with my partner, and this image of jimmy carter popped up

and immediately my partner started cackling like a banshee and pulled up this image, frantically typing 'mexican alien'

[duvithemook]

which one is getting the better head

[alteredpanel]

i was going through our files today to clean and this is not a comic exactly but i think is topical and technically an entry to this diary regardless

[duvithemook]

any chance we could get this blank for the systems in the audience? Fully understandable if no

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Tag game reblog this and put Baby’s First Blorbo in the tags like who was the first Character to move into your head and live there back when you were still figuring out how to tie your shoes

[duvi0]

favorite word?

It shifts very often, but currently five of my favorite words are:

Syzygy (n) - the exact opposite placement of celestial bodies, eg. the sun and moon during a lunar eclipse

Abattoir (n) - a slaughterhouse

Gongshow (n) - a more polite version of the expletive "shitshow"

Immaterial (adj) - something that manifests through non-physical means

Surrealist (adj) - relating to the avant-garde and potentially offbeat creatively; defying conventions

[txttletale]

so Having The Chocobo is this concept i've developed to talk about universes beyond and what works/doesn't for it. the thing is that for 99% of crossover IP promotion, all you need is iconic characters. you wanna get your shit into fortnite, mortal kombat, so on, all you need is a handful of beloved recognizable characters. but for an mtg set, you need way more than that: you need iconography, creatures and places and objects that fans will recognize and be excited about. one of the reasons for all god-awful cards in spiderman was that wotc were worried about players opening packs and not seeing spiderman. this is because spiderman doesn't Have The Chocobo: there's no franchise specific place or object or concept that holds the same iconic and beloved status as its ~6 most prominent characters. you have to make a bunch god-awful generic filler cards with peter parker or miles morales randomly slapped onto them if you want to get something recognizable to fans into most packs.

final fantasy on the other hand--final fantasy Has The Chocobo, which here means the literal actual chocobo but when i use it means 'the breadth and depth of non-named-character iconography to fill out all the needs of an mtg set with cards fans of the original property actually want to see'. nobody was worried about final fantasy fans opening packs and not seeing cloud strife, because they would see a moogle, or a black mage, or a summon, or a town, or a mother fucking Chocobo, and that would be exciting and cool for them. so when evaluating UB sets i have found it really useful to think about the property its adapting and ask, does it Have The Chocobo?

[duvithemook]

This is a very good post with a good point, delivered in a fun way to analyze it but I think in building its point, it misses another.

The Walking Dead and Spongebob have tons of iconography. They Have The Chocobo, so to speak, with different items, locations, characters, and themes that make them stand out, but no one was excited for those sets because they completely miss the mark of the tone of MtG. Like, in Spongebob, they Have The Krabby Patty. You can have the core characters, Larry the Lobster, the Krabby Patty, the golden spatula, jellyfish, squidward's clarinet, the central locations of Spongebob's, Patrick's, and Squidward's houses, the Krusty Krab and Chum Bucket.

It won't matter.

They're cynically cramming Spongebob into a high fantasy multiversal serious franchise where it doesn't belong.

That's why Spiderman doesn't work. You could have all the dozens of MCU and non-MCU characters people recognize and love, because everyone Knows Venom, Knows Doc Ock, Knows the Green Goblin and his Pumpkin Bombs, Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Miles Morales, Gwen Stacey, and so on! Add the Daily Bugle, add J. Jonah Jameson, add "NYC Rooftops" and people will get it. Web shooters! Kraven the Hunter, Madame Web, and Morbius are even accessible as Spiderman IP, if they're not too embarrassed by the movies, since people now know who they are, kinda. Hell, they could even use some Spider-Verse stuff; people loved those films!

...but none of it will matter. None of it DOES matter. because Superhero Fiction is a hard left turn tonewise from High Fantasy. Crossovers need to fit the tone or establish that tone is unnecessary, and Magic has failed at both.

[boxartgame]

Ballow! Ight

Contributors: Rotok, Harvey, Butters, Cord, Phoenix, Vale, Soda, Maath, gyiyg, Angel, Duvi

[boxartgame]

Welcome to the Box Art Game!

The rules are simple: the showrunner, @duvi0, takes a piece of video game or movie box art and cuts it up into little collage pieces. Then, these pieces are sent to a variety of people who edit them, draw on them, or otherwise destroy them. Finally, once all the pieces are done, they are assembled into one horrific collage! 

As of right now, we are not accepting public requests to be a part of the Box Art Game, but we love and appreciate the community!

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De Waydi G FF Is… S Ribbit Boi, Crucifix Edition

Contributors: Griffin, Duvi, Skips, EvKem, Bick, and Brickertown.

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Sosid 3 && Kkkkkknutt Bees

by Duvi, Mira, Brickertown, EvKem, Bick, Griffin, Ola, Skips

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Iiipdy 69: Cryst I AI Full House

Contributors: Duvi, Skips, EvKem, Brickertown, Mira, Bick, Griffin

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Fucko inc. Presents Wii can see you Pii Spro STD Beeeee:or

contributors: Duvi, Miracoal, Coalton, Coale, EvKem, Skips, Brickertown, Pyros

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PeebraaaarBBBa Contributors: Mira, Duvi, Skips, Gorila Azul, Brickertown, Butters D Dragon, and Griffin

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Oh God, Oh Fuck, Orash Aaaaicoochie Sass Titty

Contributors: Duvi, EvKem, Brickertown, Gorila Azul, AdrienTheMan, RoyalHeck, Colbyte, Gigaknotosaurus, Griffin

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Jowo’s Jizarro Adveereeee: Ghewaluigi Timeeee!!!! wah of Hnavvn

Contributors: Duvi, Skips, EvKem, Griffin, Gorila Azul, Caeden, Aspen, Brickertown