i don't think i realised how much i was missing this style of writing. something which is both very serious and thoughtful, engaging with the complexities of the subject and the contingent nature of any actual gaming experience... and also absolutely trying to fit a joke into any spare corner.
So happy my friends have gotten back on the old horse*
*simultaneously dumb/silly/serious writings about PC games
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Q: How do I unlock Sunglasses Macron?
A: It's very difficult to unlock Sunglasses Macron in the course of a normal game because it requires a specific and unlikely sequence of events. While default Macron is ruler of France, the USA must choose the monarchy path and then lay claim to Greenland.
Went to Deathmatch Island over the holiday. Played to (nearly) win
Roddy thanks you for your well wishes, which gifted him the cache of fox shit he fell upon this fine morning
I've been running Night's Black Agents for my regular RPG chums, and — HYPER-NICHE-BULLSHIT TIME! — we're using QuickShock rules because we're PbtA narrative sickos who couldn't take NBA's dose of good old-fashioned combat crunch. Here's how I hastily adapted it!
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TEN++ is a big thank you to everyone who has played the game and supported us over the years -- you rock! Check out this amazing video community member abho made for us to help celebrate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8gs...
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Boards of Canada's Olson played thru a 1959 DEC PDP-1 via Lightbulb pulses at the Computer History Museum. Mountain View, California. Hosted on Joe Lynch's YT chan <3 603 bytes of music code on punchpaper :)
#chiptune
Gawd bless him. A rather better example of the form tbh
Yup, verified. Checks out, I guess!
Me too! I found the issue - Future’s first issue after taking from Emap - but can’t find a scan nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Officia...
Was before your tenure, right, @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social? But do you know who wrote this delight?
I wrote this over the weekend, and was a lot of fun writing something about reading something that's a lot of fun.
Golden retriever looks imploringly in front of a sign on a lamppost saying “missing tortoise (again)”
Innocent
Right you lot. Get WYRD SCIENCE Issue 7 ordered: shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr...
I am in it talking CAVES OF QUD. I will take it as a personal favour if you pick this up. But don't do it for me, do it for the health of #TTRPG generally, because this is the magazine we all deserve.
...what if we actually do this?
(or even a more recent spin-off like Delta Green or Trail of Cthulhu — or we're currently playing Night's Black Agents... Are you free on Monday nights, Will??)
I don't make a lot of predictions, but I feel pretty ok saying that this kind of thing will not work. I wrote about something similar three years ago or so: www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...
It also fails the 'comfort' check I mention in the blog - people don't want to do work to watch tv.
I spent the last month driving (sailing?) myself mad drawing these diagrams. But they're finally done! Phew! Thank god I'll never have to draw another ship again. What's that, Jim? We accidentally wrote an entire book about ships? FUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUuuuu
A golden retriever sits beneath a stone statue of Athena
Roddy and Athena
Tactical Breach Wizards is a year old today! To celebrate, we're rewinding the whole last year to see if it can be done better or if it's just a bullshit level.
In the meantime, we're 25% off til Monday! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .
![It's a famous quote from Kurt Vonnegut about computers. It goes: "I work at home, and if I wanted to, I could have a computer right by my bed, and I’d never have to leave it. But I use a typewriter, and afterwards I mark up the pages with a pencil. Then I call up this woman named Carol out in Woodstock and say, “Are you still doing typing?” Sure she is, and her husband is trying to track bluebirds out there and not having much luck, and so we chitchat back and forth, and I say, “OK, I’ll send you the pages.”
Then I’m going down the steps, and my wife calls up, “Where are you going?” I say, “Well, I’m going to go buy an envelope.” And she says, “You’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.” So I go down the steps here, and I go out to this newsstand across the street where they sell magazines and lottery tickets and stationery. I have to get in line because there are people buying candy and all that sort of thing, and I talk to them. The woman behind the counter has a jewel between her eyes, and when it’s my turn, I ask her if there have been any big winners lately. I get my envelope and seal it up and go to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and 2nd Avenue, where I’m secretly in love with the woman behind the counter. I keep absolutely poker-faced; I never let her know how I feel about her. One time I had my pocket picked in there and got to meet a cop and tell him about it. Anyway, I address the envelope to Carol in Woodstock. I stamp the envelope and mail it in a mailbox in front of the post office, and I go home. And I’ve had a hell of a good time. And I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different.
Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We’re dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go do something. [Gets up and dances a jig.]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:flstla3vf27s7vpb4xeipci5/bafkreiaz4vttzwz5ev3lpzblti3ihwmnkxhagtqldl2kpx2kpdwmei7wqa)
It's a famous quote from Kurt Vonnegut about computers. It goes: "I work at home, and if I wanted to, I could have a computer right by my bed, and I’d never have to leave it. But I use a typewriter, and afterwards I mark up the pages with a pencil. Then I call up this woman named Carol out in Woodstock and say, “Are you still doing typing?” Sure she is, and her husband is trying to track bluebirds out there and not having much luck, and so we chitchat back and forth, and I say, “OK, I’ll send you the pages.” Then I’m going down the steps, and my wife calls up, “Where are you going?” I say, “Well, I’m going to go buy an envelope.” And she says, “You’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.” So I go down the steps here, and I go out to this newsstand across the street where they sell magazines and lottery tickets and stationery. I have to get in line because there are people buying candy and all that sort of thing, and I talk to them. The woman behind the counter has a jewel between her eyes, and when it’s my turn, I ask her if there have been any big winners lately. I get my envelope and seal it up and go to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and 2nd Avenue, where I’m secretly in love with the woman behind the counter. I keep absolutely poker-faced; I never let her know how I feel about her. One time I had my pocket picked in there and got to meet a cop and tell him about it. Anyway, I address the envelope to Carol in Woodstock. I stamp the envelope and mail it in a mailbox in front of the post office, and I go home. And I’ve had a hell of a good time. And I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different. Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We’re dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go do something. [Gets up and dances a jig.]"
Incredible quote from Team Cherry. Can't believe they make games like this
shaders were a mistake. let's go back to handpainted textures for everything
From the individual to the national scale, the long term winners will be the ones who avoid all this like the plague and retain the ability to think, question, research, learn and remember
Sunday morning 2 minute video essay about taking a break. Enjoy! youtu.be/GEICXWcnhQk?...
This includes a contribution from one of the gaming world's better-known Jim Rossignols. Worth picking up for that alone.
A release image for Mindset GO! It says "Mindset GO! Out Now!" next to the Mindset logo, a modified Venn diagram. Below, a cat lurks by some sortable shapes. There are cats in the game; also shapes.
Deep breath.
✨ Mindset GO! is in soft launch now! ✨
🔵 iOS: mindset.game/app/
🔺 Android: mindset.game/app/
🟨 ... Or web: mindset.game
Mindset is a new smart casual puzzle that tests 👀 observation and 🧠 logic.
Install! Play! Share! ENJOY. And let me know how you get on.
Big day. More to come... 🔮
Ha, love the Slatibartfast idea! New version is up, by the way. Adds an extra table for events to give more colour, plus a few more nips and tucks
So glad you like the look of it - thanks! Would love to hear if you get a chance to play. (Btw, am working on a couple of tweaks, will update soon!)
