I'm not sure yet about the game as a game but it's a great teaching tool for how to solve those bedeviling clues. (I'd love to help people see the elegance and beauty of acrostics in a similar way.)
John Wardle (Wordle) breaks down cryptic crosswords in a new game. www.parseword.com/puzzle/tutor...
Call for speakers: Serious Play (March 31 deadline)
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📅 August 5–7, 2026
"We’re looking for experiences in game-based learning and simulation:
✨ Successes
✨ Struggles
✨ Obstacles
✨ Lessons learned"
#seriousplay
I'll be there!
Smith also cites the Minnesota killings of Good and Pretti, victims labeled as "domestic terrorists" immediately afterward, as another example of a rash judgment and an investigation thwarted in place of the prosecutorial mantra, "facts matter."
Game mistress in a court jester hat, red velvety jacket, and long, gold beads, asks a party goer about her encounter with "Andy Warhol" (the name she wrote on a card earlier).
"Brush with Fame Game"
Write down the name of a celebrity you've met, personally, even if briefly. Draw someone else's card randomly from a box. Then, find that person in the crowd and ask to hear the story.
Talk about lively conversations! The party was abuzz.
Career prosecutor Jack Smith on Signalgate: "They were talking on an app about what were clearly classified war plans... I can tell you with certainty there is no admin Republican or Democratic.... that would not open an investigation in that case."
To cite one example.
youtu.be/2M8vsVfVdpo?...
Two broadly smiling women wearing colorful jester hats
Not at GDC this year but it's time for #whatagamedevlookslike (two of us!). Jan and I played Court Jesters at a fundraising gala, where we invented and then facilitated three games for a large party crowd.
I've been making video games since the 80s, analog games since the 90s.
Reminder that it's been one year since the US secretary of defense somehow social engineered himself into the "Signalgate" breach.
Recap and update from The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg:
SNL with Ryan Gosling taking some turns.
Oh wow. Willy Wonka went there.
We made a videogame about this!
Atuel is a surrealist documentary videogame about a river that crosses a desert in western Argentina, its history, and how the climate crisis threatens its future.
It's 30 minutes long and completely free!
store.steampowered.com/app/2794330/...
Can't wait to see it!
TAKE BACK our SCIENCE RALLY! Nationwide, March 7th, 2026 Save Science. Protect Health. Defend Democracy.
TAKE BACK our SCIENCE RALLY: March 7th, National Day of Action
#SaveScience
#ProtectHealth
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What does it mean when Stand Up for Science says "save science, protect health and defend democracy"?
Let's break it down.
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AI experts explain the harmful impact of manipulated images in the fog of war: “It’s become very sophisticated and a critical part of geopolitics” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
adventure games from the 80s were intentionally designed to be tricky, mean and occasionally counterintuitive so that you could get stuck for long periods of time. this was called “value for your dollar”
Obvious ai manipulation on the left. Original photo by David Batcheller on the right. Look at the wings, feather shape, head, neck and bill shape, lack of tail etc. This is way more than a filter and absolutely destroys the joy and wonder of the original.
So loads of people are sharing an obvious ai "glow up" of an actual photo. I never share ai stuff even to dunk, but in this case I'm sharing a comparison to show the problem. We have to stand against this slop at every level or it becomes normalised. They want us to stop caring. See alt text.
We are all living on a rock in a hard place: within a tiny pinball machine that only humans, among all the Earthling species, can even grok. And potentially fix.
With science. #sufs
NASA rules out a lunar collision for asteroid 2024 YR in 2032. Using Webb Space Telescope data, scientists confirm the 200-foot rock will miss the moon by 13,200 miles on Dec. 22. The update follows earlier projections of a 4.3% strike chance.
11-year-old boy, 12-year-old girl. Contacted the kids thru Roblox.
Another #J6 arrested for assaulting Capital police. Again.
Here's what happens when you give criminals a golden ticket out of jail.
Love this highly relatable story about chimps being obsessed with crystals. "The researchers ended up needing to trade large amounts of bananas and yogurt to get back the largest crystal. Others were never retrieved."
NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US
It's up to us to save science, protect health and defend this democracy!
Stand up! Speak out! Hit the streets on March 7th!
Join us on the streets at rallies nationwide on March 7th.zurl.co/Rcwcl
#ItsUpToUs #standupforscience #rally #March7
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Michigan friends!
NYC friends
Get in, dorks. We're ready for round two.
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They targeted him because he "looked like someone else" they were searching for.
A college grad with a solid job and legal pathway to be here, where's the justice? Where's the humanity? Zero good, all harm in this case.
It's Cinna the Poet, yet again, condemned by mob madness. ("Julius Caesar")
One of the most affecting video games I've played is The Cat and the Coup (2011). You play as Mossadegh's cat and must get up to mischief to try to bring him back from the brink of despair.
It asks: "How do you know when your democracy is threatened"?
#g4c #seriousplay
I love science.
Cool, on my game radar. :)
