Taylor Shuss

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@urbantruth.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social Do you have any resources (ideally shareable videos) on a basic overview of what a walkable city is?

Aaaah! It's Rune Rite!
Aaaaamazingly Sinister Plots
Aaaaastonishing Threed

that'll throw'em off your sly tricks

a top down picture of a group of people being kettled by police, with the aim of 'calming the group down' - or raising the temperature of the space enough to justify an arrest.

🎲✂️ I'm working on an idea for a game centered around street-level protesting, focusing on the use of and countering of shady police tactics like kettling, snatch squads, secret agitators, etc etc. I'm looking for book/resource recommendations documenting these tactics around the world. Any recs?

definitely not on genius week myself 😅

After playing a fair number of Don't Botch, I think I am in agreeance. It's just too stripped down to make coming back to it exciting.

The core stuff works great but something extra would go a long way.

That is altogether too many games Brooks. Something needs to be done about this!

This sounds so cool Brooks - Best of luck man! 🎉🎉🎉

you'd think adding a kaiju to hamlet would instantly make it even better but somehow i don't think it adds a ton

Heck yes, congrats Phil! Excited to hear more once things get announced! 🎉🎉🎉

I saw it pop up last night and was immediately disappointed. Surprised it was removed - assume there was meaningful backlash and they backed down?

Oh wow, what a shame. Thanks for spreading awareness here as I probably would have missed this.

This looks awesome! Really hope I can try this one down the road.

Congrats on the engagement Marceline! 🎉🏳️‍🌈🥳

The blatant discrimination against trans people happening right now is galling. So many people insisted it was about kids or sports - but it was obviously a bullshit excuse and here we are.

The bigotry seems nonstop and it needs to end.

Finally watched Hundreds of Beavers. Wow that slapped. Great rec @danthurot.bsky.social!

What did you think of Ouroboros Trick? I got a chance to try it recently and really liked what it was doing.

For a project I am being allowed to put chocolate in my peanut butter and I am already having waaaaaaaaaay too much fun with it.

May have just pulled a Marceline... 😅

Think what we have to go through to finally be ourselves, from being ostracized in coming out to endless paperwork to get documents that align with who they are, just to get a letter like this saying you're a felon for using an ID that correctly identifies you.
You'd be furious too.

the murder robot is sooo good

I did watch Death of Stalin, which I believe was your rec. I guess I should try the other 3 😅

Great Choice was a cruel pick though!

I was told to watch it as blind as possible, but I still haven't bothered to watch it. 😅

Wild to me they are tossing so much hate for a game they have never played and know so little about.

Clearly someone is passionate enough about the game to make it a reality! Plus a 3rd party is praising it as well.

I totally understand. We need to protect precious & handsome things in this world. 😉

Final?!

When in reality that's complete nonsense. Mechanisms can help us tell many stories, and something like roll & move has a place in the modern lexicon of gaming.

Molly House uses it to great effect, and on the other end of the scale something like Magical Athlete embraces its goofyness.

When you played Monopoly or Life as a child and hated the randomness, something like Catan is going to feel like a revelation.

Both use dice, but all those bad games use dice in an "icky" way. So you might decide that's a way we should never use dice again - it's tainted.

Like Connor mentioned, I don't think there are bad game mechanisms - it's all about how they are used.

I do think many modern gamers have generational angst towards the old school mass market games out there, and unfortunately mechanisms like roll & move are the easiest to call out and shame.

alright alright alright, even more excited to give this one a shot then.

This is one I really want to give a go sometime. It just looks so novel!