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critic | games | science fiction. Discussing culture on podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Used to write a lot. Growing things outdoors. Working on books: Assassin’s Creed and Magic: The Gathering.
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This month I am in dialogue with @jmrivera.bsky.social. We talk GTA 6, the personal and economic forces shaping games media, and why the games industry shouldn’t exist. The art for this month’s column is The Funeral by Édouard Manet.

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Hey hey! Looks like MUTAZIONE - which I wrote and narrative designed - is now available on iOS and Android as a premium game! Check it out in the App Store or Play store 💜

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Was very excited when Last Week Tonight asked @404media.co to help out with research/fact checking for an AI Slop segment that ran last night. I thought it turned out very good! Here's a few mentions of our reporting, and the full segment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg...

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i want my bb

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Just checked the numbers and thanks to Bluesky the Big Robot games have done the best numbers in almost four years! This place has, as they say, the juice. <3 thankyou thankyou everyone who boosted this!

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Today's a new beginning at Shelved By Genre, which in our postapocalypse unit, is a new ending as we explore the first half of Philip K. Dick's DR. BLOODMONEY and learn about all the weird stuff people (and animals) get up to after the bombs fall: rangedtouch.com/2025/06/20/d...

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For today only, as part of Free RPG Day, Slayers is totally free! Grab the PDF off itch and go hunt some monsters. gilarpgs.itch.io/slayers

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the shark’s greatest enemy is barrels

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It’s not simply doing this, or doing it without congressional approval, or doing it without explanation of risks, or doing it without declaration of war, or doing it on behalf of an ally mid-genocide. It’s the fickleness that suggests what’s to come. Rule, war, death by his whim.

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becoming a return guy but for exactly this and this only

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one of the most important parts about going to a retro gaming convention is that you get to see naive youth being absolutely annihilated by the first boss of Altered Beast

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I kissed the ape at SFGE

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this rules

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I’m at the Southern Fried Gaming Expo today and I feel very alive because enraged nerds almost ran me over in the parking lot twice in the last five minutes.

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“I am drunk as shit.”

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thinking about becoming a standup comic. just traveling the country asking people what they do for a living, things of that nature

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my first newsletter is out! like and subscribe!! (largely this is just a reflection on the past month or so, plus a recap of some of what i've written and what i'm working on. let me know what else you want to see. i want this to be a place where i can be transparent about life a a freelancer.)

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The last few months have been the most impactful by 404 Media yet. Stopping ICE data access; triggering changes at AI companies, more. We continue to be the most impactful tech outlet on the internet, and our subscribers let us do this work. Here are some of those recent examples:

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Over at @pastegames.bsky.social I have a preview up of one of the adventures in the new Dragon Delves book. Candy-coated fantasy flair! Some interesting answers about the shape of new D&D in there. www.pastemagazine.com/games/dungeo...

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some extremely good stuff in the replies and quotes here

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Over at @pastegames.bsky.social I have a preview up of one of the adventures in the new Dragon Delves book. Candy-coated fantasy flair! Some interesting answers about the shape of new D&D in there. www.pastemagazine.com/games/dungeo...

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what could it be

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some extremely good stuff in the replies and quotes here

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The team released a game today! I've been watching this project grow from an empty scene into something really special, with a lot of work and care put into it. Give it a look and tell a friend!

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I’m working on a thing: tell me about your favorite solo TTRPG, the more obscure the better. I’m going to have an opportunity to write about more TTRPG stuff in the future and I would like to do some specific solo RPG writeups

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Becoming one of those online guys with one single idea he keeps pushing. Like “I can’t believe how dishonorable Wigmund is” or “would you get a load of what Wigmund said?” Screencapping Wigmund’s idiocy for all to see.

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Coming this fall: Glatisant, a duet game of purpose, pursuit, and guidance. Two players play as the Knight Errant and The Questing Beast in this asymmetrical journaling game using the Carta SRD Follow the Kickstarter page now to be notified at launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra... #ttrpg

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This is a great post.

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Types Of Souls Bosses: - guy in a room totally freakin out - Stomp Jomperson - the gang is back together and they hate you - Bumpos Palace of Tricks - you interrupted my dinner/mourning and now you gotta die

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I yearn for it.

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Lots of astonishment in response to these moves, but it makes sense that Hasbro/WotC want to move away from personality-focused advertising now that D&D 2024 is out the door. MTG sticks to that model because MaRo loves to be on camera/mics, and he's earned a similar level of hobbyist loyalty.

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Nearly half of 140 senior SSA administrators have been forced out or left the agency. A decimation of hundreds of years of administrative expertise at the insitence of the ignorant. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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