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He/him. Game designer rebooting, robot fight facilitator at NHRL, ferret fan. Still not a negotiable Final Fantasy currency. All my links: https://gil.hova.net
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Good evening . . . We're conjuring some unranked games—games uninterested in ranking the players and their performance. For example: • Multivictor games where players pursue their own goals in a messy social space. • Victorless games that defy the concept of winning with narrative outcomes. 1/🧵

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Spending Sunday watching a replay of the @bristolbotbuilders.com competition from yesterday. It's an amazing competition of insectweight combat bots, based in the UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCd0...

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One thing I used to do on Facebook is post #dontopendeadinside memes. I love them. This one below is my favorite.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Untitled, by Joan Mitchell, 1992, 📸 via @dimfilipovic.bsky.social

submitted 20 hours ago • 49 comments

Confession: I don't mind the sentiment behind the guillotine memes (that the ultra-wealthy have too much power), but I'm not a fan of guillotines themselves, and I find the imagery counterproductive.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

This article raises two excellent points: 1) A single day's boycott will probably not have a huge impact in and of itself. BUT... 2) This is excellent practice by the general public for a bigger action down the road, like a longer boycott or even a general strike. I hope it does well.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Love it. Hopefully folks recognize and appreciate this and are willing to provide the financial support we need in small independent games journalism.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Very good news, and I hope other Substack users follow suit!

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Rescue worker Graeme Hart, 32, said: “He was looking a little thin, but otherwise he seemed in weirdly good spirits for someone who’d been isolated from society with seemingly no hope of return.”

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This is breaking my brain right now. I don't pretend to know much about demoscene, but I always assumed you needed a computer for it. Not a floppy drive connected to a monitor through a single resistor. With all music coming exclusively from the floppy drive itself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprS...

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Last night’s game was Galactic Cruise. Very impressive game! Clever rules, well-integrated theme, lots of cronchy decisions, and a low level of player interaction. The latter is very much to my liking, as it allows for chill long term planning.

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I hate that it's come to this, but maybe this will be useful to some folks I know. A trove of info about how to relocate from the US to a country in hopefully better shape. transworldexpress.org

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments