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Remember kids: it’s not Great Man Theory if you remember that some of the people with a hand on an important wheel were absolute doofuses. Then it’s just Man Theory

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It’s the @romchip.bsky.social fundraiser stream today!! 12 hours of game goodness streamed by various cool people to raise money to keep ROMchip going and open to everyone. Watch and donate! twitch.tv/romchipjournal

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I’m begging those who want to comment on LLM capabilities or potential to please gain basic literacy on how outputs can reflect publicly available training data. The twitter thread that led to this concern article features a lot of Asteroids tutorials and little collision detection

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*sniff* I never thought I’d live to see the day when even PC Gamer praises the newer style of unquantified (reflective) choice design in narrative games

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I once worked on a visual novel game where all the surveys and focus groups said that nobody wanted romance, they only wanted mystery and sci-fi. Then 75+% of clicks in-game went to stories with explicit romantic or sexy themes. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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5-year-old: Mama what is the marshmallow test? Me: [explains] 5-year-old, eyes blazing: CAN I DO THE MARSHMALLOW TEST TO GET TWO MARSHMALLOWS?! Me: hmmm ok you can try [months pass] 5-year-old, every time a treat is offered: Um, we should get TWO, I need to practice the marshmalllow test again…

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The continued popularity of "Yarvinism" in some faschionable tech circles is quite inconsistent with the way C.Y.'s cute fancies of "formalism" and "startup patchworks" have been dismanntled by recent empirical evidence--mostly from an erratic, easily influenced lashing-out-across-borders president.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

In 3 days, ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories [ @romchip.bsky.social ] is gonna try and raise $7K-11K w/ a 12-hour Twitch fundraiser. I'm the Managing Editor of this journal, and one of its cofounders. Here's a 🧵 on why ROMchip matters, what it stands for, & how u can help. donate.romchip.org

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I was today years old when I learned that the John Money “involuntary gender surgery” patient’s twin brother (who had no accident or surgery, etc) ALSO committed suicide, and that they had a family history of mental illness

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Need a break from the present? Come explore the PAST of computing with @jesperjuul.bsky.social as he talks with us about his new book on the Commodore 64, C64 games, and more. This Thursday evening, free and open to the public!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

strongly agreed with Cara. some of y'all talk like you have hidden a spare population of unproblematic, unpropagandized people to build a mass movement out of under your couch cushions or something.

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

Was intrigued that my 5-year-old kept asking to read Melville until she started saying she had to save Moby Dick, a little baby girl white whale, with help from Moby's mother... because she went on this VR ride. That's right, the woke mind virus VR industry has TRANS'd MOBY DICK youtu.be/2QVVWLztFZM

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Lots of wishes for peace and against fascism at the Upper East Side exhibit of Yoko Ono's Wish Tree (aka "tanabata tanzaku for white people") but I'm surprised at how many are basically "I wish to make even more money." Unsurprising, maybe

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

More in-depth coverage of this megagame and notes on (lack of) safety rules at rascal.news from @rowanzeoli.bsky.social -- outcome of this other playthrough makes me feel like opting for the "lighter ending" may be a copout www.rascal.news/red-hats-red... www.rascal.news/why-does-the...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Probably also relevant: the federal government has been trying to suppress and delete the video footage that serves as the post-climactic scene of this game www.newsweek.com/president-do...

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Went with @jennifervanasco.bsky.social as she covered Fight for America, (a January 6 mega-game) for NPR. The game, half tabletop minis and half absurd media spectacle, concludes with extremely sobering news footage of mob violence https://www.npr.org/2025/02/16/nx-s1-5275382/fight-for-america-jan-6

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SllL...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like Harper's Bazaar has embarked fully onto the "emerging market is not more waifus, it's husbandos who seem like they're actually listening and responding to women" train www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I advocate for "gray cozy" vs. "contrast cozy." Sometimes some players can't handle anything more than gray cozy, but that does mean missing out on substance.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

"This moment calls for a broad coalition that knits together an anti-billionaire revolt from below." — @lfelizleon.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Nice. https://www.them.us/story/erotic-tabletop-roleplaying-games-introduction-monsterhearts-pass-the-sugar-please-erotic-ttrpgs

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Every time you create a “throwaway” e-mail address or profile for any reason, another sentient being is created in the Spamiverse—like you, except with different or missing salient details. Soon there will be so many of them that they will break the barrier of worlds in search of revenge.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments