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jameswallis.bsky.social
Game designer, publisher, teacher, critic, writer, evangelist, FRSA. Wrote Everybody Wins, runs http://www.gamedesignmasterclass.com, co-host of RPG podcast http://www.ludonarrativedissidents.com, & setting up www.bigtable.games, a trade body for the UK&I.
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Hey America, what century is it?

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Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source.

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"I always have a wonderful time, wherever I am, whomever I'm with." - Elwood P. Dowd.

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YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown you can SEE HIM he is playing in town you should go and have a good time

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Probably not news to anyone in the field, but I just realised that mobile game Monopoly Go is a reskin of Coin Master, which I also hated.

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Maybe he's read Macbeth?

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What??? This is pathetic. Come on, UK, you can do better than this! Go respond to this ridiculous UKGOV consultation on AI asap! Just ignore all the fiddly questions in the middle; they're there to discourage you from having your say. www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Right. Transphobic asshats have got a petition to repeal the GRA to over 10,000 signatures. Fuck that. Let's get this one higher: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Streaming on www.twitch.tv/RossPaytonRPPR to talk about TTRPGs with @gregstolze.bsky.social and @jameswallis.bsky.social !

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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Please can everyone listen to Geek Gods: Sir Ian Livingstone at 4pm and midnight please? Tell everyone about it too. Radio 4 Extra : BBC Sounds thereafter.

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#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 asking for defence after 9/11 As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help

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Piece by @the-bookseller.bsky.social on the government’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and copyright consultation that ends on 25th February. If you're a UK based #writer or #creative it's vital to take the time to respond... www.thebookseller.com/news/governm...

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I've just been cleaning up dog vomit from under the table where my wife was in the middle of an important Zoom call. How's your afternoon?

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OPPORTUNITY - Creative Director Not affiliated. Shares welcome career.paradoxplaza.com/jobs/5562404...

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NASA is requesting a way to archive several PETABYTES of data likely due to the cuts.

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... with his very very long arms.

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I have just typed one side of A4 paper on a manual typewriter for the first time since the mid-1980s, and I will never, ever be rude about even the crappiest word-processor ever again.

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A comment by the great scholar John Meacham, quoting Sam Rayburn: “Any jackass can kick down a barn. It takes a carpenter to build one.”

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I’ve recently been made aware of a “hotness” list of game designers on bgg. In similarity to the hotness for games popular at the time. And as of this writing, exactly 100% of this list are men. This is unacceptable to me.

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Just acquired a copy of 21X, Blackjack with algebra. Cards have various variables (X, which is player-defined, plus possibly N, the number of cards in your hand, V and Y) and you have to get to 21 first. Plus special cards by famous mathematicians. It appears to be exactly the right sort of crazy.

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If you saw a person losing a game of chess to a dog, over and over, you would assume the person is losing intentionally, that they are losing on purpose. Probably to make money selling tickets to see the amazing chess playing dog. Anyway, the dems

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