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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And voiced by the honey-smooth tones of Miriam Margolyes.
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Our Labrador has been known to fart so badly that he leaves the room just as the smell is hitting us.
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I'm also interested to know more about the origins of the games that are clearly built on the same actual base-building/wargaming engine (Puzzles & Conquest, Age of Apes, many others)--possibly they're all just singing from the same spreadsheet but I think it's a lot closer than that.
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No, it's a much closer match--the same shape of villages, same number of slots to build, similar attack friends/ destroy/repair mechanics. It's very close indeed. I think Dice Dreams is also built around the same core, though I've not played it, only seen videos.
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Not an exact reskin but structurally they're very close, except Coin Master uses a fruit-machine metaphor for giving the player coins, and Monopoly Go uses the Monopoly board. The rest of it (build a little village, attack other players' villages, they attack yours) is basically the same game.
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I've spent too long thinking about Cyberpunk 2077 spoon merch, and have come to the conclusion that it must mean Johnny Silverhand is a spoony bard.
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If you are taking inspiration from movements *please study them.* 20th Century Civil rights organizers were very hard core about security. You should be too.
Here's some very basic guidance -- I don't know who made this site, but it checks out --
infosecforactivists.org
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Shipping from the US is also horribly expensive. You may find it cheaper to do a separate print run for US backers, using a printer in the US.
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My read: she's eating his lunch, and in exchange he gets to look at her legs. But I'm not sure what the point of the gardening is.
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Sright
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“We’re not racist or sexist! We just assume anyone with a job other than a white man is a diversity hire.”
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Agreed--though I always thought PWEI were better on vinyl and JJ were better live.
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Indeed. Note copy of Little Wars.
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Technically "a wooden cylinder about an inch long". Less likely to damage the toy soldiers that way. You can still pick up the Britains toy artillery on eBay.
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If I recall correctly, the gent in the foreground is Jerome K Jerome.
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Baron Munchausen and Violence: the RPG of Egregious and Repulsive Bloodshed are both manifestoes, the latter an explicit one. They are both 25 years old.
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There was also a James Bond Jr animated TV series in 1991. 65 episodes, merch, tie-in novels, the works. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B....
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Surely this is just the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, if Cyrano had been a plagiarist, and not actually in love with the woman himself, and a soulless tool of capitalism.
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Oh, fantastic!
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Out of interest, do you know if there are German translations of La Disparation and Les Revenents?
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That is... extraordinary. I wouldn't have been able to resist it either.
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So what's the German title of LAUM, and is it as elegant as the French 'La vie mode d'emploi'?
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Every joint in my fingers hurts. Also, I'd forgotten that to keep the type even you have to hit every key with the same force. And waiting for correction fluid to dry...
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We had a Bosch dischwasher flake after 3-4 years, after it was highly recommended. Tempted by Miele.
One UK brand I recommend: Numatic's Henry vacuums. Every hotel here uses them. They're absolute workhorses for half the price of a Dyson. Plus personality www.myhenry.com
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You've seen Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, right?
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Liquid!