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- Inventor of Free-to-Play business model for video games. - Game Dev for 30+ years (CEO of Frogdice). - Consultant (gamification, ecommerce, loyalty/meta-game programs, community building, technology transformation). - College professor (UK and EKU).
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Way to go #AssasssinsCreedShadows! A really spectacular game! I will be playing it for months most likely!

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

If enough of us just asked him every day "Mr. President, it's my birthday today. For just today could you not disappear any innocent American citizens like Stalin's USSR pogroms?" do you think that would work?

HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.

If you wrote a story about a regime so comically evil that it literally snatches people from their citizenship interviews, you'd be accused of over-the-top imaginings.

This is a monster.

This is possibly the best episode yet. Matt's layman friendly explanation of bonds and the bond market reminds me of Ah-ha! moments I have had listening to Neil deGrasse Tyson or Brian Cox explaining some complicated aspect of science.

Haters when they hear about millions of people loving #AssassinsCreedShadows

MAJOR BREAKING: Senator Elizabeth Warren just told Call to Activism exclusively that she’s calling for a formal investigation into “insider trading” among Trump’s friends: "Did Trump or those with inside knowledge help wealthy investors cash in on his tariff flip-flopping?"

Wow... @riotgames.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSoG...

Huge!!!!! #UBI

Great article/thinkpiece on levels, horizontal/vertical scaling in MMOs, and more!

"She's a supermodel but she lives in Canada."

More base news for #AssassinsCreedShadows haters. @assassinscreednews.bsky.social @assassinscreed.bsky.social @ubisoft.com

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA): "I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"

@veenacos.bsky.social Learned about you from the certain unshowered twitch/youtuber complaining about you. I can only conclude that means you must be awesome and then bam here you are on Bluesky. Howdy!

sometimes I feel like a dinosaur, cause no one looks anything up anymore 🦕

"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (April 8, 2025)

You know the Republican Party is toast when it falls to a Senator from Kentucky to explain math. (I live in Lexington, KY so I can say this without being mean....)

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"

Bill Burr to the media: "That's you guys passing the buck. You guys need to have balls again... You need to get your balls back." www.youtube.com/shorts/AJHox...

This game is so freakin' cool. Perfect parry puts enemy in a stunned/vulnerable state -> heavy attack crit -> chop off both arms and then his head. #AssassinsCreedShadows Has it hit 5 million yet? :P @assassinscreednews.bsky.social @assassinscreed.bsky.social @ubisoft.com

what a visual

if we want to rebuild american institutions and earn back the world’s trust after this we cannot settle for half-measures. lots of people need to go prison. lots more need to be permanently stripped of wealth and power.

Hey all. I just got done running through a few walls for @kirbysmartuga.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=grYl... Btw, 4 hours after this speech:

Robert Wolf on Fox News: "This big beautiful economy that actually was rolling pretty good with jobs and inflation coming down feels more like the Game of Thrones red wedding. I mean, it's not going well."

Still one of the best game launch trailers I've ever seen. Brutally honest and hilarious. @obsidianent.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClhD...

We are being ruled by the dumbest sack of shit of all time. Or a Russian agent. Or both.

Dark Pence is back.

Trump's tariffs do three things for Kentucky: Make your groceries cost more, put bourbon industry jobs at risk, and threaten our farmers' livelihoods.  That's the "Liberation Day" reality hitting Kentucky wallets.

I couldn't believe this was real, but I verified it myself. It is. RIP Steak 'n Shake.

"We are the party of welders, waiters and plumbers. We are the party of people who work with their hands, who shower before and after work.” - Charlie Kirk Hahaha. The President is a billionaire from Yale, the VP is Yale lawyer, world's richest man is puppetmaster, 15 other billonaires appointed.