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🕹️ Spent ten years as game design professor. 💽 Now making games for novel hardware. 🎢 Still a theme park scholar. 👑 Queen City resident. 🖕Fuck the fascists and the bigots.
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Former student of mine came home to find someone had left a White Power org recruitment flyer on her doorstep.

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Fulbright went and told all their fellows they need to scrub any mentions of climate change or things that aren't white men or else "their grants could get canceled and they won't get paid if they don't comply" But then they just indefinitely paused everyone's payments regardless. Pitiful

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John Cena turned heel by returning to the company currently named in two different sexual abuse lawsuits, whose longtime owner and president is about to blow up public education.

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Though my NC senators will likely vote in favor of this because they’re reprehensible people, I called them anyway.

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"What is candy crush?"

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Update: this was an ad she saw in her Solitaire app. She was interested because she didn't know that video games are "free" now.

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Text messages from a bored mom in her hospital room: "is royal kingdom a free game I can download?" I presume she saw an ad for this on television.

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I am also raising my shares in hentai FYI

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"If I can't appeal to your desire to not be an awful bigot, can I at least appeal to the stated Conservative belief that the federal government should not micro-manage who can play sports?"

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Called my Senators this morning.

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I have been confusing "The Florida Project" with the clandestinely-shot-in-WDW "Escape from Tomorrow" for all these years...

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🎶🐦🪵

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What happens when a billion computers stop getting security updates on October 14? This week, I'm talking about Windows 10's end of life, with a breakdown of the different ways you can prepare, including safe and secure ways to keep using old computers that won't be supported by Microsoft anymore.

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This weekend, I learned how bitmap images work so that I can turn my game sprites into data. And I figured out how to properly get them to draw to a TFT display connected to an ESP32!

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Wanikani with wine. Wine-ni-kani?

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I wanna do an edit of the movie CARRY-ON that replaces all Jason Bateman’s lines with Michael Bluth.

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After 2+ years in development, Rayroads should finally be out this year. Your world is dying. Drain the life from your sun to propel your trains through the void, crack open new planets to exploit their precious minerals, and increase your company’s value to shareholders as all of you go extinct.

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It did take three hours (and the kitchen had closed 1 hour in..) but some food was acquired at the cafeteria.

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Update: we're going on hour two of her just trying to get her evening meal.

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The state of health care in the U.S.: my mom was supposed to have an outpatient heart procedure yesterday but her blood pressure was too high and now she has to wait in the hospital until Tuesday when the doctor comes back and just reported she's watching Dr. Zhivago on a small TV with commercials.

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I am once again a Wired subscriber.

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Working through the dread. I’m learning how to convert images to bitmap for 1-inch display on the handheld.

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Actual question from reporter: "Why don't you wear a suit?" Ukrainian President Zelenskyy: "I will wear costume after this war will finish."

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How Elon Musk planned for DOGE: Our investigation found that he raised the idea in 2023, becoming fixated on gaining insider access to federal systems. By Dec., he chose USDS as a landing place, and future DOGE members began applying for jobs there. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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1. Today, the Iowa Legislature shamefully stripped transgender people from the State Civil Rights Act. It becomes the first state to ever strip any group from a civil rights act. There were powerful speeches, and huge protets. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Flashback to the time the Daily Caller called me an activist professor with video games in my clutches.

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Anyone who could sit in that room and not see and feel the humanity that they are trying to erase is a monster.

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If only Bezos had said they'd be mandating pro-Garfield op-eds.

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I looked to see if there are any NASCAR drivers from Buffalo, Iowa. And I laughed out loud at the title of this section on Wikipedia:

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DnL is a top five soda.

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“Patrons are encouraged to argue whether Volcano or Dante’s Peak was the better film.”

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Panic Playdate game recommendation: Laser Sphere by @shauninman.com! Simple mechanics with a good push and pull. Just make sure to switch to the d-pad/crank control setup.

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The best way to celebrate Pokémon Day is with Markiplier’s smash or pass video.

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It took me halfway through my cup of iced coffee this morning to realize I had only used the leftover 4g of grounds to brew it and the remaining 16g were still in the grinder…

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If construction has already begun, then this “zoning hearing” scheduled for next week is just a formality isn’t it?

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