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I'm happy to announce our first major game, Kaizen: A Factory Story! Design production lines to create the iconic products of 1980s Japan in this open-ended factory puzzle game developed by Coincidence and published by Astra Logical. Wishlist it now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2275490

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NEW: Fully leaked diplomatic cable directing the implementation of this policy at all US diplomatic and consular posts.

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This just came up so for anyone who doesn't know - .AI files are a vector file type, they are Adobe Illustrator's native file type. Files ending with .ai don't have anything to do with /that/ kind of AI 🫶 Pls don't call out an artist bc you see them working on an .ai file

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Wait, Solasta II demo is out on Steam? store.steampowered.com/app/2975950/...

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If you care about having access to your queer Amazon content after this month, you need to do this NOW.

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Medieval waffle maker! Medieval waffle maker!

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Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov dies aged just 52 www.eurogamer.net/half-life-2-...

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I reluctantly propose a new term as an alternative to Sephirothposting: Denethorposting, aka "The Enemy has found it, and now his power waxes; he sees our very thoughts, and all we do is ruinous. Go now and die in what manner seems best to you."

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K! So! We spent this week figuring out how the tariffs, inflation and other bullshit is going to affect business. Time to thread. For those not in the know, I'm the Director at Hachette Boardgames USA and I import games for foreign publishers and market and sell them in the US. 1/?

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In 2024, Evil Hat's gross income was a bit over $1M. (We spent it all, so on net, we largely treaded water for that fiscal year.) Income sources were distributed as shown here. Distribution as always remains a big player. Second chart shows how that divides up, and illuminates the Alliance concern.

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My big-brain legally European medieval Monk class in CRPGs.

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Hey you know what's cool?! The fact that you can weave a sling in like 10 minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DmW...

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new favourite painting is this one by James Yunge-Bateman of dazzle camoflague being tested on model ships in a pool on the roof of the navy's camoflague testing department in Leamington Spa during WW2. this is both a true-to-life and purely surrealist painting

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"Ghost-apples" found on Michigan farm. Ice storm covers rotten apples on the tree. The rotten apple has a lower freezing point than water, doesn't freeze. Apple gets mushy, oozes out a hole in the bottom of the ice, leaving a ghostly shell. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/g...

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The Murky History between Hasbro and Irish Convent Workhouses

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Facebook's AI lawyer @marklemley.bsky.social has quit. He says the leadership has descended into "Neo-nazi madness". He posted this to LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/posts/markle...

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I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file. PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields. doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf github.com/ading2210/do...

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In the 1990s, I ran an underground zine of Gothic fiction & poetry called SHADOWDANCE (1991-1996) Underground presses - run out of ppl’s basements, garages (in my case, dorm room) - were some of the only places to publish queer, anticapitalist, pagan, punk & countercultural material

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I went looking for a picture and was not disappointed.

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NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

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Holy shit this filing update is wild! It states that: 1. Zuckerberg gave the ok to train off copyrighted works 2. Engineers wrote scripts to remove copyright info 3. Meta downloaded illegal torrents to train models of GenAi is a house of cards, I swear. techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m...

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The trick to understanding tabletop RPGs which pride themselves on simulating reality rather than emulating genre tropes is that their designers' notion of "realism" is typically informed by popular fiction which bills itself as "realistic", which is itself a genre with a discernible body of tropes.

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You do not, in fact, gotta hand it to MiHoYo azhdarchid.com/you-do-not-g...

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Spotify boosts profits by filling popular playlists with cheaper stock music instead of paying traditional artists. A dedicated "Strategic Programming" team now ensures these production tracks dominate playlists, tracked through an internal dashboard. harpers.org/archive/2025...

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"RuneQuest, Chaosium’s fantasy Dungeons and Dragons rival, is getting a videogame adaptation from grand strategy publisher Slitherine." — Wargamer

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This week on the blog: Coins! Contrasting historical coinage with the vision of ancient coinage presented through 'gold' in fantasy fiction. What were coins used for, why did much economic activity remain non-coinage and what do you use when you aren't using coins? acoup.blog/2025/01/03/c...

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There are now 25 million people on BlueSky and I know that some out there need to know about this.

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