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Moving in. Like Japan and doujin games.
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Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 3h
People don't want to pay £100 to eat cheese on toast in a room with other cheese on toast eaters??? That's wild!!
Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 4h
The lie has outlived its usefulness. The Wright Bros. did not invent the aeroplane. Bell did not invent the telephone. Edison did not invent the lightbulb. And so on and so forth...
justinmikulka.bsky.social Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 5h
Another must read.

"For Americans especially, the deeper psychic shock lies in the recognition that modernity is no longer something they authored and others merely inherit. That story has outlived its usefulness."
The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…
www.theideasletter.org
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Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 5h
Ohtani had 10Ks AND 3HRs. Maybe get some more teams in? Some kind of All Stars team who will still lose but not as much.
Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 6h
Nobody cared a fig to see the Mona Lulu until it got stolen. Then they queued up to look at the empty space. When it was recovered, everyone wanted to see why it was stolen and now it's the most famous Western artwork. Everyone forgets that there's two versions of it too.
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Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 6h
In which we remind everyone that Monopoly was originally designed as The Landlord's Game in 2 parts; Monopolist and Prosperity, to show the benefits of tax and social reform. Monopolist was designed to be cruel, unfair ragebait, so when you played Prosperity, you supported introducing a property tax
minstrelofhorror.bsky.social The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 16h
Re-Watching Clue (1985)!

The world is a better place because they did not try duplicate the success of Clue. Although, I am curious if a Monopoly movie would cause families to quit talking, friends to throw punches, & the anyone who goes to see it erupt in violent rages...just like the board game!
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Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 6h
If Zack Polanski can get the morons at R5 who read out the cretinous so called travel bulletins to stop calling Purley Fountain Purley Cross, then he has my vote. There is no cross nor crossroads at Purley. There is the fountain, which was moved up next to the library. Hence it being Purley Fountain
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Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 21h
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Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 22h
Very likely. This was filmed by Fun Games, and I was briefly interviewed for a podcast there years back as well, possibly this TGM (very hard to remember the names of JPN games when put on the spot). I should look at my own TGM videos. I did Essen videos ages ago too, on Vimeo.
Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 1d
Look who I found...
youtu.be/8uvRgU55lnY?...

I'd forgotten about this. 8 years ago, I'm not doing much to register doujin games these days. This was my last TGM, I went to the Osaka show in 2018, and only back to Japan this spring, but I did get to a doujin game show in Nagoya.
ゲームマーケット2017春 会場レポート5　閉幕後インタビュー　Game Market 2017S_5
YouTube video by HAPPYGAMES
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Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 1d
Brexit took away my EU demand. This shit has stopped selling to the US. I am left with only Brits, and what do they know?
declouxj.bsky.social Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 1d
It is insane to me that there are almost no new articles about the fact that anything coming into the states under $800 is hit with a 35% tariff and has been since September.

And then there are the countries that have simply refused to ship stuff anymore.
Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 1d
I remember that bookies applied the off course betting tax of 10% to the stake or winnings. It was printed at the bottom of the betting slips. Except that the off course betting tax was 8%. Where did that extra 2% go?
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Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 1d
You got caught in a clip joint!

GEDDIT!!?? CLIP JPINT!!!1!1!!?!!?!1 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 2d
Byrne was electric. Every cover a masterpiece.
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Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 2d
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 Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 13d
George Pal was a close friend of Walter Lantz, and included WWpecker in his films. In the Pal film War Of The Worlds, WWpecker is in a tree near the start.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War...
The War of the Worlds (1953 film) - Wikipedia
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Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 2d
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Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 2d
Some nerd needs to stand all those stacked games onto their own longest sides. Stacking games is just waiting to spill them on the floor. Stood up is safe and accessible.

At the table ends they need to be turned so the longest side is perpendicular to the short table edge, so they don't fall off.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 3d
The sheer contempt I feel for videos that misuse POV. "POV you are a cheeky dog!!!" Then why can I see the cheeky dog, hmm? Explain that? How dare you? I went to film school.
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Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 2d
They've all got surnames like normal people, because they are just normal people. Queen or King or Prince is just a title, the same as your your title is Mr or Mrs or Miss. Bettie Windsor name was Bettie Windsor. Just use their normal names, because they're just normal people.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3d
Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!
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Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 2d
Thatcher learnt very early on: ignore the question, say what you want to say.
She did this over and over. Any and every interview on TV, whatever the topic, her only answer was: The real problem is XYZ and my policy is ABC. The real problem is XYZ and my policy is ABC. The real problem is XYZ and my
Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 4d
You've really got to stop lighting your farts on public transport. You've been told enough times already.
Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 4d
In today's episode of You Learn Something New Every Day: Koala's March
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala's...
Tiny biscuits with choc filling and over 600 drawings of koalas doing something human.
Only 3 left, I ate the others. Made in 1984 by Lotte to celebrate the arrival of koalas in Japan.
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Jon POWER @jonpower.bsky.social · 4d
Would that not capsize the ship if it fired??? Maybe not capsize, but you'd want to be in flat sea???
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