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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 3d

explain your username:

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James Mendez Hodes @lulavampiro.bsky.social · 3d

explain your username:

all capoeiristas formally receive an insulting nickname based on their idiosyncrasies. my wrestling background led to several awkward in-game grappling situations, so mine is "lula" ("squid"). b/c that username's often taken online i further specified it to my favorite squid.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 3d

explain your username:

short version: it’s my author pen name

long version: I was going by the initials “CM” on a message board for writers, because it stood for “Chicken Mafia.” People knew me as CM and then suddenly I needed a real name for human interaction purposes.

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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 4d

a guy who just got a user story in his queue about some kind of “discourse improvement project” and is just trying to do a good job on it

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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 4d

taking you at your word that you want my strategy, in the situation you describe I would probably say I don’t understand AT ALL, that I have no reading of what they said and need to start the conversation over (“pretend to be dumb” is a social strategy I use a lot in different situations)

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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, my experience is that “I must have misunderstood you” is like near universally taken as persiflage

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Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 4d

Do you find yourself at the intersection of performance, games, and design? Do you want to work with world class artists in research, pedagogy, and games? Then maybe apply to work with me at UCSC! We're hiring a Assistant Professor of Interactive Art, Performance & Games

recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01998

Assistant Professor of Interactive Art, Performance & Games (Initial Review Date 11/14/25)

University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucsc.edu

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 4d

I promise your torture will end once you realize that the long-play "numbers go up" game which reliably tickles your dopamine receptors and the long-play "unfair probability" game that lifts and crashes your anguished frustration are in fact different faces of the same game

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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 6d

yes! miss marple meets mrs dalloway

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Hamish @peregrinekiwi.bsky.social · 7d

Dog Eat Dog is my pick for the best designed TRPG, full stop.

Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 7d

RPG nerds, this is worth keeping an eye on. The physical reprint of Dog Eat Dog in particular. Not been in print for ages, and it's a well designed and confronting framework for role-playing the shitty ass power balance of colonialism.

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

Art & System: Games for Expanded Play

A new indie game series from Central Michigan University Press launching with a lineup of three games: Princess with a Cursed Sword, Dog Eat Dog, and the Mountain Witch

www.backerkit.com

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 7d

RPG nerds, this is worth keeping an eye on. The physical reprint of Dog Eat Dog in particular. Not been in print for ages, and it's a well designed and confronting framework for role-playing the shitty ass power balance of colonialism.

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

Art & System: Games for Expanded Play

A new indie game series from Central Michigan University Press launching with a lineup of three games: Princess with a Cursed Sword, Dog Eat Dog, and the Mountain Witch

www.backerkit.com

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 7d

This went beneath my radar, but my goodness, it's a crowdfunder for a reprint of some of the most respected and seminal indie games. Please repost, please back it.

Central Michigan University Press @cmichpress.bsky.social · 7d

We have some AMAZING news! In less than 48 hours, YOU helped us meet our crowdfunding goal! Check in at our BackerKit page for a forthcoming announcement about stretch goals! https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

Most of all, THANK YOU so much for your support!

Golden text reads WE DID IT over a transparent red collage of covers from The Mountain Witch%2C Princess with a Cursed Sword%2C and Dog Eat Dog.

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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 7d

"In Baxter's view the care for external goods should only lie on the shoulders of the 'saint like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment'. But fate decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage."
-max weber, 1904

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7d

and before someone invariably comes over all indignant, i am absolutely not saying that i think it's bad when people do make money off posting stuff on the internet - but i think that Everything I Do Online Is Money On the Table Brain has been highly corrosive

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 8d

i do not think that nonhuman things have feelings to be hurt but i do think the intent to hurt feelings is bad for a person notwithstanding whether the object of their sadism is real

Dan “Cthulhu Had Some Good Ideas” Lark @thedanklark.bsky.social · 8d

You seem to be under the impression the fancy search engine has feelings that can be hurt, which it doesn’t because it’s just a bunch of 1’s and 0’s.

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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 7d

one must imagine sisyphus being like "so then I'm almost at the top of the hill and the rock is like, really big at this point, and then *takes a big drink* and then you know what happens next? oh my god you won't believe this"

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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 7d

I like the part where type 3 fun is where something is not fun

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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 7d

I just learned about this and yes

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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 7d

I am blown away by the support for our crowdfunding campaign. Thank you so much!

I don't know what the stretch goals will be either so I am reloading the page just as much as any of you. excited to see what's coming.

I hope you all love these games.

Central Michigan University Press @cmichpress.bsky.social · 7d

We have some AMAZING news! In less than 48 hours, YOU helped us meet our crowdfunding goal! Check in at our BackerKit page for a forthcoming announcement about stretch goals! https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

Most of all, THANK YOU so much for your support!

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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 7d

I was briefly a volunteer discord moderator for an official game discord. I crashed out (not dramatically, but I quit the game for a long time). my retrospective conclusion was that my biggest mistake by an enormous amount was not making a separate pseudonymous moderator account

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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 7d

If it is not going to be that (which is fair enough), it needs new structures. Like systemically, but, also it literally needs new buildings on land it can control. Right now you have to kind of flip a coin on whether ICE will show up at some point to drag away all the diplomats.

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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 7d

I mean I think your second sentence is my takeaway. The UN is dependent for its functioning on the intentional will of a lot of leaders, mostly American ones. This reflects its purpose at inception, to organize and administer the post-WWII world order.

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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 8d

a lot of people get paid a lot less to eat bees

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liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 9d

products, notably, that are all available RIGHT NOW if you actually want them, which you don't, because they suck

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Central Michigan University Press @cmichpress.bsky.social · 9d

We just premiered a teaser for the RPGs launching with Art & System: Dog Eat Dog by @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social, Princess with a Cursed Sword by @cyborgurl.bsky.social, and The Mountain Witch by Timothy Kleinert. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/4K3wK7huBnI

Pledge here: https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

Book covers for the three games in this campaign on a white background. At the bottom of the screen is a big golden stripe and the words Launch Promo Art and System written upon it in scarlet.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 12d

In the wake of Duolingo's popularity, an uncomfortable truth that we don't discuss enough is how the platform's gamification masked that there were two different audiences but only one was a priority: People who wanted to learn a language and people who wanted to feel good about learning a language.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 9d

An East African at the conference I am attending made a really striking point: that he recognizes the problems U.S. democracy is having because they are typical of a recently democratized country — and after all, the U.S. only became a proper democracy in the mid-1960s.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 9d

These are all cool, and I am particularly excited to have a new edition of Dog Eat Dog coming — a tabletop story game directly addressing the cultural politics & politics politics of colonialism and its consequences

Art & System: Games for Expanded Play

A new indie game series from Central Michigan University Press launching with a lineup of three games: Princess with a Cursed Sword, Dog Eat Dog, and the Mountain Witch

www.backerkit.com

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