Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · 9d

Today I opened up the doc as I needed to for work reasons, and found 2 typos. Here's my reaction to each one:

17

Reposted by Caspian Whistler

Amanda Yeo @amandamyeo.bsky.social · Sep 9

celebrating silksong's release by rereading my 2020 interview with team cherry in apwot, where we talked about game jams, bug clothes, and croissants. still think it's one of my best articles

The title page and illustration of Amanda Yeo's interview with Team Cherry in video game publication A Profound Waste of Time. The article is called "Hungry Knights," and the illustration is of Hollow Knight's protagonist standing alone in a grey landscape.

The final page and illustration of Amanda Yeo's interview with Team Cherry in video game publication A Profound Waste of Time. The illustration is of Hollow Knight: Silksong's protagonist Hornet standing on top of a cage in a lush green landscape.

1 8

Reposted by Caspian Whistler

Eryk ☭ (but make it Red Scare for Halloween) @peregrinecoast.press · 19d

Hey we have a super limited number of all Knock! issues now in stock!! These are genuinely some of my favourite OSR books so I’m so glad we can finally have some copies

Peregrine Coast Press 🔜 Tabletop Scotland @shop.peregrinecoast.press · 19d

It is filled with that old-school-slash-adventure-gaming unique flavour: thoughts about system and substance, useful rules and procedures, random tables and lists, pages of maps, six new classes, nine new monsters, and four complete adventures.

peregrinecoast.press/products/kno...

2 11

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · 18d

I had a dream last night that there were loads of mistakes in the latest print runs 🤪

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · Sep 1

I handed in the final APWOT 5 PDF to the printers today 🎉

Now I have to do everything I can to not look at it again because I know I WILL find some mistake in there and I'll be horrified 😅

1 5

Reposted by Caspian Whistler

A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social · 20d

Well this has turned out quite nice indeed! 📚

3 7 140

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · 21d

Excited for you Kat! Let’s hang out again! 🙌

1

Reposted by Caspian Whistler

Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is genuinely what a Labour government thinks terrorism looks like in the UK right now and I'm losing my god damn mind

Three British healthcare workers lying on the floor in protest, holding signs that read "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".

13 590 1.8K

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hell Yeah ✊

1

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · Sep 1

I handed in the final APWOT 5 PDF to the printers today 🎉

Now I have to do everything I can to not look at it again because I know I WILL find some mistake in there and I'll be horrified 😅

2 1 58

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · Aug 28

These will be on the site to purchase later this year!

1

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · Aug 23

Downy Snagret

3

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · Aug 22

I actually met the owner last time I was there at BitSummit! I will email him next time I get a chance to go to Kyoto and beg him to open 🙏

1

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · Aug 21

If I'm understanding correctly, Trump's new tariffs are going to cause problems for APWOT and that's bumming me out. Running a small business is hard enough without Brexit and Trump just continually messing with us over the last decade.

I just want people to be able to get my magazine damn. 🫠

1 1 21

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · Aug 20

This goes so hard.

davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · Aug 20

readying my pitch deck

Watership Down bloody rabbit battle with big X button videogame quicktime event

4

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · Aug 19

Gosh these are pretty

1

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · Aug 18

Absolutely insane.

1 1

Reposted by Caspian Whistler

Simon Parkin @simonparkin.bsky.social · Aug 14

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad is out today in UK paperback.

The book tells the true story of the botanists who worked at world’s first seed bank during the siege of Leningrad.

It’s a finalist in the Orwell Prize and the 2025 Royal Society Prize.

Pick up a copy wherever you get your books.

5 15 65

Reposted by Caspian Whistler

John Ricciardi @johntv.bsky.social · Aug 13

What is a haiku?
A miserable little
pile of syllables

16 100

Reposted by Caspian Whistler

austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · Aug 12

So good to see Arkane's workers push for this!

Also a great example of one of the core benefits of unionization, which is just "creating a structure for discussion and systems to make collective decisions." Always much harder to get action at scale like this if there isn't already organization.

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · Aug 12

'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel

Arkane Studios' STJV section in France has published an open letter in support of the Palestinian-led BDS movement.

www.gamedeveloper.com

5 300 1.2K

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · Aug 7

❤️

1 1

Reposted by Caspian Whistler

Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · Jul 31

Absolutely sucks to see people I care about succumb to ai offloading. Piece by piece replacing their creativity, voice and opinions with dice rolls. Not faster or better, just less present in their own lives.

7 48 400

Reposted by Caspian Whistler

Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online · Jul 30

He got their asses

Top image: Sauron armored with the one ring, caption: But they were all of them deceived. Bottom image: the 9 Kings of men who would become Ring wraiths. Caption: for they were actually wedding rings, and they were now married to each other.

32 430 2.8K

Reposted by Caspian Whistler

Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk · Jul 25

I've looked & I could have missed it, maybe its saved in their drafts but @ukieofficial.bsky.social TIGA, BFI, that new video game council. Which UK body representing games is stepping up to publicly speak about the mass censorship of the cultural form they represent?
www.polygon.com/news/615910/...

Adult games are forcing the game industry into a spiritual crisis

Itchio joins Steam in pulling games due to pressure from extreme groups with an ongoing campaign aimed at payment processors

www.polygon.com

4 87 280

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · Jul 21

Dwayne I’m deeply sorry to read this is happening. I’m thinking of you my friend and will keep an eye out for any opportunities.

2

Caspian Whistler @cazwis.bsky.social · Jul 21

This is so sick Zach

1