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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d

WAIT WHAT'S THIS?

💿There is a demo live for EARTH MUST DIE!

🕹️This gives you (most of) the tutorial section for the game! Have fun, and if you haven't wishlisted the full game yet DO THAT NOW PLEASE it really really helps us out.

Enjoy!

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

Earth Must Die Demo on Steam

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

store.steampowered.com

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🌷☀️idspispopd🌙🥀 @bhaalspawn.bsky.social · 13h

Team Fortress 2 (2007) is now as old as Golden Axe (1989) was when Team Fortress 2 was released.

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 17h

Really good.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 17h

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 21h

Super enjoyed talking to the Qud lads, and it made for a beautiful article. Get: shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr...

Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

More interiors from the new issue to feast on. Here @rossignol.bsky.social speaks to @jfg.land & @unormal.bsky.social about their epic @cavesofqud.com

@elkowalczuk.bsky.social supplying all the wonderful art here

Get your copy now at shop.wyrd.science

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Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 22h

Oh, now, actually

The Fallen London Arcana

PRE-SALE PRODUCT - SHIPPING LATE NOVEMBER / EARLY DECEMBERThe Fallen London ArcanaCreated by Gametee for Failbetter Games A deck of characters and concepts from Fallen London, in celebration of its 15...

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Rebecca McCarthy - Writing & Narrative Design @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 22h

Stuff I've written about before:
- Integrating with a team mid-production.
gameswriting.coffee/actions-ever...
- Game and Narrative Design books and videos.
gameswriting.coffee/levelling-up...
- User Stories
gameswriting.coffee/user-stories...
- Tetris
gameswriting.coffee/battling-blo...

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 22h

Blimey.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 23h

So ban second jobs. Why are MPs allowed to be this obviously compromised?

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 1d

A very popular hobby that continues to grow and innovate.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

More interiors from the new issue to feast on. Here @rossignol.bsky.social speaks to @jfg.land & @unormal.bsky.social about their epic @cavesofqud.com

@elkowalczuk.bsky.social supplying all the wonderful art here

Get your copy now at shop.wyrd.science

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 2d

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

azhdarchid.com

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 1d

Very nice.

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1d

just spotted that cyberpunk does doom-style sprites for distant cars and characters... amazing

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating story about a “ghost” concept car that was designed in 1939 but possibly/maybe/probably not actually built at the time, and only discovered when the sketches were found in a barn decades later.

“The Dusenberg Coupe Simone”

www.hagerty.com/media/automo...

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking of which, here are two particularly good short story collections from @saltpublishing.com, by Alison Moore & @willwiles.bsky.social. SALT MODERN STORIES and BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES are important for the form's survival (see also @confingopublishing.bsky.social & @commapress.bsky.social).

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 1d

The right complain British culture is unrecognisable now but I’m sure I was laughing at the same Young Tories in 1988

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 1d

Making a list of things that will do the Growth: "pubs, steel, fish, pseudo-sentient computers... I think that's it? Are there any other things in Great Britain?" "No."

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 1d

My taped up Honda civic will have to last a second decade.

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 1d

(I mean SOMEONE has plenty of cash judging by the number of second-mortgage Mercedes around here, but it's not me or my wife.)

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 1d

No one goes to the pub because it's expensive and we don't have any money. Keeping it open later just means paying wages for longer, doing the businesses no good at all. Start looking at how much money people have to spend, lads.

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

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