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Troy Goodfellow
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PR Manager for Historical Strategy Games at Paradox Interactive. Former podcaster, former games critic.

Mostly happy, always worried.

Ontario, Canada

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People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
February 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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Really starting to lose it over how a bunch of dimwit app empowered cretins don’t even know that making a movie can be a once in a lifetime adventure you do with people, actors and crews coming together collectively to make art, and visiting sets is one of the best experiences you could ever have.
Writers if you could drop your novel or short story into an AI and have it make a great and watchable movie out of your story, and you could sell that movie, would you do it? #writers #WritingCommunity
February 17, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Normal Tuesday night for Shia LaBeouf
February 17, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Facebook really pushing its dating app on me lately. Every other day a notification about a new lady I am missing out on.
February 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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I'm tired of the lesser evil. These hoes wanna live in Omelas or something? Can't we just have a good candidate who doesn't have a forsaken basement child to prop them up? I just want someone who doesn't chum up to types like Charlie Kirkn't, and wants people to be able to live somewhere.
February 17, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Probably the end of the line for one of my favorite one-dimensional players. Maybe a bubble playoff team will take a flyer on him, but I think Jeff Skinner's days in the NHL are very numbered.
February 17, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Growing up, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (nearly always mentioned together in one breath as part of the same punchline) were more likely to be portrayed on TV as comedy caricatures than as genuine civil rights leaders.

Darrell Hammond in blackface was playing Jesse Jackson on SNL *into the 2000s*.
February 17, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I am going to be especially irritable over the next few weeks, so please have patience with me as I try to get my life and work organized.
February 17, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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February 17, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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CSIS/ITAC saying what researchers have been saying for years: "anti-feminist ideology can function as an enabling factor along pathways to violent extremism"

globalnews.ca/news/1166168...
Anti-feminist ideology ‘increasingly relevant’ to national security: CSIS - National | Globalnews.ca
Officials with Canada's security and intelligence agency told MPs the ideology 'can function as an enabling factor along pathways to violent extremism' but is not itself a threat.
globalnews.ca
February 17, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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Reverend Jesse Jackson has passed away. I've always loved his visit to Sesame Street.
Jesse Jackson 'I Am Somebody' on Sesame Street
YouTube video by Headline USA
youtu.be
February 17, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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These detectors are rubbish, they're LLMs too and they're trying to sell the poison and the cure.

It said my book was 70% AI-generated.

It was published in 2016.
Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?
February 17, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could
February 17, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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early-game caves of qud advice is "go north and look at the statue" and late-game caves of qud advice is "enter a precognitive vision before you cook with neutron flux" and that's why it's the game of all time
February 16, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront
‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront
Multiple game creators describe ineffective moderation on the platform, resulting in unchecked hatred in forums and targeted campaigns of negative ‘anti-woke’ reviews
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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Jezebel is expanding our freelance roster. If you have strong opinions, chaotic takes, or a deeply unserious ranking yearning for a home, we want to hear from you.

Email [email protected] with two headline ideas (please no full drafts!) and any clips you’ve got.
February 16, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Even though I am off today, one of my colleagues chose taunt me over Slack with “🥌👈”.

Can’t say he was wrong to do so.
February 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
February 16, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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Lowell Green was a racist demagogue who used his CFRA radio show as a soapbox to rant about immigrants and target racialized communities in Ottawa

Contrary to Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe's eulogy here, Lowell wasn't proud of Canada – he wrote an entire book about how it wasn't white enough for him
February 16, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Great sale opportunity here.

My order:
February 16, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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things someone who just got yelled at by a bunch of aliens would say:
BREAKING: @barackobama.bsky.social clarifies his position on aliens after his answer during the speed round of our interview went viral.
February 16, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it
You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????
February 15, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Logging off now.

Goal is to stay offline for the long weekend, give the brain a reboot. But I guess we'll see.
February 13, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Found a Youtube playlist called "Every single version of Marching Through Georgia".

This is a soundtrack for getting drunk and playing Civil War games for 15 hours.
Every single version of Marching Through Georgia - YouTube
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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La Finlande est sortie gagnante de son duel entre les deux grands rivaux
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM