Troy Goodfellow
@troyg.bsky.social
PR Manager for Historical Strategy Games at Paradox Interactive. Former podcaster, former games critic.
Mostly happy, always worried.
Ontario, Canada
https://linktr.ee/troygoodfellow
Mostly happy, always worried.
Ontario, Canada
https://linktr.ee/troygoodfellow
Going through a feature rundown in a game design doc, and, just energized and excited about upcoming things.
An odd feeling for a Wednesday morning?
An odd feeling for a Wednesday morning?
February 18, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Going through a feature rundown in a game design doc, and, just energized and excited about upcoming things.
An odd feeling for a Wednesday morning?
An odd feeling for a Wednesday morning?
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I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
February 18, 2026 at 1:07 PM
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
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The Center for Hellenic Studies has hundreds of open access books 📕 for use. I appreciate that the book I use to teach the Helots of Sparta in my ancient slavery class is openly available:
_Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures_ by Luraghi & Alcock
_Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures_ by Luraghi & Alcock
Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures - The Center for Hellenic Studies
The name “Helots” evokes one of the most famous peculiarities of ancient Sparta, the system of dependent labor that guaranteed the livelihood of the free citizens. The Helots fulfilled all the functio...
chs.harvard.edu
February 18, 2026 at 12:50 PM
The Center for Hellenic Studies has hundreds of open access books 📕 for use. I appreciate that the book I use to teach the Helots of Sparta in my ancient slavery class is openly available:
_Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures_ by Luraghi & Alcock
_Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures_ by Luraghi & Alcock
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The @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social is 100% correct here. These AI images are damaging history and they are a very real threat to the history of the #Holocaust.
February 18, 2026 at 11:53 AM
The @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social is 100% correct here. These AI images are damaging history and they are a very real threat to the history of the #Holocaust.
In the best of all possible worlds, I’d be watching Olympic hockey instead of editing things.
LIVE NOW: The quarterfinal is underway in Italy! Starting things off, it's Slovakia vs. Germany.
Catch the action on TSN, the TSN website, or the TSN app! #MilanoCortina2026
Catch the action on TSN, the TSN website, or the TSN app! #MilanoCortina2026
February 18, 2026 at 11:39 AM
In the best of all possible worlds, I’d be watching Olympic hockey instead of editing things.
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a) if you read ebooks you should get this
2) if you don't know where to start do not start with The Colour of Magic, the first 2.5 books are weaker than the rest of the series as Pratchett gets better at plot and character
2) if you don't know where to start do not start with The Colour of Magic, the first 2.5 books are weaker than the rest of the series as Pratchett gets better at plot and character
Humble Bundle is doing a Discworld bundle to benefit an Alzheimer's organization that supports both families and research.
These are the books we need in times like these.
www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...
These are the books we need in times like these.
www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...
Humble Book Bundle: Best of Humble Bundle: Terry Pratchett's Discworld by HarperCollins Encore 2026
Experience Sir Terry Practchett’s beloved Discworld series! Get 35+ books covering all corners of this comic fantasy universe and help support Room to Read!
www.humblebundle.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:08 AM
a) if you read ebooks you should get this
2) if you don't know where to start do not start with The Colour of Magic, the first 2.5 books are weaker than the rest of the series as Pratchett gets better at plot and character
2) if you don't know where to start do not start with The Colour of Magic, the first 2.5 books are weaker than the rest of the series as Pratchett gets better at plot and character
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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.
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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.
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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
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.
Normal Tuesday night for Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf arrested in New Orleans after Mardi Gras fight, police say reut.rs/469B418
Shia LaBeouf arrested in New Orleans after Mardi Gras fight, police say
Shia LaBeouf was arrested just after midnight on Tuesday in New Orleans where police said the 39‑year‑old “Transformers” film star assaulted two men in a fight during Mardi Gras.
reut.rs
February 17, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Normal Tuesday night for Shia LaBeouf
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
Facebook really pushing its dating app on me lately. Every other day a notification about a new lady I am missing out on.
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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
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.
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.
Skinner peut maintenant s'entendre avec n'importe quelle autre formation ⤵️
Sharks : Le contrat de Skinner est résilié | LNH.com
L’attaquant, qui a joué 32 matchs cette saison, devient joueur autonome sans compensation
www.nhl.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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.
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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*.
Darrell Hammond in blackface was playing Jesse Jackson on SNL *into the 2000s*.
February 17, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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*.
Darrell Hammond in blackface was playing Jesse Jackson on SNL *into the 2000s*.
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
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.
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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...
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
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...
globalnews.ca/news/1166168...
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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
Reverend Jesse Jackson has passed away. I've always loved his visit to Sesame Street.
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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.
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
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.
It said my book was 70% AI-generated.
It was published in 2016.
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The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could
February 17, 2026 at 12:58 AM
The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could
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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
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
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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
‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront
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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.
Email [email protected] with two headline ideas (please no full drafts!) and any clips you’ve got.
February 16, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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.
Email [email protected] with two headline ideas (please no full drafts!) and any clips you’ve got.
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.
Can’t say he was wrong to do so.
February 16, 2026 at 3:27 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.
Can’t say he was wrong to do so.
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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
Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
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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
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
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
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