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I don’t think any video game studio will ever top SEGA’s 2009 Christmas Card
December 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I don’t think any video game studio will ever top SEGA’s 2009 Christmas Card
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my thing is even I didn't have a fiery personal grudge against Twitter, I would not use it for the same reason I don't use Facebook - it's a miserable user experience. It's nothing but ads and ragebait and ai slop. It doesn't have to be a moral stance, it's just a shit product
December 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
my thing is even I didn't have a fiery personal grudge against Twitter, I would not use it for the same reason I don't use Facebook - it's a miserable user experience. It's nothing but ads and ragebait and ai slop. It doesn't have to be a moral stance, it's just a shit product
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One of the most gorgeous games I've come across in awhile is Vaults of Vaarn. I love these kind of settings born out of a creators' passion for an imagined place. Ultimately, they're some of my favorite things about roleplaying games.
vaults-of-vaarn-second-edition.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
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Pre-order Vaults of Vaarn Second Edition on BackerKit
The second edition of Vaults of Vaarn, the acclaimed science-fantasy adventure game.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
One of the most gorgeous games I've come across in awhile is Vaults of Vaarn. I love these kind of settings born out of a creators' passion for an imagined place. Ultimately, they're some of my favorite things about roleplaying games.
vaults-of-vaarn-second-edition.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
vaults-of-vaarn-second-edition.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
I don't think vast swathes of slums pocketed with a smattering of gated communities would make for a very good society, and yet, seemingly half the population votes in that direction. y tho
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I don't think vast swathes of slums pocketed with a smattering of gated communities would make for a very good society, and yet, seemingly half the population votes in that direction. y tho
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On December 15, 1994, The Netscape Communications Corporation released the web browser Netscape Navigator 1.0.
#InternetHistory
#InternetHistory
December 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
On December 15, 1994, The Netscape Communications Corporation released the web browser Netscape Navigator 1.0.
#InternetHistory
#InternetHistory
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J.R.R. Tolkien, literal Butlerian Jihadist
![from a letter by JRR Tolkien to his son Michael:
[here is] the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that cannot really be done with any real satisfaction. Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour. And in addition to this fundamental disability of a creature, is added the Fall, which makes our devices not only fail of their desire but turn to new and horrible evil. So we come inevitably from Daedalus and Icarus to the Giant Bomber. It is not an advance in wisdom! This terrible truth, glimpsed long ago by Sam Butler, sticks out so plainly and is so horrifyingly exhibited in our time, with its even worse menace for the future, that it seems almost a world wide mental disease that only a tiny minority perceive it. Even if people have ever heard the legends (which is getting rarer) they have no inkling of their portent. How could a maker of motorbikes name his product Ixion cycles! Ixion, who was bound for ever in hell on a perpetually revolving wheel! Well, I have got over 2 thousand words onto this little flimsy airletter; and I will forgive the Mordor-gadgets some of their sins, if they will bring it quickly to you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eawrzkefxggvqbrmagkhsmcc/bafkreiehclqi7gi5ioox33zjtsvsk3aid326opn3ix6a2cadj3morubefq@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
J.R.R. Tolkien, literal Butlerian Jihadist
The Intro to this lady's vid about Atlyss is one of the most succinct explainers for the history and state of modern MMO's I've seen
youtu.be/SvYkxhE9bbU?...
youtu.be/SvYkxhE9bbU?...
How Atlyss Recaptures What Modern MMOs Have Lost
YouTube video by ZennyChanVT
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December 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The Intro to this lady's vid about Atlyss is one of the most succinct explainers for the history and state of modern MMO's I've seen
youtu.be/SvYkxhE9bbU?...
youtu.be/SvYkxhE9bbU?...
Apartment Complex is advertising FREE SOUNDBARS for anyone upon signing lease. I’ll put that place on my uninhabitable list kthx
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Apartment Complex is advertising FREE SOUNDBARS for anyone upon signing lease. I’ll put that place on my uninhabitable list kthx
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One of the most dangerous types of person in civic life is the rich guy (and it's almost always a guy) who thinks that they have expertise on all matters because they're rich.
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
One of the most dangerous types of person in civic life is the rich guy (and it's almost always a guy) who thinks that they have expertise on all matters because they're rich.
Driving a GenX metal head van needs to make a comeback
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Driving a GenX metal head van needs to make a comeback
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bro your rent-seeking behavior is ruining everything
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
bro your rent-seeking behavior is ruining everything
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Last week, a unemployed Texan barred from getting a job in his field by a noncompete agreement stepped up to intervene in the federal lawsuit and defend the FTC's ban on noncompetes that Trump's FTC won't. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social talked to Ric Davidson about his story & why he decided to fight.
Texan Takes On Corporate Abuse as Trump’s FTC Abandons Workers - The American Prospect
Ric Davidson’s motion to defend the federal ban on noncompete clauses would force the FTC to undertake a formal process to roll it back, not just quietly suffocate it in the dead of night.
prospect.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Last week, a unemployed Texan barred from getting a job in his field by a noncompete agreement stepped up to intervene in the federal lawsuit and defend the FTC's ban on noncompetes that Trump's FTC won't. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social talked to Ric Davidson about his story & why he decided to fight.
The mood on Barrens Chat is not good.
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The mood on Barrens Chat is not good.
A majority of the, checks notes, 8% of Texas voters just voted, yet again, in favor of our malignant wealth hoarders, monopolists and rent-seekers. Oh well, I did my part.
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
A majority of the, checks notes, 8% of Texas voters just voted, yet again, in favor of our malignant wealth hoarders, monopolists and rent-seekers. Oh well, I did my part.
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What happens when Baba Yaga, Sisyphus, and a rocket scientist have a race?
We learn how player agency (or lack thereof) in game phases impacts player experience: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/magical-at...
#boardgames #ttrpg #gamedesign 🎲✂️
We learn how player agency (or lack thereof) in game phases impacts player experience: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/magical-at...
#boardgames #ttrpg #gamedesign 🎲✂️
The power of zero-agency game design (and a huge baby)
What happens when Baba Yaga, Sisyphus, and a rocket scientist have a race? We learn how player agency (or lack thereof) in game phases impacts player experience. Sit back and watch it all play out.
www.skeletoncodemachine.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
What happens when Baba Yaga, Sisyphus, and a rocket scientist have a race?
We learn how player agency (or lack thereof) in game phases impacts player experience: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/magical-at...
#boardgames #ttrpg #gamedesign 🎲✂️
We learn how player agency (or lack thereof) in game phases impacts player experience: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/magical-at...
#boardgames #ttrpg #gamedesign 🎲✂️
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Its Jennell jaquays birthdat. She left this realm last January. Her her adventure design and artwork made a bigger impact on me than any other judges guild writer. I even used the color scheme from Hellpits of Nightfang for inspiration when illustrating Duginthroat Divided. Here's a small tribute.
October 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Its Jennell jaquays birthdat. She left this realm last January. Her her adventure design and artwork made a bigger impact on me than any other judges guild writer. I even used the color scheme from Hellpits of Nightfang for inspiration when illustrating Duginthroat Divided. Here's a small tribute.
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really if we were all about our business we'd every one of us be over on neocities being cool
neocities.org/browse
neocities.org/browse
Neocities
Create and surf awesome websites for free.
neocities.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
really if we were all about our business we'd every one of us be over on neocities being cool
neocities.org/browse
neocities.org/browse
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someone should invent phones which don't suck
October 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
someone should invent phones which don't suck
Local game store just expanded their ttrpg section all while consolidating the mtg/pokemon/warhammer slop sold out and behind a counter and it’s awesome
October 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Local game store just expanded their ttrpg section all while consolidating the mtg/pokemon/warhammer slop sold out and behind a counter and it’s awesome
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2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.
She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.
She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
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"Why megadungeons?" My pitch is that they are a campaign format that concentrates ideas, maximizes novelty, uses familiarity to advantage, and can be run in 2-4 hour sessions. Plus, between Silk Song and Delicious in Dungeon- everyone knows what they are! icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
WHY MEGADUNGEONS? A Campaign Structure for Modern Lives
Why Megadungeons? Over on the Prismatic Wasteland Discord, a member asked essentially, "Why megadungeons?" This is a good perennial questi...
icastlight.blogspot.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"Why megadungeons?" My pitch is that they are a campaign format that concentrates ideas, maximizes novelty, uses familiarity to advantage, and can be run in 2-4 hour sessions. Plus, between Silk Song and Delicious in Dungeon- everyone knows what they are! icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
Wind and solar energy are stored in the Balls
September 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Wind and solar energy are stored in the Balls