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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is bang on, and gets at a sense of what I see in play with stuff from Dwarf Fortress and Qud to Rimworld to Crusader Kings and the Sims: a desire to understand the world, whether a familiar or an alien one, through play

lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 1d

"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."

Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'

Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.

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it_is_right_to_rebel @j-nix.bsky.social · 1d

We get so much mileage out of this gif.

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it_is_right_to_rebel @j-nix.bsky.social · 6d

Reading the Wikipedia page on this film and growing completely feral because even though half of it is a "Themes and analysis" section, it fails to mention Yeats even once

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Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 8d

Bloody hell, well played

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it_is_right_to_rebel @j-nix.bsky.social · 8d

With that scene, I can only see the meme now.

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it_is_right_to_rebel @j-nix.bsky.social · 8d

I'm not ordinarily a fan of military coups, but, just saying, just this one time, I see why they might come to a decision like that.

it_is_right_to_rebel @j-nix.bsky.social · 8d

And then this orange-painted asshole comes along and goes "the Zumwalt looks like shit and you're all too woke, please make ready for killing your fellow citizens - that is all, now clap."

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it_is_right_to_rebel @j-nix.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine having dedicated your life to the imperialist killing machine, and pushing yourself hard enough to elbow out all the other proto-fascists that after several decades of grueling competition, deployments, and some actual mass murder, you end up in a leading position in it.

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 10d

THE MEME IS REAL

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it_is_right_to_rebel @j-nix.bsky.social · 13d

That's just a repurposed Steel Battalion controller. ☕

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 14d

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 16d

Happy one year anniversary to this banger tweet that got so ridiculously blown out of proportion that it got us 70k wishlists in like a day

screenshot of a twitter exchange, dated Sept 23 2024:

@MaliceDaFirenze: We're making a game where you play a courier rier in 13th century Mongolia. No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness. Would you play this? (10k replies, 11k reposts, 131k likes)

@doodlewhale: I would love to, as long as it can avoid woke DEI nonsense which appears unlikely as you have pronouns in your bio (shrug emoji) (337 replies, 124 reposts, 10k likes)

@MaliceDaFirenze: For every comment like this, I will add one extra pronoun to the game. (2k replies, 700 reposts, 19k likes)

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Kay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · 18d

Social ostracisation changes thoughts and behaviour far more effectively than 'debate' btw. No epic logical argument is as effective as everyone around someone just saying 'that's fucking weird bro'.

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it_is_right_to_rebel @j-nix.bsky.social · 19d

Language is an act of excruciating violence.

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it_is_right_to_rebel @j-nix.bsky.social · 19d

Again, in more detail.

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it_is_right_to_rebel @j-nix.bsky.social · 20d

If u see this quote with the energy u bring to blue sky

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 28d

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

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it_is_right_to_rebel @j-nix.bsky.social · 29d

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it_is_right_to_rebel @j-nix.bsky.social · Sep 3

A rizzler's last thoughts should be of Ohio.

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alice @guardianexchange.bsky.social · Aug 30

taking a centrist position on human civilisation (not that bad overall but britain specifically must be given to the trees)

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · Aug 27

The meme where the face is looking at a bit of media, seeing the "shallow" real message, in this case "the fight for trans rights has been underway for decades and even media from 1985 saw very clearly which was the right side" and the "deep" joke message going over its head is "trans people love hamburgers"

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 27

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

anthonymoser.github.io

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Yuu @yuulinshi.bsky.social · Aug 16

Près du cœur

A 23-pages OC comic

#SIGNALIS #signalisOC #SHNR

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THelen @thelen0.bsky.social · Aug 27

I can hear Atlantis cheer, a #SIGNALIS fancomic, full thread with credits 🧵⬇️

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