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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 2h

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 16h

"'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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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14h

All the doofuses salivating about ChatGPT extruding video game shaped slop don't understand a thing about the true opportunities of procedurally generated game worlds that have nothing to do with GenAI, such as this

lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 16h

"'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.

pcgamer.com

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 14h

we've endured so much

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 14h

the what assassination

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 14h

A man who witnessed the Lincoln assassination lived until 1956 and could have theoretically listened to the first album by Harry Belafonte, who in turn lived long enough to hear "WAP"

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks for the spot!

lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 14h

if unprompted theory paraphrasing is cringe, I want more cringeworthy interviews

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 16h

"'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.

pcgamer.com

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 16h

"'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.

pcgamer.com

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 23h

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Morgan Park @morganpark.bsky.social · 1d

A blatant bit of "playlist gerrymandering" is happening in Battlefield 6, as @lincolnhello.bsky.social coined to me. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/af...

After making Closed Weapons almost invisible in the Battlefield 6 beta, DICE says Open Weapons is 'the right path forward' because it was more popular

Surprise! The mode Battlefield 6 shoved to the back of the menus wasn't as popular.

www.pcgamer.com

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 3d

going to be making a deliberate effort to spend less time adrift in the sea of posts. mutuals, please DM me if you want to stay in touch on Discord/have a group chat or server that could use another sicko hanging around

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 3d

DMing lives there, btw. if you need a reminder. like I did

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 3d

going to be making a deliberate effort to spend less time adrift in the sea of posts. mutuals, please DM me if you want to stay in touch on Discord/have a group chat or server that could use another sicko hanging around

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 4d

cognitive scientists now believe it's impossible to run a website without undergoing a process called "entering Wretch Mode"

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 4d

or in the German, "Koboldverwandlung"

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 4d

cognitive scientists now believe it's impossible to run a website without undergoing a process called "entering Wretch Mode"

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 5d

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 6d

"Private equity firms have gained a sinister reputation thanks to a counter-intuitive strategy in which firms can cannibalize their own acquisitions, extracting profits at the expense of the company and its workforce."

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

EA's $55 billion acquisition is the biggest leveraged buyout in private equity history. Here's why it has everyone terrified

Private equity and PIF investment aren't a reassuring pair.

www.pcgamer.com

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 6d

Wario's Aroma of the Day via Nintendo Today

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 6d

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 6d

after forcing myself to parse private equity terminology for 9 hours, I'm just shooting for "coherent"

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 6d

"Private equity firms have gained a sinister reputation thanks to a counter-intuitive strategy in which firms can cannibalize their own acquisitions, extracting profits at the expense of the company and its workforce."

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

EA's $55 billion acquisition is the biggest leveraged buyout in private equity history. Here's why it has everyone terrified

Private equity and PIF investment aren't a reassuring pair.

www.pcgamer.com

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 8d

taking bold ideological stances on PC Gamer dot com today

www.pcgamer.com/games/third-...

"Now, there are some detractors in the world who might try to convince you that Control's shooting isn't terribly impressive, so it can't be that great. You can safely ignore these misguided souls. No matter what they've convinced themselves, Control isn't a game about shooting. It's a game about throwing forklifts with your mind.

More importantly, it's a game where a federal bureau has an archive collecting all the nonsensical, conspiratorial mail deemed unfit for delivery by the Postal Service because it could contain paranatural insights. If you don't get a thrill out of imagining why an organization like the FBC would redact the Pinstripe World letter, you're beyond any help I could give you."

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 8d

excellent

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