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Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑

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An experimental tabletop games publisher. "Some of you know me already. Those of you who don't are in for a great, big fuckin' surprise. Those of you who do can expect an infinitely more horrible time than they care to remember!"

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 14h

What the hell. I pledged $800 to a tabletop gaming Kickstarter described as a “miniature bonanza”. This is what I just got in the mail:

A miniature copy of the card game Bohnanza.

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Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 1h

Liar's Dice is peak game design imo

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 1h

It's like watching a car crash

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 2h

This is what it feels like when somebody complains an entry in Tiny Library 'isn't even a real game'.

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 10h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 20h

Tiny Library 1: Magpies

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 21h

Yes! You can't be playing in silence or generic tunes.

City Square Studios 🎲🃏♟️ @citysquarestudios.bsky.social · 22h

There is little more pleasing in this life than making a themed playlist for board game night

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 23h

There's an old saying. Give an artist a grant to put on neoclassical Hamlet in the woods, and the artist will eat for a day. Teach an artist how to scale and translate their neoclassical Hamlet to a global audience? That artist will fish forever. Or whatever.

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 23h

Publishers are the last to receive any interest from arts bodies, despite CLEARLY being the bottleneck pretty much everywhere.

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 23h

What's stopping that potentially-amazing thing from happening? THE LACK OF PUBLISHERS (or the equivalent role in any given industry).

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 23h

In every artistic field, there's no shortage of creativity. You can reliably throw a rock in fiction, film, games, theatre - whatever - and hit a creative person who has created something that could be amazing.

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 23h

Honestly on the subject of arts grants I have a bit of a rant. But it boils down to:
give
money
to
publishers

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Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 23h

Giving a little bit of money so artists can stop worrying about their rent and focus on their craft is such a no-brainer. It will absolutely net benefit everyone.

As usual, though, these programs never reach (a) games or (b) publishers. But hell yeah give artists money.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 1d

I'm afraid we are a few weeks away from a Bloody Sunday style massacre

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 1d

Tiny Library 1: FingerGun Standoff

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 2d

Tiny Library 1: Drink Up!

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 3d

Playing some Hues and Cues: Cat Edition

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! Tiny Library in single-card RPGs while Tiny Tome is single-page 🧐

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 4d

Artwork used internally at DIC Entertainment during the production of the Super Mario World cartoon, replacing Marge Simpson with Mario. According to a former DIC employee, this was made due to an inside joke at the studio, though the exact nature of the joke has been lost.

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Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 4d

I have a lot of free time today

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 4d

Reaching across the political divide by conceding we can all agree, surely, that massive deportation operations should be conducted with correct paperwork.

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 4d

What do we want?
Massive deportation operations.
How do we want it?
With impossible precision.

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4d

Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation.

This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 4d

The backward symbols are 100% intentional

Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 4d

It's your standard six year old big guy hierarchy

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Long Tail Games (SKELETON KING) 💀👑 @long-tail-games.bsky.social · 4d

Soldier > cannon > machine gun > bazooka > tank > helicopter > helicopter made of guns > fighter jet > fighter jet with guns for wings > Godzilla

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 4d

Brother Herbert's Big Onion

to the tune of Diarrhea Planet's Ghost With A Boner:
SHREW WITH AN ONION!
SHREW WITH AN O-O-O-O-NION!

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