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Paul Czege

@paulczege.bsky.social

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Game designer. Currently shipping a zine about how to play immersive journaling games: https://www.paulczege.com/ On Masto as @[email protected] He/Him. #JournalGaming #ttrpg

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · Sep 1

It would be such a missed opportunity to not talk about the journaling game zines I've published on this platform where you actually see the posts by people you follow.

The Ink That Bleeds is about immersion and bleed and self care and...

A copy of The Ink That Bleeds and a copy of Be With Me, both journaling game / zines by Paul Czege.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 8h

Rhymes with dolla-poggo

Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 9h

Locals do not say guh-lapago
They say gala-pago

Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 9h

Locals do not pronounce it like the Galapagos Islands.

Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 9h

What do you think @jen-the-magician.bsky.social ?

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 16h

That's a nice haul.

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S. Kaiya J. || Mirror-lock Atelier @mirror-lock.bsky.social · 17h

Who's excited for spooky season? 🎃✋

Who's also struggling with SAD and and feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of small tasks to juggle every day? ✋✋

If you're interested in a tiny game that encourages mutual accountability through hexing your friends, keep a sharp eye out here next week... 👀

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 18h

I looked in my same desk drawer a dozen times the past two days for my Mars eraser where I always put it back and couldn't find it. And I looked again just now and the damned elves must have returned it in the night because it was there.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 1d

Check out this close-up from a photo a player of The Balsam Lake Unmurders just sent me. You can see how he tracked his suspects to crack the case.

A hand-written list of names of suspects like Mae Carune and Emmeline Statz, each with three boxes labeled ♣️❤️♦️ used to track method, motive, and opportunity from journaled interactions with them.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 21h

"I roomed with sociology major and she was insufferably self reflective. Nobody wants that," said Badenoch.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 1d

I just want to
put on comfy jeans and a hoodie and fleece socks
and read a lovely fantasy novel
while the world is not burning up

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Savage @nerdsomatics.bsky.social · 1d

A free local event next Thursday in Silver Spring. Come join the tarot / gamer party!

An orange and green gradient flyer reads "Tarot x Gamer" Join local game designers to play with tarot cards in new ways: crafting rituals, storytelling games, rpg design, and card spreads for community repair.
In the center is a photographic imagine of two tarot cards crossed 90 degrees over each other, with the Ace of Cups on top.
The bottom text reads "Oct 15/6, 2025, 6pm til close @Pure Panic 8317 Fenton St, Silver Spring, MD
The bottom left has Pure Panic's stylized pogo of rainbow loops

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Marijean Oldham @marijean.bsky.social · 1d

I'm looking for a flash fiction piece published in a journal -- I don't remember where, or who, or even the title -- but it's about a mother whose daughter has become a vampire or a zombie and the mother is helping the daughter, at great risk to herself -- does this sound familiar to anyone?

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 1d

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Daddy: "Yeah. Do you like Celeste?"
Kiddo: "I only have a Chromebook."
Daddy: "What does that have to do with anything? Wait...is Celeste a game? A Windows game?"
Kiddo: "Yes. What did you think it was?"
Daddy: 🙄

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 1d

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Daddy: "That seems like normal boy jealousy."
Kiddo: "No. Oscar says Harley only does because Celeste is popular."
Daddy: "I see. So Oscar doesn't think Harley likes Celeste for the right reasons."
Kiddo: "But he doesn't know. He's just saying that about Harley."
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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 1d

Kiddo: "Oscar and Harley had a super big argument today. They say they're not friends anymore."
Daddy: "No kidding. What did they argue about?"
Kiddo: "Oscar likes Celeste and says it's okay if other people do too, but doesn't like that Harley likes Celeste."
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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 1d

Check out this close-up from a photo a player of The Balsam Lake Unmurders just sent me. You can see how he tracked his suspects to crack the case.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 2d

The guy who made the algorithm said her vocal was so clear that problems with the compression were easily perceivable as artifacts as he was working to make it good.

Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 2d

...recognize. As our conversation ended her husband caught my eye and silently mouthed "thank you". It made me think no one ever told them how much they loved it.

Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 2d

There's a front yard flower garden I love on the street where I park to walk my son to his school. One morning this past spring the older woman homeowner who tends it was outside and I told how beautiful it is and how it makes me happy and asked her about some of the flowers I didn't...

Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 2d

You know it was the song used to calibrate the mp3 compression algorithm?

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Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 2d

Do you find yourself at the intersection of performance, games, and design? Do you want to work with world class artists in research, pedagogy, and games? Then maybe apply to work with me at UCSC! We're hiring a Assistant Professor of Interactive Art, Performance & Games

recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01998

Assistant Professor of Interactive Art, Performance & Games (Initial Review Date 11/14/25)

University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucsc.edu

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Chris, Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · 16d

Played through The Balsam Lake Unmurders by @paulczege.bsky.social . Had a great time with this game! The game system feels really good for solving a mystery.

I ended up solving the case with very little time to spare

Photo of the game The Balsam Lake Unmurders next to a journal with writing and playing cards laid out on columns. Everything is on top of a wood table

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 5d

Love this essay. We don't succeed at finding our true selves by moving away from the deathly things we aren't, but by moving into the enlivening things we are.

Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 5d

This essay is a banger. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n... (obligatory "wish it weren't on substack")

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual

The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

houseofmirrors.substack.com

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