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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 1h

I’m having a lovely time at Parallels. My early and loving feedback for next year: We need some better stage audio if we’re gonna be in this huge, echoey room. Bit of a struggle to hear the speakers when sat upstairs due to bounce and echo.

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 4h

PAX Aus Pin fiends: If you see me around the show, please ask for a pin. I have brought some special treasures.

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 4h

Doors open at 6 for a 7pm start, so any time in the 6pm hour

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 8h

First one down, happy Games Week

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Ash Parrish @adashtra.bsky.social · 15h

Keeping it a sturdy buck:
I don't want that game unless there's BLACK AMERICAN MELANIN at *every* decision making rung on that projects ladder which.... yeah not happening

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 15h

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 15h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 15h

How tf did games go from literal Fuck Nazis Kill Em All marketing campaigns to “black guy murking the Klan too risky” in less than a decade

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 15h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 23h

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 1d

Ryan can’t fool me I did 15 years of false springs. I haven’t even looked at the weather, I know it’s gonna be 20 and windy

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 1d

Righto time to start packing ig

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 1d

If you were to happen by the ol' General Assembly on Friday evening, you will 100% find me there ❤️

David Smith @rhunwords.com · 1d

Sadly no, straight back up to Sydney on the Sunday night. Will be at the Syd show, however!

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 1d

For the first year in ages, I also don't have any panels! Kind of refreshing, honestly.

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 1d

MIGW mates, here's where you'll find me this year (the MCEC, mostly). Flat stick most of the weekend, but will I be hanging for a beer in the evenings? Yes.

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 1d

New Multiplier just went out! It's a timely check-in with one of the biggest CR fans I know (@rhunwords.com) about what the inevitable expansion of the biggest name in actual play into the gaming landscape might look like: open.substack.com/pub/multipli...

Is a Critical Role video game destined to disappoint?

"How do you want to do this?"

open.substack.com

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 1d

(trying to divine meaning from the nintendo baby short) Close enough, welcome back Wii Music

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 1d

Twenty bucks lmfao

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 1d

I, for one, am astonished that a Tron movie that asks "what if Tron but in the real world, man???" sucks ass

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 2d

Yeah wtf

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 2d

We are so extraordinarily back

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Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social · 2d

Know someone who missed out on Parallels tickets? We rummaged around and found a few more in our pockets - but they're very limited!

events.humanitix.com/parallels25

Parallels - Last Minute Tickets Available Now

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 2d

It appears to me from the outside that the manual review process (which the Australian government has said it wants for the under 16s ban) led to ID docs being kept longer than needed.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach

Video game chat platform tells users that driver’s licences and passports were among the forms of data accessed via a third-party customer service provider Video game chat platform Discord has suffered a data breach, informing users that their personal information – including identity documents of those required to prove their age – were compromised. The company stated last week that an unauthorised party had compromised one of Discord’s third-party customer service providers, leading to the access of “a limited number of users” who had been in contact with the customer service or trust and safety teams. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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David Smith @rhunwords.com · 2d

I thought we agreed on big inflatable dinosaur costume wtf

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