Evan Torner

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW!

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100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max...

ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!

YouTube video by Bloo Music Fischerspooner - We Need A War

This was from the early 2000s, and apparently not even cynical enough??

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Materielle Konsequenzen dieses ("Nicht"-)Krieges:

I have played this, and take my word for it: it's something to look forward to.

I mean assuming you like FUN…

We couldn't better sum up the relationship between corporate America and its consumers.

"I fear some [council members] are indifferent." Have you paid someone's rent, organized a fundraiser, gone on patrol, found someone an attorney, done someone's laundry, delivered groceries, held a baby of someone sheltering in fear? "If not you may be too far removed to have good judgment."

Honestly cannot see the cover image without humming the theme song

All this life's work on "hegemony" and ideological systems, and the heirs throw out literally any subtlety or nuance to their program of destruction.

"US Lives Matter!" (derogatory)

vs

"No Lives Matter!" (what's worse than derogatory?)

No to fascism.
No to forever war.
No to occupation and genocide.
No to antisemitism and Islamophobia.

The apps do not care if we live or die, for we are simply our previous text output paired with predictive modeling AND some regime of corpo-government censorship. We are just data they can use to lie with.

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Christian nationalists offer us this One Cool Eschatology

This appears to be a death app! It's not really that subtle about its total disregard for human life, apparently also yours.

If you have a subscription and need a good "push" to cancel it, let this be it for you.

This is FWIW why some of us turned so hard toward *fictional positioning* against detailed mechanical positioning, because why should our epic TTRPGs sell our own purple prose short when it comes to its in-game effects??

YouTube video by Mário Carvalho Imagination - Just An Illusion (Official Video)

Day 61 #MusicVideoTime

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a single paragraph guide to taking pleasure in both the games you play and the material you put into the world. via @meredithgran.com

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We ask top designers how to make board games about the worst parts of human history Board game designers Cole Wehrle and Amabel Holland talk about designing distressing historical games - and whether to make them at all.

A long read from me today, about the delicate task of designing respectful historical board games. Massive thanks to @amabel.bsky.social and @colewehrle.bsky.social for talking to me about their design approaches. www.wargamer.com/board-games/...

Congress will continue to exist in its undead form, but every bill it passes will have to *also* clear Mr Project2025 Man, who's clearly stifling his 2-bit villain cackle at every turn.

The top 1% in America now hoard $55.8 trillion — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.

100%

For those in the US, the correct position is to be anti-war and anti-imperialist.

The US does not have the right to conduct regime change to either destroy the country or install a puppet.

If US sanctions / war are constantly on the neck of the Iranian people, how can they ever achieve freedom.

To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country.

In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits.

This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵

YouTube video by Raekwon The Chef Raekwon - "Bear Hill" (Official Video)

Day 60 #MusicVideoTime

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These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

taz: „Die Liebe ist ein Wunder. Aber das Leben auch. Wenn das Schicksal es gut meint, wird beides in vollen Zügen genossen. Draußen: Stromausfall, Wetterwarnung, Schneesturm über Berlin. Die Wege sind vereist. Auch in der Audre-Lorde-Straße in Kreuzberg, wo Katharina ­Oguntoye und Carolyn Gammon in einer Parterrewohnung wohnen. Der Straßenname erinnert an die 1992 verstorbene afroamerikanische Aktivistin und Dichterin, mit der das Paar befreundet war. Auf die grüne Fassade ihres Hauses sind Blumen gemalt, ein Transparent verkündet: „Keine Luxuswohnung“. Es war eines der ersten von Frauen besetzten Häuser, erzählen sie. Damals, in den neunziger Jahren. Durch die Fenster ohne Vorhänge sind Carolyn Gammon – beim Backen – und Katharina Oguntoye – beim Lesen – zu sehen.“

@taz.de: „Es braucht ein Thema, das Liebende zu­sam­menschweißt. Bei Ka­tha­ri­na Oguntoye und Carolyn Gammon ist es der Kampf gegen Aus­gren­zung und Ras­sis­mus.“

@tnflorvil.bsky.social

👉 www.taz.de/!6155264

Hello everybody. My name is Olivia, I am the social media coordinator for MCG, and I have made a very silly, embarrassing mistake.

Our team has been busy getting ready for GAMA (among some personal issues that have left the Kansas crew a bit scattered), and (1/5)
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Last day (though tomorrow sometime is fine, too) to submit an abstract for #GenerationAnalog2026! This year's theme is "GREEN." analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #gameinlab #analoggamestudies #analoggames #greengames

People who support the brazen lies and war crimes of the regime cannot be facted or guilted in changing. Because they are not deceived. They are not concerned with morality. They are signalling their membership of an in-group, an identity.