Evan Torner

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.

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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. 🧵

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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.“

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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.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

call (202) 224-3121 & you'll get connected to your representatives

my heart is so heavy

"As one of my teammates put it, you’re not actually saving time with AI coding; you’re just trading less typing for more time reading and untangling code."

A Game of Thrones (the book) was mapping late 1990s cynicism about global wealth and power in politics onto the War of the Roses, filling in the gaps with D&D-style worldbuilding.

Tolkien's mythopoietic books, meanwhile, map ancient Nordic epics onto World War II.

Maybe one stood on firmer earth?

"Die Optimisierung des Aussehens" -- see it's straightforward

IDK but for me SNES Link to the Past, Ocarina, and Majora's were all unique and bangers in their own right. BOTW was great at first but has felt less and less honest about what it actually is over the course of nearly a decade of it existing.

ToTK is a whole-ass toybox compared with the "proof of concept" that is BoTW (which is still rated the greatest game of all time, so I feel like it can withstand some critique!)

There are so many *physics* possibilities in ToTK, & coupling them with battlefield strategy & plot is just so smart.

Seems worth noting that ChatGPT Health failed to identify medical emergencies more than half the time in a recent study. The company that made that product just signed a deal with the "Department of War" and said trust us, it's all very safe and ethical.

This is unfortunately much like life itself

This is a "Run Away" sorta situation. I also did a lot of Fast Travel in BOTW because of the nasty wandering monsters

When I started in internet music, the stuff that Liz had already published was so uniquely creative and playful; extremely mystifying and motivating for me

Now it's 23 years later, I've been radicalized in no small part by her writing, and I'm strongly recommending her new record without hesitation

Amid US aggression towards Cuba, Mexico lights up its government building in El Zócalo with the colours of the Cuban flag in solidarity.

Ataage Agindaasonan - An Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin card game A fun way to learn a language with access to audio translations and pronunciation breakdowns. Immerse yourself with the game phrases!

An Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) card game created by an Indigenous designer right here in #Winnipeg.

Currently $4,110 pledged of $7,000 goal.

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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...