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Senior Quality Analyst at Failbetter Games Writer in my free time South African living in Dublin He/him

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Reading Capital Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey (2019 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey (2007 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Har…

I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx

Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds)
Reading Marx's Capital v2
Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds)
Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason
The ABC of Contemporary Capital

davidharvey.org/reading-capi...

07.03.2026 19:08 — 👍 189    🔁 70    💬 7    📌 3

Professional wrestling is the only true art form

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“With Windows 12, we are striving to make an operating system that makes you say ‘are you fucking kidding me?’ out loud to your computer the second it boots up” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is rumored to have said.

04.03.2026 05:35 — 👍 264    🔁 36    💬 3    📌 0
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Fewer books in February but they're all good ones.

Allah Is Not Obliged and Neapolitan Chronicles are real bangers.

02.03.2026 09:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A wistful #WishlistWednesday.

Mandrake is a rural life sim, and our first game to feature actual weather.

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A digital poster inside the window of a dentistry practice, showing the staff merrily posing for a photo above the incredibly normal caption "JUST NORMAL PEOPLE WHO LOVE TEETH"

A digital poster inside the window of a dentistry practice, showing the staff merrily posing for a photo above the incredibly normal caption "JUST NORMAL PEOPLE WHO LOVE TEETH"

Hands up if you are normal and love teeth

24.02.2026 12:29 — 👍 806    🔁 190    💬 23    📌 39
caves of qud's "Live and drink." but in elder scrolls morrowind font/style.

caves of qud's "Live and drink." but in elder scrolls morrowind font/style.

21.02.2026 06:55 — 👍 62    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

Get in the fucking shoe, Shinji

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GUNBUSTER IS MAKING ITS STREAMING DEBUT ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL THIS IS NOT A DRILL

18.02.2026 18:57 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Stand Alone Complex at Criterion

sickos.jpeg yes! yes!!!

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kiryu would NOT fucking say that

#YakuzaKiwami3

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“Astronaut” is ancient Greek for “Star Sailor”
But sadly that’s all we know about the ancient Greek space program.

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"I'm too old for this imperial shit" - Black Skin, White Masks

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I don't give a fuck if you don't know what I'm talking about- this is art. When you go see a painting on the wall and it looks bugged out because you don't know what the fuck he thinking, because he ain't got no benches, no trees there, it's just a splash. The nigga that did it know what the fuck it is

I don't give a fuck if you don't know what I'm talking about- this is art. When you go see a painting on the wall and it looks bugged out because you don't know what the fuck he thinking, because he ain't got no benches, no trees there, it's just a splash. The nigga that did it know what the fuck it is

This pops up every once in awhile and I always share it. Wu Tang goes in and out of popularity with the times, but there's no denying there was a Dream Team level of talent and brilliance on that roster. True artists.

14.02.2026 01:32 — 👍 2861    🔁 619    💬 20    📌 10

gromit's birthday should not only be a national holiday, but a sort of global day of unity

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Cadence is out now!

Make music by solving circuits. It took 13 years to figure how to do this well!

Beyond the puzzles:
🐈‍⬛ Pet Ren, the cat!
📜 Enjoy Ren's life philosophy (all text is skippable)
🎹 Use the sandbox to make music
🧮 Or explore turing complete contraptions

12.02.2026 09:06 — 👍 202    🔁 92    💬 8    📌 13
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A good joke about game launches Plus: PlayStation's recent win against counterfeiters

For years, official maps showing the global launch times for new video games have left Africa blank

I wrote about those maps in today's Game File. Credit to @tauriq.bsky.social's thread from 2023 that got this on my radar. And to @nyamakop.co.za for the joke

www.gamefile.news/p/relooted-l...

11.02.2026 02:00 — 👍 73    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 0

legitimately one of the most beautiful games ever made

like, you don't need to do anything more than this. that's the ideal visual style.

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A world map that features the times Relooted is launched in different African countries. Only Africa is highlighted.

A world map that features the times Relooted is launched in different African countries. Only Africa is highlighted.

WORLDWIDE release times for Relooted’s launch tomorrow!

09.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 760    🔁 206    💬 11    📌 42

No idea but we have the same set, got it for Christmas but we've yet to start on it!

07.02.2026 09:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I rarely do this, but I’m hoping I maybe have enough of a following here that someone can help: I need to get in contact with Donkey Kong. It’s urgent

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A lovely glimpse of Mandrake’s narrative here – how conversations with other characters looks and works, how your character’s traits affect it, and more.

Working out how to write Failbettery narrative in a rural life sim wrapper has been very challenging!

06.02.2026 14:41 — 👍 32    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

For your reassurance, here's the Fallen London AI Transparency Statement and the portion of the Steam page which states that we're making Mandrake by hand.

We don't use generative AI. <3

04.02.2026 10:05 — 👍 757    🔁 207    💬 14    📌 11
The books I read in January 2026, arranged in a grid. They are, in order: - Flesh by David Szalay 
- Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq 
- The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier 
- The Castle by Franz Kafka
- The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
- What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
- Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou
- The Employees by Olga Ravn
- The Fisherman by John Langan

The books I read in January 2026, arranged in a grid. They are, in order: - Flesh by David Szalay - Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq - The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier - The Castle by Franz Kafka - The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati - What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah - Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou - The Employees by Olga Ravn - The Fisherman by John Langan

January reads!

Very very strong recs for The Tartar Steppe and What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky.

Flesh, The Anomaly, and The Employees are also good ones.

Broken Glass and Heart Lamp were disappointing, unfortunately.

01.02.2026 09:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

From your lips to John Criterion’s ears.

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The way Games treats its critics and scholars is so fucking childish. Oh, you'd like to enrich my craft by putting it in context and thinking closely about it? Fuck you.

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Cities Under Siege Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political viol...

FREE EBOOK!

Cities Under Siege, Stephen Graham's powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life is available as a free download.

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