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explain your username:

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a guy who just got a user story in his queue about some kind of “discourse improvement project” and is just trying to do a good job on it

taking you at your word that you want my strategy, in the situation you describe I would probably say I don’t understand AT ALL, that I have no reading of what they said and need to start the conversation over (“pretend to be dumb” is a social strategy I use a lot in different situations)

Yes, my experience is that “I must have misunderstood you” is like near universally taken as persiflage

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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

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I promise your torture will end once you realize that the long-play "numbers go up" game which reliably tickles your dopamine receptors and the long-play "unfair probability" game that lifts and crashes your anguished frustration are in fact different faces of the same game

yes! miss marple meets mrs dalloway

Dog Eat Dog is my pick for the best designed TRPG, full stop.

Art & System: Games for Expanded Play A new indie game series from Central Michigan University Press launching with a lineup of three games: Princess with a Cursed Sword, Dog Eat Dog, and the Mountain Witch

RPG nerds, this is worth keeping an eye on. The physical reprint of Dog Eat Dog in particular. Not been in print for ages, and it's a well designed and confronting framework for role-playing the shitty ass power balance of colonialism.

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

This went beneath my radar, but my goodness, it's a crowdfunder for a reprint of some of the most respected and seminal indie games. Please repost, please back it.

"In Baxter's view the care for external goods should only lie on the shoulders of the 'saint like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment'. But fate decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage."
-max weber, 1904

i do not think that nonhuman things have feelings to be hurt but i do think the intent to hurt feelings is bad for a person notwithstanding whether the object of their sadism is real

one must imagine sisyphus being like "so then I'm almost at the top of the hill and the rock is like, really big at this point, and then *takes a big drink* and then you know what happens next? oh my god you won't believe this"

I like the part where type 3 fun is where something is not fun

I just learned about this and yes

I am blown away by the support for our crowdfunding campaign. Thank you so much!

I don't know what the stretch goals will be either so I am reloading the page just as much as any of you. excited to see what's coming.

I hope you all love these games.

I was briefly a volunteer discord moderator for an official game discord. I crashed out (not dramatically, but I quit the game for a long time). my retrospective conclusion was that my biggest mistake by an enormous amount was not making a separate pseudonymous moderator account

If it is not going to be that (which is fair enough), it needs new structures. Like systemically, but, also it literally needs new buildings on land it can control. Right now you have to kind of flip a coin on whether ICE will show up at some point to drag away all the diplomats.

I mean I think your second sentence is my takeaway. The UN is dependent for its functioning on the intentional will of a lot of leaders, mostly American ones. This reflects its purpose at inception, to organize and administer the post-WWII world order.

a lot of people get paid a lot less to eat bees

products, notably, that are all available RIGHT NOW if you actually want them, which you don't, because they suck

Book covers for the three games in this campaign on a white background. At the bottom of the screen is a big golden stripe and the words Launch Promo Art and System written upon it in scarlet.

We just premiered a teaser for the RPGs launching with Art & System: Dog Eat Dog by @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social, Princess with a Cursed Sword by @cyborgurl.bsky.social, and The Mountain Witch by Timothy Kleinert. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/4K3wK7huBnI

Pledge here: https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

In the wake of Duolingo's popularity, an uncomfortable truth that we don't discuss enough is how the platform's gamification masked that there were two different audiences but only one was a priority: People who wanted to learn a language and people who wanted to feel good about learning a language.

An East African at the conference I am attending made a really striking point: that he recognizes the problems U.S. democracy is having because they are typical of a recently democratized country — and after all, the U.S. only became a proper democracy in the mid-1960s.

Art & System: Games for Expanded Play A new indie game series from Central Michigan University Press launching with a lineup of three games: Princess with a Cursed Sword, Dog Eat Dog, and the Mountain Witch

These are all cool, and I am particularly excited to have a new edition of Dog Eat Dog coming — a tabletop story game directly addressing the cultural politics & politics politics of colonialism and its consequences

i'm one of the contributing writers for Princess With A Cursed Sword! i'm so excited and lucky to be part of this collection

Yellow banner with red text PLEDGE NOW across a background of the three game books for Dog Eat Dog%2C The Mountain Witch%2C and Princess with a Cursed Sword.

LAUNCH! Our BackerKit crowdfunding campaign for the Art & System series is LIVE! Go to https://bit.ly/4gMqNvA to pledge NOW!

I am always fascinated by the way that “information security” systems have been designed, through “helpful” password requirements, to slowly ensure that none of us know what our passwords are.

Text TOMORROW Launches on BackerKit Art & System Games for Expanded Play. Graphic behind text is the book covers for Dog Eat Dog%2C Princess with a Cursed Sword%2C and The Mountain Witch.

Tomorrow’s the day! Three visionary games — Dog Eat Dog, Princess with a Cursed Sword, and The Mountain Witch — are coming together in our launch of the new series Art & System: Games for Expanded Play.

Join us on launch day at https://bit.ly/4mE1Ncn

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hi i'm getting a kickass set of new genitals installed in 2 weeks from now !! isn't that fucking cool ?

i could use a little bit of help with medical bills + housing expenses during recovery and so i've set up a little gofundme!
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