Dr. Emily MN Kugler

My super, mega boardgame nerd, totally brilliant at every game, would put up against anyone friend @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy HAS NEVER PLAYED CATAN, so we are playing this morning.

I am Player One.

This is my ONE SHOT to beat my genius friend.

Prayers please.

Very glad to see this as @emnk.bsky.social and I prepare to nerd out about Austen games at Global Austen.

special edition cover of THE LESBIAN HOT DOG GETS ME OFF ALSO SHE IS A DOCTOR ALSO SHE IS VEGAN featuring audiobook cover on pink picnic blanket with jamie loftus on one side holding a hot dog and chuck tingle on the other side

presenting THIS HOT DOG GETS ME OFF ALSO SHE IS A DOCTOR ALSO SHE IS VEGAN SPECIAL EDITION AUDIOBOOK read by true buckaroo @jamieloftus.bsky.social audiobook is FREE but we are asking for donations to LA STREET VENDOR FUND who are helping vendors impacted by ICE RAIDS www.patreon.com/posts/this-l...

the honor of a lifetime, sweating in my office and desperately trying to achieve the right degree of horny for a TINGLER!!!!

long live chuck, donate to the street vendor fund, LOVE IS REAL

Lol
Do you want an unopened box for it?

Three sealed boxes of games: Decathlon, River Raid and Hero. Then a mystery: unboxed Decathlon, Hero and a third game.

Many issues of Computer Gazette from the 80s. Plus joysticks, Manuel's, cassettes, cartridges, floppies

Commodore VIC-20

Commodore with Adventure Land and some other games.

A problem that I never thought I'd have: finding homes for multiple Commodores. Here's the latest one with the other things it was boxed with.

Analog Game Studies (@analoggamestudies.bsky.social) Analog Game Studies is a quarterly journal dedicated to the study of games containing a substantial analog component. Hosts of #GenerationAnalog https://analoggamestudies.org

Registration is now open for a fabulous, free online conference: @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 2025 "PUNK" is Thursday, July 17! analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... -- registration is free but required via EventBrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation... #staypunk #stayanalog!

We've seen this from anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy movements for years: Act like frothing-at-the-mouth psychos and then accuse scientists of conspiracy for behaving like they're being targeted by frothing-at-the-mouth psychos.

TTRPG folks: if you have worked on games involving the Early Modern period or Shakespeare, could you let me know?

Everyone 100% should check this out.

Love this and Rachel and her work!!

Stack of boxes, bottom to top: Commodore printer, Commodore 64 computer, floppy disc drive

Strays you take in because you are unrealistically confident at the time you can find a new home. From bottom to top: Commodore printer, Commodore 64 computer, floppy disc drive (for just one floppy).

THIS PART RIGHT HERE

The untold history of Barbie Fashion Designer, the first mass-market ‘game for girls’ How Digital Domain and Mattel Media built Barbie’s wardrobe

I'm getting more sad about getting laid off. My work means so much to me. I'm a really good reporter. I've been getting scoops every single week lately, while also doing in-depth, award-winning reporting. I have good ideas!

New email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com

www.polygon.com/23776996/bar...

i am not looking forward to more bearded white dudes in giant baby car seats surrounded in mausoleums of 80s and 90s nostalgia bathed in RGB giving the absolute shittiest socio-political takes because they miss the taste of Hi-C Ecto Cooler

Not an exaggeration to say I wouldn't be writing about games without Polygon. Every layoff hurts but this one is fucking devastating. These journalists deserved so much better.

When I tell you how excited I am to get my hands on this!!!! Marc will be talking about this and more on 5/22. Join us! whyzines2025.eventbrite.com

I used to find these kinds of posts shallow, but in light of recent events and in case you don’t know me personally—

I believe trans rights are human rights, Black lives matter, abortion is healthcare, and that this administration is cancerous.

Kick off your May w/me at Game of BLANKS!

This live party game/game show is a mashup of Quiplash + Taskmaster that's been described as "sh*tposting for points" (complimentary)!

Form your most adventurous party & join us for all the fun & BLANKS!

Thursday May 8 at 9pm at Brooklyn Art Haus!

It's the final day of our Call for Papers for this year's Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference! Send in your abstracts to midagesmodgames<at>gmail.com to join us in June!

A four panel comic about human and plant time scales

Even when I try to write about fascism I write about plants

I have often said that the takeaway I had from Peterson’s GAME WIZARDS is that I want a biography of Mary Gygax, but it’s actually grown to think that someone should write a book where each chapter is profile of a non-dude who did undersung “backstage” facilitation of games labor.

Opinion | I Teach Computer Science, and That Is All Politics has no place at universities or in the classroom.

This Harvard comp sci prof laments Republicans’ declining public opinion of universities and blames it on professors who, unlike him, inject politics into their classes.

As evidence of politicization, he references Google, Coinbase, Bud Light—ie not academia—and one email from one law school TA.

In theory alt-text would help with this, but many of the same folks who love sharing offensive images of someone AI-cosplaying a revered religious leader (or other dumbass bullshit) ALSO don’t tend to use alt-text as they do so.

Right now I’m muting posts but real close to blocking.

my feed right now is just substack blog after substack blog after substack blog and half of them right now are specifically critiques of the guys from the big fascist signal chats article and those critiques are delivered on the platform that makes nazis money and it’s making me sad.

a scooby doo poster asking where are my fricken glasses ? ALT: a scooby doo poster asking where are my fricken glasses ?

If your students are not bringing up anything construably political in class, ever, it's because you're not letting them speak freely. And I thought that was supposed to be bad? Dang, did I miss another memo?

a recent look at migration, if you didn’t know about substack’s nazi problem.

I have a full time job. I contributed to Polygon because I got robust editorial eyes on my work, & an audience that (generally) valued that.

ZombiePolygon won’t have either — they gutted that institutional memory & vision in a stroke, & they won’t/can’t buy that at a price they’d ever pay.

Polygon's new owner won't:

*Commit to hiring a new EIC

*Say if the site will be "rebuilt" with full-time staff or permalancers

*Explain why he refused to engage with founding EIC Chris Grant during negotiations

*Address Valnet's reputation for exploiting contractors and churning out seo slop

Statement on Vox Media's decision to sell Polygon and lay off staff. Read the full statement at https://www.wgaeast.org/statement-on-vox-medias-decision-to-sell-polygon-and-lay-off-staff/

Statement on Vox Media's decision to sell Polygon and lay off staff. Read the full statement at https://www.wgaeast.org/statement-on-vox-medias-decision-to-sell-polygon-and-lay-off-staff/

The WGA East's statement on Vox Media’s decision to sell @Polygon.com and lay off staff. We stand with our @VoxMediaUnion members now and always ✊