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YouTube video by EPICA EPICA - The Ghost In Me (Danse Macabre) Official Music Video for Danse Macabre at @efteling

It's that time of the year to post thing banger

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Is there anything happening the evening before AdvX this year?

If this were in a game set in the 19 century, ppl would've eaten the devs alive

The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...

It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.

Please share :)

I have a lot of opinions about the recent Vampire: the Masquerade books, but I do really love the fact they continued the chronology of the old version, meaning the apocalypse happened but it turned out not to be that big of a deal.

Inspiring. Take note eternal continuity rebooters.

Ah! So I often refer to my work when I suggest something tangible. That gives context to my advice.
This might be because in my field there are a lot of people with Opinions who have never created or released a thing, so is important to signal you have actual experience when you suggest something 😅

I have a slide with some of my work, simply so the audience knows where I'm coming from with my knowledge.
And in turn I really appreciate a credits slide because if I know someone only does AAA, only indie, only the same company, etc., I know how their work and advice relates to mine

I had the same thing when pitching. Yeah, I know my game got in showcases and had some public funding, but I didn't think that was important.
Totally forgetting that showcase/funding = someone else already judged it worthy, hence easier to prioritize.

I think it's because the attendee needs to be able to make a choice between different talks and the presented information in the talk.
The more info you can give them, the easier it is for them to weigh, differentiate and judge that information. But each person's needs and metrics are different.

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Dutch Game Awards 2025 nominations announced! - Dutch Games Association Discover the Dutch Game Awards 2025 nominees, revealed ahead of the ceremony on December 3rd in Breda.

Congrats to all the nominees! Fantastic games all of them

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Both him and the secondary, Lahlah are amazing technocrats but just not great front people.

Same! It was a real struggle :D

I thought about this issue too and realised I had to index and track options and also track if every variation of the option had been checked. Which then lead me to discovered it's a variation of the P=NP problem, which is a computer science issue that has yet to be solved

Your approach is fine :D

Not games, but Archive 81. Been using it for a Delta Green campaign and it fits like a glove.
For games, the original FEAR OST

You might ask "gosh, but surely people only vote for the first 3 parties" and you sweet child. You sweet innocent child.

Last parliament seated 15 different parties

An A2 sized sheet of election candidates for the Dutch parliamentary elections of 2025. It's almost entirely filled with font size 10 names. On top there is a toy banana that my cat very much enjoys

Parliamentary Electionday in the Netherlands and I can pick any one of these people

Toy banana for scale

maybe they should hire more middle managers, I hear that's the pro strat they always apply

> Have to layoff thousands of people because of bloat and disappointing results

> Claim you 'oh actually they're being replaced by AI' to cover the fact your company is bleeding money for no reason

> 📈

Honestly

QA might be the hardest of ALL dev jobs to replace with AI. The entire goal of QA is to notice when things are falling outside of expected parameters.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Stay safe! 💜

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

"ELEVATED HORROR" DIRECTOR SEEING ANY WOMAN OVER THE AGE OF 45: ahh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AIEEEE!!!! AAAuuUGHHHH!H! OUGHGHGHGGHHGHGHGGHHG

guys it's okay, I fixed the Halo remake

Ik word zo moe dat deze verkiezingscyclus de "pechgeneratie" gebruikt als een justificatie of argument tegen statushouders en de woningcrisis. De politiek heeft ons keihard genaaid, keer op keer, maar nu worden we gebruikt als uithangbord voor de woningcrisis en tegen statushouders? Fuck off.

Complete sidenote from a great thread but I'm fascinated the 'demo' presents a lot of momentum. You act, it reacts, repeat.

But does the system realise you'd need a payoff too? Without it, is it what people really want? Like, infinite scrolling apps are addictive bc it's a momentum and payoff cycle

my hot take is that the fantasy that’s being catered to with videos like the one going around is of participation in a seamless, infinite, directed loop where the player and computer are constantly updating each other. which is where I think a lot of the satisfaction in systemic video games is. 🧵

That's a real shame!

An antique dealer specialised in jewelry is likely your best option.

If they have the original package (with the original store/creator credited), they have a much higher chance on being able to sell it for a decent price.