Peter Taylor

And he knew many techniques!

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope launches this Wednesday!

Over 100+ essays on the craft of game writing and narrative design; affordable priced.

… AND we’ll also launch with the first two episodes of the podcast series, where we talk to the article writers about their craft.

"I was saying 'gah-reat!'"

Almost as though there's a link I'm missing.

"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."

‘The right thing’ in this instance presumably being ‘Turning up for Toby’s stag do.’

YouTube video by Michelle Franklin | Legends and Lectures How many is umpteen?

How many is umpteen?
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Or money.

Macron, his eyes red.

THIS PROVES THEY'RE GOING TO EAT LABOUR'S LUNCH.

Has she ever thought about, ooh, I don't know, setting out her stall, making an argument, and trying to win people over?

Look, what she lacks in effort, energy, decency and policy seriousness, she makes up for in 'polling at 19 per cent' and 'going down to record-breaking defeat in every contest she leads the party into'.

Very weird that she's talking about separatism rather than sectarianism. Is she suggesting that there are Muslim communities that want to secede from the UK?

(Outside of those who are Scottish/Welsh Nats, obviously.)

She is utterly unfit to be an MP, let alone leader of the 'main' opposition party.

It says a lot about the state of the Tory party that Badenoch is safe as leader at the moment when this is her idea of a policy. Dire.

English (US) is a separate language in the game, partly for this reason.

'Separatism' is when British Muslims vote for the most socially liberal candidate in the race to stop Matt Goodwin, who Kemi Badenoch herself explicitly said was a threat to minority life in this country, becoming an MP.

This is the first and most important bit of advice I give any US football fan when they say they're worried about feeling like an 'imposter' if they're watching a game (live or in a bar) over here.

IN BRITISH ENGLISH FOOTBALL TEAMS ARE PLURAL.

Get that right and nobody will care where you're from.

THANK GOD SOMEONE ELSE HAS SAID THIS.

A subway car decorated with Ditto artwork

An overhead handle in a subway car, but its purple and has a Ditto face motif.

all aboard the ditto train!

Zoe Delahunty-Light videogame lore addict, writer, flesh vessel. lesbian.

Sadly my role as Video Producer on Eurogamer's YouTube channel has been made redundant. After 7 years it's a heart-breaking goodbye, but I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be continuing to create the deepest of dives into videogame lore on my own YouTube channel! 🔍

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Honestly the conservative party is going to die because they can't understand the polls show you can't do anything to get reform voters back.

As the price of natural gas spikes across Europe for the fourth time in the last five years remember those extremely clever people in Reform and the Conservatives who want to abandon renewable energy and rely even more on gas 🤡 🤡

Goodwin has three URGENT recommendations for what MUST be done here:

(1) Cut down postal voting (he would have lost anyway)
(2) Link voting exclusively to citizenship (he would have lost anyway)
(3) become a paid subscriber to his newsletter!

The new Pokemon making waves - Hanafuda Report

🌸 Issue 472 of Hanafuda Report is out now!

My thanks to @trulyavaporeon.bsky.social for sharing their lovely Pombon, Gecqua & Browt watercolour. 😊

➡️ hanafuda.report/issues/472/

If Pokopia is where Pokémon is looking to go, into the future, then I truly hope it keeps going.

Our review: https://bit.ly/3N80UMu

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🧵Last week we spoke at the Plaid conference to share our latest research. This really stood out for me:
Plaid's base has shifted left as it has grown. Among their 2021 voters the median voter put themselves at 5 on a right-left scale, now they're at a 4

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them