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@gearm.bsky.social
blessed with the desire to learn (autism), cursed with a limitless capacity for trivia (also autism) i make games, vidya and tabletop working on mine by night, and by day, working on yours - dev @ the best virtual table top on the world wide web
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RFK talks about autistic and Arabic people the exact same way. He assumes they are not capable of ordinary or extraordinary achievements because of who they are. He considers them sub-human because they are not like him. This makes it plain that his is a white supremacist eugenicist project.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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Replying to @franzanth.bsky.social
I found another upload by the actual dev if you feel like raising this one's numbers instead
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Replying to @karenho.bsky.social
Omg no, he was so young. Damn. He was such a talented voice actor. It’s on the mind because I literally just watched it yesterday, but he got asked to do the taken monologue as porky pig and its a masterpiece
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really good defector.com/aaron-sorkin...
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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
yeah, gop supports pedophiles, water is wet
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
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NA games "leadership" has no interest in making games - only in making money. Large NA game studios don't have leaders - they have owners.
Watching this industry over the last 15 years has been so painful. The closest thing we have to a universal recipe for making great games is keeping teams together over time, and letting them cook. _Teams_. Of _people_. Seemingly nobody in NA games leadership has ever valued or understood this
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Replying to @taniel.bsky.social
This chart is somehow more eye-popping. bsky.app/profile/djso...
Was able to use the absentee files in NC to compare same day 18-29 turnout by party reg % of 2022 / % of 2024 by party D: 197.3% / 55.3% R: 83.9% / 12.6% Oth: 205.8% / 43.8%
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My trans loved ones are extremely *not* disposable, and I oppose fascism and genocide deeply. I piss off family members and sometimes feel I risk my work to speak my mind and push further left. And this is why I *will* be voting for the person who can beat the Republican! We are past the primaries.
I think I just have to accept that nice people like this consider palestinian children and trans americans subhuman and disposable, even if they won't admit it to themselves.
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Only a gigantic fucking idiot would say "no more hand-written code" and I don't think that director realizes how much that outs them as not knowing a damn thing about their job.
NEW: Epic Games has delayed its upcoming (not yet announced) Star Wars + Marvel shooter as it pivots to complete AI game development. "No more hand-written code," a director told staff. All art "generated with full AI workflows." Full scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I have played some just-okay boardgames and had them become really great fun because we all decided to roleplay our board game play.
you can play boardgames like role playing games and you can play role playing games like boardgames so ‘boardgames’ and ‘roleplaying games’ are really more like stances of play rather than different products
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Didn't have to wait long for that fundraising email! Pfft.
oh lmao well uhhh when I get the next of your 5+ fundraising emails today, I will let your team know how I feel I hope you win, @drannieandrews.com , but I hope its really, REALLY hard. That's what you sign up for by adopting this terrible rhetoric. Sincerely, a former donor, SC-born and raised.
oh lmao well uhhh when I get the next of your 5+ fundraising emails today, I will let your team know how I feel I hope you win, @drannieandrews.com , but I hope its really, REALLY hard. That's what you sign up for by adopting this terrible rhetoric. Sincerely, a former donor, SC-born and raised.
SC Dem Senate nominee Annie Andrews released an ad calling trans women "biological men." She embraces sports and surgery bans for youth. Her campaign even says she won't work to overturn the HRT/blocker trans youth ban. She once argued against capitulation. Subscribe to support our journalism.
And @drannieandrews.com, if this is not really how you feel, please publicly backtrack and privately fire the f****** idiot who told you this was a good idea. And while you're at it, fire whoever keeps telling you to give your emails panicky subject-lines. Probably the same people.
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The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. https://bit.ly/4hMhPzG
and, CRITICALLY, *you let them do it.* We used to break up companies when they got too big. My first email address was "...@bellsouth.net." You know what Bellsouth is? One of the remnants of the Bell System after it was broken into pieces in the 80s. We should never have stopped trust busting.
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Arguably the biggest democracy referendum next month: Virginia is one of only three states where the state constitution says people should lose their right to vote FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIFE if they are convicted of any felony. This measure would allow anyone to vote after prison.
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Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up.
Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."
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15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:
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Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.
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