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Mark Wallace, so-called
Mark Wallace, so-called
@markwallace.bsky.social
Writer, game designer, anguish flâneur. Words: NYTimes, Salon, LARB, Rumpus, GQ, etc. Blog: yrpgm.bearblog.dev/blog/ Games: markwallace.itch.io News: inlooking.substack.com Once wrote a book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262513227/the-second-life-herald/
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Totally addictive little roll-n-writer. Nice work with Paper Apps: Galaxy, @brin.town !
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I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.
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my spectactularly incisive take for this morning: itch.io really needs a "Download All" button. You're welcome.
yes I too just backed Microscope (2nd Edition) on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...
Orwell: Books v. Cigarettes Rossignol: Orks v. Trout
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
loved the maps and lands and mysteries that emerged in Cartograph from @ravensridgeco.bsky.social. Check it out.
NEW REVIEW: @markwallace.bsky.social takes us on a map-making trip into new lands with Cartograph from @ravensridgeco.bsky.social Find out what directions this solo-friendly game takes and how it might end up becoming your favorite way to create new worlds for your next adventure buff.ly/IZagZ7z
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NEW REVIEW: @markwallace.bsky.social takes us on a map-making trip into new lands with Cartograph from @ravensridgeco.bsky.social Find out what directions this solo-friendly game takes and how it might end up becoming your favorite way to create new worlds for your next adventure buff.ly/IZagZ7z
okay #bluecollar #scifi bsky, where can I get my hot little hands on a copy of this book? Menial: Skilled Labor in Science Fiction www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
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This is good. Go forth now and listen.
There's a new episode of RTFM, an RPG book club podcast. @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online joins @snaxwell.bsky.social and me to talk about weird espionage RPG FIST. We recorded this long ago. Life erupted. No idea what we said. Please listen and (don't!) tell me! open.spotify.com/episode/3rwU...
Glossary of terms used by Philip K. Dick philipdick.com/mirror/PKDic...
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Applications for the Mothership #Jump-9 Writers Grant are now open. Deadline is September 30. www.tuesdayknightgames.com/pages/mother...
oh now, shit's getting real up in this whip
Sam has created something magical with Dice Exploder- it was the impetus for my passion for games blossoming. I'm so thankful for all the work he's put in. I'm stoked to carry the show forward! Great season coming up, and I'm thrilled to show you all what I have brewing for the future of the show
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We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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Let's take celebrating games as art a step further What if we celebrated the joy of creating games as an artistic endeavor Without regard to whether those games ever "go to market"
I've been thinking on this a lot lately and cementing my thoughts on how we cover games on @omnigamers.bsky.social. Namely that there's value in discussing games and what makes them tick as pieces of art, completely divorced from whether you can/should buy it.
100% concur. I have always expressed this as, "Fly your freak flag high."
Please get more weird. Cultivate your oddness like a garish giant orchid growing out of your lavatory. Every moment you spend moving through the world being a little freak & not looking over your shoulder to check how people are taking it gives permission to others to finally live free
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these are great
Do you like grotty spaceships? I do. Here is some i have made, and you can get them here from A-F INDUSTRIES, finest shipwrights in the galaxy! (apart from all the lawsuits that we don't talk about). Grotty scanline artpack delights, human made art for human made ttrpgs! carlydraws.itch.io