I mean, it's a fantasy trilogy based on a set of books that don't make sense either if you are so inclined.

Das Buch-Cover von »Video Games and Mental Health« vor dunkelgelbem Hintergrund.

An exploration of the intersection between video games and mental health from the complementary perspectives of psychology and game design. 

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6856-8/

@federicoalvarez.bsky.social 
#VideoGames #Psychology #MentalHealth #SeriousGames #GameDesign #Media

Mashina on Steam A little robot digs to repair her world. Dig, build, discover and mend in a chill, stop-motion world.

Buy Mashina: store.steampowered.com/app/3395930/...

Oh that’s me!

Anyone I know know anyone at Google?
Daughter set up a new email to use to set up a promo website for her stuff. Used it to pay for a 3 year domain.
Email got blocked by Google without warning, and now the website is nuked too as a result.
This is pish.

Das Buch-Cover von »Digital Culture & Society (DCS)« vor dunkelgelbem Hintergrund.

This issue integrates new perspectives from History, Digital Humanities, and Game Studies to explore the epistemological and political implications that arise from the practical interweaving of game development and historical knowledge. 

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6869-8/

#Media

Image for: The makers of Playdate, the console-with-a-crank, will no longer accept games created with generative AI

🎮 **The makers of Playdate, the console-with-a-crank, will no longer accept games created with generative AI**

'There are lots of people in the world who are extremely eager and excited to create beautiful music, art, and words for your Playdate […]

[Original post on igeek.gamer-geek-news.com]

Congrats!

Florence passed their viva! Their l thesis is excellent and will be available to read soon, but in the meantime please join me in congratulating them! This would normally be the point where we’d talk about hiring them but they are already hard at work with @elisamekler.bsky.social doing cool stuff!

This is a graphic recording of an online co-design workshop for BEYOND, a peace game project. It shows a mind map of two main categories, the PURPOSE of the workshop and the BRAINSTORM strategies. There are five main themes: Family Separation (in conflict zones); The Dynamic of Recruitment (of children into illegal economies); Childcare; Training; and "No Easy Wins". Family Separation has the following subthemes: Mandatory evaluations; one parent must be present with their children. Psychological pressure due to family separation. Parents joining armed forces. Feeling of inequality not having both parents. Threats of conscription. Experiencing displacement. Ill-equipped bomb shelters; lacking needs for mothers and children. Mine safety; briefings in schools. Constant drone and missile strikes. The Dynamic of Recruitment has the following subthemes: What are the socio-economic contexts in which children are raised? How does this situation push children into illegal economies? Not only armed foces but child labour including being an assistant, cooking, cleaning, deliveries, etc. Modality of recruitment including social media platforms like TikTok... Understanding the vulnerabilities in urban warfare. False promised of wealth, expensive goods, glamourous lifestyle... Indigenous organisations providing protective and preventative education programmes to challenge to 'social messaging'. Healing, reintegration and re-harmonization of children who have returned. Strengthening roles of families in avoiding dangerous dynamics with collective approach. Childcare has the following subthemes: Gendered experiences e.g. boy perceived as security risk. Lack of access to pediatric care impacting physical and mental health. Those with sensory impairments not able to notice warning signs/alerts. No Easy Win has the following subthemes: Less legal approach is more effective. Who are the different actors? Civil society, church, religious groups. [truncated]

This is a graphic recording of a co-design workshop on BEYOND, a peace game project I worked on with Prof Rebecca Sutton. See alt text for a full description of the themes identified.

#peace #GBL #IHL #conflict #gamesForGood

Word moved the Insert Breaks options from the Insert menu to the Layout menu.

Is nothing safe?

No way am I slogging my way through that again for a 5 minute retcon insert

Up till now I hadn't realised dril was a real person.
I mean sometime had to be posting that stuff... But an actual person that people could point to?

Waiting for the actual domain to transfer now...
Finally some good

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

i got a reply!!

a good apology, imo

have emailed back asking if it will be published in the national/on social media, and about the charity donation

got a reply back immediately saying she’s working with the team on how to resolve it all, and she’s aware there’s a lot of work to be done

My series of Glasgow Icon eco-metal pin badges are now available through my website at www.thisismyglasgow.com/product-cate....

You can also get them in person from Sunshine No. 1 on Cathcart Road in Mount Florida.

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#glasgow #glasgowicons #badges #pinbadges #glasgowphotography

Sign the Petition Save Trongate103 from closure

Petition in support of an important Glasgow arts venue... c.org/k7JdD9z5HP
After losing CCA this year, the city can't afford to lose this too.

Change the style of ALL captions in ONE CLICK! YouTube video by Lila

Impressed at how counter-intuitive it is to do almost anything in Adobe Premiere.
Change the font in a subtitles track? Surely just right click on the track and edit settings/properties?
No, no. Far too easy.
Instead something just slightly different enough... www.youtube.com/shorts/lT9z0...

Israel's hegemonic ideology is Kahanism: pursuing a Jewish non-democratic one state where Palestinians are subjugated, expelled or dead.
Some say this is an inevitable continuation of Zionism, others that it is a corruption of Zionism.
I disagree with both accounts, but don't mind either.

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There’s a PhD’s worth of subtext here. UK government needs to distance itself as far as possible from this company no matter the alleged efficiency gains.

Have you got your ticket for #GIGF26 yet? We’d love to see you there! 🎟️

Grab yours today ⊹₊ ݁.
glasgowindiegamesfest.org/links/

#indiegames #glasgowgames #glasgowindiegames

I got stuck for the longest time today... But one of the 20% that didn't make any mistakes
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Apr 19th 2026 (Hard), in less than 42 minutes
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A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza.

A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Hawkwind - Needlegun (Official Video, 1985) YouTube video by Cherry Red Records

Just remember, I did say it gets weird 😉
The Final Programme is the place to start. As well as the Quartet, there are a good number of additional novels and short stories (not all by Moorcock), comics and even this...
youtu.be/C2OucF1sb8g?...

*Quartet.

Can offer some recommendations, depending on how fucked up/weird you like your fiction...
Cornelius Quarter starts out almost normal Bond-like SF spy stuff. Gets weird.
Behold the Man is about a time traveller trying to meet Jesus. Quite a trip.