Butlerian Jihad Now.

This is gorgeous!!!

The fact that we saw this coming doesn't make it less upsetting.

Game Poems #1 An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.

I finally played Game Poems 1. If you're in a game design space, you really should take an hour and check them out.

www.gamepoems.com/issue01/?pag...

They've arrested 29 people protesting murder.

They've arrested 0 murderers.

They care more about property damage than murder. As they always have.

Is a recording being made available somewhere online? I'm quite interested in the topic

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Games Playing games is a basic human activity, and games raise a great number of fascinating philosophical questions. What, exactly, are we doing when we play a game? What is the value of games for human li...

Now it is official! The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Games is now, like, actually, surely, coming out! (This has been in the pipeline since 2018.) I have a piece here on this brand new thing called 'magic circle'. Everyone will be talking about it.

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

We've been doing this in Peru and it is, in fact, rad

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

Damn you mean itch didn’t actually just abandon these creators but has been working hard with its limited resources to figure out how to continue supporting them? How surprising

There is no acceptable sacrificial lamb to appease purity culture. Whatever weird little pervert you are personally icked by should not be collateral damage in a discussion where, essentially, banks are vying to be the arbiters of morality so they can decide whose dirty evil money they get to pocket

payment processor censorship is one reason we must resist the idea of a cashless all-digital society

Can confirm that most of the works by @radiatoryang.bsky.social, as well as my own card game (but not the extras, ironically) no longer show up in itch.io search results, much like anything else tagged NSFW, it seems. Good enough art for museums... But not payment processors!
itch.io/search?q=Rob...

hey! In case you missed it— in my lastest interview, @infrabeige.bsky.social share all details about the second edition of his game! #osr #nsr #ttrpg

Reading is the core practice of humanities research. But I have never had a professional or academic role that factors reading time into workload. We're meant to do it in 'spare time'. Now we're being told to let machines do it for us.

man aiming gun while crying

when the nice indie software begins telling you to "supercharge your productivity" and a sparkle icon appears

I've been saying for a while now that the true crisis here is a crisis of taste, not a crisis of creativity. The question (and the struggle, if you really need another one) is to create and shape tastes atop the vast smooth plain of latent space, with its Unlimited Tendies

Remember this image every time someone tells you that protesters are "hurting their cause."

Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.

One I would add to the already wonderful list of titles/links shared is Nick Mizer's "Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Experience of Imagined Worlds". It was personally very inspiring.

I'm Getting Real Tired Of Not Being Able To Trust That A Video Game Doesn't Have AI Crap In It - Aftermath It sucks that players are having to scour every asset and line of dialogue

Great article from @aftermath.site

Personally, AI in some games makes it hard for me to enjoy any game. It soils the entire industry because it undermines it as an art form.

aftermath.site/the-alters-a...

It is such a brilliant and beautiful game! It also made me think about how we change as we travel, how we pick things up along the way and leave some behind, and how we grow closer and grow apart from others as we change.

Game text for the shitpost game This Meeting Could have Been a Dungeon

Starting off with a #ShitpostTTRPG that FINALLY gives you a way to be productive during virtual meetings.
This Meeting Could Have Been a Dungeon is a dungeon builder that translates various common virtual meeting events into aspects of a dungeon.

Do Not Comply: A Lesson from the Last Three Months of Anti-Trans Attacks

My latest piece, written for the Kettering Foundation.

I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism.

Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community.

kettering.org/do-not-compl...

This, and all the rest of the Print It Yourself series, RULE

DIY FOREVER

I think most of who have worked in writing or entertainment know that piracy is a fact of life, and has been for a long time now.

But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.

PokéStop Showcase - Preservation of Urban Art in Pokémon Go Wayspots PokéStop Showcase is a project by Mauricio Castro Valdez and Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos dedicated to preserving and archiving the urban art found at Pokémon Go Wayspots.

The PokéStop Showcase is up and running. We have Barcelona working! We're really confident this is one of the biggest urban art databases for the city.

@jruizcabrejos.bsky.social

pokestops.perulainen.com/barcelona

Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.

well this made me cry over breakfast. to any democrats holding even a shred of power right now: look at what’s possible from people far more endangered and vulnerable than you and grow a spine, you fucking cowards www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-s...