Anndra
@anndra.bsky.social
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Gael, writer, translator, communist, mapgame obsessive. Glasgow-based He/him/e
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turning off replies and quotes because zionists are already showing up to spew apologia for genocide and I don't want to wake up in 8 hours to find dozens of them filling my interaction tab
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diplomatofnight.com
Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.
Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says
Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons
www.theguardian.com
anndra.bsky.social
even the act of returning bodies of the dead to Palestine is made grotesque - they're unidentifiable, all cuffed and bound, clearly executed by gunshot or being run over by tanks (reported by CNN, so it's even in the pro-zionist outlets). I can't get my head around it!
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every single bit of news that comes out of Palestine makes my heart hurt and makes me boggle at the gleeful cruelty of the occupying colonisers. every permutation of misery is inflicted on these poor people
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not sure if I actually believe this is the case but it would certainly explain a lot lol
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Mechanicus is genuinely pretty good though has some flaws. It's trying to do something that isn't just XCOM though, which puts it above many other tactics games

Battlesector is decent but a bit slow/dry. good at evoking the tabletop though

may I also suggest: demo of Menace, not 40k but great
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the adaptation is bad imo, just terrible UI fighting against the interesting setup of the game
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Mechanicus is the best of those
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saw some English Greens recently bemoaning that the Scottish Greens are 'primarily a secessionist party' (a dubious idea tbh) and wondering if they'll now get annoyed at their own party's leader saying this stuff
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Valiant Hearts: The Great War
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he and the rest of them have been on that trajectory for a decade now
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the great bruenigisation
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Pathologic 3 demo living up to expectations
Screenshot of Pathologic 3 showing a tragedian - a thin black-suited figure with a white mask - highlighted in green with text floating around him. The text reads:

I was lured into a student art performance once

No script and no characters, because "the dictatorship of the author and traditional narrative structures" is "reactionary"

We spoke in random combinations of syllables

Never again
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swingingstorm.bsky.social
So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.
anndra.bsky.social
it had the effect of making me look more kindly on games that normally wouldn't pique my interest at all, because at least they had an actual title and a theme and some sort of art style or whatever. anyway play the demos of Menace and Pathologic 3 which are buried among dozens of desktop idle games
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Steam Next Fest is up and I spent a while scrolling through some of the 3100+ demos to see if any looked good. I'd say a minority - single percentage points - looked like actual games rather than AI cover art scams, and an even smaller number interest me personally
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or rather, he's playing it and I'm sat next to him lol
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yeah I'm playing with Jon (who we played Darktide with)
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you do, my friend
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Up to Day 6 now and he's really Getting It and it's a pleasure to see
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Got a friend visiting me at the moment and we've been spending a good chunk of the visit with him playing through Pathologic 2 for the first time, with minor guidance and major moral support from me. He's loving it and so am I
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this made me laugh so hard when I saw it happen live, and I just showed my friend this edit in person and he had the exact same reaction
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good luck meeting Jo Binterview