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Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · 3h

יצירת מופת, אבל עלול להיות קשוח לצפיה בראש צלול.

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Tyler Parker @codebycandle.bsky.social · 9h

#gamedev
have a #unity dev buddy looking to make leap to #godot

to aid those considering similar:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L71...

also, my fave #udemy tut thus far for fellow #csharp nerds:
www.udemy.com/course/godot...

Godot For Unity Developers

YouTube video by Gamefromscratch

www.youtube.com

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Aviv Icel 🔱 Try GODFLESH @icel.me · 9h

First look at visual development for Godflesh – our mythic fantasy TTRPG where gods are monstrous entities and their remains become the materials that make civilisation possible.

These are from our initial month working with artist @ronamis_ establishing…

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Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · 9h

אה, כן. היופמיזם המוכר לעגבניות במלח - ״״״מלפפונים בחומץ״״״ 😉😉😉

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Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · 9h

זה בבירור ״מלפפונים בחומץ״, כלומר לא מלפפונים ולא חומץ.

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Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · 9h

I misread 🤦‍♂️

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Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · 9h

This is her opinion AFTER speaking to her grandfather, the Holocaust survivor.

When Katie Lam was a teenager, she would sometimes debate immigration with her 90-year-old grandfather. The usual political age dynamic did not apply. Her grandfather, whose extended Dutch Jewish family died in Sobibor and Auschwitz, favoured open borders. Lam drew the opposite conclusion from their history: that it was essential to conserve what was precious about Britain by restricting who came here.
“Even as a teenager,” she recalls. “I was like, ‘Grandpa, this is nuts, where is everybody going to live?’”
Twenty years later, Lam’s views on immigration have hardened further. And she may yet have a chance to put them into practice.

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Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · 9h

I don't know if Katie Lam's position meets your definition of robust, but definitely a challenge.

Much like Jenrick, Lam has been accused of shifting with the prevailing winds on issues of identity and immigration. She certainly shares his unsentimental toughness on the subject. “Everybody who’s in this country illegally I think needs to go home,” she says. Indefinite leave to remain is off the table, too. “There are also a large number of people in this country who came here legally, but in effect shouldn’t have been able to do so. It’s not the fault of the individuals who came here, they just shouldn’t have been able to do so. They will also need to go home. What that will leave is a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people.”

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Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · 11h

While you’re here, try our TTRPG about consuming the flesh of dead gods to gain their power, from @zeroprep.io

bsky.app/profile/jono...

Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · May 22

ICYMI!

Godflesh: Cycle of Inheritance, an RPG about leaving order and civilization behind and venturing into the Wildlands in pursuit of the dead flesh of fallen deities, has a public playtest!

@icel.me worked super hard on this, and we can't wait to hear your feedback!

zeroprep.io/gfplaytest

Godflesh: Cycle of Inheritance – The Public Playtest 🎲 - Zero Prep Games's Ko-fi Shop

In the shadow of fallen gods, a new cycle of divinity awaits... The Chrysalis Quickstart packet invites you to ascend to goodhood in a realm where di...

zeroprep.io

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Aviv Icel 🔱 Try GODFLESH @icel.me · 12h

Really excited to share what we've been building with Mikhail over the past month. Watching abstract concepts transform into actual visual language has been incredible – seeing the world of Godflesh take shape beyond the rules and playtest notes.

Zero Prep Games @zeroprep.io · 12h

We've been playtesting Godflesh for months, but rules alone don't make a world feel real. So we brought in artist @ronamis.bsky.social to start visual development – translating divine corruption, supernatural materials, and mythic architecture from concepts into concrete images.

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Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · 11h

The link was not, in fact, in the bio, but it will be momentarily, and there is a pinned post.

Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · May 22

ICYMI!

Godflesh: Cycle of Inheritance, an RPG about leaving order and civilization behind and venturing into the Wildlands in pursuit of the dead flesh of fallen deities, has a public playtest!

@icel.me worked super hard on this, and we can't wait to hear your feedback!

zeroprep.io/gfplaytest

Godflesh: Cycle of Inheritance – The Public Playtest 🎲 - Zero Prep Games's Ko-fi Shop

In the shadow of fallen gods, a new cycle of divinity awaits... The Chrysalis Quickstart packet invites you to ascend to goodhood in a realm where di...

zeroprep.io

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Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · 11h

“Dine trying”, LOL

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Mikhail Malkin @ronamis.bsky.social · 11h

Take a look behind the scenes of what we are cooking with Zero Prep Games.
The Cycle of Inheritance can't be broken! Became a God or dine trying.

Zero Prep Games @zeroprep.io · 12h

We've been playtesting Godflesh for months, but rules alone don't make a world feel real. So we brought in artist @ronamis.bsky.social to start visual development – translating divine corruption, supernatural materials, and mythic architecture from concepts into concrete images.

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Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · 11h

It’s eye opening to see a talented artist take a stab at visualizing this rich world that Aviv created; try the Godflesh RPG playtest - link in bio! (it doesn’t have the art yet, but you can see it take shape here!)

Zero Prep Games @zeroprep.io · 12h

We've been playtesting Godflesh for months, but rules alone don't make a world feel real. So we brought in artist @ronamis.bsky.social to start visual development – translating divine corruption, supernatural materials, and mythic architecture from concepts into concrete images.

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Kessu @kessuburd.bsky.social · Sep 15

I think about this post every single time I'm stuck at work when it's rainy or snowing.

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Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · 12h

French Justice Minister: “Louvre heist creates ‘terrible image’ of France”

The terrible image:

A photo of three French gendarmes leaning on a police car in an alley, and next to them a Fabulously Dressed Gentleman who is _clearly_ the star of a heist movie, wearing a dark coat over a bright gold jacket and waistcoat, holding an umbrella and a casually tipped fedora.

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Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · 13h

כמו כן - ניתוק חובות הוא לא ארוע סופי. לא חשוב איך אני יודע. 🫣

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Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · 13h

אבל לא כולם יוזמים אותו, והוא קורה לבד אחרי… 5 שנים? אז הנתונים חמש שנים אחורה לא היו תקפים.

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Nucleus Dawn @nucleusdawn.bsky.social · 14h

לעיתים אני מציץ במשחקים הצפויים לצאת בסטים, כדי לראות אם יש משהו מעניין שמגיע בקרוב וכדאי שאכיר. היום נתקלתי בכמות בלתי סבירה של משחקים מעניינים שהולכים לצאת עד סוף החודש, אז חשבתי שיהיה נחמד לרכז אותם בשרשור ואולי בעתיד לראות מי מהם יצא מוצלח.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 1d

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 14h

Making retro DOS gaming simple - the standalone DOSBox Pure Unleashed is out now
#DOSBox #DOSBoxPure #Retro #Gaming #RetroGaming #OpenSource

Making retro DOS gaming simple - the standalone DOSBox Pure Unleashed is out now

DOSBox Pure Unleashed is a standalone fork of the classic DOSBox to run DOS games on modern systems, based on the libretro core.

www.gamingonlinux.com

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Draculaura E. Hall 🎃 @lauraehall.bsky.social · 1d

Still the greatest endorsement of all time

A sign reading "I have not read this Katamari book, and also I don't remember 100% what I told to L.E. Hall in the interviews. But I would recommend this book irresponsibly." -Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy

The cover of Katamari Damacy by L.E. Hall, from Boss Fight Books. It shows a penguin being menaced by a giant sticky ball of tape

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oli @olil.bsky.social · 16h

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

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Jono Barel - Try GodfleshRPG @jonobarel.bsky.social · 15h

“The purpose of the system is what it does”

KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 15h

I have to fill in a US tax form, an experience which rarely if ever leads to positive feelings towards the IRS. Or the US. Or life.

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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