I am tired of scrolling through YouTube shorts and seeing beefy conspiratorial clowns declare cooked food and vaccines and the very presence of a foreign person to be anathema to their delusional vision of a perfect, homogenous, walled-off society.

We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually.

currently the whole table im at has been excitedly talking about the expansion and its design diaries for the past half hour!!!! i cant wait to see it

the arc campaign is absolutely fantastic; oath feels like if arc never ends

anyway i think i want to make board games like oath forever

i wonder if this difference in finding out about designers is just as much generational as it is anything else — maybe i'm naive but i feel like the 00s saw more of a discussion of designers AS designers / auteurs over designers as tiny names in the credits of corporations

that's fascinating to me. i'm pretty sure for me it was jenna moran or avery alder

Finally, @xoe.gay 's Persuasion. There are a lot of Jane Austen games out there, but for me, this is the only one that really feels like it understands the books, that has any bite to it, and that feels like it's interested in people. It's a remarkable game.

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