Hi, I spent 10+ years researching all sorts of PC RPGs: AAAs, indies, RPG Maker, non-English, etc. Together with 167 volunteers, I created/edited The CRPG Book: crpgbook.wordpress.com

You can download it for free, or buy a hardcover edition from Bitmap Books - ALL author's revenue goes to charity!❤️

please help out oomf by rting and donating! Their account is now in the red

one of my favorite "SOCIETY" things is this 2018 cover of the news magazine The Atlantic, written by mealy-mouthed bigot Jesse Singal, where a moral panic about us transgender people is front and center, and in TINY little print in the top right, "We're Not Prepared for the Next Pandemic"

@kodansha.us confirms Kuzushiro's disability and queer rep story, The Moon on A Rainy Night will be getting an anime adaptation!

It‘s also used in Dutch specifically for Indonesian grocery stores, and it is used in Papiamento and languages of Suriname - a truly global word!
Another word for store in Tetum is ‘loja,’ from Portuguese.

A frequent word in Southeast Asian languages - from Malay to Tetum - is 'toko' ('store'). Is this from Japanese toko(ro) 所 ('place')? Nah. Rather, it's from Hokkien thó͘-khò͘ 土庫 ('warehouse'), as in the famous Toko Lay 黎土庫 in Dili, Timor-Leste. 😀

brand new diner serves coke the normal way

People are forever posting photos like "what breed of rabbit is this?" and the answer is always "bunny."

In 2016 it was acceptable to think that Trump’s people were clever instead of making things up as they went along, but we lived through four years of what they looked like in power and we can say confidently that there’s no grand plan here. Stop acting like there is.

"GL’s [Giustizia e Libertà] activists, driven by their desire for action, established a close-knit network of clandestine contacts, disseminated political propaganda, secretly circulated banned books and leaflets, and carried out symbolic protests and gestures."

Today's the day the Nazi who bought Twitter begins farming content for AI bullshit.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Heute geht es weiter mit unserer Blogpost-Reihe zum Verhältnis von Politischer Theorie und Ideengeschichte: Imadé Aigbobo plädiert dafür, Theoriebildung als Mittel zu betrachten, fragwürdige Kanon-Entscheidungen zu hinterfragen und Rezeptionsblockaden aufzulösen.
www.theorieblog.de/index.php/20...

On the daily doomscroll and skimmed an ad to help you "become fluent in dialects" and thought it said "become fluent in dialectics." So that's where my head is at this morning.

Though that old apocryphal curse might be "may you live in interesting times" we unfortunately cannot even stake a claim to being so lucky, for we merely live in exceptionally and fundamentally stupid times.

Happy 128th birthday, dear Roman! 🥳

"If we wanted to characterise briefly the kind of thinking currently governing science in its most varied manifestations, we could not find a more fitting expression than structuralism."

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p...

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

In light of the technowhiteness of the incoming administration, I recommend we all read @jordanscarroll.bsky.social's 'Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right.' An insightful review by Jessica Maginity at the 'Los Angeles Review of Books': lareviewofbooks.org/article/whos...

they should add a feature where fake accounts will interact with your post and make you feel held