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It's been over a year and countless iterations but *finally* I can announce that my Masters thesis project, a historical strategy deckbuilder based on the Late Bronze Age is finally playable!
Requires Tabletop Simulator to play as this is still just a prototype of the eventual game, but enjoy!
Requires Tabletop Simulator to play as this is still just a prototype of the eventual game, but enjoy!
Folks it has happened again
Few things more existentially derailing than a job opening you think you’d be great at and really, really want.
February 3, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Folks it has happened again
As a public Civ 7 Defender I was sort of anxious that the new changes would back away from what made the core game interesting, but I’m actually pretty impressed with how they seem to be folding “playing only one Civ” into the layered strategic decisions of switching civs.
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
As a public Civ 7 Defender I was sort of anxious that the new changes would back away from what made the core game interesting, but I’m actually pretty impressed with how they seem to be folding “playing only one Civ” into the layered strategic decisions of switching civs.
update - it is coming together *very* quickly such that I might have a prototype next week, which is exciting!
god help me I've started another project
January 31, 2026 at 5:57 PM
update - it is coming together *very* quickly such that I might have a prototype next week, which is exciting!
god help me I've started another project
January 28, 2026 at 4:27 PM
god help me I've started another project
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Abolishing ICE and prosecuting its members and leaders for their crimes, without possibility of pardon, seems to me to be a basic condition for any future attempt at a return towards democracy.
January 24, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Abolishing ICE and prosecuting its members and leaders for their crimes, without possibility of pardon, seems to me to be a basic condition for any future attempt at a return towards democracy.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
"I am big, it's the pictures that got small!" - John Berger, Ways of Seeing
January 24, 2026 at 4:13 PM
"I am big, it's the pictures that got small!" - John Berger, Ways of Seeing
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Apropos of Carney invoking it, the phrase "the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must" (from the History of the Peloponnesian War) was not, in its original context, a pithy summation of realpolitik. It's a moment of stark hubris; the Athenians who said that *lost the war.*
January 21, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Apropos of Carney invoking it, the phrase "the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must" (from the History of the Peloponnesian War) was not, in its original context, a pithy summation of realpolitik. It's a moment of stark hubris; the Athenians who said that *lost the war.*
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just like with Hitler there's cowardice--everyone knew that Munich was despicable betrayal--but with Trump there is a related but distinct behavior, to so many elites it is actually incomprehensible that It's Happening Here, Now
at some point you have to see it as a psychological issue. the people who run this country are cowards. the media who reports on them are cowards. they have never been able to face what is happening, they are committed to a project of persuasion: pretend everything is fine and it magically will be!
The president is a mad king threatening war against America’s closest allies because he’s got a psychological fixation on an empty frozen island and a Nobel Peace Prize snub and the best the media or opposition can manage is “Trump changes America’s priorities, perhaps for the worse”
January 20, 2026 at 2:34 PM
just like with Hitler there's cowardice--everyone knew that Munich was despicable betrayal--but with Trump there is a related but distinct behavior, to so many elites it is actually incomprehensible that It's Happening Here, Now
What am I, made of money?
What was your first controller breaking game experience?
Me? Mega Man 2. Wiley's castle. 10 year old me was not up to snuff. I was so angy.
Me? Mega Man 2. Wiley's castle. 10 year old me was not up to snuff. I was so angy.
January 20, 2026 at 1:18 AM
What am I, made of money?
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greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail
January 12, 2026 at 9:34 PM
greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail
Few things more existentially derailing than a job opening you think you’d be great at and really, really want.
January 11, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Few things more existentially derailing than a job opening you think you’d be great at and really, really want.
Playing it again and GOD this game is so good
Finally got a chance to play Brass: Birmingham last night and got to really embrace just how much I am a Numbers Sicko
January 4, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Playing it again and GOD this game is so good
Listening to BLOOD WORK is now mandatory, I don’t make the rules
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
January 3, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Listening to BLOOD WORK is now mandatory, I don’t make the rules
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It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
January 3, 2026 at 7:06 AM
It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
No babe I didn’t forget to do the dishes it’s environmental storytelling
January 2, 2026 at 3:13 PM
No babe I didn’t forget to do the dishes it’s environmental storytelling
Was gifted KCD2 for Christmas and my short pitch for it is that last night I started it up solely to practice my archery. Not to do quests or even because it gives XP, just hang out for a while and practice for my own sake. And it actually helped.
December 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Was gifted KCD2 for Christmas and my short pitch for it is that last night I started it up solely to practice my archery. Not to do quests or even because it gives XP, just hang out for a while and practice for my own sake. And it actually helped.
In which I ramble about Frostpunk 2 and reinvent several narrative wheels alongside people with much more interesting things to say. Thanks again to @yaoibunga.bsky.social for giving me a spot to contribute!
hello. i have posted a collection of other people's Game of the Year lists on my "blog," with contributions by @vogontheater.bsky.social, @dkmode.bsky.social, @psionicwarrior.bsky.social, and several others. please consider reading it.
lotuseater.net/posts/lotusg...
lotuseater.net/posts/lotusg...
GUESTS OF LOTUS EATER 2025 – lotus eater
Do you still trust your friends?
lotuseater.net
December 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
In which I ramble about Frostpunk 2 and reinvent several narrative wheels alongside people with much more interesting things to say. Thanks again to @yaoibunga.bsky.social for giving me a spot to contribute!
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I don't need ChatGPT, I can just type any prompts to these two and I can rely on them to kick me out regardless
December 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I don't need ChatGPT, I can just type any prompts to these two and I can rely on them to kick me out regardless
The best version of this is that early conversation in Disco which loops to:
“Did you take the body down from the tree”
“Mhmm”
“So the body is no longer in the tree”
“Look, man, you know, yeah”
“Does that mean you removed the body from the tree”
“… No.”
“Did you take the body down from the tree”
“Mhmm”
“So the body is no longer in the tree”
“Look, man, you know, yeah”
“Does that mean you removed the body from the tree”
“… No.”
Please…. I’m begging you… if your game has a dialogue choice… and all the answers say the same thing in a different way…. You can just remove the dialogue choice……
December 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The best version of this is that early conversation in Disco which loops to:
“Did you take the body down from the tree”
“Mhmm”
“So the body is no longer in the tree”
“Look, man, you know, yeah”
“Does that mean you removed the body from the tree”
“… No.”
“Did you take the body down from the tree”
“Mhmm”
“So the body is no longer in the tree”
“Look, man, you know, yeah”
“Does that mean you removed the body from the tree”
“… No.”
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"how can this game be goty, it peaked at 30 concurrent steam players" find God.
December 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"how can this game be goty, it peaked at 30 concurrent steam players" find God.
Laid up in bed with plague. Send me some good games discourse. How about NPC playersexuality, haven’t done that in a while.
December 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Laid up in bed with plague. Send me some good games discourse. How about NPC playersexuality, haven’t done that in a while.
Finally got a chance to play Brass: Birmingham last night and got to really embrace just how much I am a Numbers Sicko
December 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Finally got a chance to play Brass: Birmingham last night and got to really embrace just how much I am a Numbers Sicko
I feel like I follow everyone who bought a copy
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I feel like I follow everyone who bought a copy