Dia Lacina
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Dia Lacina
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· Oct 11
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Sup, I'm Dia. If you're new here...
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Sup, I'm Dia. If you're new here...
I write about games: www.pastemagazine.com/author/dia-l...
I do Let's Plays of neat games (often with friends):
www.youtube.com/@dialacina
And you can support my work (and get exclusive stuff) here:
www.patreon.com/dialacina
Reading back through Paulina Borsook's fantastic profile of Tom Jennings nearly 30 years later is such a trip. I remember immediately stuffing the magazine in my backpack as soon as I checked the mail bc of the faux salacious extremely 90s net culture cover story and fear of The Parentals' reaction.
here's the issue: archive.org/details/wire... LMAO one of these things is not like the other i love being alive
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Reading back through Paulina Borsook's fantastic profile of Tom Jennings nearly 30 years later is such a trip. I remember immediately stuffing the magazine in my backpack as soon as I checked the mail bc of the faux salacious extremely 90s net culture cover story and fear of The Parentals' reaction.
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old walter b shows up at one point, as does a dive into atavistic, embodied play. you can hear me getting very close to talking about the erotics of gambling and coin flips, but this is only episode 16 of side story. come see us in two years and we'll be way out in the joyful weeds
we are ON ONE in this week's episode of Side Story as we talk about the summer of the coin and anthology of the killer sidestory.show/16-paradise-...
Side Story: 16: Paradise Honk
Between the barter system and the coin, there were other currencies. Cyrus the Great's Achaemenid Empire, which would one day stretchout from the Iranian plateau as far west as Egypt and north as the ...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
old walter b shows up at one point, as does a dive into atavistic, embodied play. you can hear me getting very close to talking about the erotics of gambling and coin flips, but this is only episode 16 of side story. come see us in two years and we'll be way out in the joyful weeds
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this is probably only of interest to net history freaks like me but i cannot BELIEVE that the april 1996 issue of WIRED, where tom jennings is interviewed in one of my favorite pieces ("the anarchist" by paulina borsook) is the SAME ISSUE that has a sherry turkle cover story omg lmaooo
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
this is probably only of interest to net history freaks like me but i cannot BELIEVE that the april 1996 issue of WIRED, where tom jennings is interviewed in one of my favorite pieces ("the anarchist" by paulina borsook) is the SAME ISSUE that has a sherry turkle cover story omg lmaooo
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here's the issue: archive.org/details/wire... LMAO one of these things is not like the other i love being alive
November 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
here's the issue: archive.org/details/wire... LMAO one of these things is not like the other i love being alive
I would bring back Czechoslovakia for the new one. And have Bond be like "Wtf how did Czechoslovakia come back together?" And M would be like "we put you back together and that was like so many more pieces." And then he'd go "Didn't I used to be white?" And everyone would look around awkwardly.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
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Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I would bring back Czechoslovakia for the new one. And have Bond be like "Wtf how did Czechoslovakia come back together?" And M would be like "we put you back together and that was like so many more pieces." And then he'd go "Didn't I used to be white?" And everyone would look around awkwardly.
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OBSESSED with this file on the king's field 2 press disk
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
OBSESSED with this file on the king's field 2 press disk
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Eliza Haywood 😁
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Eliza Haywood 😁
Jane Austen could never write The Last Man.
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Jane Austen could never write The Last Man.
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Reminds me of how sick the art in the Japanese D&D rulebooks are.
Seeing another culture viewing something through their own lens is so cool to me for some reason.
Seeing another culture viewing something through their own lens is so cool to me for some reason.
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Reminds me of how sick the art in the Japanese D&D rulebooks are.
Seeing another culture viewing something through their own lens is so cool to me for some reason.
Seeing another culture viewing something through their own lens is so cool to me for some reason.
Start throwing punches then.
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Start throwing punches then.
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A new Block Busters for all $5+ patrons, we watched House of Flying Daggers and talk about ~20 other movies that aren’t House of Flying Daggers. This pod was a riot, I hope you enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/block-...
Block Busters 53: House of Flying Daggers | Abnormal Mapping
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November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A new Block Busters for all $5+ patrons, we watched House of Flying Daggers and talk about ~20 other movies that aren’t House of Flying Daggers. This pod was a riot, I hope you enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/block-...
If you're not calling for the safe bitch senators who voted yes to be tarred and feathered and carried in a cart then fuck you, you ain't shit.
1. We need to fight hard for a good ACA extension early in December and hold Republicans fiercely accountable if they betray everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
If you're not calling for the safe bitch senators who voted yes to be tarred and feathered and carried in a cart then fuck you, you ain't shit.
I like Civ because it's the only one of those that doesn't look like it's going to call me a racial slur right off the bat.
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I like Civ because it's the only one of those that doesn't look like it's going to call me a racial slur right off the bat.
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it is my birthday next week and this has sadly been the worst year of my life due to ongoing tragic family circumstances, so i made a birthday gift list; i'm getting back into physical books and if you'd like to help me fill out my shelves you can: www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/...
Check out my list on Amazon
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November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
it is my birthday next week and this has sadly been the worst year of my life due to ongoing tragic family circumstances, so i made a birthday gift list; i'm getting back into physical books and if you'd like to help me fill out my shelves you can: www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/...
Wait... Which ones are the amoral vacuous shitgoblins?
it's almost as if you shouldn't and can't negotiate with completely amoral vacuous shitgoblins
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Wait... Which ones are the amoral vacuous shitgoblins?
I just saw people posting gym selfies with "join the swoletariat" and America cannot die fast enough.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I just saw people posting gym selfies with "join the swoletariat" and America cannot die fast enough.
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i have not watched GDT's Frankenstein but i am firm in my belief that it needs a tie-in adventure/fighting game like the 90s Kenneth Branagh one did on the Sega CD. and they need to keep in elizabeth's roll attack
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
i have not watched GDT's Frankenstein but i am firm in my belief that it needs a tie-in adventure/fighting game like the 90s Kenneth Branagh one did on the Sega CD. and they need to keep in elizabeth's roll attack
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This 2003 Gamefaqs guide for Illbleed has A Lot going on
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This 2003 Gamefaqs guide for Illbleed has A Lot going on
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[Persuasion] What do you think about dialogue choices in games? I’m interested in your opinion.
[Failed] Maybe some other time. For now, focus on getting the key to that warehouse.
[Failed] Maybe some other time. For now, focus on getting the key to that warehouse.
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
[Persuasion] What do you think about dialogue choices in games? I’m interested in your opinion.
[Failed] Maybe some other time. For now, focus on getting the key to that warehouse.
[Failed] Maybe some other time. For now, focus on getting the key to that warehouse.
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When directions fail in the heat of the moment - as they often did on virtual television adventure game Knightmare!
Ooh, nasty~
Broadcast between 1987-1994 in the UK (with French and Spanish adaptations) Knightmare pitted a team of kids to guide a friend through a perilous dungeon.
#VideoBytes
Ooh, nasty~
Broadcast between 1987-1994 in the UK (with French and Spanish adaptations) Knightmare pitted a team of kids to guide a friend through a perilous dungeon.
#VideoBytes
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
When directions fail in the heat of the moment - as they often did on virtual television adventure game Knightmare!
Ooh, nasty~
Broadcast between 1987-1994 in the UK (with French and Spanish adaptations) Knightmare pitted a team of kids to guide a friend through a perilous dungeon.
#VideoBytes
Ooh, nasty~
Broadcast between 1987-1994 in the UK (with French and Spanish adaptations) Knightmare pitted a team of kids to guide a friend through a perilous dungeon.
#VideoBytes
The important thing is you don't need to make your dialogue choices look like this
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The important thing is you don't need to make your dialogue choices look like this
When I was writing my first professional game, I got advice from very important and brilliant narrative designers that they repeated to me whenever I began crashing out...
"The player only needs to believe the dialogue choices go to different places."
"The player only needs to believe the dialogue choices go to different places."
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
When I was writing my first professional game, I got advice from very important and brilliant narrative designers that they repeated to me whenever I began crashing out...
"The player only needs to believe the dialogue choices go to different places."
"The player only needs to believe the dialogue choices go to different places."
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A brief defence of dialogue choices (286 words):
A brief defence of dialogue choices
In games, the player needs to have something to do.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A brief defence of dialogue choices (286 words):