Jake Nelson
@jakenelson.bsky.social
Ex-politics, retail, games, tokusatsu. Just some guy, I guess?
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credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point
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*chapter 5, not 6.
Tangentially: Star Wars authors love writing about how sabacc works infinitely more than anyone has ever enjoyed reading about how sabacc works.
Tangentially: Star Wars authors love writing about how sabacc works infinitely more than anyone has ever enjoyed reading about how sabacc works.
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
*chapter 5, not 6.
Tangentially: Star Wars authors love writing about how sabacc works infinitely more than anyone has ever enjoyed reading about how sabacc works.
Tangentially: Star Wars authors love writing about how sabacc works infinitely more than anyone has ever enjoyed reading about how sabacc works.
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In case you wondered, there's probably exactly one person who has licked the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
In case you wondered, there's probably exactly one person who has licked the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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Unfortunately you have to primary everyone, not just because they don't have what it takes to fight, but because they don't have what it takes to rebuild. Last thing you want is them to win by default and then tread water until the next Trump comes to power
what the moment calls for is fighters instead of gormless boobs who should have retired 30 years ago. policy differences can be hashed out later, everyone can agree that Musk and Trump must be stopped and democracy restored
“Unlike the Tea Party of 2010, this is not an issue that breaks down cleanly along ideological lines. An insurgency isn’t necessarily going to pull Dems to the left, especially because Dem voters can’t really agree on which ideological direction to take their party.” split-ticket.org/2025/02/21/t...
February 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Unfortunately you have to primary everyone, not just because they don't have what it takes to fight, but because they don't have what it takes to rebuild. Last thing you want is them to win by default and then tread water until the next Trump comes to power
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We’re not doing jar jar revisionism
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We’re not doing jar jar revisionism
It's worth noting that "market economy" and "capitalism" are not synonyms, despite people with every possible political alignment conflating them for the last 400 years.
Just because Capitalism has been hijacked by the billionaires and turned into Oligarchy doesn't mean we have to march towards Communism.
I'd rather burn Capitalism to the ground and start over again, than have Communism.
I'd rather burn Capitalism to the ground and start over again, than have Communism.
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It's worth noting that "market economy" and "capitalism" are not synonyms, despite people with every possible political alignment conflating them for the last 400 years.
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low polyamory
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
low polyamory
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I just think you should be skeptical of someone whose website has more links to "ways to give me money" than it does "things I've done/made"
do you think being "the bad boy of games narrative" gets you into the VIP section at the club
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I just think you should be skeptical of someone whose website has more links to "ways to give me money" than it does "things I've done/made"
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This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
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I know Whip is sort of a fake job in congress but Durbin is the whip so if he isn’t doing schumer's bidding he should resign on principle
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I know Whip is sort of a fake job in congress but Durbin is the whip so if he isn’t doing schumer's bidding he should resign on principle
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People often push the disabled to take risks with our health.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
People often push the disabled to take risks with our health.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
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you realize that powerful people can be ghouls all on their own right
putin isnt magic
putin isnt magic
I mean they also act like they're taking orders from Putin more than half the time; he must have kompromat on dozens of the 'leaders'
the democratic party only really makes sense when you understand that their high dollar donors do not want good things to happen
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
you realize that powerful people can be ghouls all on their own right
putin isnt magic
putin isnt magic
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I don’t think there’s any political cost for a Democrat running for office to just completely and explicitly and repeatedly saying fuck Chuck Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I don’t think there’s any political cost for a Democrat running for office to just completely and explicitly and repeatedly saying fuck Chuck Schumer
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We're all talking about Vivi catching the long expected ban, but more importantly to me as someone who has been matched up with a billion of them...SCREAMING NEMESIS, I WILL NOT MISS YOU.
ANNNNNNND he's banned. magic.wizards.com/en/news/anno...
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We're all talking about Vivi catching the long expected ban, but more importantly to me as someone who has been matched up with a billion of them...SCREAMING NEMESIS, I WILL NOT MISS YOU.
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Lol
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Lol
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Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
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its cool how two of the biggest tech companies are also the global leader in enabling scams (Meta) and the global leader in fencing stolen goods and selling counterfeit ones (Amazon)
If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
its cool how two of the biggest tech companies are also the global leader in enabling scams (Meta) and the global leader in fencing stolen goods and selling counterfeit ones (Amazon)
I think most people of the qualm-having variety probably would have bailed way back at "condemned by the UN for giving material assistance to a genocide", if there were any left by that point
If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I think most people of the qualm-having variety probably would have bailed way back at "condemned by the UN for giving material assistance to a genocide", if there were any left by that point
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its especially humiliating for the Cave Caucus that he's not even trying to pretend that he might do this.
US HOUSE SPEAKER JOHNSON SAID HE WON'T COMMIT TO A VOTE ON ACA SUBSIDIES, I'M TOLD – SEMOFAR REPORTER ON X
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
its especially humiliating for the Cave Caucus that he's not even trying to pretend that he might do this.
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I just dropped the only copy of my autobiography into a vat of glue. That’s my story & I’m sticking to it
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I just dropped the only copy of my autobiography into a vat of glue. That’s my story & I’m sticking to it
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I am still in the process of reading this and probably won't finish before I have to leave for work, but so far it's very interesting though only parts of it align with my views at all and there's a bunch of bits I want to tease out and do a lengthy response to at some point
YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT! I HAVE WRITTEN A NEW ARTICLE!
this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like:
docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like:
docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
some loosely organized thoughts about dialogue sysin games
think of this as me trying to find out what parts of dialogue choices are load bearing game design and what else can be done with dialogue.
docseuss.medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I am still in the process of reading this and probably won't finish before I have to leave for work, but so far it's very interesting though only parts of it align with my views at all and there's a bunch of bits I want to tease out and do a lengthy response to at some point
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In ttrpg's, there's a constant problem of that one fucking guy who keeps trying to make a character who refuses to adventure.
Everyone else is set to play and he's like "my character would not trust these people, and refuse to join their party"
Everyone else is set to play and he's like "my character would not trust these people, and refuse to join their party"
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
In ttrpg's, there's a constant problem of that one fucking guy who keeps trying to make a character who refuses to adventure.
Everyone else is set to play and he's like "my character would not trust these people, and refuse to join their party"
Everyone else is set to play and he's like "my character would not trust these people, and refuse to join their party"
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