Richard T. Balsley
@richardtbalsley.bsky.social
Game designer; library worker; writer; cat, coffee, and book lover. I also make crossword puzzles and teach game design. Disabled vet with dysgraphia. Games are how I smuggle in education.
This helps seal the defense of my dissertation.
November 18, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This helps seal the defense of my dissertation.
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An ICE agent carrying an AR-15 stole a U.S. citizen’s car keys and wallet, then abandoned her vehicle in the middle of Portland Road NE and Ward Drive NE in Salem, Oregon.
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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After completing the dissertation for the Genres of Power, my next trick is to do another one on gamer as hero.
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
After completing the dissertation for the Genres of Power, my next trick is to do another one on gamer as hero.
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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Bad night for sexual assaulters all around
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Bad night for sexual assaulters all around
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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Spotted on The Mall this morning 💀
September 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Spotted on The Mall this morning 💀
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WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
July 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
with a bit of time off, I plotted out the key sequences of 5 novels in 24 hours. With one other already completed, that's the first half of a series.
July 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
with a bit of time off, I plotted out the key sequences of 5 novels in 24 hours. With one other already completed, that's the first half of a series.
Apparently there's no standard format for a PhD dissertation.
June 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Apparently there's no standard format for a PhD dissertation.
This is the state of my PhD thesis. These are 4x6 cards for the quotes I've pulled so far. I'm starting on my 27th book. The craft paint bottle is for scale.
June 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This is the state of my PhD thesis. These are 4x6 cards for the quotes I've pulled so far. I'm starting on my 27th book. The craft paint bottle is for scale.
Been busy parsing Foucault's: "Madness & Civilization." I think I burned through almost 200 index cards.
June 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Been busy parsing Foucault's: "Madness & Civilization." I think I burned through almost 200 index cards.
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Part of my thesis is on how power is a social grammar.
March 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Part of my thesis is on how power is a social grammar.
I went through a pack of index cards for my research in a week.
February 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I went through a pack of index cards for my research in a week.
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Dear Members of our Armed Forces: This is how this administration "Thanks you for your services."
They're not "strong on defense."
They're a bunch of rich boys who love playing soldier with other people's blood.
And you and your lives mean nothing to them.
They're not "strong on defense."
They're a bunch of rich boys who love playing soldier with other people's blood.
And you and your lives mean nothing to them.
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice www.nbcnews.com/politics/don... via @nbcnews Disgusting
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Dear Members of our Armed Forces: This is how this administration "Thanks you for your services."
They're not "strong on defense."
They're a bunch of rich boys who love playing soldier with other people's blood.
And you and your lives mean nothing to them.
They're not "strong on defense."
They're a bunch of rich boys who love playing soldier with other people's blood.
And you and your lives mean nothing to them.
Stack on the left is what I've pulled from Wittgenstein. The right is an unopened pack of index cards for scale. I'm just over halfway through the book.
February 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Stack on the left is what I've pulled from Wittgenstein. The right is an unopened pack of index cards for scale. I'm just over halfway through the book.
According to Wittgenstein, the core issue most at fault is the human assumption that "images and experiences of all sorts...must be present in our mind at the same time." 1/3
January 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
According to Wittgenstein, the core issue most at fault is the human assumption that "images and experiences of all sorts...must be present in our mind at the same time." 1/3
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This will be a real thing IF Rogue Genius Games gets enough interest in the crowdfunding! The BIGGEST part of that is getting word out ... so here's my challenge to you, my friends: Help the project get 200 clicks the "I'm interested" button on the pre-launch page.
www.tinyurl.com/cardgametrump
www.tinyurl.com/cardgametrump
January 16, 2025 at 4:23 AM
This will be a real thing IF Rogue Genius Games gets enough interest in the crowdfunding! The BIGGEST part of that is getting word out ... so here's my challenge to you, my friends: Help the project get 200 clicks the "I'm interested" button on the pre-launch page.
www.tinyurl.com/cardgametrump
www.tinyurl.com/cardgametrump
"Supposing we asked: 'How can one *imagine* what does not exist?' The answer seems to be: 'If we do, we imagine non-existent combinations of existing elements.'" Here, Wittgenstein follows up with a centaur as an example. And so it is with the iconography for the trappings of power.
January 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"Supposing we asked: 'How can one *imagine* what does not exist?' The answer seems to be: 'If we do, we imagine non-existent combinations of existing elements.'" Here, Wittgenstein follows up with a centaur as an example. And so it is with the iconography for the trappings of power.
Per Wittgenstein, the "obvious, and correct, answer to yhr question 'What makes a portrait the portrait of so-and-so?' Is that it is the *intention*." This is agency in its ascent form.
January 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Per Wittgenstein, the "obvious, and correct, answer to yhr question 'What makes a portrait the portrait of so-and-so?' Is that it is the *intention*." This is agency in its ascent form.
This happened, but it dropped to 59. Not fun.
January 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
This happened, but it dropped to 59. Not fun.
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🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I share this from my own RPG. It predates 5e and modern designs by 11 years. Either I know a thing or two about games or I have mo clue what I'm doing.
January 9, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I share this from my own RPG. It predates 5e and modern designs by 11 years. Either I know a thing or two about games or I have mo clue what I'm doing.