Tin Star Games
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Game publisher run by game designer Steve Dee. Sydney, Australia. Social media is the problem but I need promotional streams to get games to people.
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Instead of "X person is a great game designer" there was a lot of ✨Black Excellence✨ talk. Which meant that sometimes the connections you made were not because *you* were good at what you did, but because someone needed to fill their Infinity PoC gauntlet with a palatable Black person. Palatable.
December 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Instead of "X person is a great game designer" there was a lot of ✨Black Excellence✨ talk. Which meant that sometimes the connections you made were not because *you* were good at what you did, but because someone needed to fill their Infinity PoC gauntlet with a palatable Black person. Palatable.
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December 31, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Hey nerdy nerds and gamers. The Steve's brainmeats are now for sale as a service. Sign up to my Patreon and you get
- weekly blogs
- game design school
- a digital game every month
- behind the scenes access and playtest versions
www.patreon.com/c/tinstargames
- weekly blogs
- game design school
- a digital game every month
- behind the scenes access and playtest versions
www.patreon.com/c/tinstargames
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The constitutional remedy for a president who uses collective punishment against people for the crimes of a few is impeachment, removal, and disqualification, followed by a criminal trial.
BREAKING
The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.
Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.
Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
December 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The constitutional remedy for a president who uses collective punishment against people for the crimes of a few is impeachment, removal, and disqualification, followed by a criminal trial.
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
December 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
Some folks call it blended colours, others call it smoky shading, but you know - sfumayto, smufato
December 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Some folks call it blended colours, others call it smoky shading, but you know - sfumayto, smufato
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"while the constitution provides for a navy and army, it provides no grant of authority to create an air force. In this essay I will"
December 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
"while the constitution provides for a navy and army, it provides no grant of authority to create an air force. In this essay I will"
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A lot of people are trying to justify their own desire to surrender to Trump early in the year
I am annoyed by the persistence of 'resist libs are tired of resisting Trump' line.
No Kings put record-breaking numbers of people into the streets, specials/off-years are at D+10 or more.
I don't think the resist libs are tired. I think some writers are tired of writing about resist libs.
No Kings put record-breaking numbers of people into the streets, specials/off-years are at D+10 or more.
I don't think the resist libs are tired. I think some writers are tired of writing about resist libs.
December 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A lot of people are trying to justify their own desire to surrender to Trump early in the year
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live."
Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior
Having basic needs met is a huge factor in determining health
If everyone had shelter, food, healthcare & a basic income…society would be healthier
Instead the billionaires & corporations hoard wealth and blame us when we become disabled or homeless
Poverty is a policy choice. Not a moral failing
If everyone had shelter, food, healthcare & a basic income…society would be healthier
Instead the billionaires & corporations hoard wealth and blame us when we become disabled or homeless
Poverty is a policy choice. Not a moral failing
December 30, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live."
Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior
Did the X-Men ever try to get around mutant registration laws by simply declaring mutant powers to be arms, and thus not to be infringed?
December 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Did the X-Men ever try to get around mutant registration laws by simply declaring mutant powers to be arms, and thus not to be infringed?
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They gave Balatro an 18+ only rating because it had poker cards in it.
Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.
Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.
Just had to check
December 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They gave Balatro an 18+ only rating because it had poker cards in it.
Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.
Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.
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on account of my bad mood I would like to announce that until further notice, everything sucks
December 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
on account of my bad mood I would like to announce that until further notice, everything sucks
Miles O'Fryin
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek Themed Restaurant.
What are you calling it?
What are you calling it?
ncc-1701-g is written on the side of a spaceship
ALT: ncc-1701-g is written on the side of a spaceship
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December 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Miles O'Fryin
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How I'm walking out of 2025
December 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
How I'm walking out of 2025
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For Hayley Williams' birthday, twenty Buffy RPG plots from her album Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
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20 Buffy plots from Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
Happy birthday to Hayley Williams! Her new album Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party (content note: swears) contains several tracks that I wo...
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December 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
For Hayley Williams' birthday, twenty Buffy RPG plots from her album Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
thewatchhouserpg.blogspot.com/2025/12/20-b...
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He lies, he blames the reader, then he blames bsky for not banning the "trolls", then feels righteous because people are yelling at him.
Reminder when you're arguing with this dude, he will just straight up lie about things he's said in the past.
December 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
He lies, he blames the reader, then he blames bsky for not banning the "trolls", then feels righteous because people are yelling at him.
Stupidity this enormous and this toxic deforms the world around it and makes everything harder.
mutual aid is an entirely privatized system
December 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Stupidity this enormous and this toxic deforms the world around it and makes everything harder.
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in lots of contexts they have the same meaning, but in this specific context where the whole point is to distinguish private charity from a socialist mutual aid group it clearly has utility.
Going “nuh uh” I refuse to use your vocab so we’ll just talk in circles for days is not very fruitful
Going “nuh uh” I refuse to use your vocab so we’ll just talk in circles for days is not very fruitful
December 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
in lots of contexts they have the same meaning, but in this specific context where the whole point is to distinguish private charity from a socialist mutual aid group it clearly has utility.
Going “nuh uh” I refuse to use your vocab so we’ll just talk in circles for days is not very fruitful
Going “nuh uh” I refuse to use your vocab so we’ll just talk in circles for days is not very fruitful
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Misunderstanding "private individuals" as synonymous with "privatized enterprise" is one of those mistakes that would get Will laughed out of the social club he's so desperate to get into.
December 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Misunderstanding "private individuals" as synonymous with "privatized enterprise" is one of those mistakes that would get Will laughed out of the social club he's so desperate to get into.
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There you go, I hope you understand the difference now, and that you look up what "privatization" actually is, since Will doesn't know but is happy to use the word to demonize good things.
December 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
There you go, I hope you understand the difference now, and that you look up what "privatization" actually is, since Will doesn't know but is happy to use the word to demonize good things.
As others said in the replies, this happens in marketing-speak, and occasionally I see artists and creators internalise marketing so hard they think it is real. Do I think straight white dudes are suffering? No. Have I wanted to punch someone who told me to "write my disability"? Fuck yes.
This shit is made up, actually
December 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As others said in the replies, this happens in marketing-speak, and occasionally I see artists and creators internalise marketing so hard they think it is real. Do I think straight white dudes are suffering? No. Have I wanted to punch someone who told me to "write my disability"? Fuck yes.
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You’re almost never going to outcompete a dishwasher in efficiency — it reuses water, does a better job at cleaning, saves time. One of the biggest W’s in the history of technology.
People who want to get morally superior about how they hand-wash everything really gotta reckon with the fact that machine dish-washing uses considerably LESS water and emits considerably fewer greenhouse emissions than standard handwashing practices do.
(And you save a lot of time...)
(And you save a lot of time...)
December 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
You’re almost never going to outcompete a dishwasher in efficiency — it reuses water, does a better job at cleaning, saves time. One of the biggest W’s in the history of technology.
The interesting thing about this argument that "if you give things to voters to vote for you, a billionaire will just out spend you to get elected" is that no billionaire has ever actually done this. They deal in pork, of course, but nobody has ever given everyone in Chicago a house.
The problem is that whatever you want to offer, they can offer more of it, or something better.
Musk has literally been offering million dollar lottery tickets to people who vote for his preferred candidates. If he was handing out free tampons to poor people instead, then yeah, I'd call that a step up.
But, sure, I'm all for getting rid of billionaires entirely. Let's do that.
But, sure, I'm all for getting rid of billionaires entirely. Let's do that.
December 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The interesting thing about this argument that "if you give things to voters to vote for you, a billionaire will just out spend you to get elected" is that no billionaire has ever actually done this. They deal in pork, of course, but nobody has ever given everyone in Chicago a house.