Troy Goodfellow
@troyg.bsky.social
PR Manager for Historical Strategy Games at Paradox Interactive. Former podcaster, former games critic.
Mostly happy, always worried.
Ontario, Canada
https://linktr.ee/troygoodfellow
Mostly happy, always worried.
Ontario, Canada
https://linktr.ee/troygoodfellow
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"Starting this year the so-called 'media traffic apocalypse' caused by Google's pivot to AI search has cut our ad revenue by 70%. Prior to that, Facebook and X's deprioritization of links hurt too, but I can't downplay the brutal impact of AI Overview."
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"Starting this year the so-called 'media traffic apocalypse' caused by Google's pivot to AI search has cut our ad revenue by 70%. Prior to that, Facebook and X's deprioritization of links hurt too, but I can't downplay the brutal impact of AI Overview."
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they were called "MMOs" once and you found success through lots of single-player content, deep systems appealing to both singletons and groups, support for guild drama, and customer service that wasn't akin to getting a root canal, none of which seems to have made the transition to "live service"
How on earth do you find lasting, meaningful success with a live-service game? Developers answer the "billion dollar question". https://bit.ly/47xnpSv
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
they were called "MMOs" once and you found success through lots of single-player content, deep systems appealing to both singletons and groups, support for guild drama, and customer service that wasn't akin to getting a root canal, none of which seems to have made the transition to "live service"
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Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
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NATO counters
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
NATO counters
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the drummer, Barry Keane, is also the drummer on "OK Blue Jays," on Anne Murray's top-selling album "Let's Keep It That Way" ("You Needed Me"), and oh yeah on Shania Twain's demo tape that got her the Mercury Nashville contract in 1992
today I learned the released version of the song was take one, the first time the band ever actually played the song, and the drummer had never heard it before? unreal
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago today. The next year, the singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot chronicled the tragedy in an unlikely hit single.
Read about how ↓
Read about how ↓
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
the drummer, Barry Keane, is also the drummer on "OK Blue Jays," on Anne Murray's top-selling album "Let's Keep It That Way" ("You Needed Me"), and oh yeah on Shania Twain's demo tape that got her the Mercury Nashville contract in 1992
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
Happy Monday. LinkedIn is telling me I should follow Mark Carney on their platform.
I already follow him here and he is in my face all the time telling me that things will be better if we do less.
I will learn nothing new on LinkedIn, the site where I read and delete invitations once a month.
I already follow him here and he is in my face all the time telling me that things will be better if we do less.
I will learn nothing new on LinkedIn, the site where I read and delete invitations once a month.
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Happy Monday. LinkedIn is telling me I should follow Mark Carney on their platform.
I already follow him here and he is in my face all the time telling me that things will be better if we do less.
I will learn nothing new on LinkedIn, the site where I read and delete invitations once a month.
I already follow him here and he is in my face all the time telling me that things will be better if we do less.
I will learn nothing new on LinkedIn, the site where I read and delete invitations once a month.
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This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
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CK3 is a game about the rewards of being loved by the pope vs the mortifying ordeal of having fucked the pope
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
CK3 is a game about the rewards of being loved by the pope vs the mortifying ordeal of having fucked the pope
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"just throw on youtube videos in the background" they said "it'll stress you out less than the news" well i'm still stressed about the news and now i have a parasocial crush on a weird little guy who talks about video game topography
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"just throw on youtube videos in the background" they said "it'll stress you out less than the news" well i'm still stressed about the news and now i have a parasocial crush on a weird little guy who talks about video game topography
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HT to @dansuitor.bsky.social; the DOJ indictment against Clase and Ortiz has been unsealed. Not only were they rigging pitches for outside bettors based on Ball/Strike and pitch speed over/unders; they were sometimes betting on their own rigged pitches.
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
HT to @dansuitor.bsky.social; the DOJ indictment against Clase and Ortiz has been unsealed. Not only were they rigging pitches for outside bettors based on Ball/Strike and pitch speed over/unders; they were sometimes betting on their own rigged pitches.
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...
40 days till vacation.
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
40 days till vacation.
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Clausewitz was deeply emotionally affected by witnessing famine in the Rhineland, describing skeletal figures scrounging for underripe potatoes that were no doubt already ruined by the blight. It is a crowning achievement of our society to have solved this problem that plagued countless generations.
it drives me actually insane to have people romanticizing subsistence agriculture as if that's not just playing russian roulette with your family's lives year by year, and that every single one of their ancestors would throttle them for suggesting giving up their email jobs
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Clausewitz was deeply emotionally affected by witnessing famine in the Rhineland, describing skeletal figures scrounging for underripe potatoes that were no doubt already ruined by the blight. It is a crowning achievement of our society to have solved this problem that plagued countless generations.
First snow of the year. Boo.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
First snow of the year. Boo.
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ANNOUNCER 1: here's the pitch
[GMOD CLATTER NOISES, GROANS FROM STANDS]
ANNOUNCER 2: oh, bad luck. Negative acceleration on the ball, classic overflow, clipped through Smith's hitbox. He's ragdolling
ANNOUNCER 1: NaN propagation looks like. truly hate to see it
ANNOUNCER 2: it's been ruled a balk
[GMOD CLATTER NOISES, GROANS FROM STANDS]
ANNOUNCER 2: oh, bad luck. Negative acceleration on the ball, classic overflow, clipped through Smith's hitbox. He's ragdolling
ANNOUNCER 1: NaN propagation looks like. truly hate to see it
ANNOUNCER 2: it's been ruled a balk
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
ANNOUNCER 1: here's the pitch
[GMOD CLATTER NOISES, GROANS FROM STANDS]
ANNOUNCER 2: oh, bad luck. Negative acceleration on the ball, classic overflow, clipped through Smith's hitbox. He's ragdolling
ANNOUNCER 1: NaN propagation looks like. truly hate to see it
ANNOUNCER 2: it's been ruled a balk
[GMOD CLATTER NOISES, GROANS FROM STANDS]
ANNOUNCER 2: oh, bad luck. Negative acceleration on the ball, classic overflow, clipped through Smith's hitbox. He's ragdolling
ANNOUNCER 1: NaN propagation looks like. truly hate to see it
ANNOUNCER 2: it's been ruled a balk
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Sabres forward Josh Dunne is in a tough spot tonight… his sister Joy is playing for Team USA and his girlfriend Ella Shelton is playing for Team Canada 😅
#RivalrySeries
#RivalrySeries
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Sabres forward Josh Dunne is in a tough spot tonight… his sister Joy is playing for Team USA and his girlfriend Ella Shelton is playing for Team Canada 😅
#RivalrySeries
#RivalrySeries
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ONE OF THE CRAZIEST PLAYS YOU’LL EVER SEE… THE ULTIMATE BIG MAN TOUCHDOWN 😱😱😱
(via X/Jack_Hillgrove)
(via X/Jack_Hillgrove)
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
ONE OF THE CRAZIEST PLAYS YOU’LL EVER SEE… THE ULTIMATE BIG MAN TOUCHDOWN 😱😱😱
(via X/Jack_Hillgrove)
(via X/Jack_Hillgrove)
I had a rule that I could only buy a book after I’d finished two on my shelf.
I have been much better about buying books now that I don’t live a block away from a bookstore, but I still struggle to stick to the rule.
I have been much better about buying books now that I don’t live a block away from a bookstore, but I still struggle to stick to the rule.
I am not allowed to buy more books until I read the ones I already own
November 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I had a rule that I could only buy a book after I’d finished two on my shelf.
I have been much better about buying books now that I don’t live a block away from a bookstore, but I still struggle to stick to the rule.
I have been much better about buying books now that I don’t live a block away from a bookstore, but I still struggle to stick to the rule.
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These new details from last summer's confrontation between Rob Manfred and Bryce Harper are absolutely insane.
MLB officials threatening players will "end up in a ditch" for disrespecting Manfred is outrageous behavior.
www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/p...
MLB officials threatening players will "end up in a ditch" for disrespecting Manfred is outrageous behavior.
www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/p...
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
These new details from last summer's confrontation between Rob Manfred and Bryce Harper are absolutely insane.
MLB officials threatening players will "end up in a ditch" for disrespecting Manfred is outrageous behavior.
www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/p...
MLB officials threatening players will "end up in a ditch" for disrespecting Manfred is outrageous behavior.
www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/p...
There’s an episode of Babylon 5 where Garibaldi takes great measures to secure the ingredients for bagna cauda, which is a hot anchovy and garlic dipping sauce.
He talks about it like it’s a rare delicacy, but the recipe seems very easy.
Anyone out there make this? Good for holiday variety?
He talks about it like it’s a rare delicacy, but the recipe seems very easy.
Anyone out there make this? Good for holiday variety?
November 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
There’s an episode of Babylon 5 where Garibaldi takes great measures to secure the ingredients for bagna cauda, which is a hot anchovy and garlic dipping sauce.
He talks about it like it’s a rare delicacy, but the recipe seems very easy.
Anyone out there make this? Good for holiday variety?
He talks about it like it’s a rare delicacy, but the recipe seems very easy.
Anyone out there make this? Good for holiday variety?
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Lauren Theisen on how to watch hockey: defector.com/how-to-watch...
How To Watch Hockey | Defector
I’m writing specifically about the Edmonton Oilers at the St. Louis Blues on Sportsnet on Monday night, but in broad strokes that will apply to any game you’re watching. First Period The most…
defector.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Lauren Theisen on how to watch hockey: defector.com/how-to-watch...
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lol why put it this way
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
lol why put it this way
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There is so much wrong her (the uncanny face, for one) but what gets me is the vibe of 'this impossible thing, having a woman say she'll love you forever and mean it,' - a thing very many, if not most straight men achieve in ceremonies performed in front of all of their friends and family.
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
There is so much wrong her (the uncanny face, for one) but what gets me is the vibe of 'this impossible thing, having a woman say she'll love you forever and mean it,' - a thing very many, if not most straight men achieve in ceremonies performed in front of all of their friends and family.