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bearded woman, grad student, game designer, mostly in that order.

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There's a lot to say about the Roblox CEO interview, and the right place to start is definitely his answers on children's safety, because that's kind of the fire that is hottest and closest.

However, I have to also say, the polymarket stuff is real 'summation of our neoliberal dumpster fire' shit.
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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In 2010 a Virginia lawmaker suggested God gives women disabled children as punishment for abortions and it was broken by the student journalists covering the state house because the pros had this attitude of "haha oh there Bob goes again"
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
www.inquirer.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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America 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!

ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Pax Unplugged is right around the corner!!

Looking back at all the IGNM coverage—I’m so proud and impressed at how much our community came together to promote these awesome indie works!

There’s a game for everyone in this lot!

Here’s a thread of all the incredible coverage of IGNM 2025: 🧵 🎲✂️
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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absolutely loved reading this
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Ok, I’m going to do a little #LHSRescue thread as a reward to myself for the day. That’s Local History Site Rescue, for those of you new to the hashtag. Sometimes this is for a work thing, sometimes it’s just the stuff that finds its way to me, like this bag of “this looks old, give it to Meg.”
November 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Last weekend I was at Metatopia, a convention for game designers in New Jersey. It is brilliant (as always) and I’ve written up details about all the games I played - it’s a moderately long read, but I’m excited by upcoming games! Please take a read and share! planesailinggames.com/review/2025-...
Metatopia 2025
Metatopia continues to be a brilliant convention for game designers who want to alpha- and beta- test their game designs with smart, capable people from the design and playtest community
planesailinggames.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Aurora Borealis might be visible from my kitchen tonight, which, without getting into details, is a huge relief for this luncheon I'm planning with my boss
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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gonna be out of town during paxu but i am nothing if not a conscientious host. reply to this post and i'll give you one (1) bespoke Philadelphia Fact
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
gonna be out of town during paxu but i am nothing if not a conscientious host. reply to this post and i'll give you one (1) bespoke Philadelphia Fact
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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I'm going to be at Pax Unplugged later this month! If you have a project you want to set up an interview for, or a tip you want to share, please reach out so we can get something on my schedule
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
metatopia accomplished. increasingly convinced i have not written a game so much as produced a cognitohazard.
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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im working on a stretch goal for the extremely cool Ambition! it's currently $1k out from my goal 🥰 i'm doing some hound/handler shit with gun-witches in an academy haunted by fucked up jellyfish
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Year of the Ring, babyyyyy

time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand
Let's make it official:

SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.

If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:

bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
Shelved By Genre
These are books discussed on the podcast Shelved by Genre!
bookshop.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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ANNOUNCING: i'm now available for pro-GMing w/ StartPlaying—play with an AP performer & award-winning game designer!

🎲 Mothership "A Pound of Flesh" sandbox campaigns weekly Mon @ 3pm ET
🎲 Mothership "Gradient Descent" one-shot Tue 11/25 @ 2pm ET
🎲 PLANET FIST one-shot Thu 11/20 @ 3pm ET

🔗s ⬇️🧵!
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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there's a lot of people here slinging accusations about the staff automatically hiding posts with the label "rude" and while i bear them no great love i don't think the issue is some conniving plot by the staff; i think what has happened is they have built a kind of shitty website?
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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My (previously sold-out) talk in Boston next Tuesday just added a bunch of seats! I'd love to see you there! ticketing.bostonjfilm.org/websales/pag...
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Apocalypse World is far and away my favorite game, period, and this new edition is *even better*.
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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hell yeah brother
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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part of the fun of media club plus is that we can really do a close reading of "why doesn't this scene of a man getting eaten by lions work"
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free!
buff.ly/rccy0qL
November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM