Brian Reynolds
@thegamechief.bsky.social
Pernicious Layabout. Videogame Designer and Entrepreneur. Co-founder Firaxis, Big Huge Games, Zynga East. Games: Civ2, Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations, FrontierVille, DomiNations. Immigrant to Canada (Montréal). Retweeter of Uranus Jokes.
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friday soapbox: as a designer, if you want something to be a skillful action for players, and you want growth in this skill to be very deep/meaningful, then you need to also let players be bad at it. sometimes horrendously bad. players hate this pain, and designers often want to mitigate it away.
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
friday soapbox: as a designer, if you want something to be a skillful action for players, and you want growth in this skill to be very deep/meaningful, then you need to also let players be bad at it. sometimes horrendously bad. players hate this pain, and designers often want to mitigate it away.
Ah yes, Nearby Objects, that's where I left it...
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Ah yes, Nearby Objects, that's where I left it...
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tbh if you aren't DMing me pictures of weird book titles you find in Qud or strange shit your character names their equipment or any other unhinged screenshots are we even friends
RECTANGLE HAIR! RECTANGLE HAIR!
RECTANGLE HAIR! RECTANGLE HAIR!
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
tbh if you aren't DMing me pictures of weird book titles you find in Qud or strange shit your character names their equipment or any other unhinged screenshots are we even friends
RECTANGLE HAIR! RECTANGLE HAIR!
RECTANGLE HAIR! RECTANGLE HAIR!
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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Prevalence of colour blindness around the world
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Prevalence of colour blindness around the world
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bluesky staff misexplaining the torment nexus post, a post about how tech people don’t understand the media they read, is going to make me laugh for a long time
November 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
bluesky staff misexplaining the torment nexus post, a post about how tech people don’t understand the media they read, is going to make me laugh for a long time
Late season boating on the St Lawrence…
November 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Late season boating on the St Lawrence…
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An Air Canada flight right now
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
An Air Canada flight right now
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tired: I used genAI
inspired: I Shat GPT
inspired: I Shat GPT
November 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
tired: I used genAI
inspired: I Shat GPT
inspired: I Shat GPT
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i can hear my upstairs neighbor rn and first i thought he was having sex but i think he is actually watching the world series
November 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
i can hear my upstairs neighbor rn and first i thought he was having sex but i think he is actually watching the world series
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POSTER: In my post I invented the Don’t Misunderstand the Torment Nexus Metaphor as a cautionary tale
CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor
CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor
"Torment Nexus" comes from this tweet and is often used now to describe the kind of negative experiences you can have with social networks, like getting dogpiled or harassed or being pushed into conflict
November 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
POSTER: In my post I invented the Don’t Misunderstand the Torment Nexus Metaphor as a cautionary tale
CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor
CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor
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Genius.
November 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Genius.
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God has not abandoned us. He just wants us to use fewer, smaller textures on fewer, larger polygons, and every day we do not is another day we stray farther from His light
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
God has not abandoned us. He just wants us to use fewer, smaller textures on fewer, larger polygons, and every day we do not is another day we stray farther from His light
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I dunno, my Claude-based personal assistant has a better take on Christianity's place in the modern world than most of Twitter, or SV for that matter.
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I dunno, my Claude-based personal assistant has a better take on Christianity's place in the modern world than most of Twitter, or SV for that matter.
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
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all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
October 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
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history is short and we're in it
I've personally witnessed 1/5 of the history of the United States since its formal foundation, and my parents are still alive.
October 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
history is short and we're in it
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its so funny that the answer to the fermi paradox is that everyones too busy jerking off
October 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
its so funny that the answer to the fermi paradox is that everyones too busy jerking off
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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I can email money. Some of my American friends needed this explained very slowly.
One of the things that strikes me on visiting the US is how antiquated the banking is, in a lot of ways. No, I don’t have a Venmo, if I want to transfer money to someone electronically I use my banking app. I have no idea when I last used my cheque book. Why are you taking my card? I need to sign!?
“Much of what we think of as innovation in the US is just private duct tape applied to the country’s uniquely bad payments system. Stablecoins, for example, offer a way to transfer something like a dollar from one place to another, without a bank.” Great stuff from @bhgreeley.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I can email money. Some of my American friends needed this explained very slowly.
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One of the things that strikes me on visiting the US is how antiquated the banking is, in a lot of ways. No, I don’t have a Venmo, if I want to transfer money to someone electronically I use my banking app. I have no idea when I last used my cheque book. Why are you taking my card? I need to sign!?
“Much of what we think of as innovation in the US is just private duct tape applied to the country’s uniquely bad payments system. Stablecoins, for example, offer a way to transfer something like a dollar from one place to another, without a bank.” Great stuff from @bhgreeley.bsky.social
Why I have to buy doughnuts with cash
Powerful lobbies are hindering a digital transition by America’s huge network of some 4,500 banks
on.ft.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
One of the things that strikes me on visiting the US is how antiquated the banking is, in a lot of ways. No, I don’t have a Venmo, if I want to transfer money to someone electronically I use my banking app. I have no idea when I last used my cheque book. Why are you taking my card? I need to sign!?
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As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.
"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.
Fuck you - fuck you again.
"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.
Fuck you - fuck you again.
Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds
Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.
local12.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.
"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.
Fuck you - fuck you again.
"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.
Fuck you - fuck you again.