TheInquiry
theinquiry.bsky.social
TheInquiry
@theinquiry.bsky.social
Economist gone rogue and joined the Game Industry.
hey all, I have started a new podcast on the business of gaming with a friend:

DEMAND:

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Ep. 01 - Taking Sides
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December 29, 2024 at 9:17 PM
So Wrote an article about cutesy round people as the instruments of a totalitarian state and what a success that was?! (it was great fun to be this no name yet tool of evil... guy!)
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Raul Padron on LinkedIn: #unlikelyhits #beholder #indiegaming #thestate
Unlikely Hits: The Eye of the Beholder. If I told you a game based on being minor part of the machinations of an absolute totalitarian and dystopian…
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December 23, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Hey everyone: wrote an article on marketing and the gaming industry; come say hello! or throw fruit...im okay with both.

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Raul Padron on LinkedIn: #gameinformer #nintendopower #gameadvertising #gameinfluencers…
Game Economics: The Devil You Know. In the gaming industry world and its gaming public fans, few things other than business development and HR are as hated…
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December 17, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Hey everyone, wrote another article for the Unlikely Hits series instead of sleeping like a normal human. yay for dysfunction!

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Raul Padron on LinkedIn: #songsofconquest #heroesofmightandmagic
Unlikely Hits: Play me a Song. So, like many games I speak about in this series, this game should not have succeeded as it did. But two things combine it to…
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November 25, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Okay, so a slide hustle of mine is writing. I'm currently at work with 2 different ttrpg general supplements for fantasy games.

one is cap system to add depicting/adding to a species who have gotten the worst stereotyping of a typical dnd-like games.

The other is a setting I created.
November 25, 2024 at 6:15 AM
Scheming is a lifestyle.
Don't judge my lifestyle <3
November 25, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Feed the Algorithm, we must!

👁️TTRPG
👁️Economics
👁️History
👁️Grand Strategy/4x
👁️Sci/Fantasy/Horror Literature
👁️Religions
👁️LGBT+ Staunch Ally
👁️Miniature Gaming
👁️Sociology
👁️Political Science
👁️MMO's!
November 19, 2024 at 2:41 AM
hey all, every week I cover two regular topics as articles for Linkedin

One is called Unlikely Hits, where I detail some unusual successes in video games as short chat about it.

The second talks about larger trends as economic threads in Gaming.

this:

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Raul Padron on LinkedIn: #sega #retrogaming #steam
Unlikely Hits: Turnip in Trouble. So…if I approached say SEGA and asked them if they would like to publish a game that harkens back to Legend of Zelda…
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November 17, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Okay;
lifelong local library kid with too much knowledge:

Napoleon Bonaparte was not short, he was of average height. Likelihood of the very British Empire tradition of misinformation campaigns, the 'short'.

Also true; Napoleon has a unique honor; the single most written about person in English.
November 15, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Okay, so my side gig is writing speculative fiction and ttrpg stuff. has been for a while.

This my great observation about storytelling:

Heroes drive your tales, but Villains define that Tale.
November 15, 2024 at 7:48 PM
The first time gangsta rapper best known later for the song 'colors' and long stint on tv as a police detective, Ice-T, first appeared on screens a party MC in the movie Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Remember this when you feel embarrassed or at a loss to talk about your past.

(this him below)
November 15, 2024 at 5:36 PM
I wrote this much too long article, referencing luck and personal Agency and their conflict with each other as intrinsic concepts.

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The No Luck Club.
The No Luck Club. I have written my regular topic articles on Linkedin for the week, so I’m going to write something that seems random, but is not.
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November 15, 2024 at 1:41 AM