Today, we're proud and excited to announce that we've signed El Pulpo (some may know it as Fruit), designed by @danbullock.bsky.social! It will be our second game, after Painkillers. Read more about why we think it's such a great fit for H&D: www.hawkanddovegames.com/blog/el-pulpo

El Pulpo — Hawk and Dove

Why Hawk & Dove's next board game is El Pulpo.

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All KBO games canceled this week and no more Hanwha home games until after I've left Korea. I had great tickets for tomorrow. Glad they're taking everyone's safety so seriously but also gutted that I won't be able to see any more baseball in person.

Maybe my last box of Playte games before I leave Korea. I'm going to need to find a way to get my fix when I'm back in Ireland..

Whoever football is for, it's not for the fans. Nor is it for Palestinians. Shame on the FAI. This game is a farce and should not go ahead. www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...

FAI confirms no Ireland tickets for Israel games

The FAI have confirmed that there will be no tickets sold to Republic of Ireland supporters for autumn's UEFA Nations League fixtures with Israel.

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this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last wk.

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

I got a Mangmi Air earlier this year and I've been playing some old games, often for the first time. That's been great, but it's also been great to look things up on Gamefaqs again. In the midst of an internet that gets steadily worse, Gamefaqs remains a constant. Never change old friend.

I am being asked for advice on running a kickstarter and I have ZERO knowledge of that world or the business involved behind it. Does anyone in my circles have expertise or knows someone who knows the ins and outs of running one?

And I'm not saying you can't mourn him. I'm not wading in on people's posts talking about how important his music was to them and how much they loved him. You do you. But I'm also not going to pretend like he wasn't a known child groomer. I'm not going to concede that it's disrespectful to say so.

Rose 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸@anaemicroyalty.bsky.social · last wk.

Fuck it. I am sick to the back teeth of people today saying they never heard Glen Hansard was a groomer so therefore those of us who did hear it shouldn't talk about it. He groomed teenage girls. He was well known for it in certain circles. He would give out burner phones for them to text him from.

The used booksellers were trying to figure out wtf was going on a while ago and I was afraid it was something like this.

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

In Busan for a few days and despite the heat warnings it's pretty rad.

This feels like a perfect encapsulation of how while Irish people are broadly pro-Palestine, their support is routinely failed by the actions of Irish politicians and the Irish state. See also, cowardice from the FAI and the slowboating of the Occupied Territories bill. www.rte.ie/news/2026/07...

Concern over study visa refusal rate for Gazan students

Concern is growing in Irish universities over a high rate of refusal of study visas to students in Gaza who are due to take up college scholarships in Ireland this September.

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If you're in the USA, the Kindle version of the book is currently available for $2.99. That's a lot of crossbow facts per dollar! www.amazon.com/Medieval-Cro...

Stuart Ellis-Gorman@drcrossbows.bsky.social · 3w ago

I've been really terrible at self-promotion, but if you're in the UK (or somewhere that the UK ships to), my history of the crossbow is currently 50% off. www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Medieval...

I've been really terrible at self-promotion, but if you're in the UK (or somewhere that the UK ships to), my history of the crossbow is currently 50% off. www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Medieval...

The Medieval Crossbow

The crossbow is an iconic weapon of the Middle Ages and, alongside the longbow, one of the most effective ranged weapons of the pre-gunpowder era.…

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I get asked a lot what kinds of games Hawk & Dove is looking to publish. I write a little about it here, in preparation for some bigger announcements in the coming weeks. 😜 www.hawkanddovegames.com/blog/what-is...

what is a hawk & dove game? — Hawk and Dove

Why we’re trying to find unique historical games, and how we think it will work.

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A little more 2 player gaming today. General Orders: Sengoku Jidai by @djackthompson.bsky.social and Trevor Benjamin and Hunt for Blackbeard by @volko.bsky.social and from @fortcircle.bsky.social.

I've been really terrible at self-promotion, but if you're in the UK (or somewhere that the UK ships to), my history of the crossbow is currently 50% off. www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Medieval...

The Medieval Crossbow

The crossbow is an iconic weapon of the Middle Ages and, alongside the longbow, one of the most effective ranged weapons of the pre-gunpowder era.…

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Okay, so this is a claim I have come across a few times on this site and I feel the need to say something about it. Namely, snake oil was an effective Chinese medicine that was unsuccessfully imitated by white Americans because they used rattlesnakes with worse oil. This is false. 1/

Hanwha Eagles losing six games in a row to the Kiwoom Heroes is killing me. What are we doing??

We're moving back to Ireland from Korea next month, and I've been trying to find somewhere for us to live for several months now with no success. Not for the first time it has me wondering why we decided to move back...

The kickstarter page for Rebels Against Rebellion is now up: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

Coming soon: Rebels Against Rebellion

From the minds of David Thompson and Trevor Benjamin, a card-driven game about one Tennessee county that battled against secession.

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Got a copy of Strat-o-matic baseball from 1980. That copy of the game didn’t originally come with a d20, so for some resolutions you would need to generate a number between 1-20 shuffling the 20 included pink cards. The previous owner instead made this chart, which has a perfect 10/216 distribution!

Only one other person was free for the monthly game meet up so we blitzed through a decent pile of 2 player games: General Orders WWII, Orapa Space, Air Land & Sea (not pictured), and Compile. Air, Land, & Sea was the stand out (so much that I forgot to take a picture). Such a good game.

Someone custom designed this in a lab to annoy as many different kinds of teacher as possible.

"By 400 C.E., the library [of Alexandria] had disappeared. Many scholars regard its destruction as the greatest loss of knowledge in history and the beginning of the Dark Ages." Nooooooooo c'mon 🤦‍♀️ How can I take this seriously after that opener?

Sam Byers@sambyers.bsky.social · last mo.

Obviously this is excellent, detailed, and in many ways pretty terrifying - essential reading for anyone with even a passing concern for literature, thought, learning etc. I would only add that there is an even broader crisis here around attention. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

It took me almost a year, but I finally wrote a Part 2 for my tier list of Playte games (my current favorite hobby board game publisher). I'm still obsessed with these games, and I wanted to write about them even as I struggle with traditional game reviews: www.stuartellisgorman.com/blog/the-pla...

The Playte Tier List (Part 2) — Stuart Ellis-Gorman

I have something of an obsession with Korean publisher Playte Games. I currently live in Korea, so it is very easy for me to buy their games every month thanks to their low price point, but even beyon...

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It took me almost a year, but I finally wrote a Part 2 for my tier list of Playte games (my current favorite hobby board game publisher). I'm still obsessed with these games, and I wanted to write about them even as I struggle with traditional game reviews: www.stuartellisgorman.com/blog/the-pla...

The Playte Tier List (Part 2) — Stuart Ellis-Gorman

I have something of an obsession with Korean publisher Playte Games. I currently live in Korea, so it is very easy for me to buy their games every month thanks to their low price point, but even beyon...

stuartellisgorman.com

Expansions are kinda weird, right? I spoke with ten game designers and a historian about one of the most unusual elements of modern board games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v08K...

Expanding Board Games

YouTube video by Hollandspiele

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For the 250th, I wrote up an @askhistorians.bsky.social Megathread sharing AMAs and posts with related history, plus a few thoughts on the contested memory/celebration of the Founding www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: MEGATHREAD: Today the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary of declaring independence.

Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

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I am all for marking the anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, but I choose to remember those men who have long been written out of the history. This is a taste of my current book project. #CivilWarMemory kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/henry-john...

Henry Johnson's Gettysburg

He followed the 4th Texas to Little Round Top, nursed a dying Confederate officer for three weeks, and then chose freedom.

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You will never understand the significance of the Gettysburg Campaign if you fail to acknowledge that thousands of enslaved laborers traveled with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia into the free state of Pennsylvania, where it fought from July 1-3, 1863. #CivilWarMemory