Good Ideas are Overrated: lauriepenny.substack.com/p/how-to-pic... Part 4 of my new writing seminar.
How to Pick the Perfect Idea Every Single Time.
The Tyranny of Potential.
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Henrik Jonsson
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🎮 Video Game Consultant 👷♂️ Game Industry Advocate 📈 ex-Embracer, ex-EA, ex-Ion Storm 🥳 Trying to do nice things for people
This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
stpauldeb.bsky.social@stpauldeb.bsky.social · 7mo agoGift link www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Galway Game Jam is back as part of Global Game Jam 2026! 🎮 📝 Register globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/20... 📍Location: CREW, Wellpark Road, Galway City 📅 Date & Time: 6pm to 9pm Friday 30th Jan, 10am to 6pm Saturday 31st Jan & Sunday 1st Feb. Help us spread the word! 🎉🎉🎉
Demo coming soon, wishlist to not miss it! store.steampowered.com/app/3284200/...
Muri: Wildwoods on Steam
Plunge into a colorful, relaxing cleaning adventure in Muri: Wildwoods! Explore a mysterious island, uncover secrets, befriend cute creatures, clean away corruption, save the island’s forest spirit, a...
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Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.
If you think *any* consultant can influence games to a detrimental degree, your opinions about game development are too out of touch to be worth regarding. Most of the time, even actual writers don’t get a final say over a game’s writing. The complex approval process is often above their heads.
Poor FOX News. Not the sound bite they were looking for.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 7mo agoFOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face
I'm glad you asked! docseuss.medium.com/lore-is-a-tr... (also if anyone reads this essay and likes it, I'd like to pay my internet bill and buy some food, so tips would be appreciated)
‘lore’ is a trap and will kill your story if you let it. so what can we do about it?
This is not an essay about lore. I mean, it is, sure. We discuss lore, what it is, how to best use it, and how it can trap you into writing…
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Carmelo Santos@carmelosantos.bsky.social · 8mo agowhy? genuine question
"We cannot negotiate with people who say 'what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable'." John F. Kennedy 25 July 1961 re: The Berlin Crisis
24Hours Ukraine@24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 9mo agoPutin: “When Ukrainians troops withdraw from the territories they hold, then we will cease hostilities; If they don’t leave, we will achieve this by military means “
Go raibh maith agat to Garry Kelly for having Ardán CEO Alan Duggan and WRAP Executive Gar O'Brien-Collins on his new podcast series 'Garry Talks Film'! ✨ 💚 🎧 WRAP is delighted to support this series. Check out the full video interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn9x...
Sábháil an Dáta/ Save The Date! 🎮✨💚 Ardán looks forward to welcoming attendees back to the Radisson RED in Galway on Friday, April 24th, 2026, for another great FÍS Games Summit where Games industry professionals at all career stages can listen to, learn from, and connect with one another.
Nästan ingen kommenterade ens nyheten att elever som gått yrkesförberedande program på friskolor har mycket svårare att få jobb. Har vi bara accepterat att det är såhär det är? www.dn.se/ledare/isobe...
Isobel Hadley-Kamptz: Friskolor ger barn en sämre utbildning – och vi bara accepterar det
De som gått i friskolor klarar sig sämre på högskolan och har det svårare på arbetsmarknaden. Hur länge ska vi acceptera det? skriver Isobel Hadley-Kamptz.
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Hey #PitchYaGame ✂️ Cutout Village is a narrative, cozy, city-builder game in which you will have to build villages using simple and unique mechanics: cutting, folding and gluing. Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3907910/... #indiegame #screenshotsaturday
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
Mamdani, with 97% of the vote in, has more votes than all the other candidates combined
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
Not a good news thread, an AMAZING news thread
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 9mo agoWhat we know, 12:10am [Now in 2 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House —Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win supreme court —ME vote-restricting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —Krasner & Bragg win
If you, like me, are a fiend for deductive narrative games (Obra Dinn, Golden Idol, etc) then you must check out the tremendous The Seance of Blake Manor (out today), which has become one of my favorite games of 2025. Only caveat is that I ran into a few nasty bugs www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATH_...
The Séance of Blake Manor | Release Date Announcement Trailer
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Because All Data you collect willy nilly will get stolen. It always happens, sooner or later
Josh Taylor@joshtaylor.bsky.social · 9mo agoOne month out from the under-16s ban and almost all of the users caught up in the Discord data breach caused by age assurance appeals were based in Australia, OAIC has finally confirmed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Remember, Remember, the 5th of November… and that the law doesn’t necessarily tell us what is right, but we can use the law to make things right.
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