issa 🍉
@issaissa.bsky.social
board games and leftist bs fuck the world that failed palestine (i block a lot and it’s not personal) (profile pic by pepperjackets)
hey that’s me
The Arab League of Misfits@handle.invalid · 5d ago"Arab unity has never been this petty, or this fun" We first built #ALoM cards as chaotic pencil sketches, then @issaissa.bsky.social upgraded it from clunky prototypes to full art versions with accessibility in mind... and to clearly see the disrespect before it ruins friendships. #indiegames
A Chinese shoe manufacturer made this video to show how indestructible their shoes are and y'all I'm much too gay for this 🥵
I appreciate the German dedication to dressing as absolute dweebs for the biggest board game award ceremony (highly complimentary)
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just-shower-thoughts:
It's weird to think that nighttime is the natural state of the universe and daytime is only caused by a nearby, radiating ball of flame.
christchex:
Don't fuck me up like this
[above the screenshot in decorative font it says]
Darkness is constant
Light is a passing phenomenon](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyye7nqnjmeeguuv77gb5mw7/bafkreifk4kiigzbowebakzumm4ydpyu7ehjbkvwjdrizvkpwfzocy3rlz4)
opened sanibel’s rulebook and it starts with this nice dedication. are there any other “non-serious” board games that do that?
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“This game is for my father Paul, a lover of nature in all its beauty and an insatiable hunter of shark teeth. He was the one who suggested a game about collecting seashells, and it makes me so happy that we were able to play my prototype of Sanibel shortly before he died. True to form, he had the most shark teeth at the end of the game.
-Elizabeth [Hargrave]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyye7nqnjmeeguuv77gb5mw7/bafkreiad4bjcbdllnynj36mmp5dheggrantjheldq6h4fwbetrydwqxgaq)
opened sanibel’s rulebook and it starts with this nice dedication. are there any other “non-serious” board games that do that?
I once got to hold a baby wombat. It was like holding a lead brick wrapped in fur.
white gays making a fuss about iran and egypt’s teams response to pride match: miss me with that shit maybe focus on why is there a pride match in a country without protections for trans people
Cheers to our unmistakable softness. Words by Leo Herrera. Voice by Jake Shears. Images used with consent.
I always like thinking about: what is the oldest object you regularly use, the oldest thing you're using in your normal everyday life
Not going to lie, sketching Handala Is Watching took a massive emotional toll on me, especially after witnessing years of brutal occupation and relentless war. #indiegames #ALoM
The Arab League of Misfits@handle.invalid · last mo."Witness with a turned back" Handala Is Watching is the 10th card out of 20 in our Sumood archetype. We wanted to honor the emblematic icon of the late Naji al-Ali, as a way to capture the heavy burden of observation and silent defiance. #ALoM #IndieGames
"neurodivergence" has always been implicitly and explicitly positioned with reference to a racialised norm in which white ways of thinking, learning and communicating are "typical", you cannot divorce the two (just like you can't divorce neurodivergence and queerness, transness, maleness, etc)
lmfao the courses are even AI-“designed” come ON
Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · last mo.Please take this course on how to break into a discipline people who have been doing it for decades can’t even get jobs doing anymore. Also it’s run by the lead writer of a project so radioactive people refused to even stream it for money. This will cost you real life money btw
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
"The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam" is a great rule to have against AI content
Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick
Megaphone News@megaphone.news · 2mo agoMona Khalil spent over 20 years protecting sea turtles on Mansouri Beach. After she was injured in an Israeli attack, activists continued her initiative at Rmeileh Beach, where they protected the first loggerhead nest of 73 eggs on Thursday. youtu.be/fbBKzK4JNRc
ta nehisi coates tearing the fucking roof off okce again www.vanityfair.com/story/the-ne...
Did Kamala Harris's Silence on Gaza Cost Her the White House?
Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with that question, and what it means for the 2028 election.
vanityfair.com
Meanwhile, prominently included on the unused design sheets for the resurrected Bison in 6...
one thing i enjoy doing is if the game is loved enough that the components are falling apart is to personalize them/customize the replacement. makes the game physically as special as it emotionally is for you
Cole Wehrle@colewehrle.bsky.social · 2mo agoI've only had to replace a handful of games in my life: Race for the Galaxy, Brass, Hannibal, Twilight Struggle, Risk, Age of Steam. Each time it fills me with gratitude. To be so lucky to get to say goodbye to a deck of well-loved cards and to recommit yourself to a fresh deck!
