Bobby™

@schwbby.bsky.social

🕹️ Spent 10 years as game design and media professor; now making games for novel hardware 🎢 Theme park scholar 📘 Co-author of Storytelling for Video Games Using Bitsy: A Guide for Aspiring Designers 👑 CLT resident

The best part about buying old used board games is seeing old score keeping pads. Who is Becky? Did she beat Keith regularly? And where is the Warwick hotel this pad came from?

My new edited book is out today! And it's open access so you can all read it for free! I'm so excited to share what all these amazing authors have to say about work that crosses design research and fan studies. I'll be highlighting chapters over the next few days. www.emerald.com/books/edited...

Bridging Design and Fandom: Fan Studies and Design Research in Conversation

Fandom studies and design are both relatively young disciplines both of which are familiar with interdisciplinarity, and with co-production and participati

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Q: On the economy - what do you plan to do to make North Carolina more affordable? MICHAEL WHATLEY: *walks away* NARRATOR: He wouldn't take Qs on that even though we sent Whatley Qs more than 24 hours ago looking for specific plans. We have not been given a response beyond 2 paragraphs on his site

Some piece of shit has uploaded the halftime music from NBA Hangtime to YouTube and is claiming it as their own. It really sucks that YouTube has no normal process for handling shit like this.

Did you know that the US teamed up with Panamanian Border Patrol to illegally seize the little science town of Gamboa (a famous hot spot for field biology, and our home for the past many years)? If you don't want a gringo sponsored ICE training facility in your fav science town, share this around!

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CANAL AREA COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION (ACAC) Panama, April 21, 2026

STATEMENT Usurpation of Public Spaces in Gamboa

In November 2025, an alert was raised in the Gamboa community regarding the occupation of public and recreational spaces by the National Aeronaval Service (SENAN). This entity has been assigned a 3.9-hectare plot of land, valued at $5.7 million, through a renewable 20-year concession.

The Administrative Unit of Reverted Assets (UABR) authorized the free transfer of this land to the Ministry of Security through a resolution dated October 9, 2025. According to the document, the request responds to the objective of strengthening the security of the Panama Canal. SENAN has indicated that the headquarters of the Seventh Aeronaval Zone would be established on this land

However, this land is part of the community and has been ceded without consultation or knowledge of the residents. Gamboa is protected by Law 21 of 1997 and by Resolution 139-2000 of August 8, 2000 (Garden City Regulations), which establishes a clear land-use plan for the interoceanic region, including residential zones, natural tourism areas, green areas, and neighborhood recreational spaces.

It is questionable that the entity in charge of administering the reverted assets assumes a facilitating role in ceding land to SENAN, when its main function is to guarantee the proper use of the territory and compliance with current law.

According to statements by the representative of the Cristóbal district, Ricardo Cerrud (La Estrella de Panamá, November 26, 2025), "This decision is related to a memorandum of understanding between both countries and was allegedly driven directly from the Presidency." Residents of the area fear possible militarization

In this agreement between the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and the National Air and Naval Service (SENAN), the community has been completely excluded. It has not been mentioned or considered, which implies…

I remember a Dean once telling me that I shouldn’t be taking two days off in preparation of being the best man in a wedding because “this is a serious job now.”