Iain // Unpopular Mechanics
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He/ him 🏴 Board games & sustainability mostly! Bots: @netrunner-card-gen.bsky.social
Not sure if I have this right, but as an outsider looking in, it seems that in Keir Starmer, England's richest and most misshapen op-ed writers basically got their custom designed policy portfolio and it's been an unmitigated disaster. Surely they are taking some time to meaningfully reflect on this
What are the Government, police and security services doing about the people who are quite clearly in the pay of a hostile foreign state, and using their platforms to whip up actual pogroms on our streets? This is a major national security issue and absolutely nothing seems to be happening about it
Seems reasonable to me the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...
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ME: What's the bear trap for? JIGSAW: For the love of... As I just said, if the bear trap is triggered this vial of acid will- ME: What's the barbed wire do? JIGSAW: I'm getting to that! If the acid is- ME (scrolling on phone): This is complicated. Let's just started playing and I'll figure it out.
Ooooh, I used to be this person and then I realized how obnoxious it really was, fortunately I figured it out in the USENET days
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4mo agoIt is apparently just a law of the internet that there will always be some small number of people who read a post that says “I really hate it when people do this thing” and are surprised at being blocked when they immediately respond by doing this thing (“ironically”)
Unable to go to sleep because my cat is on top of the duvet where I need to get in
"For years I taught that players had to eradicate all four diseases, not just cure them. So...a lot of people out there think they lost games of Pandemic that they actually won." "Again, that sucks but it's not really a sin. How many more of these do you have?"
Slay the Spire 2: welcome back mister orbs, my true love. ❤️ going through the wholeganme killing enemies before putting my combo together, then getting to the final boss and realising the combo isn't that good.
I normally avoid Early Access, but am counting down the minutes until Slay the Spire 2. Pls. Where is it
RT if you have a job and are planning to vote Green.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 5mo agoNigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them
Don't miss the news that an Israeli missile destroyed an Iranian girls' primary school, murdering at least 25 girls between 7 and 12 years old. At this point it might just be muscle memory for the Israeli military. www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-2...
At least 24 girls reported killed in strike on school in southern Iran
Dozens of children aged between seven and 12 hit in attack on Minab city
middleeasteye.net
Getting grok to publicly strip a woman’s likeness online or alter her image isn’t just horrifying at the level of the individual, it’ll be used to get us fired, too. It’s a technique to keep us in the home popping out babies because we lost our teaching job when some guy sent porn of us to our boss.
People need to start caring about others & not only those directly related/affected, & not only when it's transactional. We *have* to have empathy beyond ourselves & immediate orbit of family, friends, neighborhood, & community. We have to care about total strangers who are in harm's way & in need
💼 I’m looking for work as a board game designer. 🌎 I’m open to in-person, hybrid or remote work. ⭐ I’ve previously worked at the Uzzle and made Abandon All Artichokes, Starry Night Sky, and other board games.
I like space operas. Hit me with your sci-fi book recommendations! Please RP for more ideas!
Of course I would say this, but we need to talk about the moral & ideological case for play & leisure more than ever. So much political discourse - especially from the super-rich - assumes we ought to construct society around forcing citizens to spend most of their one, unrepeatable life working.
Pubrunner! Got to reintroduce a friend to netrunner with the starter decks last night, and he's continued to trounce me: we're at 0 and 4 wins 😆 Properly have the netrunner bug again. Love this game
Hey all. Lost a big patreon this morning. I'm trying to keep this thing going with additional content every week for all patreons: links, a weekly "I'm playing" newsletter and other goodies, all for just $1. www.patreon.com/c/mattthr
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Just remember - it's the box that takes up the most space. Slice the boxes at the corners, flatten them for transport, and voila - a ton more space in your luggage.
Buy Mass Effect The Board Game!@ithayla.bsky.social · 10mo agodebris pic of the night. I always try and punch the night of to make sure we shed weight and gain box space, but I notice games really don't waste much box space nowadays
Netrunner Worlds in the morning! I should sleep, but couldnt resist the siren call to stay up late tinkering with decks. Just one more cool card!
With many of us at the beautiful Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh for #NetrunnerWorlds25, this account might be a little slow the next few days. But you can watch all the action at twitch.tv/nullsignalnetrunner or www.youtube.com/nullsignal.games starting with Crown of Servers tomorrow at 9.30 UTC!
Netrunner Worlds on Saturday & Sunday!!! I totally forgot and have missed the window to get cards, so am frantically looking up cool cards to print off tomorrow and make a deck with. If anyone has any recommendations for fun archetypes, pls let me knowww
I popped in to Cogito Books in Hexham and saw a copy of @timclare.bsky.social 's Game Changers. First ten pages are great!
'other countries have an immediate obligation to... "prevent & punish the crime of genocide"... If they do not... they could be complicit. "We have not gone so far as to name parties as... being complicit in genocide. But that is the… ongoing work of this commission"' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.
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I stayed up late on Friday making a genestealer for my malstrain-corrupted Van Saar gang. First model in the gang, very excited! Likely going to add more cabling/ tendrils & a more raggedy hood & cloak
Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6) 🎲✂️
