"if you want the ideal biome to raise bears, wolves AND seals the only real choice is to put your permanent base in Japan"

I‘ve also been trying to relocate it for years, sorry. It was part of some old YouTube game-design-explainer series with very basic production values, not a fancy show, and it may no longer be up

It’s so easy to trash would-be “game-changing technologies” but have you considered that it’s also so fun? When people ask what I think real game-changing technologies are I say “touchscreens & game engines.” They think that’s too obvious or not obvious enough, and yeah. Yeah, think about that a sec

In the 70s, Chaos Demons listened to Blue Oyster Cult. In the 80s, Chaos Demons started listening to Metallica… Then, in the 90s, Chaos Demons got into Tool. But in the 00s, Chaos Demons only listened to Slipknot.

Sometimes I think about how the first Warhammer game I ran was almost 40 years ago and I feel very tired! But then, I think, didn’t Chaos used to be more interesting? Maybe I just read about Arioch, Duke of Hell and Lord Jagged, plus Shivering Jemmy of the Shallow Brigade, and imagined it to be so.

Lore is so annoying sometimes. The Bequin books are as if someone conscripted Gene Wolfe and China Mieville into producing a reverse-harem trilogy aimed at obsessive space-eunuch-warriors (but also tease a BG3-style bickering-ensemble CRPG with traitors+loyalists)

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one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

There are more manners of engagement in the warp and the materium, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

I suspect "natural immunity" does not always function exactly the way you think it does

But it's worth asking: given that this murder victim gets dragged in part because of long records of domestic abuse on his family, and now transphobes are seizing on the fact that he's trans, when SHOULD his trans status be mentioned? As the headline? In the first graph? Or is it not as central?

Reactions were baffled since there aren't many "immigrant grandparent murders." The mutual abuse allegations raised the question of whether the victim was at fault somehow. THEN the NY Times dug up his trans status in court filings, and the narrative polarized even more.

This is an incredibly sad and upsetting story that I followed since it first broke, since I have former students at NYT Games. Initially none of the reporting included the fact that the murder victim was trans; it seems even his own employer might not have been aware (why would they?)

a universal feature of the game designer working on a long project is that their next game wells up inside of them until it is physically painful

I read the late Peggy Sanday's work over 30 years ago. A harrowing assignment, but among those that convinced me to study anthropology. At the time, I naively believed that though much of this book is about how power & privilege protect rapists, surely the lid was blown off NOW? Not even close.

Thank you student journalists/editors.