(recently watched The Old Guard 2) Players are all immortals. Should combat arise, roll a d6. On 4+ you win regardless of weapons/circumstances, on odds you toggle your mortality for the next combat, and on a 1 you die dramatically (if mortal) or swear revenge (if immortal).

Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

Closing the year with one of our highest ever polls. Thank you everyone so much for your support and determination this year. We're all just getting started. Join.greenparty.org.uk

After a day of non-stop rain, feeling thankful for the sunshine while out canvassing at the weekend. Our team of volunteers also enjoyed a fantastic reception on the doorstep, and came away even more fired-up. Our momentum is building. Join us. join.greenparty.org.uk #GreenSurge

RIP Michele and Rob Reiner. Rob was certainly a master of his craft but more importantly just a lovely guy.

180,000 now...May local elections will be exciting...

Another defection on my local council. The Labour party have basically surrendered the left, leaving the Green Party as the only progressive option. Join us!

"No-one expects you to do UV-unwrapping without therapy music" - my daughter, on her college course :D

Love that we have such a concise mini- manifesto. Going to be an exciting new year...

Zack Polanski is a breath of fresh air.

BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct. Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Update: 128,000. Accept this is slightly wild now. Join.greenparty.org.uk

@zackpolanski.bsky.social Expat friend of mine is trying to join the party but the website doesn't accept overseas postcodes, and he can't get through on email or phone. Do you accept expat members?

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Our Public Ownership Party Scorecard is live! 📣 Find out where the parties stand - it might surprise you. 😮 Follow link in comments below. 👇 @morningstaronline

Poll of over 7,000 people reveals strong support for clean energy, nature restoration, and climate action. A large majority made up of people who think they are in a small minority, thanks to relentless misinformation online and in the mainstream media.

Sadly, current employer doesn't have enough work to keep me on...so I'm looking for a new thing. Anyone need a director/designer/programmer with 30 years experience on 35 published games across 13+ platforms?

Call for a voice actor! We’re looking to cast a female actress for our next game. Vocal age 25-35, Northern England accent, preferably Mancunian, incl. Pakistani and Indian Mancunian accents. That’s you? Then send a sample to [email protected], marked “casting call”. Paid gig, ofc <3 RTs!

Getting heartily sick of VR development. Would be nice to work on a flatscreen game and not have to put the damn headset on and off all day...

None of those newspapers (or the BBC) that gleefully ran stories when the EHRC gave trans people a shoeing will now report on the EHRC admitting they (and hence those stories) were wrong. Are those outlets craven - or dishonest? Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...

LARP photo from last weekend. I'm growing the face fuzz out for a role, so Idris has a beard now.

While RFK Jr. Made his remarks saying autistic life is a tragedy that destroys families, I sat right in front of him and made it a point to let him know he was wrong. My latest for @msnbc.com www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The absence of trans people from the British media is part of the problem. I'd like to offer mentoring to trans people trying to get into journalism, free of charge. Most of my experience is obviously in political commentary, but I might be passably useful in news and other areas.

Last weekend I crewed the debut event of Menhir's Fate - the UK's 4th fest LARP - and it went remarkably smoothly. Players loved the format, which is plot intensive by design. Enjoyed helping players do bespoke rituals around the eponymous Menhir. Event 2 is only a few weeks away... Menhirsfate.com

To precisely no-one's surprise, UBI proven to work...again.

TAX THE FUCKING RICH YOU COWARDS

Ukraine was just knifed in the back. Essential reading on yesterday's deal open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

The most brutal assassination in Assassin's Creed history

Nice to see Gary moving from educating into activism. 45min video, but worth it - includes full primer for people who don't have an unhealthy obsession with politics like I do... youtu.be/rAb_p5DCC3E

they're destroying narrative design / games writing as a professional discipline ... for this. great work 100/10 no notes, industry leaders

This joke is agelessly impossibly old, but is the glue that holds every dev team together. It communicates the gallows humour and nihilism that has powered the development of every game you ever loved.

Had a great time recording this episode of Anything Could Happen! I play governor Storm, desperate for re-election. Host: Oscar Clark Cast: @qixotl.bsky.social @feyearth.bsky.social @gaskinator.bsky.social António Salreta Myself #AP #actualplay #anythingcanhappen #ttrpg youtu.be/PmtMGXXrs4Q?...

Anti-ICE protesters in California have shut down the 101 freeway in Los Angeles marching towards City Hall.

Rubgy tackled someone to the ground while wearing chainmail. I *think* @philfrancis.bsky.social forgave me.

This is out today!

I dreamed a LARP event set on an amazing private island with several biomes and labyrinthine caves. But I fell in an empty canal lock and died before time in. Disappointing. (No, IDK why a small island had a canal...my worldbuilding apparently suffers while asleep)

An incredibly well-researched piece on the horrors of Neil Gaiman. It is extremely upsetting and explicit. Please be careful reading it. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

Historical Palestinian game Dreams on a Pillow surpasses funding goal

'Dreams on a Pillow' is precisely the sort of thing the games industry SHOULD be making way more of, and is extremely deserving of your attention. It's close to its funding goal, so go help push it over? www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

The Climate Change Superfund Act is now law, and New York has fired a shot that will be heard round the world: the companies most responsible for the climate crisis will be held accountable, and New Yorkers will save $75 billion. www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/pre...

oh no

Reminder Superman is not a power fantasy, he's an altruism fantasy. The idea of someone with godlike powers using them solely for good (with an antagonist who is a billionaire, who by definition do the opposite) was dreamt up by Jewish kids in the 30s and its just as if not more relevant now.

Brief digression into politics. I don't support this but I am horrified by the mainstream media attempting to shoehorn this act into their typical "p5ych0 k!ll3r" playbook. I've seen them draw parallels between the crime and the fact he played Among Us, FFS. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...

Working in Unreal again. Blueprints still a painfully clumsy tool. Fiddly as fuck to build the simplest logic. Find References only searches locally, and now requires an additional click EVERY TIME to scan the whole project. And it's not even a reference search, just a string search...

Had a minor panic over the new photos app in iOS18, until I realised you can scroll to the bottom and turn all the automatic crap off. Apparently I've reached the age where change=bad :)

Latest game launched yesterday! DigVR is a cosy digger simulator that was actually super fun to work on. Getting fully editable terrain with flowing dirt running at a solid 72fps was a fun challenge. #vr youtu.be/XOi3xgK8IS0

Had a great weekend at "Against the Verdant" - played nearly a dozen different roles in one weekend...this is why I love crewing.

Have you ever seen or shared an 'oh no' cartoon? Did you know the creator is a queer Welsh artist? Did you know they're being agressively pursued & harassed w/lawsuits from a US organisation trying to steal their intellectual property? Did you know you can donate to cover the horrific legal costs?

Had a fun weekend being a zombie.