Here is a little bit of @duncanfyfe.net's afterword for "How Can We Bear to Throw Anything Away?"

nobody else is ever going to attain this combination of visionary genius and stepping on your own dick in a single reply tweet

I'm going to be showing my boardgame about sausages at the V&A on the 27th! blog.vbuckenham.com/return-of-th...

looking at the tits I've grown like

just finishing up lunch... at a nice restaurant... sitting outside the restaurant... without a jacket on. I can't believe it. this is spring??

Carmilla 🩸🖤

purchased this

saw The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover last night, and, in short: wow (in long: letterboxd.com/vtwentyone/f...)

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

rat chaos (2012)

when I get sad and frustrated with future predictions of #ai bros online, I go back and watch this doc again

There are many devils in the dank, latent realm of LLMs. But the reinforcement-learning-human-feedback devil is one of the worst, most craven and conniving of these devils.

the surprise/non surprise when you head in to install something in the morning, expect to be finished by lunch, and then actually finish at 5

New story out today in @clarkesworldmagazine.com ! "Person, Place, Thing": go, read, enjoy! clarkesworldmagazine.com/lingen_03_26/

look at this nice set of drawers I got! thanks @undividual.bsky.social!

here is my recent blogpost on AI being an excuse blog.vbuckenham.com/make-a-chatb...

I was always kind of ??? about the temperance movement and Prohibition but these days when I think about gambling, I feel like I get it

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

Richard Garfield's been explaining how luck & skill are not opposites for well over a decade, but I still encounter designers & players who haven't internalized this lesson. I suspect it's the number one reason people tend to underrate the amount of strategy in lighter games.

ME: (first day practicing Bug Law) May it please the Court— BUG JUDGE: (sternly) Bug Court.

starter opinions: I'll have the soup, please

honestly a lot of respect for this. it's a good cube!

happy about Gorton and Denton. happy with the margin. eat shit Matt Goodwin, and while you're at it, please continue to look pathetic making racist excuses for your loss. hope we can bring this energy to the local elections.

it's the same thing everywhere. "if i don't win, the election wasn't legitimate."

I turned this thread into a blog post. Why don't people write picture books for adults? blog.vbuckenham.com/i-oiled-a-lo...

today i learned that M&Ms have military origins? they got the idea from seeing Smarties in the Spanish Civil War, and then during WW2, they were only available as military rations. they solve the critical problem of "how to distribute chocolate in hot countries without it melting".

hello! meet MOSS, the newest painting toy from @brainfruit.bsky.social MOSS is a pixel art creator with programmable brushes and shareable pads. it's kind of like if procreate and asesprite got together and made something weird together. www.moss.town

obsessed with this album atm henogledd.bandcamp.com/album/discom...

The idea of a legacy cube (in the sense of a legacy board game) has been circling around my friends for a while but we've always struggled with how exactly it should work. The idea of stickers isn't a new idea, but tying the prize structure to the cube's legacy? What a BRILLIANT idea.

This is what the dialogue tool looks like in our Mermaid Mask Unity project. I write the script directly into these boxes, select facial expressions if it's for an examine box, as these are, and I include voice directions, since it later gets exported as a script for the voice actors

about me: i know enough to put a half twist into a wire when i'm coiling it up to put it away, and i can do that pretty well if all the half twists go in the same direction, but i'm a bit clumsy if i'm trying to do the half twist in the other direction on every other coil.

new blog post, a conversation i had recently about the use of AI chatbots in public service provision blog.vbuckenham.com/make-a-chatb...

thinking about how many more people are using the CLI, are using tmux, are interested in API access to services, are building their own little tools and dashboards and integrations. kind of a failure on the part of programming that it took AI to make this stuff accessible to people.

Across my interviews with developers, AND across my conversations with people who were not as of several months ago developers and now are (???), this motivation effect is clear. I am baffled that psychology is not more interested in this: the expectation of what's possible is changing for people

It feels out of fashion but a reminder that if you want to be a woman you can just be one.

[to the tune of Sophia Foster-Dimino's Sex Fantasy] I oiled a lock.

I was asked by a respectable publication to write about "tradwives" last fall and my reply included these paragraphs. it's possible to say no

Me: Have you heard about the killings? NPC: Right nasty business. ‘Orrible! Me: What can you tell me about the local religious sect? NPC: Strange lot. Give me the creeps. What’s it like to be real? Me: Huh? NPC: To kiss a bloke. Me: Uh NPC: To feel a bloke’s ‘and on the nape of yer neck.

thinking about power law distributions for success, and how breaking down barriers between markets means that all the more success goes to the biggest titles. when it's the number of viable games and studios that determines how many interesting things are happening.

hi, I'm jana. I love your glasses. don't you think it's beautiful that the thing that comes between us is what allows us to see each other more clearly. don't you think it's beautiful, that there is a degree of intimacy at which we take them off anyway, because touch is all we need

abstract art

Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱

i guess for a long time we just assumed that customers wanting to play and pay money for games would be enough reason for profit motivated companies to keep making games and now we are finding that's not really true

"Three-ness, in games, is a telltale sign that the designers were anxious about whether their games were long enough (and hence commercial enough), but not confident that their games were interesting enough to support more than three of anything." foddy.net/blog/2021/09...

this was good last year! i recommend it this year! seems like it's growing in a really healthy way.

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