Can’t count until 7 I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 9th 2025 (Medium), in 02:05 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Bei der «Stadtbild»-Debatte ging es stets um Bilder, um rassistische Phantasmen der Reinigung wie um die nostalgische Sehnsucht nach einer Vergangenheit, die nur in Bildern existiert. AI Slop nimmt nun im Imaginären vorweg, was man für die Wirklichkeit plant: die ethnische Säuberung der Innenstädte

Naming my buildings in a game be like

I like that they chose a still from a trailer of a game that is absolutely never coming out

Ew... and tl;dr the classic 'here are some facts from Germany's own history rather than anything about the Middle East, and that is why being Pro-Palestine is anti-semitic'

For some reason there are so many of these air mail envelopes in my current office at the uni, so I will send all my official letters and such exclusively in them to look like a time traveler

Serious face because she is smelling the original contents of this box (fresh mussels)

This evening! Talk by @apolitopoulos.bsky.social on the past of play and playing with the past in videogames @uni-freiburg.de

My tiny Over the Garden Wall fan game is now available for FREE! 🎉 juliaminamata.itch.io/otgw Thanks so much @patrickmchale.bsky.social, @forkfrenzy.bsky.social, @blastingcompany.bsky.social, Elijah Wood, @clickpulp.com, @grundislav.games. Thanks @requiemcafe.bsky.social & @mossmouth.bsky.social.

Cat ✅ Blanket ✅

He should call it And Another Thing

Checked out the Booktok section at a bookstore today for research purposes. What's up with all these ugly sprayed edges

Almost a null ouvert hand, but it’s the LOTR trick-taking game (except I take no tricks)

After a long gap, pleased to share: Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me. We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial. games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...

I was interviewed for this article in Wired about how the far right is using and abusing LOTR in their social posts to gain support for their bullshit:

deluxe expansions are getting out of hand

For the past decade, I've been slowly cooking a small and humble book. Part (alternative) history, part analysis, and part social critique, this is a look at what games also are and have always been. ZEN AND SLOW GAMES Out 20/1/2026 by MIT Press mitpress.mit.edu/978026255356...

been feeling kinda low, so I went to cook something nice. First container I open: full of moths. 🤢

me to others: it's hard right now. be gentle with yourself me to me: wtf is wrong with you

Das Handbuch Comicforschung, an dem wir lange gearbeitet haben, erscheint im Dezember! 4 Herausgebende, 37 Beiträge, 600 Seiten, ein halbes Kilo Buch mit einem fantastischen Cover von Alice Sokal. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

objects don't enlarge and float to the center of the screen and rotate after you pick them up like they used to in games. we can trace all of the industry's ills to this

After-spiel shelfie (only 3 new games, but it still required a complete reordering to fit them in)

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

Replayed a few games I’d tried as demos in past years at Spiel. This one was in an early stage last year, and I couldn’t find any info online after, but it was back (the devs even remembered my group 🥺) and now has a Gamefound page. Follow if you love complex, limited-communication co-ops like I do

Frodon

The main reason I came here

Spiel-bound

There is a storm warning for the entire day today, and the janitor has been blowing leaves right outside my bedroom window since 7 am. Nothing can stop him

Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee, especially if I'm solving my clues by sam while drinking it

The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater

This evening: Talk by @jmittell.bsky.social in Freiburg: "Complex TV, Continued: American Television Storytelling in the 21st Century" Admission free & no registration required

This sounds gross but it reminds me of the discontinued ristorante chocolate pizza (which was good) :(

When I see men in games reminisce fondly of the “golden age” of game magazines I just think of shit like this and remember that game magazines actively put me off playing videogames as a kid.

Istanbul is way too crowded and smells like an ashtray but at least it’s still nice to sit on the side seats of the ferry at sunset

These get easier when your phone screen isn’t completely smashed I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 11th 2025) in 05:54 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Cave cats

Lost one of my fave earrings when I was in Malta and was so bummed. Today I went to the store I got them (in Turkey) to beg if they could make me another (they were handmade) and they had a random single from the same pair. Not a set 😮 Wtf but okay

DiGRA 2026 (Ireland) CfP is now live Full paper and abstracts deadline: 1 December 2025 Workshop proposals deadline: 15 February 2026 www.digraconference2026.com #games #gamestudies

In Turkey after some time, and, as yuzh, I can't seem to keep up with what a particular amount of liras could buy or which websites/apps are still (or now) banned

My motivation: Statistics are useful for many things, however sometimes it’s important _not to zoom out_ and to stay with one name at a time. Instead of comparing this list with other lists, to look closely at each item in the list. The interaction of turning the crank feels very powerful to me.

Lifting weights so that I can carry Holly's zooplus packages upstairs

Too cold to bike without gloves (apparently) 🥶

I was looking up if Spiel Essen posted anything about why they removed 4-day passes and I wasn't even thinking I could be there all four days this time but this explanation...yikes 😬 (I'd say that's the whole purpose of a pass)

#Cfp: Call for Book Chapters - #videogames, #gamedesign, game communities, & playthings that trouble what we mean by #nostalgia “ #Games and its Nostalgia for the Future” is edited by yours truly and likely published with Play Story Press. Abstracts due Nov 3, 2025 Full CfP: shorturl.at/NCkzU

Bruh

Someone left their tribbles in front of the gym

Time to share some of my HP with others. Also, who should I send a blood donation-themed card? 🤔

The new issue of Countertext includes a paper by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone and myself on libraries in digital games - their significances, (non-)functions, meanings. It's not open-access (boo), but ask and you shall receive www.euppublishing.com/toc/count/11/2

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.