The US picked a profoundly funny time to get really good at soccer

Cui bono, Latin for “what does Bono got out of this?”

How it feels to cite a lore doc during a meeting

Football trouble or Early Modern intrigue?

Life pivot to get a masters and start making games was worth it btw this shit rules

Have relatedly been doing my first Anbennar run as wyvern-riding, ostentatiously mustachioed abolitionist adventurers. 12/10 mod, would buy EU4 for this alone

One of the smaller, more whimsical joys of taking public transit to work is wondering if I’ve ever unknowingly encountered anyone on the train before

Happy Civ 7 Test of Time day to all who celebrate (meeeeee me me me me)

It’s really interesting to me how the best Paradox mods (Anbennar for EU4, Kaiserreich / OWB for HOI4) improve on their originals by using basically the same narrative frameworks (missions + focuses, respectively)

Dishonored 1 + 2 have such gorgeously expressive, painterly art direction that part of my brain reads it as cozy even when the games are depicting the most hellish urban dystopia imaginable

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Hanging out in Tsarist Russia, developing the “anti-Weezer artillery battery.” Everyone thinks I’m insane

Space Marine (watching me play Animal Crossing): Your island is infested with foul mutants. Me: They aren't mutants, that's just what animals look like in this game. Space Marine: I see. (Biskit asks me to give him a new catchphrase) Teach it to praise the Name of the Emperor.

[getting Paul Anderson confused]: One Kombat After Another

Commensals love being named Uth Shusgis

Round 2. Once more unto the breach!

Political/country titles are often super misapplied. Protectorate / Lord Protector is the most common “that’s not what that means” imo, but people also often play fast and loose with, like, Federation/Confederation

forgot the most important of the genre

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My medal is for inconspicuous gallantry but your thing is cool, too

[Tyranny, but it's Steely Dan voice]: Are you reigning in the Tiers

I’ve got an exciting interview today, everyone say “Good luck, Stephen”

Denver: Become Bronco

Directing people to a pretty ugly itch page hasn't been great, so I made a new website where you can find all my published games, writing, and videos! stephenfriedrich.com

awoke in a cold sweat tormented by the words "Doge Andrea Gritty"

Lower Carolina. Upper Carolina. Carolina-Westphalia. Most Serene Republic of Carolina.

My fiancée has been avoiding the Dune Part 3 trailer so she isn’t spoiled on what happens and I don’t know how to tell her that that’s literally the plot of Dune Messiah

Top 10 video game weapons (definitive): 1. Longbow, massed 2. Lightsaber 3. Canister shot 4. Titan railgun (Command and Conquer 3) 5. Couched lance (Mount and Blade) 6. Radzig’s longsword (KCD 2) 7. Comrade’s Hammer (C2077) 8. Longbow, individual 9. GLOO cannon (Prey) 10. That Gun (New Vegas)

ngl the updated branding for @bsky.app is bold

ork novelist Evelyn WAAAGH

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NYRB embracing @nogodsnomayors.com thought

BREAKING: A Delaware judge has ruled that Krafton must *reinstate* Ted Gill, the fired CEO of Subnautica 2 maker Unknown Worlds. In the ruling, the judge accuses Krafton's CEO of using ChatGPT to come up with a strategy to get out of paying Unknown Worlds a $250 million bonus. Story coming shortly

Finally watched the first three episodes of Knight of the Seven Kingdoms last night. Feral Lyonel Baratheon where have you been all my life

mood whiplash baby let’s go

the 1947 National Security Act which gave us the permanent standing military should be seen in effect as the opening salvo against Congressional war powers and likely where the undoing rests

I would pay money to hear Kevin Roose explain what punctuation is missing from that sentence

“That’s one Blood Work listener for every twelve people. The only question is, how do we reach the other eleven?”

[annoying guy at the AJJ concert] actually the parasympathetic response takes you *out* of fight or flight mode

Not only did the US, per its own ‘intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE. www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...

Computer: Tea; iced; from Panera; that kills you. Authorization code Picard-Gamma-Seven.

if we’ve met this is probably the least surprising list of all time

Lorem ipsum dolor dollar bills y'all

As I sit on a train heading for Toronto, I'm once again sharing my starter pack for Canadian game studies folks! 🎮 Follow to learn more about cool games research. ❗Ping me if you think you should be on this (very inclusive) list.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

done been birth