Charlie Hall

More layoffs at Valnet. They could use representation, I bet.

830792528 Polygon The Rise Of The Video Game Union : Nicole Carpenter : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive “The Rise of the Video Game Union” is an all-in-one explainer on why game workers are unionizing. Polygon created a zine of the original story that is...

With GDC only a few days away, I added @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social's brilliant gaming union zine/explainer to archive.org. The previous host for the PDF added a monthly subscription.

Please feel free to print and share as you wish!

This was literally my purpose at the last gig. And that paid function no longer exists.

Coal miner slash punch press operator. And a print-making local journalist.

i really wish pr stopped making press do things with content creators/influencers. two different perspectives going for different things shouldn't be treated as the same, the functions we serve are different.

An expo hall booth featuring Rowan Rook & Deckard roleplaying game products.

if you're at GAMA EXPO, come see us at the @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social booth at 371 🥰 we will sell you extremely high quality and wonderful games from geniuses like @gshowitt.bsky.social and @kierongillen.bsky.social

Introducing the Roca Sifter: Turn Card Piles into Profit We’re excited to announce the launch of the Roca Sifter, a new robotic solution designed to make identification, sifting, pricing, and listing inventory easy.

It's a Spinning Jenny or a cotton gin, but for cracking packs. Every day we stray further, etc... seller.tcgplayer.com/blog/introdu...

why starship consoles explode

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Gang, the samples that we receive as journalists are not a profit center. If I can't donate product I've used to do my work, or if I can't warehouse it, I don't get to make money on it. That's not how this works. If you're doing that and consider yourself a member of the media... please don't.

It's not. Sorry. Back to my cave.

Consumptive Capitalism On MAHA and Expensive Suffering -- A Guest Post by Sara Silverstein

Professor @sarasilverstein.bsky.social is someone to whom I listen on issues of health and history. This essay helps us to situate the present American health drama in the history of health care, and thereby to see much more clearly what we face.
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Gen Con housing lottery slot: Sunday at 4:28 pm. Haaaaahahahahahahahahahhahahaha *snort* ahahahahahaha.

Here's what TikTok has been doing to our work & art without our consent.

More soon from the edge of the Milky Way. Distant Worlds 3 has only just begun!

An Elite Dangerous player discovered a way to write new stories into the margins of the 12-year-old space sandbox, and now thousands are testing it How the nearly 9,000 players on the Distant Worlds 3 expedition are contributing to the birth of something new.

Thanks @tjcwilde.bsky.social for the opportunity to share something with the @pcgamer.com audience. Latest from @frontierdev.bsky.social's Elite Dangerous is the breakout success of MetaElite, a player-made engine for telling stories on top of the 12-year-old spacefaring MMO.

Head and shoulders image of a white haired man with a white goatee looking off into the distance to the right. Some buildings and a bit of water are visible behind him. Ryan Dancey, former COO of Alderac Entertainment Group.

Text from a LinkedIn post which says: Ryan Dancey Author Chief Operating Officer at Alderac Entertainment Group I have zero reason to believe that an AI couldn't "come up with Tiny Towns or Flip Seven or Cubitos". I can prompt any of several AIs RIGHT NOW and get ideas for games as good as those. The gaming industry doesn't exist because humans create otherwise unobtainable ideas. It exists because many many previous games exist, feed into the minds of designers, who produce new variants on those themes. People then apply risk capital against those ideas to see if there's a product market fit. Sometimes there is, and sometimes there is not. (In fact, much more often than not). Extremely occasionally (twice in my lifetime: D&D and Magic: the Gathering) a human has produced an all new form of gaming entertainment. Those moments are so rare and incandescent that they echo across decades. Game publishing isn't an industry of unique special ideas. It's an industry about execution, marketing, and attention to detail. All things AIs are great at.

Ryan Dancey, a more than 30-year veteran of the tabletop gaming industry, has lost his COO job at publisher AEG a day after saying AI could generate game ideas as good as his company’s titles Tiny Towns and Cubitos:

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I'm not a games journalist. I'm a podcaster. The way I want to preserve these little pieces of gamers' memories is this show and I'm feeling so fulfilled by it right now.

Folks seem to like it. If you haven't given it a shot, search for "Last Save Lounge" wherever you get your podcasts.

Ah, come on Gen Con... 'When searching for a downtown hotel room, Thursday through Sunday does not meet the new four-night minimum stay requirements. Make sure to include Wednesday, and make your 2026 Gen Con the best one yet!'

Whatsa Camp Nerdly?

Definitely had an “In Case of Emergency” boot floppy ticky-tacked to my dorm wall.

Charlie Hall on B-17 Bomber for the Intellivision Spotify video

My good friend @turbohoodie.com invited me onto his new podcast, Last Save Lounge, and it's got such a good vibe. I can't thank you enough for the chance to chat, Aaron. After all that's happened in the last year it was good to talk about stuff that brings me so much joy.

So much for that empty day to catch up on freelance work. Harumph.

This Year's Oscar Nominees Have Real Fight In Them, Even If Hollywood Doesn't An introduction to The Work, a column about resistance in fiction

introducing my column about resistance in fiction for @aftermath.site. I’m calling it THE WORK

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So like a Sherwin Williams… right?

WOW

Remember when we had to be forced to like smartphones, those were the days

I almost got their new X-Mid, but then I realized it wasn’t the best for 6 1/2 foot tall people. What tent do you have?

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Emptying the office and turning junk into new backpacking gear. Let's see if this fits.

I feel this. It's so hard to remain immersed in a space that is so broad, so multifaceted. Tabletop feels exactly the same way.