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Those lectures you're talking about, are any of them in western Europe by any chance?

10.03.2026 22:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I need to come back to this because of a neat little change openAi made. I no longer type continue. I click links gpt suggests itself. I am literally clicking through options. Lots of Is in this msg for the fact that I actually do hardly anything anymore.

04.03.2026 16:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh I've recently discovered the hobby of "creating" characters for role playing games with GenAI.
I'm barely doing more than typing *continue*. I'm not creating anything. I merely throw a half-baked idea at it and then I watch. And yes, I am entertained. But I haven't created a damn thing.

25.02.2026 08:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am so convinced we, that is urban folk, need more of this. Modes of play that make it accessible for us to think about how **we want** the city around us to be and feel.
Looking forward to this - and more of this!!

21.02.2026 09:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

From a players perspective I've always found a sort of double bite structure most convenient to follow. Take your picture: in your rules paragraph about circular, mention reasoning. Follow with the explainer on reasoning, mention works, works because, because circular.

13.02.2026 19:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When you say icehouse, do you mean old ice skating rigs or block ice storage halls? Only recently I found out these storage halls existed and I'm fascinated by that discovery.

12.02.2026 07:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why do we think things like moltbook and claws ๐Ÿฆž๐Ÿฆž๐Ÿฆž are a good thing?
Why do we give personal data to a neural network accessing the internet and vulnerable to prompt injection on telegram?

09.02.2026 15:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hence the low penetration of ice agents in heavily forested areas

23.01.2026 13:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh I'm already more than curious if an economy game is even 10% lethal league. The two genres really don't have much overlap so any exploitation of whatever little space there is sounds more than interesting!

23.01.2026 13:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

3/3 with the ship pals and Adam atoms cards you're not even terribly far off the lethal league style.

So, now I pray for a game that's lets me combo wombo yeet enemies out of the economy:D

22.01.2026 17:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

2/3actually. what I mean is either LOTS of money tokens I can cash in and pile up, or a big RA-like wooden thing I can bang on the table and shout BANK!

Also, this is a specific reference but the cover reminds me of a smash bros like PC game called lethal league. Maybe that's your soundtrack?

22.01.2026 17:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

1/2 I'm not in the business. Just following along a little, so this would be a customers pov: I like the invest deliver bank tagline with the explosion cover. It does make me read the Tag line more like invest. deliver. BANK!!

So I'd hope to have something in the game that *feels* A LOT.

22.01.2026 17:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I might be wrong but isn't it also no longer a roundabout? I propose Schuman slab yard

22.01.2026 17:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some of those seem familiar. As if I've seen them before. As if they were my..

19.12.2025 13:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Because I am quite curious in what molly house does for a game I am designing rn: what's it that makes it "only" an 8 for you?

02.12.2025 21:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lovely stuff man thanks a lot. Looking forward to trying it out!

28.11.2025 12:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Anatomy of a nonbiological thing

In this one-part post I complain about the fact that there are TOO MANY books and series and blogs called the anatomy of x. I'm no metaphysical physician, so why is your every story a metaphor of a body?

28.11.2025 12:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

EU, on we go, we've got work to do. A law needs passing!

23.11.2025 18:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's a curious one! I like it! Thanks for that :)

16.11.2025 19:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks Eric! I've never quite gotten used to playing boardgames digitally, particularly struggling to love tts. But I'll give BGA a try, thanks!

It's been a lovely welcome so far, love it here! :)

15.11.2025 15:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was surprised to see Tom rate it so highly!
I haven't played the tokc myself yet, but I've heard you guys and many others draw parallels to the Leder games. And I don't recall Tom being a huge fan of any of them.

So if you want, you can now say you've beaten them to the punch ;)

10.11.2025 13:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ah that's lovely, thanks a lot! I'll check out his stuff.

09.11.2025 19:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm awfully new to the game dev world and I feel like I've somehow fallen into a very deep hole here. But since I'm here, does anyone mind sharing who or what this Clowdus guy is about? It's been the third time this week I see them pop up here on my feed :)

07.11.2025 14:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To all game devs, board game devs in particular.
I'm as new as it gets to the game developing world.

Any advice on how to play test existing games without having to purchase all of them?

As in, I'm curious about the market mechanics in 3 games but not the games themselves.

Thanks in advance!

04.11.2025 13:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Little late and really only one cat in there. But if you're planning to raise a vicious monster, perch may be fun.

03.11.2025 16:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

last year at Essen, there was this kid from Holland making a cynical anti capitalist game, "Davos" I think. The game was simple enough, the art was AI but it almost had to be. Playing the game of making a game about playing the game of capitalism. It fit. But thats the only time I ever liked ai art.

03.11.2025 16:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Line of the day: hold that thought because I cannot hold the poop.

20.10.2025 18:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Secondary school teacher, the: Gdpr-apostle, sceptic of the realm, architect of the education hermitage.

Seriously, what do they do to teachers in training? Those poor souls drained of all creative will and flexibility.

14.10.2025 08:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Attending bubble seminars so you don't have to.

22.09.2025 13:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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United until 2029

29.07.2025 13:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0