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If you're in or around Galway tomorrow, check this out!
From the game director of award-winning Monument Valley 3.
Join Game Director and Designer Jennifer Estaris in an interactive session developed as part of the Citizens Assemble Game Jam.
https://w…

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

from my link log —
Game math: precise control over numeric springing.
https://allenchou.net/2015/04/game-math-precise-control-over-numeric-springing/
saved 2025-05-21

Game Math: Precise Control over Numeric Springing | Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou | 周明倫
[latexpage] This post is part of my Game Math Series. Source files are on GitHub Check out this post if you want to see more visual examples of numeric springing. Numeric springing is a very powerful tool for procedural animation. You specify the initial value, initial velocity, target value, and some spring-related parameters; the result

NFL picks: Predicting every game, final 2025 record for each NFC team https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-picks-predicting-every-game-final-2025-record-for-each-nfc-team

Bayesian Optimization-based Search for Agent Control in Automated Game Testing
Carlos Celemin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13121 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1…

Bayesian Optimization-based Search for Agent Control in Automated Game Testing
This work introduces an automated testing approach that employs agents controlling game characters to detect potential bugs within a game level. Harnessing the power of Bayesian Optimization (BO) to execute sample-efficient search, the method determines the next sampling point by analyzing the data collected so far and calculates the data point that will maximize information acquisition. To support the BO process, we introduce a game testing-specific model built on top of a grid map, that featu…

A survey by Google Cloud and The Harris Poll finds 87% of game developers are using AI agents in their workflows; 63% expressed concerns about data ownership (Vic Hood/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/87-of-game-devel…

87% of game developers are using AI agents in their workflows, says new survey
A new survey by Google Cloud and The Harris Poll has found that 87% of developers are using AI agents in their workflow…

Game of trolls. Columna de Paula Escobar.
https://wallabag.altgr.xyz/share/687d1e055a7b68.52154728
Original 🔗
htt…

Raiders get two linemen back from injury ahead of final preseason game https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/19/raiders-get-two-linemen-back-from-injury-ahead-of-fin…

Cowboys cut ties with 2 players before they even played a game for Dallas https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-cut-ties-2-players-played-game-dallas/721b0c705bae2efb04eab8a6

Just finished Transiruby, along with a 9k-line journal file for it. I almost got 100, but not quite; I don't have time to go back to it before the semester starts though.
If you like exploration games, it's an excellent one, with great level design & tons of secrets. It actually makes you do significant secret-finding and map-reading in order to beat the game, not just for extras or a special ending, which is something that a lot of metroidvania games since Super Metroid don't do. My one complaint is that the map system isn't perfect, and finding obscure secrets to progress is fine when the map hints at them but much less fun when it hints incorrectly (I looked one progress item up in a speedrun video because of this).
Decently cool movement mechanics, although the combat does take a back seat and almost all of the bosses are easy (I beat the final two bosses in the third and second tries respectively). I don't think that's any better or worse than a game like Nine Sols where the final boss took me hundreds of tries though; just a different flavor. The world-building isn't as rich as the more epic metroidvanias like Hollow Knight or Lone Fungus (or again, Nine Sols) but again I'm fine with that. It's just a more casual game that has really excellent level design & exploration poetics.
#AmPlaying

Neues Spiel von Apple – aber nur für Abonnenten
Apples auf dem Entwicklertreffen WWDC angekündigtes Emoji-Casual-Game ist pünktlich zum Welt-Emoji-Tag in dieser Woche verfügbar. Es bekommt aber nicht jeder.
https://www.

IC reverse engineering software is absolute crack for neurospicy brains.
Every time I'm on a project for work where I get to use it, I have to force myself to put it down when I'm supposed to be done with work for the day. You can probably tell how that's working out given that it's 2230 local time.
It's the most addictive puzzle game out there by a massive margin. There's the "fix stitch errors" mini-game, the "fine tune inter layer alignm…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Beastie Boys feat. Santigold:
🎵 Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win
#NowPlaying #BeastieBoys #Santigold
https://kraddy.bandcamp.com/track/beastie-boys-dont-play-no-game-that-i-cant-win-feat-santigold-kraddy-and-z-trip-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BKEIdzH1EuGoDxhyxHL9V

A Game About Digging A Hole (PC/Mobile, XPd on PC) You spot an ad for a house that claims there's treasure buried in the back yard. After paying an oddly low price, it's time to get digging!
So this is a fairly short (there's even an achieve for beating it in a half hour) very simple game that's literally about digging a hole, lol. Very light sim game, you start out with a basic ass shovel and with some elbow grease and selling of ores you find, you can upgrade not only…

2025 NFL preseason, Week 3: How to watch every game, what to know for all 32 teams https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-preseason-week-3-how-to-watch-every-game-what-to-know-for-all-32-teams

Defining the Game Producer: A Mapping of Key Characteristics and Differentiators of the Professional Behind Digital Game Production
Rafael C. Lopes, Danilo M. Ribeiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14409

Defining the Game Producer: A Mapping of Key Characteristics and Differentiators of the Professional Behind Digital Game Production
Introduction: As digital games grow in complexity, the role of the Game Producer becomes increasingly relevant for aligning creative, technical, and business dimensions. Objective: This study aimed to identify and map the main characteristics, skills, and competencies that define the Digital Game Producer profile. Methodology: A qualitative investigation was conducted with 11 semi-structured interviews, analyzed through Grounded Theory to build categories grounded in professional practice. Resu…

I'm not sure what Exodus is as it's a Book, a Desktop D&D variant and all marketing a video game with a Founder's deadline of the end of this month,
I've read the novel which was interesting and entertaining but I don't think the characters have that much to do with the video game, though the classes of characters do.
Anyhow I can't recommend the game as it doesn't seem to be released yet but here's a link which gets you the Founder's site.…

I've been playing through "Haiku, the Robot" recently and seeing this message in the Catacombs got a good laugh out of me. No, Dylan, sadly it's not! 😅
#HaikuTheRobot #HollowKnight

Warner Bros. Games restructures its operations into teams based on its four key franchises: Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Mortal Kombat, and the DC Universe (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/w…

Warner Bros. Games Restructures: 'Game of Thrones,' Harry Potter, 'Mortal Kombat'
Warner Bros. Games has set a new leadership team and restructured around Harry Potter, "Game of Thrones," "Mortal Kombat" and the DC Universe IPs.

The Verge’s open graph description savagely drags Death Stranding with “Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding is being turned into a video game.” 🤣
I should give the game another shot, but 2 hours of “cinematic” at the start is too much for this old man.

Matrix-Game 2.0: An Open-Source, Real-Time, and Streaming Interactive World Model
Xianglong He, Chunli Peng, Zexiang Liu, Boyang Wang, Yifan Zhang, Qi Cui, Fei Kang, Biao Jiang, Mengyin An, Yangyang Ren, Baixin Xu, Hao-Xiang Guo, Kaixiong Gong, Cyrus Wu, Wei Li, Xuchen Song, Yang Liu, Eric Li, Yahui Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13009

Matrix-Game 2.0: An Open-Source, Real-Time, and Streaming Interactive World Model
Recent advances in interactive video generations have demonstrated diffusion model's potential as world models by capturing complex physical dynamics and interactive behaviors. However, existing interactive world models depend on bidirectional attention and lengthy inference steps, severely limiting real-time performance. Consequently, they are hard to simulate real-world dynamics, where outcomes must update instantaneously based on historical context and current actions. To address this, we pr…

After recently having played that Alien horror game I’m not sure if I should trust this

Alex Rivera mashes the spin button until he scores his 2nd TD of the game https://www.nfl.com/videos/alex-rivera-mashes-the-spin-button-until-he-scores-his-2nd-td-of-the-game

Wild looking game 'Time Flies' coming to PC & consoles later this month. You experience the life of a fly and can do all kinds of things.
The game's website is pretty cool: https://timeflies.buzz
And here's the trailer:

Time Flies – A game about our limited time in this world.
Coming July 31st to PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and computers. A game by Michael Frei and Raphaël Munoz, produced by Playables.

I built another game show buzzer system and wrote a post about it, and then noodled a few ideas for the next build so now I need to build another one.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/07/15/game-show-buzzer-system-v3/

Game Show Buzzer System V3
Oh yeah, another Game Show (or Quiz Show?) Buzzer System…

Watching the Padres at #Dodgers, aside from it should be a good game I’m wondering if the SNLA (a team subsidiary I assume) announcers will talk about the big news story.

Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring real-time game data and analysis to coaches and players using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI (Ali McCadden/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/microsoft-nfl-ai-analysis.html

Microsoft and NFL announce multiyear partnership to use AI to enhance game day analysis
Microsoft and the NFL announced a multiyear extension of their partnership to bring real-time analysis to the sidelines using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI.

Switch4EAI: Leveraging Console Game Platform for Benchmarking Robotic Athletics
Tianyu Li, Jeonghwan Kim, Wontaek Kim, Donghoon Baek, Seungeun Rho, Sehoon Ha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13444

Switch4EAI: Leveraging Console Game Platform for Benchmarking Robotic Athletics
Recent advances in whole-body robot control have enabled humanoid and legged robots to execute increasingly agile and coordinated movements. However, standardized benchmarks for evaluating robotic athletic performance in real-world settings and in direct comparison to humans remain scarce. We present Switch4EAI(Switch-for-Embodied-AI), a low-cost and easily deployable pipeline that leverages motion-sensing console games to evaluate whole-body robot control policies. Using Just Dance on the Nint…

Well. That happened.
#Bofhle 1136 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Happy #SysadminDay!
https://sysarmy.com/bofhle

Played around 1 hour and I finished the #game with one blink of eye.
Never played this #Mario but It is too short...
I played a #DX rom hack to got colorized experience.
But anyways is …

We are doing our first Xogot game jam!
https://itch.io/jam/xogot-jam

A Xogot Game Jam
A game jam from 2025-06-20 to 2025-07-14 hosted by Xogot. A Xogot Game Jam Build a game with Godot on your iPad! Join us for our first-ever Xogot Game Jam: 10 days of building, experimenting, and sharing game...

Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques: a game-changer in Digital marketing for shop
Suzan abbas Abdullah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11705 https://arxiv.o…

Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques: a game-changer in Digital marketing for shop
The quick growth of shops using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques has changed digital marketing activities and changed how businesses interact and reach their consumers. (AI) techniques are reshaping digital interactions between shops and consumers interact digitally by providing a more efficient and customized experience, fostering deeper engagement and more informed decision-making. This study investigates how (AI) techniques affect consumer interaction and decision-making over purchase…

Idk how trails in the sky could be any longer. This game had sooo much text. Though perhaps full voice acting will make it less tedious because it was good but took so long.
https://www.…

Choosing the Right Engine in the Virtual Reality Landscape
Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13116 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Choosing the Right Engine in the Virtual Reality Landscape
Virtual reality (VR) development relies on game engines to provide real-time rendering, physics simulation, and interaction systems. Among the most widely used game engines, Unreal Engine and Unity dominate the industry, offering distinct advantages in graphics rendering, performance optimization, usability, resource requirements, and scalability. This study presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of both engines, evaluating their capabilities and trade-offs through empirical assessments …

Former Chiefs, Raiders wide receiver handed three-game suspension for 2025 NFL season https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/former-chiefs-raiders-wide-receiver-…

calm up with the frow show, 3 hours of new music & fresh perspectives on the sky, from now 'til midnight on @…. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250819

“It’s almost as if a game is being played, that they’re deciding to shoot the head today, the neck tomorrow, the testicles the day after.”
The IDF have released a statement to the BBC categorically rejecting Professor Maynard’s claims.

Mario Kart World: completed!
Hah. As if. And yet, I've seen the credits, unlocked the special cup, and have gold trophies displayed for all grands prix and knockout tours. This was done on the medium difficulty. By all my usual metrics, I've completed the game. But Mario Kart's not like that, and Mario Kart World is doubly not like that. The real game in Mario Kart appears at 150cc, the hardest difficulty level, when not only does your kart travel faster (to the extent…

Ensured Energy: A simulation game to elicit preferences around Swiss energy transition pathways
Toby Simpson, Saara Jones, Gracia Br\"uckmann, Walid El-Ajou, Erwan Moreira, Borja Martinez Oltra, Rolf Krause, Michael Multerer, Isabelle Stadelmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12799

Ensured Energy: A simulation game to elicit preferences around Swiss energy transition pathways
The 2015 Paris Agreement on global warming specifies national objectives for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. In support of Switzerland's energy and climate strategy for 2050, researchers investigate scenarios for the transition of energy systems towards a higher share of renewables, assessing their social, environmental and economic impact. Their results guide stakeholders and policy makers in designing resilient and sustainable systems. Political scientists use surveys to quantify p…

Spouse always wins
Words With Friends gets it.

Can anyone recommend any games similar to Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga?
It doesn't have to be a Nintendo game, just something with a similar play style.
#Games #Nintendo

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#FortuneCookiesForCharacters

So I had this terrible idea a few years ago to write some infrastructure automation that provisions a new compute instance, sets up secrets storage, configures IAM roles, authorizes the new instance to be able to provision new instance and roles via infra-as-code automation, and then the new instance tears down the instance and roles that created it, before then creating its own new compute instance, etc
Like a self-propagating glider in Conway's Game of Life, except with cloud inf…

Pacers crush Thunder, force first NBA Finals Game 7 since 2016; NFL quarterback tier rankings

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/pacers-

ist bereits lang im sogenannten Game

Game-Theoretic and Reinforcement Learning-Based Cluster Head Selection for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Network
Mehrshad Eskandarpour, Saba Pirahmadian, Parham Soltani, Hossein Soleimani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12707

Game-Theoretic and Reinforcement Learning-Based Cluster Head Selection for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Network
Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is critical to network lifetime and data delivery. However, the primary impediment to the durability and dependability of these sensor nodes is their short battery life. Currently, power-saving algorithms such as clustering and routing algorithms have improved energy efficiency in standard protocols. This paper proposes a clustering-based routing approach for creating an adaptive, energy-efficient mechanism. Our system employs a multi-step clustering st…

Nice! They spun off the "Crowd Control" episode of Game Changer into its own show (same name)!
Definitely enjoyed that episode, so we'll see what happens with the standalone series.
#DropoutTV #GameChanger

Feedback Linearization for Replicator Dynamics: A Control Framework for Evolutionary Game Convergence
Adil Faisal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12583 https://…

Feedback Linearization for Replicator Dynamics: A Control Framework for Evolutionary Game Convergence
This paper demonstrates the first application of feedback linearization to replicator dynamics, driving the evolution of non-convergent evolutionary games to systems with guaranteed global asymptotic stability.

BBC radio 4 now.
Prof Maynard, British surgeon describing injuries of teenage boys collecting food on Gaza.
Israeli army playing a game.
Today they shoot heads, yesterday testicles, another day abdomens....
It's a game.
Shots from soldiers, shots from drones.
This in addition to previous pattern of blast injuries.
All that in addition to malnutrition and starvation of babies.
International doctors have baby formula feed stolen by Israeli border con…

Can't Make it to the Dallas Cowboys Game? Ways to Engage with Your Favorite Team on and Around Game Day https://insidethestar.com/cant-make-it-to-the-dallas-cowboys-game-ways-to-engage-with-your-favorite-team-on-an…

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Former NFL running back Adrian Peterson gets in fist fight over poker game

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-nfl-running-back-adrian-pet…

Raiders vs Cardinals schedule, TV channel, time for NFL preseason game https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/nfl/cardinals/2025/08/19/las-vegas-raiders-arizona-cardinals-tv-channel-time-nfl-preseason/85…

The First Tree (Multi, XPd on PC)
Play as a mother fox trying to find her kits. As you explore the world, you'll also uncover the relationship of a son and his estranged father. Yep, it's a "feels" game, so be prepared.
Game is set in Alaska, and even tho the art style is quite "simplistic", it certainly conveys the feeling of remote snowy wilderness well. As you begin the journey, it becomes apparent very quickly that this game is all about the feels. …

Nvidia, Discord, and Epic Games are testing game demos on Discord servers, letting users try a game without downloading it or signing up, starting with Fortnite (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/760894/play-

‘Play Instantly on Discord’: Fortnite will be Nvidia and Discord’s first instant game demo
Try before you try before you buy.

Why AI can't possibly make you more productive; long
#AI and "productivity", some thoughts:
Edit: fixed some typos.
Productivity is a concept that isn't entirely meaningless outside the context of capitalism, but it's a concept that is heavily inflected in a capitalist context. In many uses today it effectively means "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations." This is not really what it should mean: even in an anarchist utopia, people would care about things like how many shirts they can produce in a week, although in an "I'd like to voluntarily help more people" way rather than an "I need to meet this quota to earn my survival" way. But let's roll with this definition for a second, because it's almost certainly what your boss means when they say "productivity", and understanding that word in a different (even if truer) sense is therefore inherently dangerous.
Accepting "productivity" to mean "satisfying your boss' expectations," I will now claim: the use of generative AI cannot increase your productivity.
Before I dive in, it's imperative to note that the big generative models which most people think of as constituting "AI" today are evil. They are 1: pouring fuel on our burning planet, 2: psychologically strip-mining a class of data laborers who are exploited for their precarity, 3: enclosing, exploiting, and polluting the digital commons, and 4: stealing labor from broad classes of people many of whom are otherwise glad to give that labor away for free provided they get a simple acknowledgement in return. Any of these four "ethical issues" should be enough *alone* to cause everyone to simply not use the technology. These ethical issues are the reason that I do not use generative AI right now, except for in extremely extenuating circumstances. These issues are also convincing for a wide range of people I talk to, from experts to those with no computer science background. So before I launch into a critique of the effectiveness of generative AI, I want to emphasize that such a critique should be entirely unnecessary.
But back to my thesis: generative AI cannot increase your productivity, where "productivity" has been defined as "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations."
Why? In fact, what the fuck? Every AI booster I've met has claimed the opposite. They've given me personal examples of time saved by using generative AI. Some of them even truly believe this. Sometimes I even believe they saved time without horribly compromising on quality (and often, your boss doesn't care about quality anyways if the lack of quality is hard to measure of doesn't seem likely to impact short-term sales/feedback/revenue). So if generative AI genuinely lets you write more emails in a shorter period of time, or close more tickets, or something else along these lines, how can I say it isn't increasing your ability to meet your boss' expectations?
The problem is simple: your boss' expectations are not a fixed target. Never have been. In virtue of being someone who oversees and pays wages to others under capitalism, your boss' game has always been: pay you less than the worth of your labor, so that they can accumulate profit and thus more capital to remain in charge instead of being forced into working for a wage themselves. Sure, there are layers of management caught in between who aren't fully in this mode, but they are irrelevant to this analysis. It matters not how much you please your manager if your CEO thinks your work is not worth the wages you are being paid. And using AI actively lowers the value of your work relative to your wages.
Why do I say that? It's actually true in several ways. The most obvious: using generative AI lowers the quality of your work, because the work it produces is shot through with errors, and when your job is reduced to proofreading slop, you are bound to tire a bit, relax your diligence, and let some mistakes through. More than you would have if you are actually doing and taking pride in the work. Examples are innumerable and frequent, from journalists to lawyers to programmers, and we laugh at them "haha how stupid to not check whether the books the AI reviewed for you actually existed!" but on a deeper level if we're honest we know we'd eventually make the same mistake ourselves (bonus game: spot the swipe-typing typos I missed in this post; I'm sure there will be some).
But using generative AI also lowers the value of your work in another much more frightening way: in this era of hype, it demonstrates to your boss that you could be replaced by AI. The more you use it, and no matter how much you can see that your human skills are really necessary to correct its mistakes, the more it appears to your boss that they should hire the AI instead of you. Or perhaps retain 10% of the people in roles like yours to manage the AI doing the other 90% of the work. Paradoxically, the *more* you get done in terms of raw output using generative AI, the more it looks to your boss as if there's an opportunity to get enough work done with even fewer expensive humans. Of course, the decision to fire you and lean more heavily into AI isn't really a good one for long-term profits and success, but the modern boss did not get where they are by considering long-term profits. By using AI, you are merely demonstrating your redundancy, and the more you get done with it, the more redundant you seem.
In fact, there's even a third dimension to this: by using generative AI, you're also providing its purveyors with invaluable training data that allows them to make it better at replacing you. It's generally quite shitty right now, but the more use it gets by competent & clever people, the better it can become at the tasks those specific people use it for. Using the currently-popular algorithm family, there are limits to this; I'm not saying it will eventually transcend the mediocrity it's entwined with. But it can absolutely go from underwhelmingly mediocre to almost-reasonably mediocre with the right training data, and data from prompting sessions is both rarer and more useful than the base datasets it's built on.
For all of these reasons, using generative AI in your job is a mistake that will likely lead to your future unemployment. To reiterate, you should already not be using it because it is evil and causes specific and inexcusable harms, but in case like so many you just don't care about those harms, I've just explained to you why for entirely selfish reasons you should not use it.
If you're in a position where your boss is forcing you to use it, my condolences. I suggest leaning into its failures instead of trying to get the most out of it, and as much as possible, showing your boss very clearly how it wastes your time and makes things slower. Also, point out the dangers of legal liability for its mistakes, and make sure your boss is aware of the degree to which any of your AI-eager coworkers are producing low-quality work that harms organizational goals.
Also, if you've read this far and aren't yet of an anarchist mindset, I encourage you to think about the implications of firing 75% of (at least the white-collar) workforce in order to make more profit while fueling the climate crisis and in most cases also propping up dictatorial figureheads in government. When *either* the AI bubble bursts *or* if the techbros get to live out the beginnings of their worker-replacement fantasies, there are going to be an unimaginable number of economically desperate people living in increasingly expensive times. I'm the kind of optimist who thinks that the resulting social crucible, though perhaps through terrible violence, will lead to deep social changes that effectively unseat from power the ultra-rich that continue to drag us all down this destructive path, and I think its worth some thinking now about what you might want the succeeding stable social configuration to look like so you can advocate towards that during points of malleability.
As others have said more eloquently, generative AI *should* be a technology that makes human lives on average easier, and it would be were it developed & controlled by humanists. The only reason that it's not, is that it's developed and controlled by terrible greedy people who use their unfairly hoarded wealth to immiserate the rest of us in order to maintain their dominance. In the long run, for our very survival, we need to depose them, and I look forward to what the term "generative AI" will mean after that finally happens.

Following the Super Mario Land Series.
I beat, well is not the first time this great #game 'Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins' for GameBoy but this is a #rom #hack that brings color to the…

One of the main problems with Game of Thrones, and why I never got into it, is that there's too many characters. There's like a fuckin million characters and I'm not remembering all those names and connections. I can't even remember my parents' birthdays

Might be a good time to get caught up on this ARG if they are going to do more!
#criticalRole

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#FlightAttendantASongOrPoem

Kaiir Elam on 'exciting' first game action with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/kaiir-elam-on-exciting-first-game-action-with-cowboys

Viewfinder (Multi, XPd on PC) Inside a "holodeck" of some kind, use photos, paintings, screenshots, etc to change the world you're exploring, while looking for the much needed research to fix the outside world.
Finally something other than a sim game, lol. This is a really good puzzle adventure/walking.. sim 🤣 with a really neat hook. Any picture you can pick up (and later take) you can "plant" in the scene to alter the world, allowing you to solve the puzzles a…

Predicting when each NFL team will lose its first game: Steelers outlast almost everyone, Eagles lose early

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/predict

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Raiders EDGE Tyree Wilson had standout game in preseason Week 2 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/18/raiders-edge-tyree-wilson-had-standout-game-in-preseason-week-2/857…

Kaiir Elam on 'exciting' first game action with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/kaiir-elam-on-exciting-first-game-action-with-cowboys

Lions GM Brad Holmes praises rookie WR Isaac TeSlaa: He's got that dog in him https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-gm-brad-holmes-rookie-wr-isaac-teslaa-run-game-dog-in-him

Study: US kids who said their social media, phone, or video game use was "addictive" were 2x-3x more likely to have thoughts of suicide or self-harm by age 14 (Ellen Barry/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

Real Risk to Youth Mental Health Is ‘Addictive Use,’ Not Screen Time Alone, Study Finds
Researchers found children with highly addictive use of phones, video games or social media were two to three times as likely to have thoughts of suicide or to harm themselves.

Machinika: Atlas (PC/Mobile, XPd on PC)
You've just landed on the Atlas. Can you solve the puzzles and get this alien vessel working again?
This is another adventure/puzzle game, and is a direct sequel to Machinika: Museum. While you'd miss out on some back story context, I don't know that you HAVE to play the first game to understand this one. But it's also on Steam so if you wanna you can.
This game is much more Myst-inspired than Birth. It's a smaller …

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Long post, game design
Crungle is a game designed to be a simple test of general reasoning skills that's difficult to play by rote memory, since there are many possible rule sets, but it should be easy to play if one can understand and extrapolate from rules. The game is not necessarily fair, with the first player often having an advantage or a forced win. The game is entirely deterministic, although a variant determines the rule set randomly.
This is version 0.1, and has not yet been tested at all.
Crungle is a competitive game for two players, each of whom controls a single piece on a 3x3 grid. The cells of the grid are numbered from 1 to 9, starting at the top left and proceeding across each row and then down to the next row, so the top three cells are 1, 2, and 3 from left to right, then the next three are 4, 5, and 6 and the final row is cells 7, 8, and 9.
The two players decide who shall play as purple and who shall play as orange. Purple goes first, starting the rules phase by picking one goal rule from the table of goal rules. Next, orange picks a goal rule. These two goal rules determine the two winning conditions. Then each player, starting with orange, alternate picking a movement rule until four movement rules have been selected. During this process, at most one indirect movement rule may be selected. Finally, purple picks a starting location for orange (1-9), with 5 (the center) not allowed. Then orange picks the starting location for purple, which may not be adjacent to orange's starting position.
Alternatively, the goal rules, movement rules, and starting positions may be determined randomly, or a pre-determined ruleset may be selected.
If the ruleset makes it impossible to win, the players should agree to a draw. Either player could instead "bet" their opponent. If the opponent agrees to the bet, the opponent must demonstrate a series of moves by both players that would result in a win for either player. If they can do this, they win, but if they submit an invalid demonstration or cannot submit a demonstration, the player who "bet" wins.
Now that starting positions, movement rules, and goals have been decided, the play phase proceeds with each player taking a turn, starting with purple, until one player wins by satisfying one of the two goals, or until the players agree to a draw. Note that it's possible for both players to occupy the same space.
During each player's turn, that player identifies one of the four movement rules to use and names the square they move to using that rule, then they move their piece into that square and their turn ends. Neither player may use the same movement rule twice in a row (but it's okay to use the same rule your opponent just did unless another rule disallows that). If the movement rule a player picks moves their opponent's piece, they need to state where their opponent's piece ends up. Pieces that would move off the board instead stay in place; it's okay to select a rule that causes your piece to stay in place because of this rule. However, if a rule says "pick a square" or "move to a square" with some additional criteria, but there are no squares that meet those criteria, then that rule may not be used, and a player who picks that rule must pick a different one instead.
Any player who incorrectly states a destination for either their piece or their opponent's piece, picks an invalid square, or chooses an invalid rule has made a violation, as long as their opponent objects before selecting their next move. A player who makes at least three violations immediately forfeits and their opponent wins by default. However, if a player violates a rule but their opponent does not object before picking their next move, the stated destination(s) of the invalid move still stand, and the violation does not count. If a player objects to a valid move, their objection is ignored, and if they do this at least three times, they forfeit and their opponent wins by default.
Goal rules (each player picks one; either player can win using either chosen rule):
End your turn in the same space as your opponent three turns in a row.
End at least one turn in each of the 9 cells.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single row, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single column, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in each of cells 1, 3, 7, and 9 (the four corners of the grid).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in each of cells 2, 4, 6, and 8 (the central cells on each side).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in the cell directly above your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly below your opponent (in either order).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in the cell directly to the left of your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly to the right of your opponent (in either order).
End 12 turns in a row without ending any of them in cell 5.
End 8 turns in a row in 8 different cells.
Movement rules (each player picks two; either player may move using any of the four):
Move to any cell on the board that's diagonally adjacent to your current position.
Move to any cell on the board that's orthogonally adjacent to your current position.
Move up one cell. Also move your opponent up one cell.
Move down one cell. Also move your opponent down one cell.
Move left one cell. Also move your opponent left one cell.
Move right one cell. Also move your opponent right one cell.
Move up one cell. Move your opponent down one cell.
Move down one cell. Move your opponent up one cell.
Move left one cell. Move your opponent right one cell.
Move right one cell. Move your opponent left one cell.
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 2 or 3 to 6 or 9 to 8).
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 counter-clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 4 or 6 to 3 or 7 to 8).
Move to any square reachable from your current position by a knight's move in chess (in other words, a square that's in an adjacent column and two rows up or down, or that's in an adjacent row and two columns left or right).
Stay in the same place.
Swap places with your opponent's piece.
Move back to the position that you started at on your previous turn.
If you are on an odd-numbered square, move to any other odd-numbered square. Otherwise, move to any even-numbered square.
Move to any square in the same column as your current position.
Move to any square in the same row as your current position.
Move to any square in the same column as your opponent's position.
Move to any square in the same row as your opponent's position.
Pick a square that's neither in the same row as your piece nor in the same row as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Pick a square that's neither in the same column as your piece nor in the same column as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Move to one of the squares orthogonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to one of the squares diagonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to the square opposite your current position across the middle square, or stay in place if you're in the middle square.
Pick any square that's closer to your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers (this includes the square your opponent is in). Move to that square.
Pick any square that's further from your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers. Move to that square.
If you are on a corner square (1, 3, 7, or 9) move to any other corner square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
If you are on an edge square (2, 4, 6, or 8) move to any other edge square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
Indirect movement rules (may be chosen instead of a direct movement rule; at most one per game):
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, and in addition, your opponent may not use that rule on their next turn (nor may they select it via an indirect rule like this one).
Select two of the other three movement rules, declare them, and then move as if you had used one and then the other, applying any additional effects of both rules in order.
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, but if the move would cause your piece to move off the board, instead of staying in place move to square 5 (in the middle).
Pick one of the other three movement rules selected in your game and apply it, but move your opponent's piece instead of your own piece. If that movement rule says to move "your opponent's piece," instead apply that movement to your own piece. References to "your position" and "your opponent's position" are swapped when applying the chosen rule, as are references to "your turn" and "your opponent's turn" and do on.
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