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Not a "buckle up, bozos" fella, but it's the holidays, you all need something low-stakes to yell about, and this is true and of imminent utility: Everyone but me and my students has been playing Monopoly wrong* for 90 years, because Quakers are too nice at games. *see alt text

One really powerful argument for multigenerational extended-family living is that it allows everyone to play trains the right amount of time, whereas in our current setup nearly everybody is playing too much or too little trains.

my reign of grotesquerie is approaching its end ☹️

Anybody who doubts Matt Christman's menschness should note his saintlike forbearance while dealing with a pre-pandemic me, trying to figure out how the fuck to get this whole streaming thing to work. Note: there is no other reason to watch this.

Gamebase64 is an extremely important archive for the #Commodore64 , but is now at huge risk of losing its online presence due to the tragic loss of webmaster Steven Feurer. Please check our post for more details - but can anyone help or spread the word? https://t.co/Z6OxRmflmM

Matt Christman is one of the best analysts period and anyone who has listened to a second of his stuff knows he’s a genuinely thoughtful and beautiful human being. If you have some room, send him and his people some energy.

My friend Joe Matt was a lazy as hell chronic masturbator who wasted his gifts. His death has left me and many others unconsolable.

#MondayMotivation

And with that, Dave Hickey overtakes Douglas Adams as the person I'm saddest to no longer have in our world, observing things.

Just for fun, I put together this flowchart detailing how Super Mario Bros. 1 checks for (and handles) player collisions with tiles. Good game design can be deceivingly complicated. Credits to the SMB1 Disassembly.

Just learned of the passing of John Daleske, creator of Empire, the first "massively multiplayer" game. https://t.co/LrTlmiKZnY I spoke with Daleske briefly over email and his site is a super important source for early networked games. https://t.co/OiTtvoYtNh

Every important videogame needs an interactive documentary like The Making of Karateka.

that settles it: on net, a pretty good day

Dylan Williams passed 12 years ago today. It's still hard for me to come to terms with his passing. I & everyone who loved him still think about him everyday as a person, artist and force for good in art & in life. ❤️ A link to all things Dylan: https://t.co/PlFCKvzq1u

(If I'd rolled a 1 on my skill check I would've said Al Columbia, an understandable mistake.)

The MST is the most inspiring movement in the world right now. That they’re now running their own candidates—& winning—is outstanding news There are too many good bits in this article to highlight; just do yourself a favor & read the whole thing

There's enough artists of note out there for coincidences to just happen. But it is funny that, if you hinted to summer-of-2001 me that some cartoonist would do something like this and asked me who I thought it'd be, I'm 95% confident my answer would have been "Oh, Jim Woodring".

My now-perennial 9/11 observation is that it's quite a thought experiment to imagine what would've happened if the median 2020 Covid victim had *also* been a 37-year-old white-collar professional who had been classmates with at least three people in the NYC/Washington media axis.

https://t.co/Kb3E1UOqQ8

now is the time for @WalkaboutMG to strike while the iron's hot and finally make his dream a minigolf-based reality