Ron ➡️ TAKEOVER UPDATE OUT NOW 🃏🌆

Indie tabletop designer

[Ron ➡️ TAKEOVER UPDATE OUT NOW 🃏🌆 @fictionaliam]

The overhauled ruleset for Takeover is live!

[Dr. Alex Zawacki @achillghost]

Reading long books is the same as reading short books except that you do it for longer

[Bel @itsmebelb]

This game has so much sauce man🤤

[Daniel Keller @dnlklr]

truly, the most underrated film of the century

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[yoshimi battles video game addiction @nise_yoshimi]

three competing arguments against suicide from scifi video games:

Death Stranding - what if people cared about you

Pragmata - what if you had a daughter

Marathon - what if you wanted other people to suffer more than you hated being alive

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

every fantasy series now is indeed called The Ballad of Blood & Bone & every back cover blurb is like Lenora Sparrowlove was the first of her clan to be born without magick. Or so she thought, until her Seventeenth Name Day arrived.

[rayne fisher-quann @raynefq]

yes!!!

[🏳️‍⚧️ Jaiydanimate 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔜 Develop Brighton @Jaiydanimate]

Marathon so far has been a really good example of "Gamers don't know what they want"

[Ron ➡️ TAKEOVER UPDATE OUT NOW 🃏🌆 @fictionaliam]

Marathon 2026

[GameVerse @TheGameVerse]

What game? 👀

[Circe @vocalcry]

Everything is perfectly clear. Iran could not be allowed to get a nuclear weapon, which they have been months away from developing for well over a decade.

Also, Trump is the only president who could have kept us out of war with Iran, as he himself repeatedly told us. So we destroyed their nuclear capabilities, which Tulsi said they didn't have, in 2025. Then we attacked them last month because Israel was going to attack them because they were months away from developing a nuclear weapon since we destroyed their nuclear capabilities, and that would lead Iran to attack American bases.

Iran has never posed a threat to the United States, but we had to attack them first, not because of Israel, but because they posed an imminent threat to the United States.

Fortunately, we have won the war, which was not a war but a special operation, in Iran now several times in the last two weeks. It is basically over but might not be over for some time because we already won. We also don't need anyone to help open the Strait of Hormuz, which we knew they would close, which is why we didn't prepare, and we now need allies to help open.

What are you guys not understanding?

[Conner O'Malley @conner_omalley]

I’m 62 years old, I live in Tampa, I eat corn and beef everyday, I always have a titleist hat on, and Iran is the biggest threat to my freedom

[Ron ➡️ TAKEOVER UPDATE OUT NOW 🃏🌆 @fictionaliam]

There appears to be some exciting depth in the game, but I imagine many players will bounce before they even realize how deep it goes

[Ron ➡️ TAKEOVER UPDATE OUT NOW 🃏🌆 @fictionaliam]

One thing I’m not seeing mentioned in the Marathon impressions is just how dense this game is. Marathon is a hardcore ass game. And I don’t mean pvp

[Ron ➡️ TAKEOVER UPDATE OUT NOW 🃏🌆 @fictionaliam]

Information density is high across all its systems. The much hated UI is prob partially a consequence of attempting to reduce the info overload by Russian dolling menus and text

[Emerson Green @waldenpod]

You have no idea how much I resent AI for completely ruining a perfectly good sentence structure: "It's not just x – it's y." You cannot write that anymore. Everyone will assume it's AI or get derailed wondering if it's AI. We've been robbed of an entire sentence form.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Left hand on the ground trying not to hit the pavement; right hand still holding a cell phone. ICE person standing with a one handed grip pointing his gun right at the man’s head.

There is nothing about this that we should accept. We all must reject this. This is our government

[Dave NewBlood @DaveOshry]

GOTY whatever year you play it in.

[Ron ➡️ TAKEOVER UPDATE OUT NOW 🃏🌆 @fictionaliam]

It’s got tyres! https://t.co/Ff2OdCgoYG

[Ron ➡️ TAKEOVER UPDATE OUT NOW 🃏🌆 @fictionaliam]

Announced our next game. A legally distinct F1 trick-taking game ofc