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Trynant @trynant.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The kids crave Goosebumps

Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Remember that the Spanish goverment thinks pornography is "sexual violence" and that it causes "erectile disfunction", "emotional castration" and group rapes. Don't be fooled: They don't give a shit about children, they are just reactionaries.

Paragraph titled that "Pornography is sexual violence" from the "Andrea guide to pornography" by Spain's Ministry of Equality.

https://bienestaryproteccioninfantil.es/andrea-guia-sobre-pornografia-para-profesionales-y-mediadores-juveniles/

Paragraph where "Moreover, they can experience erectile disfunction problems" from the "Andrea pornography guide" published by Spain's Ministry of Equality.

https://bienestaryproteccioninfantil.es/andrea-guia-sobre-pornografia-para-profesionales-y-mediadores-juveniles/

Table indicating the "Impact of pornography on the brain" including "Castration of empathy", "particularly with women".

"Andrea pornography guide" published by Spain's Ministry of Equality. https://bienestaryproteccioninfantil.es/andrea-guia-sobre-pornografia-para-profesionales-y-mediadores-juveniles/

Screenshot from newpspaper "El Español" showing an interview with Andrea Fernández (PSOE). The headline reads "The youngest congresswoman of the Spanish Socialist Party: "Pornography must be regulated, that's where group rapists learn"

Two quotes she's in favour of "abolishing" or banning pornography.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Those who support censorship do so because they are dumb enough to believe it will only apply to others.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

My learning #18XX game went well! While it went very long, everyone enjoyed it and wants a repeat. They were all so sharp I didn't even win!

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A few weeks ago, I got a new bike! My goal is to ride 13 km each way to work? But I’m going to take my time, I need to find a good route.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

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The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story

Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Tomorrow, I won't only teach #18XX to new players, I’m adding my own handmade expansions for good measure.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The #ChainsawMan film was a blast! Constantly funny, fantastically animated and even charming and pretty at times. Loved, not just to watch it, but to see others love it as much as I did.

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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

It's a longshot, but does anyone have any Mutant Chronicles: Warzone 1st edition minis/the rulebook that they have going spare that they're willing to sell for a sensible price? A lot of the eBay listings are from the US and the postage costs are a little silly.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Let's watch #SpyFamily, it has been a rough week and I need something fun!

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I'm in a 1825 game with 8 players and I'm not sure of how to win at all! I opened the Midland Railway (Red) as soon as I could and I'm not sure if it was a mistake or not.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I'm in a 1825 game with 8 players and I'm not sure of how to win at all! I opened the Midland Railway (Red) as soon as I could and I'm not sure if it was a mistake or not.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This episode confirms what I love about #Sanda: That despite being a comedy and having an outrageous premise, it takes itself extremely seriously.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Three player Tigris & Euphrates. What a tense game. I knew the player to my left was doing much better than it looked and his grin confirmed it! I won on a tiebreaker, good thing I went for it!

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Rest in peace Itagaki, gaming will be less fun without your passion and playful edgy persona.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today another sanctimunous motorist honked at me, illegally crossed boundary lines, passed me on the wrong side and surpassed the speed limit to tell me it was “illegal to ride a bike on the middle of the lane“🙄

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Just watched #Sanda and it blew me away, by far one of the strongest first episodes I've ever seen. Top-notch animation, absolutely deranged plot including stabbings, love triangles and Santa Claus. Unique character designs and humour carry the rest. Can't wait for the next episode

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Chainsaw Man Pt.2 has been rough, but then you see panels like this and it's all worth it:

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

When someone accuses me of courting controversy or being overly negative for "clicks", I only wish they realized, not just that I put my time and effort, but that I actively lose money with every article. If I wanted "clicks", it wouldn't be worth it.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I played 1853 online and we built this beautiful North-South network, allowing the Northwestern Railroad (NWR) to reach the bottom of the board! 1853 keeps surprising me with how every game the network looks different despite having no random factors whatsoever.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

While the whole Evil Eye arc was a bore, #DanDaDan Season 2 was great. It's just a fun show, with utterly fantastic animation, great character chemistry and hilarious, downright wacky situations.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Last game of Shikoku 1889 didn't go too well for me. I gambled on the Diesels never coming out but they pushed for them anyways. I cloned the game to see if I would have won had they not come out, but I wouldn't have won in that case, either.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I decided to read "Although we're adults" because I was told it was a mature, realistic manga with older characters. FUCK THAT SHIT. It's one of the dumbest, least believable shit I've read in ages, even harem slop is held to higher standards than this.

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It reminds me a lot of SMT's press turn system - a system the games actively have to shut down to create interesting fights because it barely has any built-in risk and merely rewards you for doing what ud already be doing anyway by playing normally.Theres not that much u can do in this sorta system

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The games are essentially rewarding an action that is already extremely positive (doing damage to enemies, comboing them, locking them down) with tools that let you do it even more. You have all these feedback loops & devs build risk/reward within systems that have little inherent conflict

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Been thinking a lot about how much redundancy in terms of pros/cons there is in action games and how it's celebrated. Idk if I'm too hyperfixated, but SO MANY GAMES reinforce what are already good actions with better rewards and nearly no unique risk/cons. Stuff like attacking enemies building meter

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

One of the standout games I've been playing is Luzon Rails. I didn't expect much at first because there's no shortage Chicago Express variants but damn, is it a good one!

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Yesterday I welcomed two new daughters into my family: Saturn-chan and Supafamicom-Chan. They are so cute!

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

My most contentious tabletop take is that modern boardgames are not that complicated. The issue is a combination of willingness + anxiety. Every adult I know (besides those with cognitive impairment) is intelligent enough to play every game I play, & it wouldn't take years steeped in 'the hobby'.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

My girlfriend walks in while I’m on the threadmill “Hey, is that actual gym music for once? “ “No, darling, it’s Tetris the Grandmaster! “ Poor girl.

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Tetris: The Grand Master 4 SOUNDTRACK - MASTER LV5 (Master Pikii 1300 - 2600)

YouTube video by Imora

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𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙖 ♡ @heartonwave.neocities.org · 07/08/2025

would recommend listening to retro pc game radio if you're partial to the pc98 soundscape, covers a large swathe of games that were released during the late 80s and early 90s you can also learn more about the titles which the various tracks play from! gyusyabu.ddo.jp/MP3/MP3.html

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Retro PC GAME MUSIC Streaming Radio

1980年代から1990年代半ばまでに限定したパソコンのゲームミュージックをインターネットラジオで配信しています。

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Been reading Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Truly fantastic, the film was already great but the manga is even better. Richer, better developed with a far more appropiate tone. While individually a bit static, the panelling and drawings are top-notch. Highly recommended.

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Joe @joecomotive.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The 'new' game from Francis Tresham. I'm hoping it's as ridiculous as it sounds. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/26...

Side of the box. "This game is not a matter of getting into prison. It's a matter of getting out again and into the next one."

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Posted a checklist of stuff that IMO makes beat 'em ups good in terms of mechanics & game design www.patreon.com/posts/beat-e...

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Player expression? 🤢 Enemy expression? 👌👌👌

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Censorship in video games is endemic. So much, that we might not realize that's the case. Today, in the first installment of my new series, I explain how classification boards such as the ESRB and PEGI are responsible for much of video game censorship.

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How video games are censored, Part I: Classification boards | Erik Twice

Erik Twice uncovers the workings of classification boards like PEGI and the ESRB to explain how video games are censored. Part I.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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How video games are censored, Part I: Classification boards | Erik Twice

Erik Twice uncovers the workings of classification boards like PEGI and the ESRB to explain how video games are censored. Part I.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

1825 is in the very strange position of being the best 18XX for newbies and, at the same time, incredibly hard to play well. It's an amazing game, though, one of the best ever made.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My rule of thumb is to credit those whose work you discuss. Always the author(s), which in board games is the designer. The artist, composer, writer, publisher and so on only if relevant or otherwise useful.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Last year, I played 100 games of #Innovation with a friend. Not only did we finish exactly with 50 victories each, the moment we did, we set up a new match again. This is the truly gaming at its best.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I'm increasingly worried about the preservation of board games. Unlike video games, which have active groups cataloguing, archiving and digitizing games, there's nothing on the analog side. Worse of all, there's no awareness on the issue.

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

It's official. I've now beaten both the original UFO: Enemy Unknown and its tougher sequel XCOM: Terror from the Deep.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities: felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi... AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

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The Gentrification of Video Game History

We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

My issues at work haven't been resolved, but I'm doing better now. After months without a moment of rest, I finally have enough peace of mind to sit down, play and write. Hopefully, I'll have more articles soon!

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Erik Twice @eriktwice.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Fantastic article explaining the dynamics of Ghosts'n Goblins and why most attempts to copy it fail. Ultimately, if you are not talking about comedy, diagonals and randomness, you'll never be able to understand how the game works.

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