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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At first, I read this as a trade of fruit and tech and thought, I get to get rid of my phone AND get a banana? Sign me up!

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's the Orlando way! If they were half as good at defending as they were doing intricate trick passes they'd have won every game the last three seasons.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh great idea! I've just been sitting on a 5-gallon bucket in a mop closet all this time

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this also reminds me of the game design talk/live cooking demo I had designed and pitched to a game's expo that accepted it and I had to back out last minute and have never felt so bad about anything ever in my life

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

oh someone finally made a game to hurt me (game designer and ex-chef) in particular (positive)

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

it's the best. I dream of a re-release with online multiplayer

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Anyway, videogames is one word lol

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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Something about being the England manager sucks you into the gravity of tough innit football where no matter how technically gifted the team is you're just like hoof it and pray

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Setting aside their world-class defense and all timer goal, Cabo Verde's ability to calmly play out of the press is astounding

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Agasgani @agasgani.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Some of you are still posting about politics and I need you to understand that Bluesky is now a Cabo Verde stan platform thank you for your attention

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His Skeletoncy, the Ghoul of Hell @timhodgson.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

i've seen enough. put every country in the world cup. all of them. make this shit last 3+ months

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

and it feels bad to watch because no one is watching sports for the objective rulings. we watch it to feel things! which is why i'm crying at like 10pm two nights ago when Iran gets their goal taken away. it /feels/ unfair, it goes against the spirit of the game.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

AS I WAS SAYING EARLIER THIS WEEK

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

ok last thing! @friends-table.bsky.social's videogame podcast Side Story did an all-time podcast episode on the importance of ambiguity in sports/games and the rise of automated pitching in baseball. you should go listen to it! sidestory.show/26-the-juice...

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Side Story: 26: The Juice Is in the Ambiguity

With spring turning into summer, Art, Jack, and Austin have found that it's time to once again drink the Potion of Liking Baseball. Well, no, it's not that broad: It's the Potion of Liking the Weird L...

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

anyway, we would need a monumental shift in global culture and values to make sports more subjective. and i don't think that's happening anytime soon. and who knows if it would be better.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

even if a stat can explain those shifts, they fail in comparison to the electricity you feel in a stadium. the collective breath holding and eruption of emotions (positive or negative). whether or not a guy's toe it ahead of another guy's toe ruins that.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

my measuring stick for this is, do we get The Hand of God under the current rules? If not, the rules miss what I find so beautiful about sports. it's the intangible energy and shifts during play.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Which is why we are in the middle of this current shift to turn every rule in sports into an objective, measurable, binary measure.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

(what i'm about to say is nothing particularly new but...) when nba players started getting covid it became blindingly obvious that major sport leagues are just microcosms for hegemonic culture. (thread?)

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The scope of games is not predestined. And the "well games are cheaper than they've ever been" cannot be taken seriously if the rising cost of staying alive is ignored.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

if only we could find the guys who've been approving massive budgets on a boom-or-bust model alongside massive consolidation

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

telling my grandchildren this is what the great narratology vs ludology debate was

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Many people are saying!!!! (bonus: another slide from pigcon)

A screenshot of a slide. The top bullet is circled and reads "Free yourself of the game ever being good, successful, important, popular, or proftiable"

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

been thinking a lot about my talk at PIGCON last weekend, which was (not so) subtly begging people to make weirder games *the first point is not well written i'm sorry i made this slide like half an hour before my presentation

A basic white slide with black text. The title reads "Jack's Three Truths About the World". Three bullet points after that...
- Not everyone who makes games can make money
- Putting art in the world is valuable
- Making games that distort/stretch/bend/break the medium is necessary for a vibrant art field

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Yeah, I've had some issues with the top-down perspective where I feel like I'm getting punished every time I try to go over the top of any of the large bosses.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Yeah, at least there are a ton of accessibility options and difficulty modifiers. I've definitely been beating my head against it a few times and will probably start easing the difficulty soon. I also think the boss/non-boss content in Mina is more to my liking

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My article on grief, Spiritfarer, and losing my cat in 2020 is now available to read in the Well Played Journal! playstorypress.org/well-played-...

playstorypress.org

Spiritfarer, Grievability, and Dealing with Death – Play Story Press

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Thanks to everyone who came to my talk and said nice things! pigcon was rad. reminded me the need and hunger for local events like these.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Yeah, the Freeman mistake was not promoting him to the senior squad sooner

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Excited to watch Orlando lose Ellis and who knows how many other promising OCB products while rolling the U22 Brazilian dice (Iago might be good tho???)

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Movies are good. Ending that live rent free in my head.

The ending scene of Midnight Cowboy, featuring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight

A still from the end of Tár. A wide shot of a symphony playing music.

A still from the end of the film Another Round. Mads Mikkelsen smiles with his eyes closed while dancing on the coast.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Yeah, the only thing I want to get one for is reading academic ebooks, but its custom OS means syncing notes with a citation manager is at best a headache.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

My lunch for the past couple of years has consisted of - Rice - 2 types of veggies - protein (chicken, ground turkey, or greek yogurt) - (optional) lentils

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Brown some minced/diced onions and garlic, throw in a buncha frozen peas, cover until peas are hot. Put a big spoonful of calabrian chili oil in there. A great cheap tasty veggie for lunches for the week.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

but seriously if it became an anthology series with a new sport every season i would way into that

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

hey! I'll be doing a talk here! it'll be about making autobiographical games and i'm psyched to get back to doing design/dev talks! Also if mutuals will be in Portland that weekend and want to hang please reach out!

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

My bad advice: years ago I described my creative process to my therapist as a large dark oily blob that grows and grows in the corner of my mind until it becomes so big that it needs to be excised. so uh....do that.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

(find the gear) you need to know how to get yourself into the writing place. (move with pleasure) If the creative process doesn't feel good, you need better practices/tools. This doesn't mean it's FUN but it should be a mode of being that feels right.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

my good advice has become a sort of mantra for me: find the gear, move with pleasure.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

more and more I want to make an art studio space to teach kids how to make games as art and self-expression.

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Portland Indie Game Squad @pigsquad.com · 05/04/2026

Heya, Will here! Been hearing "oh submissions close next week????" lately and I think I needed to work harder on spreading the word about due date. We're gonna extend submissions through April 13th! Stoked to see yours, and excited by the massive response we have so far 🤩 pigcon.pigsquad.com

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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ PRGE @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

It's the final day of PAX East and the Indiepocalypse booth (24098, just look around, you'll find it) is approaching the 'what you see is what I've got' state. Hurry down and pick up some unique indie games before they're gone!

Shot of physical copies of indiepocalypse showing gaps of sold out issues

Close up of latest indiepocalypse release and zine

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

One of my favorite moments teaching this term was chatting with students about social media and not a single one of them knew what bsky is and so I had to sheepishly explain it to them

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

@jerf.xyz if no one has said it yet, you're experiencing "spaghetti meat" which when cooked has a texture that can feel gummy or almost uncooked www.delish.com/food/a705416...

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‘Spaghetti Meat’ Affects Up To One Third Of Chicken Breasts Sold In The U.S.—Here's Why

If your raw chicken has ever looked stringy, there’s an upsetting reason why.

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

oooh hmmm... The Vourdalak is unsettling but also very fun. Hatching has got good body horror stuff Black Roses is not scary at all but great 80s hair-metal monsters Eyes of Fire is one of the most beautiful folk-horror things I've seen

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Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

ALSO god like the whole point of carbon steels is that they make sense in a restaurant. They keep their edge for a long time and they're easy to sharpen. thats helpful when you are using a knife for 40 hours a week and sharpen it at least once a week. it makes ZERO SENSE to own one in the home imo

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