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Brian Reynolds

@thegamechief.bsky.social
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Pernicious Layabout. Videogame Designer and Entrepreneur. Co-founder Firaxis, Big Huge Games, Zynga East. Games: Civ2, Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations, FrontierVille, DomiNations. Immigrant to Canada (Montréal). Retweeter of Uranus Jokes.

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Sajan @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 5h
Also! The slipcase I did for the @lostincult.co.uk edition of @kitfoxgames.com 's Caves of Qud
A figure split into two, one magical and one mechanical. Boxes surround distinct elements of their physique, inlcude scorpion tail, horn, treadmill footanother figure split in two, the mechanical side featuring a large arm, and mechanical heart, the magical side featuring a beak, wing and hook for a foot
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
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Marius A. K. Ring
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ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 22h
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
They apparently stayed the hell out of Austria and Slovenia in a very precise way…
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
What some refer to the "terminal lol" actually serves a very important grammatical function, a sort of copula, akin to the Japanese "desu" lol
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I converted to Catholicism six weeks before running for office. Here’s what the pope gets wrong about live-streamed executions.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
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Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
wtf, www.lycos.com is back up It had died, I assumed us variously pointing out it still existed had made someone realize it was still there so they killed it but no it's actually back, and still has no AI bullshit, and still works fine, and now actually looks like someone remembered it exists HUH
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Home – Lycos
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"I haven't seen AI create anything fun. It can replicate, for sure, but I haven't seen anything fun come from AI yet," said a senior-level attendee at the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit. "You can make crap quicker," quipped another. bit.ly/4yrkVQq
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026
"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OMG life is so weird, the whole article and source code still exist lol :D GET YOUR TRS-80 SIMULATORS OUT, FOLKS! archive.org/details/soft...
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SoftSide Magazine Issue 35 (Quest 1)
SoftSide Magazine Issue 35 (Quest 1) (August 1981). Computer Graphics (Reflective Symmetry) - Joan Truckenbrod, Video Reverse Modification (S-80 Do it yourself) - Ed Umlor, Lemonade or Champagne (The ...
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OMG life is so weird, the whole article and source code still exist lol :D GET YOUR TRS-80 SIMULATORS OUT, FOLKS! archive.org/details/soft...
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SoftSide Magazine Issue 35 (Quest 1)
SoftSide Magazine Issue 35 (Quest 1) (August 1981). Computer Graphics (Reflective Symmetry) - Joan Truckenbrod, Video Reverse Modification (S-80 Do it yourself) - Ed Umlor, Lemonade or Champagne (The ...
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I might have been 13 ;)
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Somebody actually made a wikipedia haha en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_1
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Quest 1 - Wikipedia
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I once made $100 (one huuuuuuundred dollars, Dr. Evil hand gesture) writing an RPG for one of these things :)
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Disembodied Head Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
A sixty-fourth note is a hemidemisemiquaver. True story.
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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Do you ever think about the British English names for music notation and get scared
The list of British names for note value: breve, semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, and demisemiquaver
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Update: it flew away around 11am and then I saw two more butterflies in the flowers this afternoon, so not too far behind the migration!
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My late monarch caterpillar finally hatched after 21 days as a pupa! The materials all say 10-14 days so I imagine it’s the cooler weather. Good luck, little guy! Get along south!
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Mitch Jackson ⚖️ @mitch.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans in Congress got hours of free airtime in front of the American people. They spent it stating false facts as true and calling Jack Smith a dirtbag and a villain. Here's all you need to know, under oath.
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ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi · 30/09/2026
he looks like he’s 0.5 seconds into seeing the ark of the covenant being opened
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do my wife’s calendar every year from our best photos and f the previous year.
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026
Every AI CEO sounds like this.
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's of course the "meta" that so many games have taught me that doing worship-things results in "mostly nothing" that I tend to assume such things aren't worth doing unless e.g. "part of the main quest". Of course a game *about* this could overcome that...
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tangentially the "Luck" stat in games like Fallout: New Vegas has often been done pretty well (hilarious things happen if your luck is super high, OR super low), and it feels kind of related, so maybe clues there.
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's of course the "meta" that so many games have taught me that doing worship-things results in "mostly nothing" that I tend to assume such things aren't worth doing unless e.g. "part of the main quest". Of course a game *about* this could overcome that...
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Bongo” Ballpoint pen, pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and a little colored pencil.

Our man is in trouble this time, reader. Art supplies are scattered around a painting of an abstract cityscape. On the canvas we see a man in a telephone booth making a frantic call to his cat, Bongo. In the foreground, an answering machine is taking his voicemail, [Leave a message at the beep] --- “Bongo, Daddy got stuck in the painting. Go get help, Bongo.” Bongo stands at the base of the easel looking at the phone. Her tail in the air and ears perked up. Whether she’ll be able to help is open to interpretation.

Artist’s note: One of my favorites from the Spooky Pants book. I was playing around with the idea of a painting coming to life (like that guy in Ghostbusters 2) and kind of fumbled my way into this version. I really draw a lot of corded phones. I won’t stop.
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Kinell @sinistercinemastudios.art · 28/09/2026
Sorry are you completely out of your fucking mind
From the Steam page for Active Matter

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Al Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses Al Generated Content like this:

In-game Al character Ms. Second is using Al generated voice. Using humans voices for Al character would be cultural appropriation
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On F:NV it was a lot of fun writing failure replies for threshold checks. The rules were 1) picking the failure option should be entertaining 2) picking the failure option should never put you in a worse position than you were already in.
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Haha it didn’t take me long to think of a well-known example of that last ;)
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@shire-reckoning.bsky.social tells The Lord of the Rings in real time. The journey is just beginning, and the hobbits have already had some narrow escapes, though they do not realize it.
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How your email finds me
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Lum @brokentoys.social · 24/09/2026
And this is why Talarico will win, in one illustration.
OK, let’s get into the specific candidates. When you hear the name Ken Paxton, what comes to mind?

Robert D., 63, independent, white, retired
Crook.

Sebastian, 50, independent, white, utility manager
Criminal, crook, all those. Yeah.

Lisa, 53, independent, white, technology consultant
Crooked.

Erica, 40, Republican, Latino, customer service
Bad.

Pam, 66, Republican, white, retired
Amoral.

Becky, 51, Democrat, white, retail
Disgusting.

Robert S., 52, Republican, Latino, human resources
Two words: morally corrupt.

Hitesh, 57, Republican, Asian, looking for work
Disgusting.

Vince, 48, Democrat, Asian, auditor
Corrupt.

Jennifer, 50, Republican, white, stay-at-home parent
Womanizer. Crook.

Dennis, 62, Republican, white, retired
Crook is the word that comes to my mind.
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The replacer system is actually genius. My only wish is the "replacer examples" showed the =actual.example|forInstance=
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
localize it itll be easy they said itll be fine they said
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These days I can usually only get to "the once-competent"...
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
if language is so large why do we call 9 billion unrelated things ai
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hopefully you will find Caves of Qud :)
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In Charlie Stross novels a hard takeoff usually meant everything went to zero, except for paper clips or whatever :)
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jensen Huang isn’t exactly a “disinterested party” to make a counter argument?
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I more wonder if a bunch of AI could crash enough of the systems underpinning civilization to produce major instability/collapse and ultimate cause a nuclear war.
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I tend to think human actions (like AI crashing major systems or 3C warming) could very easily lead to enough disruption/starvation/calamity that nuclear war and extinction result. Civilization is *somewhat* robust but not infinitely so. “Gradually and then suddenly” like Hemingway.
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I tend to think human actions (like AI crashing major systems or 3C warming) could very easily lead to enough disruption/starvation/calamity that nuclear war and extinction result. Civilization is *somewhat* robust but not infinitely so. “Gradually and then suddenly” like Hemingway.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's a good world where we have glorious dipshits like Sherman.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One of Canada's advantages is that we know a lot about the US. We follow their news and politics, get their TV channels, travel there. But Americans know nothing about us. They don't understand our politics, history or values. They constantly misjudge us, but we understand them completely. #cdnpoli
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