Reposted by Tin Star GamesJonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Instead of "X person is a great game designer" there was a lot of ✨Black Excellence✨ talk. Which meant that sometimes the connections you made were not because *you* were good at what you did, but because someone needed to fill their Infinity PoC gauntlet with a palatable Black person. Palatable. 1738
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Hey nerdy nerds and gamers. The Steve's brainmeats are now for sale as a service. Sign up to my Patreon and you get - weekly blogs - game design school - a digital game every month - behind the scenes access and playtest versions www.patreon.com/c/tinstargamespatreon.comGet more from Tin Star Games on Patreoncreating Tabletop Games 030
Reposted by Tin Star GamesGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 30/12/2025The constitutional remedy for a president who uses collective punishment against people for the crimes of a few is impeachment, removal, and disqualification, followed by a criminal trial. 62158497
Reposted by Tin Star GamesUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/12/2025The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. 115653
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Some folks call it blended colours, others call it smoky shading, but you know - sfumayto, smufato 020
Reposted by Tin Star GamesBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/12/2025A lot of people are trying to justify their own desire to surrender to Trump early in the year 202212308
Reposted by Tin Star GamesRian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares) 390388869083
Reposted by Tin Star GamesLily Lachance 🏳️⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 30/12/2025"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live." Sarah Kendzior 14917
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Did the X-Men ever try to get around mutant registration laws by simply declaring mutant powers to be arms, and thus not to be infringed? 000
Reposted by Tin Star GamesAlmond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 27/12/2025They gave Balatro an 18+ only rating because it had poker cards in it. Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above. 1536151377
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 28/12/2025on account of my bad mood I would like to announce that until further notice, everything sucks 020
Reposted by Tin Star GamesAndy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 27/12/2025How I'm walking out of 2025media.tenor.coma man and a woman are standing next to each other and the word kepler is on the bottom rightAlt: Cassian Andor smuggling Mon Mothma out of the Senate building on Coruscant, saying, "Welcome to the Rebellion" 0414
Reposted by Tin Star GamesCraig Oxbrow @craigoxbrow.bsky.social · 28/12/2025For Hayley Williams' birthday, twenty Buffy RPG plots from her album Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party thewatchhouserpg.blogspot.com/2025/12/20-b...thewatchhouserpg.blogspot.com20 Buffy plots from Ego Death At A Bachelorette PartyHappy birthday to Hayley Williams! Her new album Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party (content note: swears) contains several tracks that I wo... 043
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025In the meantime...https://www.tinstargames.com/relics/ 020
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025He lies, he blames the reader, then he blames bsky for not banning the "trolls", then feels righteous because people are yelling at him. 000
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Stupidity this enormous and this toxic deforms the world around it and makes everything harder. 010
Reposted by Tin Star Games[redacted] by cop @billydale.bsky.social · 27/12/2025in lots of contexts they have the same meaning, but in this specific context where the whole point is to distinguish private charity from a socialist mutual aid group it clearly has utility. Going “nuh uh” I refuse to use your vocab so we’ll just talk in circles for days is not very fruitful 031
Reposted by Tin Star Gamesquothe1.bsky.social @quothe1.bsky.social · 27/12/2025There you go, I hope you understand the difference now, and that you look up what "privatization" actually is, since Will doesn't know but is happy to use the word to demonize good things. 111
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Socialist government is a public library Mutual aid is a street library Charity is a book drive 040
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Agreed, but then Will went too far and said insane shit. 020
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025As others said in the replies, this happens in marketing-speak, and occasionally I see artists and creators internalise marketing so hard they think it is real. Do I think straight white dudes are suffering? No. Have I wanted to punch someone who told me to "write my disability"? Fuck yes. 041
Reposted by Tin Star GamesChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 27/12/2025You’re almost never going to outcompete a dishwasher in efficiency — it reuses water, does a better job at cleaning, saves time. One of the biggest W’s in the history of technology. 11451137
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025The interesting thing about this argument that "if you give things to voters to vote for you, a billionaire will just out spend you to get elected" is that no billionaire has ever actually done this. They deal in pork, of course, but nobody has ever given everyone in Chicago a house. 000
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Ludic literacy is not "I have played more games than Monopoly/D&D so I know why it sucks" Ludic literacy is "I understand why I like the thinks I like and how games produce that so I can navigate the artistic field to best serve MY needs" 010
Reposted by Tin Star GamesBen Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 27/12/2025jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation 224175471
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025A good solid point: the question should be less about "does it or doesn't it" but building literacy about how it does and how it doesn't. You CAN play Chess by hitting the pieces with the board and running the bases. Why don't you? 010
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025They don't have to be good. They just have to produce a billion products a second until one of them is just good enough to find the weakpoint that kills you. 000
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025In the comic Transmetropolitan, senitent viruses study the laws of The City, and identify miniscule moments where loopholes exist, where for a split second in one location it is legal to do a thing, like release mind-control gas to make you buy products. This is how Machine Learnign products work- 120
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025If you make something easily confused for a better mousetrap, but breaks most of the time, the world will be enslaved to beat a path to your door anyway. 010
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025You are all welcome, the community here is not great and this place is a goddamn nightmare exactly like the house you fled. Ignore the discourse. Try not to go mad. Leave often. 000
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I'll go you one better: just lift other people up. You don't have to make friends or like people. You just support them. Every success I've ever had in this industry I can lay at the feet of giving a fucking damn about others. 020
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 27/12/2025If I were trying to get people to agree with me, I might say something like "I love Kat, and I hope this works attract and engage and do good. There are good reasons why campaign finance is so tracked however, so this is risky and not every campaign can do it, or do it in a useful way - be careful!" 050
Reposted by Tin Star Gameshandle.invalid @handle.invalid · 27/12/2025The answer to your rhetorical question is, "Authoritarian Fascist systems of political, economic, and thought control, portrayed in attentive n engaging stories of cutting-edge conceptualization to imagine what is possible." 031
Reposted by Tin Star GamesThe Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 27/12/2025Carrie Fisher left us 9 years ago today, and we miss her terribly. ❤️ 12723104
Reposted by Tin Star GamesYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/10/2023this is just to say I have loosed the blood-dimmed tide that you were probably saving for the ceremony of innocence forgive me the best lack all conviction while the worst are so passionate and so intense 934584
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 23/12/2025There's a larger point though: animals go to other animals for help too. It's not that they think we're special. Or not especially kind. Or especially clever. 100
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 23/12/2025I was like "oh this is just a series of loot crates with some math to hide that...RUN AWAY" But we seem to be outvoted here. 100
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 23/12/2025now I gotta play it again, dammit...but I HATED it... 100
Tin Star Games @tinstargames.bsky.social · 23/12/2025- but there is not enough context you can put on social media. It's not designed for that. It's built for combat. We need to stop blaming the people in the Death Arena for trying to kill each other. 000