Kyle Orland

Remember Minesweeper? My book from @BossFightBooks goes deep on the game’s history, its legacy, its intense competitive scene, the surprising moral panic over its inclusion on work/government computers, and much more! bossfightbooks.com/products/mines…

there is a whole book about the history of minesweeper and it is excellent "once you get caught up in the flow of Minesweeper, it can be incredibly hard to pull yourself out"

@LostMemeArchive @grok Is this real or photoshop?

@gelliottmorris @grok what does this post show?

this map would end the electoral college

If you're still here, what the hell are you doing. Come join the cool kids on Bluesky already!

@DemFromCT @Michael_Fan Come over please, you are pretty much the only reason I check out Twitter regularly anymore

@Michael_Fan @KyleOrl Ty

Making a rare post to remind everyone how much better BlueSky is. I'm (at)kyleor.land there

Looking into Gala Games' Legacy and the game's fate long after its millions in NFT land sales. If you have any relevant experiences to share, please reach out

@BitBenderBrink @PlayLegacyGame @GoGalaGames @pmolyneux @Benefactor0101 @LFGincorporated Would love to talk to you more about the fate of Legacy for an article I'm writing about it. Feel free to DM me here, on Discord (kyleorl) or kyle.orland@arstechnica.com

So, here is a bit of a public offering to the guys at @PlayLegacyGame, @GoGalaGames, and to @pmolyneux and @Benefactor0101 in particular. Let me and my team at @LFGincorporated build a tokenomics model for Legacy that actually works. When Legacy was initially released, it was shackled by the "only $GALA model" which I resisted strongly internally (@Benefactor0101 can attest to this), and was never happy with. Obviously, that model didn't work. Legacy could ABSOLUTELY have legs on it if the actual tokenomics were set up correctly and a community effort behind a token, with appropriate listings and market making with web3 partners lined up. @pmolyneux and @benefactor are both absolute badasses of gaming and I have nothing but the utmost respect for them. The model used by Legacy can be corrected and a genuine play-and-earn experience can be created. Both @22Cans and @GoGalaGames owe it to the community to try. If you won't do it, please at least give us access to the code and we will do it ourselves. You maintain your rev share, but we get cut in going forward. We get total control over the tokenomics. LFG!

@DanAmrich @woot It's good. I'm typing on it now

Just finished Minesweeper, one of the latest @BossFightBooks titles. It's a great little history of a game that was ubiquitous for 90s kids, and @KyleOrl draws out some great stories and observations about the early Windows game scene as well as the quirks of Minesweeper itself.

@johntv Now showing as just 1.5 million yen for me... maybe some fake bids were taken down?

I’ve had my eye on this since it was around $800 and figured I’d be willing to pay up to like 10 grand for it. It’s now over $640,000 lol.

@ethangach Retail?

Struggling to think of another industry that's gone full slash and burn value extraction like the internet.

Hi! Just a reminder that we're running pretty much the same account over on another site, you should definitely join us there if you haven't already: bsky.app/profile/afterm…

If you weren't in the crowd for MINESWEEPER author @KyleOrl's @MAGFest '24 talk, the whole thing is now up on youtube! youtube.com/watch?v=ytvou0… Minesweeper: The Book -- The Panel. The Movie? The Game! The Experience.

@DaliDimovski @john_learned @MagitekDad @TheHashtag0nist @EricVBailey @BrittonPeele @JeffGrubb @davidrobots @GenePark @TheRichardM @AlexaRayC @ajohnagnello @Tolkoto @GameGuyPGH @SusanArendt @MisterMegative @sarahthebeef @jason_wilson @TheDeepEndGames @cracked Yeah come to bsky if you want me to take part. (At)kyleor.land there

@BrittonPeele @JeffGrubb @davidrobots @DoubleUHarrison @GenePark @TheRichardM @AlexaRayC @TheHashtag0nist @KyleOrl @ajohnagnello @Tolkoto @john_learned @GameGuyPGH @DaliDimovski @SusanArendt @mistermegative @sarahthebeef @jason_wilson @TheDeepEndGames @cracked welp diapers for everyone it's the only way

You can now sign up for Bluesky without an invite! 🎉 bsky.social/about/blog/02-…

The only thing I'm ever going to use this account for going forward is to remind people that I am on BlueSky. If you want to bask in the glow of my microbloggy thoughts, that's the place to be.

I know the network effects feel hard to replace, but the vibe over at BlueSky is great and you can still lurk on Twitter for your faves who have stayed behind...

(AT)kyleor.land when you get over there

Since I no longer have to share BlueSky invites on here, this is a reminder that I have been on BlueSky for a while and you should be too