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I'm very pleased to say that my article on John A. Hobson, the new-liberal economist and critic of imperialism, is out in @PoliticalTheory -- it's about his conception of race, the limits of modern empire, and global capitalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

@JJ_McCullough Definition of brash.

Here is a question for my nerdier followers: what is the personality of the character Naruto from the popular anime, "Naruto"?

@Crate_Frontier when is 0.8 due to release?

@creditkarma I've been getting an error when trying to log in all day: "Oops, something went wrong while trying to perform your request. Please try again later."

@EmikaGames @RaphLife guess we all should have listened to you 🙁

Friends! Thank you for your support! I'm leaving game development for an indefinite time to collect my thoughts.

@mistodon Other critical assumptions: 3) you are the only worker,and the only owner of your coffee-producing business 4) the 'cost of ingredients' includes any tools needed Oh and the +/- is meant to be just +

@mistodon I started working on this and then got sidetracked. Or rather, this was the sidetrack and I returned to the main track. Assumptions: 1) You are entitled exclusively to the value of your labour 2) 'unsold ingredients' are coffees produced but not sold.

@mistodon This is fantastic.

In following the Holyrood election today I was frustrated by having to constantly change tabs/pages to compare results to the 2016 election. I put it all on one sheet and if I can spare anyone else the effort, I'm happy. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

@RaphLife I've enjoyed your posts exploring game marketisation and I agree the industry is at an inflection point; my hope is for more diversity in sales platforms - both publishers and consumers making choices on the pricing model(s) that works for them.

@RaphLife Really interesting. There's an interpretation of the CK2 model in which you're paying to 'rent' the DLC. For a game with the sort of repeat-play as CK2 I think it will succeed but it's interesting to think about how the pricing model and the gameplay design need to be in harmony.

@KieranPAndrews Hi. Is your recent article deliberately misleading, or just poorly worded, in implying that an independent Scotland would need to ask the UK for permission to join the EU without mentioning this would only conceivably be the case if there were a UDI?

@RaphLife This, and playing @Deconstructeam's Red Strings Club today, has me sold on the concept. Less sure about your pricing proposal. I wonder if £5-8 for limited-time access, a la cinema, would do well. And if you like it, you buy the DVD.

@RaphLife Any thoughts on what sort of mechanics would make sense in this context? It's compelling in abstract but I'm struggling to imagine how a game can be that short without being more of a lightly interactive narrative e.g. Emily is Away or the various 'walking sims'.

In The Witcher 3, the NPCs didn't have schedules and named NPCs didn't really exist outside of cutscenes. It's not like how Fallout or Outer Worlds did it. Same in Cyberpunk, but I think the first-person perspective makes it more noticeable and occasionally immersion-breaking.

In both games there are hundreds of side quests, none of which feel procedurally generated. Yes they may all take the form of 'go here, kill/interact, leave', but the environments are varied and there can be great emergent gameplay moments.

Maybe because I didn't follow the media hype, and received the game as a gift, and am playing on a good PC... but I'm really enjoying #Cyberpunk2077. I think people were expecting something @Obsidian or @BethesdaStudios style, but it's much more similar to The Witcher 3.

He's enjoying whatever's on the timeline above him