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Jesse Fuchs
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playing card maximizer and eminent snoopyologist @ NYU Game Center
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Jesse Fuchs
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Jesse Fuchs
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Now that formal genres have splintered into an infinite array subsubgenres, it is time for content-based genres to rise. Surf. Christmas. Car. Moon. Dog. Money.
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Jesse Fuchs
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can one be truly sure of anything, in these times
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Jesse Fuchs
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Now I want to hear a Fehlfarben cover of this, with appropriate localizations youtu.be/iXXjP6xOJYQ?...
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Jesse Fuchs
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if this isn’t Italian-American Excellence I don’t know what is
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Jesse Fuchs
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Happy 4th of July
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Jesse Fuchs
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like Mr. Met and myself he is technically an abomination, a loophole that allows our employers to pay us as independent contractors 😡
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Jesse Fuchs
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you know, we get Randy Newman to stick a couple of Aaron Copland chords onto this thing, and bam, new and improved National Anthem
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Deva Woodly
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I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆
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Jesse Fuchs
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Anchorage doesn’t have a Sphere, case closed
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Jesse Fuchs
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I more or less agree, but: Obama’s first 2012 debate was “very bad”, but I’m genuinely unsure if there has been a worse presidential debate performance than Biden’s in the history of our country. I don’t think it reflects his average state, but the floor it reveals should shake people up.
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Jesse Fuchs
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Is “black and white people are descended from different alien races” also of huge scholarly interest?
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Jesse Fuchs
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susan kare and tchad blake!
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Select and Start
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A NEW episode of Select and Start is out NOW!
@jessefuchs.bsky.social, a game designer and developer as well as a teacher at the NYU Game Center, comes on to talk about Jordan Mechner’s Prince of Persia!
We also talk about 80s computer games, tabletop, and more!
select-and-start.pinecast.co
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Jesse Fuchs
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there are two incredibly attractive wolves inside me
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Jesse Fuchs
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I assigned this to some 20-year-olds a few semesters ago for a “Pitch for a fictional line of Annapurna Interactive game adaptations” project, and they had some ambivalence about the film—especially what to do with the pivotal self-drugging. But they all thought Lake absolutely fucking rocked.
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Jesse Fuchs
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I suppose he could record a new version of this 😐 youtu.be/qEU_xG_i8P0?...
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Jesse Fuchs
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my mom’s childhood favorite 🩷
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Elizabeth Spiers
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The Cut has kind of branded itself a purveyor of a certain kind of provocative essay that you sort of can’t avoid reading but this one is very straightforward and just… really good: www.thecut.com/article/mary...
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Jesse Fuchs
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As an analogy, if Brian Eno said his next album of songs was going to have AI-generated instruments, I’d at least be cautiously optimistic; if Randy Newman did the same, I’d be horrified. You’re the one who knows how to concatenate all the clichés, buddy! That’s what we pay you for!
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Jesse Fuchs
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The thing is, there are enough procedural aesthetics in game design that you can distinguish between Good and Bad algorithmic level generation, or at least have non-stupid arguments about it. But it’s the opposite of Nintendo’s particular aesthetic, which is all about the hand-crafted and bespoke.
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Steve K!
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Fwiw, for me, I truly feel things were equally bleak from the mid 80s to the mid 90s but doomscrolling wasnt a thing then and direct action was much easier/safer because the level of surveillance was much lower so I feel like I was less mentally bogged down than I am now.
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Jesse Fuchs
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[M. Doughty voice] The Universal Nation Of Casiotones 🥲
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Jesse Fuchs
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I had no idea. I’m a changed man.
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Anna Merlan
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Just saved a friend $500 by referring her to this program; please refer to it if you get prescribed Paxlovid and get quoted a crazy price! www.paxlovid.com/paxcess?cmp=...
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Jesse Fuchs
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been listening to this album a lot lately 🤔
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Jesse Fuchs
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this is great—but it does remind me that Job was the first Bible story I (directly) learned, at a friend’s church sleepover, and it ruined me for the rest of the book when I found out it wasn’t all just God and Satan making crazy-ass bets with each other like the guys in Trading Places
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Jesse Fuchs
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If you make your voting system too much of a game, people are going to approach it as a game. As a game designer, I feel about our political system the way David Thomas feels about ice cream trucks.
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Jesse Fuchs
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The last NYC mayoral election may have had a terrible result, there was remarkably little bickering among my left-to-liberal friends about any of the offices...except AG, which didn't have ranked-choice voting and had Nixon and Teachout fighting over Bragg vs. Aboushi in the time-honored way.
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Jesse Fuchs
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I bet Randy Newman is working on a really acerbic song about all of this
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it's gita time
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Ppl are retweeting this and I just want to add that faxing is THE most annoying thing to do to your representatives. There are websites where you can fax for a small fee and those machines are LOUD and then at the very least they have to deal with all the print outs.
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Jesse Fuchs
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just saw this today at Film Forum and it was fantastic, go see it in a theater if you can!
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Jesse Fuchs
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just saw this today at Film Forum and it was fantastic, go see it in a theater if you can!
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Jesse Fuchs
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I had not previously realized that they went through Alexanders like Benjis
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Jesse Fuchs
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all games are toys if you ignore the rules, and vice versa
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Jesse Fuchs
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an interesting list to see would be all the classic games/puzzles that essentially started as toys: Populous, Choplifter, and Sim City are the first three examples to come to my mind since I teach a class on computer games of the 80s, but I’m sure there’s plenty of non-digital ones as well
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Jesse Fuchs
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@colewehrle.bsky.social wondering whether you agree with my take, specifically the idea that 1) kremlinology is sometimes a necessity when dealing with opaque entities of great power, and 2) a factional boardgame, by at least reading the entrails on a more meta- level, may be the most honest form.
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Joe Biden has the potential to do the legalest thing now
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Jesse Fuchs
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a little worried about some of the stuff Thibault has been googling lately
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Jesse Fuchs
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I did not realize that today was Debbie Harry, Fred Schneider, and Roddy Bottum's birthday. Rude to not extend Pride Month for another 24 hours imo
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Jesse Fuchs
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I'm kidding about the specifics—I don't really know whether Pamela Paul correctly maps onto Umman Kudu or whatnot—but I do genuinely think that genre of Wehrle-esque complex asymmetric boardgame is the most effective and honest kind of of Kremlinology that understanding the NYT arguably requires.
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Jesse Fuchs
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i found the sadness of the end mitigated by the revelation that, as I’ve long suspected, Tomi Pierce was some sort of extra-dimensional entity and/or Time Lord
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Levi Stahl
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Good morning, friends!
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Jesse Fuchs
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I mean, back during the Bush admin when he was a more-or-less standard-issue California liberaltarian, sure…my assumption is that his current base is the same inertia-driven folks who keep Beetle Bailey and The Lockhorns running in whatever newspapers remain.
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Jesse Fuchs
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One of my strongest beliefs is that you could reskin the original Dune boardgame to be about the NYT and the factions would more or less all line up.
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Jesse Fuchs
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I have to believe this was massaged through by the pro-Biden Times faction. Wheels within wheels.
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Jesse Fuchs
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as such things go, I do trust her more than Buttigieg
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Jesse Fuchs
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the thinkin’ man’s Rednex 🥰
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