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Misc

• I tried out a bunch of pariah state OSes to find out which is best for gaming | PC Gamer

• Don’t Call Them Whales: Free-to-Play Spenders & Virtual Value GDC 2015

• Whatever You’re Expecting, ‘Harrow The Ninth’ Is Not That Kind Of Book

• The Game Archaeologist: The history of play-by-email games | Massively Overpowered

• Orcs, Britons, and the Martial Race Myth, Part I: A Species Built for Racial Terror — James Mendez Hodes

• Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games | These Heterogenous Tasks

• Gideon the Ninth character appearances

• What is it like to read LitRPG? - by David R. MacIver

• REVIEW: Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - Grimdark Magazine

• REVIEW: Nona the Ninth Nestles You Nicely in a Nightmare - WWAC

• Nona the Ninth Left Me Sobbing in the Best Way | Tor.com

• Warhammer: How it can improve behaviour in schools | Tes  

• How do Video Games Stay in Sync? An Intro to the Fascinating Networking of Real Time Games. | by Eric Lastname | Geek Culture | May, 2022 | Medium

• Gaffer On Games

• So you want to run a virtual event

• Using Game Design to Make Virtual Events More Social

• Random UO anecdote #2 – Raph’s Website

• The Wheel of Time: TV’s Best Chaotic Dungeons and Dragons Campaign - Paste

• Wordle is a deceptively easy game for burnt-out pandemic shut-ins - Vox

• Meet the ‘Duke Nukem’ Fan Re-Creating Britain in All Its Glory | WIRED UK

• Honey Heist: A Tabletop One-Shot Campaign – Teen Services Underground

• 700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built - Stack Overflow Blog

• Making sense of a complex world Online gaming: Real issues in virtual worlds

• Pixel Art Tutorials - Saint11

• Bringing emulation into the 21st century - David Tyler’s Blog

• The Head of Vecna

• How the ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Color Wheel Explains Humanity

• Does Scrabble Need To Be Fixed? An experiment in controlling how much of Scrabble is luck

• Digimon V-Pet Guide for V-Pet Version 1

• How blind players succeed at sports video games they’ve never seen

• Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

• cohost! - “RGME Article #29: No You Can’t Always Get A Star!!”

• Why is Trust and Safety so hard? | This Week in Business | GamesIndustry.biz

• How To Be: Harrowhark Nonagesimus (In 4e D&D) | press.exe

• Mythbusters: Wing Commander I Edition - Wing Commander CIC

• Solo RPGs and the evolution of my setup for Ironsworn and Starforged – Josef Adamčík

• Board games: so many recommendations | Objectionable

• The Twitter Account Tracking Geneva Conventions Violations in Video Games

• That time D&D squashed a third-party book with 190 pages of rules for sex

• The best Dwarf Fortress mod is nearly ready for the Steam version | PC Gamer

• EVE Online is getting a Microsoft Excel plug-in later this year | Rock Paper Shotgun

• Gleba Starter Factory - Factorio Blueprint | Factorio Codex

• Gleba Starter Base - FactorioBin

• Upcyclers (Fully parameterized blueprint book) - Factorio Forums

• GOG say their preservation program has been “harder than we thought”, thanks to DRM and elusive creators | Rock Paper Shotgun

• The Game Dev’s Guide to Publishing Agreements - Deviant Legal

• A Knight at the Opera: How Do You Handle the “Inside” of a Hex? (George Lucas Special Edition)

• ‘Eavy Archive

• Dev Diary: Improving Reprints on MTG Arena

• What is Dandân? MTG’s Forgetful Fish Format | TCGplayer

• jwz: All Your Base, slight remaster

• Whatever Happened to Pathfinder Online, Anyway? | by Kai Tave | Medium

• I tracked down the guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing for over 8,000 hours, and came away convinced he was right | PC Gamer

• Pricing, Aftermarket, and Secondary Market Artist Compensation for Magic | Muddy Colors

• Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game

• Understanding Bounded Accuracy (5e Guideline) - D&D Wiki

• How Black Dragon Mage’s Developer Defines the ‘Survivorslike’ Genre