Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

I gave a talk on games and meaning at GDC 2023, which is now available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. He called it DIPS, which stands for Defense Independent Pitching Stats.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

That’s where Pokemon IP comes in and the player research team has a field day proving that this is a sure hit! This post is sponsored by Xsolla. And a few months later, in September, it hit the mobile market. And on top of that, both teams ban several champions , making them ineligible to play.

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Sirlin

APRIL 8, 2020

So the most garbage candidate on the democratic side is now the president of the United States. —- Original post: Today, Bernie Sanders dropped out of the US democratic primary election for president of the United States. WaPo doing 16 separate hit pieces on Sanders in the span of 16 hours. But he didn’t. It’s a dark day.

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