OK, yesterday my son pointed me to this essay THE COIN DON'T HAVE NO SAY. medium.com/@rosequarter... It's got a more nuanced take on "death of the author" than "no, no, it's OK to give $$$ to Molesterface b/c I separate art from artist and don't directly endorse his crimes."

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THE COIN DON’T HAVE NO SAY medium.com/@rosequarter...

This was a great read

This is taken from a fantastic essay that gets at the heart of my critical/analytical approach to board games.

Well worth a read.

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Thanks to @newmadras.bsky.social 's latest "Indie RPG Newsletter" for highlighting two very interesting essays, one about conceptualizing rules-light and rules-heavy system in terms of "gears":

blog.olddog.games/posts/gears-...

And one about games and interpretation:

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This is a long but really good read about what a game is an how much of that the designer and the text are responsible for.

#rpg #ttrpg

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wrote a bit about magic: the gathering, stax, and the things 60-card players don't consider about commander
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THE GAME OF THE BALL. a short parable about locating the game's relation to the game-object and an alien who loves fútbol
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wrote an essay about encoding, decoding, 'you missed the point by idolizing them' and anton chigurh—but most of all about designing tabletop roleplaying games: medium.com/@rosequarter...

Je suis venu rent sur Bluesk à cause d'un passage de cet article (dont le titre me brise le coeur...), et je reprd ma lecture pour trouvet un bon résumé de ma pensée :
"I believe a game is a text which is being read through the lens of play."
Aussi précis et flou que ça 👌

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i wrote a song about all of the ways that loving sports has molded me and bruised me and sent me to heaven and how it's the best and the worst all at once. stream it wherever you listen to music! this one's for #ripcity

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This is fucking excellent. robust intro to some of my favourite media theory and a very thoughtful essay about what tabletop rules writing is for/what it means
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