As reported by the media of the day.June 27, 1989WAR BREAKS OUT IN EUROPE AS MASSIVE SOVIET FORCE INVADES GERMANY; MASSIVE AIR BATTLES OVER GERMAN SKIES BONN — At 4:14 a.m. Central European Time today, ten days and seven hours after the sei…
As covered by media of the day. JUNE 4, 1989TROOPS ATTACK AND CRUSH BEIJING PROTEST, THOUSANDS FIGHT BACK, SCORES ARE KILLED Sakharov Draws Wrath in Stormy Soviet CongressPoles Begin Voting in First Openly Contested Elections in Soviet Bloc…
So, I haven't been updating this blog, because everything has gone to hell. If you're curious about why the game industry has gone to hell, Georg Zoeller has broken it down succinctly and completely. Meanwhile, we decided to fight a war in
The goal for everything now is money for nothing and chicks for free. We're living in the fin de siècle, the end of days and, well, the fourth horseman of the apocalypse was this guy... ...except that's not fair to Matthew Lesko. He actuall…
Warning: this contains spoilers. If you haven't seen "Section 31", well, you know, congratulations on making good life choices. Section 31 opens in the Terran Empire, with large letters helpfully telling you "THE TERRAN EMPIRE" without expl…
Ten years later, the hate factory continues. Ten years later, the hate factory continues. "When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror." – Karl Marx, 1849 "We have successfully frozen their brand — ‘critical race theory’ —…
hope you liked the games of 2023 because that's all folks hope you liked the games of 2023 because that's all folks There are approximately 330,000 people who work in the video game industry. 9,000 of them have been laid off in 2023. 3,000
if we don't acknowledge anything ever happens, our mistakes are forgivable if we don't acknowledge anything ever happens, our mistakes are forgivable Reading the news today, my eyes were drawn to this headline: They were drawn, mainly, beca…
The most hopeful, the least important! The most hopeful, the least important!(Please note these are all just guesses, I don't have any inside info on any of these. I pretty much stayed away from gossip last year because it would have requir…
A16z jumps into politics. Oh frabjous day. A16z jumps into politics. Oh frabjous day. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, known also as "a16z" for a really dumb reason, announced today that they were going to save u…
Managing communities is hard. Who knew. For obvious reasons, the illustrations for this update are going to be mostly unrelated to the topic! Please bear with me as I try to make a not-worksafe topic reasonably worksafe. I said "try". Two d…
Creative Assembly has not had a good 2023. Creative Assembly has not had a good 2023. The maintainers of the "Total War" series of strategy games have, for a few years now, with their Warhammer line of games, had a license to print money. T…