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5 votes
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MIT, guided by open access principles, ends Elsevier negotiations
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Let's do a deep dive into the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality together!
The Bundle itch.io's Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality is a collection of indie media content offered up as a fundraiser for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail...
The Bundle
itch.io's Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality is a collection of indie media content offered up as a fundraiser for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail Fund. The minimum purchase is $5 which gains you access to 1637 items from 1304 different creators. The bundle has raised over $5 million dollars so far and is a genuinely incredible show of support and solidarity from the gaming community for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Here is the previous Tildes topic about it, here is a subreddit for it, and here is a community spreadsheet cataloging its contents.
The Content
The bundle is primarily video games, but it also has tabletop games, game assets, books, music, and tools. It is an intimidatingly large amount of content, and much attention has been called to some of the collection's highlights and standout titles: 1 2 3 4 (if you find other lists, let me know and I'll link them here).
I'm thinking it would be neat for us on Tildes to explore and highlight some of its less well-known content. The people who have made their creations available in this bundle have done so generously and in support of a great cause, so this is a way that we can show some appreciation for them by bringing some attention to their work. It is also possible to re-purchase games that you already own on itch.io and add tips to that purchase, so you can also monetarily support any devs you choose should you feel inclined to do so.
The Event
Using whatever selection methods or criteria you like, dive into an item/multiple items from the bundle and then report back here about it. There is a handy website that lets you filter the whole set of items, and it also has a very useful "pick a game" button that selects a game at random from the batch.
However you choose something, let us know what you've chosen, what it was, what your experience was like with it, and whether or not you recommend it. Format your entries however you like but please Bold the Titles of Items so people can scan the thread more easily!
Feel free to submit multiple entries to the topic as you explore the bundle. I'm thinking that with a few of us doing this over a couple of days, we can cover a lot of ground and surface some interesting and easily overlooked content.
Our Selections
I'll keep a table of the highly recommended things we surface here. To select something to be included here, mention in your writeup that it qualifies for "Tildes' Choice" status, and I'll add it to the list!
Title Creator Type Recommender Us Lovely Corpses d Marie Visual novel kfwyre Cardinal Chains Daniel Nora Pure puzzle game kfwyre 25 votes -
US to penalize war crimes investigators looking into American troops
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Travis Scott ft. Drake - Sicko Mode (Instrumental) (Beat 1 only) (2018)
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Black Lives Matter protests spark reminder of 'deeply rooted' racial injustice towards West Papuans
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Australian Security Intelligence Organisation briefing warns that the far-right is exploiting coronavirus to recruit new members
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どんぐりず / powerful passion (2020)
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NASA confirms JWST will miss March 2021 launch date
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What do executives do, anyway?
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Apple announces Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2020 keynote timeline, week-long conference schedule
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Facebook groups are falling apart with drama, infighting, and deleted comments about Black Lives Matter posts
4 votes -
Where’s airborne plastic? Everywhere, scientists find
3 votes -
Twitter removes Chinese misinformation campaign
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Ford recalls 2.15 million US vehicles for potentially faulty door latches
4 votes -
Porcupine Tree — Arriving Somewhere But Not Here (2005)
8 votes -
JK Rowling is dangerously wrong
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PlayStation 5 - Reveal event
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Metal: Hellsinger | Announcement trailer
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Covid-19 makes it clearer than ever: access to the internet should be a universal right -- Tim Berners-Lee
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Inside Seattle's Autonomous Zone
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The still-vital case for liberalism in a radical age
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
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Seattle’s coronavirus surveillance program resumes after being shut down by the FDA
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Traffic sounds - 3D binaural recording of the M60 motorway, UK
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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Flat UI elements attract less attention and cause uncertainty
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Depictions of racism in Magic: The Gathering
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We should be able to edit the auto-scraped data on link posts
The scraper usually works pretty well but as seen here it can sometimes fail pretty spectacularly, in which case it would be beneficial if we could edit the data it collects.
13 votes -
US on path to widespread political violence
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Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 11
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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A Norwegian court has sentenced a gunman to twenty-one years in prison for killing his teenage step-sister and opening fire at a mosque
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologises for 'any hurt or harm' caused by robodebt scheme
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Brazil’s favelas, neglected by the government, organize their own coronavirus fight
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Eugène François Vidocq
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Welcome to RWX.GG
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Is there anything more we should do with reposts?
The site gives a warning if you intend to repost a link but should we do more like request a reason for reposting (for examples, the post is a year old, the moment is opportune, etc.?)
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Riot Games investigating exec who blamed George Floyd’s murder on his "lifestyle"
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Build Concept: The Mobius Chair
In the DC canon, The Mobius Chair is a time-space/dimensional vehicle operated by the New God Metron. It allows him to travel and observe the universe, but the one I'm making is nowhere near as...
In the DC canon, The Mobius Chair is a time-space/dimensional vehicle operated by the New God Metron. It allows him to travel and observe the universe, but the one I'm making is nowhere near as functional.
I've come into a recliner chair with a cupholder on each armrest, and I already had a split keyboard. My plan is to use the cupholders as a mount for both ends of the split keyboard, so that I could use the entire run of armrest and have my hands lay naturally on the keys. Goals are to minimize weird stretching and be able to comfortably type for long stretches of time, to put off stuff building this that I planned to work on this weekend, and to look super boss, though not necessarily in that order.
If I want ultimate angulation and the best range of motion, I was thinking about something like a cupholder with a phone or a tablet mount, like this one, but if anyone has recommendations for what would be best to work with, or have done something like this before, I'm all ears.
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Sammy Rae - Jackie Onassis (2021)
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Announcing sound null-safety for Dart
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‘Promised Neverland’ live action series in development at Amazon
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Nintendo Game Boy hackers are building a better retro console
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Summer of Pride: A month-long LGBT game streaming charity event
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What’s your routine palate cleanser during the quarantine?
In other words, what do you do between things? I already worked from home before, and used to take medium to long walks between tasks. Now that is discouraged, so I tend to take a shower and...
In other words, what do you do between things? I already worked from home before, and used to take medium to long walks between tasks. Now that is discouraged, so I tend to take a shower and change clothes more often. But that’s not very green and my skin started to show signs of wearing. The apartment is relatively large, but not enough for me to feel in another ambient by changing rooms.
So what do you do to help give structure to your routine?
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On Apple announcing the ARM Mac transition at WWDC this month
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Grubhub to merge with European food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway.com
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The evolution of game genres on early Nintendo consoles: NES, Game Boy, and SNES
5 votes -
How the coronavirus compares with 100 years of deadly events
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Twitter is testing a new feature on Android: When you retweet an article that you haven't opened on Twitter, the app may ask if you'd like to open it first
15 votes