Rivals 2 Will Live or Die By Collective Action

Posted on 18 October 2024

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Rivals 2 character icons gathered around a circle. Each character is connected to every other character through a line; in the middle is the icon for the UK and Ireland's Rivals Discord guild.

A 9 minute read on:

More Shields, Please, I’m a Platfighter: Rivals 1, but with shields and grabs;
Don’t Forget – They’re Here Forever (?): Why you were at Scotland’s biggest Rivals 2 tournament last weekend;
A Rivals Proposal: A summary of things to keep in mind as the game releases

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Fool Me Twice, We Don’t — Err, What Was That First Thing You Said?

Posted on 14 May 2024

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Read to the end for good news, such as;

Brologue is now available on Bluesky…
…Even though I don’t trust ’em.

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Fifteen Million Tooters

Posted on 19 March 2024

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Four time-based charts Upper blue area: Number of Mastodon users Upper cyan area: Hourly increases of number of users Lower orange area: Number of active instances Lower yellow area: Thousand toots per hour For current figures please read the text of this post (i.e. https://geekdom.social/@mastodonusercount@mastodon.social/112116814836144770)

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Mastodon’s userbase milestone;
I am once again asking you to move to Mastodon.

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That Old Back Catalogue (Part VI): The Internet Con

Posted on 31 December 2023

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It’s finally time to talk about the one book that’s constantly been at the back of my mind since making this blog.
No summary this time – anyone with a pulse should read this book for themselves.

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Nick Brawl 2: The Sponge in the Wringer

Posted on 24 December 2023

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A sponge being put through a wringer.

I bought Nick Brawl 2 on sale. It’s about time I got back in the saddle…
I am asking you once again to read my opinions on network effects
Playing to win is for losers.

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That Old Back Catalogue (Part III) – How to Do Nothing

Posted on 17 December 2023

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The most violent book I’ve read this year. Jenny Odell argues the unthinkable – why don’t we harness doing nothing as a form of political activism?
Lessons from the scrivener – you can’t say “no” to your boss, but to refuse, you don’t have to.
Published in 2019, it’s a product of its time – might the Fediverse make collective action and co-operation easier?

I would prefer not to.

Wash That X Site Outta Our Hair

Posted on 14 December 2023

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The Sulfuric Acid item from The Binding of Isaac, colour-corrected so the liquid inside of the bottle appears blue. The bottle is marked with a black 'X.'

A brief respite from editing posts on polemic books to bring you news about the ex-bird site – news about its ex-users, that is.
The migration from X (formerly known as Twitter) to Mastodon gave researchers a golden opportunity to record data on the collective action problem. Spoilers: it’s pretty good news.