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    Have Some Bones: Ossuary Is Out!

    Unforgivably, I’m a day late, but Future Proof Games‘ Ossuary has been released! In case you haven’t visited the page or seen the trailer: The last thing you remember is receiving an unsatisfying answer. A plunge through the fundamental chaos takes you to a place of bones. Great power can be found within the Ossuary, but those who are not lying to themselves are lying to you. Ossuary is available as a downloadable title for Windows and is DRM-free. Pick up a copy and enjoy! (Oh, and Mac will be supported once Adobe releases Mavericks support for desktop Flash Player and AIR.)

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    Other Tip Offs That Our Industry Has Problems

    A colleague sent an email to our department yesterday that opened with the line, “Other tip offs that our computers are like women…” What followed was pretty (and predictably) contemptible; four bullet points of absurd stereotypes, ostensibly humorous, comparing computers to women. I was… quite upset. I debated how or if to talk to the coworker, and ultimately decided to have the conversation when another colleague was like, “Hey, don’t send stuff like that!” So we talked. I was still hand-shakingly upset, so I didn’t press the points I should have. Instead, I listened to the “ask anyone who knows me; I’m not a sexist” thing, the “I don’t do…

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    Ossuary Trailer Live!

    “Wait!” you say. “A new game from Gregory Avery-Weir?! And this Future Proof thing? I’ve been ignoring all your other posts about it?! Waaat?” Go watch the trailer. The release date will be announced very soon. (Frustrating, I know, but…) The game itself will also be released rather soon. Get ready to fall into the place of bones.

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    Links! Dat Social Justice

    I’ve been (relatively) all over the twitter space lately on the social justice tip. I’ve started following some new and amazing folks in the last couple months, including Ashe Dryden, Julie Pagano, and Justine Arreche, who are probably the first folks I’ve followed who are specifically interested in social justice within the tech community/industry. Mutual following of these folks led to some fun discussions with a former colleague on considerations like, “How often can I call my colleagues out on *ist behavior and still get invites out to lunch? Once in three occurrences?” After all, no one likes a feminazi. The first two links come from Pagano’s “101 off limits”…