Leigh Beadon

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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

5 days ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

This week, we’ve got a double winner taking first place for both insightful and funny.
Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Honorable Mentions

6 days ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

This is a brief detour in our series of posts about the winners of this year’s public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1929! We’ve already covered the Best Remix, Best Deep Cut, and Best Visuals, and Best Adaptation, but before we move on to the last two categories (Best Analog Game and Best Digital Game), let’s take a moment to run through the honorable mentions that we included in every category this year. First up, the honorable mention for Best Remix went to Eleanor by Micah McFarland.
The Clock Is Ticking! Get Your Copy Of Our Social Media Card Game Before It’s Too Late

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

Do you have what it takes to run a social media network that grows to one billion users and beyond? That’s the question in our new card game, One Billion Users, which we successfully funded on Kickstarter last year. Now the game is entering production, and since we have no plans to make more copies after this, it’s your last chance to get one for yourself. The Kickstarter is accepting late pledges through the end of tomorrow, Wednesday May 7th.
Funniest/Most Insightul Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon |Stephen Stone

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Bruce C. with a reply to a comment that attempted to downplay the recent behavior of federal agents:Even plain clothes officers are required to carry their badge. If they were undercover officers they shouldn’t be presenting themselves as officers to civilians unless they desire to blow their cover. In second place, it’s Strawb with another comment about that same incident in Texas:What is it law enforcement is fond of saying?
Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Calder’s Circus

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

This is the fourth in our series of posts about the winners of this year’s public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1929! We’ve already covered the Best Remix, Best Deep Cut, and Best Visuals, and today we’re looking at the winner of the Best Adaptation category: Calder’s Circus by David Harris. Regular followers of the jam are surely familiar with David Harris, our one regular entrant who has won a category every single year.
This Is Your Last Chance To Get A Copy Of Our New Social Media Card Game

2 weeks ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

Last year, we were thrilled with the success of our Kickstarter campaign for One Billion Users, the Social Media Card Game. In case you missed it at the time, One Billion Users is a fun, fast-paced game where 2-4 players compete to build the biggest and best social media network. Now, the game is about to enter production, which means this is your last chance to secure a copy for yourself. The Kickstarter campaign is accepting late pledges from now through the end of Wednesday, May 7th.
Techdirt Podcast Episode 416: How Tariffs Are Impacting One Small Business

2 weeks ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

We probably don’t need to tell you that the current tariff situation is causing complete chaos in global supply chains, in large part due to the uncertainty — for all we know, the exact rules will have changed since this episode was recorded just yesterday.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

2 weeks ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Mamba with a response to a failed “fact check” by another commenter:Hey twinkle farts, President Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor to authorize the government to detain enemy aliens. Further, the executive order didn’t need to receive the law. And the law was used to justify the detainment in Federal Court. Dumb as a box of rocks.
Game Jam Winner Spotlight: A Warning

2 weeks ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

It’s time for the second in our series of posts about the winners of this year’s public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1929! We’ve already covered the Best Remix and Best Deep Cut, and today we’re looking at the winner of the Best Visuals category: A Warning by DigNZ. One of the requirements for digital entries in these game jams is that they be playable in the browser, which puts a limit on just how graphically ambitious they can get.
Techdirt Podcast Episode 415: The Problems With Age Verification

3 weeks ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

It’s hard to create a law about children online without first identifying who the children are. We’ve written a lot about the problems that arise with mandated age verification, and a new paper by Eric Goldman, The “Segregate-and-Suppress” Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online, digs into why the entire popular approach to such laws is paradoxical and broken.