# Weekly links 11

I just finished reading Tom King and Mitch Gerad's Mister Miracle, and want to write a review of that, but I've also got a bundle of links built up, so this comes first. 

=> https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/what-id-tell-you-to-try-if-you-told-me-your-game-sucks/ Kieron Gillen talking about some tools to run RPGs

I mainly wanted to include this because he says if he were younger he'd be putting this kind of thing on YouTube, but instead it's on a blog, which he calls "an elegant weapon, for a more civilised age." That was fun.

=> https://youtu.be/l-r8t0YsqXM Some great stand up from Pierre Novellie

I saw him live last year, he's really great.

=> https://shadowedstone.blogspot.com/2025/02/emergent-soundtracks-in-tabletop-role.html On Shadowed Stone, talking about making soundtracks for RPGs

Some nice thoughts about choosing themes for your characters and letting things fall into place over time. It made me think about tabletop gaming being a medium that can do so much with copywritten material. The performance (or whatever you want to call it) is by and for the audience. You can infringe to your heart's content!

=> https://bankuei.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/game-hype-realis/ Deeper in the Game, on a new game called Realis

I like this writer a lot, and he often talks about flag mechanics - declaring to the table that you want your character to have a particular aspect or thread running through their interactions. It's something I'm quite curious about trying. 

=> https://daringfireball.net/2025/02/apple_pulls_advanced_data_protection_from_the_uk Daring Fireball, on a move by Apple to change encryption features in the UK

Apple is reducing their security offering in the UK without saying why. Incidentally it would be a crime in the UK for Apple to tell anyone if the UK government demanded they put a backdoor into their systems.

=> https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/ Aresluna on a font called Gorton

I haven't read this yet. Sometimes the Weekly links are for me too!

=> https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka Czkawka, a tool for cleaning up files

For the imagined time in the future when I will organise my files, this could be useful. 

=> https://xkcd.com/3056/ xkcd on RNA

I know very little about biology. This seems like something I should learn about. 

=> http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4300 Dinosaur Comics 4300

=> https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4301 Dinosaur Comics 4301

Two in a row for Ryan North on the prestigious Weekly links list. This kid is going places!

=> https://ob-strat.netlify.app/ Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies 

A friend shared this app, recreating a creative tool that Brian Eno used. It's quite cool!

=> https://bannerlessgames.itch.io/void-1680-am A game about making a radio show

Fun idea. You record yourself, and it to the creator, and he will broadcast your show on YouTube and on his AM antenna. 

=> https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert/blob/0dc09bb1d6188d1ec79ab4765b22a48b75ffee32/CODE/ADATA.CPP#L124 Red Alert is now free software

EA has released the source code for a bunch of Command and Conquer games under a copyleft licence. This is really cool. It would be nice is this was done with more games. Maybe it is, I don't pay much attention to this stuff. But in principle I'm for it! Incidentally, I chose to link to the line in the Red Alert source code that comments on a dog being electrocuted by a Tesla coil, which is far more exciting than most of the code comments I see in my day to day work. 

Have a great weekend folks 🏃‍♂️
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