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Adam Marshall spent more than a decade developing Kingdoms of the Dump while working as a custodian at a school in suburban Philadelphia, cleaning floors and hauling trash bags from 3 PM to 11 PM before coming home to work on his turn-based role-playing game until 5 or 6 AM. The game, which Bloomberg has called "one of the year's most charming RPGs," came out on Tuesday after Marshall and his childhood friend Matt Loiseau -- also a janitor -- built it using RPG Maker alongside a small team of hobbyists who mostly worked for free.
The pair launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2019 that raised $76,560, but the pandemic disrupted their plans and forced them to lose contractors and rethink their approach. Marshall maintained this schedule for five years straight before quitting his custodial job last year to finish the game full-time. Kingdoms of the Dump has sold about 7,000 copies since its release. The game stars a walking trashcan named Dustin Binsley who adventures through landfills and sewers in a world made entirely of garbage.
The pair launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2019 that raised $76,560, but the pandemic disrupted their plans and forced them to lose contractors and rethink their approach. Marshall maintained this schedule for five years straight before quitting his custodial job last year to finish the game full-time. Kingdoms of the Dump has sold about 7,000 copies since its release. The game stars a walking trashcan named Dustin Binsley who adventures through landfills and sewers in a world made entirely of garbage.
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Thunderbird Pro has moved its Thundermail email service into production testing as the open-source email client's subscription bundle of additional services prepares for an Early Bird beta launch at $9 per month that will include email hosting, encrypted file sharing through Send, and scheduling via Appointment.
Internal team members are now testing Thundermail accounts and the new Thunderbird Pro add-on automatically adds Thundermail accounts for users who sign up through it. The project migrated its data hosting from the Americas to Germany and the EU.
Appointment received a major visual redesign being applied across all three services while Send completed an external security review and moved from its standalone add-on into the unified Thunderbird Pro add-on. The new website at tb.pro is live for signups and account management.
Internal team members are now testing Thundermail accounts and the new Thunderbird Pro add-on automatically adds Thundermail accounts for users who sign up through it. The project migrated its data hosting from the Americas to Germany and the EU.
Appointment received a major visual redesign being applied across all three services while Send completed an external security review and moved from its standalone add-on into the unified Thunderbird Pro add-on. The new website at tb.pro is live for signups and account management.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Hoewel de Stereophonics hier al wel voorbij zijn gekomen in lijstjes, zoals Beste Live Album (‘Live From Dakota’) en Beste Covers (‘Handbags & Gladrags’), kan ik de band niet terugvinden tussen de Closing Times.
Terwijl de vier heren zulke lekkere nummers hebben!
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Gaat het Nationaal Vuurwerk wel of niet door? Het was een vraag die maandenlang steeds een ander antwoord had, maar met onder andere de financiële steun van burgemeester Carola Schouten is het toch gelukt. De grote vuurwerkshow op de Erasmusbrug in Rotterdam tijdens de jaarwisseling gaat door. "Ik vond dat we alle wegen moesten uitlopen om het toch voor elkaar te krijgen."
In the Karakoram Range on the northeastern border of Pakistan, a group of Indigenous women and girls is defying conventions with a seemingly simple pastime: soccer.
The Gilgit-Baltistan Girls Football League is a bastion of independence and autonomy amid a traditionally conservative environment. “In our culture, girls were brought up to be brides,” says Karishma, the co-founder of the league, in a short documentary about the movement. “Everybody doesn’t want to be a princess.”
Titled “Girls Move Mountains,” the striking film is by Anna Huix, who visits this remote region and tags along with members of the Wakhi people as they practice and compete. As Huix shows, soccer is much more than a game for participants, who put themselves at risk in order to play. “As a child, Karishma faced harassment for wearing soccer attire, and as a woman, she battles online bullying from aggressive crowds challenging the rights of girls in the mountains,” the Barcelona-based filmmaker writes.
While news clips highlight the backlash against the league, we also see Karishma’s grandmother, who supports the women and shares that she would have played the game had it been available to her.
If you’re in New York, you can see “Girls Move Mountains” at a screening for Dumbo Film Festival. Find more of Huix’s work on her website and Instagram. You also might enjoy Celia D. Luna’s portraits of these skateboarders.
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Het zal je maar gebeuren: Dat je als gerenommeerd socioloog die toevallig Joods is en daarnaast toevallig afkomstig uit een land dat voor Joden nu eenmaal een zeldzame veilig haven is, je mag komen spreken op een universiteit in Rotterdam zoals je op zoveel universiteiten spreekt, tot je plots hoort dat je afkomst voor medewerkers van die universiteit in Rotterdam 'niet comfortabel' is en je daarom toch niet mag komen. Het overkwam Eva Illouz vorige maand. Nogal vreemd, maar helaas geen uitzondering meer in dit moreel verwarde land vol moreel verwarde instellingen. Gelukkig zegt de Erasmus Universiteit nu ook zelf dat het een nogal vreemd besluit was om de uitnodiging voor Illouz in te trekken. Sterker nog, ze hebben spijt en haben es nicht gewusst erkennen dat het niet had mogen gebeuren. Illouz mag nu alsnog naar Rotterdam komen om 'een masterclass te helpen organiseren over academische vrijheid'. We hopen dat de bestuurders van het Erasmus goed zullen opletten. Campusbezetting in 3, 2 1...