Causes that I know of are expected funding/investment evaporating last-minute, expansion plans not going as well as hoped, and shipping costs blowouts from war and COVID (which stung them because they charged shipping upfront for upcoming crowdfunded books, then costs doubled).
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/exclusive-unbound-faces-financial-uncertainty-as-authors-wait-for-delayed-payments
Every Australian needs to read Country: Future Fire, Future Farming, a fascinating and accessible book about fire, ecology, and land management in 1788 (the year white folks came) versus today. Everything we've been told (at least in Vic & NSW) about fire in this country is wrong, essentially.
230 years ago, indigenous people used hot and "cool" fire with such scalpel-like precision that raging bushfires were rare, plants and animals thrived, food was plentiful, and instead of wilderness, everywhere was thought of and managed like parkland.
Fixing the mistakes of 240+ years of mismanagement and bad policy will be hard, but the authors are clear that without radical change the big fires will just keep getting worse. (See the third image for some of their proposed solutions.)
I remain very pleased that I wrote this post gushing about Realmz earlier this year: https://frostillic.us/blog/posts/2024/3/31/realmz
@MisterArix Indeed. And I think about that every time I see an American journalist or editor say "corporations are entities, not people" in response to somebody misusing the pronouns.
On top of the legal and moral insanity of corporate personhood, clinging to the singular form in language use absolves the corporation's executives/management of responsibility for their actions and dehumanises the people who work there.
Random language oddity: Collective nouns get third-person plural pronouns (they/them) in British English but third-person singular pronouns (it/its) in US English. British English also distinguishes between organisations as legal entities (it) vs groups of individuals (they), depending on context.
Hence why it's usually correct in the UK/Australia to write, say, "[company or team name] find peace in loss of their sandwiches" whereas in the US it should always be "[company or team name] finds peace in loss of its sandwiches."
https://www.eurogamer.net/there-comes-a-time-when-we-all-declare-the-war-is-over-former-playstation-studios-boss-shawn-layden-on-the-future-of-video-game-consoles
The rest of my apps were accessible via a left-edge swipe into a floating sidebar. Still one of my all-time favourite homescreens.
ChipWits is featured in The Secret History of Mac Gaming by @MossRC and he is offering our fans an additional £5 off with the code CHIPWITS. This excellent book takes you back to the days of #gamedev in 1984. @bitmapbooks https://chipwits.com/2024/11/27/chipwits-discount-for-the-secret-history-of-mac-gaming-book/
I did an interview with Ludica about football games and A Tale of Two Halves [post is in Italian]. https://www.ludicamag.com/a-tale-of-two-halves-intervista-a-richard-moss-storia-videogiochi-di-calcio-bitmap-books/
(Cooling is back on now, but we're in for a much warmer night inside because of the interruption.)
For my American friends grappling with how to survive (and resist authoritarianism) through the next four years, this seems like good advice: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump
The moment where my worlds collided: legendary horror game composer Akira Yamaoka's brief remarks on doing a track for football game Winning Eleven 4 (ISS Pro Evo for those of us in PAL regions), in response to a question I snuck into our TerrorBytes documentary interview with him.
