If President Trump believes that resettling the people who live in Gaza is such a good idea, why not resettle them in the USA?

Could it be that resettling them is not, in fact, a good idea?


http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2025/QBlog050225A.html

I can see where the humour is in most of the cartoons in Victorian editions of Punch (well, the ones that aren't incomprehensible), but that doesn't mean I find them funny. Very few of them have actually made me laugh.

I have to confess that this one actually managed it.


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A new interview with me has been published, this time in text so you can more easily skip the bits you don't want to read. It's available here.

It's one of a series of interviews. You can see the full set here. Mine is probably the least interesting.


http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2025/QBlog030225A.html

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I saw this sign yesterday in the window of the Poplar Food Hall.


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It was the Global Game Jam over the weekend, with participants asked to create games on the theme of "bubble". It's not a great theme, because there are two or three obvious ideas that it sparks and then not a whole lot more. This is what comes of having themes decided by a committee.

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I saw a link on Massively Overpowered to a video about "why text-based MMOs 'refuse to die'". It's quite good, and I don't just say that because I'm interviewed in it.

Could it be that text games are now sufficiently in the distant past that today's 20-year-olds look on them as a new idea?


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