Nerds Amalgamated

Apparently, the market for gamers who don't actually play games is now bigger than the market for gamers who play them. That's probably not surprising though.
Concrete with poo sounds like something you'll never get clean, but it's actually stronger than regular concrete.
Card shops are dying. Somehow, comics returned.

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The rise of the non-player
- https://automaton-media.com/en/news/sega-president-says-theres-been-a-rise-in-fans-who-dont-play-the-games-and-their-engagement-with-ips-can-be-even-higher-than-that-of-gamers/

Introducing poop-crete
- https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-are-making-concrete-with-human-poop-and-it-gets-42-stronger
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-66956-6

Are we seeing the death of the card shop
- https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-store-in-your-future-goodbye-to-gaming-so-more-comics/#google_vignette

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Tim Sweeney thinks the games industry is crashing like it's 1980 again. Which game will we bury in the desert this time?
The Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded. This year, we have scientific definitions of kissing and splashless urinals.
A movie about a talking cow has taken the world by storm. The weird thing is, they had a budget of about $200.
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Resources Mentioned
Another games crash scare ("This is the worst crash we've seen since the 1980s," says Tim Sweeney | GamesIndustry.biz)
The 2026 IG Nobel awards (Rich people more likely to steal children’s sweets, finds Ig Nobel prize-winning study, Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners - Ars Technica)
The Chinese talking cow vs the world (Niu Lai movie: I watched the Chinese cow film. It sure is something.)

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GTA6 has been leaking like a sieve. Why are people even excited for this?
People love monsters. Is it because they provide an outsider view of society, or is there something else going on?
A study has suggested that Australia is the most resilient country to anything from global thermonuclear war to another pandemic. So where the bloody hell are you?

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Resources Mentioned
The GTA 6 Saga (Take-Two Interactive files subpoenas against Microsoft, Discord, and X amid ongoing GTA 6 leaks | GamesIndustry.biz)
Australia can survive…..THE APOCALYPSE (No Place to Hide? Regional Resilience and Vulnerability to Global Catastrophic Risk - Jehn - 2026)
Why do we love monsters? (Why We Love Monsters, Metaphorical and Otherwise)

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gcYaqUlxZpB2o-cuiO76TNf9HtHad6spFuAHsAiXkjE/edit?usp=sharing
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Stop killing games is going from strength to strength, and now has joined the fight against Sony in a fresh new lawsuit
We then started flexing our cooking muscles while discussing how to save our vegetables and the solution was.......birdseeds...and plenty of it
Then we came to the conclusion that instead of buying paper comics...online comics is the way to go
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Resources Mentioned
Stop Killing Games...the saga continues ("It's time to sue Sony": Stop Killing Games joins lawsuit over PlayStation's digital "monopoly" amid death of physical games | GamesRadar+, Stop Killing Games Joins Lawsuit Against Sony Over Its 'Total Control Of PlayStation Store Pricing')
Something is killing the veges (The World's Vegetables Are Vanishing, And It's Quietly Wrecking Our Diets : ScienceAlert, Reversing vegetable biodiversity loss to diversify diets | PNAS)
The rise of online comics (In an Online Era, Digital Comics Are Still Loading Up)

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oDJgSK0-Te4sWXJK1RDHtyMX4R8lo6z5CVJ10TQv3XQ/edit?usp=sharing
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Finding the needle in a haystack of a good game is getting more difficult as more releases come out. A workgroup has come up with a plan to fix that.
The Cambrian Explosion may have been caused by the accumulation of feces. Food for thought.
Why are people turning to miniseries and one shots instead of ongoing comics? Maybe they're just too long. We're talking about you, One Piece.

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Resources Mentioned
Why it's hard to find a good game (The industry makes great games, but nobody can find them | GamesIndustry.biz)
Its official poop fueled evolution (An Ancient Poop Explosion Could Have Helped Complex Life Evolve : ScienceAlert, The Cambrian fecal revolution: Fueling the Cambrian Radiation: Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
What killed ongoing comics (Whatever Happened to Ongoing Comics?)

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cLHOB-5sJWBXsKcdVPsVtmWtatE1YC9-JoRlOaqpN74/edit?usp=sharing
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