Tried doing a cool thing in this cube instead of just drafting Agro and I have not won a single game.

You know what, screw it, this is now going to be a sorta live blog of Unfair Flips, a coin flipping game that just came out.

There’s some sort of relationship between how good a game is, and how long I play it before I just set up a macro.

I spent a fair amount of time over the weekend playing the Nexus Amina beta. Here are some quick thoughts. gametrodon.com/honkai-nexus...

I'm just going to say that we should just use "Rest" and "Refresh" as our generic versions of Tap/Untap.

A brief suggestion for #GearboxSoftware on what do about Randy until #borderlands4 is crashing less.

So apparently H.G. Wells made a war game at one point?

Rising political violence is bad, even when it happens to someone I do not like, whose views I find reprehensible. The road of endless escalation leads nowhere good for society.

"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside." As we predicted, the end of de minimis has made every hobby that requires the purchase of items more expensive. 🔗 www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...

My tabletop gaming anti-drug afterschool program has been a rousing success! By getting kids interested in Warhammer, M:TG, RPG books, fancy dice, and board games, I’ve ensured that they never have enough money to buy drugs.

Somewhere in the world, a very confused network engineer is suddenly having a very bad day. #Silksong

FINISH LOADING PLEASE STEAM.

I hate that my first response to seeing a new "anime tcg" these days is go check if they have artist credits, or are just using AI.

Hooray, it's several hundred words about primary resource systems in collectible card games!

This exercise by @jamellebouie.net on "How many Slaveholders were there, really?" (youtu.be/pRs2Xu1FWR4?...) is really impressive and honestly I think should be a mandatory watch for *ancient* historians thinking about the slave societies we study.

NEW: Do you know those "AI Overview" responses that appear above search results when you Google for things? Last week, I chatted with a trio of game developers who proved to me that Google's AI kept giving players false info about their game My story: www.gamefile.news/p/google-ai-...

The SILKSONG is REALLLLLL!

It's stats day! I played a lot of Final Fantasy. #MTG

Slightly Diminish a Band: They might be 6'5

I keep wondering if the bug zapper I have for insects in my apartment is just a scaled down version of some Cosmic Horror Monolith. Like, maybe the reason obsidian pillar that weeps blood draws people to it and kills them isn't malicious, but just because they're annoying to have buzzing around.

Iron Widow was a great read but I really should be sleeping at this point.

This week, we're looking at the One Piece Card Game! Which I feel like I should enjoy a lot more then I do? gametrodon.com/one-piece-ca...

I think I like the idea of TCG's more then CCG's. There will be no elaboration on this point at this time.

Went 0-3 at a #MTG draft for the first time in a while. Highlights include getting absolutely slaughtered by a 10 year old.

Board games as a whole needs to come up with a single alternate term for turning a card 90 degrees that isn't owned by an asshole megacorp and all agree to use that word.

The vendors for the Indie Games Night Market have been selected and notified! Check out what's coming! www.newmillindustries.com/ignm

Can't sleep, so have a small review about a nice pinball place I visited this weekend.

Can't sleep, so have a small review about a nice pinball place I visited this weekend.

Tales of Kenzera is a solid 8/10 metroidvania, but with much better combat than it's exploration or platforming. It's not the perfect cure for Hollow Knight withdrawal, but it might get you through a weekend.

Hot take: Some people don't deserve to be in the credits for video games. I'm really not sure why the front end intern for the lighting engine gets the same billing as an actual level designer. Same for all the random VP's of related garbage.

Spent the day playing Pinball. Perhaps a writeup of some sort is in order.

Finished up Tales of Kenzera: Zau. Really trying to clean out my backlog this summer. Probably next weeks writeup?

This weeks writeup is on Deltarune, chapter 3 and 4. gametrodon.com/deltarune-ch... Also, all spoilers are hidden, so no worries if you haven't finished the chapter yet, you can still read this.

I have a friend who thinks of using AI to write all outgoing emails and summarize all incoming emails as a productivity hack. This contrasts in an interesting way with my view of that system which is that it's a window into one of the circles of hell.

Fuck collective shout.

Do you like auto-battlers? Do you like Roguelites? Do you like games that seem to have far too many options that aren't actually viable for fighting the end boss, like why did you design this really cool synergy that's just a strategic trap? If yes, maybe you'll like He Is Coming more then I did.

i have a feeling CGE is fully aware of how awful JK Rowling is but did the math and figured it was still worth it to them financially to do Codenames: Harry Potter They’re not targeting the board game community with it, which is small. They’re after that HP money.

Discussing Deltarune and Undertale is interesting, because it feels like the options are either to 1. talk about things at either purely a surface level or 2. join a video game version of QAnon.

gametrodon.com/5-is-5-dolla... I will have a real post out this week. It is not this one.

gametrodon.com/chico-and-th... Yeah, it's last week write-up. It does not push any boundaries in any meaningful way.

dear tech companies: Every time you try to force me into a subscription or new feature I do not want, I move one step closer to both 1. not using your product 2. telling my older relatives that your product will steal all of their information and drain their bank account.

Parallel universe where gaming mice are highly trained rodents that compete in little tiny athletic and mental challenges, like connect 4 and the long jump.

Hey! Have you submitted to be a vendor at the Indie Games Night Market in November yet? Applications are due by August 1 and decisions will be made by August 15. Get to it! www.newmillindustries.com/ignm

Early reviews include: • “why would you do this” • “This is horrendous. You are evil incarnate.” • “This is awful. Incredibly impressive but awful.” • “It gives me a physical full body cringe” • “congratulations on your torment nexus” www.jamesrball.com/p/i-built-th...

A quick thing. gametrodon.com/the-hiatus/

For several seconds, I was gifted a window into an incredible alternate world.

On impulse, I decided to attend Origins this past weekend and what a crazy treat to be at a convention where Compile wins an award in a category filled with games I enjoy and respect. Huge thanks to all of the people that gave a bit of themselves to this game. Compile's future is bright!

Dear Big Box Stores: if I wanted to pay online for something I can only get a week later, I would just buy shit off amazon.

Every Wikipedia entry about a musician: Colin Skunksworth the 2nd, known professionally as Cool Jimmy, was a member of Cool Jimmy and the Tuba Men, a extraterrestrial themed Ska group that toured nationally until their tragic death involving an industrial electromagnet during one of their shows.

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