When I did high school debate there was two ways to ask questions. One way was to like, ask "into" their arguments. "So are you saying ______" and then you just set them up to just grandstand for like a minute and a half. OR you can reject their framing. And here's the thing...

Sir this is a Wendy's.

youtu.be/g0n-xC2f0tI?... Hey I made a thing and it's in a thing. (The compilation video of the board game jam I participated in with my 2 minute video at the front.)

I watched "The Hobby" last night with a group of tabletop game designers, and what a treat! The film looks affectionately at board games from the perspective of pro and amateur designers, players, and influencers. It captures how much game design has itself become a hobby in the story of... 1/▶️

UPDATE: It was, in fact, too tight, BECAUSE RESOLVE CRASHED AND ATE MY WORK. So I remade it and sent it off uhm, about an hour late. /shrug. Hey I got what I wanted I had to make a working prototype in 24 hours.

Okay but leaving myself 45 minutes to cut a 2 minute video is a LITTLE tight. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. It's totally fine. I've cut longer in less. But just taking the time do make sure things import / export properly, etc etc.

I'm participating in a board game jam and lemme tell you WHEW. It has been a LONG DAY. But I have a working prototype of a game that I've whipped out in A DAY. So this has been awesome. I'll do a revision tomorrow morning and then, bam, submit.

the mods don't seem to understand that they are at work? like, if you are in charge of the network, you can't treat the network as a place to hang out and have fun. you're at work. it's your job.

I just finished one of the last major sequences in this book - two left. And this weekend I'm doing a board game jam with Pam Wells and her crew. (Ironically, yes, through Discord). It's a good creative work. So far.

I love you friends, local bookshops, game dev peeps, all of you. But. I'm not joining your Discord. Look, it's nothing personal though! I'm sure they're FABULOUS. But I'm not putting it on my phone - I'm trying to put my phone down more, and on my desktop I don't have time to just idly chat.

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I had forgotten I'd added "fuck it we ball" to this book. Too anachronistic? Probably. But whatever it's staying for now.

You know a week ago or so I saw someone had blocked me and. Guess what? It's not a big deal! That's absolutely their prerogative. I have no idea what I did and I don't care that's all their thing and nbd.

Boy what a sick burn dude. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU HE'S THREATENING TO DEPLOY TROOPS TO PORTLAND AND THE BEST YOU GOT IS A FUCKING *ZINGER*

I'm pretty sure I saw James Bond use this to take out henchmen.

Hey, this is a reminder that the Unbound for Gaza auction is live right now. I have the complete Wedgeford Trilogy up here: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Just as a reminder, major players like Microsoft and Google and Amazon and Meta are collectively spending over a hundred billion *per year* on this shit. This is a fucking pittance in the economy of this. On the one hand, I'm glad a court is acknowledging they did wrong. But also. Goddamn.

Tech bros: Stan Lee is not there talking to you. You don't know what he would have said had he been there. This is not Stan Lee. This is not like talking to Stan Lee. People die. And they're gone. You cannot bring them back. You just have to accept mortality.

Well this. Look I see this with no context, I share it with no context.

People are a lot more willing to be generous to terrible fight scenes than they are willing to be generous towards sex scenes, even though the good ones of both use the exact same skill sets of character revelation, relationship change, setting exploration, dynamic movement of the plot.

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My writing sins are overusing some words: Lumbar Sartorial Fiat Eponymous

Now THIS IS MARKETING. (No seriously, not joking, this is fantastic and I'm buying later. This is how pros do it.)

Man if you want a discovery layer that doesn't lie to you and is open source, @hebaha.bsky.social literally works at a company that can host it for you.

Story time! When we were kids my sister got a Furby for Christmas one year. That thing was fuckin CREEPY. But whatever, we were kids. One day it just. Kept. Talking. So I did what any sane person did: I shoved it up into the top of the closet to be forgotten for good. ~~*10 years later*~~

Ooooh right that bi visibility day. It didn't even occur to me to post a selfie. Here friends. Visible me!

Something that I love about this is that the first bullet point is that, yes, this is a job, and yes, as a job, we should, in fact, earn money. *And that's not a problem* HEAR HEAR. Coming from education days I was SHOCKED to discover my job could just. Be my job. And pay bills.

Happy bisexual visibility day!

Ugh this sickness is kicking my ass. It's not officially covid - no positive test yet, but my wife tested positive once she was feeling better.

Oh yay my boss wants us to ~explore AI~ for 2026.

For real I'm currently on Windows 10 and already experimenting with Ubuntu / Mint when it is time for the next upgrade because I am just tired of Windows' shit.

For real screens are dope. Like. Try TELLING a complicated index-match-xlookup to Excel. Or try changing location on a map. Anyone who is slavering at screens going away... nah bruh. Screens are great.

Oooh definitely this. It's VERY easy to get Pokemon about board games early on, just like it is very easy to go for all the big big extra kickstarts and stuff. And look, that's fine! But also it's okay to back off and not do that.

Every sci-fi movie Schwarzenegger made in the 1980s is more relevant now than it has ever been and there is literally nothing good about that.

Game Design Lessons from the Emmy Awards! gametek.substack.com/p/game-desig... 🎲✂️

You get to 530 Hz frequency and the chocolate just really crystalizes. I saw it on GBB.

So, the first go-around of 2016 to 2020 was absolutely fucking EXHAUSTING. All the time. All. The. Time. And I needed stories then, more than ever. Big things - Red, White, Royal Blue. Little things, like random creators doing wholesome stuff. Cool / weird sheet and passion is EXTRA needed now.

Today is also a day to remember Melissa Hortman and reject the skewed narrative that fools like Klein and opportunists like Newsom are helping build www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/u...

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This is some definite energy. I've seen a few people in my social circle who were vocal conservatives who are starting to go "Maybe this isn't that great" and instead of *doing* something are saying, somehow, Dems don't have empathy. And in this video, she says "What do you want me to do..."

Don't worry it'll be going by the end of next year at the latest.

I saw this comic the other day, and it really framed the idea of learning well, distilling idea that the struggle _is_ learning. 🧵 (cw: AI) ...and that's one of my greatest concerns with AI today in education and learning. (source: spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...)

And this is exactly what tech bros have had wet dreams about with AI from the beginning. They don't want creatives. They just want content at scale so they can pay like, 5 engineers, instead of 5000 podcast hosts. Also, $5 says their next move will be AI slop tools for a subscription.

This is actually a really interesting regional phenomenon! Biologists studying bees in the midwest found they let out an "ope" when they bump into each other, followed by a "let me just scoot passed ya."

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One of the points of confusion that I am seeing in the Anthropic AI case is that people are confusing statutory damages with damages in general, so here's a brief explainer on what is meant by statutory damages.

I was at work and I signed a card, scratched something out, finished it. Handed it to the next guy. He looked at it, squinted. "Does that say cheers?" Me: "Uhm. Maybe." "Dude. The man's wife died. This is a condolence card. That's not a cheers situation." ...I got a new card.