Is this 1931 cookbook suggesting that spaghetti with butter is a vegetable? @nanascookbooks.bsky.social

I listened to all of three of their 1995 albums, so I can definitively say: Oasis > Blur > Pulp

Dude. Aetherspire rules. Not a perfect game but just such a fun puzzle! Well done @phaseshiftgames.bsky.social. Great cooperative action, fun solo play, familiar flow but original execution.

Board Game Advent, Day 1. My 25th most played game of all time: On The Underground! Far preferable to Ticket to Ride, this offers a bunch of delightful mini puzzles of how to get the passenger to take your lines every turn. The ways the lines expand, and the competing incentives, just fantastic!

Learning @phaseshiftgames.bsky.social’s Aetherspire right now. Aside from being a cooperative tower building and defending (not defense) game, I’m not sure what I’m in for. What I know is, though, I love a game with big chonkers.

I listened to Abbey Road today and it's remarkable. It has gorgeous guitar work, innovative and novel sounds, loving homages to their inspirations, and some of the absolute stupidest garbage you've ever heard.

It’s almost time! Aetherspire approaches!

Just a couple days until I get to join @phaseshiftgames.bsky.social at Pax Unplugged and demo my Aetherspire to the world! This game has been in the works for so many years, and I can't wait to see it pay off!

I've been picking a favorite album of every year, and I don't know how I'm going to decide for 2012 between Silversun Pickups' Neck of the Woods and Metric's Synthetica. Both top tier albums.

Today in listening to old hits I came across an artist named "Randy VanWarmer". When your name is Randy VanWarmer, please keep in mind that you don't have to attach your actual name to your music, and stage names/band names can be excellent ideas, so that people don't need to see "Randy VanWarmer."

One of the toughest-to-find board games at recent conventions is Hobby Japan’s Gibberers, a game about making a language and communicating with it. Is it worth the trouble to seek out? Check out my new video review of it to see! youtu.be/Z5bB0vkKwSo?...

Probably a poor idea to hand these to the spirit in Phantom Ink. @resonym.com

I should learn how to play the possible bass guitar

Four board games whose art styles I love. Share yours! Life Siphon Unearth Beasts Montage

I just heard Nick Lowe's "Cruel to be Kind" and spent the whole time I was listening to Spacehog's "Cruel to be Kind".

Last weekend I got my 25th game of the Fellowship of the Ring trick-taking game in. That's my 122nd quarter! boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/543...

Watched Alice in Wonderland (1951) with the kids last night. I know in later years it became popular with college students for its psychedelic imagery. When it was being made, was there any connection between its imagery style and any drugs, whether intentional or incidental?

Just started reading Day of the Triffids, and I'm impressed by the strong postapocalyptic writing for something from 1951. The quickness with how polite society instantly breaks down, not even from a mass death, but from mass blindness, is both horrifying and believable.

I want to be able to appreciate jazz better, but it's really hard for me to engage with, beyond the most surface level. A lot of instrumental music kind of glides on past me. Ellington, Davis, Monk, Parker, Coltrane, you name it. I don't dislike it but I don't have anything to latch onto.

The hit single that consists of a us state abbreviation followed by its capital is Ms Jackson.

I still find it hard to believe anyone ever liked Animal Collective.

My game Aetherspire debuts at Pax Unplugged in a few weeks! If you're inclined to check it out and (if you like what you see) give it a thumb on this BGG preview list, I'd be much obliged! boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/...

My 2006 playlist has been serving me well. Having a tough time deciding on my favorite album so far between Muse's Black Holes & Revelations, The Decemberists' The Crane Wife, mewithoutYou's Brother Sister, and Silversun Pickups' Carnavas.

I showed my wife the first episode of 2006's Heroes the other night, expecting that with all these disconnected plot lines that it wouldn't really connect with her and it would be a one-and-done. She was so hooked we watched another, and she wanted a third but it was well past midnight.

Which of these 2006 games that I own would you most want to play? Thurn and Taxis Yspahan Taluva Blue Moon City Pillars of the Earth Neuroshima Hex Drakon (The correct '06 game is Through the Ages, which is too obvious so has to be excluded.)

I'm gearing up for a 2006 celebration next week, and how come all the best-album-of-the-year lists ignore what I was listening to at the time as a 19-year-old? Are you trying to tell me that AFI, Breaking Benjamin and Skillet are *not* the height of artistic expression?

There are like a dozen NFL teams that actually wear dark blue. Why are the Chargers trying to be another one? Is it trying to balance out Sunday's banana-yellows?

Lots to look forward to at Pax Unplugged - the first con featuring my biggest published game Aetherspire; a pitch I'm making for my game 0.7734 - but I'm also really looking forward to the indie night market! Excited to see what weird genius hidden gems you've all made!

I am here to reveal the truth about pumpkin spice lattes, by way of *deep* archival research (and 3,600 words) snackstack.net/2025/10/21/t...

I own a few games I haven't played in a decade... - Bang is just superseded in every way by later games - Tragedy Looper requires preparation and focus - Graenaland is a longer economic game but it's quite cool - Homesteaders and Maharaja are tough sells to get to the table from theme descriptions

I’m thrilled with Cleveland’s win today. I know there are Browns fans who will be upset that this delays Stefanski’s firing, or ruins draft position, or sidelines Sanders, or whatever else, but that’s just Browns fans being unable to handle any positivity or joy.

You know how you know something is yours? You customize its appearance, its colors, tweak it until it's perfect and fits how you like to work & use it; and then you don't change a thing about it for years and are happy. The current world is full of UIs telling us "No, this is ours, not yours. Ours."

Listening to a lot of 1965 albums this week and there are just so many contemporaneous covers of hit songs. Sonny & Cher performing Unchained Melody The Supremes performing Yesterday Herb Alpert performing Love Potion No. 9 The Byrds with multiple Dylan songs etc And that's just then-current stuff

I'm making a history of cooperative games for potentially making into a YouTube video or set of videos. I've written over 10,000 words and only just now reached Pandemic. That's like an hour and a half talking about obscurities and technicalities that have little bearing on modern gaming. Love it.

I regularly find it so difficult to shift myself into productivity mode, even for things I do (or should) care about. My actual paying job, yes, but also doing game design, home projects, or anything. I tend to need some firm deadlines, someone who will make sure I'm moving forward, accountability.

Today's a bad day to do anything besides drink tea, eat snacks, and play games. Unfortunately, there's been this "work day" thing in the way, which I firmly disagree with.

I just learned that my board game Aetherspire has already landed into gamers' hands in New Zealand, and the shipment is in somewhere in the US... it won't be long til all the Kickstarter backers have their game! It's incredibly exciting for me, and showing at Pax Unplugged next month is too!

I’ve never quite believed Reiner Knizia’s claim that he never plays any games besides his own. It mostly sounds like a self-serving mythologization that posits himself as a pure creative unsullied by the works of others. I respect the man’s designs but that just feels wrong.

Last night I got to the final boss of Hades 2 for the first time. The ranged special of the dagger/scythe and the casting circle got me more than halfway to defeating it, but unsurprisingly I failed there. Not bad for my first time getting to that stage though! Then next run I fell to Hecate.

I’m so close to C++ in Balatro. Just need: DNA Ceremonial Dagger Hiker Faceless Diet Cola Showman Flowerpot Matador Hit the Road Jack

Did three Hades 2 runs last night and fell to Scylla every time. I've beaten her before, but for whatever reason I was just very susceptible to the Siren song this time around. (Great fight and scene though!)

That's a very big if

Hades 2 is the real deal. Finally made it to the third boss. The second boss, one of the all time greats. I’m afraid to spoil too much but… check it out out out out

I did get to play an hour or so of Hades II last night, and I'm loving it so far! The casting circle especially seems like a feature it'll take me a long while to really find full utility for, adding new dimensions to enemy control. Intriguing stuff so far!

Hoping that I can get injured on the job this morning so I can go home and play Hades II the rest of the day.

Mini-reviews of several GenCon acquisitions - Roaring 20s, Vivo, Xylotar, Digit Code, Time to Panic. Check 'em out! youtu.be/iHfuhgQYwWs?...

I want more music that sounds like My Morning Jacket's "Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 2". I've enjoyed plenty other MMJ songs but none of them sound like that, and I don't even know what else by other artists sounds like it. Someone, please provide.

Have we figured out yet whether we're human or dancer? We've had like 17 years to work this out.

my wife and i both have a mutual understanding that once Hades 2 releases, we won't be seeing each other for weeks