Think this is the first one this tournament where I like both albums

Enjoying this new game but "ginnel" is definitely a word (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginnel)

I used from 4 to CS4. Feel like 7 or the first CS version was the turning point

46.7/50. Rebuilding my self esteem after a disasterous NYT Connections puzzle dialed.gg?c=Z89RUC

A David Attenborough boardgame: Zoo Quest (1959)

I love the way the text and images face all directions. All players should have to read upsidedown sometimes

tunnels of doom, title screen, ti-99/4a (1982) www.mobygames.com/game/16598/t...

Extremely my kind of thing

Love this idea: Graft the share and company mechanics from 18XX games onto the chassis of Settlers of Catan. Does it work? I hope to find out this weekend.

Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) - Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban And the Beatles' first LP.

I have the highest bid on an ebay auction for a board game I've been looking for for YEARS. First time i haven't immediately been auto-out-bid. Checking the site every 10 mins for the next 1 day and 22 hours & re-reading the description to make sure i haven't bid on just the box or something.

Exciting news! Hopefully this'll be waiting for me on the door mat when I get back to London next week (or nestled soggily between some bins)

You'll have a great April, don't worry about it!

* Travelogue of a city in the the form of a detective story * Nature of reality in question, remains unresolved * Conscious spaceship * Protagonist has no clue what's going on, not much agency * Alternative social structures * What if this obviously wrong thing was actually true? * Hive inteligence

Feel like there should be a labeller(?) for when your post hits the character count exactly. A little medal or something.

Saw a self driving waymo in the wild this morning, blocking a junction in the city of London whilst pedestrians streamed round the front and the back of it. Hopefully as they continue to roll these out we'll see more of them holding up traffic to let pedestrians walk the streets freely

I was once stuck in a dingy B&B room with chicken pox whilst the person next door played Champagne Supernova at full volume on repeat for what felt like several weeks

wow

[search your camera roll for hell] An iconic 90s text

I hear you like archives. So I made an archive of archives, so you can look at an archive while you’re looking for archives. archiveofarchives.com

Just incredible shoebill awareness-raising from this Hong Kong teens' magazine

I always get these two mixed up

To roughly quantify this I recently did some testing on the CB archive. Most of the 2025 links that don't work are twitter because the testing script wasn't logged in, but I consider links to twitter unreliable at the best of times so... (Exx-usually means a DNS error)

The playful, prolific use of hyperlinks in online journalism (eg Slate, Pitchfork) didn’t anticipate link-rot. Now so many articles are pock-marked with cryptic allusions that some long-dead link once explained. Weird how quickly a new style comes to feel more archaic than the traditional format

0.0039 💅 www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

I used the latest Debriefed to profile the Lawrence Weston wind turbine, which is bringing a sustainable income to one of Bristol's most deprived areas. I also illustrated the piece with a portrait of the turbine and Mark Pepper, part the team behind this community energy project ➡️ buff.ly/6f7S6bX

One of my plans for the year is to try my hand at graphic-design for boardgames etc. so I've been working on redesigning/ reskinning some of the games on my shelf. The last couple of weeks I've been rethinking the map for Cuba Libre (still very much in progress)

If you want to feel slightly unsettled/ like there's something wrong with your eyes our local upholsterers have just the chair for you!

I will never stop mourning Geeta on Willesden Lane. Vijay's about 50m up the road get all the attention and a shout out in a Zadie Smith book (NW). But Geeta was for the real heads; 20 years later I still haven't had a better masala dosa.

Rewatched a bit of ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS DOOM last night and have concluded that ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS DOOM is the Doom of Action Button reviews

Talisman card art is GREAT

DeBriefed: EU under ‘pressure’; ‘Unusual warmth’ explained; Rise of climate boardgames ✍️ @tom.2x2.graphics 📝 @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/AdhlxQX Subscribe to DeBriefed ➡️ subscribe.carbonbrief.org

Those areas are wildly different sizes. A & B are tiny compared with G & D

Love this Sarah Evans painting, the light is perfect, reminds me of the village where i grew up. sarahevanswelshartist.com

Rhossili Beach, Gower Peninsula, painting by Welsh artist Sarah Evans. #WomensArt

Games used to so effortlessly mix the mundane and the strange.

re Jose Saramago and dogs: This is from Ursula Le Guin's review of his last novel (I've read enough of his books now to be able to confirm that this simple ranking system is correct esp if as Le Guin suggests you count elephants as dogs) www.theguardian.com/books/2010/j...

October reading

The Wedding Present seem like they should be the kind of band I'd like but I can't stand them, wheras the B52s seem like the kind of band I should find irritating and ... well I only find them irritating sometimes.

There’s a YouTube ad for deliveroo that I keep getting, sounds like the voice over is done by hanne lippard (I assume it’s not, but who knows?)

Luckily I caught the postman before he'd totally shredded the packaging as he forced the new issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social through our slightly too small letterbox

Ripping CDs like it’s 1999

Eagerly awaiting "8 car driving tips that just might prevent you from killing a pedestrian"

I never understand why Wordsworth Classics have covers like this. Surely there's just stacks of public domain pictures they could use (cf Standard Ebooks standardebooks.org/ebooks) but instead they go through the trouble of producing these uncany valley photoshops

The 17th century origins of kitbashing

intriguing

Please buy Wyrd Science, it's my favourite magazine and I want to it to keep going! (it's really excellent value) shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr...

Batteries got really good and solar power got cheap.

Lol, no. Also, interesting choice to illustrate this piece with a picture of a traffic clogged Parisan roundabout.