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Played Mind MGMT for the first time the other day and it inspired a game design idea that might be worth pursuing. I wish I had time right now to do that, though. Instead it goes into the ideas document. Someday...

Conspiracy theory I have absolutely no evidence for: search engines have become absolute garbage because of a conspiratorial effort to get everyone to use AI instead.

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

I know this is not important at all, but I really really really really really hate when people use the word "broken" to describe what is just a good play in a game. Alas, I fear I can't stem the tide and "a good play" is what "broken" now means in gaming contexts.

Just called a company that played, instead of hold music, fake keyboard noises. I now have a higher opinion of hold music.

I can never hear that quotation "writing about music is like dancing about architecture" without thinking of Tati's Playtime, which is both a brilliant, hilarious film and obviously dancing about architecture.

It should be basic journalistic practice to, when referring to a primary source, hyperlink, if possible, that primary source. I'm sick of reading "Bob said on <u>today's show</u>..." only to click on the link to get a random, semi-related article instead of the show itself!

Salsa is the healthiest food that doesn't feel healthy.

I've got more followers now, so I'm throwing this request out again. Any games that fit the bill?

I haven't paid much attention to the board game space for a year or so. Is there anything good I missed? Any all-timers get released?

Is Kathryn Bigelow the most underrated director who has won the best director oscar?

What's a good board game that's also good for kids to practice mental math? Something relatively simple and short, preferably.

What good ameritrash is out there? Looking for games that: 1. Are combat/action focused 2. Aren't 2+ hours long with tons of setup 3. Have very little or no english language skills required 4. Aren't crazy heavy or punitive Bonus: Not dry. I've got an 11 year old who wants to blow things up here.

Things I have learned this week: Never use Squarespace for anything.

I've been playing quite a bit of 7 Wonders Architect on BGA and the more I play the more I appreciate its design. It can't be an easy job to take a beloved design and simplify it while retaining many of the strategic elements of the original. (1/x)

I watched Keaton's Sherlock Jr. with the family today and realized that it's the 100 year anniversary of this masterpiece. If you haven't seen it you owe it to yourself to remedy that. It's on youtube!

Even wilder, it's essentially a closed loop with the famous '1984' ad. Apple's announcing that they're the monolith.

Ok, we get it Apple. You want to destroy all the things that used to help us be happy or creative without a subscription. This feels a bit too on the nose though. youtu.be/ntjkwIXWtrc?...

Introducing The Princess Bride to an 11 year old is a peak movie-watching experience.

From a game design perspective, what's the best-designed major American sport? (between football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, and golf)

More than any other game, Pipeline continues to absolutely stymie my every attempt to get better at it. And yet I never stop feeling like I'm incredibly close to figuring it out.

Sometimes as part of her work Amber does something that seems superhero-level to me, though she sees it as somewhat mundane. It's cool to be married to someone legitimately more awesome than you are.

AI jokes write themselves

One of the best game mechanisms of all time is when players have control over when scoring phases happen. Always a winner, particularly when triggering scoring loses you a tempo.

Informed consent is incredibly important in medicine, but at a certain point you can require so much consent that it creates less consent. I just signed 17 forms, which were required to schedule an intake meeting to see if I could get a medical appointment. They totaled to 8292 words.

I thought I accidentally let the cat escape right before the coldest night of the year. Thank God he was just hiding in the closet he's not supposed to enter.

I've actually got some plays in recently, which has been fun. Learned Imperium: Legends, which was a lot, especially since I was sick. I think it's going to either be a bust or get quite good after a few plays, but probably nothing in between.

Tomas Alfredson's film resume is wild. He makes two of the best movies of the 21st century, follows them up with a movie that received some of the most vicious critical panning I've ever seen, and hasn't made anything in the English language since.

Share your opinions that make you sound like an insane person. Mine: one of the greatest film shots of the 21st century is in Villeneuve's Prisoners and it's of a tree trunk. To explain further would take quite a while, but trust me it's menacing and terrifying and perfect.

Amber got me a hoodie with her company's logo on it. It's incredibly comfortable but it absolutely makes me look like Steve Buschemi in the "what's up fellow kids" meme.

Please empower the people demoing games for you to say "I'm not sure, let me find out" if they don't know the answer to a rules question. I've had multiple people the past couple of years give me confident, wrong answers instead, which is frustrating and gives me a poor impression of the game.

Had a great, exhausting time at PAX U. It was nice to go without any media expectations and just play games. Game of the con for me was a decade old -- Broom Service.

For the first time ever I'm going to PAXU with essentially no plan or prep. Anything in particular I should seek out there?

Amber's watching a show that is strangely anachronistic. It's not just "old setting but modern affectations", as it seems to, for example, mix period and modern language. The sets seem to fit the period but the lighting is clearly modern. It's all so...ambiguously intentional.