Each Starship launch uses (per wikipedia) Booster 2,700 tons of liquid oxygen 700 tons of liquid methane Starship 1170 tons LOX 330 tons methane 1030 tons of methane per launch.

What does 10k Starship launches per year imply? That is 27-28 launches per day. Let's assume ballistic launch on all 10k, with a 6-hour duration from propellant loading to landing. Musk claims he'll have 8 hour turn around on. Let's call it 18 hours, fully optimized, from landing to back on a pad.

I'm just going to say that one more time. NASA has $7.25 billion in FY26 for Science (astro, planetary, all of us). SpaceX is on track to run at a loss of ~$8 billion. TL;DR Sources: www.planetary.org/articles/adv... finance.yahoo.com/markets/arti...

my god look how tiny this man is

You may be popular but you'll never be as popular as the city OSLO is for Crossword Puzzle Designers.

I am fifty videos behind and all of them mostly fluff pieces, why not watch something cool by cool people about a cool genre of games?

the best part about making friends is havign friends (i am drunk)

I think the three people who follow me are all sick of hearing about this, sorry, but I’m gonna self-promote: I made a trick-taking chariot racing game called Tricus Maximus. It’s free, easy to play, and fun. There are rules cappallo.ca/games/tricus... and a video youtube.com/watch?v=Mr2p...

A gaming group recently gave me a tshirt with a few of their favorite games that I have taught them. Not surprisingly, three games from @dnlnwmn.bsky.social are on that tshirt 😁

Yikes, unfollowing now! I was only familiar with her for hopping through the forest, had no idea about bopping the field mice on the head

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

"this artist scammed me! they sold me a object that they told me contained truth and/or beauty, but when i looked inside it only contained an arrangement of objects and symbols, and i had to bring my own flawed interpretations in order to derive meaning!" yeah dipshit, that's all of them

7. "Most games are played only once" is used as an argument to "protect"/stabilize that first/only play from leaving a bad taste in the mouth. It should be the opposite. Design a game TO BE played once, a wild throatpunch. It's all ephemera anyway; none of it will last.

Updated my geeklist of favorite trick-taking/climbing games to include 50 titles instead of 25. I haven't written my mini reviews of the new additions yet but I heartily recommend all of these card games! boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/318...

"Genes, Traits, and Identities: Navigating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Research" Frequently the trans and intersex communities are excluded from population-based genomics studies because they cannot be put in a neat box. But sex is a complex trait, like many other traits we study #ASHG25

Been trying out a new pub style dice game. It's called Crow's Nest. It’s a mix of Poker Dice, Yahtzee, ladder climbing, and some good deal of push your luck. Special thanks to @odddicegames.bsky.social for coming up with the name!

I’ve been testing my new 2p Fishing/Rummy style card game! I’m calling it Heavenly Bodies 🪐💫🌙 It’s feeling very close to finding its spark! ✨

55%! WE NEED MOOOOOOORE! Jump on in today and let's get that number to 60-70-80-90+% if we can!!!!! (WE CAN!!!!!!) ⚡ ⚡

Also, if you are into the medieval-renaissance printing press illustratory thing AND like a German flavor (as I do), you can access quality scans of the Nuremberg Chronicle courtesy of Cambridge. This color palette! Love! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-INC-...

Everything really is gender.

No matter what happens I’m so glad I got to be trans. I’m so proud that I figured out what was wrong with me and was brave enough to fix it. I’m so grateful I got to share myself with so many amazing people. I’m so blessed I got to look in the mirror and feel love for the person staring back.

I used to work at an after-school program where we taught games to kids, which informs some of who I design games for. It’s a huge jump between games intended for parents to teach kids VS games intended for kids to teach kids. The different between them is communicated very poorly in the market.

Some of y'all have yelled at people for saying they won't vote for this guy—a man who wants to honor CHARLIE FUCKING KIRK BY CONTINUING "HIS WORK." Never talk to me about this man again.

This convo I had highlights the difference in what "respect your time" means in games. A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.

public library heavy metal shirt and DVD belt buckle combo (shirt: @danielsolis.bsky.social)

Should you care? When things are this far off parity, it feels like a sign that something is weird. You're probably not getting the best games you could be getting if design were being undertaken and published by a broader spectrum of people. (🧵5/6)

1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here. Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws. For adults, some increases in risk. Nationwide risk remains extreme. Subscribe to support my journalism.

It's fun art Friday! We're proud to team up with designer Carol LaGrow & artist Faith Shaffer to bring “The Six of VIII” back in a brand new edition for retail release next year. It will be available to purchase early as part of our upcoming KS campaign. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...

I'm currently working on a Doppelkopf card deck for the Tokyo Game Market Autumn!

Anyone here a pro at designing boardgames? I have this neat monetary system in Noss, and I wanna develop a game using these chips, but I wanna make sure it's balanced and complex and fun. If you have some ideas and are interested in helping craft this, let me know! The game is called Qu.

British Columbians deserve healthcare that is truly universal. This policy is built on the foundational understanding that the best healthcare is accessible, preventative, community-centred, and above all, not for profit. [1/4]

You should go to Mastodon, where you can tell JKR to get wrecked and the worst that happens is people will repost it.

Oh, good… Nice to see how the “new” Bluesky Moderation is being handled.

If you take a public stand for any social or political issue - ANY issue Inevitably, many will swoop in to berate you for not standing for different issues. Others will berate you for not standing up enough. Or "correctly" (ie. their way) That's their problem, not yours. Take a stand anyway.

Oh a box of train games just showed up at my house! #CCMF

Codenames: Back to Hogwarts and Ace of Spades are currently #1 and #2 in BGG hotness for all the wrong reasons.

#BlockCollective is a volunteer-run community with the united goal of sharing resources and information, disrupting bigoted spaces, and serious engagement on the topic of trans rights. Please join us as we help shape the boardgame industry into a safer and inclusive space. 🎲✂️ discord.gg/D7E6gqwrRF

Just to be clear: CGE, just because Devir has absolutely stepped in it doesn’t let you off the hook. We can walk and chew bubblegum, we can hold two game companies accountable for their poor choices.

Get out of here with this racist crap. Devir went ahead and stepped in their own piss. Please go support Jeremy and let Devir know your disappointment and dissatisfaction. But on top of that—there’s MANY reviewers who received the game prior to Gen Con failed to notice or mention this crap.

Last chance to DM me for a free ELL deck pnp. I know that some people give away their worst stuff for free, but I'm honestly giving away my best stuff here (if you like wordgames) and I hope you'll give it a chance to facilitate joy for you. :-)

I suppose I rather they say the quiet part out loud so we can all live and act as authentically as we can 😅 If they don’t think trans people should exist, they’re already saying it with their actions.

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Remember everyone. In the ongoing discourse around CGE, Harry Potter and boycotts, let us not lose track of the real victims. The anti-boycott straight white men of BGG who are having their comments moderated and removed The world is truly being robbed of their reckons Light a candle for them

When people talk about how systemic and structural issues don't exist but the data all looks like this.

Imagine hating trans people so much you go out of your way to give a 10 to this unreleased game. Gross.

Check games elsewhere

It’s begun! The transphobes have just discovered they can get at me personally by review bombing my newest game High Tide. Easy to assume this is just the start of it, as I won’t stop talking about #BlacklistCGE anytime soon. This is the cost of spending power. People show you their true colors.

It is convenient sometimes when writing examples in game rules to give two imagined players male and female genders to make wording clearer. eg “She is attacking his city.” Here’s a free idea: include a non-binary player for a third set of pronouns to decrease confusion.