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He/ him 🏴 Board games & sustainability mostly! Bots:
@netrunner-card-gen.bsky.social
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Big Boardgame doesn't want you to know this, but once you've finished a game you can just sweep everything loose into the box
about 2 years ago
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Rob Cramer
25 days ago
Please, a singular dice is called a douse.
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Leena 🌵
about 1 month ago
Getting grok to publicly strip a woman’s likeness online or alter her image isn’t just horrifying at the level of the individual, it’ll be used to get us fired, too. It’s a technique to keep us in the home popping out babies because we lost our teaching job when some guy sent porn of us to our boss.
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Mx. Tiffany Leigh
about 2 months ago
People need to start caring about others & not only those directly related/affected, & not only when it's transactional. We *have* to have empathy beyond ourselves & immediate orbit of family, friends, neighborhood, & community. We have to care about total strangers who are in harm's way & in need
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Emma Larkins
about 2 months ago
💼 I’m looking for work as a board game designer. 🌎 I’m open to in-person, hybrid or remote work. ⭐ I’ve previously worked at the Uzzle and made Abandon All Artichokes, Starry Night Sky, and other board games.
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Jackson Pope // Eurydice Games
2 months ago
I like space operas. Hit me with your sci-fi book recommendations! Please RP for more ideas!
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Tim Clare
3 months ago
Of course I would say this, but we need to talk about the moral & ideological case for play & leisure more than ever. So much political discourse - especially from the super-rich - assumes we ought to construct society around forcing citizens to spend most of their one, unrepeatable life working.
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Pubrunner! Got to reintroduce a friend to netrunner with the starter decks last night, and he's continued to trounce me: we're at 0 and 4 wins 😆 Properly have the netrunner bug again. Love this game
3 months ago
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Matt Thrower
3 months ago
Hey all. Lost a big patreon this morning. I'm trying to keep this thing going with additional content every week for all patreons: links, a weekly "I'm playing" newsletter and other goodies, all for just $1.
www.patreon.com/c/mattthr
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Get more from Play Matt! on Patreon
creating Board Game Stories
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🥧 suzanne 🥧
4 months ago
Just remember - it's the box that takes up the most space. Slice the boxes at the corners, flatten them for transport, and voila - a ton more space in your luggage.
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Netrunner Worlds in the morning! I should sleep, but couldnt resist the siren call to stay up late tinkering with decks. Just one more cool card!
4 months ago
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Null Signal Games
4 months ago
With many of us at the beautiful Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh for
#NetrunnerWorlds25
, this account might be a little slow the next few days. But you can watch all the action at
twitch.tv/nullsignalnetrunner
or
www.youtube.com/nullsignal.games
starting with Crown of Servers tomorrow at 9.30 UTC!
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Netrunner Worlds on Saturday & Sunday!!! I totally forgot and have missed the window to get cards, so am frantically looking up cool cards to print off tomorrow and make a deck with. If anyone has any recommendations for fun archetypes, pls let me knowww
4 months ago
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I popped in to Cogito Books in Hexham and saw a copy of
@timclare.bsky.social
's Game Changers. First ten pages are great!
4 months ago
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Nicolete Burbach
5 months ago
'other countries have an immediate obligation to... "prevent & punish the crime of genocide"... If they do not... they could be complicit. "We have not gone so far as to name parties as... being complicit in genocide. But that is the… ongoing work of this commission"'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8641wv0n4go
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I stayed up late on Friday making a genestealer for my malstrain-corrupted Van Saar gang. First model in the gang, very excited! Likely going to add more cabling/ tendrils & a more raggedy hood & cloak
5 months ago
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Jackson Pope // Eurydice Games
5 months ago
All set up with minutes to spare at
@tabletopscot.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Hargrave
5 months ago
Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6) 🎲✂️
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Crushed it at Moana Sorry! this morning 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
5 months ago
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Jamie McKelvie
5 months ago
See how easy it is to do this?
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Matt Thrower
5 months ago
The Lovecraft feature is mine and, personally, I think it's one of the best things I've contributed to the magazine.
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5 months ago
heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy can we stop with using "your wife" as short had for "non-gamer" in reviews?? like "so easy even your wife can play it!"
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Jackson Pope // Eurydice Games
6 months ago
We now have an official Eurydice Games Bluesky account! Please give us a follow if you’re feeling generous :)
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About once a year I convince myself I have enough time for a new card game, buy a core set, then sell it a few months later. I think this year it'll be Lord of the Rings LCG
6 months ago
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dee 方传嫣
6 months ago
Netwalker
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Jillian
6 months ago
I want folks in the industry to be more open in their opposition to the genocide that the US is currently funding. Really, just a post, or even a donation to something like the Zaynab Project would suffice.
thezaynabproject.org
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The Zaynab Project | Providing Humanitarian Aid Across Gaza
We're on a mission to transform the lives of vulnerable children and families across Gaza. The Zaynab Project delivers life-saving humanitarian aid.
https://thezaynabproject.org/
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Semi Co-op
6 months ago
Dry Eurogames implies the existence of Wet Eurogames
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beth
6 months ago
JKR is funding life-destroying legislation. When you license HP and put it on your product, the money you pay to do that is literally ruining lives. This isn't ambiguous, it is direct, measurable harm. I will never give a penny to a company who chooses money over the lives of my friends.
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Playing Barenpark with 4 and I think my park is about to undergo a hostile takeover
7 months ago
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Jackson Pope // Eurydice Games
7 months ago
It's
#CraftWednesday
! Do you have a game-related crafting project in progress? It could be a prototype, print and play, upgrading the components of a favourite game, making an accessory or even something larger like a table or games room. Share a picture and join in! Please RP!
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Daniel Wynter
7 months ago
I'm back from Summer holiday and need to start ramping up my job hunt. Any leads would be appreciated. In the interest of actually getting paid I'm looking at document management, library or administration work across a variety of industries.
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Eize Basa
7 months ago
A genuinely funny bit is how every 10-15 years the Tron fandom convinces Disney to release new Tron stuff despite that fact that the franchise has never once been profitable.
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Wyrd Science Magazine
7 months ago
Ok, because there is no better time to relaunch your newsletter, and launch your entire (half built) brand new website, than a Sunday afternoon when you are on a family holiday that’s exactly what we’ve done… Gazetteer subscribers please check your inboxes/junk mail or like everyone else read here
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Don't Call It A Comeback...
Yes, we are finally back with a new newsletter AND a brand new website... What a Sunday this is turning out to be.
https://wyrd.science/email/71523623-1b5f-4502-9c81-b750cd7b38cf/
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Iain McAllister
8 months ago
The Ancient Robot Workshop is now open in Edinburgh. A spin off from
@ancientrobotgames.bsky.social
it is looking to help you get your game made!
ancientrobotworkshop.co.uk
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Ancient Robot Workshop
A community and co-working space in Edinburgh for designers, authors, and artists who make tabletop games. Coming soon.
https://ancientrobotworkshop.co.uk/
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Popped in to
@ancientrobotgames.bsky.social
Beautiful, light space! Equally nice inside, fab selection too. Fully booked, can't wait to pop back. Picked up Quacks of Quedlinburg & Castle Combo 🥳🥳
8 months ago
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Massive fan of FFG releasing print & play content for Twilight Imperium 4 in a fun wee booklet. This latest release has fundamentally different setup; neutral factions on the board, exploration via adding tiles as you go, and a combat-based scenario where you get VP for battling. Great experiments!
8 months ago
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Elizabeth Hargrave
8 months ago
Today I walked 6 miles crisscrossing Capitol Hill to meet with staff about how tariffs are affecting the boardgame industry. More tomorrow. Please contact your members of Congress, especially Rs. In the Senate, you can ask them to cosponsor S.1593, which would exempt small businesses from tariffs.
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they made a game just for me, but I think you might like it too
@ithayla.bsky.social
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8 months ago
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dee 方传嫣
8 months ago
sighs and posts this again
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Tabletop Games Blog (they)
8 months ago
The June board game
#raffle
in aid of UK food banks is now open. Prizes are review copies of Katmai and Death Valley: Highs & Lows, both played but in great condition, and a brand new copy of Pilfering Pandas. Please share far and wide and enter here:
tabletopgamesblog.com/raffle
#charity
#prizes
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help i've caught the netrunner bug again
8 months ago
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Dan Yarrington now owns the CMON Eric Lang classics
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8 months ago
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No Pun Included
9 months ago
putting rule books back in wrong boxes like it's 2008 and i'm mistreating my xbox 360 game discs
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I got a ticket to netrunner worlds 2025! Have never played a competitive game of netrunner in my life, but have heard it's a really fun time. Basically a good excuse to tinker with decks and ideas over the next four months or so :)
9 months ago
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Elizabeth Hargrave
9 months ago
My annual chart update (fixed an error!)
@fertessa.bsky.social
, co-designer of Cascadia Jr, is the 1st woman nominated for a SdJ award since 2023. I believe she is also the first ever Black woman, possibly the first Black designer nominated? Congratulations, friend! (note 👇)
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Peer Sylvester
9 months ago
TCG where you dont rotate cards to mark actions is a largely untapped market.
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Rami Ismail (رامي)
9 months ago
I will entirely skipping
@eurovision.tv
again for its unacceptable shameless political choice to platform a violent, terrorist, genocidal Israel. You should too, even if Eurovision is "fun" or "massive for engagement" - the EBU is choosing to ignore genocide. Don't be like or support the EBU.
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Comic book shop was sold out of
@kierongillen.bsky.social
's The Power Fantasy, but unpacked a delivery and got one out for us! Sat under a tree to read it and a bird poo'd on me. Swings & roundabouts
9 months ago
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Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Me, a programmer: I tried to remove it, but when I do everything else breaks
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9 months ago
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Keir Starmer got the power and political capital to do literally any left wing thing he wanted, at the helm of one of the richest countries in the world. I cannot express how disgusting it is to see the leader of the "Labour" party continuing his right/ far-right shift. Get fucked, Keir.
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9 months ago
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Me & 3 have our own version of Ahoy where we roll dice, rescue crew from matching islands and my ship gets blown up a lot. I treasure it so much.
9 months ago
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