In my experience, talent is a *detriment* to learning. I didn't have to practice early on so I *didn't know how*. I didn't start to learn how to practice until my 30s! (When much of my life was taken up with parenting, so I didn't have time!) I didn't start to improve as a musician until my 40s!

GET SALTMARSHED IDIOT 🧂

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

Sometimes I feel like scammers don't appreciate the work I put into these puns.

$350,000 for @translifeline.org! As someone who makes a living off of long-winded videos, I find myself at a loss for words. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. Where will we be this time tomorrow? Donate--> give.translifeline.org/tcc

It really sucks that Microsoft sunk its claws into so much of the game industry and is attached to a ton of games I wanna play. What sucks even more is supporting genocide, which is something Microsoft loves doing. I’m very in favor of Microsoft fucking off until it stops loving genocide so much.

my birthday is in march

I feel like I'm angry about this pun because it's the kind of thing that one of us should've have thought of five years before now

Someone mentioned Bowie on my other feed, and my mind wandered over to this song for obvious reasons. "Johnny wants to think of a joke" is a line that haunts me. "Wants to think of a joke" feels like the one criticism of Americans that also lands a critical hit on ME.

I saw this charming montage of Naomi Osaka gently removing a butterfly that had landed on her face during a match but instead of simply appreciating what a lovely moment it was, my internet-poisoned brain whipsered "is this loss"

Two years, phewww. Rascal has been simultaneously extremely fulfilling and incredibly difficult, but I can't imagine spending the last two years of my life any other way. Spend the month celebrating with us, and help keep the team working for another two years, at least!

relevant to many of yalls interests.

‘February’ is the ‘Wednesday’ of months.

I need to post more but a lot of my posting would be related to existential things that I don't talk about much — especially getting diagnosed with kidney disease and being forced onto a low-sodium diet. Ask me how I enjoy being a truck driver who can't eat salty truck stop hot dogs anymore.

Since we're suddenly talking about keeping politics out of board games again, I'm gonna recommend an essay about how fiction uses authoritarianism and revolution without considering the real-world effects of those politics.

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I need you to know that you can buy individual crabs from LEGO and they are 21¢ each www.lego.com/en-us/pick-a...

It's one thing that The Dice Tower claims to be neutral on politics. But given the founder's background as a youth pastor, at some point you gotta ask about their stance on religion. Do the Christians running the channel agree that the Lord speaks directly to this guy that defends ICE?

www.gofundme.com/f/help-fund-... A gaming friend who moved away could use a hand.

the ultimate gamer

I lego'd your eggo pls respond

@amabel.bsky.social Is the only person to write rulebooks that I quote in my day to day life. This Guilty Land has this banger in it.

The first chapter of Backpack World is OUT NOW????????? holy shit uhm yeah I just pressed the button????? Second chapter next week?? This is my first #puzzle book and it's also a LOK-like. First release of my 2026 #curiouscollection I can't believe I'm doing this faeexe.itch.io/backpack-world

POV: You sent the goblin camp to raid the Emerald Grove 👿🧙🏾‍♂️⚔️ #baldursgate3

I usually don't directly comment on this stuff. I'm not the target of right-wing harassment, and there are better, more active voices that you should listen to. But in this moment I do feel like someone needs to ask "what the fuck did you just say"

Ladies if your man > Don't let nothing hold him back > Is always leaving you messages to check out > Stutters but he doesn't ever stutter when he sings > Thinks the stutter and the scat is the same damn thing Then that's not your man. HE'S THE SCATMAN.

Hahahaha that's why I'm so into breakcore (5 minutes later) Hey, who's playing that grindy techno nonsense so loud? I'm trying to take a 4-hour break over here!!!

remembered a .sig file from 1994 I saw that said "Shampoo for my real friends, real poo for my sham friends" and that is poetry.

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"you're never gonna find great meaning in front of a computer screen" This man has never played Hades the 2020 video game

Just crossed 50,000 subscribers on my main video essay channel :) thank you for watching and sharing and supporting me in this crazy freelance experience! (btw I still get comments from Polygon fans saying they had NO IDEA I have my own channel now - so if you know any, send 'em my way!)

Had a thought: has "isekai" officially entered our dictionaries as a slang term for a specific verb yet? Usually used as a past tense, e.g. "They were isekaied to Narnia"? Wondering because I don't know if "isekaied" or "isekai'ed" is the correct spelling. Remind me to ask @merriam-webster.com

You know I've thought about it and I don't think you ever need to take bad faith readers into account when you design games. "What if someone plays this with an awful table and abuses these rules?" not my problem. Make better friends. Cultivate a better hobby. Shun those assholes from society.

I'm having work done in my office, and since the wall is torn open, I decided to leave a surprise bonus for the next adventurer. 🍗

This brings me an incredible amount of joy

If you read just one thing today then please consider reading more than one thing, honestly it’s good for you, but still if you are going to read just one thing today then I’d suggest @johnhiggs.bsky.social new piece on subcultures, disappearing countercultures & escaping from the algorithmic yoke

Please call for a judge at your pre-releases this weekend, do not ask the lying machine that is only good at lying.

If you haven't, watch the newest Boardello Short! #funny #boardgames #dice #comedy #tabletopgaming #DnD m.youtube.com/shorts/Xs5oz...

We've been calling them 'words.' But here's the thing: that's not quite tadashii. A kotoba isn't a word. They're something else entirely- a role unique to Japanese gengo. And there's no eigo no kotoba that surus it seigi. So from ima on, wareware tsukau the hontou no kotoba: kotoba.

-Jenna

It's time for my favorite albums of 2024! Yes, for 2024, not 2025. It's my second year of making a Favorite Albums of the Year (One Year Late) list. At the start of 2025, I looked for every big best-albums-of-2024 list I could find... 🧵

"Posting about being against AI so much is a risk to your own brand!" "Speaking out about it on your main socials is gonna make some people not wanna collab with you as a creator!" "Companies aren't gonna want to sponsor you, you're a brand risk!"

It may not be constructive to read the USDA's "Dietary Guidelines for Americans" in Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw's voice fr ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER but it sure helped me

We had no choice but to hear you. You stated your case time and again.

New comic! Based on real events, partially.😌 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: semicoop.com/comic/rubbed-the-wrong-way/ #boardgames

why did i look up how to make mods for silksong i shouldn't have been given this power www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6lB...

"Inconceivable!"

My Dad is Dracula (and a Medieval Scholar) 🏰