Finally managed to win with these two goobers

"times were ok i guess" -- charles dickens

#WrestleQueendom 8 absolutely fucking ruled. That was pretty much the perfect wrestling show.

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Now that’s a state of the nation play

I really got to start taking throat lozenges to wrestling shows…

Finally got to see SIX live! Great cast in London at the moment. I was especially impressed by the actress playing Katherine Howard and turns out it was understudy Mary Elliott’s professional debut! 🤯

The latest in London hotel room design. Not only is there no bathroom door but the toilet looks right out at the room door.

Getting into cryptic crosswords...

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I fear that maxing or mogging will become word of the year and I'll officially become an old man yelling at the clouds

I don't know what I did to short-circuit the algorithm but my social media feed has become almost exclusively posts about Olympic figure skaters consoling each other and being happy for each other and I'm totally fine with that.

Ryan Dancey, a more than 30-year veteran of the tabletop gaming industry, has lost his COO job at publisher AEG a day after saying AI could generate game ideas as good as his company’s titles Tiny Towns and Cubitos: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

I wonder if we’ll get another followup that this was “not his finest moment” kotaku.com/board-game-s...

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Finished 1000xResist and holy shit, favorite video game ever? Definitely one of my all-time favorite SF stories, regardless of the medium. Don't read up on it, just jump in and thank me once you've gathered the scattered pieces of your brain and heart. store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/...

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Meet us Saturday, January 31st from 11:30 to 2:30pm at Bellevue Park in Silverlake. Sign-up at the Luma link below. All levels of nerves and experience are welcome.

The dark underbelly of the board game hobby

I've seen some fun prototypes (not my own) become pretty bland games by chasing that µ.

Dang I feel old. Booked tickets to Cat Powers' 20-year anniversary tour of The Greatest 🥊🥊

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MAKE A PLAY X-RATED The Play That Goes In The Wrong Hole

Interesting times at World Wonder Ring Stardom! They're losing the wrestler most underappreciated by non-fans of Stardom and signed the wrestler most underappreciated by fans of Stardom. 🤼

Planned a London trip for March! 🥳

Reached half my reading goal for the year just in the nick of time 😅

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The best abstract strategy games are a meditation in forms of play. On a recent journey to Nepal, encounter their traditional decoration with flower vases of water. Reminded me of the game lacuna. @markgerrits.bsky.social There is a meditations of space and beauty.

This was a really fun sudoku sudokupad.app/2ir3nxyte9?s...

The devs of Escape Room Simulator 2 are clearly fans of good games

I can't believe this deckbuilder was made by a bunch of students, good stuff! store.steampowered.com/app/3860590/...

Pragmata demo was good fun. That's become a must-buy for me now.

Started slowly making my way through The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Volume 1 and this is such a great story. psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

This feels like they turned that @prozdishere.bsky.social cow CCG skit into a real game gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Damn, the Brussels tickets for the Clair Obscur concert sold out while I was in the digital queue

I guess Chinese technology really is like 2 year ahead of us.

Finished the PowerWash Simulator 2 campaign. Yeah I guess you could say I'm a gamer.

The Best Bros (Mei Suruga and Baliyan Akki) are doing an American tour this December and they're looking for recommendations. So if anyone has any ideas, let them know. 🤼🏻‍♀️🇯🇵🍎♠️

Can't we take a page from the dark web and make a light web which is just forums, google reader, blogs, vine, livejournal, web toons and no nazis.

Here come the algorithms to fuck things up.

Really enjoying my games of Dewan on BGA (still in alpha). It's got the ideal turn weight and game state complexity for an asynchronous game for me.

Citizen Sleeper 1 & 2 are on sale on Steam. These are two great science-fiction RPGS. The second one came out so early in the year that it's missed out on the game-of-the-year discourse but it should be in the conversation. store.steampowered.com/curator/3302...

Waiting for some intrepid right-wing sleuth to uncover footage of Zohran calling the monster Frankenstein

Got one of the wolf pixels! www.alveussanctuary.org/institute/pi...

Pssst @beardedrogue.bsky.social

Lots of really big crowdfunding campaigns and preorders launching today. Here's to tossing in my little project! You can find RITE: A Midwinter Sacrament #TTRPG #zine below. You can grab it for $7 and receive it before the bleak midwinter. 7 day campaign. Thanks for sharing.