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Twilight Struggle is back on the menu today. 17yo's USSR had the misfortune of drawing all three scoring cards on the first turn - a brutal start and he never recovered. My US won a 20VP victory at the end of turn 5 by launching the Pope into space. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12... #boardgame

Tonight's family game was a 17 person Eat Poop You Cat - our biggest ever! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30... #boardgame

Played some Texas Holdem with extended family for game night. Most memorable hand I limped in with pocket Queens and went all in on a flop with no over cards. Got called by pocket 7s that hit trips on the flop. Turn - Queen River - 7 Wild. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1115 #boardgame

The opening credits of S2E2

God damn the XMen animated theme still goes hard

whether we’re talking about trans persons or undocumented immigrants, this, always

Twilight Struggle with 17yo - his 6th play was the first to reach endgame scoring He again took an early tight grip of Europe, but the rest of the world slipped through his fingers and a desperate Turn 10 play for West Germany could not change his fate boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12... #boardgame

Twilight Struggle with 17yo. He learned his lesson from the previous game and took an early stranglehold of Europe and easily won in the Mid-War despite suffering 4 lost turns from Bear Trap boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12... #boardgmae

Twilight Struggle with 17yo. He learned his lesson from the previous game and took an early stranglehold of Europe and easily won in the Mid-War despite suffering 4 lost turns from Bear Trap boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12... #boardgmae

Part 2 of our attempt to solve the Forbidden Sanctuary KICKED OUR MF'n ASSES By the gods that was rough! We've explored a lot of new ground, but that's it for the plus side. We are dirty, bloody, terrified, paranoid, and no closer to solving the curse. Arguably we're farther! So good

That one felt good! I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jun 26th 2026 (Tricky), in 04:52 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Catch Me If You Can Backrooms The Talented Mr. Ripley Obsession For the first time ever my kids washed to see movies in the theater. I was already interested in Backrooms, but Obsession is not normally my speed. Now my 17yo can say it's not his speed either 😂

PSA: Don't click links you cannot vet. Be smart. Phishing is the most common form of compromise.

Played my 72nd game of original flavor Innovation and 10th via BGA - 3 players with Echoes and Cities added. I prefer the new Ultimate Edition, but the original still sings. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/63... #boardgame

Played my 3rd ever game of Grand Austria Hotel today - so far I've played once every 5 years. Reader - that is not often enough to know what the fuck I'm doing 💀 boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18... #boardgame

Played my 3rd ever game of Grand Austria Hotel today - so far I've played once every 5 years. Reader - that is not often enough to know what the fuck I'm doing 💀 boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18... #boardgame

Most epic game of Twilight Struggle with 17yo yet USSR was firmly in the lead, but political realignment from a Turn 10 Tear Down This Wall wrested East Germany away and gave my US a Europe Control victory just as all seemed lost boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12... @gmtgames.bsky.social #boardgame

Played Harmonies today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41... #boardgame

Father's Day game ofTwilight Struggle with 17yo. He saw Late War for the first time, but inability to break into South America gave my US the win in Turn 8. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12... #boardgame

Played Twilight Struggle today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12... #boardgame

Played my 50th game of Twilight Struggle today when 17yo asked me to teach it. He guided the USSR to a victory in turn 5 after a disasterous early war for my US. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12... #boardgame

A vampire that's not Dracula

Least intelligible wifi password

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Playing Arydia has inspired me to dive back into The 7th Continent for the first time since 2020 An incredible exploration game. Some people understandably find the survival aspect too grindy, but it's calibrated perfectly for my tastes. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18...

Sam Reid's Lestat is one of the best characters in TV or movies right now. This will be appointment television for me.

In session 10 of Arydia we: - progressed a bunch of minor quests - picked up some leads on other quests - took on a major battle - ran away from an even bigger battle - reached level 6 - now we can take on some of those things we ran from previously! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/21... #boardgame

Look at that - the Golden Geek is an actual award! Thanks @boardgamegeek.com!

Played my best ever game of Great Western Trail: Second Edition tonight - which is to say I only lost by 10 points. Still - arrow trending up! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34... #boardgame

Once more, but with the roles reversed. Fernet wins again, but this time that's good because that's me! Shout LIVE had me down to 1 HP remaining but Fernet's airstrike patterns are so potent...if you have the nerve to wait long enough to maximize them boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30... #boardgame

Played a game of solo Bullet - a spatial puzzle game emulating bullet hell arcade shooters. Fernet's Airship Fleet wrecked me. She seems tough, and a particularly bad matchup for Shout's playstyle boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30... #boardgame

Completed an asynch 3p game of Wingspan on BGA boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/26... #boardgame

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Toy Battle against 17yo again tonight - 5 plays on two maps. I used to play mainly to take the opposing HQ, but he's really shown me the value of grinding out a stars victory. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43... #boardgame

Day 2 of Earthborne Rangers in the books. On Day 1 I pushed my duo to get an extra request done after finishing my main goal and succeeded, but just barely. This time I did the same and failed, also just barely. Looking forward to another go on Day 3. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34... #boardgame

Absolutely shocking how easy this is.

Babe wake up, new death metal band logo just dropped

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Send Help The Nice Guys LA Confidential Memento 17yo asked for something Lebowski-like so I threw on Nice Guys and that chained into the next two

After Toy Battle we played through Ministry of Lost Things: Case 2 – Finders Keypers We needed only one hint after we made a late puzzle much harder on ourselves than needed PostCurious remains best in class for combining compelling puzzles with art and whimsy boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...

Played 2 more games of Toy Battle, teaching it to a friend. He won the first game capturing my HQ. I won the second on points. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43... #boardgame

"Pronouns are Him, He/Him"

I hope the ✨ emoji gets to sue for defamation when this is all through

After Harmonies no one was quite ready to leave the table so we pulled Caution Signs - a game challenging you to draw a legible sign in 20 seconds. I was very proud of my MELTING SLOTH sign. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40... #boardgame

Family requested we play Harmonies again! I'm so delighted that this one has stuck. After the games we give a tour of our habitat and what critters reside there and each decide which one we'd like to personally live in. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41... #boardgame

Kids got me my own copy of Harmonies for my birthday after hearing how much I enjoyed it from weekly game nights We all played it yesterday and the whole family seems to enjoy it as much as me. Developing habitats and populating it with critters is so satisfying boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41...

The marketing: Artificial intelligence! The product: A million monkeys on a million typewriters

1000% this. It's not AI! There's no intelligence, artificial or otherwise! At best it's AAI.

Today is the last day to comment to the FCC that LGBTQIA2S+ names, stories, identities don't need a warning label. This new potential rulemaking is an attempt at criminalizing the mere fact of being trans or otherwise queer, in the name of discrimination, bigotry, and persecution. Tell them no, now.