Surely somebody's made this joke already, right? But I couldn't find it anywhere so, uh, here it is.

When you just worked an 80-hour week to help pull off the first professional fighting robot event broadcast live worldwide on a massive sports channel, and now it's time to be a pile of goo for a week

Didn't get back to my hotel until 3:30, but I think it's going to be a great event! The robot smashing starts at 10 am Eastern, but if you want, you can tune in at 7 pm Eastern for the biggest fights of the day on Prime Time. Watch on DAZN live for free: bit.ly/nhrl-dazn

Pour one out for my Synology NAS/music server, whose power supply died 1 month after its warranty expired, and seems to have been marked as obsolete by its manufacturer this year.

Seriously, it’s the entire NFL as Ditto.

So this is a big deal… NHRL's new Pro Tour event will be broadcast on DAZN, starting tomorrow. Eep. dazngroup.com/press-room/dazn...

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

Best use of a Wilhelm scream I’ve seen so far

The only time I share a Substack link these days is for posts from people announcing they're leaving Substack. HUGE congrats to Matt! I have been hoping this day would come. I could not sign up fast enough.

Wow!

Bernard Suits has entered the chat

Good article which explain all... FWIW, I didn't know about this, never consented, find the bio laughable, and the reliance on AI absolutely in accord with ALL of Ken Whitman's business enterprises in the past. www.enworld.org/threads/ken-...

Congrats to Julie! Cephalofair is in good hands.

Apparently 4 Pillars consider themselves journalists. What icky people.

As someone who sometimes spent a full day editing a Ludology episode, I can’t fathom why anyone would pump out lazy slop like this. What a strange thing to wake up to.

Crowdfunding Advice for May 2026: Let's talk about length of a crowdfunding campaign. A question that continues to pop up in my consultation calls is, “How many days should my crowdfunding project be live?” It’s a great question and I have an answer!

Reposting with alt text. (Not my ferret, just a great photo.)

I don't know what to believe anymore! I've been burned by stuff like this actually turning out to be pranks in the end. Still, if it's true, congrats to Eize! And if it's not, well-played.

Combat robot review: Could be somewhat competitive, but treads don't always work in the arena unless you really need to shift your center of gravity. Weapon could use more reach to hit other robots. Autonomous combat bots have made progress lately but human-driven still better for now.

I love it when the bug shrinks you and now Osty is big enough to give you a full body squeeze I think that would be really nice

he thinks you 🫵 are stupid

I don’t know MtG well enough to participate, but if you do and you’ll be at Gen Con, do it!

Wasn't quite expecting this to apply to Titanium Court.

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

Addendum: My point isn't "nothing matters, so buy a pickup truck, watch Harry Potter, and have ChatGPT run your life."

Excellent thread, and it's hitting me hard. Like, even if you're technical enough to be comfortable using Waterfox, can only do about 90% of what Chrome, etc. can do. Lots of websites code specifically to Chrome. Want full functionality from the rest of the web? Gotta go back to Chrome.

“God, Collings, I hate to start a Monday with a case like this.”

A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

I had some extra time to do a few things I had been meaning to do, so I also added two more hubs to my website! First up is Great First Board Games! Featuring: - specifically NOT the term "gateway"! - a hot take about Azul - good games to enter the hobby with whatsericplaying.com/great-first-...

I'm tired of living in a country where one side gets excoriated for expressing mild criticism and the other gets to have government thugs execute people in the street.

also, gonna say, if you're depressed, if you're stressed, if you're hurting and going crazy right now - i really cannot urge you enough to make art about it or make art not about it just make art - nothing I've done in years has had such a positive effect on my mental health and stress

Serendipity is realizing that you forgot to teach a rule for one of your games long after the game is over, and also realizing that the game was better for it.

martina navratilova spending her entire post retirement existence carrying water for ppl who would happily jail her as a degenerate is a classic example of why you never need to know what an athlete thinks about anything except that exact sport

Melville: whales are fish Melville: i mean think about it Melville: one, they live in water King: sure, ok Melville: two Melville: Melville: uh Melville: well they look like fish Melville: case closed!!

All Marlins Walk-Up Songs Royalty-Free

The Butthole Surfers are culture

Team in Poland made a prototype of a deck of cards made with e-ink displays. Pretty neat! What creative stuff could a designer do with this? E-ink only uses power when the image changes. dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

It feels to me that Slay the Spire 2 is easier than the original. Not just because there’s no stupid-difficult final boss, but I’m finding it way easier to build synergies. I’m actually up to Ascension 5; never made it past 1 in the original. Is it just me, or do you see it too?

DON: ever starve any children LEO: no DON: shoot a mom in the face LEO: no DON: murder fishermen LEO: no DON: blow up a school LEO: no DON: steal millions thru insider trading LEO: no DON: god you are so weak on crime

No one told me it was week 1 of Coachella! I've caught up as much as I can from Friday and Saturday. I've realized that if I just watch the Sonora stage, I get most of what I'm looking for.

raphael vs michelangelo was actually the first long form content creator vs streamer war

WOWWWW, how could the smartest lesbian at CPAC have been fooled so easily?

Your regularly scheduled dose of Mojo and Freddie

A Baltimore-based thread to explain one singular, overriding reason why American journalism is incapable of compassing and explaining the astonishing misrule and the implosion of all our governing norms. To wit: A few decades ago, as a police reporter covering the Baltimore department, a new...

I'll always be amazed at how good baseball players are at accomplishing an impossible task: hitting a spherical ball with a cylindrical bat. YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.

A panicked scream rings out.. "Is anybody here a doctor?" You tentatively raise your hand. "I'm a Necromancer, if you're willing to wait a few minutes."

Today, I have a long post on our blog about expansions in the context of games and innovation. buriedgiant.com/blog/Arcs-be... Or, if you want the short version, read on here! 🧵

Oh hey, we’re talking about 19th century road surfacing! McAdam is credited with the original technique of layering small crushed stones into a road. He started that work around 1816.