it's pretty funny that the World Cup has sensors that detect the ball's rotation, acceleration, and location every .002 seconds (not exaggerating, the actual tech specs of the sensor) but also the game gets to the end and the ref says "ok I think 9 more minutes ... maybe more if I feel like it"

Played Falling (not the James Ernest game) again last night. Really enjoying it. I hope this doesn't sound too narcissistic, but Falling feels a lot like The Networks to me.

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

When I don't understand the VIDEOGAME: Amazing, beautiful, an encounter with the informational sublime, a chance to look both deep within and far beyond When I don't understand the BOARD GAME: It is bourgeois, perhaps

The frantic rush to ban trans women from playing sports has never been motivated by a genuine interest in women’s sports or improving anybody’s lives. The fact that it’s clearly going to hurt cis women in addition to trans women is an added bonus for the people who have pushed for it

We finally announced some MASSIVE news at NHRL that was killing me to not blab about early: Our next NHRL Pro Tour event will be at Terminal 5 in New York City on September 12! This event is going to be incredible. More here: www.nhrl.io/september-2026-up...

why does cricket still do test matches. they should know whether or not it works by now

I inadvertently woke Freddie up from a nap today.

I remember seeing this for the first time, and not really getting it. Was I missing something? I felt like I was missing something. What I was missing: I had not yet seen any videos of Marlene Deitrich singing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr0x...

Update to a previous post: looks like Michael Schacht is still making games as well as music, hooray!

Just reading now about the False Hydra, a homebrew fantasy RPG monster that is almost impossible for PCs and NPCs to perceive. Who better to discuss it than @qntm.org, whose understanding of antimemetics is about as good as anyone’s.

Thank you Suz for an awesome afternoon of Spire Slaying!

Just putting this out into the universe: I've never played Slay the Spire 2's co-op mode, and I'm pretty much free all weekend. If you have the time and inclination, give me a shout!

He looks like he's about to hand Jen a shard of the Dark Crystal. I hope I look that good when I hit a hundred. We should all be so lucky, to know what we created brought people joy.

#BoardGameJournalism 🤣🤣🤣 🤮🤮🤮

✂️🎲 I use Affinity for all my rulebooks and components, and I really like it. It's especially nice using free software to work on a co-design, since I wasn't forcing my co-designer to buy anything. I wrote an article specific to board games if others want to try it out. rossongames.com/affinity

after years of suffering under trumps destructive actions it is great to see democrats finally uniting and going on the strong offensive to *checks notes*

NYC CONGRESSIONAL NOMINEE: The government should run stores where they buy food and sell it at cost A CONGRESSMEMBER FROM INDIANA WHO SPENT FOUR WEEKS TOTAL IN INDIANA IN THE LAST EIGHT YEARS: This is literally a bomb

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

Played my new deluxe edition of Container tonight! I only played it once when the very first edition came out, and boy that economy was fragile. This is my first time playing with the Bank Island rules, which help the game tremendously.

As a kid, people told me, "You can do anything you put your mind to." But the reality is, my mind can do anything it puts me to. I don't really get a say.

I’m lucky to be in such good company!

The terror spreading across the country this a.m. because in some more progressive corners of the US progressives won elections is telling. The reason the reaction is so over-large is because progressives unlike centrists and the right, are the only group who pose a real threat to established power.

I am putting out a call for a few project-based paid roles for Defunctland. Please read this entire thread before submitting any materials. We are looking for: - A video editor - A research assistant If you are interested, please respond here or email us at [email protected].

Two months ago:

Excellent game, worth your attention!

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face

I think we found the new chessboxing.

@youranalogbuddy.bsky.social If you really want to mess with some heads in Ordinal, two good questions: • What year did the Bee Gees form? • When was Frank Sinatra's recording of "New York, New York" released? For both answers, most peoples' guesses will be entire *decades* off.

"Muralidhar said that by targeting children, Israel was undermining the capacity of the Palestinian people to exist and to determine their future."

Reading the article, most of these folks did not get their jobs back. Glad to see they got a decent financial settlement though.

It’s awesome that Messi and Haaland are somehow both perfectly designed to score a lot of goals even though one of them could eat the other one as a light pre-game snack

vote for me for Director of the United States Mint and my first project will to be to make all our coins ferromagnetic I don't think this'll solve any problems, it'll create many new ones, but it should be done anyway

I’m so glad you got a chance to play!

Ended my #origins with a flurry of Rough Roads tests. Got a great idea to streamline 2p/3p setup and gameplay. Met up with so many old friends, met a bunch of new friends. Now: lunch, nap, pack, drive home.

A senile Republican narcissist surrounded by grifters and drunks just led our nation to the greatest diplomatic humiliation in its history. Here’s why my next five Atlantic pieces will be about the dangers of woke.

Played Falling (not the James Ernest game). Bought Falling (not the James Ernest game). Cube grinder with some really interesting ideas and a wacko theme. Fun experience, unique despite the genre.

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

I have been informed that second place was supposed to keep one marker in! That would have probably changed things.

2 other games I got out at #origins after Age of Innovation (which is fantastic): SETI and Power Grid: Outpost.

I think I might like Age of Innovation better than Terra Mystica.

People have been sharing their favorite tweets from yesteryear. This is the apex, the zenith, the pinnacle of Weird Twitter for me.

Hello, "with-it" #Origins attendees, I hear a lot of buzz that this will be the "hip" place to be all week, don't risk not being seen as "cool" by others

Go read this excellent thread. This is my pull quote, with its keen reminder to trust one’s own humanity over the regurgitation of a computer program.

This.

If any of you Origins-goers want to see what I've been up to in my resurrected board game design life, I'm running Rough Roads in the Unpub area on Thursday and Sunday at 10 am. It's an economic game about trying to profit from building plank roads before they disintegrate.

is this just like literally a Villain Convention or

For everyone coming to Columbus for Origins this week: do not eat at TownHall 🫶 It is owned by Bobby George, who is an absolute weirdo. Look him up for all the bad things he’s done. Don’t support TownHall or REBoL!