Updated prototype cards for alternate Shinjuku maps: Seoul, Paris and Osaka. Plan is to playtest with people unfamiliar with these city maps and see if the cards are more readable than the earlier ones.

Sneaking in a game of Concordia.

gen 10

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

I think a lot board gamers underestimate the depth of light games and overestimate the depth of heavy games. More moving parts does not necessarily mean a game has more strategy. It often just means there's more noisiness obscuring the impact of your decisions.

Valentine's Day ravioli from Costco.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Here's my workflow: For every one (1) project I *almost* finish, I get to start two (2) new projects! I call it "the road to endless possibilities"!

Every time I need to schedule a follow-up appointment, they check the FU box. So there must be something that I'm doing that pisses them off.

Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Want!

I'm not at Orca Con, but still playing board games this weekend. This is Lacerda's Kanban, and yes, we're still going through the setup process.

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

I guessing this is mostly artists moving over for now. I'm curious to see if Japan's board game community starts migrating here as well. Currently the official Tokyo Game Market account only posts on Twitter. #GameMarket #ゲムマ #ゲームマーケット

Uh oh.

My end-of-year game design stats! Main takeaways: Voyage, Lodge, and Cozy Cafes were my main projects, but I spent a good chunk of time on Tiny Towns BGA as well. I am somehow making games at about the same rate with far less time as a parent. 🎲✂️ (1/5)

Excited about this getting a proper standalone release. It was always awkward having to say that you can get it as part of Issue #3 of Worlds Without Master.

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From: Tchou-Tchou (1972), dir. Co Hoedeman, National Film Board of Canada

Had a great time talking with @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social about design, development, and science fiction: beyondsolitaire.buzzsprout.com/1091807/epis...

maybe i am going insane

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

The best part about driving through the Champagne region of France is seeing companies that have Champagne in their name because of their location... ...and then imagining what a bottle of their wine would look like. I think this one would have an exploding volcano with a flaming (lava) truck.

Picked up some recipes while in France. These ones are for "Nems de Tourteau" = Crab Spring Rolls. The circle inset says: "Also consider: Spider" so I'm thinking maybe Spider Spring Rolls for Thanksgiving.

Wow. The story (from 2011) where he has a customer send a defective board to another (unsuspecting) customer indicates a kind of unsavory person who is always looking for ways to take advantage of other people.

Bumping this as a reminder NYT leans hard on revenue from their puzzles, games, Wirecutter etc to fund their billionaire apologist headlines, contrarian Op-Ed take havers, and iffy/yikes livetweeting style of journo

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

Fascism can't win without outlets like the NYT and WaPo continuously doing this. Please stop sending money to these outlets. The bland, white-friendly recipes and word puzzles aren't worth it. Fund @theflytrapmedia.com, or @unraveledpress.com, or any number of local independent journalists.

"On The Roots of Plants", William Irvine. New (old) tongue-twister just dropped: fending forth fuckers, the fucker from a fecond fucker is fuffofed to have

I got these keys at a flea market and now (IIUC) I need to try them out in various doors to see what I've won.

I didn't get to Mont Saint Michel this trip (sadly, I can't visit *every* time), but this book was just published *this month* and it's the best MSM book I have seen.

Had a slight mishap while in France. Accidentally opened both a Mousse de Foie (pork) and a Mousse de Foie (duck) and now I'm forced to do a side-by-side taste comparison.

I was trying to avoid being all touristy while in Paris, and yet, here I am. In a crêperie. On the Seine. In the shadow of Notre Dame. In my defense, there's not a lot open before 10am.

I finally realised what AI dependency reminds me of

I'm surprised these games didn't fund immediately because Connor's got some clever things going on here. In "That's the Spirit!", I particularly liked how the different distributions of the Cause of Death cards keep the hidden traitor aspect interesting. Currently at ~75% with a week to go.

I'm not used to Euro plugs, so I see this as the Oink logo with something uncomfortable about to happen. @oinkgames.bsky.social

I'll be at the Heidelbär booth (6B200) again today from 14:00 to 16:00.

Everyone waiting to get into Essen Spiel just before 10am.

I was told that Cologne cathedral was just outside the main train station, but I didn't expect it to be this close.

Harry Potter et Ici Reposent Les Abbés et Primiciers de Saint-Denis

I don't think people fully appreciate the indignities being suffered by the gargoyles while Notre Dame is being repaired.

Currently in Paris before heading out to Essen.

I'll be at Essen Spiel on Friday and Saturday at the HeidelBÄR booth (Hall 6 6B200) showing Shinjuku: Friday: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm and 3:00 – 5:00 pm Saturday: 2:00 – 4:00 pm @spielessen.bsky.social @heidelbaer.de

✈️🧳 Ab in die Herbstferien – mit Shinjuku ins Herz von Tokio! Während draußen die Blätter tanzen & der Koffer schon halb gepackt ist, nehmen wir euch mit auf eine Reise nach Shinjuku – auch ohne Flugticket. 🌆

Evidence that even when LLMs produce similar results to humans, they “rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification”

Gordes, France

Don't think I've anticipated a KS more than this one! Connor is a talented designer & artist. Games executed well where the art + design are by the same person are rare but guarantee a seamless & full experience. Both games are amazing. Highly recommend you check these out.