Best pull quote: "The hard part is deciding which great ideas can be commercialized, and how to do that." Funny how a man with an MBA whose career was built off of two good decisions 25 years ago, thinks his job is the hardest part of running a publishing company.

I really enjoyed this statement by Dancey which explains in no uncertain terms and in great detail that what we have read isn't actually what we have read.

A game I have developed is on Kickstarter! I do not benefit from it funding but I just wanted to share. It was a fun project to work on for the past 2 years. It got great previews of it so if you would enjoy a flip and draw meets tile placement, check it out. tinyurl.com/ra9smcdx

For less than the price of a stick of RAM, you can get a 3D-accelerating space combat game that has no hardware dependencies beyond grease pencils and laminates!

With money in the bank to pay this month's bills, we'd like to buy more space fighter art for the sequel to Romance of the Seven Realms! Here are the ones we've procured so far. If you'd like us to buy more space fighter art, head over to www.adastragames.com and buy a few things. :)

AEG would not exist without the creativity and hard work of designers.

"Speaking of Jala's exes: one of them is Andile, a South-African American nonbinary person. Not only are they salty with Jala about how things ended, but they also have a rich backstory that will be familiar to anyone who has juggled multiple identities at once." popheist.com/queerly-nerd...

As a periodic reminder, Ad Astra Games has a Space Opera Starter Pack. If you're not on it and think you should be, let us know so we can add you to it! go.bsky.app/9cgiqKv

But is there some way out of here?

With money in the bank to pay this month's bills, we'd like to buy more space fighter art for the sequel to Romance of the Seven Realms! Here are the ones we've procured so far. If you'd like us to buy more space fighter art, head over to www.adastragames.com and buy a few things. :)

We have factory seconds of perfectly readable books! The bindings aren't as pretty as we'd like: Nexus Journal #1 $12 Attack Vector: Tactical 3rd Edition rulebook $13 Jayne's Intelligence Review: The Republic of Haven $17 Free shipping if someone buys all three! DM if you're interested!

Indistinguishable from mafia witness intimidation

Tell corrupt Bondi the Dow dropped 500 pts on Friday so she can now release the unredacted trump files & start legal proceedings against the vile child molesters.

North Carolina Students Walk Over a Mile to Vote After GOP Shut Down Campus Polling Places www.commondreams.org/news/north-c...

We have factory seconds of perfectly readable books! The bindings aren't as pretty as we'd like: Nexus Journal #1 $12 Attack Vector: Tactical 3rd Edition rulebook $13 Jayne's Intelligence Review: The Republic of Haven $17 Free shipping if someone buys all three! DM if you're interested!

If you care about pixel art as a medium and want to learn more about how to detect if it is genuine or AI-generated, please refer to this writeup that I created with the help of the community. Read, download, share and support real creators.

Did about 2/3 of the scenario reviews needed for Ship Book 2 for Attack Vector

Schiff on Gabbard's involvement in Georgia: "All of this is intended to send a message and the message is, 'We will not tolerate or accept an election that we lose.' That's why in these budget discussions we need to make sure, among other things, that we don't have ICE agents at polling places."

Dawanna Witt is the Hennepin County sheriff and Jodi Wentland is the County Administrator. They are responsible for this.

Preorders for my Red Sonja exclusive have dropped! Limited to 400 copies! SOZOMAIKA.com

Being able to see makes picking orders, packing orders and shipping orders much simpler.

Thanks to Ethan McKinney as my seeing eye typist, I've printed and a collated eight BoP interim kits and eight Attack Vector upgrade kits. Next up, figuring out how to perfect bind books while blind!

At long last! The STL files for the 10 Worlds miniatures! These 1:3600-scale miniatures are a fine addition to anyone's spaceship collection. Get the complete set of 15 miniatures now for an introductory price of only $39.95.

Now available at an introductory discount! The STL files for the starship miniatutes from the Diaspora setting for Squadron Strike! These 1:7200-scale miniatures need to be part of your spaceship collection. The complete set of 15 miniatures is only $39.95 for a limited time.

We are pleased to announce the availability of STL files of the plastic components that come in Ad Astra Games' boxed sets. Also included are five sizes of box miniature stiffeners that precisely match the interior dimensions of our countersheets. Ball bearings not included.

We are pleased to announce the availability of STL files of the plastic components that come in Ad Astra Games' boxed sets. Also included are five sizes of box miniature stiffeners that precisely match the interior dimensions of our countersheets. Ball bearings not included.

Now available at an introductory discount! The STL files for the starship miniatutes from the Diaspora setting for Squadron Strike! These 1:7200-scale miniatures need to be part of your spaceship collection. The complete set of 15 miniatures is only $39.95 for a limited time.

At long last! The STL files for the 10 Worlds miniatures! These 1:3600-scale miniatures are a fine addition to anyone's spaceship collection. Get the complete set of 15 miniatures now for an introductory price of only $39.95.

Snowfall counts for boardgamers! "How many games can we complete before the snowplows get here?" And yes, dammit, we are very much trying to give you ANY reason to crack a smile given the horrible actions of our government in Minneapolis.

y'all caught up with Javier? www.knottedroadpress.com/collections/...

The Source also stocks Ad Astra products, if you want to thank them for being closed today by buying something we make!

The Source finally announced they were closed today. Tower Games is also closed. I'll have to go out of my way to buy something there. On Main St. in Hopkins, LTD, the Vine Room, and Mill City Records are closed. Tomorrow I might have to get a record and a couple drinks.

@danthurot.bsky.social I've got a third edition of Attack Vector: Tactical that could use a review; I am not at _all_ sure you do skirmish scale (1-4 units per player) high detail minis games with physics models, given what I've read on your site. But, since you said you'll welcome inquiries...

My partner was just telling me that Minneapolis’s Aquatennial Parade started in 1940 as a way to give the public a diversion from remembering Bloody Friday six years before, which was when cops shot 69 picketing truck drivers (killed two of them). Sure didn’t learn that one in school.

At 1 PM Eastern, Iris Hastings is running a teaching game of Squadron Strike using the Romance of the Seven Realms setting! Come fly space fighters! Think of it as like X-Wing, but in 3D, and your piloting skill as a player matters far more!

If you really want to punish the NYT, hit them in the pocketbook and post alternatives to their games. www.puzzmo.com/today/

Our culture has such a reliance on art, mixed with so much disdain for artists' lives. Someone throws soup at a painting in a gallery or whatever and everyone acts like it's a literal murder, but that level of sympathy is for the object, almost never for the living conditions of artists.

Creators are not weird cockroaches who survive anything (well some of us are) & the vast majority are not elite. Commodifying the total lack of safety nets for creators as "you're a starving artist!" is such a scam. It's turning your life into a product that others profit from and you do not.

It doesn't help that a lot of game developers don't bother blind-testing their tutorials, which are inevitably rushed as the last things written.

And they're up! The licensing for the Honorverse miniatures had an exclusive sales clause that ran out on December 31st, and Ken had been putting them up on the cart before his medical emergency. (We're still getting one piece of art from the artist for the Dolch DD.)

It's not too late to learn to fly a starfighter! In 3D! tabletop.events/conventions/... Game starts in a bit over 4 hours!

Wait. @tkingfisher.com got Digger made into a movie starring Tom Cruise? Can he even do an Aussie accent?

We're halfway and a bit towards covering routine bills for the month. Thank you to everyone who bought something!

"A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at an ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3."

Ken's had an eye emergency (hemmorhage in the right eye due to diabetes) and lost some work-time. If anyone reading this is in the market for things the company sells... Sales right now would be greatly appreciated! A volunteer is putting up some products on the website, so stay tuned...

This is a man who knows neither the rules of Risk (North America is a bad starting position) nor the Bible, as he thinks this country was founded to preserve Christianity, rather than in the recovery period of religious strife in England and Europe.