From tonight's game. Everyone hated the their ugly choices on turn 1. We're about to get to the consequences of those choices on turn 3. Lots of "Oh, this is _great_. Stressful, but great." "Oh, I have regrets." "That's OK, I have regrets too." "Hey, wait for me..."

Hero Initiative is helping writer Mike W. Barr through a series of health problems. If you'd like to contribute directly to Mike as well, go HERE: www.gofundme.com/f/rally-for-...

And that's why Admiral Holsey retired. That black man was like, "I'll be damned if dishonor my country and my people to commit murder for these racists."

Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word! RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇

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Last run to goose some sales in November!

Most of the Ad Astra catalog is deeply on sale, one title isn't: Birds of Prey, Complete PDF Bundle. It's *fantastically* on sale. 75% off! It covers the stats and development history of 25 fighters from the MiG-15 to the F-22 Raptor, with the most accurate aerodynamic model in any board game.

Today is the anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Not only did the law literally open doors to countless students with disabilities (myself included), it also had the unintended consequence of creating the moral panic around an autism "epidemic." 🧵 1/

One of my game design mentors insists online discounters destroyed the FLGS market...and still spouts this in 2025. He's been dropped by every distributor; he hasn't had a new 'main line' product for one of his games since fall of 2016, and the other product line has gone fallow since 2012.

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I put a lot of thought into that first turn teach through for Squadron Strike, and have scenarios where the players get to use every phase of the game by turn 3. A lot of it is teaching the patterns of play in the game.

Most of the Ad Astra catalog is deeply on sale, one title isn't: Birds of Prey, Complete PDF Bundle. It's *fantastically* on sale. 75% off! It covers the stats and development history of 25 fighters from the MiG-15 to the F-22 Raptor, with the most accurate aerodynamic model in any board game.

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Most Ad Astra Titles are deeply on sale from now through early December on Wargame Vault! Go forth, spend money on small independent publishers, like us. We'll be happy to teach you to play the spaceship games onlne!

Most Ad Astra Titles are deeply on sale from now through early December on Wargame Vault! Go forth, spend money on small independent publishers, like us. We'll be happy to teach you to play the spaceship games onlne!

Just set up Gauntlet for tomorrow's Scenario playtest. Here's a photo of the initial setup. I have been assured, over the last 22 years, that 3D doesn't make any difference in a spaceship fight... This is for the Exile's Stars setting.

Any folks in Australia, New Zealand and similar time zones? We've got a game of Squadron Strike being run by Daniel Marley on the 29th in your time zone! Pop into our Discord (link in profile) and follow the instructions in Read This First, and then sign up in Game Announcements.

As a reminder! You can buy all of Ad Astra Games products here: You know people who like spaceships, rocket science, planetary science and SF! And we can help you make them happy!

A New Jersey fraudster who was pardoned by President Trump in 2021 was sentenced to 37 years in prison this month for running a $44 million Ponzi scheme, one of a growing number of people granted clemency by Trump only to be charged with new crimes.

Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.

When I first read this story, I was blown away. And had no idea about the Peanuts connection until years later. That only made it better...

Wheee. This is (almost) the last of what I need to pack. Shipping day tomorrow. Goodbye postage money...

Learning about MAP, REDUCE, SCAN, LET and LAMBDA functions in Excel. Plus better understanding how array formulas work by default in Excel. If I'm right about these...there's the potential to reduce a _lot_ of the repeated formulas in the Squadron Strike Spreadsheet of Doom.

"Stop, stop. I can only get so erect."

One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.

#SaveSpeech starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again! stop-paypros.neocities.org

K-Pop Demon Hunters, but (early 1700's) Canada 🇨🇦 I did a lot of research for this one due to Canada's history of colonialism, and learned a lot! Here's more info- www.tumblr.com/christianneg... #kpdh #kpopdemonhunters #canada #acadian #mi'kmaq #frenchcanadian

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I appreciate everyone who places an order even if you just get a single sticker. It’s currently my only source of income and every little bit makes my life slightly less stressful

Today's schedule: A Squadron Strike teaching game using Newton's Cradle. Three players have signed up, one who had to reschedule would like to play next week! They need a wing-sophont! This is @gamingtrend.com's writeup preview of Newton's Cradle! If you're free next Thursday, reach out!

Due to a last minute cancellation, I have an open seat for a Newton's Cradle teaching game tomorrow at 2 PM Eastern US time. DM if you're interested!

Turn off Autorun Python in your Blender preferences as a precaution

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150) As all children were taught to sing by Gordon Lightfoot after the Edmund Fitzgerald's crew died in a solar storm when their magsails quenched one after the other after the other... "Does anyone know Where the love of God goes "When Cerenkov Paints things cerulean."

We publish games made by humans, for humans, where we expect you to use your brain and numeracy. Wanna fly a spaceship?

If you’re at Rhode Island Comic Con, stop by 727 for prints, playmats, books and creatures!

Did you know we have teaching videos for Attack Vector: Tactical? We do! Video 1 of a 3 part series. Embrace the Crunch!

If anyone is going to Geek Girl Con in Seattle this weekend ArenaNet still has some slots available for portfolio reviews. We have representatives covering the majority of game dev disciplines:

Hey, friendly reminder that Scott Cawthon's donations to the GOP literally contributed to SNAP suspension and you shouldn't buy or stream Five Nights at Freddy's anything.

Doing the loop of: Migrate old data to new ship design sheet. Look at what broke. Fix what broke in migrated sheet. Fix what broke in template sheet. Save both, move template sheet into migration folder. Migrate old data to new ship design sheet. Look at what broke. Repeat...

Mailcall! Well, this little set has “seen some action”, as they say, but a very welcome addition to my #OSR #RPG collection: 2nd edition of Marc Miller’s terrific sci-fi game #Traveller! I loved playing this as a teenager in the 80’s, but wished I’d played more. Looking forward to diving back in.

UK Games Expo promoted a tabletop RPG on Instagram that claimed to use "fully ethical and transparent" generative AI. Everything went downhill once the publisher began responding to criticism.

With 40 million users, not enough of them are following the people on this Starter Pack of Space Opera writers. go.bsky.app/9cgiqKv

With 40 million users, not enough of them are following the people on this Starter Pack of Space Opera writers. go.bsky.app/9cgiqKv

"[T]he company has spent decades being acquired by and divested from private equity firms, served as a revolving door for senior leadership." Private equity firms exist to extract value from profitable companies, leaving behind a pile of debt and destruction. #VultureCapital

Had a fun teaching game of Squadron Strike using Newton's Cradle as the setting. One of the players was gobsmacked at how easy 3D vector movement actually was...and at the way we got Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation to work on the ship sheet.

I really hate to have to do this but i just had a deer jump in front of my work van (and everday car) on the highway and total the bumper/fender and I need to open some emergency commissions to help cover the cost of repair and help me stay afloat while it's in the shop.