Picked up @nanochess.bsky.social’s port of Akalabeth for Intellivision. It’ll be on deck for next game. Find myself wishing it had a digital rom for the Sprint but it’ll be some time before that becomes normal, if ever.

I have descended into the depths of EINs and Sam dot gov paperwork. Lord help me.

Nodding politely across a crowded room at @playhistory.bsky.social.

Yesterday I saw someone uoaded almost all of Cinematech to YouTube. G4 was such a weird time in the rise of “the gamer“ Was the weird bridge between its celebration and its collapse in sarcasm. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Had some thoughts about @ibogost.com's procedural rhetoric this morning while driving through a near whiteout experience. It is related to making a mixed-media #wargame but also a mixed-media training simulation.

Big news, after like 15 years on the same apple account, I’m finally on my own. This last update created insane confusion with all the merging of contacts and consolidation of names. Was awful.

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Stair sanding update. They are still sanded. Plaster patches incoming. Look out now.

Sometimes you sand some stairs. And then your stairs are sanded.

we got a giant pot for a wedding gift back when we got married 13 years ago. We don’t really use it much aside from back when we had a water heater from the 50s, we used it to boil water for baths. “can I make you some water!?” Is phrase we haven’t spoken lately.

A long time ago, I bought some Battlestar Galactica CCG starters and boosters and then promptly lost them because why wouldn't I. Found them last night while sleeving up a prototype. Sad I need to get more sleeves now though...

I am delighted to announce the release of my latest project: Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece. Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon. See thread for details. 1/9 github.com/markmoxon/th... #retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit

It’s a new year so that means some morning mimosas! May the force be with you!

Gonna try out this ole leaflet app for tiny notes!

Lately I’ve been thinking about professional pillow fighting and world chase tag. They should team up and make a wild professional sport crossover event. youtube.com/shorts/1YvEZ...

Decided to finally pull the trigger and buy a cube’s worth of SimCity CCG cards. Currently have cubes for: Wotc netrunner Guardians Spellfire Wyvern 7th Sea Decipher Star Wars Decipher Star Trek Battletech Blood wars Dune And a few more…

So I was flipping through YouTube shorts yesterday morning and I found a lady achieving life goals I didn’t know I had until I watched the video. They’re now yours as well. youtube.com/shorts/wimqR...

In getting a post ready for @mcdanger.bsky.social's Esoteric Gaming, I found a whole ass blog I had started writing right when COVID shut everything down. interdisciplinarydotdesign.wordpress.com Guess I need to get these posts onto my homepage now and finish writing up Human Use of Human Beings

I'm glad this meme is really taking off. It's so dumb. www.youtube.com/shorts/Lwk-3...

Been figuring out nanDeck to prototype a game and I really am enjoying it. I suppose I could've used InDesign too but I miss the fiddliness of home grown software. I mean look at it. Passion project incarnate.

I've started to describe One Piece as, "What if Tolkien wrote weekly shorts about Middle Earth for the better part of 30 years and it had just as much depth?" But was also on LSD.

It has come and gone. Rip one piece season 1. You were only 1155 episodes. Not enough. On to season 2!

I've reviewed so many proposals and articles on attaching AI to 9-1-1 that has this stuff baked in. In the meantime, being a dispatcher is an obscene career where they could really use help. Stuff like this will only make their jobs worse.

A package from amazon has been delayed 2 days in a row while in town because the weather has sucked. That's fine, it happens. Meanwhile I have also received 2 other packages from amazon over the past 2 days. All 3 package deliveries have originated from the same warehouse Logistics is a wild ride

Went back to watch Project Runway seasons 1-7 as we started on season 8. My goodness was that show a lot more raw and in your face back then.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains Monsoon from Caroline’s Spine and Hello Hello from Talk Show.

It's time for a winter sale again! 25% off all my C64 games. itch.io/s/175946/sja...

Playing with a bunch of ideas in a prototype #wargame this break. First time I’m going to write an equation to balance a game as it is necessary. Dusting off graph math gonna hurt.

Best gift of Christmas are these Bag Balm socks of which I was coated in from age 0-13 And thus, immune to everything. Now my feet are immune to everything.

Greg is yelling at me to sit down a second and play Metroid Prime 4. Don’t tell anyone.

George got to try on a bunch of cat clothes and then it was too much so he took a nap.

When I was coming back from homelessness, I lived in a 10'x10' room I rented for $250/month. I could barely afford it. 1st Christmas there, I didn't realize it was the 25th and I didn't have any food at all. I remember waiting anxiously until 5 when a pizza place opened. God that pizza was good.

Made it from Austin to Rochester by way of St Louis in 2 days. I don’t wanna drive no more.

Been drivin all day Feet the size of Shaquille’s Gonna go lay down. Tonight A Haiku by Nick LaLone

Greetings, St. Louis.

Found a nice writeup about a Westinghouse Weapons Division #wargame focusing on Logistics called, "Logistics Command" It has a lot of neat ideas that I wish would be in more traditional #wargaming. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ubfb1... Not a lot on BGG: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/88...

PoP IC1 and IC2 from the VGHF's current stream are a demo/prototype or something of Prince of Persia for MD/Genesis -- merged binary here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s55e5... @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

Wrote up some final notes on an assignment for introduction to game design that uses @stevejacksongames.bsky.social's and @philipjreed.bsky.social's game FRAG: nicklalone.com/posts/frag_a... It did a good job highlighting the use of paper prototyping for digital games and vice versa.

It's nice to see that the Bills will lose to a different team in the playoffs this year.

I got a text message from my partner yesterday that just said, “Got Damn!!!!“ Indeed, what a specimen. I feel like they found a lord of ferals

Atari's Lost '80s Precursor To Beatmania Has Been Recovered. (Image: @mamehaze) (Repost)

In a very niche use case, i've suddenly found a tool that automates a process i've been doing as I consolidate my favorite articles to my homepage. medium2md.nabilmansour.com

Im really confused by the sudden resurgence of Bo Jackson in CCG form. www.bobattlearena.com

I feel like the cannibalism in Fried Green Tomatoes is the inverse of the legend of the Sinbad movie, Shazam. Everyone seems to claim there is no cannibalism in Tomatoes when there is whereas the Sinbad movie Shazam doesn’t exist but everyone says it does.

Jeff is learning about cuddles on cold mornings.

I keep trying to read about GenAI and the Zone of Proximal Development but each paper I read is speculative and partially written by Generative AI. All I can really use at this point are all the old Minecraft and Lego studies from CSed...which isn't bad but come on, this is low hanging fruit!

Today was spent telling people to play frog fractions Because they had never heard of it. Play frog fractions.