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Dean Ray Johnson ⚪

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Indie video game, music, and board game nerd. AuDHD. Dedicated rulebook hater. Author of Every Board Game Rulebook is Awful. www.youtube.com/@BoardGameTextbook boardgametextbook.com/EBGRIA.pdf

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Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · Nov 13

I used to rewrite board game rulebooks as a hobby. I was getting good at it, but something still felt wrong about it.

Then I took grad school classes in technical writing.

And then I started to hate all rulebooks.

And I had to write 90 pages and a new rulebook about it.
Latest draft on my site.

boardgametextbook.com

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Karthik Setty @karthiksetty.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #spiel25 !

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 16h

One of my niche ethical stances is that I think that people should use Wikipedia and donate to the Wikimedia Foundation and that ChatGPT and its siblings are trash and so are the people who use them.

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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 1d

oh my GODDDDDDDDDDD

(apologies for screenshotting the hellsite, which I no longer use; I saw the link in CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter)

a screenshot of two X posts by Chris Lesinski (@lesinski)

the first, posted at 7:14 PM EDT on Oct. 25, 2025, says:

Quite an epic AI typo in The Journal today.

The Paramount exec is named Cindy Holland and they wrote “Cindy the Netherlands”

The post also includes a photo of the print newspaper featuring the passage in question.

The second X post, a threaded reply from @lesinski, was posted 17 hours ago, and says:

Spelling this out a little more:
1) yes, this is real, WSJ Sat/Sun edition this weekend
2) they probably do some form of AI copy editing and the style guide says “we don’t use the informal ‘Holland,’ instead use ‘the Netherlands’”…

… it’s just that this is a very obvious exception a human should have caught.

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Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 1d

Does Lee end the book by going WHAZZLE-BAZZLE-GRAZZLE-ppbbbt

Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 1d

why

would you make

a Taz-Mania reference

in the year of our lord 2025

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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 1d

Anyway, this was game of the con

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Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 1d

It's probably safe as long as you don't update it

Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 1d

Listen if they're crazy enough to get into the board game hobby in the first place then they probably asked for this

Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 3d

Also did "tomach" happen because you thought the purples would be too hard without it? "Kin" or "Ye" may have worked.

Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 3d

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There's one word in there that was too obvious, but it took me too long to figure out the bamboozle in the blue clues

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Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 3d

Oh My God, Lithuania, We Neither Wake Our Proud God, Let Our Land Brothers Arise, Lolo, What?

A screenshot from the subreddit map porn circle jerk, showing the first word of the national anthem of each European country

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🍂jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 3d

tess is legendary, just got this huge tome of fantasy art that's seriously so beautiful, what a steal 😳✨

tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com/product/digi...

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Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 3d

I mean that new Caravan Palace album was pretty great

Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 3d

Gluttonous devourer of all time

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James Turner @james.loadingreadyrun.com · 4d

Listen. This video needs 230 more views for us (LoadingReadyRun) to have a video with 1,000,000+ views across three different YouTube channels. Anyone know the other two channels?
youtu.be/Z7l0pRm-VRU