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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Jan 29

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Jan 29

You are a connector of people, and a pillar of the boardgame community. I love that you ask questions out of a desire to explore the probability space. You naturally engage people in thoughtful discussions. You bring people together in the most positive way. Your designs are imaginative and fresh.

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Jan 27

Grumpy historian: that’s a strategic map, it can’t possibly represent Frederick the Great’s Oblique Order I…
Ohh…
Ohhh my…
I must have it

Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Jan 26

While I can understand the point you're making, it would be shortsighted to say that - at some time in history - all of the topics in the games already listed have not been the subject of political debate about governance. The Japanese court regulated the number of clothing layers a woman could wear

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Jan 9

Time to remember
courier.unesco.org/en/articles/...

“And Then They Came For Me”: last words of Lasantha Wickrematunge

courier.unesco.org

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Jan 7

Viz: privacymatters.dlapiper.com/2024/04/euro...

Europe: The EU AI Act’s relationship with data protection law: key takeaways

Disclaimer: The blogpost below is based on a previously published Thomson Reuters Practical Law practice note (EU AI Act: data protection aspects (EU))

privacymatters.dlapiper.com

Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Jan 7

I've sounded the alarm in past (to equally cavalier AI-lovers) that the GDPR is one of the most comprehensive and sets of legislation regarding personal information, and their AI Act is likely no slouch either. I think there are some surprises that will be baked into any AI operating in the EU ...

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Jan 2

Rendition of the Devil beer and a hamburger at The Globe in Central. Soul food.

Hamburger and beer on a bar, with guest beer taps in the background

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 30

You can also choose which warlord is your favourite by the o-mamori charms you buy at the shrine. Me, I’m non-denominational. I got both the Uesugi and the Takeda charms.

O-mamori are small, embroidered silk pouches you can tie to your bag or put in your car. These two are black and sport (on one) the Takeds crest, which is a diamond lying on its side made of four smaller diamonds, and the other has the Uesugi crest which is a circle made of two birds facing one another.

Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 30

Fun fact, though: if you go to the (supposed) site of the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima, you can pray at a shrine that has a handrail that separates the “Uesugi” side from the “Takeda” side, so you can pray to your preferred dead warlord.

Shrine at the battle site of Kawanakajima

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 30

The general historical consensus is that the meeting between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen never happened. I am truly sorry.

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 30

This is your reminder that we have virtually no clue what happened at the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima, any map of the battle is a shot in the dark, and the stories about what happened there are likely all made up. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 29

I love the idea of more beautiful stuff - my kids would absolutely have gone for this. I remember them wanting to keep their favourite monsters in “Go Away Monster” back in the day - like a whole mechanic could be dedicated to making your player board more your “vibe”

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · Dec 26

My last video essay for 2024 considers the recent publication of Kurt Vonnegut’s “lost” board game, GHQ, and uses it as a jumping off point to talk about what we preserve, why we preserve it, and how.

youtu.be/5xXy9x81irU

Vonnegut’s Board Game: Preservation, Annotation, Context

YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 28

I’m with you. I get it, but it’s probably not a hugely practical way to create a feeling of a payoff. I wonder what other ways there might be? There’s the principle of stacking rewards for example, like armies in risk go higher for every set of cards redeemed - that feeling of escalating rewards.

Bez Bonnie-Beth 🇹🇭 🇬🇧 @stuffbybez.bsky.social · Dec 26

I understand that there is an emotional payoff.

I spent a bit of time with those idle games where you quickly become a billionnaire, then a septillionnaire, then get into scientific notation.

And there were a few seconds of joy in being a millionnaire irl.

But I'm still not a fan.

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 28

Honestly no clue. To make it cost effective, maybe they could declare the first method didn’t work, rapidly devalue the existing company to pocket lint, then buy it for a song with a new company? You have a point though - how the heck can they do it (without just revealing the truth)?

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 28

I’ve downsized to just one tabletop game due to a recent move to a smaller apartment - and I needed some serious shelving and storage magic just to keep things tidy - I didn’t even bring terrain.

ThatBronzeGirl @thatbronzegirl.bsky.social · Dec 28

Stacks of boardgames, crates of miniatures and terrain, longboxes of comics, bookshelves stuffed to the brim.....

Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 28

The current model is a dead end, and not really AI. They need the money for a whole new theory of Artificial Intelligence.

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 28

I had heard that the original Catan had all of the bells and whistles and the genius of the game was that they got taken out… to be made into expansions

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 28

Apparently all the photos of shrines didn’t make it into the initial post…

Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 28

Found some lovely Earth shrines in Macao - from what I understand, very common in the Pearl River Delta and completely idiosyncratic and local. They are different everywhere you go.

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 26

Definitely just makes things meaninglessly more complex - you end up having to count the zeroes just to know you’re not a whole order of magnitude off on your calculations.

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 25

We all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you. (Mine is in my bsky username)

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Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 24

North: Mundare, Canada (tied with Liverpool, UK)
South: Jakarta, Indonesia
West: Honolulu, Hawaii
East: Narita, Japan

Dylan of the Hill People [he/him] @tadahira.bsky.social · Dec 23

SNARF, a boardgame title that clearly has four letters because the R is silent when spoken in an English accent. A trick-taking deck-building game about the Thundercats (between episodes) attempting to get that goddamned Snarf creature to leave them alone and bother someone else.

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