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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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Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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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 · 2d

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 · 2d

I mean that new Caravan Palace album was pretty great

Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 2d

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

Friday Nights - Politics

YouTube video by Magic: The Gathering

youtu.be

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 6d

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 5d

what's the deal with the three seashells

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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 5d

Y'all Hasbro made me a BEACH in the novelties area. With ACTUAL SHELLS

Me sitting in an Adirondack chair just like the one on the cover of Sanibel, in front of a giant version of the Sanibel cover that wraps onto the floor

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Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 6d

[Car Talk voice] And even though Nina Totenberg cancels her tattoo appointments when she hears us say it, this is NPR!

Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 6d

This doctor's office sign-in page asked for my preferred language, and it apparently pulls its language list from Wikipedia

List of languages to choose on a doctor webpage:
Dutch, middle (circa 1050 to 1350)
Dutch, Flemish
Dyula
Dzongha
Eastern Frisian
Efik
Egyptian (ancient)
Ekajuk
Elamite
English
English, middle (1100 to 1500)
English, old (450 to 1100)
Erzta
Esperanto
Estonian

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Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 6d

.......you spent HOW MUCH time on this

Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 6d

don't

don't do that

Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social · 7d

THE DATE SORTING ON MY PROPERTY TAX BILL IS DRIVING ME INSANE.

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Ammnontet! @bleakvision.info · 9d

BAH! Enough talk! My <Beam Blast> shall make short work of you!

norman "my name is not norman but still i" rockwell's painting "freedom of speech" except i made the guy fucked up, and he's doing a Beam Blast. and also everyone around him looks more worried than usual

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Semi Co-op @semicoop.bsky.social · 8d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

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Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 8d

Dancer and bard are two classes that you can only unlock if you've looked up a walkthrough on exactly which class levels you need to unlock them.

Dean Ray Johnson ⚪ @boardgametextbook.com · 9d

Funny enough I remember the best move in FF Tactics being to hide out with dancers while they do the speed-debuff dance until your enemies all act half as quickly as you do

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 9d

With alt text, and it is beautiful ☺️

To the Editor:

I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body.

I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities. There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate.

For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema.

Jason Jacoby Lee

New York

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