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Three board games designed by @amabel.bsky.social and published by @hollandspiele.bsky.social: the now OOP 6-player only Westphalia, another Dual Gauge expansion, and the small trick-taking card game Hartfield. Can’t wait to dig in. #boardgames
Three board games designed by @amabel.bsky.social and published by @hollandspiele.bsky.social: the now OOP 6-player only Westphalia, another Dual Gauge expansion, and the small trick-taking card game Hartfield. Can’t wait to dig in. #boardgames
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🎲📦 Mail Call!!
Three board games designed by @amabel.bsky.social and published by @hollandspiele.bsky.social: the now OOP 6-player only Westphalia, another Dual Gauge expansion, and the small trick-taking card game Hartfield. Can’t wait to dig in. #boardgames
Three board games designed by @amabel.bsky.social and published by @hollandspiele.bsky.social: the now OOP 6-player only Westphalia, another Dual Gauge expansion, and the small trick-taking card game Hartfield. Can’t wait to dig in. #boardgames
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PSA 🗣️ Microsoft-owned LinkedIn will be collecting your data to train AI models — started yesterday. You can opt out, but you know how these companies go and auto opt you so quickly. #PSA
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
PSA 🗣️ Microsoft-owned LinkedIn will be collecting your data to train AI models — started yesterday. You can opt out, but you know how these companies go and auto opt you so quickly. #PSA
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being married is like being an anthropologist of one person in particular, and the field work only ends when one of you dies
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
being married is like being an anthropologist of one person in particular, and the field work only ends when one of you dies
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Initiations is a story about Kazon coming of age rites. I get the feeling that the Kazon were supposed to be a major recurring force in the show, like Romulans or Klingons but in the Delta Quadrant. Instead, they're appearing rarely enough that I need to remind myself who they are. Chakotay has to…
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Initiations is a story about Kazon coming of age rites. I get the feeling that the Kazon were supposed to be a major recurring force in the show, like Romulans or Klingons but in the Delta Quadrant. Instead, they're appearing rarely enough that I need to remind myself who they are. Chakotay has to…
I want to agree to this in principle, but there’s also a Phil Eklund way to do it incorrectly. Eklund would regularly rename mechanics without offering context, assuming that the player would have the same knowledge and instincts as he did. It resulted in a rulebook that sounded like a muddled code.
there is almost no feedback I will reflexively ignore as a game developer but “you shouldn’t name something X because people don’t know that word” is one of them. oh no! You might learn a new word! God forbid you take away a piece of knowledge from a game that’s not a brand of gun or some shit lol
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I want to agree to this in principle, but there’s also a Phil Eklund way to do it incorrectly. Eklund would regularly rename mechanics without offering context, assuming that the player would have the same knowledge and instincts as he did. It resulted in a rulebook that sounded like a muddled code.
As someone who has lived in the American south and midwest, this is savagely correct.
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
As someone who has lived in the American south and midwest, this is savagely correct.
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RIP Udo Kier, a true original
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his one and only social media post:
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his one and only social media post:
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
RIP Udo Kier, a true original
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his one and only social media post:
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his one and only social media post:
I will show you the life of the mind, Charlie Brown!!
You've lost your L.A. privileges, Charlie Brown
DO I LOOK LIKE I'M NEGOTIATING, CHARLIE BROWN?
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I will show you the life of the mind, Charlie Brown!!
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This Target novelization follows the naming convention of all Hartnell stories, that the title of the story is the title of the first episode, just like with the famous stories The Roof of the World, The Temple of Evil, Temple of Secrets, War of God, and A Holiday for the Doctor.
July 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This Target novelization follows the naming convention of all Hartnell stories, that the title of the story is the title of the first episode, just like with the famous stories The Roof of the World, The Temple of Evil, Temple of Secrets, War of God, and A Holiday for the Doctor.
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
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To finish this giant multi-month list project, here are some more lists: my top 5 stories from each spin-off show and from each Doctor (excepting and with apologies to Paul McGann). #doctorwho
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
To finish this giant multi-month list project, here are some more lists: my top 5 stories from each spin-off show and from each Doctor (excepting and with apologies to Paul McGann). #doctorwho
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#1 The War Games (1969)
This is it: the greatest story ever made for Doctor Who. It’s a proper epic, lasting ten episodes, with progressive mysteries, revelations, and crises to be resolved. And at the end of it, it cannot be resolved. This is the conundrum too big for the Doctor to overcome. This…
This is it: the greatest story ever made for Doctor Who. It’s a proper epic, lasting ten episodes, with progressive mysteries, revelations, and crises to be resolved. And at the end of it, it cannot be resolved. This is the conundrum too big for the Doctor to overcome. This…
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
#1 The War Games (1969)
This is it: the greatest story ever made for Doctor Who. It’s a proper epic, lasting ten episodes, with progressive mysteries, revelations, and crises to be resolved. And at the end of it, it cannot be resolved. This is the conundrum too big for the Doctor to overcome. This…
This is it: the greatest story ever made for Doctor Who. It’s a proper epic, lasting ten episodes, with progressive mysteries, revelations, and crises to be resolved. And at the end of it, it cannot be resolved. This is the conundrum too big for the Doctor to overcome. This…
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Broke: Fight Club is a critique of masculinity.
Woke: Fight Club is a critique of capitalism.
Bespoke: Fight Club is an engaging fitness regime.
Woke: Fight Club is a critique of capitalism.
Bespoke: Fight Club is an engaging fitness regime.
March 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Broke: Fight Club is a critique of masculinity.
Woke: Fight Club is a critique of capitalism.
Bespoke: Fight Club is an engaging fitness regime.
Woke: Fight Club is a critique of capitalism.
Bespoke: Fight Club is an engaging fitness regime.
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#2 The Time Meddler (1965)
The show to this point had been a solid mix of pure historical stories and sci-fi stories, often alternating between the two. This story broke the mold. It appears for several minutes to be another historical story, set weeks before the Norman conquest, amid regular…
The show to this point had been a solid mix of pure historical stories and sci-fi stories, often alternating between the two. This story broke the mold. It appears for several minutes to be another historical story, set weeks before the Norman conquest, amid regular…
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#2 The Time Meddler (1965)
The show to this point had been a solid mix of pure historical stories and sci-fi stories, often alternating between the two. This story broke the mold. It appears for several minutes to be another historical story, set weeks before the Norman conquest, amid regular…
The show to this point had been a solid mix of pure historical stories and sci-fi stories, often alternating between the two. This story broke the mold. It appears for several minutes to be another historical story, set weeks before the Norman conquest, amid regular…
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Now that I’ve finished Voyager – Season 1, here is my ranking of those stories.
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Now that I’ve finished Voyager – Season 1, here is my ranking of those stories.
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Now that I’ve finished Deep Space Nine – Season 3, here is my ranking of those stories.
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Now that I’ve finished Deep Space Nine – Season 3, here is my ranking of those stories.
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Learning Curve is our first season finale for this show, and the stakes could not be lower. Boot camp for Maquis that don't care about the rules? Ship randomly shutting down due to cheese mold? Tuvok apparently having decades of teaching experience and having no idea how to teach? What a…
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Learning Curve is our first season finale for this show, and the stakes could not be lower. Boot camp for Maquis that don't care about the rules? Ship randomly shutting down due to cheese mold? Tuvok apparently having decades of teaching experience and having no idea how to teach? What a…
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Faces is again the show visiting problematic ideas of racial essentialism. Torres is captured by the same aliens from Phage. They want to use her Klingon genetics to fight the titular Phage disease the originally caused them to steal Neelix's lungs, but they want a full-blooded Klingon for…
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Faces is again the show visiting problematic ideas of racial essentialism. Torres is captured by the same aliens from Phage. They want to use her Klingon genetics to fight the titular Phage disease the originally caused them to steal Neelix's lungs, but they want a full-blooded Klingon for…
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Heroes and Demons is one of those goofy holodeck stories that isn't about character development through immersion but somehow is acting as a conduit between fantasy and reality. Here, we have the story of Beowulf, with Grendel representing the sentient energy that Voyager stole from a protostar…
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Heroes and Demons is one of those goofy holodeck stories that isn't about character development through immersion but somehow is acting as a conduit between fantasy and reality. Here, we have the story of Beowulf, with Grendel representing the sentient energy that Voyager stole from a protostar…
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Distant Voices is a Bashir story about Bashir quickly realizing that he is dreaming before doing basically nothing with that information. There's no mystery to this story and no stakes. Even the somewhat impressive makeup used to age Bashir (with no narrative explanation other…
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Distant Voices is a Bashir story about Bashir quickly realizing that he is dreaming before doing basically nothing with that information. There's no mystery to this story and no stakes. Even the somewhat impressive makeup used to age Bashir (with no narrative explanation other…
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#3 The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
This third outing against the Cybermen takes place on the adapted homeworld Telos, taken after their original planet Mondas was destroyed. They are hardly present for the first half of the story, and the archeological expedition encountered by the TARDIS crew…
This third outing against the Cybermen takes place on the adapted homeworld Telos, taken after their original planet Mondas was destroyed. They are hardly present for the first half of the story, and the archeological expedition encountered by the TARDIS crew…
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
#3 The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)
This third outing against the Cybermen takes place on the adapted homeworld Telos, taken after their original planet Mondas was destroyed. They are hardly present for the first half of the story, and the archeological expedition encountered by the TARDIS crew…
This third outing against the Cybermen takes place on the adapted homeworld Telos, taken after their original planet Mondas was destroyed. They are hardly present for the first half of the story, and the archeological expedition encountered by the TARDIS crew…
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MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
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it's like when gandalf fired grima wormtongue
November 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
it's like when gandalf fired grima wormtongue
I don’t want to undersell the size or quality of these oversized map hex tiles. Each one is practically its own game board. US quarter for scale. #boardgames
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I don’t want to undersell the size or quality of these oversized map hex tiles. Each one is practically its own game board. US quarter for scale. #boardgames