GeekNights is about to go LIVE!
Talking about Terminals!
Jimmy Carter was our greatest president.
Catching up on my seasonal photo albums. Here’s last winter!
GeekNights will be live at 5:40pm ET talking about fear. Things we are afraid of.
Without colonies to consume, capitalism turns inward and eats the society it supported.
Colonists ate the entire world for it. And now it’s eating every remaining social structure in every industrialized nation.
We are in a dangerous time. We need leadership that is rational. In every democratic country.
GeekNights will be live at 8pm ET tonight!
Talking about Drones.
When you use an AI Assistant to write, it’s obvious. You cede your own voice to the model, and you sound identical to everyone else using these assistants.
You all sound the same. You turn into background noise.
Ew. Youtube is “suggesting” comments I can make to increase “engagement.”
Honestly? Block people who type generic crap like this. Even if they aren’t using AI to write it, it’s still just the pablum of the Internet. It’s like a real human failing the Turing Test.
To answer a question we keep getting after our talk at PAX Unplugged.
Here is a short list of games that have survived repeat play among pros. Legendary games.
Our lecture from PAX Unplugged 2024 is going to appear on Youtube at 7:00pm ET, including the slides!
#pax #paxunplugged
GeekNights will be live shortly talking about knives!
GeekNights will be live shortly talking about PAX Unplugged 2024
This is what it looks like when I assemble the footage from after a PAX talk!
Thank you PAX Unplugged!
A great con, a great crowd for our lectures, and overall a hell of a weekend.
GeekNights will return.
#pax #paxunplugged
I have arrived at PAX Unplugged
I will be live at PAX Unplugged this weekend with two events on Friday!
Take Your #@*$ Turn! Fri, Dec 6 @ noon in the Kelpie Theatre
Learn and Play: Deep Sea Adventure Boost Fri, Dec 6 @ 1:30pm in the Mox Game Lounge
#pax #paxunplugged
The correct way to use Bluesky is to instantly block any account that gives you even the barest hint of off vibes.
Life’s too short. Nobody deserves your attention unless you want to give it.
Block people as casually as you blow your nose or wash your hands.
South Korea just declared emergency martial law.
What is a game mechanic?
GeekNight is going live talking about Blogs shortly!
Never forget the reason for the season.
Organize.
My Mastodon and Bluesky are both fully operational, and both automatically crosspost from my microblog.
Beware cowards. I live.
Mom ami le lapin
For anyone curious, here are the slides for our upcoming talk at #PAX Unplugged
Our standalone review of Obelus (2024) is on youtube!
My bedroom from 1999, when I was in high school. Note the VKLL Sailor Moon fansubs.
My Mastodon @rym@mastodon.rym.social will need to shut down so I can back it up, as my provider Cloudplane is going out of business.
It will likely be some weeks before I can bring it online from a new provider. Be warned it might never return.
Hit me up at rym.social or on Bluesky just in case!
Designing Game Rules might be our most popular and most-watched lecture on game design.
The only thing I’d change if we did it again is to cover apps and tutorials.
GeekNights will be live tonight ~5pm ET reviewing Obelus (2024). The tabletop game.
Test ;)
Mugi having a hay lunch.
#dailyrabbit
How is it that in 2024, in New York City, at a place where I can see them making perfect bagels in a giant vat behind the counter…
They ruin them by slathering a full two centimeters of cream cheese in there.
Who wants that? Who is this for?
I scraped almost all of it off into the trash.
The boooooy
#dailyrabbit
The rabbit is flopped.
Now we’re testing a youtube link embed across all three platforms ;)
Mastering Game Mechanics: Worker Placement
Testing a crosspost from microblog.rym.social.
I’m finally flying home after two weeks overseas. It’s going to be a rough time to come in the US.
And thus the world learns again, and for the first time, that it’s always “historic times.”
Bella ciao my friends.
If you chose not to vote for Kamala Harris, there is no reason for you to ever interact with me again.
Fuck off forever. You are the problem. You did this. Everything that happens next is your fault.
There is no forgiving this.
Mon ami le lapin.
The Republican Party and the Nazi Party are cut from the same cloth.
This rally at MSG was a racist brownshirt spectacle. It’s exactly what the Nazis did at MSG in 1939.
Trump’s rally at MSG is the same as the Nazi rally at MSG
Racist, vile, and dangerous. The Republicans are what they say they are and you have to believe them.
There are no “good” Republicans. You have to vote.
I am voting!
The line for early voting in western Wuerns is looong!
If you live in NY-17, DO NOT VOTE FOR Anthony Frascone.
He is a Republican running a scam campaign to spoil the election.
District 17 represents all of Rockland and Putnam Counties, plus sections of Dutchess and Westchester Counties. Vote the the Democrat: Mondaire Jones.
Vote!
I endorse the same slate as the Working Families Party for New York City.
Vote for every Democrat.
Vote YES on proposition one.
Vote NO on every other proposition.
I have canceled my Washington Post subscription.
For dubious reasons, they have refused to endorse a candidate in the 2024 election.
This is a dereliction of duty to democracy. They are complicit in the sanewashing of Donald Trump and the treatment of a fascist takeover as “politics as usual.”
My Mastodon hosting provider (Cloudplane) is shutting down.
I’ll have to shut down for a bit at some point before the end of the year so I can migrate to a new host.
The Civil War started a while ago.
Voting for Kamala Harris is the most important thing you can do. The consequences of the literally fascist Republican Party winning are violent and extreme.
Republicans are threatening aid workers because of crazy conspiracy nonsense. They are dangerous.
I did a full live run of Bionic Commando (NES) a decade ago that I literally forgot about until just now!
The Nazis are flags-out. This is exactly what it looks like it is.
That’s what’s at stake in this election.
Land doesn’t vote. People do. The popular vote is the only fair way to determine the presidency of the United States.
How Nature says, “Do not touch.”
The Weyouns
Wapo nailed this headline.
The US is backing two permanent UN Security Council seats for African nations.
This is long overdue and is a major advancement.
Mon Ami, le lapin.
At the Jazz Club
Nobody is treading on them. They’re just weird.
Brazil has banned Twitter.
Gamer toilet.
Baldur’s Gate 3 (2023)
When we fight, we win.
#dnc
Jazz at Dizzy’s
The Democrats are absolutely crushing it at the convention. They have presented a real vision of what their coalition represents.
This is one of the most important speeches in American history.
Mugi is sleeping in his castle
This rabbit is perfect.
I seek tournaments!
We’re going to be live at PAX West with a classic “pretends to be a listicle to get you into the room” panel titled: The 39 Games You Must Play. You know our deal. If you’re into that sort of thing, come join us for an hour.
But other than that, I’m in a tournament mood.
They found the couch.
Mugi having breakfast #dailybunny
Those weird ringing sounds in the Stanley Cup streams are real, and I was able to isolate and remove them!
There are strange sounds in many of the Stanley Cup playoff streams. They sound like modems in the background.
My investigation thus far: community.frontrowcrew.com/t/strange…
Do you shop at TJ’s or MAXIMUM TJ’s?
I guess Poseidon was especially mad at someone in New Jersey.
Mon ami le lapin
Little man is chuffed.
One microgeneration in human history experienced being driven home from Blockbuster video with an NES game and reading the manual in the back seat.
Your daily reminder that a bitcoin is worth approximately zero dollars.
GeekNights will be live with TWO panels at PAX East 2024!
Every Game is the Same Game Sunday, 2:30 PM in the Dragonfly Theatre
The 39 Games You Must Play Sunday, 4:30 PM in the Condor Theatre
#pax #paxeast
The Texas Governor and the National Guard of Texas defying the Supreme Court of the United States is a dangerous precedent. People are dying at the border and the US Border Patrol is unable to enforce federal law to save lives. This borders on insurrection.
Already in the last 24 hours several additional states have pledged “support” to Texas. Breaking news hours ago shows a “caravan” of right wing militias travelling to Texas to join the conflict.
Mr. Biden, you must federalize the Texas National Guard immediately to end this. Their actions are a violation of the must fundamental and sacred foundations of the US Constitution and American democracy. Any delay will only embolden these dangerous elements.
Yo they have a VINTAGE organ here. That’s an Amphenol 6 connector. The big box is a Hammond Leslie amp with a tonewheel in it!
We will be live at MAGFest 2024!
Going live reviewing Whale Street shortly! It’s got 18xx style stock market biz!