Andy VZ

This is either exactly what you want when you walk into a bookshop, or this is a nightmare for you

Community is on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ajd... (It looks like all 6 seasons, you just have to switch from the first "free with ads" to the second "free with ads" to see seasons 3 and 6?)

"Babylonia" by Reiner Knizia. Take turns placing out tiles to meet variable scoring conditions or to gain special abilities. A little bit about connecting up your groups of tiles so they score higher, and just as much about cutting off other people's connections.

Seasonal reminder: Boo Berry cereal is delicious. It also turns your poop green.

Drums, drums in the deep - they are coming, Charlie Brown.

#boardgames

Whenever someone says they're an entrepreneur, to me it just sounds like they haven't succeeded at any particular industry enough to identify which one they're in. Sort of like if someone handed you a "meat nugget". It might be correct, but the non-specificity is not very appealing.

It was obvious Bioware would die under the new owners, but I expected them to wait for Mass Effect to come out first. What a constant disappointment EA ended up being.

Apparently MapQuest now has a public surveillance option that shows where Flock cameras/etc are:

Today I learned that the first 29 or so of the "Lone Wolf" books (choose-your-own-adventure style books, where you have stats and keep track of your equipment and such) were made available free online by the author: www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books

Sat down at my desk - "oh, only 2 emails today, odd" Go about my business. Coworker asks about email I haven't seen. Realize I had a filter on my inbox from yesterday. There are more than 2 emails.

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Lessons on how not to package your product

2nd one, being more experimental. More ink used to cover the black, and bleeding the image off 3 edges.

Testing out printing onto deck boxes, came out pretty well!

Another questionable diagram from that book. The more you look at how it describes everything, the more you see the skewed value judgements being put forth as if they were science.

Five years ago, I wrote about the DC/Marvel Amalgam book Spider-Boy: tombrevoort.com/2021/10/16/p...

A Fistful of Dollars for Tax Purposes and of course the follow-up: For a Few Dollars More For Tax Purposes

Remember, you have to sleep with your left eye against something in order to upload your brain to the cloud at night.

Important kitty business

Rise from your grave!

Our storage method for the giant skeleton is to have it slowly return to the earth from whence it came

Marvel has an app where you can read their comics. They already have all the systems in place to run it, it has 19 years of brand recognition, and who knows how many existing subscribers. So of course they're going to shut down their version, outsource it, and rename it. www.ign.com/articles/mar...

"Stephenson's Rocket" by Reiner Knizia. Very Acquire-ish feel to it, with stock acquisition and rail lines merging when they connect, but with some extra elements that provide more control. Very much about reading which players will avoid what you put in their path, and which will mutually benefit.

I'd never seen this Roy Lichtenstein painting before, but it's incredible how he manages unfailingly to make his copies worse than the original comics he's ripping off.

Yeah, Marvel Snap Sanctum draft is pretty good

And this is mask #4

Working on games for a company that makes masks for about 5 years, and this is only the third mask that I've bought for myself, because it's super cool.

4 drafts in to Marvel Snap sanctum draft: 5-1, 5-0, 5-1, 5-1. All with the same starter - America Chavez, Mister Sinister, Okoye.

2nd best category of images: Van Gogh 3rd best: Nancy Drew book covers

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