Kevin Hovdestad

Alberta separatists are about as pure and distilled an example as you’ll ever get of the “everyone is twelve now” theory.

It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bobblehead nights, familiar favourites, and a few new theme nights on deck this season! 📰 Brush up on the promo calendar here: ottsens.com/4xbmHnF

In “cool stuff I had never imagined happening” territory, I was interviewed by @keithlaw.bsky.social of @theathletic.com (on @nytimes.com) about @catan.com’s presence in sports: www.nytimes.com/athletic/751...

In “cool stuff I had never imagined happening” territory, I was interviewed by @keithlaw.bsky.social of @theathletic.com (on @nytimes.com) about @catan.com’s presence in sports: www.nytimes.com/athletic/751...

smartphones and the internet, man. they might have destroyed journalism, driven people insane by the tens of millions, fueled a rise in global fascism, and literally touched off genocides, but at least they seem to have caused a global collapse in relationship formation too

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

ICYMI, we had an LPU @catan.com fan event last month, and it was incredible. youtube.com/watch?v=ugdd...

I thought Amsterdam was finally going to be the first place we had gone for work I wouldn’t see a friend, but of course @bmkibler.bsky.social and @goberthicks.bsky.social are here. My “I see a friend everywhere we go on Earth” streak remains undefeated.

We’re hiring at @catan.com! Our studio is looking for a Senior Game Producer: careers.asmodee.com/job/Senior-G... I am not the hiring manager for this position, but I’m happy to answer any questions I can, or refer former colleagues interested in joining our team.

We’re hiring at @catan.com! Our studio is looking for a Senior Game Producer: careers.asmodee.com/job/Senior-G... I am not the hiring manager for this position, but I’m happy to answer any questions I can, or refer former colleagues interested in joining our team.

Having a lot of fun watching the reactions to this one. 💙

Wackadoo! We’ve got something special coming up and we can barely contain our excitement. The iconic Bluey is coming to the world of CATAN! 🤩💙 #catan #bluey

Today is officially the 30th anniversary of Steamed Hams. On April 14, 1996, "22 Short Films About Springfield" aired for the first time!

In the end, Hungarians showed us not only how to beat a thuggish nationalist, but also how to defeat our own stubborn cynicism. Set some Google news alerts. Get a little invested. The future can still be ours. Nothing is inevitable.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

@shappy.bsky.social and @johnathan.bsky.social are on @theatlantic.com's Galaxy Brain with @cwarzel.bsky.social to talk about AI 🤝 management. And this part pretty much spells out one of the loudest conflicts going on at work right now:

If you're a CATAN fan, we'd love to have you in our Discord server - and this week only, joining gets you a shot at an awesome prize package! gleam.io/Z6Z8U/catan-...

Too much else going on today so I forgot, but we did it! We launched this incredible thing that is going to be a ton of fun for millions of players.

Picard humor tip: Be thankful that April Fools' Day jokes fell out of common practice hundreds of years ago.

if I were ever to write a followup or expansion to 'A Pivot To Indie Won't Save Us' it would probably center around how much midsized indies benefit from the ability to poach producers, QA and other roles from AAA, roles that indie itself makes zero room for other than preexisting domain experts

You know, I’ve said for a long time that a big problem in the entertainment industry these days is people claw their way in so young and are so afraid to take a break that they have no time to have actual life experiences, so they write about media they’ve seen instead of things they’ve lived-

Hey @boardgamegeek.com, you know how once kids are a couple of years old, it's weird to keep referring to their age in months? 😅

Yeah, okay, I can get behind that. 😆

For years my iOS devices have kept reminding me to set up Siri (“You haven’t finished setting up your phone!”) and I just wish there was a fucking option to stop that shit. I don’t even want a dumb smart assistant. Just let me fucking work, man.

I don't know about the rest of the millennials but I make all purchases via real computer because I don't have to Download Yet Another App to do it and the browser there is better at blocking all the stupid fucking ads and trackers. At some point you gotta take control of the hamster wheel, kids.

If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces.

The DLSS 5 thing is just NFTs all over again. A bunch of people who know *literally nothing* about game development are talking up how revolutionary it is, while anyone who has ever touched gamedev is absolutely uninterested (because they know better). Tired.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

* Mention that X has been banned in multiple countries over this * Ask whether your emotional or legal risks from exposure to this kind of material will be covered * Confirm that they know Musk restores the accounts of, retweets & PAYS those suspended for CSAM violations www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/i...

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

Incredibly excited that we're announcing the first project I've been involved with end to end today - CATAN On the Road! It's a faithful reimagining of the game you know and love, now as a fast-paced card game you can enjoy anywhere and everywhere. On the Road launches April 3!

Incredibly excited that we're announcing the first project I've been involved with end to end today - CATAN On the Road! It's a faithful reimagining of the game you know and love, now as a fast-paced card game you can enjoy anywhere and everywhere. On the Road launches April 3!

being silly with your children is one of the best parts of being a parent the eight year old and I were playing Catan Jr and I kept getting goats so I started chanting “goats goats goats” and doing a silly dance and now he is randomly coming up to me and going “goats goats goats” and it’s adorable

Synopsis: You need to kick more people out. You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.

Speaking as someone who has also seen the data for this at major game companies, this is universally true. The worst 2% of your players/customers/whatever that you aren't dealing with are costing you 10x as many people who won't participate because of them.

Kids got new iPads for Christmas, and I need @shappy.bsky.social and @johnathan.bsky.social to know that some of their amazing @rawsignal.ca stickers finally found good homes.

This might sound harsh, and judgmental, but if video is your preferred way of getting information about a topic, you’re a fucking moron

Zero tolerance is the ONLY and FITTING response to genAI being used in production of media. Sure, you might think it's too harsh. Sure, they might've only used it for early stuff in development, etc Listen, it's not even a SLIPPERY slope, there is NO friction at all unless we speak out against it.

This one is easy: No. Don’t use the evil slop generation “tools” anywhere in your process. Consumers have been so, so clear on their preferences here.

No, it’s not. Consumers loathe generative AI badly enough that you a) cannot use it; and b) might have to come up with other terms for other things we used to describe with AI. That’s not a crisis.

This one is easy: No. Don’t use the evil slop generation “tools” anywhere in your process. Consumers have been so, so clear on their preferences here.

this is a good battle to pick. the CEO mentioned using "AI" and got so much shit for it immediately that he's rattled and backpedaling. easy win there

my team has never used ChatGPT for any of our writing. these are 100% artisanal handmade mistakes, thank you