Matt

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

It appears I missed the 30th anniversary of the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics by a few days (Oct 7), but nonetheless, that doesn't mean I won't celebrate it! Here's an excellent article from Club386 where they commemorate it with an interview with co-founder Ross Smith www.club386.com/3dfx-voodoo-...

City building two ways: Urban Sprawl with NBSP's snappy 3 player rules variant and Green City. I got steamrolled in both but still enjoyed the plays. Green City would be interesting at higher player counts - it felt a little skinny at 3.

Dominant Species with 6 is still excellent. It always helps to have squishy animals instead of cones... Looking forward to what @allplay.bsky.social does with the new edition and enjoying some fresh @heavycardboard.bsky.social DS content!

All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...

We finally got our hands on our copy of Coast Watchers! Very nice to have tools included to eliminate the memory requirement in deduction. The allied player can refer to a mission tree and the Japanese can use notational chits to track sightings.

SDHistConNorth was a great time! The only thing better than the games were the kind and welcoming people at the table. My wife and I had a great time. Thanks to all the folks teaching games and the @sdhistcon.bsky.social staff making sure things were running smoothly!

This was a blast! And a fascinating historical subject to boot. We can't wait for our copy to show up.

At SD HistCon North in St Paul!!! Started out with a bang playing Microverse. Ran real quick to get some fancy coffee between my scheduled games. Can’t wait to finish off the day with a couple more games I’m super excited about. @sdhistcon.bsky.social

You ever wanna share thin slices of a single bean with the homies?

During the immigration raids in Minneapolis, Robert Rice (White Earth Ojibwe), the owner of Pow Wow Grounds, gave away thousands of pieces of hot fry bread to protestors and activists, keeping demonstrators warm and fed at a time of upheaval.

Capitalism lives in the eternal "now". It doesn't want you to know about history, it doesn't want you to know art has existed for tens of thousands of years, it wants you slavering for whatever's coming NEXT, whatever's HOT and NEW, and ignoring everything else. You do not have to do this.

Brother Alonzo you rascal get DOWN from there (commission)

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

Excited for the Star Fox remake announcement??? We've got juuuuuuuuuust the album for you! (PASS IT ON, plz!) bsky.app/profile/ocre...

Took about a year, but I finished my cross-stitch tribute to the class Amiga Deluxe Paint King Tut. It’s 180x200 stitches, about 34,000 non-black tiny thread X’s 🙂 #NerdStitch

Finally, its CSA season again!

Announcing The Starless Expanse Bundle, which pairs the critically acclaimed titles Riven & Outer Wilds - two games featuring puzzling worlds that will linger long after the credits roll. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/72377/Starless_Expanse_Bundle/

it's funny because I'm always like "Actually this shit sucks so fucking bad" and all the vibecode bros are like you should try using it, and like... I try all the time man, I'm better than you at trying, they're just awful and you're not good enough to know.

It’s Independent Bookstore Day today! Please visit your favorite indie store and enjoy the book-filled, book-loving vibes. But if you can’t do that, consider getting something you’ve wanted to read at Bookshop.org. They support indie shops. Everyone wins! It’s cool when that can happen.

Molly House was nominated for three Golden Geek Awards! Voting is now officially open, so head on over to BGG if you want to share in the Molly House joy! boardgamegeek.com/thread/36965... @colewehrle.bsky.social @miasmacorp.bsky.social

for now AGI = A Google Intermediary

The SciArt Feed here on Bluesky is gated so I can keep Gen AI out. If someone posts AI, I boot them and it disappears. I think it’s happened twice in 2.5 years. A worry-free feed. Pin & Like here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

I don't think I could make a joke better than this

I sure hope they don't run out of compute or it never gets more expensive than it is right now for some reason.

well it depends who you ask because I would say there is no magic and the reason it works at all is they have infinite compute cycles and they do everything two or twenty-four times over and in any other context that would be considered malpractice. But you obviously feel differently.

Let's get political (gaming) shall we? Join us tonight at 1915 EDT for Chicago '68 where the Yippies and MOBE face off vs the Establishment! Hope to see y'all tonight! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgVS... @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

this is what it feels like to post on bluesky

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie. Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL. More info:

Leon would drive a 2004 Subaru Baja with 30 bumper stickers on it bsky.app/profile/carm...

Hey everyone, the legendary M2 has arrived here on Bsky - show them some love and follow! みなさん、あの伝説のM2がついにBlueskyに登場しました！ぜひフォローして応援しましょう！！ @mtwo-game.bsky.social

Took a break over the (Lunar) New Year holidays, but I'm back with some reviews of games I played earlier this year. First up is People Power from @gmtgames.bsky.social - a great entry point for COIN, but probably not going to make my top 5 COIN games: www.stuartellisgorman.com/blog/people-...

It's a pretty minor thing but Thief has such great looking night skies. Most games don't really render stars as pinpricks like this. It looks amazing on an oled monitor - way more realistic than a skybox or sprites.

The irony of having to block ads for some AI chatbot on the @startpage.com homepage is not lost on me. Why am I switching my search engine if they're going to constantly promote slop over here too?

Mr. Fan of Fan Translation is back with his yearly video about PS1 Fan Translations. Please watch it and be marveled at the power of old video games and singing cats. youtu.be/FPN_KUQyPIs

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

@edzitron.com Another excellent article from the Times, “the only problem with AI is there might not be enough money in the world to make it good”