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Share a movie that immediately puts you in a good mood.

Playtested four prototypes yesterday including one of @hokiestone.bsky.social and one of my own. Played my own again today with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social - still tweaking but very close

Trying something different tonight - watching the World Series game on mute while listening to a Beethoven string quartet. We'll see how it goes.

307th game of 2026 is "Perry Rhodan: The Cosmic League" by @nosferrari.wsocial.eu @thamesandkosmos.bsky.social with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social who crushed me, in part from especially timely play of intervention cards. Been a while since we've had this old pickup-and-deliver at the table.

First person I think of is @megwyn.northsky.social

Can someone help me identify where in Star Trek Canon this particular uniform shirt would belong to? It was gifted to me a while back, and I can't place it. @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social @holodeckfour.bsky.social

Played two games at the FLGS tonight: A four-player session of "Forbidden Island" on normal mode, which we won pretty easily A three-player session of "Endearment" with @dagopher.bsky.social Both a lot of fun

Yesterday played "Forest Shuffle" by @lookoutgames.bsky.social with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social to a dead tie at 258 points - our second tie in three games! Today we lost in "Forbidden Island" by @mattleacock.bsky.social @gamewrightbuffalo.bsky.social at the Legendary level, which we have never beaten

Name your favorite protagonist from a black and white film.

Name one song from your teen years that you still love listening to today.

302nd game of 2026 is Quorum by @beatormo.bsky.social @devir-games.bsky.social (gift from a friend) with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social who won by two points in this card-drafting area control game of interlocking scoring conditions - so much more interesting than it looked at first glance.

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Monday was a family session of D&D. My elf wizard very nearly bought the farm in the face of a mummy lord. Today, by contrast, was a pleasant round of Harbour by @scottalmes.bsky.social with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social - a neat little market manipulation game from 2014.

Saving Private Ryan for Tax Purposes

Played to a very rare dead tie in Trambahn with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social today. This 2015 2p game flew completely under the radar as far as I can tell, but it gets better with every play. She also reminds me that we played "7 Wonders Duel: Pantheon" not too long ago, but I've got no record of it.

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Name your favorite band or artist when you were 18. Vladimir Horowitz - I was something of a classical music nerd.

Playtested five prototypes today, including two by @roscoschock.bsky.social and one of my own

I don't see how that was a balk.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Composer: It's a rest.

293rd game of 2026 is "Science and Seance Society" by @dnlnwmn.bsky.social with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social - a narrow Seance victory in this elegantly tight asymmetric 2p game of dice vs. cards. We really like it.

Age yourself with a childhood crush

This must be my first time watching the White Sox at home, because all those fans sitting behind home plate in black jackets look like the Supreme Court is in session.

292nd game of 2026 is "Burger Joint" with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social - a nifty little 2p cube-drafting game

Two games at the FLGS tonight - "House of Borgia" with six players (that was fun) and my first ever game of Scoville (also fun)

289th game of 2026 is another session of "Vienna Connection" by @trzewik.bsky.social with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social . We did much better, we think, on Mission II. So much fun

If the original post ⌄⌄⌄ gets 50 likes, I'll post something really embarrassing that happened on this shoot.

Yet another masterpiece column by Dan Thurot

Post a not quite Star Trek.

288th game of 2026 is "Agricola: All Creatures Great and Small" with "Even More Buildings" by @zmangamesofficial.bsky.social with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social - a nice little version of the OG with lots of animals

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Two four-player games hosted by @charger703.bsky.social - "Encyclopedia" and "Wingspan Pocket" - both fun in completely different ways, as one might think.

285th game of 2026 is another close game of "Rivet Heads" by @beardedrogue.bsky.social @dnlnwmn.bsky.social with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social - still fun!

284th game of 2026 is "House of Borgia" by @scottalmes.bsky.social with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social - a very close finish in this remarkably fun bluffing game

In the last week, I've been able to play: - Sagrada: Passion at home, plus the base game at the FLGS - Mariposas - once at home, once at the FLGS - Vienna Connection - Mission I - Le Havre: Inland Port - two sessions Plus four prototypes (including one of my own) with the local designers group

Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)

272nd game of 2026 is "Moon Colony Bloodbath" with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social - a little chaotic, not everything is in your control, not everything can be mitigated, but still fun

Two games at the FLGS tonight, both new to me - "Wingspan Pocket" by @elizhargrave.bsky.social @stonemaiergames.com with @hokiestone.bsky.social which was elegant fun and "Container" by @allplay.bsky.social which I absolutely loved and want to play again soon.

269th game of 2026 is "Le Havre: Inland Port" by @lookoutgames.bsky.social recently acquired from @nobleknightgames.bsky.social with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social - a nice elegant two-player re-implementation of the OG.

Ideology is a convenient and easy basis for voting, but honestly, competence matters.

Share a movie or TV show scene that looks like a work of art.

268th game of 2026 is "Vienna Connection" by @trzewik.bsky.social with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social . We love the Portal Detective system, and I don't know how this one slipped under our radar until now.

My historically accurate version of the Odyssey did not dominate the box office as I'd hoped.

I just backed The 2027 Gaming Calendar on @kickstarter.com thanks to @scottking.bsky.social for putting this together every year! www.kickstarter.com/projects/th3...

Somebody recently posted about games they were playing in 2007, so I thought I'd research the same question for myself. Evidently I was playing more wargames than anything else: De Bellis Antiquitatis Memoir '44 History of the World Alhambra Acquire End of the Triumvirate Wooden Ships & Iron Men

Last year at this time

267th game of 2026 is Fidelitas by @pdubarry.bsky.social @jasonkotarski.bsky.social @logicfairy.bsky.social @getlouder.bsky.social with @kbowenwriter.bsky.social on a beautiful September afternoon, just like we did a year ago