Pat Brennan - Expect Delays is out!

When you have a 3d printer you can just make hands if you want. No one can stop you.

Miniatures on a board depicting a bar scene.

A Skull dice box with glowing red eyes and a twenty sided dice.

Mini figures of a various heroes in front of a book shelf.

People sit around a table playing dungeons and dragons.

This summer I built a massive D&D game for a friends bachelor party from scratch. Lots of 3D printing, wireless led's, foam carving, and sculpting. Also my first time painting something like this, certainly bit off more than I could chew.

Ridiculous Research Review | Ridiculous Research Review Podcast presentations on some of sciences strangest experiments and the cool lessons they leave us with.

Ridiculous Research Review is up! Come learn about some very strange science with us. We're starting strong with an episode about knives made from human poop. www.ridiculousresearchreview.com

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New podcast project comes out this Tuesday! Come learn about some very strange science with us.

Canceled grants get the spotlight at a Capitol Hill 'science fair' On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.

I want my taxes to fund science.

GOG Five Vermont transplants set out for a perfect day on their boat. The Lake has other plans for its intruders.

I just backed GOG on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/112...

Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander sit beside each other in chairs. A headline reads: "Mamdani and Lander Will Cross-Endorse Each Other in N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race." Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander, the leading progressive candidates in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, will cross-endorse each other, creating a late-stage partnership designed to help one of them surpass Andrew Cuomo in ranked-choice balloting. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/n...

Makes sense! That's the part that seems harder to crack first. And having only seen an escape room playtest run once or twice curious as to how it goes.

Please do! I'd like to read it.

Still hoping to work on a project like that someday. The games/theatre crossover of it all speaks to me.

We can beat Cuomo.

In the Democratic primary, rank Mamdani, Lander, Myrie, Adrienne Adams, and Ramos (or a fifth person who IS NOT CUOMO).

This is winnable.

Touring the new venues. 1 more year till open.

Outstanding work @stringerplz.bsky.social

Train games at the train PAX! @officialpax.bsky.social

Come find us in the Knight Moves booth

Come find me in Boston this weekend:

Season wrap for 24-25

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Unpub Mentorship Program 🎲✂️
Applications are open 🎉

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Looking at the stars *respectfully*

i like the part where you walk into a new room.

Hit Singles Day Newsletter #011

HIT SINGLES, the new audio fiction series I created and produced along with Sarah Shachat and Zach Valenti is out now.

You can listen to all 12 episodes over on Audible!

I wrote (some might say gushed) about it over at Controlled Chaos, my newsletter.
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This is fascinating: On the pod, @kedseconomist.com cites the example of a US manufacturer of board games to explain what's wrong with Trump's tariffs and why unleashing so much pain and turmoil to restore manufacturing is an incoherent goal.

Transcript here:

newrepublic.com/article/1937...

Tabletop teams near panic as Trump tariffs could kill decades of growth ‘Devastating consequences’ on the way, says trade group

Tabletop industry in full panic as Trump tariffs are poised to erase decades of growth

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It's a preemptive strike

Almost 2 years since we started to put together some very early physical concepts of Expect Delays.

Uri Brand's Person do Thing was one of my favorite things to try at Unpub this weekend.

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Always love getting to put new ideas on the table at Unpub.

I'm a plant guy now

In a very similar vein, during my research for "Expect Delays" finding the Graphics Standards Manual for the NYC subway was an entire weekend lost.