Andrew Jackson Lynch

A cherished moviegoing experience was seeing LITTLE WOMEN on Christmas day the year of release. Starting about an hour into the movie, there was *always* someone audibly crying somewhere in the theater. It kept shifting around.

KNIVES OUT was my only requirement. I barely remember that movie, but the sweater lives eternal in my memory.

I've gotten a dear friend who's a costumer for Secret Santa this year. Do you have any recommendations of great books on the history of clothes or fashion that might be a bit off the beaten path?

Oh, I hope you enjoy it! It's a wonderfully constructed movie.

Every now and then you get the pleasure of experiencing a fully new sentence. "George Michael is closer to Daniel Johnston than he is to Suno or Udio" is one of those times.

Magnificent.

Though I think that gets dangerous, because one of the arguments against AI art is the humanist value of making a piece of art, regardless of its quality. But there's a difference between personal art and commercial art here.

Is This Really What We Want? – AI Art in Board Games – Meeple... AI generated imagery and text are a threat to what makes board games worthwhile. In this piece, Andrew explains Meeple Mountain’s policy.

Shameless plug of a piece I published earlier this week on the same subject, but in the world of board games:

www.meeplemountain.com/articles/is-...

Go back to bed.

I don't believe I have the emotional regulation necessary to play Diplomacy and either enjoy myself or be enjoyable.

One of my favorite categories of game.

I spent a month working on an article to say what Dan says in four sentences.

One of my major sticking points with AI now is that I cannot trust anything. It is exhausting, to always be holding the magnifying glass up to your eye.

My job is teaching games to people, this one is MUCH easier to teach to new players. It's not that there's much less complexity, but it all reads as less daunting. The fact that everything you do translates to a visible change on the table makes a huge difference.

My read is that they did a wonderful job bringing the tension of 7WD to the surface—no more impermeable maths, just visible board states—but it came at the cost of some depth.

The original post reads as dismissive, so this is on him. But!

From the first reply, for whatever it's worth.

I could have sworn I was raised to believe that CEOs act on the evidence to do what's best for their company's bottom line. I can't believe I was lied to.

What I don't get about killing theatrical is...movies seem to make money there? And more than they'd make on streaming? Is it bad for the movies to make money now? I guess that's bad.

Any time I see this shot (it's not that it happens often, but it happens occasionally), I am so impressed with the degree to which Rooney is going for it.

We do Instagram videos to promote games at work from time to time, we had a pretty serious discussion about whether or not we could float the budget to do exactly that.

You're in for a hell of a time. It's fabulous.

The first time I experienced a day like that while living in Chicago, I said, "The sky is in HD."

I'm seeing it next week, after over a decade of wanting to see this cut. I haven't seen either of them since theaters.

For sure.

Little did I know that *everyone* in that movie would suck, given the chance to do so.

Also. During the scene just before the ceiling caves in, when the kid is screaming from the bathroom, I turned to my partner and said, "This kid fucking sucks."

I thought it was very good, and it was refreshing to watch something that had absolutely zero interest in the audience's comfort or enjoyment.

Funny how that headline could just as easily be about the opposite thing.

I believe the word you're looking for is "Scheiße."