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Goes a little quicker if you enter Australia as the password.

Reminds me of the old video game Hacker which came with no instructions.

If that was your walk to work, would you mind transmuting some of these water bottles into wine? 😉

I hate it when that happens.

I looked up the house where I spent the bulk of my childhood and the current owners have a privacy blur over it. That’s annoying.

Only if there nothing like that sorcerer groundhog in the movie that can create time loops.

Even during synchronous Zoom sessions, participation was inversely proportional to class size, so it often felt like I was just recording a lecture.

I have no problem teaching or presenting in front of camera, and I got used to teaching *to* a camera during the pandemic… but making what amount to “pitch videos” for my work is soul-crushing and I’m so glad none of those have been posted publicly.

While the procedures are a big part of what differentiates one boardgame from another, an important aspect is that there is agency at (almost) every point along the way. The occasional forced move is okay, but without agency it ceases to be a game.

One can have many rivals, but I’d say at most one of them can be a true nemesis.

The veins at my elbows used to be great until I needed a long series of infusions, now I tell the nurse to start on the hand.

Before figuring that out there were some frustrating episodes with 6-8 sticks across 2-3 nurses, but never had any of them *yell* at me.

“What do know about our new neighbor?”

“They’re not lactose intolerant.”

And finally the reveal for today’s six-hour long board game review: Snakes and Ladders.

I remember listening to the news radio station to hear your schools’s number.

I also know of clusters who ended up in Columbus, OH and Philadelphia, PA. Those are ethnic Chinese who somehow ended up in work camps rather than being summarily executed.

They’re concentrated in a handful of spots around the US, but there are definitely people in the third category who are still alive today.

Seconded. ScratchJr is designed for kids 5-7, Scratch for 8-16.

Interesting idea, and reminds me of a hilarious episode of “Frasier.” I think the challenge will be finding something for the players to do in Phase 1 that will influence the appraisal in Phase 2 and how it’s reflected (different dice?).

I thought the algorithm was dumb for recommending I apply for my current job title at my current employer. At least there’s a plausible argument that I qualify for that opening.

Kelvin isn't nearly as obscure. And Kelvin actually useful, which makes it a lot less fun 🥶

I don’t like negative numbers, so I’m trying to get the forecast in degrees Rankine.

You'll get less pushback at the self-checkout.

My kiddos will do something like this with long-running series, pointing out how the solutions in previous episodes would solve the conflict in five minutes. Kind of like a “How It Should Have Ended” for episodes. It means my sons watch too much TV 🙃

I’m wondering just how many giant statues of women holding torches the DCU has.

Bluesky and threading posts again… that is the exact same map I was talking about. In the real world, we do get cities across the river from each other, but there’s a size disparity (Philly & Camden, Boston & Cambridge, etc.).

Each player plays their preferred system for their character.

From maps I've seen, Gotham seems to be located in New Jersey on the Delaware bay which is swampland in the real world, though the architecture and the Lady Gotham statue really makes it look like NYC.

I always thought this was a playful retelling of conspiracy theories of why we haven't sent anyone further than low Earth orbit since the Nixon administration. Leaning heavily on the "playful."

I remember when Crystal Pepsi had its huge Superbowl ad. I don't think they got the impact they expected because the next ad started off "What's clear? Amoco Clear."