Andrew Brassleay

still the most "i can hear this tweet" tweet of all time

AI is the “asbestos of the internet”

Cats Knocking Things Off Ledges: Turning feline mischief into a board game We speak to designers Sen Foong-Lim and David Killing on their latest balancing act

‘It’s a game that a cat would design if a cat could design a game," says @senfoonglim.bsky.social on his co-creation with David Killing.
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I love the Winter Olympics. But I've come to accept that it's really just people jumping off differently sized ramps.

liam @liamhindley_ You are the most unfunny cunt on this app Callum you singlehandedly ruin my day every time I see your tweets ® Callum Melia @Callum_Melia99 • Feb 12 Spending £500 on a meal and a hotel for Valentine's Day just to shag in missionary Show this thread

I found this exchange on Twitter five years ago, no idea who either of them are but it remains the funniest thing I've ever seen on the site. There's SO much lore here.

I feel like you've neatly encapsulated there why the people who delight in saying "the grown-ups are back in charge" when it comes to things like politics are the people that should be listened to least. They're wearing a suit! They don't rock the boat! I'm so serious! It's all just vibes.

Same trick they're trying to pull in Gorton and Denton. Not because they think they can win it, but because they know a Green win means their vote will plummet nationally as a result.

Roma XLI: 'Screams are our main barometer of success' We speak to designer Travis Hancock about the latest back-stabbing chapter in the Dark Cities series

We spoke with Facade Games' Travis Hancock about the latest Dark Cities journey through the history books, Roma XLI, and its upcoming Kickstarter campaign.
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YouTube video by All Star Foot Racing International King of Sports Heat 4

I don't understand why this isn't in it. youtu.be/N8mnuwI2D6Y?...

If anything, it serves as an incredible illustration of exactly how we ended up here in the first place.

Yes, all this. It's also worth noting that that picture of Mandelson sharing a nice birthday treat with the 21st Century's Most Notorious Sex Criminal was Googleable as early as 2019. Starmer – ultimately responsible for the UK's intelligence services – would absolutely, surely, have known enough.

Now the Olympics is upon us again, a whole new batch of people are going to find out that the worst streaming service is not what they previously thought: it is Discovery plus.

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser.

What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

Game review 16: Fireball Island: the Curse of Vul-Kar The most fun you can have with an angry, anthropomorphic, rotating volcano

Best family board games, as reviewed by a dad and a daughter.

No. 1. Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar
E says: 'Vul-Kar does seem really cool when he does shoot out fireballs like this [launches fireballs causing devastation].'
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Game review 12: Rhino Hero Super Battle Scaling the heights and then knocking them down with Haba's dexterity game

Best family board games, as reviewed by a dad and a daughter.

No. 2. Rhino Hero Super Battle
Help an idiotic superhero scale a skyscraper before knocking it down.
E says: 'It’s just so fascinating that the tower falls down every time we play.'
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Game review 90: Coconuts Who doesn't want to try out a grinning monkey catapult?

Best family board games and tabletop games, as reviewed by a dad and a daughter.

No. 3. Coconuts
Catapult poo-looking objects into pots via monkey paws, all for points.
E says: 'I liked it when we had a red cup and we got to have two goes'
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YouTube video by sotcaadotnet Peter Baynham - "Too Gorgeous" Pot Noodle ads

Pot Noodle: "They're no good for you."
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Game review 80: Dive A tabletop game with literal depth.

Best family board games, as reviewed by a dad and a daughter.

No. 4. Dive
Depth perception is key, alongside a stick-or-twist mechanic.
E says: 'It’s really clever because we can only see six or seven layers below the transparency top.'
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Game review 36: Formula D A simple board game that still manages to incorporate the basics of racing into its mechanics

Best family board games, as reviewed by a dad and a daughter.

No. 5. Formula D
A strategic, forward-thinking racing game that keeps the interest of young and old alike.
E says: 'I like those little cars and the big dice.'
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A game store in St Paul is being targeted for exercising their free speech.

Keep them in mind when shopping!

a rare photo of sean con... @steame... • 4m i tbh think this is why the rest of the world cannot really back away from the conclusions of the carney speech even if trump was to suddenly fully back down. the united states is very sick and can't ever be trusted fully again Aaron Rupar©@atrupar.com •1h Newsom: "It was remarkably boring. It was remarkably insignificant. He was never going invade Greenland. It was never real." aVOs On Air

In the same way that Britain can’t have a proper national outrage scandal based on e.g. Boris Johnson killed your gran. We can’t have people thinking the state fed your granny into the wood chipper for coins. It makes everyone look bad.

Game review 23: Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs Back in time with Waddingtons 1980s prehistoric classic

Best family board games, as reviewed by a dad and a daughter.

No. 6. Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs
A roll-and-mover from the 80s, yes… but look at those T-rexes. Look at them!
E says: 'I love the pterodactyl swooping up and getting people.'
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Game review 2: Klask Air hockey without the electronics

Best family board games and tabletop games, as reviewed by a dad and a daughter.

No. 7. Klask
Analogue air hockey, basically, but with more rules.
E says: "I like scoring. I like it when the white things get knocked over."
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Game review 93: Zombie Kidz Evolution Annick Lobet's game gets its ingenuity from breaking down the co-op legacy mechanic into just about its simplistic, family-friendly form possible

Best family board games and tabletop games, as reviewed by a dad and a daughter.

No. 8. Zombie Kidz Evolution
Annick Lobet's legacy, school-based co-op against the undead.
E says: “It’s so fun. I just love that you can get new things from it.”
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Game review 86: Dice Flick A brilliantly brainless tabletop game if you’ve finished work and want to find a way to while away 20 minutes with the kids

Best family board games and tabletop games, as reviewed by a dad and a daughter.

No. 9. Dice Flick
E says: "It’s a really ingenious idea. I do like that the game is the box so it doesn’t waste space.”
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Game review 100: Escape from Atlantis A family-friendly dose of existential dread to distract us our surrounding dystopian vibes? Don't mind if I do…

My daughter, E, and I have reached 100 reviews of board games and tabletop games, based on how they play across the generations!
So, here are our top 10 family board games:

No. 10. Escape from Atlantis
E says: "I liked the little boats.”
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The writing of this review of a board game from the 1980s may, once or twice, have been subtly impacted by the events of the past couple of weeks. So perhaps have fun reading between the lines as you go through it and see if you can pinpoint any subtext.