Mac McAnally

Mac McAnally

@macaroobanzai.bsky.social

Game designer and general maker of things. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/455308/this-is-not-a-game-about-a-pipe

177 Followers 175 Following 539 Posts Joined Nov 2024
8 hours ago
2 Rough prototype playing cards for the game "This Is Not a Game About a Pipe". Rough prototype playing card for the game "This Is Not a Game About a Pipe".

Packing to move house and ran across first proof-of-concept cards for "Not a Pipe" as a trick-taker. They had unreasonable to produce windows in the cards for the overlay effect.

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20 hours ago

Played it at PaxU and agree with your assessment.

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1 day ago

Love the creative method of including "Not a Pipe" on your geek list! Thanks for playing!

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1 day ago

Also this: dialed.gg

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5 days ago

You might try Letterlike (word building rogue-like) It doesn't really have input randomness, but once you purchase from a random but refreshable set of buffs I feel like there's still a fair amount of control. It especially shines over repeated plays with reconfigurable upgrades between runs.

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6 days ago

Preach!

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2 weeks ago

A loose allegory about manifest destiny being "on rails"?

Or maybe from a possible Native American perspective of trying to get off the rails in a perverse version of the trolley problem where colonialists are trying to solve for maximizing casualties.

The conversations alone would last 4 hours.

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2 weeks ago

What a crock of horseshit!

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2 weeks ago

There's also the equivalent option of shoving splinters under your fingernails.

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2 weeks ago

Quite!

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2 weeks ago

Don't forget "[GAME]: Duel".

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3 weeks ago
Devil's Food Crumb Donuts, 8 count Entenmann’s Devil’s Food Cake Crumb Donuts are devilishly delicious! These soft, moist chocolate donuts are covered with chocolatey crumbles and sweet icing to satisfy even the biggest chocolate lover! Since 1898, the Entenmann's name has stood for delicious baked goods. Generations of families have made it part of their special occasions and everyday lives. It’s a tradition of quality that is baked into every Entenmann’s product. Everyone’s got a favorite. What’s yours?

Oops, I hadn't clicked through. I was thinking of these. www.entenmanns.com/p/devils-foo...

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3 weeks ago

We had one relatively nearby as well growing up in NJ! The cheese buns warmed were the best.

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3 weeks ago

Until you microwave them for 15-20sec. Then they're no longer good for the board gaming table, but amazing for a cold winter morning.

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3 weeks ago

One of us.

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3 weeks ago
YouTube
They Might Be Giants YouTube video by They Might Be Giants - Topic

youtu.be/e-cz03eTE54?...

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3 weeks ago

Studently Seymore

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3 weeks ago

Quite

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3 weeks ago

Lol, but jizzmo works for you?

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3 weeks ago

I guess I always assumed that the holodeck had a function similar to the toilets that just reclamated all human waste as matter for replicators. Some sort of molecular trash cumpactor.

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3 weeks ago

CEOs exist to oversimplify complex scenarios for the purpose of streamlined decision making. AI is the easy answer for everything because they purposefully or, more likely ignorantly oversimplify LLM capabilities. This is reinforced by tech companies leaning on C-level fomo. Details and nuance bad!

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1 month ago

To clarify, this was not me selling the game. Presumably someone that bought it at PAXU.

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1 month ago
A screenshot of the website WorthPoint with sales results for a copy of the card game This Is Not a Game About a Pipe for $75.

Whoa! And this was before the bgg takedown.

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1 month ago
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STOP USING GENERATIVE A.I (Original Song) YouTube video by Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq

I wish this delightful ditty to have more ears upon it.

youtu.be/CsQtUSTSX40?...

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1 month ago
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STOP USING GENERATIVE A.I (Original Song) YouTube video by Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq

youtu.be/CsQtUSTSX40?...

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1 month ago

Is it about a Berry named Chuck or blues music?

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1 month ago

That's awesome!

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1 month ago
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Tape Bowing Ensemble - Open Reel Ensemble YouTube video by Open Reel Ensemble

Don't know if you've seen this, but as an experimental audiophile you might appreciate this as well.

youtu.be/vaG5tVnpkwc?...

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1 month ago

Yeah, thanks for that. I wasn't aware they'd done that. I knew there were complaints about the difficulty. We had a hard time with it even at two players. I think we played that chapter 13 times. Frustrating, yes, but when we finally beat it, it was supremely satisfying and worth the journey.

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1 month ago

Apparently this also works for me as great design flow-state music!

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