Uffe Thorsen

Played Signal by Jasper Beatrix at work today. Was fun to see a bunch of developers debug their way through the game.
Aliens and legacy systems are more or less the same.

Played Revive today after a long break, and I am left with one large question: Why don’t we play this every week?

Also: Concrete human-hives are just as “natural” as plants everywhere! Formica IS the people!

Also, 25 hours in June is pretty decent ;)

Thanks for the thought, but online gaming just doesn’t do it for me. :)

Bliv brætspilsdesigner - Fastaval Er du i gang med at udvikle et fedt nyt brætspil? Og kan det nå at blive færdigt til påsken? Så ville vi elske at se det på Fastavals brætspilsprogram, hvor vi hvert år præsenterer en perlerække af ny...

Fastaval is open for game submissions for 2026, if you’re curious and have questions please ask.

www.fastaval.dk/en/braetspil...

I suspect the reality is more: There’s dudes out there idealizing rawdogging mechanisms, but refusing to play games with ponies.

We are gonna have charts for AI slop exposure by generation like we do lead

In this household, the German wife is in control of the sausage (and beer).

Jeg arbejder, så kan være hjemme sådan 15-16 stykker.

Nyborg! Men det giver måske bedst mening noget senere på dagen end du havde forestillet dig :)
I hvert fald hvis du skal på kaffe-visit.

Played Anno 1800 (the board game) again yesterday.
It is still not great, but I really want it to be.
There is something very satisfying about the checking off the needs of one person after another until your hand is empty.
Any game out there that does this better? Or maybe someone could make it?

Context: Denmark. She is EU citizen.
Compared to so many other people we have it easy. But the stupidity hurts.

Bureaucracy: We have a paid cleaner to clean the house. My wife will now go clean elsewhere to satisfy employment-requirements for applying for citizenship. Requirements she has fulfilled a while ago, but no matter, only employment immediately before evaluation matters.

This maybe also explains why so little have changed in the game through so many versions.

Last Saturday and this, we played Kanban again. Like most Lacerdas, I keep thinking: “is this actually a bit clunky?” But when digging deeper I realize Kanban is great exactly because of how hard it is to navigate optimally.
It would be less good if polished too much.

Rimelig vild tur alligevel!

Hvis du har muligheden, så læg vejen forbi The Lucky Liquor Co (og selvfølgelig Bramble, men for med er The Lucky Liquor Co et bedre valg).

Coming soon: Into the FUN FACTORY from AEG The Fun Factory is open for business! Get great deals on great fun, from brand new expansions to exciting reprints to a BRAND NEW GAME!

There will soon be a Kickstarter for a micro-expansion to Whirling Witchcraft called Whirling Witchcraft: Fantastic Familiars.

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www.kickstarter.com/projects/ald...

Paternoster lift - Wikipedia

Stay away from paternosters then! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paterno... (only tried it once, at Danish parliament, was terrifying)

Like minds and all that. I just bought it this Thursday. Look forward to playing.

Your standard issue Copenhagen pigeon sitting on the back of a rhino sculpture. The rhino itself on top of a giant Jenga tower.

When the Copenhagen pigeons dream of the savannah.

Pretty certain I was supposed to think of something else, when looking at the climate-Jenga sculpture. But the pigeon stole the picture.

In Faye there is a scene where the mechanic and the robot falls in love. Where the game tells you that you can _only_ say a certain line. Nothing else.

Faye - Alexandria

Vincent Baker worked on a dueling game with very scripted scenes, can’t remember the name.
A friend of mine worked more with those ideas and made Faye (alexandria.dk/en/data?scen... Danish only text, but worth struggling through a auto-translated version).
Perhaps my favorite RPG ever.

You are wrong. But i think you already knew that.

Blast from the past.
Painting miniatures (mostly Gaslands cars) and listening to Korn with my daughter.

I often think of you and yours, when I see news from Ukraine.
Not sure I have the guts to have the conversation in depth though.
I’m a little scared of that part of us that makes catastrophe so much easier to ignore when it’s not close, but right now I need to ignore some of it all.

"Schmiss" is a free-form ttrpg scenario, I originally wrote for Danish convention Fastaval.

A psychological horror scenario about WW1, repressed desires, honor and bloody duels, with premade characters and playable in 4-5 hours.

Translated and completely free:
drive.google.com/file/d/1sV46...

I will. Plan for tomorrow. One hour of listening to interesting tech.
Then weekend ;)

Today, the why-is-nothing-breaking-anxiety is turning into nothing-is-breaking-pride.
My role in the team has been to worry about quality (sometimes against quite strong adversaries on the business side).
And it bloody well worked.
I worry. And it helps.

Today we launched a major it project, and the strangest thing happened. Nothing broke.
I’m a bit stressed from rushing to get everything done and somehow it makes me more anxious that nothing needs fixing than the expected adjustments.
Tomorrow I hope one of those feelings goes away.