Played Acquire with the special power rules only ever released in the 1993 Schmidt Spiele and 1995 Hasbro editions. Why has this version not caught on? It opens up so much more of the game, and helps players work around low liquidity and crummy tile draws.

omg, I guess I'm not the only one

Played Skymines tonight. Played Mombasa like 15 years ago. This was better; better theme, less restrictive discard rules. I won, which shocked me.

Noticed the critters usually napping in a drawer next to my desk, so I put some bedding in there.

Played Falling (not the James Ernest game) again last night. Really enjoying it. I hope this doesn't sound too narcissistic, but Falling feels a lot like The Networks to me.

I inadvertently woke Freddie up from a nap today.

Played my new deluxe edition of Container tonight! I only played it once when the very first edition came out, and boy that economy was fragile. This is my first time playing with the Bank Island rules, which help the game tremendously.

Played Falling (not the James Ernest game). Bought Falling (not the James Ernest game). Cube grinder with some really interesting ideas and a wacko theme. Fun experience, unique despite the genre.

It was my second play of Power Grid: Outpost. LOVED it. It's probably going to become my favorite version of the game. Loved the resource streamlining, the power plant discounts, the variety of buildings going out on the board… just a really lovely version of the game.

SETI has a lot of good things going for it, and it was my second time playing. This play helped me realize an issue I had in both plays: there is not enough competition for scanning sectors, even with the last-player-in tiebreaker and the second-position VP bonus.

I think I might like Age of Innovation better than Terra Mystica.

People have been sharing their favorite tweets from yesteryear. This is the apex, the zenith, the pinnacle of Weird Twitter for me.

Hello, "with-it" #Origins attendees, I hear a lot of buzz that this will be the "hip" place to be all week, don't risk not being seen as "cool" by others

If any of you Origins-goers want to see what I've been up to in my resurrected board game design life, I'm running Rough Roads in the Unpub area on Thursday and Sunday at 10 am. It's an economic game about trying to profit from building plank roads before they disintegrate.

My gf wanted to go to Waffle House on her birthday. We're in Jersey City; the closest Waffle House is 90 mins away, in Bethlehem, PA. But still. A chance to eat at Waffle House.

Someone really needs to deal with that Shrink Beetle

Managed to pull this off for the first time in an Ascension: Legends game vs. the computer. Also had a 22% chance for an Emissary insta-win, but did not get lucky. Haven't won that way yet; hopefully someday!

And anyway, most icon/logo changes are met with anger and ridicule, because people aren't usually responding to the new design, they're responding to the idea of the change in the first place.

The biggest miss is the Sheets icon. I understand that giving it a landscape aspect ratio makes it stand out, but the crossed lines are too far off-center, so it looks more like a partially-loaded favicon. I think the idea was sound, but the execution needed some more iteration.

From that perspective, these new icons walk an interesting line. They're visually distinct, but they have a common look, because they all share the same design language. This is the first of Google's icon sets that meets both of those requirements.

As a reminder, here's how they looked like 2 iterations ago. These are nice-looking and easily distinguishable, but I understand why they changed it. They don't look related to each other. They don't look like they're part of the same suite.

I have a few quibbles, especially with the new Sheets icon and what the gradient represents, but the previous icon set was so abysmal, almost anything would have been an improvement.

A rare hot take here: I think the new Google icons are an improvement over the old ones.

Forgive the chair squeaks in this video. If you listen close, you will hear the Northern Mockingbird that has been singing outside my living room window every night.

Last time I was at Essen… 2019, I believe? I got the expansion modules to one of my favorite games, De Vulgari Eloquentia, along with the just-released deluxe edition.

This is amazing, remarkable, and completely hilarious.

I'm not a big TV watcher, so never really saw The Sopranos, despite living in the same town as the Bada Bing, and the Party City next door, for 5 years. My gf wanted to go to the diner featured in the finale. We went yesterday. It was really good.

iMac Pro M4, running Tahoe 26.5. I didn't get a pop-up prompting me to yesterday's game, though. Browser is Firefox 151.0.1.

Anyone who lives in or near NYC and is at least somewhat techie will know what this immediately:

When you just worked an 80-hour week to help pull off the first professional fighting robot event broadcast live worldwide on a massive sports channel, and now it's time to be a pile of goo for a week