Comic: Types of Board Game. [Each panel has a person, a person with a ponytail, a person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat seated around a table with different board game and pieces on top. (1) Boring: PERSON 3: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we all get tired and go home. (2) Abstract: PERSON 1: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a... (3) Hyperspecific Theme: PERSON 2: It’s October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations... (4) Overcomplicated: PERSON 4: It’s a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshhire*, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and... (5) Cooperative: PERSON 3: We’re working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we’ll silently organize my junk drawer. (6) Branded: PERSON 1: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku. (7) Party: PERSON 2: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the... (8) Social Deduction: PERSON 3: Remember, per our *find the secret murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player has committed a real-life murder does *not* count.

Types of Board Game

xkcd.com/3235/

So, Israel talked Trump into war with Iran?

THIS! This is the perfect context for the bike lane haters. as a video it is more perfect. mucho perfecto mucho as it is a BMW that is inconvenienced. @obcycler.bsky.social @indypedcrisis.info @garbageindy.bsky.social @indyvisionzero.info @safestreetsindy.org

eventually he was executed

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Pippin as a puppy playing Hamster Quest.

Post the best picture you’ve ever taken of your pet:

The software industry is about to rediscover the concept of “code debt” in a big way.

Mysterious Giant Blobs Of Material Near Earth's Core - Astrobiology In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth

the craziest thing I've read all year is this theory that 2 "continents" that used to be on Theia are now buried deep under our feet

astrobiology.com/2023/11/myst...

Started the day by realizing I’d accidentally deleted 500 words I wrote last week. But I just wrote 950 to make up for it.

You're at the circus and the band starts playing Stars & Stripes Forever.

What do you do?

My students are working on their final projects and one asked me how to steal from an existing game and get away with it. “Change the fantasy,” I said.

“But we want to keep it a horse racing game.”

Ok change the core mechanics & objectives. You level up your horse to be a lovable nag who loses.

@scalzi.com

Hey! I know that guy!

The Popular Vote Interstate Compact gives the red states an incentive to pad their popular vote totals to swing the election.

The electoral college is unfair, but this is not a fix. All it does is create a new way to cheat.

Odd update here: The Trump-Jesus image the president posted (see QT below) appears to have been *altered* from the original, which looks to have been posted in February.

The original did not feature the demogorgan-ish thing in the sky.

Source: x.com/NickAdamsinU...

Every Reason to Hate Cars YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

Babe wake up, the comprehensive Not Just Bikes video dropped (and it's really good, share it with everyone) www.youtube.com/watch?v=umgi...

I once tried to get a start-up to adopt "Go public and cash out" as our mission statement.

My suggestion was shot down by senior management in favor of the usual nonsense, but the workers all knew what our real mission was anyway ... .

20 years ago I hadn’t written The Aesthetic of Play yet, or invented Ludic Semiotics.

The only tools we had to discuss meaning-making in games were borrowed literary ones, which as you rightly observed were inadequate to address the physicality of playing a video game.

It’s so weird to see people going all-in with “the future of programming is the command line” when I lived through the switch to WYSIWYG editors in the 80’s and 90’s.

I’m expect punchcards to be the next new fad.

I just added a calliope pulled by ostriches to the new chase scene. Weird enough?

"One paper’s acknowledgements thank 'Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise'."

Classics friends may enjoy this. Some of the Latin pronunciation is a bit weird, but the essence is spot on! 😆

From: Clothes (1988), dir. Osbert Parker

Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.

ethically hollow and isn't actually technically proficient despite broad press mythologies painting him as a supergenius engineer

where have I heard that before

Back working on the novel.

Today’s challenge was figuring out how to have the main character pick up a small, insignificant object for a plot point 5 chapters later. It has to seem trivial, so the reader won’t expect the payoff.

But also memorable. So later you’ll be like “That’s what that was!?”

Are … are you me? That’s my favorite Talmud story!

A heartening thing is realizing that when the big AI crash comes, the world will need a shit-ton of programmers to unwind the person-years of code debt that has accumulated during the vibe-coding fad. It’s going to dwarf the Y2K push.

Poodle squaring off against Easter bunny standees.

Those bunnies are up to no good!

This photo was taken heading east on the 10! The overpass is Cloverfield. I love LA!

In my work on play, I’ve always said “meaning is the residue of experience”. The meaning of a game is the strategies we develop to engage with it.

Learning a craft isn’t playful, but the process is the same. Struggling with the brambles of a thorny problem is how we learn. There is no cheat code.

I added the post-it last week. Since it was still up yesterday, I took the photo. I'm hoping that eventually facilities will change the sign to say "Don't move the lectern".