Now we know why Picard always specified earl gray hot. It was short for hot chocolate

Discovered that the mugs at the automated LEGO coffee stations are big enough to hold a hot chocolate plus an espresso shot and now I'm hyggemaxxing

Scrolling through the entries for this pose, seeing a very common error:

When drawing the head, the tilt of the head is communicated almost entirely by the position of the ears relative to the face. A downward tilt, like this, puts the bottom of the ears in line with the eyes, not the nose.

An excerpt from the Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_(1983_video_game) : "Although they have cartoon bodies, the faces of the members are shown as black-and-white photographs taken of the band while on tour. The photo technology was invented by Ralph H. Baer and was originally to be used in another game, which would allow high scoring players to take photos of themselves for display on the high score list and as the head of the player character. However, the game in question failed location testing when one player engaged in exhibitionism."

The arcade version is a funny deep dive too - everybody focuses on the practicality of rewinding ten seconds of cassette tape over and over inside the cabinet, but my favorite part is the primitive digitized photos

Probably exiled for having the wrong names

It's a complex and byzantine set of phonetical guidelines, which I'll try to summarize as best as this limited format allows:

basically if your tribe starts with a letter (e.g., L for the Lion tribe) then your name also starts with that letter (e.g., L for Laval)

Vaguely disappointed that Ras and Ninjago's other Wyldness characters don't follow Chima naming conventions

The way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.

Uh oh. 7yo just found out he can book LEGO'S projection screens for video game purposes

We are so spoiled here

Overheard my first "oh my god was that Mike Rayhawk" at work yesterday, which I hope was less "he's a legend" and more "how dare he show his face here"

because anyone who's been around LEGO long enough to remember I existed once should also have been around long enough to not be impressed anymore

Two crocodiles eat a mystery man

Like I said, I didn't notice the bees, but the raccoon action in that cemetery was NUTS. I swear the raccoons were the size of small bears.

In hindsight they may have actually been bears, now that I think about it

My favorite cemetery! I lived there awhile when I was homeless / couchsurfing in the 90s.

I didn't notice any particular bees, but I'm entertained to this day by the resting place of Lucien A. Wait, which is a grim mausoleum set alone into a treacherous hillside with the ominous inscription WAIT

You know what you did

It is! It's a straight-up magical experience. Every day we have to remind ourselves that this isn't a vacation, this is just our everyday life now.

Back then, every tiny action had giant repercussions to the end product, because there were so few of us and no time or budget to try again.

Now there's infinite design support and professionalized processes and everything runs like a dream, but damn what a culture shock

It's a surreal coming back to LEGO design after twenty years away.

From being one of a couple dozen scrappy designers fighting to stay alive in a bankrupt company burning down around our ears, to just one among several hundred in a stratospheric success story setting the world on fire

The reason that there are so many dad games is that some men had careers long enough that they both 1) gained the political capital to pitch and then execute a project with those themes 2) were able to sustain a career long enough that it was viable for them to parent while still work* in games.

TTRPG with old-school "you can die in character creation" mechanics, except most terminal events are stuff like "reached adulthood with no major traumas" or "found a love of carpentry", so your goal is to make enough bad life choices that your character is a big enough loser to become an adventurer.

Oh no I ran out of Danish duolingo lessons

Guess I have to sign up for real classes now

Top Ten Best Foods (according to people who only eat at McDonald's)

Yeah but I feel like the GameRant crowd is a hyperspecific flavor of mid

( The Danes tell me this is very Danish, but I haven't been here long enough to know if they're joking or not )

There's a store in Billund called Normal and it has a Noid-like mascot in an "I am unique" T-shirt who's a villain because he refuses to be Normal and buy Normal items.

Rather than indulge any stereotypes about Denmark, I'll instead say it's like a little piece of Connecticut followed us here

Family tree of the Baggins of Hobbiton. Bingo Bagggins marries Chica Chubb.

repeating this like a sacred mantra: “bingo baggins marries chica chubbs”

I want people to doubt my sanity in the funniest way possible so I just keep posting on bsky

Lego should make a set called Together designed for couples so they can put together Together together

"Thank you for failing so completely to understand what I wrote (genuine). I will see if I can write a version that even you can understand (complimentary)."

You should never be afraid to ask tabletop RPG authors dumb questions about their games because that's literally how we tell whether or not what we wrote is working.