Ah, sorry! Glad you didn't have to wait 10 years for the resolution like I did 😅

But that's my favorite! 😆

In 2013 when playing the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, I separated out my d20s from my other dice bag because it didn’t use them. A few years later, one of the new base sets used d20s … and I couldn’t find them. I had replacements but still wanted to know where they went.
Just found them today. 😂

All those cute little woodland vehicles 😆

I mean, there IS a Fast and Furious board game already. Just not by Cole Wehrle. 😄

Announcing the 2025 Game of the Year Finalists We may be well into 2026, but we are finally gearing up on our 2025 Game of the Year award. Here are this year's finalists, selected from our GeekDad Approved titles from throughout 2025.

Spent the weekend playing through our ten GeekDad Game of the Year finalists and we’ve chosen our winner—watch for that later this week! I’m pretty happy with our whole list, too: it’s a solid bunch.

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Announcing the 2026 American Tabletop Awards The American Tabletop Awards for 2026 have been announced! The awards are in four categories: Early Gamers, Casual Games, Strategy Games, and Complex Games.

This year's American Tabletop Awards have been announced! @theattas.bsky.social

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It's odd--I don't feel like the article itself says what this post is saying. It sounds more like it's been bought up, but that's not the reason given for its rapid growth. (Or, as this post claims, for its invention.)

Stack Overflow: Scooby Gangs Sometimes what you really need is a team of clever kids (or young adults, I guess) to solve a crime—so today's stack features a couple different Scooby Gangs figuring out thefts, murders, and one magi...

Today's stack: meddling kids!

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The thing in question? That horrific AI slop Christmas mural 😆
I should appreciate this as creativity and innovation on the part of the genAI?
Yeah, sure, dude.

I wondered why all these replies in my notifications were unthreaded and it turns out it's because he blocked a bunch of other people. He said something about showing people something actually new that AI made and they couldn't appreciate it.

This one guy shows up with "what's wrong with LLMs making things up?" and says things about creativity, writing fiction, coining neologisms... entirely besides the point.

The context: people arguing about the use of LLMs (by non-native English writers) to check English idioms to make sure they're okay in academic papers. I said the fact that LLMs will make stuff up makes this not a great use case.

I wandered into a thread about LLMs and one comment I made ended up having a ton of replies and sub-threads, in part because of this one guy who then mass-blocked most of them (but not me?).

But what great vibes!

Except the whole context of this conversation is asking an LLM if an idiom exists (for an academic paper), not creating fiction. If you don't know if an idiom is correct and the LLM creates a fictional explanation for it, that defeats the whole purpose of asking it.

What exactly is the utility of seeking advice from something that is sometimes incorrect? A false positive leaves an incorrect idiom; a false negative might lead to replacing a good idiom with an incorrect one. If the goal is to remove inaccuracies then that's a strange tool to use for that purpose.

That's why I'm not asking you either 😆

And, in fact, if it tells you "no" and you ask if it's sure, it may change its answer with a "oh, you're right, I was mistaken" because that's another behavior that LLMs are famous for.

I would not trust an LLM to answer that accurately every time. I wouldn't even trust it to give the same answer if asked the same question multiple times.

LLMs are famous for providing explanations for things that sound plausible because they are LANGUAGE models, not cognitive models. If you make up a fake idiom and ask an LLM to explain it to you, it will do so using the most plausible-sounding phrases.

Get a room, trees!

Yes, weird in a good way!

I missed it the first time around so I’m curious to see where it goes from here. That first book was pretty intense already!

It leads to some great moments trying to figure out what the Lead Witch is up to, or as the Lead Witch figuring out how to manage your hand to get through the five tricks.

'3 Witches': Trick-Taking for a Trio Three witches vie for control of the fates in this trick-taking game of shifting allegiances.What Is 3 Witches?3 Witches is a trick-taking game for 3 players, ages 10 and up, and takes about 20 minute...

3 Witches from @coreyyoung.com @allplay.bsky.social is one of the strangest trick-taking games I've played—if you like mind games, you should check it out!

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Stack Overflow: Saving the World Today's stack: a couple kids' series about saving the world!InvestiGators: Weather or Not by John Patrick GreenAgents of S.U.I.T.: Sew Much Trouble by John Patrick Green with Christopher Hastings and ...

Today's stack: a couple of kid's books series about saving the world.

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Not an AI agent--a human agent for an author, trying to figure out how to sell books in an age where AI writing is becoming harder to identify.

Syndrome, villain from the Incredibles

"And when everyone sounds like AI... no one will."

I just saw a post about an agent telling an author to remove metaphors and similes from their draft because AI uses those, and COME ON. Pretty soon it'll be "your grammar is correct, therefore it sounds like AI." 🙄