Eh, there’s a class of “good” movies that are competent but uninteresting. A film producer I know calls these movies “amusement rides.” They work just as well with or without your engagement.

shots fired @fredserval.bsky.social

Slicing up a prototype of "The Nights of King Ludd" for unguided play testing this week (and humming this little song).

#boardgame #design

The game looks great! Just curious, can we replace the the tiles with scrabble pieces? Are the values equivalent?

"Prisons, constructed as such, have a sinister, but often, also, a nervous, makeshift air about them." - John Berger

My first play of Penitent by @danbullock.bsky.social sees my nervous, makeshift prison collapse into ignominy on round 2.

#boardgames #abolishthecarceralstate

It’s a good time! I haven’t played his entire line, but The Gallerist is on par with Lisboa for me.

16 years ago I received my MFA. Last night I finally put it to good use!

Pictured: The Gallerist, by @vitallacerda.bsky.social, published by @eaglegryphon.bsky.social

#boardgames

Me too. So excited!

This is a great opportunity to highlight some 2025 releases like Onoda from @fgradaille.bsky.social , Chicago '68 from @yoyoni.bsky.social , and In the Shadows from @josephnschmidt.bsky.social and yours truly.

That’s my copy, third from the bottom on the left

LUGOSI

As AI Breathes Down Our Necks, It’s Time for a Luddite Renaissance Nineteenth-century textile workers longed to stay human in a machine age. So do we.

“The Luddites did what every science fiction writer does: they took a technology and imagined all the different ways it could be used—who it could be used for and whom it could be used against. They demanded the creation of a parallel universe in which the left fork was taken, rather than the right"

He is risen!

Best boardgames and wargames of 2025 and a channel update YouTube video by Homo Ludens

Homo Ludens is back from the dead with a video about my gaming highlights of 2025 and the game's I'm looking forward to this year 👀
youtu.be/o7DiyoEeWnw

The board game galactic renaissance with wooden and cardboard components, on a table mid game

A close up of the explorer card on the board game Galactic Renaissance

Played a 5 player game of Galactic Renaissance, which honestly I can rate as pretty darn good. But it did sour me a bit on modern design’s aggressive insistence on total modularity. I wish the game scaled back to give us some fixed planets, predictable victory conditions, overall less table sprawl…

Looking forward to your Belinda review!

Check out @heavycardboard.bsky.social’s TENSE play-through of Chicago ‘68 (with a lively post game discussion!)

Arcs: Beyond the Reach Return to the world of Arcs with a set of expansions brimming with new strategic options and devious characters.

I just backed Arcs: Beyond the Reach on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

Yeah! The new expansion just arrived last week. I played the Knaves, which are a heck of a good time.

Taught my cat how to play Earthborne Rangers… and played some Root: Homeland!

On the ceiling?

It’s such a generous design. The modularity of the knaves alone is wild.

Just played the new Homeland expansion for Root (by @colewehrle.bsky.social & Joshua Yearsely for @leder.games)!

I’m just jealous of your hikes ;)

Villa Las Estrellas, Antarctica: 31F (low)
Chicago, United States: 28F (low)

Can we just call it “capitalist hellscape?” “Polycrisis” sounds like a thruple that ran out of soygurt

A scene of destruction as a large rectangular space ship emerges from a rip in space. Smaller fighter ships are damaged in the top right and in the bottom right 2 muscular aliens prepare for war

Just a few days awaaaaaay

#arcsboardgame #boardgames #illustration
www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

All board games need to follow the Fast & Furious model and print a legal statement on the box disavowing anything but strict adherence to federal, state, and local laws.