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Archive April 11, 2026
Connections Puzzle #1035
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Purple was also leftovers (and also had a guess which was wrong).

We guessed in reverse order of our solve.

If you're all "the hobby is dying but here's a rant about AI" or "politics politics politics I can't fine time to play poltiics" I'm done. Write about your stuff somewhere that isn't dedicated to TTRPGs.

Fortunately, those drawn to Ever & Anon so far have been universally enthusiasts.

This is why, the times I've deliberately frozen people out of RPG fanzine (ok, APA) dialogue the few times I did it. If you're writing in an RPG zine, I want to hear about games you liked playing, games you want to play, pain points, not all positive but show me you like the hobby.

This is, of course, why the good Artiifcer subclasses are actually really strong...at specific levels (artillerist at 3, battlesmith at 5; not convinced armorer is ever good but peaks at 9...or maybe 10). But even less than martial classes, the class doesn't scale.

It was certainly a Choice to make the artificer a half-caster with no real specialty rather than a full caster who specializes in items.

Not a good choice, really, but an interesting niche. One that's hard to make, well, good. (It would be really hard to make a full wizard with item magic not OP)

The usual misunderstanding, of course, is thinking that the "dark side of the moon" is actually dark, rather than merely constantly turned away from the earth. Of course, in this the caption says "far side" for exactly that reason.

Oh, wow. I got rid of the bulk of my loose cards a decade ago when I moved, but I still have my OMNI deck!

Connections
Puzzle #1026
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Also didn't solve purple. Solve order was blue green yellow.

Maybe this opening is a good fit for someone I'm connected to here. (@mnemex.bsky.social? @jl8e.bsky.social? @jonlennox.bsky.social?)

I don't see a market for that on polymarket. There's a low odds bet ($.77 on the dollar) you could make for "openAI does NOT go IPO at $1T cap by 2027" which seems like a reasonable proxy for it, though.

This is a really minor thing, and yet it sums up so much of "the world is so small we can't share it".

That's a Kiwi accent, not an Aussie.

Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.

True, but seems misleading. When the government prosecutes people for crimes, it should be going for blood, not money.

That said, this is if one follows through with Lander's push to prosecute crimes (I mean, yeah?).

The news, though, is a civil lawsuit, and there a settlement is very appropriate.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Not trying to be obnoxious, just trying to be encouraging for the people who need it:

RSS Feeds still exist.

There are still forums and thriving article comment threads.

There's nothing stopping people from blogging about their passions.

I'm surprised at the wide range of ages of people...

We had a lot of problems today (still solved, though). Got blue and yellow straight off, and then ran a complete blank on green/purple; eventually managed a successful 50/50 guess instead of just losing.

The indirectness of green, combined with needing the right insight for purple was rough.

With ambiguous base rules (like early D&D, Sorcerer, or Cops and Robbers for that matter), different people will fill the space with different things. Make the game clearer and that space gets smaller, but people are closer to playing the same thing. Both the space and a clear game have value.

Also, what does it mean to PLAY a game? The love of mess, the love of ambiguity, the love of a dialogue around how you go from the text and rules of a game to the actual play of same seems to be very much come at the cost of a clear sense of what the game is, resulting in the game being a cloud.

For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

... Yeah, that's why he's block-on-sight.

Oh, no, people communicating with other humans --addictive!

ug. Is there even science to support that? When the main indicator of whether a feed is addictive is endless scroll, frequent notifications, and other design features that make it harder to leave or not go back every day?

editor" option as a lower-commitment option for engagement than "submit an entire subzine" (which is, of course, the core method of participating in an APA). In theory, this could act as a lower-activation cost way of participating, for good or ill (in practice, nobody's used it yet, I think).

Ah, that's why DW doesn't have a "like" option and you've vigorously resisted pressure to add one; because it would reduce the number of comments any given user left?

We didn't do a real analysis, but when designing an online APA successor to an in-print collective fanzine, we added an "email the

People like to paint the Big Sites as criminally indifferent to the harms they cause (or worse, deliberately engaging in them) when every bit of "proof" that's been produced was PART OF AN ATTEMPT AT HARM REDUCTION.

The "Facebook knew their product was causing body image issues in teen girls and did it deliberately" narrative is taking the ACTUAL RESEARCH Facebook did entirely out of context! They commissioned that internal research to SEE HOW THEY COULD STOP IT HAPPENING.

Got a first....almost play (we played through one round! It took 3.5 hours!) of Trickereon.

It definately won't take nearly this long the next time, but:

1. I really love this game. Will see if this survives my first actual play of it, but honestly probably especially with the right expansions […]

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation: