Verge headline: Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want by Elizabeth Lopatto Illustration of a brain melting in the sun

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."

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i think the gamecube has the best logo of any console. just look at it. it's a cube that's a G and the negative space in the G is a C

A photo of a space shuttle launch. Image Credit NASA.

LAUNCH DAY!
The Gal4Xeon campaign goes live in 1 hour! I've taken the afternoon off so I'll been live tweet/skeet/posting it!

Not only is her recovery complete.

Soon Sienna will be heading off to her very own family.

After years on the streets and endless puppies taken from her she will get the life she always deserved!

The Wild Vengeance of Witches | Join the Coven Today — Good Goblet Games A print-and-play skirmish game where you lead a coven of witches in revenge against townfolk, featuring customizable witches, tactical combat, and narrative scenarios.

The Wild Vengeance of Witches is out now! Made with @wordblanket.com and Sarah Sands.

You are witches getting revenge against endless swarms of townsfolk. For fans of tactical combat, narrative stories, puzzly dice-chucking, special abilities, and cute familiars.

Free or pay-what-you-want 🧙‍♀️

Me, reading Children of Time in 2020:

"I dunno if people would just wipe themselves out like that, I dunno if that's plausible.

Me, reading the news in 2026:

"@aptshadow.bsky.social is a prophet."

Prince passed away 10 years ago today.

RIP, your music lives on.

89 candles would have set off the sprinklers, so we settled for one — and one perfect slice of cake (with @bradtakei.bsky.social on ice cream duty). Thank you to every friend, fan, and fellow traveler who has made these 89 years such a joyous voyage.

The Wild Vengeance of Witches by Good Goblet Games Lead your coven in a quest for vengeance in this miniatures-agnostic print-and-play skirmish game.

The Wild Vengeance of Witches by Good Goblet Games looks intriguing... 🤔
goodgoblet.itch.io/witches

Scythe main board made of different terrain hexes. A bunch of blue, yellow, and red player pieces are on the board

With good pricing, I sold these #boardgames through BGG & local game group in a week:
Hallertau - not played, theme looked clunky
Scythe - wanted mech area control, got action efficiency race. Can play others' copyies
Courtisans - like the idea of it but the play was just OK. Not enough zhuzsh

wasted too much of my life today conversing via google translate with a french DPD ai chatbot to find out the "delivered" parcel in their email has actually been returned to sender

this isn't the future we were promised

#FuckAi

This looks very rad: www.goodgoblet.com/witches

And it's "name your own price" - I will be picking this up.

Can you imagine having this much awesomeness in your life?

IMAGINE NO LONGER 👇

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Recently started messing about with #substack, but struggling a bit with Posts and Notes. 🤦 Not sure where the difference is or who sees what. 'Lost' 2 posts recently... And no-one seeing much atm because no subscribers anyway, but hey-ho... 🤣
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The Horrified Greek Monsters board game box cover.

Horribly slaughtered in Horrified, then close second at Las Vegas before ignominious last in 7 Wonders Architects. A good(ish) Games Night!

Cardboard Mob & Hot Spirits – Speakeasy Review When many people think of The Mob, they are thinking of New York mafia types, or New Jersey ones like the Sopranos. But when it gets moved back in time to Prohibition and the gangster wars of the 20s and 30s, everybody can name Al Capone and the many of the rest of them, though they are all Chicago gangsters.

Cardboard Mob & Hot Spirits - Speakeasy Review @eaglegryphon.bsky.social @vitallacerda.bsky.social

A hand of cards showing a red 4, 8, and 2, a yellow 2 and 6, and a purple five. The red 8 has a grumpy Himalayan cat in the front. In the background a rug ties the game together with wooden cats in yellow, brown, blue, and red marking bids.

I feel like I have to stop playing 9 Lives since I won my 9th play with 9 points.

A board game box with New Game Top Secret written on it.

Good playtest of AsteRace at lunchtime games club - everyone enjoyed it!

This Saturday Dragonmeet: Call to Adventure! @simonbirks.com will have gamebooks & games - look out for our new burgundy tablecloths!
📆 Saturday 18th April
⏰ 10:00 to 17:00
📍 Kensington Town Hall, Hornton St, London W8 7NX @bluefoxcomics.com @bluefoxtabletop.bsky.social @bluefoxbooks.bsky.social

The new issue of Wyrd Science with its psychedelic fungi skull art by Tom J Newell laying flat on a table

The new issue of Wyrd Science open to the loot drop section where you’ll find cool art pins, cool art books, gollums, judge dredd and more

The new issue of Wyrd Science open to an interview with John Harper, creator of Blades in the Dark

The new issue of Wyrd Science open to the reviews section, here we’re looking at Croydon Spaceport Mission Control & Flip Pick Towers

If you’re in the greater Stockport area, or you have somehow acquired access to the internet, then @raremags.bsky.social now have a big stack of issue 8 in stock.

Head over there grab a copy and maybe a couple of incredible import mags on hyper obscure Japanese fashion too, as we know we will be…

It feels to me that Slay the Spire 2 is easier than the original. Not just because there’s no stupid-difficult final boss, but I’m finding it way easier to build synergies. I’m actually up to Ascension 5; never made it past 1 in the original.

Is it just me, or do you see it too?

A random name generator program in BBC Basic for you to type in.

#54 Stuck coming up with a name for your latest PC or star system? Break out your BBC model B - Microview features a program from Mark Billenness to help you out.
No vibe coding required.

Promote your game here.

MÖRK BORG is a pitch-black, rules-light apocalyptic fantasy RPG about scum and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak, dying world. Inspired by extreme metal music, it's grimdark turned to 11. A spiked flail to the face.

morkborg.com

Have you played High Tide?

Would you do me a huge huge favor and post a review for the game on Barnes & Noble’s website? 🙏

Positive customer reviews help B&N recommend products more and more people! Please consider leaving a review if you can!! ✨

Return a cell range using XLOOKUP XLOOKUP is a more flexible version of the common, and still useful, VLOOKUP function. What’s different about XLOOKUP is that it returns a cell reference that you can use to return cell ranges rather…

For the morning UK and Europe crew: In Excel, the XLOOKUP function works like VLOOKUP but actually returns a cell address behind the scenes. In this week's Techsoc video, I'll show you how to use this functionality to return a range of cells from a data list.

RIP Reinhold Wittig, one of the big gaming pioneers in Germany has sadly passed away.

In the 80s he was THE small indie-publisher, who established the "tube cames", i.e. games in a cube here.

Also his artwork of games like Müller&Co is one of the best until today.

Joyride 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Players: 2-4 🧑 Age: 14+ ⏱️ Playtime: 45-60 minutes Joyride is the first Rebellion Unplugged title to include High Contrast alternatives where art would have been repeated or left blank, and i...

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how @rebellionunplugged.bsky.social has an accessibility page for their games that ranks dofferent accessibility elements support.rebellion.com/hc/en-gb/art...

I missed @reactorsff.bsky.social posting this update to their policies re: use of "AI," but I am happy they did, and not surprised by their position. It's a good position!

reactormag.com/practices-re...

A game so nice, I've uploaded it thrice! Thanks for the assists for what I believe it the final upload. There was a graphic on screen that circled the wrong spot and I wanted to fix. If you watched original, you can restore your view by letting this play again. It helps the health of the video. Thx.

a largely red-themed miniatures stand in a large trade hall.

and we're setup!

team Fenris will see you at Salute tomorrow. bring your spending vouchers!