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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Adobe creative stopped working on win10, so i tried upgrading, and windows would not allow it. I had to spoof the authenticator and am now reinstalling EVERYTHING. 2 days of productivity spent on getting the computer working. I am a smidge grumpy.

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So a game announced they were using AI some months ago. People said Boo, but not that many. Yesterday they announced that "IT WAS ALL A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT AND WE ARE USING REAL ART" And I can't think of a worse marketing strategy for a game. Hur hur, we lied to you fools, buy out stuff now.

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hot take - I prefer buying well looked after 2nd hand games over new ones. Unboxing, punching out and assembling a game is tiresome busy work I would gladly outsource to anyone who wanted to do it. 2nd hand games are ready to play immediately, and I loves that about them.

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's video is Shackleton Base. A fascinating Euro game that has some really strong core mechanics that it shakes up each game by adding in variable corporations who change the rules. Find out why it works here. youtu.be/eDtocl_jSpM

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 25/09/2026

If all journalists know how the sausage is made - on a filthy factory floor, out of kitten meat - and chooses not to inform the public because “we all know about the kitten meat”, those journalists are shit at journalism

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up.

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Skynet can never win in the Terminator universe, because AI dudebros at cyberdyne programmed it with the"great man of history" model baked in It believes billionaire propaganda that innovation and social change only happens because of specific individual disruptors. This is of course, bollocks.

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

D&D peaked with the wiener-biting face-stabbing scorpadillo. And check out that snake. That's fucking peak snaking, I dare say. Heroes wore mawashi, kitty-ear head bands, and NOTHING ELSE. No scabbards no belts no backpacks. Grognards long for the golden age. An ago of wiener-biting & kitty ears

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The "AI will kill us all" panic says everything about the dudes promoting it: genAI is already killing people through inaccuracy, encouraging violence and self-harm, and giving bad leaders false confidence to make harmful decisions But that's not a *cool* kind of "killing us all" so they don't care

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today's video is The Taverns of Tiefenthal, a deck building game about running and upgrading a tavern. This game comes with a kitchen sink full of game mechanics but somehow it works quite well. youtu.be/-T1AAJIVJSM

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Camp Grizzly is the real deal. One of those games where they looked at the lever that said "fair or fun" and jammed it all the way up to fun. Like, it's bullshit unfair in the most comedic of ways in places but it works. Looking forward to doing a full review of it.

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

No one, not one person, saw this coming. #nzpol

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A reminder kids, Sharing is caring but Sheeran is not.

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Next time your local NZ based MAGA fool rants about overstayers, remind them who actually overstays here. USA number 1 in doing the thing they send brown people to black sites for back home. www.1news.co.nz/2026/09/15/m...

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More than 900 Americans have overstayed their visa in last three years

Overall, an estimated 19,153 people in New Zealand are overstayers, according to Immigration New Zealand.

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Saw someone on a forum ask an RPG company to ensure its PDFs are in a format that is more consumable by LLMs. And all I can think is how entitled must someone be to demand someone creative reformat something to smooth the plagiarism process.

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Possibly my most used comic of the last 10 years. This or the sealioning one. Thank you Matt!

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of the funniest parts of this whole saga was we all had the password to the analytics app and could see her lavishly funded vanity site was getting a maximum of about five concurrent visitors, not even a double-decimal point rounding error on the 3 News site, which had no money

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just remembering how 10 years ago someone would say something annoying in my mentions on Twitter and I would argue with them going back and forth. Now I see something annoying and immediately block and go on with my day.

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Kelli's 'You Know What That Is?' - Insecure

ALT: Kelli's 'You Know What That Is?' - Insecure

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today's video is Deep Regrets, A game about heading out into the deep ocean to dwell on the terrible things you have done while dredging up the most foul pelagic nightmares you can to add to your fish collection. Unwholesome fun. youtu.be/zjMpE9sjVYU

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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

execs needing their egos fulfilled by making sure it's their idea getting out there instead of throwing money at the creators and staying the fuck out of it

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1/200 Media @1of200.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New Article! Chris Hipkins Must Resign ✒️ The Coalition government is a coalition of death. They’ve scrapped any attempt to mitigate climate change, they’ve underfed & jailed children, they’ve thrown poor people on the street, & Hipkins seems to be doing everything to ensure they win a second term

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Chris Hipkins Must Resign — 1/200

The coming election should be the easiest win imaginable for the Labour Party. Instead, per the latest right-wing poll, they’re set to lose . This is attributable to Labour leader Chris Hipkins. He h...

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Cracked out the new Green Screen we got and am trying some it out for a new video review. Not looking bad at all!

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637

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Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

‘DUNGEONS & DRAGONS 2’ isn’t fully dead yet. • Script is complete • Hasbro remains committed • A new studio partner is being sought after Paramount passed for financial reasons #DungeonsAndDragons #Hasbro

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Rory Muldoon @rorymuldoon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If your Kickstarter game has AI art and an AI trailer with AI music, then there’s no way I’m going to believe the game design isn’t AI generated as well.

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today's video is one-hit heroes, a co-op game with a special rule. If anyone on the team takes a hit they can't avoid it's game over. Find out more here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ8y...

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I briefly worked at a place where the two owners hero worshiped this guy back in the early 2000s. One of them is currently in hiding from fraud charges in another country under another name, and the other one belongs to a magical healing cult where he shines light on people to heal them.

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have the weirdest thing happening with my channel. On release my review videos get very few views and have for years now. And then over time they get more and more views, in many cases they get more views in their 3rd and 4th years than 1st. I'm reasonably sure this is very not normal for YT.

Graph of views for a video where days are on the bottom axis, and views seem to accelerate over time

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Today';s video is regicide legacy, the campaign/legacy version of the amazing Regicide game. I normally don't care for legacy games at all, find out why this one works for me where so many others have failed youtu.be/RgXEz6RdlM8

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I saw a new edition of Vampire the maquerade is coming out, and I was curious about it and WOW THE VAMPIRE YOU TUBE COMMUNITY IS NOT OK... I watched segments from numerous videos that could be best described at foaming unhinged nonsense. Literally "my community has been taken over by leeches" stuff

Totally not unhinged screenshot showing how RPGs need creators and fanatics and nothing else

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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 06/08/2026

You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You know what doesn't use AI art? This game, based on the works of iconic concept artist Wayne Barlow, Orbitstar is all about surveying a strange alien world with biology totally unlike our own. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ark...

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Orbitstar: Expedition To Darwin IV

Embark on a journey of discovery, explore an alien world and encounter new lifeforms. Art and World by Wayne Barlowe.

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It seems to me that if you are going to use AI images for advertising and then post an emotive video about how you are not using AI images and how dare someone accuse you of such a thing, remove the AI companies watermark from your AI images first. Pasting over it with a logo is a start I guess.

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Occasionally, I like to take breaks for a week or two where I try to play zero board games at all. Or at the very least, no new ones. I think it is something everyone who does board game youtubing or similar should consider every now and then. Helps slow down the burnout considerably.

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Shelf Stable Podcast 🔜 Spiel Essen, PaxU @shelfstablecast.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

BREAKING: 48yo BGGer thinks game targeted to children is not strategically compelling

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You have to admire Labour's persistence. They just know that one day, ONE DAY, Business Daddy will pat them on the head and say they can drive the car after 10pm, if only they austerity their room hard enough

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I can't co-sign this hard enough. I promise, I would rather know that the people who made the project are being paid more. I will not hang your print. I am not made of walls.

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Got some NZF stuff in the mailbox. It's more overtly fascist that I expected, calling for action against the globalists and having the party self identify as Nationalists who are socially conservative. Its all very trumpy.

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Today's video is Orbitstar, an upcoming game from Arkus games about exploring an alien world. Check out this fascinating title that puts you in the role of a scientist exploring new and exotic life forms while trying to leave behind no trace. youtu.be/7YHWDXQ40ys

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Whatever SOB made the Bluey children's toothpaste red deserves something mildly unpleasant to happen to them. What did they expect kids would do when they see the BLUEY toothpaste ain't blue!

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Johnny Normality @probgobl.in · 21/08/2026

"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.

Part of a thread from some bluecheck:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.

I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."

I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).

I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.

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Timothy Gassin @timothygassin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Australian media giving a more honest assessment of the last few years in NZ than much of the NZ media. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social • 26d
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no offense but i'm not doing homework for this fuckass movie. Imfao

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Today's video is an unusual game, The Restless. It's not your typical co-op dungeon crawling experience, it's a bleak work of outsider art, wherein your adventurers are a ragtag bunch of miscreants trying to survive in an incredibly broken and hostile world. youtu.be/ctGmijwgCPw

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Ross 💙🎲 MoreGamesPlease @moregamesplease.com · 14/08/2026

Every week I get messages from strangers barely introducing themselves then immediately asking me for free labour. Promote your game on my accounts. Free photography. Write lists of publishers who would sign your game. Video chat to give marketing advice. I literally don't know you and I'm tired.

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Just a reminder that Christopher Luxon is ahead of Christopher Hipkins in terms of preferred PM. After all Luxon has done, and him possibly being rolled right now, Hipkins is less popular. Labour would be romping home if they had even an average leader. They should have rolled Hipkins already.

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