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I don't know who needs to hear this: there are TONS of old speakers at thrift stores. Don't get that new soundbar with wireless tech, it costs 80 bucks! Get the computer speakers for five bucks. Unless you're an audiophile, you really won't notice the quality difference, as it's diminishing returns.

Today is a good day: I finished my first draft of the Pots rulebook! I still plan on a PNP file for only 5 bucks, so get ready for that!

The next time I have the chance to work with ceramics it's going to be for making board game ceramics.

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The answer was already "no" but the lack of info makes it a further profound "🍃no"

It feels like a different genre of interest to me, that halfway spot between board game and sport. Maybe that's why they're ignored by some people?

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Yall what is it about this site that really keeps your attention? I'm largely not a journalistic person--I just want people to see the work I'm doing and connect with other board game creators. I've had a hard time understanding what this has over something like Reddit I guess.

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Brock Hall @brockhall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The new Beck album is taking longer than I wanted to settle into my brain. Often it's the second spin that things settle in my ears. Until then, this feels to Morning Sound as TKOL did to Kid A. We were unfair to TKOL, collectively, so I want to have patience here.

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It continues to be just amazing to me that we watched a guy throw a metal ball at glass with full confidence it would work. And it didn't. Twice. Then the price went up. And people STILL thought the Cybertruck was going to be good.

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I need to find a mod packaging method I trust to install the extra credit mod on mobile

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That's....that's a fair point....

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Epomaker barebones kits are a decent option. Also, never underestimate a 20 dollar hotswap. They're really fun to upgrade with pennies taped inside or painting the inside of the keycaps with silicone sealant.

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Bland is better than insufferable.

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If I mention how much I hate Youtube thumbnails with a person imitating a surprised fish, do the 600k likes come in all at once or will it take a couple days?

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You sound convinced and not largely willing to play in this discussive space. But it's also great that you know the things you want!

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I should specify I meant all consoles have limitations, and it's part of the handshake gamers make when choosing what to game on. PC for real power, consoles for a more relaxed environment, switch for....well switch is complicated. All have details within that choice.

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The switch 1 chugs when playing Animal Crossing, a game made exclusively for the switch 1 BY NINTENDO, so it's not fair to fully ignore power either. The consoles also have their limitations on power. If I'm simracing, it's on PC. Power dictates more than just graphics, it dictates available genres.

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I think that's offset elsewhere in their design philosophy. Being so family oriented vs the other consoles makes it odd to categorize them as the luxury brand, yet the title....kinda fits? What you get is lovely, and you can't get it elsewhere, and it absolutely isn't monetarily practical.

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I'm working on the rulebook for Pots. Things are going to be rudimentary with this rulebook for sure, but one little joy I am able to easily add is a tiny rotation on the illustrations.

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The new Sylvan Esso album seems to have taken some inspiration from the liveset done during covid. Still good not great, but the more analog production really suits their music more than what they were doing before. If they can hit that sweet spot, they're like fun Bon Iver. That's rare.

I was super jazzed about wireless charging initially, but using it is seriously frustrating. My phone lasts 2d/ charge and I've had it almost a full three years now. New features on phones continue to be so useless. 90% of what I do on my phone was possible 10y ago--screens and cameras changed.

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The new Samsung flagship is the first phone in 10 years that has brought a new feature I care to have: adjustable privacy screen settings. Because it's turning pixels off to achieve this effect, it will match the size and shape of, say, notification popups, or autoapply on specific apps. Just...wow.

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Markus Dravs was a production improvement, keeping consistency instead of messy stabs at genre shifts like we got previously. This focus helped the songwriting and messaging tighten up, and for my money is both her most interesting and most characterful album.

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Daily Underrated Album: How Big/Blue/Beautiful by Florence + the Machine As far as I'm concerned, Adele can have her slow tearful piano ballads; they're.....flat?....and they drag. Listen to this album and it's full of the same wistful reflection, but it has TEETH and JUICE. Perfect? No. But great.

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Actually, I hated the original Shovel Knight because platforming is already not my style and it ended up being just on the wrong side of clunky. I have also never finished Hollow Knight so it's not a blemish on the game really.

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I'm not in the VR side of the conversation, but Stanning Valve is a time honored tradition and that must have had an impact.

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Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon Caves of Qud Everspace 2 Invisible Inc Mark of the Ninja All of these titles don't get the attention they should

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I think only like Breaking Bad has come this close to having such a rich tapestry of history, information, and interconnectivity. It's almost a felony we didn't get more. The steady pace from "haha superheroes in real life would be dumb" to "the existence of PP means GCI is gov run" is impeccable.

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There is a show where 6 designers compete to renovate a haunted house. We have horror renovation shows now???

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I dunno, this sounds like a pretty good topic to explore for an episode

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Brock Hall @brockhall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A bold move but it worked for Rovio for a while. I think picky game enthusiasts might balk at this, citing deeper experiences as better candidates. But Root is Redwall, Scythe has already jumped, and TI is a story you make yourself. Cartoony, whacky games do feel the ripest fruit to pick.

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Ok not the SAME price but for a lot of people it's still a "choose one" situation.

Brock Hall @brockhall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The upside is that these games have receive a lot more hype by being available before all attention is squarely on those tentpole titles. Forcing people like yourself to take the time to discover how good those games are might mean newcomers will more readily expand their library when they commit.