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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Partway through a game of Mytikas

Action board, player board and Mount Olympus board with wooden building components on.

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

First game of Landfall. Enjoyable but so far I'm not winning 😂

Island made up of connected magnetic tiles, in 4 colours and at various elevations. Volcanoes pawns are on some of the tiles.

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I've only got 1 creature, but he's a 26/29...

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If you like great art, take a look at #artfight2026 :D

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Trash Pandas. 8-15-17. I won 🏆

End result of a game of Trash Pandas, where you collect and stash cards for points.

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Another example I've just thought of are Hanafuda cards (flower cards) from Japan. The various European playing card decks were also originally painted too

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Some of the creatures people create are just fab. There are plenty of examples, I'm sure. Two more:

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Art is definitely half the joy of board gaming. I see some fab art come through 'processing'. Campaign games come to mind, with all the creatures and beautiful artwork , such as such as Malhya and Primal: The Awakening. Plus TCG art. Basically any board game box, as well.

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Am making good progress through this tray of minis, and I think my painting is improving 🖌️ 🫟

Tray of 63 miniatures for the game Malhya. 43 are now painted

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

😆 My deck matches the rules book...! Basically, it's set collection / points collection, e.g. you collect ribbons, or animals, or build one of the key sets. The main difficulty is working out what the cards are: which suit/which animal/which Bright. You score in a similar way to Cribbage etc.

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Thanks. It's pretty, isn't it. The cards are European playing card size, and especially usefully, they match the rules book 😀 Which helps massively!

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Game of Hanafuda this evening. 105 points to me, plus a set that knocks 50 points off my opponents' scores.

One player's layout after a round of Hanafuda - Japanese flower cards.

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Great game :) One of my faves actually. Plus I may or may not have proofread it ;)

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Types of board game, by xkcd comics. (Permalink in comments.)

"I can't believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion."

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Yey I won! Got both purple people up the top :D

Game of K2. Second purple pawn has reached the summit.

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Am first up the mountain for once :D Playing K2 (purple). Just got to get down again in one piece...

The K2 board game, with play in progress. The purple pawn is at the top of the mountain. Yellow and red are further down.

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I <3 these posts! Been translating/proofreading a few card games, these past few weeks :) Short but sweet

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It's been a little minute... but: she's back. Apparently Bsky didn't like my birthdate being in 2023. Provides me with the perfect excuse to play this banger: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzgy...

youtube.com

Marten Hørger & Neon Steve - We're Back / MadMusicWorld

YouTube video by MadMusicWorld

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Late to the party, but I've now worked on over 100 tabletop games 😁 🎉🌟 Crossed the line in early Jan :)

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I heard recently that Google hit 90% market share, and to avoid investors getting nervy because the company wasn't growing that much, Google made the search results worse. Because if you have to google something multiple times, you're seeing more ads. If there's no room for growth, make some...

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Darnit... I only popped on to the KS website to check something, but then I slipped and Wonderland's War Duel fell into my pledge basket. I really should be more careful.

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

😂 Sorry for my late reaction. I'm terrible at checking my BlueSky...

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Update: only 2 of the team escaped... Oopsy 😬

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Started badly 😬 I can see us losing this game of Sub Terra...

Game of Sub Terra on a table. The 5 meeples are almost trapped in a 6-tile cave with a Horror - i.e. a monster that will chase them

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

You'd have thought they'd have weighed those sorts of things up in the report... but instead they focused on how often translators boil kettles and their office block costs, while deciding it was too difficult to factor in the energy usage of AI data centres.

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I can imagine someone sitting in a library, talking to their laptop, with the instructions being picked up by the laptop of whoever is sat next to them, and then being asked to be quiet by the librarian. Definitely not workable in the real world

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

😆 yeah that sounds about right...!

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Yeah, it's an interesting development... Apologies for the late response - I forgot to drop into BSky

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

How would that even work in an open-plan office? Or a coffee shop coworking space. Nobody would be able to concentrate and everyone would know exactly what you were typing. I don't think they've thought this through very well

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Really interesting article about the historical events that inspired The Handmaid's Tale: www.penguin.co.uk/discover/art...

penguin.co.uk

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Report is here, btw. Because: character count: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/689d9d...

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Europe Economics has 'compared' the energy usage of AI translation and human translation. The numbers are a nonsense – AI is not some green saviour who vastly outbids us wasteful, gluttonous human translators (how dare we need feeding?!). Here's the take-down: www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/20...

loekalization.com

The Great Greenwashing Hoax: The UK Government Says You Are the Problem, and AI Is the Climate Savior – Loekalization Blog

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Exploding Kittens board game. This is literally called the "chaos" side of the board. I lost both times. Story of my life. 🤦 (facepalm emoji)

Board game in the Exploding Kitten range. You must follow a route without landing on an exploding kitten space, and you can use your cards to alter outcomes. The board has flipped to a bright red side with a hell theme.

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh - staying alive, staying alive... Second playthrough and the scores were 16-16-15-15 GG everybody 🕺

End of a game of K2, a tabletop game about climbing mountains.

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

😂 yeah it was a bit like that for me... I managed to get just shy of the summit, but then had to abseil down quickly to stay alive. The second time, I wasn't so lucky 😂

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Tonight's gaming: K2. First playthrough. Enjoying it so far, but then no-one has fallen from the mountain and plummeted to their death yet. Totally different from yesterday's Happy Little Dinosaurs.

Partway through playing a board game about climbing the mountain K2.

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Interesting... I'd just seen a map recently that compared second language ability across Europe and Germany scored reasonably highly on that. Scandinavia was obviously top, and then France/Italy/Southern Europe lagging a long way behind. UK was low (as expected)

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Agreed, and actually, Germany has quite a high rate of English literacy compared with other countries... The question is: why would someone spend their money on a game if the designers can't be bothered to cater for them? I've read that translations/dubbing etc can be 50% of a film's sales, for e.g.

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

👏 [clap emoji.] Translators: "The machines are churning out junk!!" Tech bros: "Stop whining about your jobs! This machine translation looks absolutely perfect!"

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Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

First time playing Railroad Tiles this evening. Came 4th with 44 points. GG though

Completed player transport network in Railroad Tiles, a board game based on Railroad Ink

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Whole book “translated” for $100? You get what you pay for, and if you don’t understand what makes human translators valuable, maybe you don’t value the creative work that goes into the writing process either. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

theguardian.com

AI translation service launched for fiction writers and publishers prompts dismay among translators

UK-based GlobeScribe is charging $100 per book, per language for use of its services, but translators say that nuanced work can only be produced by humans

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