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Gary Kacmarcik
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Board game designer (Shinjuku). Seattle(-ish). he/him
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BlueSky doesn't (yet) allow you to create Feeds for a list of users (you can create lists for Muting)

BUT SkyFeed allows you to "invert" a Mute list and turn it into a Feed.

So I created a few Boardgame Feeds:
I'll be at Essen Spiel on Friday and Saturday at the HeidelBÄR booth (Hall 6 6B200) showing Shinjuku:

Friday: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm and 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Saturday: 2:00 – 4:00 pm

@spielessen.bsky.social @heidelbaer.de
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✈️🧳 Ab in die Herbstferien – mit Shinjuku ins Herz von Tokio!

Während draußen die Blätter tanzen & der Koffer schon halb gepackt ist, nehmen wir euch mit auf eine Reise nach Shinjuku – auch ohne Flugticket. 🌆
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Evidence that even when LLMs produce similar results to humans, they “rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification”
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Don't think I've anticipated a KS more than this one! Connor is a talented designer & artist. Games executed well where the art + design are by the same person are rare but guarantee a seamless & full experience. Both games are amazing. Highly recommend you check these out.
Excited to announce that Club Spooky and That’s the Spirit are finally launching on Kickstarter next week, October 14th!

Assemble the coolest group of ghouls at Club Spooky and find the culprit of your accidental death in Thats the Spirit!

Preview page here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...
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From the thumbnail, I initially read the top game as 18ERIA.
I think you might be doing "visit the beach" wrong.
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One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
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imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
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neighbor’s really taking Halloween to the next fucking level
Magical Athlete was a blast at 4p.

Box says 2-6 players, but I'm not sure it would be as much fun with only 2.
I'm a little concerned about going to Essen this year.
The Giant Race people came and attacked me, so I needed to send my Bringers of Pain fleet to take the battle to them.

It didn't go well.
Finally explored my quadrant, and starting to push out into deep space.
Starting a game of Space Empires
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Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
I've been enjoying these puzzles as well.