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John PrAther
@angrytetris.bsky.social
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Board game designer (Fire in the Library, Sovereign Skies Solo), Dominion pro ($27), butt enthusiast, he/him, Cincinnati, 1991
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frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
“Here we go” said Frog.
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
angrytetris.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=loME...

"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times? You stupid monkey!"
November 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
angrytetris.bsky.social
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Would you rather, strictly from ease of use

Get a loan of a multiple of five, and have to pay back +$1 later
Get $5 pay $6 later

OR

Take a loan of a multiple of five, and get $1 less...
Get $4 pay $5 later

Basically, do the math later or the math now... because $5 is easier math than $4 or $6
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
angrytetris.bsky.social
Automobile (Martin Wallace, crisp decisions)
Battlestar Galactica (TV show?)
Dominion (perfect)
Glen More (want to try 2)
High Society (chaos)
In the Year of the Dragon (brutal)
Lewis & Clark (engine!)
Power Grid Factory Manager (tight!)
Race for the Galaxy (cards)
Vegas Showdown (auctions, tiles)
prozdishere.bsky.social SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social · 2d
board game enthusiasts of bluesky, what are your top 10 board games of all time
November 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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internetsmagic.bsky.social
Sometimes you have an epiphany for an old design and it reignites your love for it. We'll see if it works @angrytetris.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
angrytetris.bsky.social
Imagine if dinner wasn't 15 minutes early, so you suplexed your little brother.

That's what living with cats is like
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
angrytetris.bsky.social
Me blasting a dubstep keygen through my fridge
acab4cutie.top grace (𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏) @acab4cutie.top · 3d
oh my god. no. over my actual, literal dead body. 🔨🔨🔨
Reddit screenshot—the post is titled “Apparently my samsung fridge has ads now...” Attached is a picture of a smart fridge with a screen on the front displaying an ad for a TV shot that says “WE'RE SORRY WE UPSET YOU, CAROL”
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
angrytetris.bsky.social
But what about HIS emails?
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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☹️

:(

Same thing, but they *feel* different
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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In a lot of games, a lightbulb represents a thought or an idea.

In a cradle of civilization style game, a lightbulb doesn't really make a lot of sense; that's too far in the future. What would be a good icon to display a thought or an idea?
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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leahlitman.bsky.social
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
Rudy press conference at 4 seasons total landscaping
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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angrytetris.bsky.social
Good Chromecast alternatives, especially non Google?
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
angrytetris.bsky.social
Good Chromecast alternatives, especially non Google?
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
angrytetris.bsky.social
Got my college transcripts back. I did a lot better than I thought.

But I did get a D in a course titled "Success Seminar." 😂
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
angrytetris.bsky.social
I can't wait until I'm some day rich enough to donate everything in the kitchen and buy all new everything. Imagine matching forks?
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
angrytetris.bsky.social
Everything is sold as a value pack now. You have to buy 20 of something or shoplift just 2.

Seems like community and bartering need to make their way back in circulation. I'll give you 3 hot glue sticks for 2 ink pens.

Or we just shoplift more
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
angrytetris.bsky.social
It's easier to catch flies by calling them woke libtards than couch fuckers
chuckwendig.bsky.social Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 16d
My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I found a recipe and homemade butter chicken and holy fuck, it's so good.
Delicious butter chicken
November 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Found my OEM windows 7 install disk the other day. What a neat coaster I own.
October 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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@dnlnwmn.bsky.social how can I get this to you?
An orange ticket that says "Drop this ticket in proper place" Daniel Newman has a rough relationship with tickets.
October 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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I'm really good at writing theme into a game. Hire me? *cough*
Story! Plot! Some other third thing! All of that combined makes for a great setting. Do you have what it takes to [Victory condition] ?
October 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
angrytetris.bsky.social
Bought my Lyft driver ice cream. Never seen a man so stunned and happy.

Spread joy
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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I have a game in my design files labeled "Memory."

I don't remember what it is.
October 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Happy birthday Cow Tools! Here’s Gary Larson explaining how it made him “want to crawl into a hole somewhere and die”
A page from Prehistory of the Far Side, explaining the reception to the strip. Copy/paste to the rescue: The "Cow tools" episode is one that will probably haunt me for the rest of my life. A week after it was published back in 1982, I wanted to crawl into a hole somewhere and die. Cows, as some Far Side readers know, are a favorite subject of mine. quintessentially absurd animal for I've always found them to be the situations even more absurd. Even the name "cow," to me, is intrinsically funny. And so one day I started thinking back on an anthropology course I had in college and how we learned that man used to be defined as "the only animal that made and shaped tools." Unfortunately, researchers discovered that certain primates and even some bird species did the same thing—so the definition had to be extended somewhat to avoid awkward situations such as someone hiring a crew of chimpanzees to remodel their kitchen. Inevitably, I began thinking about cows, and what if they, too, were discovered as toolmakers. What would they make? Primitive tools are always, well, primitive-looking-appearing rather nondescript to the lay person. So, it seemed to me, whatever a cow would make would have to be even a couple notches further down the "skill-o-meter." I imagined, and subsequently drew, a cow standing next to her workbench, proudly displaying her handiwork (hoofiwork?). The "cow tools" were supposed to be just meaningless artifacts- only the cow or a cowthropologist is supposed to know what they're used for. The first mistake I made was in thinking this was funny. The second was making one of the tools resemble a crude handsaw-which made already confused people decide that their only hope in understanding the cartoon meant deciphering what the other tools were as well. Of course, they didn't have a chance in hell. But, for the first time, "Cow tools" awakened me to the fact that my profession was not fust an isolated exercise in the corner of my apartment. at "Cow tools." Someone sent me the front page of one newspaper 3 B14.)" T was mortified. which, down in one comer, ran the tease, "Cow Tools: What does it mean? See In the first year or two of drawing The Far Side, I always believed my carter perpetually hung by a thread. And this time I was convinced it had been finally severed. Tenically, when the dust had finally seuled and as a result of aft "aise" it made, "Cow tools" became more of a boost to The Far Side than ayahing else. so, in summary. I drew a really weird, obtuse cartoon that no one understood edwasn't funny and therefore I went on to even greater success and recognition. Yeah—T like this country. "The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon by Gary Larson, obviously went too far to the side some time af0 and threw great chunks of the populace into panalto confusion." - Newspaper Columnist, Chicago "Tasxed 37 people to explain the 'Cow tools' (cartoon) of last weok but with D0 luck. Could you help?* -Reader, Califomia "Enclosed is a copy of the 'Cow Tools' cartoon. I have passed it around. I bave posted it on the wall. Conservatively, some 40-odd professionals with detoral degrees in disparate disciplines have examined it. No one understands it. Even my 6-year-old cannot figure it out...We are going bonkers. Please help. What is the meaning of 'Cow Tools'? What is the meaning of life? -Reader, Texas 'We give up. Being intelligent, hard-working men, we don't often say this, but your cartoon has proven to be beyond any of our intellectual capabilities. •..Is there some significance to this cartoon that eludes us, or have we been completely foolish in our attempts to unravel the mystery behind 'Cow Tools'?" -Reader, California
October 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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women-in-magic.bsky.social
We've put together a package to help you and/or your LGS to set up women+ Magic: The Gathering events!

Download it here: www.linktr.ee/women_in_magic

#magicthegathering #mtg #womeninmagic #poweredbyWIM
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM