Matt Thrower
@mattthr.bsky.social
Board game writer. Words on IGN, GamesRadar, Senet and many others. There will be puns.
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Matt Thrower
@mattthr.bsky.social
· Aug 7
I'm working on a card game design at the moment, in which players are magicians trying to steal the secrets of their illusions from each other.
It's a trick-taking game.
It's a trick-taking game.
A thought process only dog owners have: "ah, I see it's a frosty morning. Great poo-picking weather!"
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
A thought process only dog owners have: "ah, I see it's a frosty morning. Great poo-picking weather!"
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This is discrimination, Microsoft
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is discrimination, Microsoft
Oh God. They made the perfect card game for pedants. I must own this. spacebiff.com/2025/11/25/t...
This Is Not a Review of a Pipe
All I play anymore is trick-takers. And while some of them are challenging, others risk disappearing down their own pipe-hole in a semantic puff of tobacco smoke. That isn’t a bad thing. This…
spacebiff.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Oh God. They made the perfect card game for pedants. I must own this. spacebiff.com/2025/11/25/t...
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HUGE news update for me!!!!!!
High Tide, the game I handmade for Indie Games Night Market 2024 and licensed to Underdog Games in 2025…
✨ Will be releasing at BARNES & NOBLE around March 2026!!! ✨
This marks my first design to reach big box retail stores!!!!! More details as they become available!
High Tide, the game I handmade for Indie Games Night Market 2024 and licensed to Underdog Games in 2025…
✨ Will be releasing at BARNES & NOBLE around March 2026!!! ✨
This marks my first design to reach big box retail stores!!!!! More details as they become available!
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
HUGE news update for me!!!!!!
High Tide, the game I handmade for Indie Games Night Market 2024 and licensed to Underdog Games in 2025…
✨ Will be releasing at BARNES & NOBLE around March 2026!!! ✨
This marks my first design to reach big box retail stores!!!!! More details as they become available!
High Tide, the game I handmade for Indie Games Night Market 2024 and licensed to Underdog Games in 2025…
✨ Will be releasing at BARNES & NOBLE around March 2026!!! ✨
This marks my first design to reach big box retail stores!!!!! More details as they become available!
Oh no.
RIP Jimmy Cliff
Worth taking 3 minutes this morning to watch this profound and lovely performance.
And if you’re my age, to remember where you were when you first heard the song.
#ManyRiversToCross
youtu.be/twf7LhQIBkQ
Worth taking 3 minutes this morning to watch this profound and lovely performance.
And if you’re my age, to remember where you were when you first heard the song.
#ManyRiversToCross
youtu.be/twf7LhQIBkQ
Jimmy Cliff- Many Rivers To Cross
YouTube video by rockyfl86
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November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Oh no.
This is one of the best error messages I've ever seen
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is one of the best error messages I've ever seen
This is discrimination, Microsoft
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is discrimination, Microsoft
It's been very clear since day #1 that the only thing Labour are genuinely interested in is getting re-elected.
If they were genuinely interested in a healthier population they wouldn't be making noise about cutting the cycle to work scheme.
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It's been very clear since day #1 that the only thing Labour are genuinely interested in is getting re-elected.
No. Fuck off and stop nagging me.
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
No. Fuck off and stop nagging me.
They stopped being serious some months ago.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
They stopped being serious some months ago.
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This month's 'Avocado Toast'.
No wealth tax, but those little treats and pleasures, things that we can just about still afford?
YEAH, TAX THE SHIT OUT OF THEM.
Labour Govt. motherfuckers. Or at least, that was what we voted for...
No wealth tax, but those little treats and pleasures, things that we can just about still afford?
YEAH, TAX THE SHIT OUT OF THEM.
Labour Govt. motherfuckers. Or at least, that was what we voted for...
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This month's 'Avocado Toast'.
No wealth tax, but those little treats and pleasures, things that we can just about still afford?
YEAH, TAX THE SHIT OUT OF THEM.
Labour Govt. motherfuckers. Or at least, that was what we voted for...
No wealth tax, but those little treats and pleasures, things that we can just about still afford?
YEAH, TAX THE SHIT OUT OF THEM.
Labour Govt. motherfuckers. Or at least, that was what we voted for...
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I like space operas. Hit me with your sci-fi book recommendations! Please RP for more ideas!
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I like space operas. Hit me with your sci-fi book recommendations! Please RP for more ideas!
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Excellent
![R. H. Bing (October 20, 1914 – April 28, 1986)[1] was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the areas of geometric topology and continuum theory.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreid62wy3dekb2kzbisjfdlimlb35j4rlgew5iof7vi32byfszmg26a@jpeg)
![Bing's father was named Rupert Henry, but Bing's mother thought that "Rupert Henry" was too British for Texas. Thus she compromised by abbreviating it to R. H.[5] Consequently, R. H. does not stand for a first or middle name.
When Bing was applying for a visa, he was requested not to use initials. He explained that his name was really "R-only H-only Bing", and ended up receiving a visa made out to "Ronly Honly Bing".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreigmfj53q4uy33spga2bxdkllqm3ag5sffovg5g7ddmu3vqzkb6k24@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Excellent
But is it balanced?
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
But is it balanced?
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
The number of people on Reddit who can't use paragraphs is insane.
I can forgive people not attempting punctuation bc they're worried they won't do it properly, but paragraphs? Even just inserting an extra carriage return every few sentences at random is more readable than a text wall.
I can forgive people not attempting punctuation bc they're worried they won't do it properly, but paragraphs? Even just inserting an extra carriage return every few sentences at random is more readable than a text wall.
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The number of people on Reddit who can't use paragraphs is insane.
I can forgive people not attempting punctuation bc they're worried they won't do it properly, but paragraphs? Even just inserting an extra carriage return every few sentences at random is more readable than a text wall.
I can forgive people not attempting punctuation bc they're worried they won't do it properly, but paragraphs? Even just inserting an extra carriage return every few sentences at random is more readable than a text wall.
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#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin!
#CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)
TIL that Royal Mail, a £3.3bn company, can't even put up a custom error page when things blow up
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
TIL that Royal Mail, a £3.3bn company, can't even put up a custom error page when things blow up
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
This is becoming an absolute fucking curse. So many companies have replaced customer service staff with completely useless chatbots and there's just no way through, no way to fix things when you hit issues. I have just sworn off my first supplier bc of this: it won't be the last.
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This is becoming an absolute fucking curse. So many companies have replaced customer service staff with completely useless chatbots and there's just no way through, no way to fix things when you hit issues. I have just sworn off my first supplier bc of this: it won't be the last.
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The UK editor of ITV news here saying he has no influence over The News Cycle, which is, let's be very clear, 100% "what newspaper editors are choosing to cover."
Again: if your job is to read the Mail and put whatever they say on your program, why is it not just minimum wage?
Again: if your job is to read the Mail and put whatever they say on your program, why is it not just minimum wage?
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The UK editor of ITV news here saying he has no influence over The News Cycle, which is, let's be very clear, 100% "what newspaper editors are choosing to cover."
Again: if your job is to read the Mail and put whatever they say on your program, why is it not just minimum wage?
Again: if your job is to read the Mail and put whatever they say on your program, why is it not just minimum wage?
The secret heart's prayer of everyone who struggles with the mornings
November 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The secret heart's prayer of everyone who struggles with the mornings
So, have now finally seen both Dune films. Enjoyed both, bowled over by the sound and visuals but my word did they need a greater sense of stakes and urgency. Good films but somewhat overrated.
a group of people running in the desert with a large eye coming out of it
ALT: a group of people running in the desert with a large eye coming out of it
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
So, have now finally seen both Dune films. Enjoyed both, bowled over by the sound and visuals but my word did they need a greater sense of stakes and urgency. Good films but somewhat overrated.
Thanks, Twickets, but no thanks
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Thanks, Twickets, but no thanks