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Matt Thrower

@mattthr.bsky.social

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Board game writer. Words on IGN, GamesRadar, Senet and many others. There will be puns.

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · Feb 24

Ordered a dish of fruit de la mer and disappointed not to find a single current in it

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 11h

finally got my shipment in

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 9h

Well it's meal prep and I never throw away food, but I'm going to be eating this slop for days because nobody else will.

Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone else remember Baby Bird of You're Gorgeous fame? Well they turned out to be a great deal better than the one hit suggests

Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 11h

Most of the recipes that folk dump online nowadays with five dozen homely intro paragraphs in which to serve you ads haven't even been tested. I made this leek & sweet potato soup this week which is so vile that even piling it with extra spices and hot sauce couldn't save it.

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 11h

And are you're going to ignore all the large scale studies over the years that demonstrate there's no proof, shitbird

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 12h

📢 Ayar – from @flopiano.bsky.social, @mandelafg.bsky.social & @ianotoole.bsky.social – is out 1 week today: https://bit.ly/4oFvT0y

🌽 Compete for area majority farming maize
⚱️ Collect sets crafting pottery
🧵 Build your pattern weaving carpets
🛶 Traverse the lake board learning reed bundling

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 14h

Oh that's evil genius levels of evil.

Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 15h

Lined up a new newsletter on what I've been playing this week and a few personal ruminations for my lovely, lovely patreons. If you also want to feel warm and fuzzy and get described as "lovely, lovely" and read the content, it's literally $1 www.patreon.com/c/mattthr

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 15h

These are not a thing I would ever wish to own but, if I did, I would absolutely rule players were only allowed to place them on geese

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 19h

This stuff is delicious but it makes me think of Thundercats every time I go to the packet

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 20h

Dear lord.

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CJEggett @cjeggett.co.uk · 20h

They get it!

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 22h

You thought it was good then I assume?

Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

No idea how Jonathan does these, they're amazing

Jonathan H. Liu @jonathanhliu.bsky.social · 1d

#Etchtober Day 8

Today's prompt: "Meeple Terror Portland," requested by @mikevanderveen.bsky.social. A terrifying image of our war-ravaged city. And you thought the inflatable frog was bad.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jhl...

Pocket Etch-a-Sketch drawing: A giant meeple steps over a building, while three cops in riot gear look up in horror at the bottom of its descending foot.

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

Feel better soon, Dan.

I've been spending a lot of time on Reddit lately for various reasons but /r/boardgames still isn't a place I want to frequent

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

We had this exact discussion after watching it in our house. Seemed to be a younger Vs older divide, with younger folk finding it too shallow.

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately I am the friend with the large board game collection.

Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

I'd really like to play Return to Dark Tower someday. But not enough to drop anything like the asking price on it

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

I'm now wondering what the use case would be for a collection class that didn't have a public insert method ....

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

I have a YouTube tab open that says "Rick" and I keep thinking I've been RickRolled but thankfully it's just an interview with Rick Priestly.

Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the point now of looking this stuff up on Ebay. Most of it seems fairly affordable.

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 2d

You don’t need AI; AI is not “inevitable.” That’s a lie being fed to you by companies who are going to lose a fuckton of money if they don’t convince you that AI is something you can’t live without.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

UK politics has become entirely marketised: it's now wholly about what wins votes and grabs column inches rather than what works.

This phenomenon is at the root of very many of our problems as a nation.

Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that's what I meant by rigid thinking. I didn't realise it was a named phenomenon.

Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

To put it another way, I'm not convinved that senior business leaders in tech are any more frequent fascist sympathisers than senior business leaders in other sectors. They're just more in the public eye, because of social media, and worse at hiding it.

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